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[Guest attgig]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: The Phillies have interest in Nelson Figueroa of the Mets, according to Jayson Stark of ESPN.com. The 35-year-old righty is out of options, and has been outrighted before, so he can choose to become a free agent instead of reporting to the minor leagues if he clears waivers. Figueroa, whose waivers expire Wednesday, pitched for the Phillies in 2001. That makes sense. Because he's, y'know, useful. I feel comfortable saying that Sean Green wouldn't get quite as much interest from them (or others).

phils officially claim nelson according to adam rubin's twitter:

[Guest Edgy DC]

I say we take him back by force.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Let's just make them regret it instead. How hard could it be?

[metirish]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Let's just make them regret it instead. How hard could it be?

Yeah , really . It's kind of like Nate Robinson going to the Celtics , Robinson is a dick and Nelly isn't but they are not all that terribly important.

[Benjamin Grimm]

You just have to place some softball girls in the stands each time he pitches.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/258/figgy-is-philadephia-bound

T'is official. NellyPhils.

[smg58]

Hopefully this will be completely inconsequential.

[Valadius]

It's all Jerry's fault.

[bmfc1]

Nelson Figueroa's father's CF brick:

http://metsie.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/want-to-be-even-angrier-about-figgy-getting-cut/

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Geez.

[metirish]

What does it say? , should I even care?

[A Boy Named Seo]

Dude, read it.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ugh.

It was a dumb move to begin with. This just marks it as even dumber than you thought it was-- however dumb you thought it was-- and in a more profound way.

[metirish]

I can't read it as it's blocked.....some of us are at work you know and not hanging out in Manhattan beach.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"ON 4-11-08 MY SON PITCHED FOR THE METS, AND I DIED AND WENT TO HEAVEN

-N. FIGUEROA, SR."

[Benjamin Grimm]

Well, if he's dead now, he doesn't know that his son is a Phillie.

[metirish]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: "ON 4-11-08 MY SON PITCHED FOR THE METS, AND I DIED AND WENT TO HEAVEN -N. FIGUEROA, SR."

I got nothing

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Well, if he's dead now, he doesn't know that his son is a Phillie.

True. He'd just be confused and disoriented from all the grave-spinning.

[A Boy Named Seo]

metirish wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: "ON 4-11-08 MY SON PITCHED FOR THE METS, AND I DIED AND WENT TO HEAVEN -N. FIGUEROA, SR." I got nothing

Figgy Sr. apparently bought a brick at Citi and that's what he put on it. The link has a shot of it.

[Guest themetfairy]

bmfc1 wrote: Nelson Figueroa's father's CF brick: http://metsie.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/want-to-be-even-angrier-about-figgy-getting-cut/

OK - now I'm going to cry....

[batmagadanleadoff]

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ok, so I've got to ask. Is it real?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy DC wrote: Ok, so I've got to ask. Is it real?

I'm wondering whether Wilpon deducted $395.00 from Figgy's next check once the brick was ordered.

[metirish]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Ok, so I've got to ask. Is it real? I'm wondering whether Wilpon deducted $395.00 from Figgy's next check once the brick was ordered.

LOL.....


Is it real now has me thinking though.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

It's inspired a fun string in the Amazin' Avenue comments, in which some of our other favorite figures' dads buy bricks:

"My son is a zebra. David Wright is a giraffe. � Ryan Church Sr." "I have a son, and my son, I like my son - Omar Minaya, Sr." "On April 5, 2010 My son told me he was the starting first baseman for the Mets. I said, quick clowning around and help me out here in the yard. � Mike Jacobs, Sr."

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: "I have a son, and my son, I like my son - Omar Minaya, Sr."

Contest over. Hyperventilating.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Yeah, I was just about to mention the idea, and see what we could all come up with... then I saw that one, and the Jacobs one, and... well... sometimes, all you can do is applaud.

[metirish]

Brillaint

[A Boy Named Seo]

"BOOOOOOO!!!!" - Oliver Perez, Sr.