Mets (58-50) at Astros (50-57)

Minute Maid Park

Friday, August 1, 7:05pm CDT.  FSN & FSN-HD
Saturday, August 2, 6:05pm CDT.  FSN & FSN-HD
Sunday, August 3, 1:05pm CDT.  my20 & my20-HD (yeah, I don’t believe it either)

Hate the Mets, Hate the Mets,
Step right up and berate the Mets.
Don’t bring the kiddies, don’t bring your wife,
MetFan may force you to run for your life.
Because the Mets are really suckin’ on balls,
Watchin’ our home runs over the walls.
East side, West side, everybody’s coming down,
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Wade trades another “useless” minor leaguer to the Yankees for a reliever.

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The Good Guys dropped the final game with the Redlegs 9-5, but still won their third series in four tries since the All-Star break, playing .500 ball during the brief stretch. As I’m stuck taking care of a sick family, that’s going to be it for now, but I’ll get back later for a posterity post-cap, no doubt full of wit, whimsy, and tales of projectile vomiting. Something to look forward to.

The big news down on the farm today was that Lexington’s Matt Cusick was traded to the Yankees for LaTroy Hawkins and some cash. Cusick, earlier in the day had driven in two runs for the Legends as they won a late morning affair over the Hagerstown Suns.

“We like Matt. He’s swinging the bat very well at Lexington,” Astros General Manager Ed Wade said. “We consider him a prospect, and obviously, the Yankees consider him a prospect also.”

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Salem won the continuation of the suspended game and the seven inning version of the regularly scheduled game to stretch their win streak to a season high 5 games. In game one, the Av’s scored in every inning but the 1st. Douglas Arguello got the win in the night cap, bringing his record for the year to 8-4 with a league best ERA of 2.84. Read the rest of this entry »

Wade “Instead of (Tejada) being there answering questions [from reporters] leading up to the deadline — ‘Do you think you’re going to go someplace? What do you think your status is?’ — and him giving diplomatic responses, I went in the weight room and I said, ‘I haven’t talked to any clubs about you, I’m not trading you, you’re a Houston Astro and I’m glad to have you,’” Wade said. “He said, ‘OK.’”
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