Matt Harvey Is NOT the Story

[Vic Sage]

i went to the Katy concert at MSG with my daughter; it was a nice daddy/daughter date. I enjoyed the show; it's quite a spectacle.
And she's hot.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, the problem isn't the person but all the paint on the person.

I'm not sayin'... I'm just sayin'...

[Frayed Knot]

Dressing up like Cleopatra and putting pinwheels on your tits ... I tells ya talent like that just doesn't come along every day.

[Edgy MD]

Who's the sleep-deprived 12-year-old?

[Guest d'Kong76]

"Local" news just ran a tease blurb, that the Mets
may have an ace up their sleeves this season in
Mr. Harevelous.

Permission granted to throw off mound next week.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Mets announcers mock SNY's coverage of Matt Harvey
NY Daily News by Bob Raissman

On this occasion Gary Cohen and Ron Darling believed the coverage of Harvey, or at least SNY�s planned coverage of his Port St. Lucie session, was gratuitous and over the top. For two voices usually in tune with the fan base, they were not exactly pitch-perfect. Matt Harvey is still the No. 1 attraction for Mets fans, so his rehab in Port St. Lucie is a big story to cover, but Mets broadcasters don't seem to think that way.

So much silence followed his few seconds of airtime, one might have surmised Jonas Schwartz delivered words altering the course of the free world � not just the world according to Matt Harvey.

By no means was Schwartz�s soliloquy poetic or prophetic. It was a straight-up promo, a step-right-up pitch designed to plug fans into the next leg of Harvey�s rehabilitation tour.

�He takes his throwing program to Florida tomorrow,� Schwartz crooned Monday during a break in the sixth inning of Giants-Mets. �We (SNY) will have a camera crew there to take you every step of the way. Full coverage throughout the day.�

Then came the silence. Next came the voice of Gary Cohen. �I don�t even know what to say," Cohen, incredulously, said.

�I know what to say,� Ron Darling said. �After the (Harvey) throwing, bloomin� onions all around.�

For a moment forget Cohen and Darling had just verbally bum-rushed Schwartz, an innocent bystander here. The analyst and play-by-play man knew Schwartz had delivered a pure promotional pitch. They�ve heard a million of them, articulated some themselves, but still elected to make light of this particular one.

The larger issue here is narrow and defined: On this occasion Cohen and Darling believed the coverage of Harvey, or at least SNY�s planned coverage of his Port St. Lucie session, was gratuitous and over the top. For two voices usually in tune with the fan base, they were not exactly pitch-perfect.

�What does full coverage throughout the day mean?� Cohen asked.

�He (Harvey) only can throw for five minutes,� Darling said. �Then you are going to analyze his throwing? Did he use his secondary pitches? No, he just threw a fastball. Did he throw 60%? 70%?�

Well, yeah. What�s wrong with that kind of analysis?

Mets fans are interested in anything Harvey does, whether it�s who he�s smooching in the back of some club or what events he�s attending.

And they are most interested in seeing Harvey throwing a baseball with his surgically repaired arm. They want to see how he is progressing and even hear some analysis too.

For Cohen and Darling, this session might not have provided much to analyze. With Harvey, that�s cool. The media seals covet any analytical or social crumbs he feeds them.

[Edgy MD]

Matt Harvey not not being the story is NOT the story!

Anyhow, notice how the same sentence appears twice in that report? Nobody copyedits anymore. Nobody.

[metirish]

I didn't hear that but that is funny , and I think in tune with a lot of Mets fans, is Bob still a guest on SNY shows?

[Guest d'Kong76]

Edgy MD wrote: Nobody copyedits anymore. Nobody.

That was probably my fault.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Cool, bring your clipboard and you can chart deGrom's pitches!

http://metsblog.com/metsblog/harvey-is-confident-hell-be-ready-for-opening-day/