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This black comedy needed to be a whole lot blacker and funnier.
Brendan Gleeson, as beefily Irish an actor as anyone since Victor McLaglen, is always believable and frequently hilarious.
When it's over it evaporates, leaving only the acrid smoke of its dialogue and the memory of Gleeson reducing lesser mortals to cinders.
"The Guard" is a pleasure. I can't tell if it's really (bleeping) dumb or really (bleeping) smart, but it's pretty (bleeping) good.
A nifty little Irish summer vacation.
If the movie's mix of nihilistic violence and snarky attitude suggests In Bruges, it's a family resemblance.
Wickedly funny and irreverent. The best dark comedy since In Bruges. It will leave you in stitches.
It belongs to Gleeson, whose thickly accented growl lends a lyrical quality to McDonagh's wordplay in one of the year's funniest and most spirited offerings.
Patrolling the dark/light divide so confidently even the IRA nab legitimate laughs, The Guard is a cracker of a film and Sergeant Gerry Boyle a comedy creation for the ages.
... screenplay combines the overall drama of finding the smugglers and stopping them with some very wry humor, mostly from Gleeson, with his irreverence toward any authority.
The film is entertaining, surprising and Gleeson is once again on top of his game. If only director McDonagh had made some room for Cheadle and Mark Strong to shine as well.
Irish noir 'Guard' is one to watch.
McDonagh's pithy dialogue sparkles like pixie dust. And yes, everything sounds better in brogue.
What could have been a clich?d oil-and-water buddy movie in a lesser writer's hands feels organic and genuine.
Gleefully, hilariously profane and proud of it.
McDonagh's Connacht-set cop story would be too clever by half if not for Brendan Gleeson's canny performance.
McDonaugh's reflective script and darker tone separates it from the usual pacing of the standard cop film.
Joins a growing list of darkly witty contemporary Irish gangster movies...Gleeson never seems to run out of ways to surprise an audience.
If you can imagine the whimsicality of "Local Hero" crossed with the dark, British Isle ruralness of the "Red Riding" trilogy if its criminal elements had immigrated from "Fargo," you'll have an idea of McDonagh's deft tonal touch.
This thing is so confident, so very well-constructed, and it goes down smooth from the very first frame to its absolutely perfect final shot.
The range of personalities and fine casting choices helps distract from a less than thrilling central mystery
More Critic ReviewsLOS ANGELES ? When comic Will C. recalls his duty as a combat-tested ex-Marine ? then gazes upon the fairly substantial gut he carries in place of an M-16 rifle these days ? he likes to say the old warrior in him has gone MIA.
"And by that I mean McDonald's, In-N-Out and Arby's," C. tells audiences.
But he and four other well-traveled comedians will tell you they are still serving their country. Only these days they're doing it one joke at a time.
They are the G.I.s of Comedy, veterans of every major branch of the U.S. military, a couple of Gulf wars and a countless number of nights in the comedy trenches of nightclubs and college campuses from here to New York.
It was, in fact, on the comedy circuit that they crossed paths, although that's not how Thom Tran, the former Army staff sergeant who put the G.I.s of Comedy together, likes to remember it.
"Here's how we met," he says of himself and C. "I was at the Taco Bell and he was taking my order."
"He wasn't behind the register," chimes in G Reilly, who was aboard the Navy's USS Denver during the first Gulf War. "He was TAKING his order."
This is the point where the drummer would give us a rim shot. But these guys aren't on stage at the moment. They're ensconced in a window booth at Jerry's Famous Deli, a popular hangout with Hollywood industry types.
Not at the table this day is Jose Sarduy, who is still in the Air Force reserve and currently teaching young aviators to fly jets at a base in Texas. But not to be left out, he dials into Tran's iPad via Skype.
Sarduy also plans to return to Los Angeles in time for the group's next gig ? on Friday at the Improv in Hollywood.
Sarduy, who came to the U.S. with his family in the 1980 Mariel boat lift, likes to say that when people learn he's a Cuban refugee they have trouble believing he's also an Air Force major.
"Everybody always says, `They let the Cubans fly the plane? Shouldn't they be in the Coast Guard?'
"You don't want a Cuban in the Coast Guard," he continues, adding that such a guardsman would let every other Cuban who could get a hold of a boat into the country.
