Johnny Lunchbucket

I guess he's next up and seen as the "consolation prize" for Bauer. More suitors evidently. 8 year pro, former 1st round pick of the Brewers, traded for Greinke, traded for Wade Davis and James Sheilds, traded for a minor leaguer I never head of Last year made $17.8M on 4 appearances--the injury wasn;t TJ but getting struck with a line drive. Was a 2019 15-game winner. Can strike you out.

Do the Mets still need a good-ass starting pitcher? I think they do. Also I think they'll soon make some other announcement.

He's an arrogant douche no doubt. --much of the more "controversial" aspects of his arrogance and douchery come off to me as an act --most top athletes seem to require some degree of internal arrogance; Bauer's thing is turning it outward and getting off on having done that --The Mets have gotten scorched on careless hires I think "short leash" is the way to go with this douche.

For a guy with his lengthy experience I barely ever taken notice of Rich Hill. The nondescript name (he should gone by Ricky Hill or Richie Hill), less-than-sexy numbers, the parade of employers, etc.

whew

That's pretty much how it happened, writers with an investigative bent and the juice to pull it off, got a hold of it, and got the victims to speak on the record if anonymously, checked out their stories, reached out to the affected orgs and Mickey for comment, wrote, edited etc. I agree it coulda come sooner given the Aug 2018 "investigation" thing that sort of came and went and Kay taking a victory lap here is not tasteful or warranted but sorta irrelevant

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: It probably wasn't Kay, but some other journo brought this story to the attention of those who broke it. It's also possible Kay is only relaying what was known in 18 when the Mets were tipped and subsequently did nothing He apparently knew longer than that. “I spoke to a number of women the last couple of years who told me about Callaway,” Kay said in a rant that lasted more than 15 minutes And didn't say or do anything. Those remarks I'm sure we're not "on the record" so to speak, and Kay ultimately is a talk show host journalist and not necessarily an investigative journalist. As relayed by Britton above there is nuance to it that's lost. It's not in every jockporters' purview or professional best interests, to be trafficking this stuff, as noted the nature of it puts everyone in an awkward position

I don't know if it's his place to say something as a journalist without having checked it out himself. In retrospect he could have whispered to Jeff but to have publicly said something is problematic if the victims are unwilling to verify, which they were until now. It probably wasn't Kay, but some other journo brought this story to the attention of those who broke it. It's also possible Kay is only relaying what was known in 18 when the Mets were tipped and subsequently did nothing

lollloolol

Those are fair criticisms. I felt like the movie tho was a better presentation of good Gordness than the bio I read which was also admiring, I think the author appears as a talker. If you haven't seen it, musician Robbie Fulks' examination of Lightfoot here is a hilarious and insightful gold standard of Lightfoot Analysis. https://www.talkhouse.com/robbie-fulks-dives-headfirst-into-the-strangely-messy-world-of-gordon-lightfoot/https://www.talkhouse.com/robbie-fulks-dives-headfirst-into-the-strangely-messy-world-of-gordon-lightfoot/

It's sexual harassment but also interferes with professional obligations in callaway and Porter's cases

http://archives.thecranepool.net/26100/f1_t26144.shtmlhttp://archives.thecranepool.net/26100/f1_t26144.shtml We even raised the possibility they rushed this hire in this thread. I'm sure Sandy won't stand for a grilling on this but someone should ask him

Yeah I addressed this in the other thread. I may have misread Sandy's role in supporting Mickey's candidacy. Another twitter guy this morning (in fact one of the MBJG soldiers who quit in protest) suggests the hiring of Mickey was rushed despite not having interviewed well because the Phillies wanted him. In this case the undermining of Sandy was a double-Wilpon effort but they had cross purposes

I was always under the impression that Mickey was Sandy's guy, because of Callaway's rep for genius with Cleveland, Fred's regard for Terry, and the the undermining effort Fred led after Mickey was hired. But maybe he was Jeff's guy all along? Consider-- 1. I saw on the twitter that the Mets were made aware of some of these allegations in August 2018 and were supposed to investigate, but nothing came of it. 2. Sandy had already been kicked aside by the Freddening when this came up. And the Puma dug up a tweet from then suggesting that Jeff had Mickey's back. 3. I'm sure that's in part because Mickey was cheaper to keep than a new guy was to get, but at any rate he managed another whole year without Sandy. 4. Mickey as it turns out was no baseball genius, nor an appropriate leader Perhaps this points to underlying tensions between Fred and Jeff? That's understandable inasmuch as both are idiots and thought they were in control. At any rate, it turns out that Mickey disappointed me many times more than I knew that he could. We already established he couldn't provide an advantage in X's and O's, every club under him had dreadful stretches, and now we learn not one but 2 instances where he was abusive and disrespectful of writers. How could you even be considered a Manager of the Mets if you cannot communicate sincerely and fairly with the press? An idiot must've hired him

