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Batty31 wrote: Have any of you guys gotten the men's black t-shirt yet? Got my mens XL, it's more like a large.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Don't envy us our 41 on the wall, Valadius. Instead, envy us our World Championship. Oh, snap.

="Willets Point"]And he was GAY! That wouldn't be an issue - they'd just put his number on the right field wall.

Valadius wrote: I'll never forget when I heard that Mike Piazza had been traded to the Mets. I was playing in Little League I was in the Grille Room at Shea having a beer.

HahnSolo wrote: Of course in the free agency era, that's somewhat restricting. That would mean there is no chance at all for Pedro Martinez to have his number retired by them. So be it. Having a policy like that emphasizes the type of honor a retired number is and should be. Right now the Mets can say that that is their policy as well considering Seaver is the only retired player number. Sorry Mike. Wright and Reyes are your next possible candidates.

For the Red Sox to retire a number the player has to be a Hall of Famer and has to have spent at least 10 years with the team. That's the way to do it.

Take that Johnny Lunchbucket.

Pelfrey 5 Wise 1

AG/DC wrote: If I've seen Jeter hit a nine-run homer once, I've seen it a thousand times. WFAN's Evan Roberts = CPF Lurker. Just said exactly this same thing at 10:34 am.

="John Cougar Lunchbucket"]Pictures? Oh, its not like she's hot (so not actually) or was wearing a short skirt or anything. Just funny to see her shoot up from the stands and hurdle the waist high fence.

Last week in my son's LL game, the pitcher for his team took a searing line drive off the palm of his hand. The kid was in a lot of pain and came out of the game. If the same ball hit him in the face it would've been bad news (seeing the kid's mom one hop the chain link fence almost made the whole incident worthwhile though). The coach's son wears some sort of protective vest when he pitches which the kid says doesn't hamper him at all. My boy has pitched a coupla times. If he does again, I think I'll get him that vest thing. Metal bats - v- wood bats. I don't understand the metal bat thing at this level. These kids by and large honestly do not swing that hard as to splinter a wooden bat. They just don't. Besides the fact that most of them own their own bats anyway. Even so though, a line drive is a line drive and I'm not sure at this level a wooden or metal bat would make that much of a difference. There are inherent dangers in the game (as there are in football and hockey and lacrosse). If you want to be 100% certain that your kid won't get hurt then don't let play. Should it be as safe as possible? Absolutly it should but at the same time it will never be entirely risk free. It's life, it happens.

Perez 4 Church 1.5 Reyes 1.5 Alou 1 Delgado 1 Castillo .5 Schneider .5

Santana 3 Reyes 2 Wright 2 Wagner 1 Beltran 1 Delgado 1

Funny how stupid we are. Up until when can we change our vote? Because, you know, I like it now.

I liked the fact that not only did Beltran hit a triple off Joba but that the Mets scored off Mr. Unscorable. Take that.

I vote Bobby V. But I don't think Mazzilli was so bad in Baltimore was he? He had a lousy team.

I was 22. I was confused.

