Know-Thy-Enemy (KTE)

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I'm not volunteering to write a KTE, but I'll tell you what I know right here.

I'm hoping that the Cardinals look as crappy this week as they did when we saw them play the Phillies and the Brewers in St. Louis three weeks ago. They were in the midst of their second 8-game losing streak of the season, and to say that they looked flat is an understatement.

We were at the game where the Phillies massacred them. The Cards had been behind by a substantial margin, cutting the Phillies lead to 8-7, but they brought in someone frm the bullpen -


Looper!

Philadelphia went on to win that game 16-8.

[Lundy]

I actually started working on my KTE assigment last night, I didn't know you guys were so anxious--I woulda had something ready sooner!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Sorry, I think some missed assignments has led to anxiety. But what we've got so far is cuh-rap.

Get posting.

[MFS62]

O/O's fill-in post was pretty good.

Later

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Bump for The Jesus.

[Willets Point]

Geez, we play Philadelphia every week, I think we know them by now.

[Guest Edgy DC]

But did we know that Cole Hamels got ripped last night for nine runs (five earned) in two innings?

[MFS62]

Willets Point wrote: Geez, we play Philadelphia every week, I think we know them by now.

The only difference since we saw them last is that CF Aaron Rowland is on the DL with a broken ankle.

Later

[stevejrogers]

Here are your remaining KTE assignments:

September 1-3 @ HOU rpackrat
September 4-6 vs. ATL HahnSolo
September 7-10 vs. LAD Diamond Dad
September 11-13 @ FLA PatchyFogg
September 15-17 @ PIT GYC
September 18-21 vs. FLA The Big O
September 22-25 vs. WSH valadius
September 26-28 @ ATL Centerfield
September 29-October 1 @ WSH KC

[stevejrogers]

I'm thinking 2007 should have a KTE rotation, split up each series between 5-8 posters or something like that.

I'm thinking about doing a complete KTE for all 7 other postseason teams, hopefully those will be up (or at least the Met's opponent in the NLDS, hey Game 5 FINALLY is at Shea this year!) before the Mets play their first game

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Without stepping on Han Solo's toes, I know something about our upcoming enemy.

Playing back-to-back doubleheaders has to be hell on one's bullpen, no matter how many fresh arms you call up from the minors.

[Guest cooby]

SteveJRogers wrote: I'm thinking 2007 should have a KTE rotation, split up each series between 5-8 posters or something like that.

No.





Edit:

Wait, you don't mean 5-8 posters doing each series, do you? You mean just 5-8 posters handling all the KTE throughout the year.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

What I would suggest for 2007 and beyond is that 1) posters who wish to do KTEs volunteer for the duty; and 2) the poster be assigned one team for the whole season. Ideally, he/she can specify whether he wants a division rival (which would entail 6 KTE's, an original one and updates throughout the season) or a nondivision rival (2 KTE's for National League teams and 1 for Interleague rivals). This way the person writing the KTE for a particular team would really know that rival well by the end of the season.

[stevejrogers]

cooby wrote: ="SteveJRogers"]I'm thinking 2007 should have a KTE rotation, split up each series between 5-8 posters or something like that. No. Wait, you don't mean 5-8 posters doing each series, do you? You mean just 5-8 posters handling all the KTE throughout the year.

Yup. In a rotation format. With "Spot Starters" ready for Pinch-Posting duties during the year

[stevejrogers]

ScarletKnight41 wrote: What I would suggest for 2007 and beyond is that 1) posters who wish to do KTEs volunteer for the duty; and 2) the poster be assigned one team for the whole season. Ideally, he/she can specify whether he wants a division rival (which would entail 6 KTE's, an original one and updates throughout the season) or a nondivision rival (2 KTE's for National League teams and 1 for Interleague rivals). This way the person writing the KTE for a particular team would really know that rival well by the end of the season.

Not a bad idea. Kind of like Adopt-A-Prospect!

Maybe there should be a seperate folder as well perhaps?

[Valadius]

Guess I showed up just in time.

In all honesty, the flak I got over the nicknames thread did hurt quite a bit, and did contribute some to my absence, but it had more to do with everything I've had going on - I've been pretty busy.

