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TheOldMole wrote: There are no style or degree of difficulty points in baseball. You just have to win more games than the other guys. Yup.

metirish wrote: Oh that's easy for you to say , I'm from Saddle River , still live in my Moms basement and really can't afford Sirius Radio. I might have to get a job now..... KA-POW!!

That video snippet is great because it captures the essence of the show in those 10 minutes. Hysteria, condescension, circular logic, malaprops.. it's all there.

Russo calling in live on the cellphone right now is crying. They are speaking to each other like Francesa is the wife who has been cheated on and kicked the husband out, has forgiven him, but it is what it is.

Too many bon mots there to list. That was great.

Perez 3 Schneider 1.5 Delgado 1 Murphy .75 Reyes .75 Sanchez .75 Beltran .5 Easley .5 Wright .5 Heilman .25 Smith .25 Tatis .25

From what I'm hearing today it seems like Russo got an offer from SIRIUS that WFAN wouldn't or couldn't match. Since the relationship between he and Francesa wasn't so great anyway, WFAN released him from his contract. I listened to their show when they were in studio together but always preferred them when they were each by themselves. Francesa is pompous and condescending and Russo is ill-informed and prone to over the top hysteria. As a team they seemed to bring out the worst in one another. Seperately, although they were both still irritating, they tended to be more reserved. Of the two - I preferred Russo's 'every fan' approach as opposed to Francesa instructing me on why my thoughts and opinions were wrong. I wish that if one of them were leaving it would've been Francesa but I'm not that passionate about it. I'll listen to Russo on SIRIUS since I have it but if I didn't I wouldn't buy it just for him. On Carton and Boomer in the morning - they are atrocious. Carton thinks he's funny but he's just obnoxious and rude. Boomer is a conceited boob with the most inane opinions. I read somewhere that Regis Philbin told Boomer that he should be careful because Carton is going to wind up getting him (Boomer) fired. I can totally see that. Phil Mushnick on the Mike & the Mad Dog breakup - funny because he starts out trying to compliment them but just can't bring himself to actually do it: ] GOOD OR BAD, MIKE & DOG MADE HISTORY August 14, 2008 -- OK, so maybe it wasn't always for the best reasons, but Mike Francesa and Chris Russo still had a good run - a great run, even - and for nearly 20 years. Hell, for better and worse, they made radio history. Like Burns and Allen, Klavin and Finch and Bob and Ray, Francesa and Russo - no longer together after WFAN let Russo go Thursday - together changed the course of radio. They were the first nationally known team in the history of sports talk radio. It's a forever fact. MORE: 'Mad Dog' Runs Away From Mike So what if they got along like Martin and Lewis? And so what if they benefited from a media market - the world's largest - that could never provide genuine competition? Though WFAN in large part was saved by "Imus in the Morning," it relied upon Mike and the Mad Dog for everything else. And now both shows, 16 months apart, are gone. Twenty years ago, Russo was buying weekend air-time on WMCA, sending tapes to sports media critics, eager for ink, hungry to make something happen. And for all his knee-jerking and brainless defamations and butchered pronunciations and ability to get lost in an elevator, he made it happen. And we're told Sirius, bless its brainless bankroll, will pay Russo $3 million to rant about things he has, in almost 20 years, proven he knows little about. Good work, if you can get it. If Howard Stern hasn't yet crushed AM or FM radio, neither will Russo. That Russo long felt that he was treated with less intellectual and financial regard by WFAN than Francesa became a self-fulfilling reality. His deferments to Francesa's most specious opinions and flip-flops, his steady indulgence of Francesa's delusions of grandeur, became standardized. Russo became Ed Norton to Francesa's Ralph Kramden. And now Norton's on his own. A new gig for a half of a history-making team may guarantee a lucrative future but not a successful one. As a Sirius host or working from a telephone booth, Russo lacks the capacity to be much more than another forced sports radio act, another holler guy. Warts and all, Francesa, still aided and comforted by a paucity of legitimate competition, will remain a habit-formed listen here for however long he remains. But together, and for nearly 20 years, Francesa and Russo made history. They made a whole lot something out of what previously existed as nothing. phil.mushnick@nypost.com

I think you have to sign him. Santana, Maine, Perez and Pelfrey could be a very formidable front 4. And they're all young.

Notice how Keith always says 'down the pipe' when talking about a pitch down the middle? Isn't the expression 'down the pike'? Doesn't 'pike'- as in turnpike I guess - make more sense then 'pipe'? What kind of pipe?

Maine 2.25 Murphy 2 Tatis 1.5 Stokes 1.25 Beltran 1 Reyes 1 Wright 1

Well my thinking was more about swapping bad contracts than the Tigers needing a secondbaseman. Castillo may be more money and more years but maybe the Tigers want to rid themselves of Sheff in a bad enough way to do it. Taking an oft-injured and expensive Sheffield would be a risk for the Mets but even if he can't do anything next year, they're trading $18.75 million of lousy Castillo over the next 3 years for Sheffield's $14 million over one. ="smg58"]I'd be willing to offer Castillo and Schoeneweis for Andruw Jones and Hong Chi Kuo. I can't imagine Kuo would clear waivers, though, so it would have to wait until the offseason. Andruw Jones?! And my suggestion is getting mocked...?

How about Castillo for Sheffield straight up?

Vlad is going to spontaneously combust when he sees that Micah Owings was traded to a team other than the Mets. On a seperate note I see that Sheffield - he of 2 homeruns hit last night - has cleared waivers. I think he's got $14 million due him next year.

Santana 3 Beltran 2 Delgado 1.25 Feliciano 1 Reyes 1 Wright 1 Smith .75

Phillie up 2-1 in the second.

1-1 Dodgers tie it.

AG/DC wrote: Never in doubt. *cough-cough*

KC wrote: The assorted meats comment is probably funny, but I don't get it. 'Cuz if you're flipping over the buffet table aren't you blaming the food...?

...and it ain't the assorted meats.

KC wrote: I disagree with both of you, sorta. There are too many innings in a row, game to game, when this offense goes into snooze mode with a lead. Wright had a nice game, but threw his bat down in disgust in his last AB because he knew it. They needed another run or two. Easley sucked today. If they had won 5-1 you wouldn't have written this. The offense is not the problem, the defense is not the problem, the starting pitching is not the problem, the manager is not the problem. It's the bullpen. Last year, this year.

What do you think? 7-5 Pirates. Final.

At 12:10, Skies are grey but its not raining at all in lower Manhattan.

I know, just expanding the thought.

9-6? I suppose, I'd be okay with that, but those are losing teams. You have to be happy with 2 of 3 each series (as I am with this past weekend's against Florida) and that's what 9-6 would be, but wouldn't that still be a little disappointing?

Reyes - 1.5 Chavez - 1 Wright - 1 Schoeneweis - .25 Smith - .25