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the twins 1st rounder AND a supplementary 1st rounder sounds good to me! where do we sign?
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i agree, telling everyone what you are thinking won't help you get what you want. its like those guys selling umbrellas on the street in times square, they cost $5 but the moment its raining they cost $15....if omar tells the world who/what he's after it may raise the asking price. we've gotta be patient and not criticize too much until all the moves are in. if you're not happy on april 1st then thats hte time to say "omar you screwed up this offseason"
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Willets Point wrote: Mets fans, the real issue of the Nady trade: No more Cameron Diaz jokes! i knew i forgot to take something into account, surely the extra $6mil out of Fred's pocket is worth the chance to make these jokes for the rest of us!
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i take the sammy is on steroid talk seriously, and i believe it is a good reason not to believe manny will follow his career path.
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Elster88 wrote: I'm assuming that Sammy was on steroids and using corked bats and that Manny is too dumb to use a needle or spell the word cork. Thus, the bottom won't fall out as quickly. my thoughts exactly. that bat wasn't the ony thing he "corked."
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i like Nady too...as compared to a Cameron not playing CF. this isn't a blockbuster but not every trade has to be, it is a positive move for the team in several small ways though.
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metirish wrote: I don't like this deal, I've been thinking about it and IMO Nady is nothing more than a few steps above being a bench player... i'd argue then when you take cammy's CF defense out of the equation he isn't really much better, if better at all. i'd love to play cameron in CF but the mets obviously arent going that way so they might as well trade him for a guy who is an equal hitter, can play 1b/rf (which they need), and is alot cheaper and will hopefully let them spend more on something else.
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Edgy DC wrote: Nady can swing between first and right, depending on who hits more, Diaz or Jaocbs. If both hit, he can swing as a rule, making a Diaz/Jacobs platoon. ="Johnny Dickshot"] 321/388/450 vs. LHP over the last few years, 2 of 'em at Petco. I can imagine he'd mesh nicely with Jake at 1B and Diaz in RF as need be, be a PHer, etc. i think its a good move for the reasons stated above and because i don't think Cameron's trade value coming off the injury is as high as we may like to imagine.
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this is good news.
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i think he wanted to joke with Met fans without entirely turning them off to his column!
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he deserved an mvp at some point in the last 4 years, i'm ok with him getting this one, the numbers between him and lee are pretty close and i'm pretty sure lee did alot of his hitting early while pujols was hot down the stretch, i'm not saying thats more than luck but maybe it makes one guy more valuable a player in this given year.
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unless you were to put rivera on some team where there are no good hitters i have to agree.
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]Granted, it is sports -- an area where the lines between reporting and entertainment have become fuzzier over the past few years. But this goes too far. Just imagine if some national news organization decided to hold a simulated press conference with President Bush -- or if we did one with Gov. Blagojevich or one of our local police chiefs. hey, look, its my point from the other thread only with actual examples!
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i agree they shouldnt be held to a different standard but i contend that they most certainly are.
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its a mathematical process...its not nearly an exact science and i'm sure sickels doesnt think it means much, what it IS is a better guess than just a Met fan's speculation (maybe not by too much though) so its worth at least that. that is a great site by the way, i was upset he left espn.com but was glad when he turned up here.
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the article johnny dickshot posted about the "magic quote" makes my point very well. a sports journalist can take that quote and apply it to anything and everything and use it completely out of context with impunity. if a journalist on more serious topics (say, politics) were to take a George Bush/Bill Clinton quote and start applying it to crazy things they'd get in some trouble or at least not be taken seriously afterwards. edgy, i'm still waiting to hear what my "agenda" is.
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]Agreed that it's bullshit. You can take that up with Nymr. He's got an agenda of his own. its not bullshit at all, sports writers are not held to the same standard of checking facts, only reporting rumors with reliable sources, etc that other journalists are. internet "sports writers" have an even lower standard than that if they are accountable to nobody but themselves (that is to say if they are their own editors, own the website, or otherwise have no fear of losing anything if proven to be outright lying. the bottom line is this- good, nationally known reporters have EARNED the right to have the reader believe them when they quote an anonymous source, but when some guy nobody has heard of does it he doesn't have the credibility for me (anmd i hope most readers) to believe he really has the inside source he claims to. oh and please wise one, explain to us what my "agenda" (in relation to sportswriters/journalists/unsubstatiated rumors....ie this thread) is.
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not yet...soon...
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Healey/Elster i think we need to seperate the "media" in general from "the sports writers." the consequences for a sportswriter making up rumors while quoting an anonymous source are not going to be severe even if they exist at all...the same is not true for other areas of reporting. sports-writing is more of an entertainment business than mst other reorting and they get a certain leeway to invent.
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if you get Huff expecting last year's numbers then you might as well not get Huff....i'd take my chances on Jacobs reproducing those stats. Its not like he's coming off multiple bad years though, he had a few good years and then a mediocre one, i'd have to say the odds are in his favor that his 2006 stats are better than his 2005 stats.
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Mark Healey wrote: ="Elster88"]="Yancy Street Gang"] which ones just come from a sportswriter or fan's imagination. You're kinder than I am about which body part people pull rumors from. Do you really think that sportswriters really do that? Put their jobs and reputations in jeopardy? they most certainly do, they need to write about something and one writer's speculation becomes the next writer's "rumor" and the guy after that has "anonymous sources." Until someone has earned a reputation as an honest and reliable reporter who actually does have an inside link (and this rarely happens in sports writing as it may elsewhere) i can't give anything written without a stated source anymore credibility than the speculation on this board. the nature of trade rumors, even true ones, not turning into actual trades most of the time makes it easy and profitable for sports writers to simply start their own rumors, they don't lose much credibility if they're wrong because even the rumors with a source end up wrong most of the time too.
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]Nolan Ryan killing a guy this goes in the Robin Ventura thread.
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his OBP and SLG both put Mets players to shame. he'd become the best hitter in the NL East the moment he arrived and probably 2nd in the entire National League (Pujols) 3rd if Bonds plays the whole year reasonably healthy.
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i don't think i'd want to see them replace Binghamton
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Gather the wood. . .time to fire up the Stove!!
nymr83 replied to Mex17's topic in New York Mets Talk
because we CAN afford it and we could use the bat. i'd still prefer to pursue Konerko but if Delgado is tradeable i'd listen.
