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Edgy DC wrote: Do you think the line-shading is for un-earned runs? You mean on the lower left corner of the boxes? I'm taking that as four seperate lines rather than a shaded corner and thinking '4 bases rounded - run scored', as opposed to Aaron and Hickman's homeruns which are completely shaded indicating 4-base hits.

Never seen hits indicated that way. Good game - Aaron homered.

I was watching a Yankee game on WPIX, channel 11 sometime in the '80s and there was a rain delay and Phil was drinking red wine and was very drunk. He kept taking a Yankee hat and putting on Bill White's head, White kept taking it off and Phil kept putting it on him. Both of them were laughing and laughing. Phil because he was sloshed and Bill because Phil was sloshed. It was very funny. And let's not forget 'Paradise By The Dashboard Light'.

Confirmed. Dead at 89.

Phil Rizzuto? Can't get confirmation...

]First baseman Tony Clark was the first Met ever to don 00, Mr. Met's number, doing so in the 2003 season. He switched to #52 that June when Queens schoolchildren asked him what had happened to Mr. Met. That's funny.

I like Dykstra's at #1 but I guess Pratt's was more significant. So I'll go with Pratt at #1, Dykstra at #2 and Knight at #3

OHernandez - 2.5 Alou - 2 Castillo - 2 Green - 1 Heilman - 0.5 Wagner - 0.5 Wright - 0.5 Milledge - 0.5 Reyes - 0.5

Milledge 2 Mota 2 Newhan - 1.5 Delgado 1 Feliciano 1 Sele 1 Schoeneweis 0.5 Reyes 0.5 Wright 0.5

I have no fingernails left.

metirish wrote: Mightn't the last home run Bonds ever hits be worth more than this one? Yes, I completely agree.

="seawolf17"]Just requested your book from the library. Pssssst. I think he wants you to buy it.

Where's "Goodbye Mr. Spaulding!" from? Was it from the movie 'The Natural' or was there a guy that actually used that? Either way I like that one.

After the last out last night Howie said "Put It In The History Books!" I vote catch phrase for both of 'em.

="Frayed Knot"]I think you're misinterpreting it. From the article: �Great to see you, George,� McEwen says. He introduces me as a writer working on a story and asks about Steinbrenner�s wife, Joan." In other words; this McEwen character introduces who Lidz is ... and then breaks the ice by asking George about Joan, presumably about how she's doing, etc. since he certainly knows her. That's how I see it at least. You are correct - I misread that as 'He introduces me as a writer working on a story about Steinbrenner�s wife, Joan.'

Frayed Knot wrote: The magazine piece Lidz wrote was mostly speculation about the future chain of command in Yankeeland and it would be leaving out a very important part of the story if he had, in effect, covered up his first-hand observations about George. He opens the article saying that he had been unsuccessful in his attempts to interview George about the Yankee chain of command and then gains entry into his house by saying he is doing a story about George's wife. He was not there doing an unrelated story and came upon the 'scoop' of George's ill health by accident. He went there to interview George about George and gained entry by misrepresenting why he was there. I'm not a journalist, I don't know what the ethical barometer is in these instances. It sounds fishy to me but if that's the way these things are done then I guess sick old men need to be careful who they let into their houses.

Okay then metsguy, in your opinion as an experienced journalist, was the writer who outed the Boss acting ethically or not when he decided to run with the story?

