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Ryan Howard hits # 43. em
Manny is still a extremly dangerous hitter even though he isn't in Boston anymore. Some would like to believe ge was washed up the minute he was traded an his only mojo for being great was being in Boston. To bad such a great hitter has to be such a loon.
Remeber we were talking about the Astros making that dealand I never thought they had a chance. Well here come those surging Astros who are right in the thick of things now out of nowhere. They wont win the division but they sure can get to the wild card.
You have been wrong before..lol And when was that you admitted to it?lol Tampa did what you wanted and that was STILL not good enough. But a team like the Mets who are vastly inferior to tampa gets such great marks. Tampa plays in one of the hardest divisions in baseball They are only .003 points off of the best team record in baseball and have shared the best record in baseball and at times have had the best record in baseball. Thats over the course of most of the season. They went into Boston and won 2-3
Correct me if I am wrong and Boston is still behind Tampa and will be behind Tampa weather Tampa wins or loses tomorrow night. Your correct in saying it all depends where you finish. I said that earlier this year. Just like the Mets collapsed last year Some Mets fans still felt they were the class of the league even though they didn't even make the playoffs.
Funny how your so negative on a team that has been in first place just about all season and a few times had the best record in baseball yet you so high on a team that has only been in 1st place for just a few weeks over the course of the season and has no pen at all to speak of.
I really expected you to say even though the phillies won 2-3 it wasn't really a win because the mets are better and they came back from 7 games down and the sky is blue and their pitching staff is better and yada yada yada.
Manny being traded helped Boston and it has helped LA Manny had 5 rbi's today. LA is in the playoff hunt and took over sole position of 1st so it is theirs to win or lose now. If they can pull it off tomorrow night which I think they can that would put them up 1.5 games.
Of course you feel your right. It doesn't matter what the records are or anything. Who's right is what makes it to the playoffs. Their record must have nothing to do with it. It only matters who thinks they are right.
What a way to win is right. I say they keep Cito Gaston Since he came back to Manage Toronto he has them playing much better. They were something like 5 games under .500 and he said the goal once he took over was to go 10 games over .500 for the season. I don't remember the exact numbers on how far they were under .500 but it goes to show a manager who makes his team play better and believe in themselves helps.
Looks lie Tampa is pulling it off again in coming from behind. They managed to take it to extra innings and now have the lead.
Your right, the Mets can't sweep everytime. But you had asked me a question and I was answering you. If you don't like the answer you don't ask the question.
I think your not impressed with my argument about it because despite what their records are you feel only you are right.
That kid in Seattle did a great job. It doesn't happen to every pitcher that pitches a no hitter turns into a just so so pitcher after that. He deserved the no-no. He sure pitched a awsome game and made the Yankees look silly
You know I was giving it more thought as to what you said about what my response would be or yada yada yada. Hhere is a plain and simple reason I feel the Mets are NOT vastly Superior. It is not hard. You can't base a team on just their starting pitching. The starters do not pitch the whole game in most cases. It is a team game. Now here is where it gets very simple. Mets have scored 693 runs. Phillies have scored 679 That is a difference of 14 runs scored that the mets are in the plus. Now Mets givin up 609 runs and Phillies have givin up 585 for a difference of 24. The Mets have givin up 24 more runs as a team. Thats not a team that is vastly Superior. So it doesn't matter that they came back from 7.5 games behind. The average shows they should be very close together in the standings. Now guess what, they are. It shows that overall when it counts Phillies pitching has been slightly better and the Mets bats are even more just slightly better overall than the phillies. I am talking overall as a team. Not just a starting pitcher.
wtg Phillies.
Well I guess we wont know what I would say because the Vastly Superior Mets lost all chances of a Sweep as they lost tonight. Har har har..lol
They will be fine. They have plenty of time. Are the Mets supposed to be signifigantly ahead? 3 games is nothing.
He picked a real bad time to have a bad time.After Opting out of his contract in the huge mess he created with that Idiot of a agent he has/had. The fans had really warmed up to him the past 2 years and he finally won them over last year. He pulled that garbage and then now the drama in his life now that he alone has created. Fans root for their own and want their own to suceed. Even Jeter a few years ago who started the year so bad was booed by the home town fans and he agreed with them. He said he would boo himself he was hitting so bad.
Well we will wait to put him in the hall of fame anyway to see how the rest of his career goes. You know, Just out of respect for the other great ones that have played ball the past hundred years.
This Fowler is a real moron.
Ex-Dem Chair Apologizes for Hurricane Remark
ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: Former DNC Chairman Don Fowler apologized on Sunday for joking in a private conversation that the timing of Hurricane Gustav demonstrates that God is on the side of the Democrats.
"If this offended anybody, I personally apologize," Fowler told ABC News. "It was a mistake, and it was a satirical statement made in jest. And one that I clearly don't believe."
Fowler was secretly recorded by the person sitting behind him while flying from Denver, Colo., to Charlotte, N.C., following the Democratic National Convention. His conversation with Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., was anonymously posted to YouTube and highlighted by RedState.com, a conservative blog.
