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Tieing run on 2nd, Reyes up. Ehem JOSE JOSE JOSE JOOOOOOOOOSEEEEEEEEEEE

3-2 Fish. Plenty of time to win this one, assuming the pen is able to keep it close. Beltran hurt himself ending the 7th Hey PujolJunkie the Mets in 1998 needed one win in the last 5 to at least force a playoff for the Wild Card. The next time they won again would be April of 1999. Hey if Al can bring up past Phillie frustrations, I'm bringing up 1998, and Game 7 2006 NLCS. 4-2 Washington in the 8th

Arizona @ Baltimore (7.5) Buffalo @ New England (15.5) Detroit @ Philadelphia (6.5) (6.5) Indianapolis @ Houston Miami @ N.Y. Jets (3.5) Minnesota @ Kansas City (2.5) (4.5) San Diego @ Green Bay San Francisco @ Pittsburgh (9.5) St. Louis @ Tampa Bay (3.5) Cincinnati @ Seattle (3.5) Cleveland @ Oakland (3.5) Jacksonville @ Denver (3.5) (4.5) Carolina @ Atlanta N.Y. Giants @ Washington (4.5) Dallas @ Chicago (3.5) Tennessee @ New Orleans (4.5) Sadly, 36 by the Washington Redskins

Have you been watching the Mets bullpen all year? Have you seen Reyes since Randolph benched him in Houston? Have you seen Delgado, LoDuca, Green, whoever we put at 2nd stink all year at the plate? Have you seen a softer 25 game hitting streak than the one Moises Alou currently has? Plus the Nats and Marlins will be pesky this week because of the "we play well against New York" factor that caused the Nats to "lay down" to your Phillies this weekend, not to mention Thursday Tony LaRussa will probably manage that game like it was Game 8 of the 2006 NLCS if the Mets haven't clinched yet. There are plenty of reasons to be worried about this Met squad this week and IF they even get to October.

Also both JR and Jericho made disparaging comments about WCW as if the reasons for them (JR and Y2J) leaving WCW are still very much a part of the WCW in the Invasion storyline.

There is an interesting article on the health of baseball in the recent Smart Money, a monthly magazine put out by the Wall Street Journal, and every month as a "10 Things" column. This is only in the print edition, so from the October '07 issue Ten Things Major League Baseball Is Not Telling You by Barry Petchesky Number One, "So Much For The National Pastime" really is good evidence in a "baseball is dying" argument as it mentions a Harris Poll from 1985 where baseball as a favorite sport was listed by 1/4th of the respondents. In 2006, that number dropped 14% which is half as much as the NFL. Petchesky also mentioned the rise of NASCAR and soccer in the context of it, but showed no reason for the inclusion of those two sports. Also mentioned is the Nielson ratings where the postseason ratings since 1985 have fallen 50% and the fact that all 10 of the lowest rated World Series have occurred within the last decades. Inconvenient game times is given as the culprit, and more to the point there is a quote from SABR's Gary Gillette that says "the diehards will always be there...but the causal fans have left in droves." The other items include; -How MLB is essentially scalping their own tickets by going to bed with Stubhub and other resellers. -Alienating fans because of arcane territory rights that black out certain markets on MLB.com's MLBTV service. -The rise of the Latin American player at the expense of American born players. -Crazy accounting that makes teams appear to be losing money and in turn more raises in prices at the ballpark, not to mention getting the public to finance new ballparks in one form or another. -There are still many problems with the drug policy, especially in the case where you can not test for HGH. -And the coziness of having that anti-trust exemption. Its good for a quick read on the problems still facing baseball, despite what the revenue streams of attendance records and merchandise sales will have you believe.

Hey I asked this once! From what I can recall, nothing really. They may have had Shawn run down Stu & Helen before hand to interject himself into the match. They may have also brought up the year before where champ Bret faced IC champ HBK the year before. IIRC Glenn "Kane" Jacobs was one, not sure of the others.

Oh and lets not forget the numerous times a wrestler lost some stipulation that causes him to no longer wrestle or be off TV and no attempt is made to reconcile the "agreement" Worse example is Curt Hennig losing a loser leaves town match, only to return the next week! BTW, I kind of stopped following for a while, but since Stephanie mentioned her marriage to HHH in the Benoit tribute, is it now kayfabed that the "characters" are still married DESPITE the divorce papers being signed in 2004 or so?