So here we go � The Amazin� Mess versus The Bronx Bummers With the overhyped Subway Serious (as Bugs Bunny may have called it) upon us, there is no shortage of previews and prognostications available in the local rags. The most popular feature of these seems to be to compare each team position by position. I include it (see below) but don�t really get it. It�s not like Jetah and Reyes are gonna have a steel cage match between second and third base. Both teams stagger into this weekend trying to get something going. The Mets having lost 3 of 4 in excrutiating ways against the lowly Nats and the Yankees having the Tampa Rays (Still Devil Rays or are they now supposed to be the Rays of sunlight?) not acting like their little brothers any longer. The Yankees, losers of six of nine, are struggling offensively They managed just six runs in the four games against the Rays, only two off starters. Before I give you the stats and matchups I thought that I would share some personal memories from the formative years of my own personal Mets/Yankee history: October 1973 � I�m just shy of 10 years old and my dad is watching the World Series on TV in our apartment on the upper west side of Manhattan. Having lived in Manhattan my entire life up to that point I was aware that the Mets and Yankees existed but had no passion one way or the other for either team. Sitting down and watching I just became completely enamored with Willie Mays (or �Wille May�s� as I portrayed him in a drawing I did shortly thereafter ). That series turned it for me. The Mets, the Amazin' Mets were from that point on MY team. They were winners and they would always be. Little did I know October 1976 � Yankees swept in four straight by the Reds. I can still remember the picture of Johnny Bench soaked in champagne on the back page of the Daily News. HA HA! Summer 1978 � Guidry strikes out a million Angels in one game and Marcello Conigliaro and I get in a fight about the Yankees being better than the Mets. I punch him in the face and win the fight, fortunately he was two years younger than me. Unfortunately he was right. October 1978 - My parents divorced, moved to the bland Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, changed schools, Yankees won the World Series again. Had to be one of the worst years of my life. Cut to high school , 1979 � 1982: It seemed like Fermin Padilla and I were the only two Mets fans at the High School of Music & Art. He and I would study box scores, dream of Mark Bomback�s potential, put waaaay too much importance on the outcome of the Mayor�s Trophy Game and be completely befuddled about why all the girls were Yankee fans because they thought Bucky Dent was better looking than Lee Mazzilli. Went to lots of Mets games those years. The 1 or the 2 to Times Square and the 7 out to Flushing. About an hour each way. $5.50 would put you in the front row next to the visitors dugout. $1.50 general admission, $2 to the field level ushers and another $2 bucks put you down in front. Try that in the Boogie Down. Favorite memory of those years in those seats was my Bill Robinson story (posted at UMDB) and my Lenny Randle encounter. Pop-up that drifted from third base back to to the stands where I was sitting. Randle tracking it the whole way. Finally he crashes into the wall right in front of me as the ball lands two rows behind me. �FUCK!� Lenny yells, pretty much right into my 13 or 14 year old face. I thought it was great. In 1981 I moved to California where following the Mets via The Los Angeles Times and Tribune (was it The Daily News?) was no small feat. Subscribed to The Sporting News just so I could read those stupid off-season half-paragraph team reports. On the upside I did get to read a ton of Jim Murray and Scott Ostler columns. October 1981 � Tracey Galloway calls me at home: �Want to go to the game today?� �Nah, I�m just gonna stay home and watch the Yankees and Dodgers.� �That�s the game I�m talking about, my dad has an extra ticket.� And that was the first World Series game that I attended. Sat in the right field bleachers at Dodger Stadium and when Goose Gossage drilled Ron Cey in the head with a fastball we could hear it all the way out there. Yankees lost (Yay!) but at least they didn�t continue to suck like another team that wore interlocking �NY�s. 1982 � graduated from high school and moved back east. Instead of going to college right away I took a job at Rizzoli bookstore on 5th Avenue, catering to ex-pat Italians who hated me because I didn�t speak Italian. They�d come in every day for their copy of �Corriere Della Sport� simply to keep up with AC Milan or whatever Italian Footbal team they followed. The Italians won the World Cup that year and I remember getting to work that morning and seeing a line around the corner of people waiting to buy their copy of the paper simply so they could revel in the championship. That�s what its like when your team wins the big one . That�s what Yankee fans get. Boy did I want that for the Mets. 1983-1987 � My years at Syracuse University coincided with the rise of the Mets and the fall of the Yankees. My only regrets from those years is that I wasn�t in the City to personally witness happy, boastful Mets fans and downtrodden Yankee fans. The Mets had Straw, Doc, Mex, Nails, and a World Championship. The Yankees had Don Mattingly, �Mr. May� Winfield and Howie Spira. A glorious time. September 1987 � On the first day of my first job out of college. Co-worker and Mets fan Ed Melendez questioned my baseball allegiance. I pulled a Ron Darling baseball card out of my wallet and he and I were simpatico for the next 5 years. Part II to be presented prior to the second installment of this Series June 27, 28, 29. FRIDAY 7 p.m., SNY/CH. 9 Weather: 70 percent chance of rain, High 57� Johan Santana (4-2, 3.10) vs. Darrell Rasner (2-0, 3.00) Santana is 3-0 with a 2.66 ERA against the Yanks in his career He's also 2-0 with a 1.17 ERA in four regular season appearances at Yankee Stadium In last years Subway Series, Rasner gave up two runs and two hits without recording an out before he took a one- hopper off the bat of Endy Chavez off his right index finger, causing a fracture and ending his season. SATURDAY 1 p.m., SNY/YES Weather: Afternoon showers, High 70� Oliver Perez (3-3, 4.61) vs. Andy Pettitte (3-4, 4.40) Pettitte is 0-2 with an ERA of 6.10 in his last two games. Perez numbers aren�t much better � 1-1 with an ERA of exactly 6.00 in his last two. SUNDAY 8 p.m., ESPN Weather: Showers, High 67� John Maine (5-2, 2.81) vs. Chien-Ming Wang (6-1, 2.90) John Maine has won his past four starts, each following a Mets loss. He's allowed two runs or fewer in seven straight starts Maine is 3-0 with a 1.77 ERA so far in May After starting the season 6-0 Wang has gone 1-2, giving up 4 earned runs in his last 14 innings pitched. In his only prior start against the Mets, Wang struck out a career-high 10 in an 8-2 win June 17, 2007. Noteworthy: ARod (right quadriceps) and Posada will miss the series as both are currently on the DL. Introduced in 1997, the Yankees lead the Subway Series, 35-25, but haven't won a Series since 2003 when they went 6-0. The Mets won four of six in 2004 and the teams have split the six games the past three seasons. X-Factor Bummers None! Mess El Duque Willie Randolph

I'm on it.

Nats continue in the Expo tradition of being a thorn in the Mets side.

Boone breaks it up.

Joy Pagones.

I remember the song 'Go Speed Racer, Go Speed Racer, Go Speed Racer Go.....!' but I don't remember it saying in the song that Racer X was Speed's brother. Of course any Speed Racer fan knew that, but I'm amazed to hear that it was in the song. OE: I misread Lunchables post. Yet again I'm an idiot and seriously considering enrolling in remedial reading comprehension classes at the local CC.

I start one questionable thread and my whole posting history is called into question? Have you already forgotten 'Douchebag Neighbors'? Who's unprofessional now? Tell you what - you don't need to send me down, just give me my release and I'll be on my way. Ingrates.

Fman99 wrote: This thread confirmed stupid. Agreed. My apologies.