One doesn't anticipate that one's private conversation will be surreptitiously taped by some right-wing nutcase," said Fowler. "But that's the nature of what we're dealing with."
Fowler, a superdelegate who endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2007, was caught on tape saying: "The hurricane’s going to hit New Orleans about the time they start. The timing is -- at least it appears now that it’ll be there Monday. That just demonstrates that God’s on our side. [Laughter] Everything’s cool."
McCain and RNC officials announced on Sunday that they will suspend most of the convention program for Monday, including speeches by President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Republicans will only take up essential business when their convention gets underway on Monday and will not hear primetime speeches.
Fowler said his remark was "facetious" and a "satirical comment" on the late Rev. Jerry Falwell.
Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Falwell told "The 700 Club," "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'"
Falwell, who later apologized, said he viewed the attacks as God's judgment on America for "throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked."
Fowler sought to contrast his religious views with those expressed by the late Rev. Falwell before his death.
"I believe in a benevolent God," said Fowler. "I'm a religious person. It was a facetious statement, some might even say satirical, play off of what Falwell said."
"If it offended anybody. I'm sorry for that," said Fowler. "I don’t think anybody in America wishes for something bad to happen to New Orleans. I certainly don't."
After the video surfaced on RedState.com, Fowler, the former DNC chairman and Spratt, the South Carolina Democratic congressman with whom he was talking, were pilloried by the chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party.
"The outrageous behavior of two of the Obama campaign's highest profile supporters in the south is despicable, a cynical politicization of life and death," said Katon Dawson, the chairman of the South Carolina G.O.P. "I call on Barack Obama to immediately denounce Fowler and Spratt and demand sincere apologies from these members of the Democratic leadership."
Fowler was unnerved by the experience but he said that he does not think that people should be prohibited from taping such conversations.
"I have to say that I am a free speech advocate and would not suggest that people should be prohibited from taping such conversations," said Fowler. "But nevertheless it seems to be a bit extreme to tape a private conversation like that."
6-2 now. Pathetic.
Yankees trying out for the new bad news bears movie.
Ramirez homers twice in second straight four-hit performance
PHOENIX -- Manny Ramirez had just pounded out four hits again, two of them homers. He powered a 6-2 win that halted the Dodgers' losing streak at eight and trimmed the Diamondbacks' lead to 3 1/2 games and he was feeling good enough to take a swing at superstitious critics.
"Tell Joe Torre thank you for making me cut my hair," Ramirez said, running fingers through dreadlocks that are growing back nicely, dismissing concerns of some that Torre's grooming rules had robbed Ramirez of his run production the way Samson's power vanished with his hair.
Ramirez hasn't seemed to have lost anything. After going 4-for-4 with a pair of doubles and a walk Friday night, he went 4-for-5 with a pair of homers, his 500th career double and three runs scored Saturday night. His eight consecutive hits were one short of Ron Cey's 31-year-old Los Angeles record.
"I go from first to third and I play defense," Ramirez said, still clowning in a postgame clubhouse filled with loud music for the first time in more than a week. "A guy said I look like Dave Roberts."
Russell Martin, after going a tough-luck 0-for-5 in his second start leading off, had a much different description of Ramirez, who has nine homers and 25 RBIs in less than a month.
"He's a 5-A player," said Martin. "You've got 4-A players (between Triple-A and the Major Leagues). He's 5-A -- in his own category. What goes unnoticed is the work that goes into it. He gets up early, works out on his own. He doesn't tell anybody about it, but he goes about his business and works hard. It's not a fluke. There's a reason he's as good as he is."
Chad Billingsley benefited as much as anyone from Ramirez's production. He took the game into the eighth inning, recording a team- and career-high 13th victory and halting the longest Dodgers' road losing streak since 1992.
"Manny really stepped up big today," Billingsley said. "We've been beating ourselves. Tonight, Manny had an unbelievable game."
Ramirez singled in the first inning off Dan Haren, lined a solo homer with two out in the third inning, doubled with one out in the fifth and scored ahead of Matt Kemp's 16th home run and hit the foul pole with one out in the seventh inning for his ninth home run in 29 games as a Dodger before grounding out in the ninth.
Ramirez is batting .419 since he arrived. Just as remarkably, the Dodgers are winning at a barely higher percentage (.429) since he was acquired (12-16) while slipping 1 1/2 games in the standings.
He couldn't prevent the eight-game losing streak, despite going 6-for-13 while the club was swept in Washington, but he kept it from reaching nine. He's 16-for-36 on the trip and for the last game in Washington Thursday night, Torre moved Ramirez back to third in the batting order after batting him fourth since he arrived. In 13 at-bats since, he has three homers and three doubles.
