Notes from the evening

• Sutcliffe, ESPN, Mets-Braves: 8th inning, says Jose Reyes was not ready for a ball that went by him and should have been. Billy Wagner on the mound.

• O'Brien: Only 1 Mets error officially tonight, but there have been several bad plays.

• Earlier in the game they noted bad play by Delgado at first. (I noticed a similar lazy missed play by Beltran). I root for the Mets when they're not playing the Yankees. Unfortunately Mets fans are stuck with Delgado and Beltran both of whom since day 1 have given less than minimum effort on all fronts.

****************************** I'm now prepared for the addition of another umpire to all MLB games, which won't necessarily result in more accurate calls (such as disputed home runs). The reason: Dave O'Brien floated the idea on MLB's business partner, ESPN. ******************

• XM MLB provides home games with the home team's announcers, eg tonight's Orioles-Yankee game was heard with voices of John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman. XM occasionally deletes the Yankee home game post game show which includes clubhouse report by Suzyn Waldman. Tonight was one of those nights. They gave no announcement, just went to a replay of an interview about another team.

Fortunately, I wasn't in my car and was able to turn on the Yankee feed on my computer to hear the post game show. In Suzyn's report, she announced Joba was officially being converted to a starter.

• If I had counted on XM radio, I would have missed this important part of the game.

P.S. Yankees lose. Let's see all those multiple inning, runners-on-base, and back to back days Farnsworth said would be no problem.

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