This is what happens when your jackass manager makes you sprint like a maniac on every single stupid ground ball. Hope ya like it, Willie! Might want to work on the ol' resume!

I don't think it was serious. He didn't pull up lame or anything like that. It might have been precautionary.

It was just his cover story for why Bill Hall was able to start a 5-4-3 DP on him.

I hope you're kidding, Justin, because that is one painful piece of logic. "Sprint like a maniac?" I don't think so; I think he just wants him to run hard, like countless other ballplayers do and have done throughout the game's history.

It's getting to the point where every problem and misfortune that Reyes suffers has become Randolph's fault. Reyes can't hit in the second half; it's Randolph's fault. Reyes doesn't steal bases anymore; it's Willie's fault. Now Reyes suffers an injury, for which I haven't yet heard a specific cause, but already it's Randolph's fault.

It's kind of funny hearing this now, considering how Reyes was such a Sabermetric whipping boy at the start of his career for showing all of the plate discipline of Denny McLain at a country picnic.

And I like Reyes as a player. I just get tired of all the tortured alibis and justifications that the Randolph haters have decided to rely on in making Reyes a martyr.

Absolutely. It's Willie's damn fault Jose's hamstrings went to the Rocco Baldelli School of Straining.

Seriously, it's been years since Reyes last had any serious trouble with his hamstrings, and his games played the last three years is 161-153-160. He'll need to take a day or three off and then I expect he'll be fine. I guess it's not too late for him to go all Griffey on us yet, though...

Actually, I blame the nimrods around here for this. I leave you all in charge while I miss the chatter, and all hell breaks loose! Some journeyman pitcher wins his first game in five years, and Reyes gets hurt. Sheesh.

Even I have to agree with Bruce that you can't blame Randolph for this. But then again, I think it was pretty obvious Justin was kidding, too.

Of course, that doesn't mean you can't blame Randolph for squashing the joy and fun that Reyes injected into the game. Because that IS his fault.

Reyes left in the top of the sixth with tightness in his left hamstring. Damion Easley moved from second to short and Marlon Anderson came in to play second.

Reyes said he didn't expect to play Saturday and said he felt something during warm-ups before the game. "I told [Randolph] I couldn't go 100 percent and he told me to be smart about it," Reyes said.

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So Reyes felt a hamstring problem in the second week of the season during warmups and Willie played him anyway? I'd have set some sort of land-speed record in planting him on the bench for a game or two, rather than playing him and possibly allowing him to hurt himself further.

While we may make fun of Reyes' hustle from time to time, if a slow grounder on the left side of the infield might yield a hit, I would expect him to run as fast as he can in order to beat it out.

Ack, this is horrible. We can't afford to lose Reyes for any extended period of time.

I think more highly of Figueroa than Sam. Something in my Williegut tells me that he's going to be more than decent. Where was he last year when we needed him?

Where was he last year when we needed him?

Mexico. Taiwan. Dominican Republic. Can't blame the Mets for not finding him.

I think more highly of Figueroa than Sam. Something in my Williegut tells me that he's going to be more than decent. Where was he last year when we needed him?

Hope you're right. I didn't see him pitch last night, so I won't just assume it was a case of unfamiliarity and that he'll have a bad case of second-time-around-the-league blues. But I'll still hope that Pedro and El Duque manage to get themselves healthy fast and we don't find ourselves needing Figueroa too long or too much.

I was at the game. White fog poured over the top of the upper deck into the stadium like Victoria Falls. In the late innings I was surprised they actually finished the game and wondering how the batters and outfielders could see the ball.

Not convinced by Figueroa yet, especially not in this kind of condition where the pitcher was bound to look better than he was. Even Alay Soler had some very promising starts.

It's a bad week to be a NY shortstop.