Not sure where Cerrone got this photograph for MetsBlog, but that’s my hand and our microphone indicated by the red arrow:

I’m prone to mild claustrophobia so I usually just sort of stand in the back and listen during these things, but in this case I needed Beltran miked up because we’re working on the video bit. I pulled the SNY mic flag off because Kevin Burkhardt was sitting right there and we thought it would look dumb on video if there were two SNY mics coming at Beltran from different directions.

But the main thing — and you can’t really tell this from the photo — is that my hand and microphone were extended out directly over and about ten inches above Beltran’s troublesome right knee.

It’s tight in that scrum and I had to strain in all sorts of odd ways to avoid being in the camera shot, plus I have the MS, which makes my hands a little numb and prone to dropping things. I stood there white-knuckling the mic, absolutely terrified that I would drop it and hit Beltran’s knee in just the right spot to knock him out for the season.

I didn’t, so all’s clear.