FINALLY!!!!! A No-Hitter for the NY METS!!!!

[Blue Meanie]

It only took 50 years...Johan Santana pitches the first no-hitter for the NY METS. Watch out the rest of the National League...this is a special year in Queens.

[toys2cool]

Nice, I've seen a few from the Marlins

[megomania]

Sweet. I saw Chris Bosio and Randy Johnson throw theirs in the Kingdome. It's pretty cool when your team finally gets one. The Mets are a surprise this year, yes?

-Chris

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Yup a No-Hitter* and another argument for INSTANT REPLAY. In the sixth inning the Cardinals got a hit but the Ump didn't see it that way and blew the call. The ball hit the chalk and every replay showed it was clearly a fair ball. I don't know why they don't allow managers to have something similar to the challenge flag in football for non-homerun calls. If they feel a play should be reviewed, they throw the flag and the Umps go review it. If the manager was correct, he retains the to challenge another play later in the game and if he's wrong, he loses the privilege for the rest of the game. Why is that so hard. Galarraga would have had a perfect game two years ago if that were allowed and the Mets would still be no-hitterless. I consider myself a Baseball purist but it's the 21st Century. Baseballs gotta keep up/catch up with the times. Also, the way things go for the Mets, they probably should just place Santana on the DL now. The guy threw 131 pitches (the most he's ever tossed in a game) after coming off of major shoulder surgery that sidelined him for his entire career. The Mets may have sold their souls for this one no hitter.

[Blue Meanie]

Yup a No-Hitter* and another argument for INSTANT REPLAY. In the sixth inning the Cardinals got a hit but the Ump didn't see it that way and blew the call. The ball hit the chalk and every replay showed it was clearly a fair ball. I don't know why they don't allow managers to have something similar to the challenge flag in football for non-homerun calls. If they feel a play should be reviewed, they throw the flag and the Umps go review it. If the manager was correct, he retains the to challenge another play later in the game and if he's wrong, he loses the privilege for the rest of the game. Why is that so hard. Galarraga would have had a perfect game two years ago if that were allowed and the Mets would still be no-hitterless. I consider myself a Baseball purist but it's the 21st Century. Baseballs gotta keep up/catch up with the times. Also, the way things go for the Mets, they probably should just place Santana on the DL now. The guy threw 131 pitches (the most he's ever tossed in a game) after coming off of major shoulder surgery that sidelined him for his entire career. The Mets may have sold their souls for this one no hitter.

The game is too long to have to stop for replays. Beltran's foul ball was a hit...but the umpire called it as he saw it. Last year the guy had a perfect game...that wasn't a perfect game. It's the bang bang play that keeps baseball the most interesting of sports. Not like football or basketball where the last 2 minutes last a half hour. It still is the purest of sports that hasn't been touched by "updating" the game with instant replay. Leave it the way it is...it's bad enough that the game has been tainted by steroid monsters. Replay is good for football and maybe hockey...not for baseball.

[megomania]

Instant replay for more than HR and adding Manager challenges would absolutely kill the game. Baseball is different...

[spacecaps]

AHHHHHH!!!!! I can't stand the argument that baseball is too long for instant replay. Ken Singleton brings that up every time Michael Kay mentions the need for replay (I don't think they like each other but they seem to work together a lot!) and every time he does I yell at him to stop. When a home run gets reviewed, it takes at most 3 minutes for the Umps to go look at the tape. Usually, it takes them 2 minutes. Still keep balls and strikes exempt from the replay and make questionable HR calls automatic reviews and then give each manager one challenge per game (they aren't gonna use it every game anyway) and let them be the ones who have to use it selectively and wisely. If they get it right, they retain the challenge. Get it wrong, they can't challenge the rest of the game. It'll add another element of strategy into the game instead of the Ump saying "Tough Shet, that's how I saw it" even though the fans, the broadcasters, and the guys in the clubhouse are all watching the same play being called wrong. I'd rather watch an extra 6 minutes of baseball, have the call go right (be it for my team or not) than leave a crucial moment in the hands of an umpire like Lance Diaz or Country Joe West that like to think people are tuning in to see them umpire instead of the players play. Oh, and how long does a full out argument take when the manager and umpire get in each others grill until the skipper gets tossed and then really goes and gets his moneys worth? Instead of a shouting match about the guys mother, it's a simple "Hey blue, I think you may have gotten that wrong. I'm using my one challenge on that play." That's it. No argument. No shouting or screaming and most importantly, the right call.