Political correctness is clearly not this group's stock in trade. But Tran, who traded a career in the Army for comedy (he's also a part-time radio traffic reporter) after being shot in the head in Iraq seven years ago, believes all five have earned the right to say whatever they want on stage.
The fifth G.I. in the troupe, former Army private Tom Irwin, produced the film "25 Days in Iraq," documenting one of his four comedy tours to Iraq and Afghanistan.
"These are people who have seen a little more high stakes part of the world. It's a life experience that results in something a little more than just jokes about airplane food," says Thomas Lennon, one of the creators of television's now-ended "Reno 911," who with his partner, Robert Ben Garant, is producing the group's shows.
The Vietnamese-born Tran, whose father fought on the American side during the Vietnam War and was imprisoned after the fall of Saigon, even manages to work into the act the day he was wounded in Iraq.
"I don't know of any other show where there is such funny footage of someone taking a bullet to the head," says Lennon, who played Lt. Dangle on "Reno 911" and was the clueless test administrator blackmailed by Cameron Diaz in "Bad Teacher." He and Garant are also pitching a television show for the group to Comedy Central.
Since coming together four months ago, the five have played all of LA's major comedy clubs and will go on a nationwide tour later this year. Eventually they hope to take the act overseas to military installations.
Not that their entire act is made up of military jokes.
Reilly, whose first name really is G, has a funny bit about getting hit by a bus. Irwin can wax on about trying to explain to a 17-year-old how a reel-to-reel tape recorder once worked. C., who says he was always the funny fat kid in school, makes light of his size.
The group, ranging in age from 32 to 52, is as multicultural as the military, with one black member, one Asian, one Hispanic and two white guys.
"When we put this tour together it shocked me that, you know, a black guy in the Navy, a Cuban in the Air Force, an Asian in the Army and a white guy in the Corps," Tran said. "I was like all I need is a Muslim in the Coast Guard."
That is a joke he does need to watch. But not for reasons of political correctness.
He says he once told it in front a group of military recruiters and the next day one of them sent out a mass emailing looking for a funny Muslim.
"I'm still waiting for a funny Muslim in the Coast Guard to contact me," Tran adds, laughing. "But one day it will happen."
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By PAUL NEWBERRY
updated 3:59 p.m. ET Aug. 9, 2011
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. - Darren Clarke struggled through a miserable nine holes of practice Tuesday.
Hmmm, maybe he's ready to shine again at the PGA Championship.
Coming off the first major title of his career, Clarke arrived in the sweltering suburbs north of Atlanta looking to rekindle some of that British Open magic but insisting he's still the same guy ? claret jug and all.
"I would like to think it hasn't changed me," the native of Northern Ireland said. "Hope it won't and don't think it will."
His schedule has certainly changed, though. After an all-night celebration at Royal St. George's, he's had to deal with a rush of media and sponsor commitments, in addition playing the Irish Open and the World Golf Championship at Firestone.
"All I will say is that I'm still a little bit tired," said the 42-year-old Clarke, one of golf's oldest first-time major champions. "I've had no time off since the Open, so I'll be looking forward to a couple of weeks off this week."
Clearly, he could use the rest. Clarke missed the cut in Ireland and tied for 68th in a 76-player field at Firestone, so he hardly looks on top of his game.
Then again, he struggled through nine holes of practice two days before the start of the British Open, and that turned out just fine.
"I shall be spending quite a bit of time on the range trying to figure it out a little bit," Clarke said, adding that his expectations "are exactly the same from what they were at the Open."
This is nothing like Royal St. George's, of course. Instead of temperatures in the low 60s and spurts of heavy rain, Clarke practiced Tuesday under a bright sun, the mercury climbing into the 90s, the humidity making it feel even hotter.
"Obviously, totally different conditions," he said. "The heat is going to be a massive, massive factor this week."
He'll need some different shots, too.
At Royal St. George's, Clarke mastered the links course by keeping the ball low. It wasn't pretty, but it negated the gusting breezes off the sea. Landlocked Atlanta Athletic Club is the sort of course that turns up week after week on the PGA Tour (though longer at more than 7,400 yards). High, precision shots will be the norm at this major.
"I've just got to go to the range and work on my ball striking and hopefully get back to a level where I can control my ball flight," Clarke said. "If I can do that, I'll go and play and see how good my best is this week. If I can play my best, my best is good enough to contend and to win."
