No Pepper Allowed
• So now the Mets have won nine in a row, the best winning streak since Aprill of 2000. You have to be a contender in order to have a collapse.
• According to Andy Pettitte something smells in Yankeetown.
"If we want to make the playoffs, we have to be better," said Pettitte, who took the loss Sunday. "We stink right now for the most part. As a team, we've kind of stunk it up here lately, so we need to play better."
• F-Rod has been making new and interesting friends. He is ringing up saves at a record pace (paging Bobby Thigpen, that sure was a long 15 minutes), but his on field behavior is being called into question again.
"I don't think he's got too many fans in this clubhouse," Oakland designated hitter Jack Cust said of Rodriguez, who is seven for seven in save opportunities against the A's this season.
• No Bonds market on the South Side.
''No. Barry can't play for my team,'' Ozzie Guillen said. ''Maybe Barry changed the way [Texas' Josh] Hamilton changed. But I don't like a player like Barry Bonds on my club. With all respect to Barry -- a Hall of Famer; to me, he's the best in the history of baseball, no matter what. But he's not the type of player we're looking for in this organization.''
• RIP Bobby Murcer. He was touted as the next Mickey Mantle and was just fine as Bobby Murcer. Even Mickey couldn't live up to being Mickey and nearly drank himself to death many times.
Murcer delivered the eulogy at Thurman Munson's funeral and was then offered that night's game off. Instead he insisted on playing and drove in all of the five Yankee runs, leading them to victory.