="metirish"]Joe Morgan mentioned during the game that with Castillo having never played in the National League he wouldn't know about the heat at Wrigley during a night game. Castillo is used to playing in a dome added Miller where heat was not a factor for him,Omar should have thought of all this before he traded for him. Today's NY Post: SINGLETON�S YES NO-NO By PHIL MUSHNICK August 6, 2007 -- BASEBALL, as seen and spoken on TV, has become an exercise in suspended beliefs. First, you can�t believe what you just saw happen. And regardless of what you saw, you�re instead encouraged to only believe what you�re told. Royals-Yanks, Saturday, top of the third, Joey Gathright, lefty batter, at the plate. On YES, Ken Singleton notes that Gathright has great speed and was recently recalled from the minors, to replace Reggie Sanders, who is on the DL. Ah, opportunity knocks. Gathright slices one down the leftfield line. The ball hits the line then bounces around in the corner. Gathright should have easily made third but has to stop at second. Same old new-age stuff. Instead of running out of the box, this fellow who has great speed but has had trouble sticking in the majors and is now getting another shot, jogs out of the box, watching the ball. By the time he turns it on, it�s too late to reach third. Unbelievable. Singleton mentions that Gathright, with his great speed, is one base short of where he should be. Good catch. But he doesn�t say why. Top of the fifth, conversation and camera turn to Royals� manager Buddy Bell, who has announced that he will resign at the end of the season. Bell is praised as a fellow who gets the most out of weak teams. �All these Royals,� Singleton declares, �they hustle down the line.� * WCBS-Radio, home of the Yankees, is running commercials soliciting advertisers to become part of the great �Yankee tradition,� to buy ads on Yankee radio broadcasts. And that�s terrifying. What�s left to be sold? Aside from the between half-innings ads, every happenstance and even non-happenstance (�And, had Hideki Matsui been playing tonight, he would have been brought to you by Benihana, now with sushi specials including the Pine Tar Roll and the Rain Delay Tarp Roll�) is attached to a commercial. What�s left? �And the second pitch to Jeter, here in the Wal-Mart Bottom of the Third, is brought to you by Snapple. Here�s the pitch from the Jell-O Puddings and Pie Fillings Pitching Mound. Ball one. And when Derek Jeter takes the second pitch, it�s time for your second ice cold Bud.� This commercial to buy commercials on Yankee radiocasts - the opportunity to become part of the great Yankee tradition - includes two John Sterling bites. Of course, it does. There�s his, �Thaaaaaaaaah Yankees win� and his �It is high ...� home run (sometimes) call. And there are no two noises more antithetical to the great Yankee tradition. * Joe Morgan remains relentless in providing expertly stated nonsense. Last night, during Mets-Cubs on ESPN, Luis Castillo stuck with a windblown popup, making a nice catch. But Morgan explained the play as the result of Castillo being unfamiliar with the winds in Wrigley Field because, �Castillo has played his entire career in the American League.� But Castillo played 10 years in the NL, all with the Marlins. In fact, it was Castillo who hit the infamous fly that spectator Steve Bartman caught - before Moises Alou could - in the 2003 NLCS at Wrigley. Last season, with the Twins, was his first in the AL. In the top of the fifth, Morgan�s partner, Jon Miller, noted that Castillo has played before in Wrigley. Morgan said nothing. * Now, back to ads. One that appeared during Fox�s Mets-Cubs, Saturday, was for Cablevision�s Optimum package. In it, the names of all nine New York pro teams are spoken - Jets, Giants, Nets, Knicks, Rangers, Islanders, Devils, Mets and Yanks - followed by the boast that they all appear in HD via Optimum. And you can�t live without your teams! But five of those teams - the Nets, Knicks, Rangers, Mets and Yanks - have, at some point in recent history, been removed, and at least once, from Cablevision�s systems once Cablevision lost their programming rights to competitors. * When Joe Buck doesn�t force it, he scores. Saturday, during Mets-Cubs, he promoted Fox�s first NFL preseason telecast, Colts-Cowboys. As he did, photos appeared of Peyton Manning and Tony Romo. �Here�s the matchups,� said Buck, �the two guys you�ll see for, oh, seven minutes.� * Horrifying Sportcaster Cliche of the Week goes to Gary Cohen. Wednesday on SNY, Cohen said he could see how the Brewers� Manny Parra has enough good stuff �to have authored a perfect game in the minors.� Yeesh. While we�re on the subject, reader Jim Mulloy of Massapequa asks: �Considering that a wheelhouse is typically an enclosed area on a boat deck, how, exactly, do pitchers keep throwing baseballs there?� * Cheer up, Astros reliever Dave Borkowski! So what if Friday you allowed three hits and an earned run in your one inning pitched, you still got the hold! By the way, the Yanks� leader in holds, with 11, is Kyle Farnsworth. Good stat, holds. phil.mushnick@nypost.com

="Frayed Knot"] Author Lidz's claim is that the mutual friend who got him into George's house made it clear that this tag-along guy he brought with him was a writer and was there as part of a story he was doing. Assuming that's accurate, there's nothing sleazy about this IMO. According to the article, the story he was doing was supposed to be about George's wife, Joan. The story I read was not about Joan Steinbrenner. ="Frayed Knot"]...George forfeited a large portion of whatever "right" might exist there when he spent decades making himself an extrememly public figure and one who is the head of a company that he likes to wrap in the flag of being a civic asset when it suits his purpose. If you're going to march around for years proclaiming that 'Le Yankees C'est Moi', don't be surpised when the subjects want to know what the king's clothes look like. I completely agree with this but I am on the fence about how the information reagrading George's health was gathered.

Unfortunately I didn't hear the whole show so I don't know if the question was answered or if the author called in.

Richard Near was talking about the ethics of the author of this piece this weekend on WFAN. Was it right for this guy to basically push his way into Steinbrenner's house under pseudo false pretenses, take advantage of a sick old man's inability to understand what is going on, and then 'out' George and his failing health by publishing this pretty damning account? I'd like to hear a journalist's take on that.

'Milwaukee is Melting' Tuesdays at 10:00pm on ESPN 8, 'The Ocho'

Howie says Estrada v. Yost and opines that it may have been about pitch selection.

Who's watching on TV? Radio dudes say there's altercations in the Brewer dugout...

Edgy DC wrote: I remember a rare bat-around inning in the late seventies in which Doug Flynn hit the Mets first ItPHR at Shea since the sixties. Dude - I was at that game! If I'm remembering correctly it was fireworks night and it was a 10-run inning.