The blistering Georgia summer could work against a player like Clarke, who's a bit stout around the midsection. After winning the Open, he had vowed to go on a diet, but now says he will begin cutting back AFTER the PGA Championship.
"Obviously, I'm a finely turned athlete," he quipped, "so it should not affect me that much."
His victory at Royal St. George's was immensely popular with the golfing public, on both sides of the Atlantic. Clarke lights up cigarettes on the course, loves to throw back a pint or two, and ? like so many folks ? has struggled to control his weight.
Plus, he dealt with personal tragedy: The death of his wife after a long battle with cancer. No wonder he hears shouts of encouragement nearly everywhere he goes.
"For some reason or another," Clarke said, "the people seem to like me."
He also learned a valuable lesson at the British Open, one that should serve him well the rest of his career.
"You never know what the game is going to give you. You never know what's around the corner," Clarke said. "Just never give up. Keep going, keep going, keep going. That's what it taught me."
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In an Aug. 3, 2011 photo, Chief Investigator Marc Martin, right, holds a bag of methamphetamine worth approximately $10,000 as he talks with investigator Jody Cavangaugh, left, at the Warren County Sheriff's office in McMinnville, Tenn. The federal government?s budget crisis has forced a sudden retreat in the nation?s war against methamphetamine, wiping out millions of dollars to clean up secret labs and forcing some police and sheriff?s departments to all but abandon the hunt for new meth producers because they cannot afford it. (AP Photo/Josh Anderson)
In an Aug. 3, 2011 photo, Chief Investigator Marc Martin, right, holds a bag of methamphetamine worth approximately $10,000 as he talks with investigator Jody Cavangaugh, left, at the Warren County Sheriff's office in McMinnville, Tenn. The federal government?s budget crisis has forced a sudden retreat in the nation?s war against methamphetamine, wiping out millions of dollars to clean up secret labs and forcing some police and sheriff?s departments to all but abandon the hunt for new meth producers because they cannot afford it. (AP Photo/Josh Anderson)
In an Aug. 3, 2011 photo, Warren County Sheriff Jackie Metheny, standing at left, talks with Bill Davis, in car, and investigators Marc Martin, center, Jody Cavanaugh and Deputy Sheriff Alan Roberts, right, at the Warren County Sheriff's office in McMinnville, Tenn. The federal government?s budget crisis has forced a sudden retreat in the nation?s war against methamphetamine, wiping out millions of dollars to clean up secret labs and forcing some police and sheriff?s departments to all but abandon the hunt for new meth producers because they cannot afford it. (AP Photo/Josh Anderson)
In an Aug. 3, 2011 photo, Warren County Sheriff Jackie Metheny gets in a patrol car at the Warren County Sheriff's office in McMinnville, Tenn. The federal government?s budget crisis has forced a sudden retreat in the nation?s war against methamphetamine, wiping out millions of dollars to clean up secret labs and forcing some police and sheriff?s departments to all but abandon the hunt for new meth producers because they cannot afford it. (AP Photo/Josh Anderson)
In an Aug. 3, 2011 photo, Warren County Sheriff Jackie Metheny, left, talks with investigators Kevin Murphy and Jody Cavanaugh, right, in McMinnville, Tenn. The federal government?s budget crisis has forced a sudden retreat in the nation?s war against methamphetamine, wiping out millions of dollars to clean up secret labs and forcing some police and sheriff?s departments to all but abandon the hunt for new meth producers because they cannot afford it. (AP Photo/Josh Anderson)
In an Aug. 3, 2011 photo, investigator Jody Cavanaugh shows a first aid kit that methamphetamine producers regularly steal for the use of the cold pack as an ingredient in the drug at the Warren County Sheriff's office in McMinnville, Tenn. The federal government?s budget crisis has forced a sudden retreat in the nation?s war against methamphetamine, wiping out millions of dollars to clean up secret labs and forcing some police and sheriff?s departments to all but abandon the hunt for new meth producers because they cannot afford it. (AP Photo/Josh Anderson)
ST. LOUIS (AP) ? Police and sheriff's departments in states that produce much of the nation's methamphetamine have made a sudden retreat in the war on meth, at times virtually abandoning pursuit of the drug because they can no longer afford to clean up the toxic waste generated by labs.
Despite abundant evidence that the meth trade is flourishing, many law enforcement agencies have called off tactics that have been used for years to confront drug makers: sending agents undercover, conducting door-to-door investigations and setting up stakeouts at pharmacies to catch people buying large amounts of cold medicine.
