Mets Spring Training Thread

[Fman99]

Seriously considering working from home tomorrow after lunch so I can watch the afternoon game on SNY while I work.

[Ceetar]

Fman99 wrote: Seriously considering working from home tomorrow after lunch so I can watch the afternoon game on SNY while I work.

Unless you work in Hawaii, the game's at 6 tomorrow. Very nice of them to be accommodating actually. I'm just trying to figure out how to both listen to WFAN and watch SNY

[Fman99]

Ceetar wrote: Fman99 wrote: Seriously considering working from home tomorrow after lunch so I can watch the afternoon game on SNY while I work. Unless you work in Hawaii, the game's at 6 tomorrow. Very nice of them to be accommodating actually. I'm just trying to figure out how to both listen to WFAN and watch SNY

Good to know, thanks Ceetar. I'll be watching. I may bag half of Tuesday instead, work here and watch the game then. Yay baseball.

[Frayed Knot]

Fman99 wrote: I may bag half of Tuesday instead, work here and watch the game then.

Or spend Tuesday half in the bag.

[Edgy MD]

Total Met move, narrowly missing a perfect game.

[Edgy MD]

[Benjamin Grimm]

Wow, that photo makes it look like Daniel Murphy is controlling the storm clouds, like Thor!

[Vic Sage]

Yeth, he'll thertainly be, you know, like, thore if he holdth hith armth out like that for a thignificant length of time!

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Edgy DC wrote:

I will EAT you all!!!!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Wow, that photo makes it look like Daniel Murphy is controlling the storm clouds, like Thor!

Torres: O wonder!
How many goodly players are there here!
How beauteous Metkind is! O brave new lineup
That has such batters in't!

Murphy: 'Tis new to thee.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Simon Sez ....... Fart!

[ashie62]

Murphy is about to jump head first into the groung afore him.

[G-Fafif]

I noticed espn.com lists the all-important Grapefruit League standings. I loved that when I was a kid, seeing all these N.L. and A.L. teams jumbled together by meaningless records. It was peculiar to March and maybe early April, though by then, the records felt even more meaningless.

[Ceetar]

G-Fafif wrote: I noticed espn.com lists the all-important Grapefruit League standings. I loved that when I was a kid, seeing all these N.L. and A.L. teams jumbled together by meaningless records. It was peculiar to March and maybe early April, though by then, the records felt even more meaningless.

If you don't count up things like wins and losses and hits and home runs it might not be baseball!

[Edgy MD]

I envisioned such meaning in those standings that I formed in my head a spring training championship match --- the top record in the Grapefruit League meeting their Cactus League counterpart (an easier title to bag, to be certain) at the end of camp in some sunbelt AAA stadium looking to put on a showcase for their big league aspirations: New Orleans, Louisville, San Antone, Phoenix. Maybe even Miami!

We'd get great quotes like, "Coach wants to hold me to 80 pitches, saying to save it for the season. I say, 'Coach, I want to win.' A championship's a championship. You bet we take it seriously. Let's play some baseball."

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I signed in as "Tracky" and had a regular 1-on-1 with the Real Tracky in chat today.

Let's just assume Torres and Hairston stay down for awhile. Who'd back up Neiuwenhuis in CF? by Tracky 12:30 PM Yikes. What are you doing in April. by Andy Martino 12:30 PM

The Mets go Chapter 11 in 2012. True or false? by Tracky 12:37 PM Flase. by Andy Martino 12:37 PM

In addition to the Mets, 2012 ought to be disappointing for at least one of PHI/WAS/MIA/ATL. Which? by Tracky 12:48 PM I don't love Atlanta. They didn't do much to improve after collapsing, and are starting a rookie at shortstop. Hudson will miss the beginning of the season, Hanson has a concussion and all that shoulder stuff in his past, and the kid relievers threw a ton of innings last year. by Andy Martino 12:49 PM

any scoops you're working on? I won;t say anything by Tracky 12:55 PM (no witty retort comes to mind) by Andy Martino 12:56 PM

[metirish]

He likes you, no doubt about that.

[Edgy MD]

C.J. Nitkowski trying to out-Jason-Isringhausen Jason Isringhausen, walking in off the streets and auditioning for the team NOW!!! with a new sidearm motion.

C.J. last pitched in the bigs in 2005. I guess that would have made him eligible for the Hall of Fame Ballot this last year, but he's spent most of the last five years pitching in Japan and then Korea.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: C.J. Nitkowski trying to out-Jason-Isringhausen Jason Isringhausen, walking in off the streets and auditioning for the team NOW!!! with a new sidearm motion. C.J. last pitched in the bigs in 2005. I guess that would have made him eligible for the Hall of Fame Ballot this last year, but he's spent most of the last five years pitching in Japan and then Korea.

in 5.2 IP he's never allowed a run as a Met. why would he want to ruin that?

[Edgy MD]

C.J. is a fascinating dude because back around the turn of the century, he started a website --- cjbaseball.com --- that housed what was more or less the first blog by an active player. He chronicled his life and shared that the Mets wanted to bring him back in 2002, and offered him the most money, but the Spirit was sending him in another direction.

C.J. is still at it, and does a cool job chronicling his finding himself down in the DR this winter.

[Edgy MD]

CJ's teammates.

His pitching coach with the Tigers from 1999-2001? Dan Warthan.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: CJ's teammates. His pitching coach with the Tigers from 1999-2001? Dan Warthan.

sorta disappointed Isringhausen isn't on there somewhere.

[MFS62]

Even including his briefly effective stint with the Mets, his career ERA was close to the atomic weight of Boron.
Pass.

Later

[Ceetar]

MFS62 wrote: Even including his briefly effective stint with the Mets, his career ERA was close to the atomic weight of Boron. Pass. Later

Oh please, it's not even the atomic weight of Lithium.

[MFS62]

Ceetar wrote: MFS62 wrote: Even including his briefly effective stint with the Mets, his career ERA was close to the atomic weight of Boron. Pass. Later Oh please, it's not even the atomic weight of Lithium.

You're right. Its been over 50 years since I took Chemistry in College. I should have said Atomic Number. But who the frack cares? I still don't the Mets to sign him.

Later

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, I know. Facts. Fuck 'em.

If they think, in their wisdom, that he may be able to get some guys out, they're welcome to tender him a minor league deal.

[Ceetar]

MFS62 wrote: MFS62 wrote: Even including his briefly effective stint with the Mets, his career ERA was close to the atomic weight of Boron. Pass. Later Oh please, it's not even the atomic weight of Lithium. You're right. Its been over 50 years since I took Chemistry in College. I should have said Atomic Number. But who the frack cares? I still don't the Mets to sign him. Later

yeah, you forgot Neutrons have weight too!

(I'm not particularly sold on him being a worthwhile sign either, but if he wants to get plate of wings in April and maybe prove himself, doubt it'd hurt)

[Edgy MD]

Mets bring back Kevin Mulvey. Minor league deal. Minor league camp.

[Ceetar]

I hope he does well..and gets traded for a stud SP.

[ashie62]

Ceetar wrote: I hope he does well..and gets traded for a stud SP.

lol! Yeah, Philip Humber?