213 Miles From Shea

The Mets will face pitcher Tim Redding tonight. Tim's ERA has been consistantly rising ever since August 8th.

His July ERA of 2.64, makes him look tough. But then juxtapose that with with his August ERA of 3.82, and 2.1 inning stint in September where he allowed 2 runs, shows that he has weaknesses.

With around 30 innings pitched in July, he allowed 12 walks. With around 35 innings pitched in August, that count rose to 21.

The Mets have a knack of making pitchers like this look like Cy Young, but lets see how they do tonight.

He has had a losing record in July (1-2) and in August (2-3). He does have one win agaisnt the Mets life time.

We all know Wagner has been going through some rough spots latley, but what about his last ten because he seems to have some good games there too, lets check it out.

Overall in his last 10, he has 10.1 IP, a 6.97 ERA, 13 K's and 8 ER's.

Lets break that down.

In the first 5 games of the last ten, he has given up 8 ER's with 7 K's

His last five have had no runs, and 6 strikeouts.

Just a little bit streaky.

Who's out? Who's in? Who's about to be out?

Lets find out.

So far the Blue Jays, Orioles, Devil Rays, Twins, Royals, White Sox, Athletics, Rangers, Nationals, Marlins and Giants have all been eliminated.

Houston has an elimination number of 1, Pirates have an elimination number of 2 and the Reds of 4. They are the lower three in the MLB.

So far, no one in the NL central has been eliminated. All three divisions in the AL have become two team races.

The Phillies are at 11 and the Braves are at 7.

Lets do this.

In my dorm, there is a target board hanging on the wall. I was talking with one of the Mets fans down the hall the other day, and we decided to assign Mets players to the board, so here is the list, going from the outside of the circle to the inside of the circle:

Kenny Rogers
Roger Cedeno
Jorge Julio
Mo Vaugn
Looper
Amarndo Benetiz
Steve Phillips

Needless to say, this provides a fun time.

Rick Ankiel has been linked to HGH? Thats what I saw on mlb.com

As someone who has said repeatingly that I would not go into great detail about steriod cases…this is all I will say. Hopefully, I'll be back later with a real post.

Well, by definition of a random number, these are not random numbers, just the numbers floating around right now in my mind.

Baltimore's Elimination Number dropped to one. (I really dont think they have a chance to come back from this).

Chicago White Sox have an elimination number of 2, so they could drop today as well.

In Reyes' last ten games, he is batting .186.
In Delgado's last ten games, he is batting .375 with 4 homers and 12 RBI's
Wright cooled down to .282 in his last ten games.
Beltran has a smoking .378 in his last ten games.

Well, by definition of a random number, these are not random numbers, just the numbers floating around right now in my mind.

Baltimore's Elimination Number dropped to one. (I really dont think they have a chance to come back from this).

Chicago White Sox have an elimination number of 2, so they could drop today as well.

In Reyes' last ten games, he is batting .186.
In Delgado's last ten games, he is batting .375 with 4 homers and 12 RBI's
Wright cooled down to .282 in his last ten games.
Beltran has a smoking .378 in his last ten games.

With all of the posts that specialize in elimination numbers, this is an alert to announce when a team has a chance to go down for the count.

The Orioles are that team today with an Elimination number of 2. They play the Devil Rays who have already swept them last week. The O's pulled out a win yesterday. And tonight they send Liz (7.00) agaisnt Sonnastine (5.88)

To finish off the Orioles, the Red Sox will have to win today. They will send Schilling (4.02) agaisnt Marcom (3.75) today.

Next Alert will deal with the White Sox, who are currently sitting at an elimination number of 4

Currently, Reyes is sitting at 260 overall on the alltime stolen base list.

With two more stolen bases, he will pass Howard Johnson life time.

He recently passed Alfonso Soriano lifetime

Just checking up on the list

This weekend, the elimination process began with Tampa Bay being officially eliminated from the division.

Before this happened, it looked like Tampa Bay was on pace to be eliminated a good 2-3 weeks before everyone else (it should have happened around the start of last week). However, thanks to their sweep of the Orioles and the Yankees sweep of the RedSox, the race to be the first eliminated got a bit tighter.

Here's How the list to fall looks right now (Elimination Number)

1. Baltimore (5)
2. Chicago White Sox (6)
3. Kansas City (10)
3. Florida (10)
3. Washington (10)
3. Texas (10)