The steep cutbacks began after the federal government in February canceled a program that provided millions of dollars to help local agencies dispose of seized labs. Since then, an Associated Press analysis shows, the number of labs seized has plummeted by a third in some key meth-producing states and two-thirds in at least one, Alabama.
The trend is almost certain to continue unless more states find a way to replace the federal money or to conduct cheaper cleanups.
In Michigan, authorities still bust meth labs when they find them, but tougher missions like secretly sending officers into the meth underworld have been scrapped.
"They're not actively out there looking for it," said Tony Saucedo, meth enforcement director for Michigan State Police. "And the big issue is money. We have taken 10 steps backward."
Authorities say they have no doubt that meth trafficking remains brisk. Record busts are being reported in some states that fund their own cleanups.
But in places that rely on federal money, law enforcement agencies feel paralyzed. At least one sheriff became so frustrated that he considered burning meth waste illegally in a landfill rather than leaving it in neighborhoods where curious children could find it.
In Warren County, Tenn., about 70 miles southeast of Nashville, deputies had "always been very aggressive on meth," Sheriff Jackie Matheny said. By midsummer a year ago, they had busted some 70 meth labs. This year, that number tumbled to 24.
"When you have to kind of kick it into neutral, it makes you sick to your stomach because we know it's out there," Matheny said.
Making matters worse, sheriffs say, was the suddenness of the loss, which didn't give cash-strapped local governments any time to come up with another way to pay for cleanups that typically cost $2,500 to $5,000 per lab.
"We didn't have an opportunity to prepare," Matheny said. "We just got a phone call saying, 'You're not going to have funds anymore.' It just absolutely crippled us.'"
The AP analysis involved building a database of lab seizures in the nation's top 10 meth-producing states based on 2010 figures. Combined with numbers from the first half of 2011, the statistics showed that seizures had dropped sharply in states that depended on federal money. Yet busts were skyrocketing in states that pay for their own cleanups.
The AP also conducted 50 to 60 interviews to confirm the trend, speaking with police officers, sheriffs and meth-lab specialists in many of the top 10 states.
Lab seizures were down 32 percent through May 31 in Tennessee, which led the nation in seizures in 2010. The numbers were similar or worse in other leading meth states: down 33 percent in Arkansas, 35 percent in Michigan and 62 percent in Alabama.
All of those states relied heavily on funding from the federal Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS program. It offered local agencies $19.2 million in 2010. That money was not renewed and is unlikely to come back.
"Do you really think our labs fell that much?" asked Tommy Farmer, state meth task force coordinator for Tennessee. "Hell no."
Other figures confirm that meth is thriving. The most recent national survey from the Department of Health and Human Services shows that after declining for several years, the number of first-time meth users rose in 2009 to 154,000, up from 95,000 the previous year. The National Drug Intelligence Center reports that shipments of meth from Mexico are also on the rise.
In states that have developed their own lab cleanup programs, full enforcement has continued. Missouri, the leader in meth lab busts for a decade before falling to No. 2 behind Tennessee last year, has seen a 9 percent increase in seizures through May 31. Kentucky seizures are up 34 percent, Illinois up 36 percent.
Because meth is made using a volatile mix of ingredients such as battery acid, drain cleaner and ammonia, only crews with specialized training are allowed to handle the materials found in labs. The waste and debris cannot be dumped in a regular landfill, only in specially approved waste sites.
In years past, a typical meth lab often consisted of pots of simmering chemicals in basements, kitchens and garages. But then restrictive new laws made it harder to purchase large quantities of the cold medicine pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient. That led many meth makers to give up on big batches in favor of smaller ones produced by combining ingredients in a 2-liter soda bottle.
The majority of labs now use this "shake-and-bake" system, police say.
Under the COPS program, the agency that seizes a lab notifies the Drug Enforcement Administration, which hires a contractor to clean up and remove the meth debris and take it to a disposal site. Those cleanups typically cost at least $2,500, even for a small shake-and-bake lab.
Matheny's office busted 100 meth labs last year. At $2,500 per lab, that would cost the county $250,000 ? money he said the local government doesn't have.
Farmer recalled a conversation with another sheriff who was distressed about the cost of cleanups ? and frustrated that there wasn't a cheaper way.
