Dispatches from the Blogosphere

[metsmarathon]

cakewrecks is the best, isn't it?

[Vic Sage]

Edgy, you should sticky this thread, so people can see it at the top each day and add to it as they see fit...

[metirish]

Amazin' Avenue on the Angels 1999 season with Collins at the helm



http://www.amazinavenue.com/2010/11/11/1799933/terry-collins-destroyer-of-worlds

[metirish]

Amazin' Avenue must read today

Fun-ness Above Wins Above A Replacement Player, or FAWARP


http://www.amazinavenue.com/2010/11/18/1820392/using-dfawarp-to-evaluate-the-mets#storyjump

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The Mets are really only as fun as JoseJoseJoseJose is.

Patrick Flood looks at the ir-rationale behind wanting Wally Backman... by looking at his feelings about Keith Richards. (People want to be Keith? Still?)

The always-passionate BMF puts in one more good rootin' for Wally-- of course-- while preparing for his trip to the White House.

The always-cheery Tim Marchman shares his feelings ("Beane's Henchmen"... lovely) on the House of Alderson reunion. (He's a little easier to take-- like St. Ides' Malt Liquor!-- when looking at the Four Loko hysteria in the context of terrible poor-people booze marketing of the last few decades.)

In a terrible column for a Yahoo! contributor blog, Zac Wissink apparently thinks that the Mets should go down to get back up.

And from the DeadBlogWalking files: Jaap at Archie Bunker's Army had this season pegged... a bit early, if accurately. (And on my birthday, to boot!)

[G-Fafif]

Danny the Rational (Sometimes) Mets Fan phones the Mets to inform them they can expect one fewer renewal if Bob Melvin is named manager. This guy has a track record of sincerity on such matters, so I would expect him to follow through.

[Frayed Knot]

G-Fafif wrote: Danny the Rational (Sometimes) Mets Fan phones the Mets to inform them they can expect one fewer renewal if Bob Melvin is named manager.

YAWN!

- 'We can't have him cuz he's been fired before' -- So has virtually every non first-time manager ever.
- 'Twice!' -- Oh, well in that case
- "People close to him" say he won't like NYC, he doesn't like the media -- Yeah, how close exactly? His cousin? His barber? Also, it sounds like what we heard about Olerud.
- 'Melvin is boring while Backman "bleeds orange and blue' -- Spare me!
- He's the only manager that will cause fans to cancel -- Really ... ya gonna stick with that one?

[Guest Edgy DC]

I've lived through so many fan revolts I have a name for them. I call them November.

Everytime it's, "I've been through a lot with this team, but this... THIS!"

[Guest Edgy DC]

Cool note from Toby Hyde's blog post about secondbaseman is that Ruben Tejada in 2009 had an OPS .069 better against lefties than righties at AA. At AAA, that figure grew to 80 points. And in the big leagues last year, it was a whopping .188.

So, even though he was damn near respectable against lefties this season, what those number really suggest to me is that the guy is being rushed, and I hope that if the Mets are looking for a platoon partner for Murphy, that Justin Turner is a little ahead on the depth chart right now.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Well, I've been a busy man, but not as busy as them bloggers reporting on a non-busy Mets world. You already heard tell of Faith and Fear's latest gem, so let's see what's out there.

• Citi Field of Dreams preaches (if somewhat selectively) against populism.
  
  
  
• MetSilverman joins her. (It's official: Met fans hate Met fans.) He takes a handoff from The Apple.
  
  
  
• Amazin' Avenue looks at the 1987 Mets in review, guest-starring the Amazin' Bill Mazer as himself*.
  
  
  
• Mets Sketch Journal, or whatever it's called... well, that guy needs psychological help.
  
  
  
• Studious Metsimus hits a homerunimus.

*Full disclosure: the Amazin' once called me a liar on the air.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Not much news in Metland these days and not much blogposting, but still, we must dig, and all posts about that Sandy Alderson season tickets promo are as boring as the promo itself. But dig we do.

• Metstradamus takes a close and entertaining look at the Meaning of Feliciano, though he's prematurely declaring the deal closed on December 17, while the Yankees still haven't announced it as such as of this morning.
  
  
  
• Mets Are Better Than Sex links to a TMZ video in which Dwight Gooden says he roots Mets over Yankees.
  
  
  
• Mets Guy in Michigan is also thinking Goodenly thoughts.
  
  
  
• Tris McCall tries to take the air out both sides of the "myth" of the Acid No-Hitter.
  
  
  
• X-Entertainment looks at the gift-giving magic of "Farm Animals Bucket."

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Edgy DC wrote: N [*]Tris McCall tries to take the air out both sides of the "myth" of the Acid No-Hitter.

Home run for Tris, whoever he is.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Tris McCall (sometimes with and sometimes without his band The Cellphone Thieves) is a singer/songwriter/pianist of a vein somewhere in between Brian Wilson and Fountains of Wayne, essaying in a pretty/sad tenor on the delights and alienation of the jersey ex-urban landscape, but he's also a prolific blogger who parlayed his keyobarding into a staff job at the Newark Star Ledger, working as a pop music critic, which is a tricky little conflict of interest to navigate.

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[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

He should immediately stop what he's doing that isn't writing and just do the writing.

Smart, funny, expansive. And true.