Good for Willie

While Reyes is the best the Shortstop to ever grace a baseball diamond, he has been dogging it. For the second time in three games, he didn't even bother to run out a ground ball that turned out to be fair. Instead, he stood in the batters box last night, watching the Astros' 3B Lamb run a ground ball from the third base bag all the way over to near first base (where I think he made a short toss) while Jose Jose Jose looked on stupified. That was the third out of the inning, and Willie immediately pulled Reyes from the game.

"I won't tolerate that from anyone," Randolph said. "It doesn't matter who it is."

"If you can't get out of the box," Randolph said several times, "you don't play."

Reyes' quotes were a little less satisfactory:

"Yeah, I think the ball was going to be foul," Reyes said. "But we still have to run. That was my fault there.

"But that thing could happen to anybody. Hopefully it [doesn't] happen the next time."

Hopefully? Try this one Jose: if there's a chance it can be fair, just run. Then you won't need to hope.