Johnny Lunchbucket

Carrasco sucks too

I agree Uecker sucks. There's nothing especially wrong with him but he sucks

The O when we visited some time ago doesn't really look ready for baseball again, or really anything but a wrecking ball. BTW, same thing in St. Pete. Now they can play in both of the worst stadiums imaginable, and in front of suspicious fans in both. Montreal would make sense in the AL East, moreso than Tampa. I don;t give a crap about anyone in Florida anyway so hopefully they leave

Just a dysfunctional unhappy defeated looking crew

Jose Pee strikes out

Any any point in the year

That's all we had to do.

Toyota has top market share in the Dominican among all car brands. Eduardo is a fan of Aguilas Cibeanas in the Winter League which he described as kind of Met-like--often overshadowed by Licey and Leones --in part because the owner reliably cheaps out in time of need. Jonathan Villar is a regular for them.

I one time pitched a book idea-- really just a pitch of a pitch -- that would tell a parallel history of the Mets and the Angels, which each born in the same era and occupying a similar role and character in their cities inasmuch as being in the shadow of a more successful/history-laden franchise, very few high moments of glory, similar ballparks, some of the same problems (ownership), and a few key intersections with one another (Ryan-Fregosi) and a lot of shared players, especially lately. I think I could still make that case, and if so, could probably build similar dual-histories. One notion behind the project for publishers was the idea that it addressed the governors that single-team focused sports books had on audiences. This would sell in two markets, not one! Rejected.

You're darn right on Hatcher-- the footage they show is damning. I think we have all heard the Hernandez-Orosco story told both ways

I was in Las Vegas at a conference this week. Had dinner at a casino bar with another solo traveler in town for another convention-- the Toyota dealers convention -- and we watched the magical Giants come back then hold off San Diego on late runs and fantastic late inning defense. The Toyota Guys name was Eduardo and he was the top importer and dealer in the Dominican Republic and looking to expand his empire to Miami. He's buddies with Starling Marte and shared his text-message thread where he showed off his wheels. That is all.

That 73 baseball card was one of my first -- didn't know who he was though, he was an exMet by the time I got it

Stroman I believe got to Duke on a soccer scholarship. Check that tho

On Tuesday Bernie Sanders was telling me he watched Game 1 of the 15 series there when it was an "old man's bar." At any rate, Rogers, did you drill your servers for details? Good tips could come in handy here.

=Marshmallowmilkshake post_id=78075 time=1631904396 user_id=119] Cohen's response turned what would have been a one-day issue in a Puma column into a multi-day issue with other outlets covering it. I can definitely see how that might give a potential executive pause. He should have ignored it. Rookie mistake, and I hope he is learning from these. I don't have a problem with Puma writing the column, but I do think he and his sports opinion brethren grossly overuse anonymous sources. It would have been a stronger, more credible column with someone talking on the record. The team's not going to say who it has in mind if those potential targets are working somewhere else at the present time.

is 9 Mason Williams?

[Oh Jesus. Let's get on board with this much first: The "vital issue" I referenced is the forthcoming appointment of the next leadership team. The "angle" on that is this source's remarks. The messenger who frames up the former through the perspective of the latter is Puma,. All any of us ought to know about what he "thinks" might be,, he's a guy with a job to do,, because he presumably has a family and a mortgage,, and his job requires him to attach a vital issues to an angle, over and over and over again. I wish our fun and insightful discussion of the story of baseball we discuss here everyday was not continually corrupted by ignorance as to the role of news media or its process in helping us understand it. We have had the same argument a hundred times here..

This was PUMA saying he thinks Cohen tweeting is unprofessional or whatever, and it comes off as nonsense gate-keeping, something that's already a huge problem for the Mets, and the media harassing them when they do anything outside of how they think it should be done is detrimental to getting a modern, innovative and diverse front office. No, it was his source that said that. The Puma was relaying an angle... which may or not play out... on a vital issue to the beat he covers.

So Cohen's alleged "outing" seems based on a dotted line to remarks that Samson had indeed made, several weeks ago and "on the record"--in a podcast. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/samson-why-steve-cohens-critical-tweets-wont-help-the-reeling-mets/https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/samson-why-steve-cohens-critical-tweets-wont-help-the-reeling-mets/ But that certainly doesn't mean that Puma got the same take from him; very more likely, Samson got the same take from the unnamed source who put it to the Puma. This is the sad and sick residue of worshipping rich people who use Twitter as a Bully Pulpit and have no respect for the news media. This is a more insidious brand of shitty ownership than the Wilpons, whose primary crime was being incompetent but unaware of it.

Edgy MD wrote: https://twitter.com/StevenACohen2/status/1438518031253082121 https://twitter.com/StevenACohen2/status/1438518717302796308 That's not the finest of looks. Yeah where we have seen influential rich guy with adoring sucker fans engage them to attack the integrity of the press when he hears an opinion he doesn't like.

Watched ep 3 tonight. That was the best of em so far, and the soundtrack gets even better. I mean, really well done

10.Johneshwy

because he got lucky with the flyer he took on Addison Reed. (oh, and they made actual acquisitions at the deadline to fill holes, that helped. Wonder where that was this year?) And he promptly squandered all that by failing to build on it, and then he came here this year and WHIFFED on all the holes. George Springer..damn, there couldn't have been a more perfect fit short and long term. What a no-brainer, shame the Mets couldn't find another 5 bucks. Nevermind the hand waving of sexual harassment and then getting annoyed that people didn't like it. Yeah I think a real analysis of context would show that the Sydergaard trade, some good drafting, some decisions about what NOT to do (Make Fammy a closer instead of paying top retail for one) etc also helped things along. The "failing to build" part is closely tied, in my mind, to Fred's end-around in bringing failures like Omar back to the organization that he helped to wreck when the money ran out. At any rate, I think a Year 1 do-over with more time to plan seems likely especially based on the recent reports. Then there's Cohen today offering a bounty on the head of the leak-ee of this juicy Puma story. https://nypost.com/2021/09/15/mets-president-search-complicated-by-steve-cohens-tweets/https://nypost.com/2021/09/15/mets-president-search-complicated-by-steve-cohens-tweets/ Years ago I told you I met the one-time Jersey daily beat writer who became a corporate spokesman in my work, and he revealed to me the beaters back then got a lotta "one exec said" stuff from JP Ricciardi, who was run over in Fred's revenge/Sandy's squandering of his hard-won momentum. That's my guess but I'd rather watch a game with Jeff Wilpon

Sorta rooting for Hembree to drill a guy

Every relief pitcher eventually turns into a piece of shit, this is Lugos time, and you knew it was coming