[seawolf17]

Welcome back... hope all's well.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

FYI, D-Dad's LA KTE will be posted tomorrow morning. It's at the office.

[MFS62]

="ScarletKnight41"]What I would suggest for 2007 and beyond is that 1) posters who wish to do KTEs volunteer for the duty; and 2) the poster be assigned one team for the whole season. ...This way the person writing the KTE for a particular team would really know that rival well by the end of the season.

Scarlett. I once commented on that idea.

http://www.getalifealready.com/cpf/archives/f15_t370.shtml

Later

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

62 - can you post the Reader's Digest version? When I'm in study mode, it's inconvenient to click a link and then scan for something. Thanks.

[metirish]

Do we have a KTE plan in place for the post-season?,I know Steve said he would like to do all the teams but I think others should get to join the fun.

[MFS62]

OK, here it is. I wrote/ posted it after I was assigned the Phillies for the third time that year. And I "snapped".
enjoy,
Later
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MFS62
Jun 27 2005 09:38 PM
Putting on my best Howard Beale voice: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002075/

I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's depressing. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Terrorism is running wild around the world and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster (like Willets Point) and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone.

I got assigned to write another KTE about the Phillies. I said I didn�t want to, but my name showed up again next to this series on the assignment list. The World sucks, it is true. But all I wanted to be was left alone. And now THIS.

Yes, I know, the Mets took two of three from the Phillies last week. Then they took two of three from the Yankees while the Phillies were getting swept by the Red Sox. And I should derive some solace from that. But we had to depend on Kaz Ishii to win a game in order to win the series. And we had to count on Hernandez to strike out Met-killer Pat Burrell to protect Kaz� win. And their quiet Met tormentor Rheal Cormier didn�t vulture a win. Are those things going to happen again real soon? You might as well wait for the next sighting of Haley�s Comet. I should have been glad that the series is over and I wouldn�t have to deal with the team that has been murder on the Mets since the days of Roy Sievers, Ray Culp and Larry Jackson. And Jimmy Rollins keeps getting key hits against the Mets like Bobby Wine used to. And now a suddenly reheated Jim Thome is coming to Shea, where the prevailing left-to-right wind can only help a lefty power hitter. Considering the way the Phillies have mal-treated the Mets over the years, I wouldn�t be surprised if pitcher Randy Wolf jumps off the operating table where he is having reconstructive arm surgery and rushes to the mound and throws a shutout. And to add insult to (a weird on deck) injury, Mientkiewicz is out and Jose Offerman has been called up.

And who do we have to depend on to pull us out of our post Yankee loss funk? Its inconsistent Victor Zambrano (3-6, 3.97), who will be going up against either Robinson Tejada (1-0, 2.02) or Corey Lidle (6-6, 4.12). That�s who. And after that, it will be John Lieber (8-7, 4.95) against Kaz Ishii (2-6 5.25) and Vicente Padilla (3-7, 6.83 against Pedro Martinez (8-2, 2.72). And the only thing worse is that I have been assigned to write another KTE about that team.

I�m mad. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman, or Edgy, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the terrorism and the crime in the street and forcing CPF-ers to do something they don�t want to do. All I know is that first you've got to get mad.

[shouting] You've got to say, '62�s a HUMAN BEING, dammit! His life has VALUE!'

So does my time. And yours does, too. Should it be wasted doing something you don�t want to do?

I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell,

[shouting]
'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis and the mandated KTE assignments. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it:

[screaming at the top of his lungs] "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

[stevejrogers]

September 15-17 @ PIT GYC
September 18-21 vs. FLA The Big O
September 22-25 vs. WSH valadius
September 26-28 @ ATL Centerfield
September 29-October 1 @ WSH KC

GAAAARRRGGH GYC, I'd like to know more about the Pirates so we are fully informed when we clinch this weekend!

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

SteveJRogers wrote: GAAAARRRGGH GYC, I'd like to know more about the Pirates so we are fully informed when we clinch this weekend!

Start with this.

[Willets Point]

Sad that we just miss playing the Pirates on Talk Like A Pirate Day.