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[dgwphotography]

Wow. Just Wow.

http://mets2005.myblogsite.com/blog/_archives/2005/7/29/1086923.html

Best Met-related read this morning

[Elster88]

BUMP

HALF BUMP

Couple of nice postings. I'm now regularly reading this blog.

I found this passage very funny:

But regarding Gerald Williams. I mean, what does it take? Remember the scene in "The Man With Two Brains" in which Steve Martin asks his wdow's spirit for guidance about whether he should marry Kathleen Turner? The house practically collapses in a hurricane of shattering objects and spectral screams, during which Steve stands there oblivious, saying, "A sign...anything..." C'mon, Omar -- does the scoreboard have to start gushing blood like some crazed recreation of "The Shining" before you take this man off the roster?

[url]http://mets2005.myblogsite.com/blog

[Elster88]

Though I do disagree somewhat. Ice has performed about as well as can be hoped with the bat. I'm not sure who else would have performed better in Carlos' absence.

Yeah he didn't catch that triple, but he didn't give up the home run that followed, or force the rest of the Mets to refuse to hit that day.

[Elster88]

2. David Wright doing a beautiful job turning an 0-2 hole into a walk -- he reminds me of Alfonzo the way he can work out of bad counts -- followed by Clifford hitting a no-doubter.

I was going to post this in the IGT yesterday but forgot. I was thinking at the time that this could be even more helpful in that it would give Looper the day off, but that didn't work out.

Speaking of which, why were there two guys warming up with no outs in the ninth and a 6-2 lead? I thought warming up used energy and caused arms to tire and stuff.

[Elster88]

I also highly recommend this one from Tuesday:

[url]http://mets2005.myblogsite.com/blog/_archives/2005/8/16/1141154.html

[Edgy MD]

I'm starting to understand that Greg is "Faith" and Jace is "Fear."

[Theoldmole]

Always a good read.

[G-Fafif]

Edgy DC wrote: I'm starting to understand that Greg is "Faith" and Jace is "Fear."

As often as not, it's the other way around. Some days it's hard to tell.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Damn Greg, This is beautiful!

[G-Fafif]

ScarletKnight41 wrote: Damn Greg, This is beautiful!

Thank you, Honorable Knight. Stay tuned and we'll eventually get to the present.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Sakes that was good.

I don;t recall 70, but maybe 72 or 73.

I played a game reading the boxscores on the Times sports page. I realized if there was a number, but not zero, in each of the 4 columns -- AB R H BI -- it correlated pretty strongly with the chance that player was listed under HR in the agate below.

I still catch myself doing that when I look at box scores.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

So I show this to MK. He reads it, laughs, and says, "I understand that."

I'm scared and impressed with his level of comprehending Met fandom at age 9.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Great Column

I love the SCTV references

[Zvon]

I also highly recommend this one from Tuesday: [url]http://mets2005.myblogsite.com/blog/_archives/2005/8/16/1141154.html

this is classic! :lol:
Great piece.

[Elster88]

I enjoyed and agreed with today's posting [url]http://mets2005.myblogsite.com/blog/_archives/2005/8/30 though there is something ironic about reacting to another's overreaction.

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[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

If you're going to accept Wise Willie Smart Baseball's every remark as being intentionally and cryptically deceptive, then do so. But you can't claim in retrospect that the things that worked out just as he said were straightforward and sincere but the stuff that turned out 180 degrees from what he said were gnomic smokescreens.

Actually, you can, but that just marks you as a hopeless delusionary.

[Edgy MD]

Perspective on invective from Gotham Baseball.

[Elster88]

Bret Sabermetric wrote: If you're going to accept Wise Willie Smart Baseball's every remark as being intentionally and cryptically deceptive, then do so. But you can't claim in retrospect that the things that worked out just as he said were straightforward and sincere but the stuff that turned out 180 degrees from what he said were gnomic smokescreens. Actually, you can, but that just marks you as a hopeless delusionary.

