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That's fucking funny and I'm sure that I once had that issue of Dynamite

HahnSolo wrote: Everett gets too many points there in my opinion. He walks (OK, tie game, winning run gets on base), but was it a hard-worked walk, or was the pitcher wild? Then he goes to second on a passed ball. Again, no great effort on his part. But now he commits a colossal blunder. In scoring position, he tries to get to third on a grounder to short? Bad play, especially if you are the winning run. Getting tagged out, he leaves a man on first with 2 outs. The key player here is Harry. His double scored the first run, then his stolen base allowed him to score the tying run on an infield out. Big time right there. So I think you should adjust Harry to 3 points, Soup Jr. to 2, and Everett to 1.5. See, the problem is that I only gave you guys one inning but I scored the kids based on the entire game. Everett had 3 big hits in the game AND asked me to show him how to score the game. Paid great atention when I showed him and scored one inning himself. Getting tagged out going from 2nd to 3rd wasn't really his fault. Soupy, Jr. hit a missile of a groundball. The SS should never have had a chance at it but it but somehow he stabbed it. He bobbled it so had no play at first but Everett had assumed (as did everyone else) that the SS would not be able to get to the ball in the first place. By the time Everett realized the ball didn't go through, the SS finally had control of it and tagged Everett who was right next to him. Harry is totally big time. Best player on the team and a nice kid. He pitches, he hits. Back story: His mom is Puerto Rican and his dad is Jewish. The mom was single with two kids and took a job as the dad's secretary. They started having an affair and, Harry's dad jokes (or maybe not), that to avoid the sexual harrassment suit, he had to marry her..

Never as bad as you look when losing, never as good as you look when winning. However - you are what your record says you are.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Nice job Soupy Jr. I might throw a half-point to the batter whose potential glory Soupy Jr. also stole. Who, Drew? If Jr. hadn't stole home we might still be playing.

They can't break until the pitch crosses the plate. Jr. stole home on a delayed steal - after the catcher threw the ball back to the pitcher. He just barely got in under the tag. It was way cool, His whole team mobbed him at the plate. I was verklempt. For you dads of young children I can't express enough how supercool it is to watch your kids play, do well and get this ear to smile on their faces. Its just the best. ="seawolf17"]The kid steals home to win the game and you only give him a point and a half? Tough dad. Well, my voting was for the whole game not just the last inning and he didn't really do much up til then. Besides itrs not like he's gonna see this.

I'm voting for the best game I saw yesterday - my son's LL game. His team (Mariners) was the home team. Game was tied 2-2 after 6. The 7th is the extra inning. Visitors (the Rangers) scored twice in the top of the frame. Mariners are down 4-2 going into the bottom of the 7th and the Rangers had already started celebrating wildly in their dugout. [u:84a3341628]MARINERS 7TH[/u:84a3341628] -Adam leads off with a single. -Harry doubles him home (score is now 4-3 bad guys). -On the first pitch Harry steals third -Daniel grounds out to shortstop, Harry scores (4-4, one out). -Everett walks. -Everett moves to second on a passed ball. -Soupy, Jr. hits a hard grounder to short. Shortstop tags the runner moving from second to third (2 outs), Soupy, Jr. safe at first. -Michael walks, Soupy, Jr. to second. -Both runners. move up on a wild pitch (Michael to second, Soupy, Jr. to third) -On the second pitch Soupy Jr. steals home (Final score 5-4). Since these boys are 10 & 11 years old instead of Schaefer I'm giving them Slurpee points. Adam 3 Harry 2 Everett 3 Soupy, Jr. 1.5 Michael .5

Reyes 1 Beltran .5 Wright .5 Wagner .25

I'm in.

Apparently I am.

I would guess '79.

#5 is correct. Henderson was Chico's 'stunt double' in the action shots for the Weekend Update stories. They'd show game footage of Escuela/Hendu running across the outfield with the '5' visible on his back then cut to a close shot of Chico also wearing 5. Didn't mean to mislead you into thinking it was something cooler than it was.

I was referring to mom being blind. The glasses, her choice of 'partners'.

Lame. But it does explain a lot.

Isn't 'Mando hurt?

Yeah, okay. I'm gonna take fashion advice from this guy? What are those X-ray specs?

Castillo 1.5 Schoenweis 1 Church .25 Wise .25 Wright .25

Alou 1 Castro 1 Reyes 1 Sanchez 0.5 Feliciano 0..25

Vlad 'Official Creator of Nicknames' is fast becoming Vlad 'Official Player Retirement Proclaimer'. I'm guessing he's trying to falsely inflate the value of some real estate interests he might have in Florida.

I sit at my desk all day, fielding phone calls, making phone calls, doing paperworkand tooling around a bit on the 'net during and in between. I always have the radio on, tuned to WFAN. Its just to have some background buzz but of course I hear what they're saying. This entire Willie Randolph thing has just gotten completely out of hand. This initial comment: ]"Is it racial?" Randolph asked. "Huh? It smells a little bit." Asked directly if he believes black managers are held to different standards than their white counterparts, Randolph said: "I don't know how to put my finger on it, but I think there's something there. Herman Edwards did pretty well here and he won a couple of playoff [games], and they were pretty hard on Herm. Isiah [Thomas] didn't do a great job, but they beat up Isiah pretty good. ... I don't know if people are used to a certain figurehead. There's something weird about it. Has become 'Willie's invoking the race card!'. Every one who calls in wants to talk about it. The program hosts are constantly bringing it up and coming down on one side or the other. Mostly they 'don't agree'. I realize that they need to stir up controversy, that's their job but this is bordering on, if it isn't already and completely irresponsible journalism. Where in that paragraph does Randolph say he is being discriminated against in any fashion whatsoever? And let's say that Willie did say something like that. How do caucasian radio hosts have the audacity to 'disagree' with him?! How could they possibly have any idea what a black man in a high profile position experiences in terms of racism? 'Well, I don't think Met fans are racist. I've never seen it." Amazing. Truly. And then, when asked to clarify his comments, Willie basically says, "hey, that's not really what I meant or was trying to say." These guys don't back off. They don't accept it. Because, well they know better. They know what Willie meant. He's playing the race card to deflect criticsm of his poor record. I was hoping that Randolph was trying to invoke an old Torre tactic of trying to deflect criticism of the team towards him when he gave that interview to O'Connor and maybe he was. Even so though, Willie does not in any way deserve the the skewering his getting on the radio these days. Its embarassing.

I think Hermann's list is more about symbolic importance as opposed to statistical.

I buy XL 'cause I like 'em loose-fitting and roomy. The shirt fits fine its just not as roomy as I'd hoped.

metirish wrote: Hermann's top ten Mets. 1. Tom Seaver 2. Mike Piazza 3. Darryl Strawberry 4. Keith Hernandez 5. Jerry Koosman 6. Dwight Gooden 7. Gary Carter 8. Tug McGraw 9. Edgardo Alfonzo 10. David Wright I think its a little early for Wright to be on this list. Any one of Agee, HoJo, Dykstra, Harrelson, Mookie, Franco maybe could be there instead of him right now.

I'm not feeling it for the Mets tonight. Prove me wrong boys

Beer Money questions that 'Met fans' got wrong: Mets career leader in wins with 198: "Uh, Ryan Nolan?" Ryan Nolan? Seriously, that was the guy's answer Mets single season leader in wins with 25: "Koosman?" When was the last time the Mets won 100 games (asked of two big haired Joisey goils): "1986? No, no, 1988! No wait, 1986, let's go with '86!" Painful. These are the people that are buying and wearing black Mets stuff by the way.