Baseball does some stupid things sometimes. This year they add in another Wild Card team and a one game play-in for the bottom two teams in the playoff hunt but keep the trade deadline on July 31. How'd they miss that one? With more teams in the hunt and two months left, clubs aren't gonna know if they're buyers or sellers at that point in the season if they have a chance to be the second Wild Card. The deadline needs to be August 31 but Baseball is stubborn. Baseball never wants to make a move unless they absolutely have to.

Next year, they're gonna have at least one inter-league series all year long when Houston moves to the AL and the pitchers are still gonna bat in the NL? That doesn't work and nobody's mentioned it. That's gotta be addressed too but they want to keep everything the way it is even if it hurts the game. Drives me crazy.

[Blue Meanie]

Inter league play has worn out it's welcome...they should just get rid of it completely. They also need to cut inter division play down. There is no way that teams in the same division should play each other 18 times a year. I'd like to see us play the other teams in the the national league more than 6 or 7 games in a year. Cut out the Inter League and that might rectify the problem.

As for replay...what justifies replays to overturn a umpire call? It's just too many variables that have to be considered. I think I've seen maybe 3 Home Run replays in 2 years.

Way too many things in baseball that need to get fixed before replay should be considered....

JOHAN PITCHES METS FIRST NO HITTER!!!! LET'S GO METS!!!!

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Inter league play has worn out it's welcome...they should just get rid of it completely. They also need to cut inter division play down. There is no way that teams in the same division should play each other 18 times a year. I'd like to see us play the other teams in the the national league more than 6 or 7 games in a year. Cut out the Inter League and that might rectify the problem.

As for replay...what justifies replays to overturn a umpire call? It's just too many variables that have to be considered. I think I've seen maybe 3 Home Run replays in 2 years.

Baseball is going the other way. Pretty soon the leagues will be 100% integrated. Not a fan of that myself but that's where it's headed.

A justified replay would be any call the manager deems questionable and feels the need to argue his cause like the Beltran foul ball tonight or the last play of the perfect game in Detroit or that ridiculous call in the 18th? inning in the Pirate/Brave game last year or the double play the Dodgers had where the 1st Baseman was 10 feet off the bag a few weeks ago.... As long as it isn't a Ball or strike, but they've only got one bullet in the gun so they better be careful when they pull the trigger.

You probably don't watch a lot of Yankee games. They have reviewed homeruns all the time because they hit so many of them. The Mets hit the fewest HR's in all of Baseball last year so it wouldn't come up as much. You also have some stupid field configurations like in Houston too which apparently gets a lot of reviews too.

[Blue Meanie]

You probably don't watch a lot of Yankee games. They have reviewed homeruns all the time because they hit so many of them. The Mets hit the fewest HR's in all of Baseball last year so it wouldn't come up as much. You also have some stupid field configurations like in Houston too which apparently gets a lot of reviews too.

Let's not go there...This is why I can't stand the Yankees. It's not the team that irritates me...it's the fan base.

If you want to talk about configurations let's talk about the little league ballpark the Yankees have. My nephew can hit a home run in Yankee Stadium...and he's only 14. All you have to do is get the ball in the air for Pete's sake and it's a Home Run. If you really want to make baseball fair...make all the Ballparks the same exact dimensions. The Yankees wouldn't do it because there would be only 2 players on their team that would hit more than 20 home runs. What's it like 313 down the lines??!!?? I could probably hit an upper deck home run if I hit it down the lines.