Whoop, there it is: https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/1356412569758654466https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/1356412569758654466

I never watched that show. Sounds like the Marlins are trying to save $$

It's dumb when it gets to where we gotta speculate on stuff we don't even know is true, but re SJR's comments, it sounds to me like perhaps the quitting bloggers got a whiff of the "real story" from an actual reporter in confidence, made the mistake of telling their pretend colleague, who went and made another mistake of telling people. They had to quit to try and demonstrate to the source they burned that they could be trusted again, while their pretend colleague took the heat for blabbing as a means to save the integrity of his Mom's Basement. --I kid here with these guys, I'm sure most mistakes were unitended and resulted from miscommunication as they do on all floors of your home, and I don't mean to suggest that even though they are probably unpaid and working at will and really just fans they don't try hard to inform and enlighten. It's just kind of funny to see people fall on professional swords that don't actually exist because they're not actually professionals.

There was some kind of Twitty controversy over the weekend relating to Mickey and the MBJG (Mom's Basement Journalist Guild). guy tweeted out something to the effect of there being a bombshell Mickey story on the way, then retracted, mot because it was inaccurate but because it evidently jumped the gun of an actual journalist (Jeff Passan) said to be working on the real story. Half the pretend staff drawing pretend paychecks, of said fan-run site resigned in protest and will presumably look for other sites to not pay them for relaying fan-to-fan info. Dick pics? Harrassing female reporters? is what I could divine from this very unverified chatter. Seperately published stuff suggests Mickey and Bauer never got along which is considered an "advantage" for the Mets should they want to court him as current Mickey employer the Angels are also said to have interest.

Mets acquire Hawaii-born RHSP Jordan Yamamoto from the Marlins for a minor league infielder Frederico Polanco. Lots of whiffs, lots of walks, high ERA but he's only 25. Mets must feel they can fix him

https://www.facebook.com/1512463890/posts/10224950974990922/https://www.facebook.com/1512463890/posts/10224950974990922/

He pretty much made clear to Tracky that his mind is still made up

He most definitely is a homophobic dumb jock, and he drove us nuts playing bad defense at five positions, and of course was the real villian in the maiming of Ruben Tejada, but he's a lovable homophobic jock butcher, and a total Met.

cool

Who doesn't love the Muffinman. I'd have bent over backwards, probably, to justify his getting a gig with the 2021 club.

Matz was always chasing really one encouraging beer with a shot of rotgut whiskey. Top drafted local kid in 2009! ---> needs Tommy John and doesn't debut professionally for 3 years ---> Wait pays off with stunning 2015 debut! ---> Injured weeks later ---> Healthy to start 2016 season and #9 ranked prospect in the game! ---> Coughs up 7 ERs in 1.2 innings to the goddamned Marlins in '16 debut ---> Rookie of the Month in May 2016 (4-0, 1.31)! ---> 2-7 till August injury ends season leaving team without starting pitching depth and a disappointing Wild Card 1-and-done ---> Finally returns in June 2017 and dominates Braves in debut! ---> 2-7, 6.08 by August when another injury shut him down for the year ---> Answers the bell for 2018!--->Makes 30 starts!--->Wins only 5 of them ---> Ready to go again in 2019! ---> Team wins 7 of his first 10 starts! --->Loses 7 of his next 10 --> Shuts out Pittsburgh in a complete game, 99-pitch 5-hitter July 27! ---> Same club knocks him out of the box in the 4th inning of his next start --->Not traded when Stroman acquired! ---> stumbles to the finish line losing key September starts --->career high 32 starts! ---> 11-10, 4.21 2020 Mets are so pitching-rich they might not even need Matz!! --->But they do because everyone's hurt or has COVID ---> Masterful N/D debut shuts down Braves on day 2! ---> Next 4 starts all among the worst in his career --> Bullpen debut a success vs. Yankees!! --->Rocked in return to rotation---> 0-5, 9.68 on year! ---> Generates 3 prospects in trade!