Dispatches from the Blogosphere

[Guest Edgy DC]

What are your Mets bloggers commenting on? What are they up to? How relevant do they really think they are?

• 7 Train to Shea is scooping the universe and reporting that
  
  
  1. The Mets are pursuing free agent Scott Downs.
     
     
  2. The Mets are, at some level, shopping Jose Reyes.

  
  
  
  [*]Metsgrrl has been invited to a blogger roundtable discussion on the ticket pricing scheme. Give her some feedback to take to the table.
  
  
  [*]Amazin' Avenue celebrates Veterans Day with a look at Met Vets.
  
  
  [*]Tedquarters scouts Clint Hurdle.
  
  
  [*]It's Mets for Me accepts their Best Sports Blog award.
  
  
  [*]And, lastly, Rickey Runs is reporting that the Mets have traded Scott Schoeneweis for Connor Robertson.

[Ceetar]

One is irrelevant and whiny, one is living in the past, one is fairly tasty most of the time, one is a must read.

I'll leave it to you to decide which is which.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I dunno, the judge says you've got to much of a personal interest to serve on this jury.

I'll sweep around the blogosphere and get you in next time. Or time after that. Prometo.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The Mets for Me guy is ON FIRE. His Samuels coverage is the best in town.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: I dunno, the judge says you've got to much of a personal interest to serve on this jury. I'll sweep around the blogosphere and get you in next time. Or time after that. Prometo.

The rickey ones one is amusing. When you stop writing a blog, often your last post becomes like what you would put on your tombstone.

There's a dead blog out there somewhere that's last post was a demand for Mike Carp to take over for Delgado.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I liked IMfM's Sandy-must-apologize-for-the-ladies-in-the-dugout thing from a few days ago.

Ceetar wrote: One is irrelevant and whiny, one is living in the past, one is fairly tasty most of the time, one is a must read. I'll leave it to you to decide which is which.

That still leaves two. The part of me with an Aspergers-patient-like slavishness to matching pairs is buzzing like a cracked car window on the highway.

[ashie62]

I don't know if its a blog but the CPF ain't bad.

[metirish]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: The Mets for Me guy is ON FIRE. His Samuels coverage is the best in town.

As is he Jeter stuff

I also want to thank Derek Jeter, who, although he gets a lot of gruff in this space for cheating on his taxes, having herpes, and possessing the worst haircut anyone I know has ever seen, has to be credited with paving the way for the writers' recognition of my efforts over the past five years. Thanks old pal. To all your haters, if the fifth glove fits...

The Samuels stuff is hilarious

[G-Fafif]

IMFM makes my day and often my late night given the time difference (he's based in L.A.).

FYI, that roundtable has already taken place and MG wrote it up ASAP -- and posted since then.

[G-Fafif]

Also, I have never not once thought Scott Downs wasn't Kelly Downs, which would make him highly experienced.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ceetar wrote: Edgy DC wrote: I dunno, the judge says you've got to much of a personal interest to serve on this jury. I'll sweep around the blogosphere and get you in next time. Or time after that. Prometo. The rickey ones one is amusing. When you stop writing a blog, often your last post becomes like what you would put on your tombstone. There's a dead blog out there somewhere that's last post was a demand for Mike Carp to take over for Delgado.

Exactly.

Maybe we can make that a tradition. Every dispatch ends with a dead blog.

I hear what Bucket is saying regarding Mets for Me. Most of Metsylvania is really afraid to come out with an opinion on where this Samuels thing is going to lead. We're all terrified waiting for the other shoe to drop, wondering if we've been rooting for a sham.

("Hey, Carlos, you want to build that high school? Take strike three. It'll be worth three million to you.")

[A Boy Named Seo]

Jeez, never heard of "It's Mets for Me" til just now. All over it.

[ashie62]

I'm "abit irked" actually.

[Frayed Knot]

That '7 Train to Shea' rumor about Reyes being on the block is actually being quoted (and cited) by the 'Hot Stove' report on MLB.TV

[ashie62]

CBS is citing and quoting Matt Pignataro regarding Reyes.

Can you report a rumor??

[Guest Edgy DC]

Sure you can. Just cite it as such.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: Sure you can. Just cite it as such.

It's a crazy game of telephone sometimes. You wonder what gets lost in reported rumors between the person that told them, and the 18 billion people that relay it.

[Frayed Knot]

What usually gets lost is the original source.
Folks hear/read/see some legit news org giving out this "info" and say to themselves; "Wow, maybe this is true because [fill-in blank] is reporting it too!", not realizing that, no, this is NOT a second source or confirmation for the story, it's merely a report saying that someone else is reporting it or, in many cases, just guessing at it.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yeah, well that's yesterday's non-news. Let's see what's on the blog-o-dial today:

• Mike Silva's New York Baseball Digest looks at platooning Murphy and Tejada, allegedly a notion that John Paul Ricciardi finds appealing.
  
  
  
• Mr. Met is my Brother is warning you that you're going to be seeing and hearing more of Josh Satin.
  
