Well as much as he wasn’t spectacular at the plate I suppose you can’t argue with the way things have gone for the team while he’s been here. Guess it’s back to Castillo in the 2-hole. Ready for non-stop bunting, everyone?

I agree with Stark on the Olympic thing. For selfish reasons (a two-week break right now? Hell no) as well as pragmatic – I don’t know that bringing baseball’s best to China would have caused much of a dent in the Games compared to the other, better stories. Maybe if Matt Treanor was on the team so he and Misty May could win husband and wife gold medals. Just not worth losing two weeks of real baseball, to my mind.

I’m sure others have done so already.

On another topic unrelated to the Mets, Rocco Baldelli went deep for the Rays last night. I thought the guy’s career was over this spring, and that his life might be in danger with that weird mitochondrial disorder he had. Instead, he’s back in the big leagues and hit a big HR last night. Awesome.

Last year it was Burgos who waited until August to get himself clean. Do sports surgeons offer a discount for late-season work?

We have the WBC, where countries can represent their best. Olympic baseball just isn’t needed because all countries minus Cuba and others who don’t send their best to professional ball anyway can’t put their best team out on the field. It’s not an accurate representation of baseball on the planet Earth.

That Castillo now will not be activated for “several more days.”

So he will not be starting tonight. I’m OK with that.

The jib of a sailing ship is a triangular sail set between the foretopmast head and the jib boom. Some ships had more than one jib sail. Each country had its own style of sail and so the nationality of a sailing ship, and a sailor’s consequent opinion of it, could be determined from the jib.