C.Y. Dickey (spit from ... His Own Thread)

[Guest Kong76]

Excited for Dickey tonight ... don't tell my wife.
Approx an hour and a half to go ...

[G-Fafif]

Kong76 wrote: Excited for Dickey tonight ... don't tell my wife. Approx an hour and a half to go ...

If excitement doesn't wear off after four hours, contact your physician.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Rated All-World.

[Guest Kong76]

Dickey must swell with pride!
Kidding aside, I find this very exciting ... the Mets do very little
exciting these days. Congrats, R A!!!

[Guest themetfairy]

Really Awesome!

[G-Fafif]

Great story becomes greater pitcher, hence an even better story.

Hope he at least thanks JCL for Riding Ass on him these last two seasons.

[Ceetar]

This is Really Awesome.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

G-Fafif wrote: Great story becomes greater pitcher, hence an even better story. Hope he at least thanks JCL for Riding Ass on him these last two seasons.

He should but of course Receiving Awards Dickey will be too busy doing a talk show or some charity stunt for the cameras.

[Frayed Knot]

This certainly turned out to be a worthwhile thread.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Considering it was a lousy season, to have a no-hitter and a Cy Young winner is pretty sweet!

[MFS62]

R A's season has been one of the best feel-good sports stories of recent memory.
Now its a feel-great story.
R A, thank you.

Later

[G-Fafif]

R.A. says T.Y., or thank you in the Daily News.

And how could I not feel anything but gratitude for the New York Mets, who took a chance on me when nobody in baseball would, and allowed me to pitch for two great men like Terry Collins and Dan Warthen � and the best fans a player could ever dream of playing for? It�s not always easy being a loyal supporter when a team is going through a rough stretch, but to all of you Met fans, to be a recipient of your support and passion has been one of the greatest thrills of my baseball life.

Not thanked: His teammates; the first manager to put him and his knuckler in a starting rotation and leave him be, in 2010; JCL.

[Ceetar]

was a jab at Jerry and/or Omar about cutting him first in Spring Training too.

[Edgy MD]

R.A., you disappoint me.


The love we shared...


The passion in the battle...


The table we made for the mayor...

[G-Fafif]

Jerry got two mentions in R.A.'s book, one of them for cutting him immediately. He did say nice things about Omar right off the bat last night.

[Ceetar]

G-Fafif wrote: Jerry got two mentions in R.A.'s book, one of them for cutting him immediately. He did say nice things about Omar right off the bat last night.

Omar'd been trying to get him for years, so it does seem like he probably blames Jerry more than Omar for cutting him so fast.

[Edgy MD]

Phil Niekro --- never won a Cy Young Award. Probably shoulda won at aleast one, but didn't.

Joe Niekro --- never won a Cy Young. That emory board scandal was a joke, too.

Wilbur Wood --- never won a Cy Young. Threw an amazing 736 innings over two years, but came up short.

Hoyt Wilhelm --- never won a Cy Young. Never even received a taste of support for the Cy Young.

Tim Wakefield --- has won as many Cy Young Awards as Braden Looper. That would be none. None Cy Young Awards.

Dickey has done more than win. He's broken the glass ceiling. He's a Cyoneer.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I feel like Red Buttons just stepped up to the podium.

[Edgy MD]

I can live with that.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy DC wrote: Dickey has done more than win. He's broken the glass ceiling. He's a Cyoneer.

He broke the glass nail file ceiling.

[Guest themetfairy]

[Zvon]

WOOT! Gratz R.A.!
It's nice to know that sometimes things turn out as they should.

[G-Fafif]

George Vecsey comes to praise R.A. Dickey and to bury the idea of the Mets not keeping their Cy Young winner.

Now the Mets� Sandy Alderson is throwing around coy hints that he might trade R.A. Dickey for some younger talent. Let me drop a few names, before Alderson's time, to be sure: Joe Foy. Jim Fregosi. Mo Vaughn. The Mets don�t have much � won�t have much for a long time � but the last time I looked they were using the golden images of David Wright and R.A. Dickey every half inning on television to thank the fans for their support. Not only that, but whenever anything was happening around the Mets � good or bad � the visual of the dugout showed the 38-year-old knuckleballer right in the middle of it, the adult in the room, always positive, always there. A guy who played every fifth day is the heart and soul of this team. Did I mention that Dickey won 20 games and the Cy Young Award with a pitch that he could conceivably still be floating toward home plate for three-four-five years? And when he cannot pitch, and is doing all the family-religious-charity-academic-travel-writer things he wants to do, Dickey should be given a permanent position � chaplain, dugout coach, honorary uncle, spring-training guru, whatever he wants. I understand the general manager�s tropism for negotiating contracts. It�s what they do. Feint a trade and save the House of Wilpon a few million. Fine. They need it. But the process is so undignifid that the Mets could actually botch their relationship with a very good pitcher who knows he will never have a better gig than in Queens.

[Edgy MD]

Sandy is a lot of things. Coy ain't one of them. He's been boldy frank and frankly bold.

[ashie62]

Definition of Milquetoast?? Sandy Alderson.

[Fman99]

I love milk and toast, that's a solid breakfast right there.

[Edgy MD]

Ashie62 wrote: Definition of Milquetoast?? Sandy Alderson.

Please make this case.

[ashie62]

Weak, timid and unassertive for starters.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

[Deep sigh, as per usual]

Examples?

[Edgy MD]

Yes, that's more or less a definition of milquetoast. Please demonstrate how it pertains to Sandy Alderson.