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="MFS62"]Why not give him the chance to start? ="Omar Minaya, Willie Randolph, Any & Every Other Member Of The Met Coaching Staff or Front Office Who Has Been Asked The Above Question"]"Aaron is an important part of the bullpen and the role he serves there is just as, if not more, important to the team than having him start..."

Herb Gardner wrote: is he electric? I'm surprised to see that our friend Herb only has 19 posts. As infrequent a visitor as he is, I believe he has taken on cult status around here. His posts are always noticed and someone is always begging him to stay. Alas, Herb vanishes as soon as he posts. Who is this mysterious CPFer? What drives him? Does The Shadow know?

SteveJRogers wrote: not the best experience if you wanted something different than what you get at the ballpark, especially the current Shea experience. But...that's what they are trying to reproduce. You could have gone to a movie or stayed home and watched on TV and had the experience you want. I guess. Not certain what you were looking for.

Delgado - 3.25 Santana - 1.75 Ayala - 1 Murphy - 1 Reyes - 1 Schneider - 1 Beltran - .5 Stokes - .5

Easley - 3 Heilman - 2 Tatis - 2 Reyes - 1.5 Stokes - 1.5

cooby wrote: PSU vs Syracuse Sept something. You and me, soupcan. I'm there baby.

This team is really fucking schizo. Incredibly devstating losses followed by inspiring, clutch wins. Can you say 'roller coaster season'? If this team gets to the post-season I swear I'm gonna have a heart attack watching them.

cooby wrote: They did it! Orange head to toe tomorrow! Syracuse won too?

AG/DC wrote: If you don't see nobility in the resilience against their own self-destructive nature, you ain't paying attention. Part of the story this season is them coming back out with efforts redoubled the day after a cockpunch loss. You ever try to fight on after fucking yourself over? Well, the Mets are your team. Edgy. Prescient.

="batmagadanleadoff"]Has anybody here had sex with this woman? Ever? Are you offering her up..?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: He's not having a good year and at 43, unlikely that he'll many others. OTOH, I'm so mad at Feliciano I'll try any lefty. Yeah really. On second thought how much worse could he be...?

Kenny Rogers is the last thing this team needs.

="AG/DC"]="soupcan"]In all my years of watching baseball I've never seen a team so consistent in their ability to lose games this way. Well, there was the same squad the last five or six weeks last year. Yeah, exactly - over the last two years its been the same fucking thing.

All of the above - but the bullpen seems to just be pure death this year and last. In all my years of watching baseball I've never seen a team so consistent in their ability to lose games this way. They hit the snot out of the ball the first third of the game and then Charlie Samuels apparently starts to pack up the bats for the next game. The bullpen is ridiculously bad. With Wagner or without Wagner. Even when they do close out a game its nailbiting. Pedro gets a 7 run lead and then proceeds to give up 5 runs in less than 5 innings. I used to watch a game and if a team scored 7 runs the game was comfortably in hand. 7 runs was always my magic number. If a team scored 7 runs in my mind that game was over. Sure, occasionally the other team would come back but for the most part if they scored 7, that was it. It was an unscientific approach but it worked for me. This Mets team though cannot be trusted with a lead of any size. I don't understand why they hit so well early and then...don't. I don't understand why none of the major league pitchers in the bullpen is dependable on a regular basis. I'm not asking for lights-out no-doubters, just give me more good outings than bad. A graphic was shown last night during the game which gave the ERAs of the bullpen and it was unbelievable. I don't know how you solve the problem - all these guys have had major league success - why are they all sucking on this team as a unit? Chemistry? What the fuck do I know? But I do know that if you jettisoned the whole lot of them (which I'm neither suggesting nor endorsing) and replaced them with minor leaguers and FAs the Mets would not be any worse off (of course I do know that's not the case but you get my point). From last year to this I've been watching baseball the likes of which I've never seen on such a consistent basis. If I didn't have such a vested interest in this team I'd find it fascinating. Unfortunately the reality is that I find it gut-wrenching.

At least Lidge is out of the game. Not that the Mets have shown they can hit at all after the first third of the game however.

Damn.

2 down!

I do not like Victorino.

Breathe...

Pat the Bat.... DUM DE DUM DUM!!

="Fman99"]Ol Sucko Suckliciano comes right in and gives up a hit. :sigh: It was a groundball.

If the Mets and Phils tie for the division does head-to-head record determine the winner?

'Cuz each team gets 9 at home and the Phillies had that 4 game set over 4th of July I guess. BTW - Mets are 9-4 -v- Phils to date.

See - I take the high road and someone else comes in and slams the open shot.

So......why don't they just move the kid up one age level? As I understand it, that is what is usually done when one kid is far and away better than his peers. If he's too good for the 9 year-olds, let him pitch against the 10 and/or 11 year-olds.