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Dear Kevin Millar,

Please STFU ASAP.  Thanks.

Mets find rooting interest in World Cup 

I love few things like I love the collision of my two favorite sports.  (Also, poor, poor Reyes.)

Fingers crossed that there will be another west coast reckoning while I sleep tonight.  This team is driving me nuts.

On the upside, at least we know the pattern.  We just have to avoid road games for the rest of the year and there won’t be any more drama.  Problem solved.

I dare you to find a more ridiculous and cracktastic lovable piece of baseball.  Go ahead and try.

The Mets are losing 17-6, it’s inching ever closer to an ungodly hour of the night, I don’t get nearly enough sleep as it is, and Oliver Fucking Perez is pitching, and yet I am still up, watching this debacle.  So am I loyal or stupid?

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When told that Manuel’s plan is to save Perez for extra-inning games, one of the Mets players laughed.

“What, we need another 20-inning game and then use him after we’ve used all our pitchers and if a position player’s sinker isn’t biting?” the player said.

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anonymous Mets player that I am trying to identify

The Ollie Problem (and yes, it’s big enough to justify the capitals letters): I was originally on board with simply giving Hank White permission to live up to his rep but I don’t want to wait for him to get back from Venezuela.  The situation is too urgent.  So I’ve come up with a better plan.  I propose that we scrap Ollie for parts.  We can give his knees to Carlos Beltran and Daniel Murphy, his shoulder to Kelvim Escobar, and save his hamstrings for Jose’s next problem.  We then harvest his arm for some sort of vaccine against suckiness and voila!  We’ve solved several problems with just a few radical surgeries.  Who’s with me on this?

The Ollie Problem (and yes, it’s big enough to justify the capitals letters): I was originally on board with simply giving Hank White permission to live up to his rep but I don’t want to wait for him to get back from Venezuela.  The situation is too urgent.  So I’ve come up with a better plan.  I propose that we scrap Ollie for parts.  We can give his knees to Carlos Beltran and Daniel Murphy, his shoulder to Kelvim Escobar, and save his hamstrings for Jose’s next problem.  We then harvest his arm for some sort of vaccine against suckiness and voila!  We’ve solved several problems with just a few radical surgeries.  Who’s with me on this?

WSJ Mets-Yankees Poll 

I hope they asked about which fans have read Moneyball.  Not so much because the Mets are a shining example of those principles (not even close) but because I’m curious, and I really can’t picture the average Yankees fan owning up to that.

“ Finally, no progress has been made on Oliver Perez’s brain, and MLB refuses to allow the Mets to place him on the DL for “detachment and disconnection between mind and body”. Apparently if an injury doesn’t come up on an X-ray, MRI, or psychiatrist’s report, it doesn’t apply. Oh well. ”

Joe Janish

For the record, John, you’re still on notice.  But do this in your next two starts and we’ll talk again.

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