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hate to break it to you guys, but he's not going to be left off the postseason roster. brace yourselves for the disappointment.

cowboys hosting the redskins is another possibility - i believe that's the widest point spread this week. but the skins tend to play the cowboys tough, and i could see the cowboys having a letdown after two big, tough games.

i guess this means penn state is much better than usc then.

It was so amusing seeing them jump and down on the mound, like they won the world series. It was almost cute. Seriously? Give them a break. They're tied for the final playoff spot and just had a walkoff win. yeah i'm not begrudging them for celebrating, but i was listening to the game on WFAN and the guy was talking about how the mets have hung in there and come back after falling behind, and he was building up all the drama.... it's just hard to take seriously when they're barely beating a team that's not trying to win.

wow congrats mets you managed a split against the cubs backups and AAA players... what a great team.

lawl @ usc

i went to the phillies board on espn to see if people there were praising hoffpauir and laughing at the mets... came across this amusing thread

methinx your hatred for the devil rays is playing a role in this questionable pick.

same here, that was the one and only game i ever attended in shea, it was with my dad, who's also a big cub fan. prior pitched great and dempster inexplicably walked two guys in the ninth inning. everyone remembers victor diaz, but a lot of people forget that craig brazell hit his one and only major league home run to end that game. it was extremely traumatic. f*** you, mets.

LLF totally needs to change his pants btw it's hilarious that our B-team continues to screw up the mets' playoff chances. it's like revenge for victor diaz and craig brazell.

no, LLF is still posting.

i would love to go to a playoff game, but i am not trading my face for a ticket.

this is the best papelbon video.

if it makes you feel better, your offense sucked anyway. That rarely matters against Purdue. No TE's limits what we can do severely. I should be a good game....I'm guessing Purdue wins 24-17...but Purdue is so inconsistent it should be a competitive game; i'm not sure that it will be a good game considering that notre dame and purdue are the two teams playing.

Buffalo over St. Louis San Diego over Oakland Denver over Kansas City Those three all look pretty safe to me. I'd say Jacksonville at Houston to...I know Jacksonville hasn't been what we thought they'd be, but Houston's offense is just abysmal no way... jacksonville always loses to houston for some reason. also, denver has always had a hard time winning at kansas city, buffalo needed a last-second field goal to beat oakland at home last week, and san diego is still, as far as i can tell, coached by norv turner. i went with carolina over atlanta.

200 for reynolds!!!! at least cust and howard (most years) give you high obp and a lot of power to go with their high strikeout totals. there's no reason that a player of reynolds' profile should be striking out 200 times in a year.

wow if the twins win tomorrow night, watch for ozzie to go into full meltdown mode.

5 runners in 4 innings is not bad. that's the bright side of this start.

if it makes you feel better, your offense sucked anyway.

And some people -- no matter how bad the head coach is flushing their alma mater's/favorite university's basketball program down the toilet -- refuse to acknowledge the possibility that the head basketball coach is an abject failure. Stubborness prevails indeed. I have no idea what this reference is to but it seems like a sick burn. ohhhhh Pman has his nose so far up Bruce Weber's behind that I have no idea how he can even watch the games. i thought maybe it was about mike davis or something, and if so, nice burn... but bruce weber flushing illinois down the toilet? no.

that would violate the first rule of survival football; never pick a team coached by norv turner.

yes that's true, but one also has to assume that luck will even out over time. some months theriot will have more singles drop in and be a very productive player; other months those batted balls will be caught more frequently and he'll have very little value. he's drawn 69 walks in 641 PAs this year, which is a rate comparable to lee and ramirez. i don't know why pitchers would walk him, but they have been this year, and i think the cat has been out of the bag for quite a while on him not being a power hitter. he's in the bottom 20 in baseball in frequency swinging at pitches; most guys in this group are guys you'd expect to see - cust, dunn, abreu, swisher. he's 7th in baseball in zone%, which i'm pretty sure means percent of pitches he sees within the strike zone. so pitchers throw him a lot of strikes, but he still manages to walk a lot. it's strange, but i don't think the spread is that large between the # of strikes that theriot sees and the # of strikes that a guy like adam dunn sees. pitchers probably don't vary their approach as much as they should. of course it's unfair. he's a little below average, but people make him out to be a complete butcher. he makes a very high percentage of plays on balls hit to him or in his area; his range is limited and his arm is fringy. this ends up making him a little below average. just because he made an error in an important spot that you remember does not make him any worse of a defensive player. overall, he'll give you above-average obp and below-average power at his position, plus a little below-average defense. he is essentially to shortstop what matt murton was to corner outfield. in the absence of a better in-house alternative, you're probably going to need a few players like this on the roster - adequate players making the major league minimum, so that you can afford to pay the big-production veterans.

Agreed on Manny. I think he should scratch the Top 5 easily. He's been unreal since coming over. I thought his production was a gonna fall off a cliff moving to Dodger Stadium, too. He's silenced a lot of critics. Not deserving of the award, obviously, but definitely deserving of consideration. amazing what a great player can do when he actually, you know, tries.

if they give multiple standing ovations to general so, there may just be fans that attempt to fellate eckstein.

Ruptured spleen? Ouch. That's certainly more serious that the "whole body cramping" they reported throughout the game. maybe they just meant "bodily functions shutting down"