Everything's All Wright

[Ceetar]

Obviously we should have a perpetually running thread about David Wright. Wright?

Howie Rose wrote: On more than one occasion, I'd be in a restaurant having lunch, and then I'd ask for the check and be told, "It's already been taken care of." "What?" The waiter or waitress will point to the corner and there's David Wright. Many among the Mets' contingent share that story.

[Zvon]

Ceetar wrote: Obviously we should have a perpetually running thread about David Wright. Wright?

Well, obviously every Met message board would want to have one.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

He is one of the few bright spots to discuss on the team. Particularly on offense.

I like Wright, but I don't think his picking up the occasional dinner tab is that big a deal considering the money he is making. It's like me buying abeer for a friend; it's no big deal.

[Ceetar]

Rockin' Doc wrote: He is one of the few bright spots to discuss on the team. Particularly on offense. I like Wright, but I don't think his picking up the occasional dinner tab is that big a deal considering the money he is making. It's like me buying abeer for a friend; it's no big deal.

nah, not a big deal, good story though. Howie has a lot of nice things to say about him in the book.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'l be impressed when this guy picks up my tab.

Seriously if he's not the best Met of all our lifetimes we'll all be really lucky.

[Frayed Knot]

Howie Rose wrote: On more than one occasion, I'd be in a restaurant having lunch, and then I'd ask for the check and be told, "It's already been taken care of." "What?" The waiter or waitress will point to the corner and there's David Wright. Many among the Mets' contingent share that story.

Sounds like he's trying to buy good publicity to me. Take care of the team's announcers and they'll take care of you.
Why he's nothing but a fucking media whore!

[metirish]

Gosh, David is swell..........

seriously, we are fortunate to have him.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Neat thread title.

[seawolf17]

Signing Wright was a huge deal for me. I know we're all frustrated with this team, but I'm with JCL. I'm loath to use the phrase "the Mets' Jeter," but he is. Or will be, anyway. I want the rest of the league to hate him the way we hate Chipper and Derek. He's OUR guy.

[Theoldmole]

I like Wright, but I don't think his picking up the occasional dinner tab is that big a deal considering the money he is making. It's like me buying abeer for a friend; it's no big deal.

Buying a beer for a friend is a big deal. Any act of friendship is.

[seawolf17]

Coda to my thought: it's because of my kids. I want to raise them as Mets fans, and I want them to have warm fuzzies about guys the way I have warm fuzzies about Doc and Darryl. Obviously you don't know what's going to happen down the road (see: Doc and Darryl), but I want them to have that base to draw on.

[Theoldmole]

I used to play volleyball in a game that Aidan Quinn played in regularly. And even after he moved away from the area for a while, to be closer to treatment for his autistic child, he would frequently come up for the Wednesday night game. And every year, sometime in December before Christmas, he'd come up for the game, go out for a beer afterwards at the Egg's Nest, and leave early. When the rest of us were getting ready to leave, and we called for the check, we'd be told, "Oh, Aidan's picked it up." And we did not think, "big deal, he can afford it."

[Edgy MD]

Jeter... snort. The way I see it is that Jeter and the Jeter image-makers have been cynically trying to position him as the Yankees' David Wright since before there was a David Wright and that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

The legend all goes back to a homerun that wasn't a homerun, and we were all expected to pretend it was, and the emperor had great new clothes, just because. Because the health of the Republic depended on him being real, or something. But it didn't and he isn't. And I'm still waiting for that call to be overturned.

David Wright's main flaw seems to be that he's touch too self-consciously accommodating. As somebody who he's accommodated, I can sure live with that.

And we did not think, "big deal, he can afford it."

Good point.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It never occurs to me to compare him with Derek Jeter. I'm more likely to think Cal Ripken.

Other possibilities... Brooks Robinson? Carl Yastrzemski? Kirby Puckett?

[Edgy MD]

Al Unser, Jr.? Ricky Nelson? Dobie Gillis? d'Artagnan?

[Theoldmole]

Frank and Joe Hardy?

[Vic Sage]

Captain Steve Rogers?
Seriously, he's Captain fuckin' America.

David doesn't have superstar tools. He hits 20-25 HRs/yr not 30+; he hits .290 -.300, not .320+; he steals 25-30 bases a year (without great speed), not 50+; his powerful arm is counterbalanced by historical wildness and his range is good, not great. Hojo had more power and more speed, and a stronger arm, but David was the better baseball player, and its not that close. He does everything well -- very well. And you know he's working to be better. He's all baseball, all the time.

Then you take a guy like that and add a persona that screams all-american boy, oozing with Tom Hanks-type decency, a guy who left money on the table to stay a Met for life, a guy who'll end up owning just about every Mets hitting record there is, and that blowhard Seaver better move his fat ass over... the crown has been passed.

Captain America, we salute you. Where you lead, the Mets will follow.

[Fman99]

TheOldMole wrote: I used to play volleyball in a game that Aidan Quinn played in regularly. And even after he moved away from the area for a while, to be closer to treatment for his autistic child, he would frequently come up for the Wednesday night game. And every year, sometime in December before Christmas, he'd come up for the game, go out for a beer afterwards at the Egg's Nest, and leave early. When the rest of us were getting ready to leave, and we called for the check, we'd be told, "Oh, Aidan's picked it up." And we did not think, "big deal, he can afford it."

I grew up about two miles from the Egg's Nest. My buddy in high school worked in the kitchen there. Best plate of nachos you could ever find.