Dispatches from the Blogosphere 2012

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: Covering the Mets ruins the Mets!

Wait until someone tells him Ross and Rachel are just regular people in real life and aren't even dating!

[Zvon]

Covering the Mets ruins the Mets!

Interesting article. Why do I feel bad for the guy? Cause his priorities have shifted? That's life pal.

In the team's curvy logo script and goofy, anthropomorphic, hydrocephalic baseball mascot, I saw the boundless enthusiasm and good-natured irreverence on which I prided myself.

I enjoy pieces that make me look up a word. Never can know enough words.

hydrocephalic � n
Nontechnical name: water on the brain accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid within the ventricles of the brain because its normal outlet has been blocked by congenital malformation or disease. In infancy it usually results in great enlargement of the head.


Ha!

[Edgy MD]

That's the funny part. He doesn't even complain that the Mets are a pack of skirt-chasing, entitled douchebags, which would hardly surprise me, but that they're more or less as boring as most people.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Ceetar wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Covering the Mets ruins the Mets! Wait until someone tells him Ross and Rachel are just regular people in real life and aren't even dating!

What?!?

[stevejrogers]

A Salute To The Mets 20 Win Club

Hopefully a new edition to the Cy Young club to follow during the winter! Well, I'll probably do that article anyway, tailored around Metly finishes through the years.

[Edgy MD]

Third-best homegrown lefty starter in Mets' history?

Jon Niese, sez Studious Metsimus, in a compelling argument.

[seawolf17]

Edgy DC wrote: Third-best homegrown lefty starter in Mets' history? Jon Niese, sez Studious Metsimus, in a compelling argument.

He even admits that it says more about their history of developing lefties than it does about Niese. If you want to play that game, Josh Thole is no worse than the fourth-best catcher the Mets have ever produced.

[Edgy MD]

Hundley, Hodges, and... Dyer? Trevino?

Vance Wilson?

[stevejrogers]

seawolf17 wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Third-best homegrown lefty starter in Mets' history? Jon Niese, sez Studious Metsimus, in a compelling argument. He even admits that it says more about their history of developing lefties than it does about Niese. If you want to play that game, Josh Thole is no worse than the fourth-best catcher the Mets have ever produced.

4th? I'm hard pressed to get past Hundley on such a list off hand.

Unless you want to use "dependable big league backup backstops" such as Alex Trevino, Duffy Dyer, Vance Wilson, Barry Lyons, Jason Phillips, etc as part of that criteria.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Mike Fitzgerald?

[seawolf17]

I was thinking Hundley, Hodges, Dyer.

[G-Fafif]

Edgy DC wrote: Third-best homegrown lefty starter in Mets' history? Jon Niese, sez Studious Metsimus, in a compelling argument.

Not much competition among homegrown lefties for thirty-plus years, area blog reported in January.

[Ceetar]

on R.A. Dickey, good read.

http://deadspin.com/5947192/what-the-best-pitcher-in-baseball-taught-me-about-prep-school-socrates-and-the-art-of-not-selling-out

[metirish]

Ceetar wrote: on R.A. Dickey, good read. http://deadspin.com/5947192/what-the-best-pitcher-in-baseball-taught-me-about-prep-school-socrates-and-the-art-of-not-selling-out

It was

[Edgy MD]

Who wants to invite Sam Page to register?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Great peice! Weird and spooky for that kid.

[ashie62]

seawolf17 wrote: I was thinking Hundley, Hodges, Dyer.

John Stearns?

[G-Fafif]

That was an incredibly good piece by a gifted writer. Love when Deadspin runs something like that instead of what Deadspin usually runs.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

That's Sam Page, late of Amazin' Avenue, no?

[Edgy MD]

See, I think Deadspin pieces are usually well written, just fiercely amoral.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

You should read some of their takes on sports labor situations.

Still, if it's going to lean too far one way or the other, I think I'd rather have amoral sportswriting than the kind that lectures me from the toy department.

[G-Fafif]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: That's Sam Page, late of Amazin' Avenue, no?

Same. Still writes for AA on occasion. And is in college.

College.

[Ceetar]

G-Fafif wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: That's Sam Page, late of Amazin' Avenue, no? Same. Still writes for AA on occasion. And is in college. College.

And I never realized he was that young either. Stupid young people.

[stevejrogers]

Ashie62 wrote: seawolf17 wrote: I was thinking Hundley, Hodges, Dyer. John Stearns?

Acquired in the Tug McGraw deal. Made his big league debut as a September call up Phillie in 1974.

[batmagadanleadoff]

(When [Dickey] signed a minor-league deal with the Mets, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo just read his name over and over and giggled, a second-grade comedy routine that kept me off WFAN for quite a while.)

Did anyone click on the WFAN link embedded in Page's Deadspin piece?

-hzI_aBATO8

[stevejrogers]

Anticipating R.A. Dickey's placement in the 2012 NL Cy Young voting, A look at Mets Cy Young Voting History.

[Ceetar]

The Devil & Angel on Sandy's Call

R.A. Dickey weighs in on Faith and Fear's post discussing the possibility of his tarde.

@RADickey43 wrote: @greg_prince @MetsGM @pdepo nice piece.... Very c. S. lewisish. Reminded me of the screwtape letters.

[Guest themetfairy]

Ceetar wrote: The Devil & Angel on Sandy's Call R.A. Dickey weighs in on Faith and Fear's post discussing the possibility of his tarde. @RADickey43 wrote: @greg_prince @MetsGM @pdepo nice piece.... Very c. S. lewisish. Reminded me of the screwtape letters.

Really Awesome!

[Edgy MD]

Wow. A hat tip from the man and a comparison to C.S. Lewis.

[G-Fafif]

Edgy MD wrote: Wow. A hat tip from the man and a comparison to C.S. Lewis.

That was unexpected. I've always been more of a J.J. Lewis man.