David vs. the Krane

[Frayed Knot]

Ceetar wrote: positionally, are 3-4(6)-3 DPs significantly more common than 5-4-3?

No, but, assuming the stat you're reading denotes DPs that said player is involved in, the 1st baseman gets "credit" for being in on most of the DPs his team turns whereas the guy on the other side of the diamond only gets in on it for those around the horn jobs (that sounds dirty) plus the odd line-drive DP.

[Ceetar]

Frayed Knot wrote: Ceetar wrote: positionally, are 3-4(6)-3 DPs significantly more common than 5-4-3? No, but, assuming the stat you're reading denotes DPs that said player is involved in, the 1st baseman gets "credit" for being in on most of the DPs his team turns whereas the guy on the other side of the diamond only gets in on it for those around the horn jobs (that sounds dirty) plus the odd line-drive DP.

geeze, good point. where's my head at this morning?

[G-Fafif]

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS
Through Games of 6/13/2012
1. Ed Kranepool 1,418
2. DAVID WRIGHT 1,323

COUNTDOWN: Krane Minus 95

And I might grab an extra error for Dave tonight.

[G-Fafif]

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS
Through Games of 6/14/2012
1. Ed Kranepool 1,418
2. DAVID WRIGHT 1,326

COUNTDOWN: Krane Minus 92

[G-Fafif]

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS
Through Games of 6/15/2012
1. Ed Kranepool 1,418
2. DAVID WRIGHT 1,327

COUNTDOWN: Krane Minus 91

[G-Fafif]

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS
Through Games of 6/16/2012
1. Ed Kranepool 1,418
2. DAVID WRIGHT 1,328

COUNTDOWN: Krane Minus 90

[G-Fafif]

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS
Through Games of 6/17/2012
1. Ed Kranepool 1,418
2. DAVID WRIGHT 1,329

COUNTDOWN: Krane Minus 89

[G-Fafif]

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS
Through Games of 6/18/2012
1. Ed Kranepool 1,418
2. DAVID WRIGHT 1,330

COUNTDOWN: Krane Minus 88

[G-Fafif]

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS
Through Games of 6/19/2012
1. Ed Kranepool 1,418
2. DAVID WRIGHT 1,331

COUNTDOWN: Krane Minus 87

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

This thread makes it feel like David has a hit in every game. How many 0-fers does he have this season?

[Ceetar]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: This thread makes it feel like David has a hit in every game. How many 0-fers does he have this season?

12 0fers in 65 games.

he's on a 10 game hit streak.

[G-Fafif]

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS
Through Games of 6/20/2012
1. Ed Kranepool 1,418
2. DAVID WRIGHT 1,334

COUNTDOWN: Krane Minus 84

[Benjamin Grimm]

Wright just keeps getting closer and closer, doesn't he? It seems like it's been a long time since Kranepool has added to his total.

[G-Fafif]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Wright just keeps getting closer and closer, doesn't he? It seems like it's been a long time since Kranepool has added to his total.

Ed Kranepool may indeed be over the hill.

[G-Fafif]

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS
Through Games of 6/22/2012
1. Ed Kranepool 1,418
2. DAVID WRIGHT 1,336

COUNTDOWN: Krane Minus 82

[G-Fafif]

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS
Through Games of 6/23/2012
1. Ed Kranepool 1,418
2. DAVID WRIGHT 1,337

COUNTDOWN: Krane Minus 81

[batmagadanleadoff]

D Day is September 8, 2012: Game ticket commemorated with the image of the original D Day Met.

[G-Fafif]

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS
Through Games of 6/24/2012
1. Ed Kranepool 1,418
2. DAVID WRIGHT 1,339

COUNTDOWN: Krane Minus 79

[G-Fafif]

From when the Mets still didn't quite know what to do with Eddie: A 1984 piece reprinted by Mets Merized Online visited the lion somewhat shy of winter.

Of course, after playing 17 years for the Mets, Ed Kranepool knows plenty about suffering; adversity was what the Mets were all about, so after a while, you develop a taste for crow. But now that this Metsian legend has hit 40, doesn�t nostalgia dictate that Kranepool have a taste of glory, or at the very least chicken, at a dinner in his honor. �I don�t need them to give me a dinner,� Kranepool says simply, but not very convincingly. Jim Schiaffo, the man who once hit Eddie grounders at Christmas, feels differently. �I�m personally disappointed,� says Schiaffo about the Mets� oversight. �Seventeen years with the team, and no recognition. They didn�t even buy this kid a sport jacket, for God�s sake.� �I hope that someday they will give him a day,� says ex-wife Carole. �I think it would take away some of the bitterness he feels about leaving the team. He�s hurting.�

[Edgy MD]

Thanks for that, Carole.

[MFS62]

No day?
No recognition?
No dinner?
No sports jacket?

Sounds like he also needs a hug.
If any of you meet Young Ed (he'll always be "young Ed" to me), please give him one.

Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

I suppose it's good to be reminded every once in a while that not all babies are cute.

[Edgy MD]

No day? No recognition? No dinner? No sports jacket?

No wifey either, clearly.

Don't know who precipitated the breakup, or who had more cause to be bitter, but Carole ended up with Art Kass, the Buddah Records exec who turned the Amazin' Mets into recording artists.



The thing about that baby is that for once you see Ed not wearing that grouchy stressed look in his face, but the baby wears the exact look that's missing from Ed.

[soupcan]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I suppose it's good to be reminded every once in a while that not all babies are cute.

That kid is breathtaking.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

What an article. If quotes were hits, David Wright would never catch up.

�Pasco, Kennewick, and something else. I don�t know. Three cities. I bought the Walla Walla franchise two years ago and moved it to Tri-Cities the same day I bought it. They didn�t know what was going on, I move so fast.�

�It was a commercial venture and somebody was gaining from it. And I wanted Ed Kranepool to gain from it."

�Koufax could be a comfortable oh-for-four. �Bob Veale? You�d stand up there and check your drawers at the end of the night.�

�I love baseball, but I love it from a financial standpoint, too. I wanna get paid for my talents, and if I can�t get paid then I�ll do something else. And it doesn�t matter to me what I do to earn a living.�

He and Gene Simmons have got to get together.

[MFS62]

I laughed out loud at that comment about Bob Veale. I remember seeing Veale pitch and can appreciate how he felt about facing him.

Later

[Edgy MD]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: He and Gene Simmons have got to get together.

Good analogy.

[ashie62]

MFS62 wrote: I laughed out loud at that comment about Bob Veale. I remember seeing Veale pitch and can appreciate how he felt about facing him. Later

Veale reminded me of Mudcat Grant..

[Edgy MD]

To me, the best part is the subtext that Kranepool downed enough cold cans of Ohferfour that he could compare and contrast them.

[HahnSolo]

Edgy DC wrote: Thanks for that, Carole.

Puts to lie the notion that all babies are cute, jeez.