"He was thinking about taking the meth waste to a landfill and burning it," Farmer said. "I told him not to do that because he would be violating all kinds of laws."
The sheriff's response was that illegally disposing of the waste was a better alternative than leaving it in a neighborhood where kids might get into it.
"He said, 'I don't have a choice,'" Farmer said.
States are finding different ways to adapt to the loss of the federal money, but it has not been easy.
Oklahoma was also among the national leaders in meth lab busts in 2010, when it used federal funds for cleanup. After that money dried up, the state agreed to pick up the tab. As a result, lab seizures in Oklahoma have continued to climb ? up 25 percent this year.
The decision was costly: Oklahoma had to scuttle plans to hire a combined 20 drug investigators and educators to pay the cleanup tab.
"We stepped up and decided we had to do this," said Mark Woodward, spokesman for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics.
In states with their own cleanup programs, local police and deputies are trained to remove meth waste and collect it in designated containers ? essentially small metal storage buildings. The DEA picks up the waste and disposes of it.
The system is far less expensive ? $500 for a typical cleanup. Now some states that previously used the COPS money are developing their own container systems, including Michigan and Tennessee, which began its program last month. Arkansas also is looking at a container program.
Meanwhile, states are aggressively pursuing legal means to stop meth before it is made, largely by limiting sales of cold and allergy pills containing pseudoephedrine. A number of states track pseudoephedrine purchases.
In July, Mississippi began requiring a prescription for pseudoephedrine. Meth lab busts there fell 68 percent for the first five months of 2011, compared with the same period in 2010. More than two dozen towns and counties in Missouri have adopted their own prescription-only laws.
Police chiefs and sheriffs agree the problem is too big to ignore.
"We've got to keep moving forward," said Tim Fuller, sheriff of Franklin County, Tenn. "Funding or no funding, it's a public safety issue and a criminal issue, and we can't back down."
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You probably know by now snoring is damaging to your union, but did you know that sleep apnea also breaks it? This is when someone stops breathing for seconds or even minutes during sleep then wakes up swiftly to catch his breath. The sufferer not only gets stressed by the time he wakes up, he also imposes strain on his bed partner.
You may not be aware that you have it, but your partner certainly does. This is what happens at night: you wake up with a start just long enough for you to return to your normal breathing, but in that process, you have also awakened your spouse. While you can return to your sleep without any real cognition that you have been interrupted, it will take a while for your wife to go back to sleep.
And that, my friend, produces the anxiety and stress in your relationship by the time you both wake up in the morning.
Some people think that sleep apnea is just irritating but not dangerous. They are wrong. It is a serious life threatening matter, raising the risk of stroke, heart attacks, and heart disease more than average. So the issues here are not limited to you and your wife?s lack of sleep and how it strains your relationship, your life is also at risk.
The safest advice you can get is to consult a doctor, one that specializes in Ear-Nose-Throat. Why? Because sleep apnea, just like snoring, has to do with the tongue and the throat. And while snoring only partially blocks the airway by your tongue, sleep apnea entirely jams it, preventing you from breathing for a moment.
Your weight matters in sleep apnea. Most individuals who suffer from sleep apnea are heavy, although there are also those with normal Body Mass Index that has sleep apnea. So aside from reducing the usual bad-for-body suspects, such as drinking and smoking and stress, shed off some weight too.
Some sufferers use CPAP machines to aid them in ridding of the annoying thing. CPAP stands for ?continuous positive airway pressure,? a mask sleep apnea sufferers put on during sleeping. Its machine creates a positive pressure of air on the airway, hence, forbidding it from shutting off.
If you have sleep apnea, do not wait for it to subside on its own. Go to a doctor instantly. Because if you suffer from it, you don?t only have sleep disturbance to worry about, you are also putting your own wellness and your marriage in danger.
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NEW YORK ? A steamy day at Citi Field turned into a painful one for the New York Mets when their top two hitters went down with injuries.
Jose Reyes tweaked his troublesome hamstring again and Daniel Murphy was helped off the field with a throbbing knee injury during a 6-5 loss to the Atlanta Braves on Sunday.
"We've been struggling offensively as it is. Now we lose a guy hitting .335 and another guy hitting .320, obviously that's going to be difficult to overcome," said third baseman David Wright, who found himself filling in at shortstop for the first time in his major league career. "We know it's going to be a tremendous uphill battle to try to score runs."