I'm assuming here that you mean the ambiguous "you".

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[Elster88]

Edgy DC wrote: Perspective on invective from Gotham Baseball.

Should I change the name of the thread? This thread can probably handle multiple blogs. It's a tough little thread.

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[Edgy MD]

She's your baby. You name her.

[Elster88]

Oops. It's actually luibitul's. Weird, I thought it was mine, too.

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[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I'm serious. I don't wanna do this. I don't even like baseball.

I feel your pain, Greg.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

North Haverbrook Pretty Much Sums The Place Up - LOL


I've been there (I've been to every MLB park, as well as several former MLB parks), and you're not missing much, Greg. The place is functional enough, but not a great place to watch a baseball game.

[G-Fafif]

ScarletKnight41 wrote: North Haverbrook Pretty Much Sums The Place Up - LOL I've been there (I've been to every MLB park, as well as several former MLB parks), and you're not missing much, Greg. The place is functional enough, but not a great place to watch a baseball game.

I haven't been avoiding it, per se. Just haven't gone out of my way to see it. If the Marlins and Devil Rays had come along earlier, no doubt their parks would be on the list, as I went to school in Florida in the '80s. But those two teams along with the Twins and the Mariners are the only four for whom I've never seen a home game. Seattle we're kind of saving for last. We have no short- or long-term plans to visit Minneapolis, Miami or St. Pete (where I caught my first foul ball during spring training) but sooner or later I'll feel compelled to get to them even if they're all North Haverbrook.

[G-Fafif]

ScarletKnight41 wrote: North Haverbrook Pretty Much Sums The Place Up - LOL I've been there (I've been to every MLB park, as well as several former MLB parks), and you're not missing much, Greg. The place is functional enough, but not a great place to watch a baseball game.

I haven't been avoiding it, per se. Just haven't gone out of my way to see it. If the Marlins and Devil Rays had come along earlier, no doubt their parks would be on the list, as I went to school in Florida in the '80s. But those two teams along with the Twins and the Mariners are the only four for whom I've never seen a home game. Seattle we're kind of saving for last. We have no short- or long-term plans to visit Minneapolis, Miami or St. Pete (where I caught my first foul ball during spring training) but sooner or later I'll feel compelled to get to them even if they're all North Haverbrook.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

We did Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Detroit as a driving trip with the kids in 2002. It was fun, although that much driving with three kids was rather nuts. We took along a portable tv/vcr, and had them watch the entire Ken Burns Baseball documentary on that trip

Meanwhile, MK got a big laugh out of this one today (he even told it to his grandmother during Labor Day lunch) -

Things Victor Diaz Will Never Be 1. A Gold Glove winner 2. A Gold Glove candidate 3. Allowed to look at a Gold Glove

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Wow! Not only is Greg's reflection on 1985 large enough to require two separate posts, but it's an amazin' recap of an amazin' season.

Here is Part 1

Here is The Exciting Conclusion

Plus he gives us a shout-out in his Meaningless Games in September post.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

This week's flashback is 1990. A lost season for me - my daughter was born in September 1989, which began a few years when baseball was on the back burner. The descriptions and accounts of my lost season are appreciated.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I Hate Other Sports

Big Yup©

Don't get me wrong. I like football. In November, where it belongs. Get it the fuck out of September. October, too. Even if the Mets aren't in the post-season, baseball deserves October, not so much for the playoffs and the World Series but so we can spend a month mourning and reflecting on what he have just witnessed.

[Edgy MD]

But no, it starts ramming itself down our throats in late July and by September, it's jumped offsides and into the valuable media space that should by rights be maintained 24/7/365 by baseball.

Well, the "365" is kind of a contradiction.

But Go, Greg, Go. I hate the NFL 24/7/365. Well, I guess I liked it when that Jets receiver decided to use his visiibility to call attention to molested children, but I hate so very much about the NFL, the list would just go on.