"It's all about rallying behind somebody," Torre said. "Basically, Manny, he doesn't literally say this, but it's basically, 'Just follow me.' We didn't do anything early, all of a sudden he hits the home run and it lightens the mood in the dugout because not only the fact he hit a home run but just his personality when he got back, it's pretty special. It's been really fun watching him from this side."
Especially when an eight-game losing streak needs to be snapped. For Torre, this was his longest losing streak as a manager since the 1982 Atlanta Braves lost 11 straight (eight to the Dodgers) and 19 of 21. Despite that collapse, Torre's Braves actually won the division, a fact that underscores the absurdity of the current NL West race.
"I'm relieved," Torre said. "We do something every day to make sure people understand that it's not really important how bad we've been, it doesn't take much to turn this thing around. I learned in my St. Louis days as a player, as long as there are more games left than you're behind, you tell yourself you can win. Anything can happen. It can turn around very quickly."
Torre praised Billingsley, who enjoyed three double plays by his defense and allowed the two runs in seven-plus innings.
"He has a bellyful of guts," said Torre. "Like a lot of inexperienced players, he tries to do too much at times, but he straightens it out. He reels himself in."
Billingsley left a runner on second base for Hong-Chih Kuo, who had his electric stuff, getting strikeouts for five of his six outs and finishing off the eighth and ninth innings by hopping off the mound while fanning Mark Reynolds and Justin Upton.
Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
It was a great catch Dew but I think rating him one of the best you have ever seen is a bit much unless you have watched a few games. I think Coco is a better center fielder. I have seen average players make great catches at times. Thats part of being a major league baseball player.
I think that the ump made the right call on that one. Pretty good call to since it was bang bang and I couldn't tell until I saw it in slow motion. They got him out by a split second.
lol Never and I mean NEVER did I think that would ever come out of anyones mouth..lol
wow..How many games have you watched..lol
Well we will have to see how he is. He can pitch the whole game or get knocked out of the game in the 3rd inning. Was just reading Fox sports and they gave Yankees 10% chance to make the playoffs. About what I figured. They gave Boston a 60% chance.
The Twins will finish their 14 game road trip. Then play 6 at home then go on the road for 10. They have been givin a 45% chance.
Not knocking people from florida, I think that they think different. My parents live down there. As I said, here I have a chance to go to the last Yankee game at the stadium and my mother keeps telling me sell the tickets. Back when the Marlins were in the world series my sister and her husband and 3 kids were able to get world series tickets the same day. That is insane. At game time there were still tickets unsold. Not only that, as stupid as this sounds. There are tons of elderly in Forida. They don't call it gods waiting room for nothing. They come from alot of other states where they root for other teams. I think it is a shame though, this is a excellent Rays team and it would be nice to see them get more support. That 12,000 the other night was pathetic.
Well thats true to a point as The Twins are only 4 games away and Boston is 6 games away. Every team has had a 4 game losing streak on the road this year. Every single team and it can happen again. It would be easier to catch the twins than it would Boston but Boston looks to be left without their ace for the rest of the year. Wakefield pitched good the other night but you can't count on him going deep in games and Boston has a very suspect pen. So there is a chance. Very very small chance. I say less than 10% chance.
lol My mother keeps telling me sell the tickets sell the tickets. I will keep the stubbs for sure. I imagine the tickets would probably be worth more as a whole though. I don't know for sure as thats just a guess.
Mets are looking to pick up Pavano. Jaba should be shut down for the year. Just give up on the rest of the season at this point and Let Jaba rest.
I said it before, we were not dead in the water but we needed to win 2 of 3 here and in Boston. No way we will win 4 out of the next 4. Rebuilding year with our pitching staff and would be willing to give up this year in order to keep the kids and rebuild with you and vets. But not hitting with RISP has killed us more than our pitching staff. After something like 13 years in the playoffs their run is over. One thing for sure, the tickets I have for the last yankee game in yankee stadium will definitly be the last. No playoffs unless something drastic happens like they actually play to their expectations and Boston goes on a losing streak.
I was stuck listening to the game in the car as I was driving.
We are not dead in the water yet as a unlikely sweep would have been great but in the six games we had left with Boston we needed to win 4 of 6 between this 3 game home stand and then in Boston. Our Simply demonic announcer has us dead in one minute and the next minute in must win games coming up.
All I know is those last game at yankee stadium tickets I have look more and more like there will be no playoffs. My mother keeps telling me to sell them. I said I bought them so I could go to the last game. She said sell them and you will have some good money..lol
How bout them Phillies huh.
Dew, he deserved every bit of it to. He has not been playing with focus all year. Some could use the excuse well he is getting divirced but he shot himself in the foot there to. I am sure you have seen many Red Sox Rivalries and the fans are used to seeing guys come up bit in those situations or atleast get a RBI. Not hit .200 with RISP
lol I think so.. em
I think Tampa making it to the series would be a great story. Cubs and Tampa in the series would be watched and get great ratings.
That was one of the worst calls I have seen all year. I thought last week a call against Tampa was bad. This was absolutly pathetic. You could clearly see him swing his body and arm.