Longtime nemesis Chipper Jones hit a tiebreaking single off Bobby Parnell (3-4) in the ninth inning and Atlanta handed the depleted Mets their sixth loss in seven games.
After almost 3 1/2 hours of back-and-forth baseball, it was a difficult defeat to endure.
"It felt like it was about a 12-hour game," said rookie Justin Turner, who went from second base to shortstop and back to second base. "We felt like we literally just walked off a battlefield, with the heat and all the switching around and the grinding and coming back and tying it up. It's tough, mentally and physically."
Jason Heyward, Alex Gonzalez and Jose Constanza homered early for the Braves, who finally solved New York rookie Dillon Gee. Dan Uggla extended his career-best hitting streak to 28 games.
Gee entered 2-1 with a 1.52 ERA in four outings against Atlanta, including two wins and a 0.54 ERA in three starts this year. He was originally slated to start Wednesday night against Florida, but that game was rained out.
"I'm just really disappointed. Obviously, I didn't get the job done," Gee said. "I hate to see Parnell come in and get a loss for a game that I really lost. I never really gave us a chance today."
It was the first major league homer for Constanza ? he also got his first stolen base, spiking Murphy hard in the process on a clean but awkward play.
Mets general manager Sandy Alderson said Murphy has a substantial injury to his left knee and will be placed on the disabled list.
Reyes, the NL batting leader, was lifted in the second because of a stiff left hamstring, the same spot that landed him on the DL last month.
Alderson said he thought Reyes hurt himself running out a first-inning grounder and it appears he has a mild hamstring pull, the same injury that cost him more than two weeks in July.
X-rays on Murphy's leg were negative, but the team was waiting for MRI results on both players. The Mets, who traded Carlos Beltran in late July, are also missing injured first baseman Ike Davis.
"We're not going to stop the focus, we're not going to throw our hands up," manager Terry Collins said. "We're going to find somebody to come in and play some spots, and with that there will be expectations of people that are going to fill in there."
Jason Bay had three hits, three runs and a stolen base for New York during a perfect day at the plate. He singled leading off the ninth but was erased when he ran into a tag on Angel Pagan's double-play grounder.
After a walk, closer Craig Kimbrel retired Nick Evans on a grounder for his 34th save in 39 chances. A fired-up Jones pumped his fist emphatically after making the throw from third to end it.
"It was a good win for us. We needed it. Badly," he said.
A humid, 86-degree day in Queens turned sour when Reyes and Murphy got hurt. New York made three errors and lost two of three in the series against the NL wild card leaders.
Jonny Venters (6-1) worked a hitless inning for the win.
Braves lefty Mike Minor was called up from Triple-A Gwinnett for the fourth time this season to start in place of injured All-Star Jair Jurrjens, who went on the 15-day disabled list Saturday because of a strained right knee.
Minor left with a 5-2 lead and two outs in the sixth, but the bullpen couldn't hold it.
Murphy entered as a pinch-hitter and drove in a run with an infield single, a dribbler up the third base line. Willie Harris cut it to 5-4 with an RBI single.
Bay scored the tying run in the seventh when left fielder Martin Prado missed an attempt at a sliding catch, misplaying Pagan's sinking liner into an RBI double.
After his RBI single, Murphy stayed in the game at second base ? but didn't last long.
Constanza's foot popped up off the bag when he slid hard into second and came down on Murphy's prone left leg, between his ankle and knee. The lower portion of Murphy's leg was driven awkwardly toward the ground, and he hobbled away immediately in pain.
Murphy, out of the majors in 2010 because of two right knee injuries, stayed down in the outfield for a while before he was helped off the field.
"He was in a lot of pain. He just said, `Get me off the field,' that's all he kept saying, `Just get me off the field,'" Collins said.
Constanza also was shaken up on the play, but remained in the game.
The injuries forced Collins to get creative with his defensive alignments. In the seventh, he moved outfielder Scott Hairston to second base. By the eighth, Hairston was back in right field and Wright was playing shortstop.
NOTES: SS-2B Ruben Tejada will be recalled from Triple-A Buffalo to take Murphy's spot on the roster. Alderson said the Mets would wait and see about Reyes' injury before deciding if another roster move is needed. ... New York begins a four-game series Monday night against San Diego, with Mike Pelfrey on the mound.
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