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EVEN more importantly then the Randolph thing!

Harvard! The HARVARD has called my brother "America’s foremost expert on internet politics" 

Nicely done Nicco! Put that on the business cards!

So long, Willie Randolph.

Randolph and Rick Peterson (the pitching coach) and first base coach Tom Nieto were fired last night.

I'll miss Randolph, but I also feel like his even-keel, low intensity management style did not help light the fire under the Mets that they need to break out of their mental slump.

Rick Peterson... probably needed to be fired, but I don't think anyone else
can get the performances he's gotten out of some of our pitchers.

And who the hell did Tom Nieto piss off? I've never even heard of the guy.

My thanks to the 3 of you for your hard work, my regrets it didn't work out, and my hopes continue for the Mets.

Here's to Mike Piazza

I salute you. Stay classy and have some fun with the rest of your life.

Why I Love baseball

Last night the Mets lost to the cubs. And I'd be angry about it, but the guy who hit the 3 run homerun, that cemented the win, was a struggling part time player. He was only playing because the regular high paid guy didn't feel well. He steps in and hits a home run and had this to say,

“In my mind, I remember Lou telling me to go through with the front foot,” Pie said. “One swing, but tomorrow I’m going to start and I’ll see tomorrow. This is a good feeling, something in my life I’ll never forget.”

The joy, the brevity, the uncertainty of the game, the swing, the season. It's a great sport.

Goodnight moon

One of Sophia's favorite night time books is goodnight moon.

And for several nights, she's read it too us. She just says goodnight to anything she can remember or anything she can think of it seems.

Amidst the usual "good night books, goodnight mice, goodnight mittens" she started to add in "Goodnight Robots".  Which we thought was odd, but as good sci-fi fans, we weren't gonna complain.  Just scratch our heads and wonder.

BArbara finally got up the nerve to ask, "Where are the robots?"

And she pointed to them in the picture. Anyone see them?

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Not Surprised

"Her voice is very low, shaky and has about two notes in it. Think Nico, backed by the Flaming Lips. On acid. Johansson has made a seriously weird record."

But I still love tom waits!

Our grand country

From Yahoo! Sports

"The most vocal grandstander was Rep. Dan Burton of rural Indiana, who absolutely skewered McNamee.

"This is really disgusting," Burton said. "I don't know what to believe. I know what I don't believe and that's you."

Strong words from a guy who while cheating on his wife knocked up his girlfriend and went years without visiting his son (though he was kind enough to cut him some checks).

But that's America and this is its pastime."

entire article here

Flickr

Apologies to the rest of you who could have laid claim to the name but I'm now the owner of:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/melefamily/

Check it out for new photos as we take them.

Baseblog

An awesome and insightfull article on the steroid scandal:

BAseball

Finally! Yahoo is getting commontaters better then that hack Jeff Passan!