Philly should have lost again today, but they won the 'Battle of the Imploding Bullpens'.

Is Citi Field always that windy with garbage flying around? Reminds me of the old days at Candlestick.

Two tough losses for the Giants. It seems like they can never win in New York.

We're having big wind here in the east. Cold front coming in 80 this morning; probably 45 on Sunday morning. Sorry about the Giants losing in NY. They never should have left.

Heh that may be true, but then I would be an A's fan and I'd really be miserable. So I'm happy they came west

So you're saying the wind isn't normal in that park? It looks like a nice place to see a ball game. Have any of you been since it opened?

I haven't been to either of the new stadiums, although I had been to both Shea and the old Yankee stadiums. How've you been, Blib? It's nice to see you around.

The wind is not normal. Our entire area is under a wind advisroy right now. We're having wind gusts in the low 50's right now. As for the park, it's beautiful. The only complaint from Met Fans is that it doesn't really feel like a 'Met Ballpark'. Mostly due to the fact when you enter the park you walk through a tribute to Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers. There is also very little blue and orange (Met colors) in the stadium. They have made some changes though this year, adding more Mets' stuff. The field of play is huge, and the fences are high. They're usually no cheap homeruns.

Here are a couple of pics I took a couple weeks ago:

I hope the Mets don't win another game until BOTH Manuel and Minaya are doing jobs they're better suited for.

"You want fries with that?"

What the hell got into the Mets in the last week? lol 2 winds against the Yanks, and 3 straight shutouts of the Phillies.

Bad news is that it saves Manuel's job for now.

That's was a weird 9th inning between the Mets and Giants.

Toronto 14
New York 5

Blue Jays 2
Mets 0

dt, why did you stop?

Mets 6
Blue Jays 5

I thought you were a Yankee fan?

A ploy by Mary to make you think he's a New York fan.... he's a wannabe now. Living in the Devil's pine barrens, he's lost, but he's REALLY a Phillie fan.

SC still hasn't gotten over this .

Truth is, I forgave Billy Bucks a long time ago. It was great seeing him at the 100 years celebration at Fenway.

I suppose you saw the episode of "Seinfeld" with Buckner. (Or was it "Curb Your Enthusiasm"?)

It was Curb. Classic Larry .

I'm a fan of truth, justice and the American way!....but I do like Canadians too.

Nice win for the Metsies last night. 11 k's for the kid .

Now they have to find that guy ....??.....Ike Davis. Some alien must have taken over his body.

Cool, even a rookie beats the Fillies.

That no-hitter was a long time coming .

I'm just glad I got to watch it pretty much in its entirety. I turned the game on in the 3rd inning. And for anyone looking to knock it because of the blown call at third base, well, that's baseball. Show me a no-hitter where a little bit of luck wasn't involved.

I'm happy for Johan. It seems he's made it all the way back .

You're right. The blown call is just one of the beautiful random and arbitrary events intertwined in the fabric of the game that gives baseball its mystique. Just as last year or 2 years ago, a pitcher lost a perfect game on a blown call at first. But it wasn't a perfect game because the umpire blew the call. Even in the context of a perfect game, baseball has a way of telling you that you're never in control of the game, but the game can control you.

The bottom line is that Santana endured the gut wrencing moments of the last couple of innings and walked the tightrope, making it to the other side.

I remember a Met pitcher, by the name of Randy Tate, who came very close to a no-hitter in 1975. I was listening to the Phillies on the radio and they were giving updates while noting that the Mets had never had a no-hitter. I was thinking of Tate 37 years later when I watched Santana's final inning.

How many games could go either way on an umpire's call? Hundreds, maybe thousands. Replays in super slow motion have turned sports into a video game. There is something wrong with that. Soon they will be breaking down replays into mega-pixels....yes there was chalk on the ball, but the circumfernce of ball and the uneveness of the chalk line indicate that the ball was indeed foul.

Jon Stewart had a clip on his show last night about the no-hitter, and he was actually at the game with his family, so he shows the footage he recorded...

http://www.twitvid.com/AC6RK

I made this post on May 23rd, and I jokingly referred to R.A. Dickey as "The Kid," because he's almost 40 years old and having a renaissance year. He hasn't given up an earned run since the streak started that night .

Klyd---- All ball breaking that you and I revel in aside, I think the Phils may be too far back by the time they get healthy. And those Nationals are really starting to get on my f'n nerves .

Dickey is scary right now. He's throwing an 80 MPH knuckleball. A pitch nobody has ever really seen before. ...And he has pinpoint control of it.

I think you're probably right on the Phils. This is a breakout year for the Nats, and while I think they're not going to take the division this season, they're just beginning a long run of success.

They have a great manager .