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From last week’s McFadden’s gathering.  I really liked this…and I’m weird enough to walk up to strangers in a bar to ask them if they will pose.

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Find me a nice looking Mets jacket

I deserve to have a Mets jacket.  I want something I can wear on days when it’s a little cool in the morning, and hopefully get some use out of in October.

My parameters:

NO BLACK.   I spent Monday looking on-line.  Black has permeated EVERYTHING except $400 Mitchell & Ness jackets

Reasonable Price.  Come in under $100

Clean look.   I’m not 12 years old.

Buttons or zipper.  No pullover.

See the jacket in the post?   Like that but in traditional Mets colors.

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Baseball has been fine for 140 years without replay

It’s a good thing that it wasn’t “Phil Hughes” who lost a perfect game.

Some guy you hadn’t really heard of on a who-cares franchise loses a perfect game and the local sports station is more intereted in K-Rod and weekend plans.

The national guys are in an uproar because it’s a great topic that will kill a day until the Lakers and Celtics give them something to bore us with.

If “Andy Pettitte” loses a perfecto this would be World War 3. It is good that it wasn’t…..

…because baseball is fine.

On every play there is a human making a subjective decision. Was it a strike? I’m not sure. I was leaning a little to the left. I owe you a call from that last one. You are Jeter and you took the pitch so it’s a ball, but not for you rookie it’s a strike. Hey Tom Glavine I know we have called that pitch a strike for 15 years but not today.

The guy made a bad call and he picked a bad time to do it. Then he manned up and admitted he blew it. It’s annoying, move on.

I don’t want replay in baseball. Do you ever watch a football game and think that it’s great that the ref is reviewing a play?

Baseball is slow enough without reviews.

Would there be a 5th ump who rings a bell?

What happens if SNY’s camera misses a play?

Do the managers get two coaches challenges? Can Jerry ask for a play to be reviewed to buy time for a pitcher to warm up?

As for Selig’s magic reset button scenario: say the commish decides to declare the game was over. What was that 28th batter I saw? Did that not happen? When else can Bud use his magic powers?

This was an annoying one time statistical anomaly in a sport that has played millions of innings. There’s no need to overreact. Someone blew a call on Tuesday and someone will blow a call tonight. Just like always.