I don't like the Mets. Their loss was a lot of fun. I live in New York and I heard all year about how great that team is. Newsflash... you're not. I heard a lot of talk about how they have the best talent in the NL. Newsflash... you don't.

Because I couldn't get enough of the collapse I watched all the post-game lockerroom interviews. Scott Schoenweis looked suicidal. He said something about how there are more important things in life. Tell that to papito wearing his Piazza jersey.

I guess this is how the country feels when the Buckeyes lose titles.

You're 100% correct (from the first page of letters).

The Mets have top notch announcers. Keith Hernandez, Gary Cohen, Ron Darling. Great insight. Keith is kind of cocky, but he is well within his rights to be cocky. My only complaint - and this shouldn't really count - is that Keith and Ron have similar voices so you don't always know who said what.

Keith is the only announcer I've ever heard discussing how he would hit his team's pitchers. They're touch and fair. And knowing about their 86 debauchery makes it all the better.

just a few years too late.

Here's what I fear: as we speak, Americans are finally figuring out that we need something done ASAP. It was just enough time, from Monday until this minute, for the Senate to abuse the legislation.

Now the politicans get what they want. They'll bail out Wall Street and Main Street (god I'm getting tired of those words). And most importantly, politicians do their best to make everyone happy - most importantly themselves. They want to allow financial institutions to use internal assumptions to value their toxic securities (those guys are mega-donors) AND tell the consituents that they went to bat for them and fixed this thing (those guys are mega-voters).

It's infuriating.

Please, everyone, go read Andrew Bacevich's new book, and watch his interview with Bill Moyers. Tell me you have, Andrew L.

That was really cool. Very interesting stuff.

What do the numbers look like over the last 20 years???

kidding...

Youklis made a terrible throw

I disagree. Did you see how quickly he popped up and how quickly he got rid of the ball? Considering the circumstances, it was an amazing throw. Most first basemen have no chance at pulling that off. That's why Youk is a Gold-Glover. And that's why you shouldn't call it a terrible throw.

Tony Gwinn is great. He perfectly described Manny's bomb, and why Manny is the best in the world. It's a pleasure hearing any tidbit he drops about hitting.

Since we've been in the hating mood recently... I hate Cubs fans. Hate hate hate.

Cubs fans should take a cue from Cardinals fans. Respect your team. Respect the game. Cheer for your guys. Don't expect anything, just hope for it. Be positive.

Cubs fans are similar to Yankees fans (except they wear Talbots instead of pleather yankees jankets). Both act like baseball owes them titles. I bet Ruth would be booed in the New Yankee Stadium.

Booing isn't going to help. Put a sock in it folks. If your team makes the playoffs you shouldn't boo until the last inning of a sweep out game.

Great points all around Mr Fraser.

I know a lot of investment bankers. You would be surprised how many of them have engineering degrees or graduated college on track for med school. Those other professions simply aren't as sexy as wall street. Plus, if you play your cards right, you can be making more than 500k a year before you're 30. I can't blame em, but couldn't our country use more engineers and doctors as opposed to people structuring CDOs and MBS brokers?

Big thinking anyone? We need a new New Deal. So we're dependent on foreign oil. We don't have much manufacturing. Unemployment is rising. Our infrastructure is decaying.

A solution springs to mind. We should build a grid of traintracks across America. These would support high velocity trains. Like the one in Beijing. (it goes from the airport to downtown -- same distance from JFK to Midtown -- in 5 minutes). Space out the tracks, maybe one every 200 miles. Grids dividing America into neat little 40,000 square mile plots. It would put millions of Americans to work, and it would enrich thousands of American businesses.

Banks would finally lend again if they understood the scope of the project. Our engineers would have thousands of bridges to build. Our steel mills would have thousands of tons of steel to produce. OPEC would shit their pants. We could cleanly move millions of Americans around for vacations and business travel. Logistics as we know them would be revolutionized. A famer in Idaho can get those potatoes to Florida in a matter of days, and it would cost a hell of a lot less.

It would get people out of earth killing cars and into a safe, efficient, unbelievable fast trains.

It would improve our ecomony, revolutionize our infrastructure, create hundreds of thousands of jobs, decrease our dependence on foreign oil, and reduce greenhouse gas.

Sound good to anyone else?

I bet we could pull it off for, geeeee, I don't know exactly, but, I would say roughly 700 billion dollars.

Obsessed by "lipstick on a pig," economic "free fall" and other "great stories," America has failed to see the real challenges it faces.

... and it's the media's fault. Try reporting what matters.

2 amazing wins. The stuff that dreams are made of.

Didn't get the Heidi joke. Oh well.

and... This is the NFL, people. Snap your chin straps and play the stinkin' game. King, it ain't gonna happen. Coaches are going to ice the kickers well after we're all dead. Moaning is of little use.

Yes yes yes yes. Let's invest in our infrastructure. Jobs (concrete pourers to engineers to small business accountants).

The way we look at things is messed up. People tried to sell the Pennsylvania Turnpike to foreign investors. FDR wouldn't be proud.