I know dark matches don't count, but apparantly Eddie Guerrero beat Goldberg in a dark match before "The Streak" was officially recongized.

going in to WM13, didn't Steve Austin say something to the effect that he's never given up in his whole life? I'm almost positive I've seen bleach blonde Sting force Stunning Steve Austin to submit to the Scorpion Deathlock. Maybe not? But hey, two different guys there! I'm pretty sure Austin's past in the industry was kayfabed into his Stone Cold character though (past will Pillman, 8 Long F'n Years, ect)

It added a bit, but it was for the video package treatment. Stone Cold warned the Rock that if something happened to Debra, something happened to The Rock. IIRC, Angle got Debra in the Ankle Lock and The Rock received a Stunner afterwards for it. Also when she came back then Jarrett was long gone so it was safe to kayfabe the fact that Austin and Debra were RL (at the time obviously) husband and wife. IIRC she hadn't been on TV since Jarrett left.

I agree, for no real reason win totals tend to be an overwhelming factor when everything is equal. Even if both are on playoff contending teams. The only way someone without 20 wins would win if for some reason the voter decides to make the award "The Most Valuable Pitcher" award rather than looking at the whole stats picture.

Congrats to Josh Beckett, first MLB hurler to win 20 since 2005! FYI, 2006 was the first non work stoppage/war shortened season in MLB history not to have a 20 game winner. Is there a way the Mets can get around the postseason roster rules and dump the entire pen, sans Wagner? = Hey, where did my shoelaces go?

I wonder when the decision was made to "start" the WWF clock at WM I or whatever. Interestling enough, when Hogan came back at the start of his face run Backlund confronted him during a promo and brought up Hogan's heel past! That promo is on the Hulk Still Rules set.

Wagner's not even in the bullpen, so something is amiss. Apparantly back spasms.

Congratulations, your 2007 National League Eastern Division Champion Philadelphia Phillies, and your 2007 National League Wild Card Winners, San Diego Padres. See you in April New York Mets. You heartless, lethargic, pieces of crap. Let this lost season stick with you, especially considering what happened just across town in The Bronx this year. With the state of the Mets, and Big Blue, the Rangers can't get started soon enough (I'd add the Knicks, but November is still a ways away and I'd rather not think about that mess too much)

Or not say anything or say stuff like "This is going to be in the conversation of all-time matches/events/whatever" Say "greatest moment/whatever" too many times, it looses all impact.

If I'm going down, I'm taking everyone with me! NINE-TEEN-OH-EIGHT! There, had to get it off my chest. Feel somewhat better

How does that has anything to do with September of 2007? How about because this weekend was like two teams passing in the night. One team playing EXACTLY how the Mets were last year, and another team looking old, lethargic, sloppy and crappy baseball. J-Rols was right, the Phillies ARE the team to beat, the Mets need an overhaul and it starts with Willie. Then the bullpen except for Wagner.

2.5 game lead, but if you want to concede I'll take it. I'd be feeling better if we destroyed the Nats tonight

I am THIS CLOSE to conceeding the division! WTF was that tonight?

Its a real award, they didn't list the nominees, so yeah I'm thinking it was an excuse to get Al Gore on the show. MLB.com's MLBtv Mosiac was nominated, and MLB.com wasn't too thrilled about the result!

Okay, here is exactly what I'm worried about, all year the Mets have struggled against pitchers who, well, aren't the cream of the crop. Well now with Philly 3 and a half back with 2 weeks to play, the Mets are set to face a steady diet of guys who are September call ups, or guys nowhere near the top 20 pitchers in baseball on the Marlins and Nationals. This has 1964 Phillies written all over it.

Anyone think that they should bring Rock back to promote his next film and do a quick program putting over MVP? Eh, just a thought I guess.

Seriously, why would he say that? Any musician worth his salt can't deny that Eric Clapton was successful at what he did. Not to answer for Milky, but its kind of the same reason a pro wrestler like Steve Austin and The Rock became popular. Not because they play the "I respect you" card, but because they think that they are the best and any one else is beneath them. No matter how great they really were or still are. Since a person has that uber-self confidence they'll tear down everyone just so they look better, and probably gain fans because of their "I don't give a shit" attitude. Wow. That has to be one of the most idiotic things I've ever heard. Please expand on this theory. Not so sure about that. The music industry is a dog-eat-dog world, while sure there are nice people out there, but generally its all very ego driven. I mean its a way to get attention, and music artists, or any entertainer, at their core are attention whores. So what better way to get fame, fortune and members of the opposite (or same if you are so inclined) to throw themselves at you than being a music artist.