BTW, get a new radio team...Sterling and Waldman are THE WORST announcers in baseball. Waldman is a Boston Redsox fan in a Yankee Radio Booth..and Sterling has no clue what he's talking about when he's announcing the games. The only team that's worse is McCarver and Buck on Fox.

Yankee Fans can't let Met Fans enjoy something like a No-Hitter. This is why I am a Yankee hater...Their fan base just can't say congrats...

[WannabeMego]

I'd rather play it then watch it and if someone disputed one of my shots, I'd take care of it Brooklyn style with a bat across the head...now that's keepin' it old school!!!

'Nuff Said.

P.S. I HATE McCarver...He sux ( )o( )

[Blue Meanie]

This is what this thread is all about:



What I love about his no-hitter is the fact that it's his 1st no-hitter. He had the best line in the after game interview when someone asked him if he ever pitched a no-hitter on any level in baseball and he said "I've never pitched a no-hitter on any level....I never pitched a no-hitter in a video game"

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Oh man...I love Sterling. He's the soundtrack to my summer and my Mel Allen. I don't mind Waldman either. She's a good Robin to his Batman. All those quirks and idiosyncrasies he's got, make him unique. Anything is better than Charlie Steiner but I really miss Kay on the radio doing the games with him. I was one of those turn the TV sound off and listen to the radio fans back in the 90's when it was the two of them alternating innings.

I have no problem admitting I am a schadenfreude when it comes to the Mets which is what you call someone who takes pleasure in the failings of others. I root for the Yankees to win and the Mets to loose. I do the same with the Giants and the Jets and the Devils and the Rangers. It's an interesting dynamic of being a sports fan in this area.

To put it another way, in 1986 when the Red Sox played the Mets in the World Series, I wanted the Red Sox to win. So yes, I wasn't rooting for Santana to get his no-no and I think that the Beltran hit is just another cause for replay in baseball. It's weird for the Mets when something like this happens to them because they identify themselves with things like not pitching a no hitter for so long that when they get it, they're not really sure if that's a good thing or not. Not pitching a no-hitter for 8,020 games was part of the fabric of being a Met. They asked Gary Cohen if he ever thought he'd see the day when a Met would do it and he said flat out "No!" Now that they got one, in a way a little piece of who they are and how they identify themselves dies. It happened with the Sox in '04 too. It's kind of like when a dog chases a squirrel and finally catches it. He's happy and proud and yet remorseful at the same time.

As for the stadiums, each one is different and thats what makes them all special. Fenway plays way smaller than Yankee Stadium. So does Philly for that matter. Only 82 games are at home and the others are all in different parks. The Yankees played in Detroit tonight which is the biggest of them all and still managed to hit two out. The opposite can be said for Citifield. The park was too big when it opened and none of the Mets could get the ball over the wall (especially Wright) so they've had to bring the fences in more and more each year to accommodate their players. Sure Yankee Stadium has the short porch in right (a little bigger in left) but they also have death valley in center where home runs go to die.

[MegoMark71]

Being a Redsox fan i'm not going to mention anything about the no hitter. It's the inter league crap that bugs me. First couple times i enjoyed it. Now it's way overdue to go bye bye. I don't want to play as many games as they do. Play 2 series each year. One home and the other away at tops. It was fun the first couple times but just way too many games now.

[C.H.O.A.M.]

This is what this thread is all about:

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What I love about his no-hitter is the fact that it's his 1st no-hitter. He had the best line in the after game interview when someone asked him if he ever pitched a no-hitter on any level in baseball and he said "I've never pitched a no-hitter on any level....I never pitched a no-hitter in a video game"

AMEN BROTHER!!!
and it couldn't have happened to a "nicer" guy!
what a great story for Santana.
big contract aside, he's been the hard luck-no-run-support guy practically since day one with the mets. coming off surgery, following a 96 pitch complete game shut out, and now this!!!