  
  
• Patrick Flood is passing on a study from sabernomics.com reporting that managers don't mean crap. The secret is out.
  
  
  
• Videoblogger On the Black is respoinding to people's comments about Jose Reyes and Angel Pagan. I love the cheap memorabilia in the dingy man-cave he broadcasts from.
  
  
  
• The Mets Police is doing a series on holiday shopping and also has a post up suggesting the Mets do a fashion show like the Nats. Washington certainly doesn't do everything wrong (Adam Dunn), but I bet a team can do worse than to steer clear of everything the Nats do.
  
  
  
• Faith and Fear in Flushing is updating The Holy Books.
  
  
  
• Finally, Moonlight Graham Mets Mets hasn't posted since January, but (apparently) bowed out with a nice recap of Doc Medich and his one-game Mets career.

[Ceetar]

• Mike Silva's New York Baseball Digest looks at platooning Murphy and Tejada, allegedly a notion that John Paul Ricciardi finds appealing.
  
  
• Mr. Met is my Brother is warning you that you're going to be seeing and hearing more of Josh Satin.
  
  
• Patrick Flood is passing on a study from sabernomics.com reporting that managers don't mean crap. The secret is out.
  
  
• Videoblogger On the Black is respoinding to people's comments about Jose Reyes and Angel Pagan. I love the cheap memorabilia in the dingy man-cave he broadcasts from.
  
  
• The Mets Police is doing a series on holiday shopping and also has a post up suggesting the Mets do a fashion show like the Nats. Washington certainly doesn't do everything wrong (Adam Dunn), but I bet a team can do worse than to steer clear of everything the Nats do.
  
  
• Faith and Fear in Flushing is updating The Holy Books.
  
  
• Finally, Moonlight Graham Mets Mets hasn't posted since January, but (apparently) bowed out with a nice recap of Doc Medich and his one-game Mets career.

Yeah, well that's yesterday's non-news. Let's see what's on the blog-o-dial today:

I have met _4_ of those bloggers.

Tejada, to me, hasn't demonstrated enough on offense or defense to be considered for a platoon. Lately I think i'm favoring Murphy.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Maybe not, but the numbers suggest he handled lefties pretty well (relatively), and that would mean Murphy would get two--three starts for every one Tejada would get, and have a defensive substitute in place to take some of the pressure off his adjustment.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ricciardi put together his last few infields in Torontoland with an eye primarily toward defense; Alderson's steeped in bat-first-bat-second-glove-distant-third. Maybe the idea of the platoon is an appealing baby-split for him, in theory.

Patrick Flood's got new digs, eh?

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Not sure if it was mentioned in another thread, but Metsblog recently quoted Ceetar's blog. At the rate he's dropping CPF member's blogs (Bucket last month), can we reasonably assume Cerrone wants to start posting here?

[Ceetar]

The Second Spitter wrote: Not sure if it was mentioned in another thread, but Metsblog recently quoted Ceetar's blog. At the rate he's dropping CPF member's blogs (Bucket last month), can we reasonably assume Cerrone wants to start posting here?

This was a post off of the Howard conference call mentioned earlier.

But it was actually Baron that linked me, think Cerrone had Pnemonia that weekend?

[Guest Edgy DC]

He's got connections. Invite his wired ass over.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Good morning. A lot of blogs this morning are relaying tweets about John Alderson and Clint Hurdle. Others ain't.

The Apple wonders if Kevin Burkhardt is getting too much play.

Centerfield Maz reveiws the crazy career of Jimmy Piersall.

Faith and Fear in Flushing wrestles over how a comprehensive managerial search can come down to Terry Collins and Bob Melvin.

Met Fans Forever is working on logos for the 2013 All-Star Game.

Mets by the Numbers, as discussed in another thread, is taking a hard honest look at Bob Melvin.

And for something completely different, memeburn is looking at Google and Facebook's battle to become the stickiest place on the Web.

[metirish]

I like this new feature, if it's fair to call it that of introducing us to familiar and not familiar blogs, good stuff.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Not for nothing, but like a blog itself, I'm going to need help to sustain it.

[Ceetar]

Toby Hyde: breaking down the Mets minor league second basemen

24 hours From Suicide asks who's your favorite Mets lefty? (and needs to learn to spell)

New York Fan in South Jersey says Let'sturn back the clockon the Mets

This new in 2010 Mets blog made it to early May: You Watch Ball Like a Girl has a conversation with Yoda.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Amazin' Avenue is dipping once again into their Amazin' video archives.

Mets Guy in Michigan is counting down their favorite cards (with the abstract).

Mets Police is advocating for a Fan Fest. I'd be happy just to get the Winter Caravan back. Although, if we want a FanFest, do we need the organization to pull it off or can't we make our own?

Oh, Murph! has a good idea (looking at how long we should tolerate Dudley's self-consciously trying to say the right thing�) and might look prescient considering David's recent bout of glibness, but loses me in a few shots of tasteless unfunniness.

Section Five-Twenty-Eight, what the Hell, is gonna take in tonight's game.

Cake Wrecks looks at dead animals as a theme in cake decorating.