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Perez 3 Wright 2 Beltran 1.5 Church 1 Pagan 1 Reyes 1 Delgado 0.25 Schneider 0.25

Phillips IS a huge bag of douche. How about that Kazmir trade - can we revisit that now that he's having elbow issues?

irish - I thought you and I had some kind of bond. The whole Manic Street Preachers thing and all. But you just keep shooting me down on my whiny Pedro theory and I'm not appreciative of that. Either you ignore the facts and accept my distorted view of the sports world or I'm taking 'Kevin Carter' off my published iTunes mix.

I heard 'mild strain' which tells me that it is not a tear in the way we think of a tear. I conclude that Pedro heard no 'pop' and as a result my original theory (which can be found on page 1 of this thread) gains a bit of credibility - in my mind anyway.

Valadius wrote: I combined two references. One is the late Senator Frank Church of Idaho. The other is Church's Chicken. Riiiiight. Vlad, the creator of nicknames. Forgot about that.

metirish wrote: SNY reporting that the results are back and it's a mild strain to his left hammy, placed on the 15 Day DL, out 4 - 6 weeks. 'Strain'. Huh. Wonder where the 'pop' Pedro heard came from.

Wright hits a 3 run ding-dong, inning ends and I flip to YES to bathe in a 0-4 Yankee deficit just in time to watch Cap'n Intangibles ground into an inning-ending double-play. Nice.

What's the deal with the park in 'Cuse? When I was there (early to mid '80s) I think it was called MacArthur Field and the Syracuse Chiefs (who I think were the Jays affiliate) played there. Didn't they build a new place and the team name changed to SkyChiefs I think, right? I saw the Tides play there once or twice - Magadan, El Sid and maybe Shaun Abner.

Right now? Edgy would win.

themetfairy wrote: Wow - Comcast added a channel for SNY HD! There's still an awful lot to hate about Comcast. But this is cool. I'm too stoopid to really know what this guy is talking about but it does seem to lend weight to Fairy's statement about lotsa things to hate about Comcast http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1008271 Thankfully I'm a Cablevision guy! Oh, wait...

How about 'outside the contiguous 50 States and Hawaii & Alaska' That way Edgy's kid doesn't feel excluded.

Pagan 2 Schneider 2 Sosa 1.5 Church 1 Heilman 1 Reyes 1 Wright 1 Smith 0.5

Got me. I even told a few people.

Okay my post maybe went a bit too far. How about - he doesn't train well, so when he was pitching poorly and his hammy or whatever is not 100% he decides, rather than to tough it out, to take himself out of the game and blame that rather than he's just having a bad game? I don't think Pedro's diva-ness should be underestimated here. Just as I thought having Johan could inspire him, not being able to pitch at Santana's level could discourage him.

AG/DC wrote: ="soupcan"]They didn't exactly raze the old stadium either though.. Mmm, Kool-Aid. Hey, they didn't. It was never completely 'torn down.' I'm pretty sure that the playing field is the same - or at least still in the same spot - and the skeleton of YSII is still made up of a large portion of the original place. Remember a few years ago when that huge chunk of concrete or whatever it was fell from an overhang and crushed a couple of seats (unfortunately the Yankees were not playing at the time)? That piece was part of the structure of the original stadium. That's all I'm saying.

You're probably right irish. I'm probably completely wrong. These thoughts just pop into my head.

I think I'm siding with Lunchables on this Pedro thing. I've told you guys before that the chick that cuts my kids hair goes out with (is now married to) one of the Mets assistant trainers. She's always said that her boyfriend/husband has told her that Pedro is a baby, that he whines about any minor discomfort and doesn't work hard to keep himself in shape contrary to what we've all been led to believe. This 'injury' could very well be a direct result of the Mets allowing him to rehab and condition himself on his own without direct supervision from the Mets. I think that when it became apparent that Pedro would not have the same success in his debut as Johan did in his, Pedro decided to, I don't know - I want to say feign injury but that might be too strong an accusation - take himself out of the game, blaming it on his hammy rather than having everyone compare him to Johan. This way he has an excuse for giving up 4 runs in 2 innings. He says he felt/heard a 'pop'. That would mean a tear no? If it comes out that there is in fact a tear then I apologize to Pedro for saying he faked it but I still say the Mets should have overseen hisconditioning. If there is no tear - am I maybe on the right track then?

They didn't exactly raze the old stadium either though..

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Yes! I'd rather get myself a few hundred dollars than have to endure a "historic" day at Yankee Stadium. My son's best friend's dad took the son to the Yankee non-opener yesterday. I get home and my son says "Dad, The Yankkes got rained out and Noah's dad can't take him tomorrow night, they have two extra tickets, can YOU take me, Noah and (their other friend) Jimmy to the Yankee game tomorrow night?" I'm thinking - shit. I have no desire to go to Yankee Stadium ever, much less a rainy, cold, crowded opening night, but here's my son who seems excited to go to the ballgame with his best friends and I'm perfectly capable of bringing them. I stammer 'Ummm, uh, well I guess I could, maybe...." My wife, knowing me as well as she does, sees my internal conflict, and says to me "Noah's mom hasn't called me about this, its something the boys conjured up, its not gonna happen, don't let your head explode." Aaaaah, sweet relief.

Not a believer in 'organizational philosophy'?

I would take that idea and put a formal proposal together. Then shop it to professional sports agents. Those are the guys with the knowledge and connections to do that as well as having great interest in it. Either because it opens up a market for them in some of those unsigned players being unhappy with their current representaion or just not having an agent at the time or just the fact that by itself it may be a money-making enterprise. Sounds like a good idea to me.

It has always been the same playing field in the Bronx though hasn't it? Or at least on the exact same spot.

I understand what your're saying Lunchy and I prefer having homegrown guys myself, but you know the odds are that neither of those guys will be as good as Beltran when its all said and done. I watched some of that Twins game too and Go-Go did look good.

Beltran 1 Heilman .5 Pagan .5 Reyes 1 Sosa .5 Schoeneweis .5 Santana 4 Wright 2