Crackpot Mets columns in 2012

[Edgy MD]

Bill Price somehow thinks Barry Larkin vetoing his trade to the Mets diminishes him and therefore hopes he doesn't get into the Hall of Fame.

[RealityChuck]

The stupidity -- it burns!!!!

[MFS62]

I'm just amazed how Griffey and Larkin didn't realize how much going to the Mets would prepare them for dealing with the greatness of their HOF elections.

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[stevejrogers]

It is amazing that he's take that stance considering the current narrative among the emo Met fanbase is to point out how many potentail HOFers, or just plain stars have had career nosedives upon joining the Mets.

[Edgy MD]

I think it's amazing because he's encouraging, among voters, spoiled, vindictive, bratty behavior. And he's trying to pass it off as loyal fandom, when it's actually just childish attention-grabbing.

[stevejrogers]

Oh, and I forgot the other narrative in the situation about praising the guy who already has a championship ring in his pocket* for sticking with the organization that they came up with.




*usually they get shat on if they had yet to get a championship or even play in a postseason like Delgado refusing trades from Toronto

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: Bill Price somehow thinks Barry Larkin vetoing his trade to the Mets diminishes him and therefore hopes he doesn't get into the Hall of Fame.

which is clearly why A-Rod won't get in right?

[stevejrogers]

Ceetar wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Bill Price somehow thinks Barry Larkin vetoing his trade to the Mets diminishes him and therefore hopes he doesn't get into the Hall of Fame. which is clearly why A-Rod won't get in right?

Ah but the Mets were the ones that didn't want him. Not the other way around. =

[ashie62]

SteveJRogers wrote: It is amazing that he's take that stance considering the current narrative among the emo Met fanbase is to point out how many potentail HOFers, or just plain stars have had career nosedives upon joining the Mets.

emo fanbase?

[stevejrogers]

Ashie62 wrote: SteveJRogers wrote: It is amazing that he's take that stance considering the current narrative among the emo Met fanbase is to point out how many potentail HOFers, or just plain stars have had career nosedives upon joining the Mets. emo fanbase?

Whatever term you want to describe the fan that always decries the fact that as soon as a star player puts on the Met uniform, they start playing well below their career norms, often break down or whatever other malady befalls the likes of Glavine, Alomar, Vaughn, and any other Met that never quite did what Met fans expected of them (current whipping boys would be Bay and the injured and often "not clutch" Santana (don't look at me for that)).

[Edgy MD]

Note to self: sell any Yahoo stock.

It's your Crane Pool Mets Crackpot Column of the Week.

[nymr83]

Note to self: sell any Yahoo[ stock. It's your Crane Pool Mets Crackpot Column of the Week.

the dumbass article wrote: The names of Bill Pulsipher, Paul Wilson, Eddie Kunz, and to some extent, David Wright rattle around your head among the many that have been failed experiments in Met prospect history.

Actually, Pulsipher and Wilson both GOT SERIOUSLY INJURED in the majors. Kunz was a fucking reliver, and Wright?????

If I think failed Mets prospects, I'm thinking Alex Escobar, Lastings Milledge

Do yahoo "sports writers" exist only to make people like Bondy look competent by comparison?

[Edgy MD]

Written by a grownup. A native-born American and a graduate of a prestigious Jesuit university and everything.

[Frayed Knot]

Note to self: sell any Yahoo stock. It's your Crane Pool Mets Crackpot Column of the Week.

Let's just start with the opening paragraph, specifically the second sentence:
"Martinez, the product of ex-GM Omar Minaya's unrealistic expectation of the deep pool of available talent in the Dominican Republic and other Central American locations,"

Ummm, are you arguing that the talent pool in the Caribbean and C. America isn't worth exploring or has been all mined out?!?


"never materialized into a superstar. In fact, he never cracked a Mets' major league roster."

Ummm, I didn't realize that all other outcomes other than "superstar" (by age 22 no less) for a player signed at age 16 represented failure. Oh yeah, and he did *IN FACT* crack the Mets' major league roster although I suppose it's possible you were busy that day. Oh wait, he totaled 150 plate appearances across three different seasons, played all three OF positions plus DH during numerous stints on the big league roster. But hey, anyone could have missed that, although it probably could be rectified by actually paying attention to the team you're writing about.






There's probably more to pick apart but I didn't read any further.

Edited January 11, 2012 by Guest

[metirish]

He seems to be suggesting that the Dominican Republic is in Central America.

[Fman99]

Edgy DC wrote: Written by a grownup. A native-born American and a graduate or a prestigious Jesuit university and everything.

He's from the Bronx. Fuck him in his Yankee hole.

[Fman99]

Yahoo Douchious wrote: He is now 23 years old, so we've been served this bag of baloney for seven years.

Who puts baloney in a bag, anyway?

(well, most men do at some point )

[Edgy MD]

bettor.com isn't done giving.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

You know the beancounters who run my company were looking into the idea of outsourcing some editorial to India. This is what they'd get.

[Edgy MD]

Jeff Passan takes a poop on the Mets doormat and runs away. Eric Simon picks it up and throws it at him.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: Jeff Passan takes a poop on the Mets doormat and runs away. Eric Simon picks it up and throws it at him.

We gonna do blogosphere dispatches again this year? (I say again, even though we sorta didn't do it much during the season)

[Edgy MD]

I've been interviewing a blogger by via Facebook in order to do a profile and she just stopped responding to my questions like a week ago.