Johnny Lunchbucket

Re$igns with Mets

Pretty strong take in the Snooze. Makes some assumptions and a little over the top, but gets to what's always struck me about the Wilpons: They're just an idosyncratic, weird-ass small family business that makes the same mistakes over and over again and never learns a thing. They just happen to own a business that millions of people care about, so it matters. It has not been clear, for the better part of a decade, whether the Wilpons have enough money to operate a big league team, but the problem was less about the money the Wilpons maybe didn't have and more about the qualities—discernment, patience, humility, the capacity to listen to the baseball people they've hired—that they manifestly did not have. I mean, this graf: More than anything else, the Wilpons' signature neuroses have shaped and limited the teams they've owned. Insofar as the Wilpons really do want to win in an era when many MLB owners just want to get paid, this is good. In every other sense, though, it has been unhelpful and often disastrous. The Wilpons created a toxic and discriminatory front-office culture, never missed an opportunity to insult fans in the cheapest and most chiseling ways, and were never anything but peevish and grudgeful in their public behavior. No one should question their desire to win, but there's no reason to sentimentalize it, either—they wanted to win on their own bespoke terms and those terms only. They wanted to be right and almost never were, and they were so determined in their backwardness that the Mets have only grudgingly engaged with modern baseball practices for the better part of a generation. Link if you take the popups: https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-wilpons-steve-cohen-sale-failure-doom-20191205-qnct6o4uavgldfc5jlfiyc5o3u-story.htmlhttps://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-wilpons-steve-cohen-sale-failure-doom-20191205-qnct6o4uavgldfc5jlfiyc5o3u-story.html

They should combine to a superutility switch-hitting infielder-outfielder called Jarret Max, who also is a pro wrestler

Kennedy Corona: The refreshing lager that hits your head like a bullet of tropical flavor. Taylor was the guy we received for Ike Davis IIRC

So Lagares for Lagares and 2 minor leaguers. Actually Marisnick is like a premium-tier Lagares the "Signature Select" beans vs. the national-brand equivalent

Deal done for 2 minor leaguers

Hey it's a right handed hitting centerfield flycatcher who doesn't hit that great

https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/1202619224973332480https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/1202619224973332480

In actuality word leaked, that sparked the sportswriter types who don;t read Bloomberg, and they're in damage control. I've sorta been waiting for this day for some time -- Fred's getting up there, needs to get his affairs in order, but my worry was that he'd just leave it all to Jeff's kids.

51% makes him the owner. 80% makes him like, a super owner.

I remember seeing him so destroyed by Washington at a CF game with the Lunchpail so bad that Anthony Recker had to come pitch mop-up. I also recall him being an ace down the stretch in 18. And he was a Tuesday Night Stud this year. Mets have such little interest in Alderson projects anymore I guess I'm not surprised to see him go. I guess in the end I'd prefer to have Wheeler on the team than Betran as the manager so this is a backwardsass offseason so far.

I was hoping for less than 5 years

That fuckin guy sucked anyway Signed, Johnny In Denial Lunchbucket

Let's keep a compact focus on our closest rivals rather than lose it in the non-NYM thread. So they got d'Arnaud a batterymate in... Cole Hamels. 1 year $18M deal.

The value of Wheelie in my estimation isn't that he's top 5 guy but he's a top 5 in *our rotation* guy who makes our 5 better than your 5.

"Sandy Alderson was a tool of the Wilpons" Granted this statement is made by only the most ignorant of fans but loudly and often enough to gain it some currency. Everyone forgets Sandy was foisted upon the Wilpons and that as soon as they got their alleged financial footing back they couldn't wait to throw him overboard.

I'd like it if the Mets made that offer too btw. 5/101 even

Giants nontender Kevin Pillar. This guy makes too many outs but is a competent fielder with good hustle powers (he's a white CF, see) with 20-homer power. As a Lagares replacement he'd make some sense and could be a regular if plans A B C and D don't materialize.

5/100... uh, White Sox

We need Edwin Diaz to be more like Strohmayer and Sisk: Gain 15 pounds and learn a sinker.

Just saying newsworthiness should be a consideration. It is news after all. And as back pages during baseball season go, the 1st day of the All-Star Break is about as slow a "news day" as can be imagined, and the "event" getting the coverage is fake news as far as baseball goes.

So, my take: Good but not great. Relevant and eye-opening, good performances, but about 70% of the movie is Driver delivering outrage monologue, and I kinda wanted it to hurry up and finish with 20 minutes left. Annette Bening is a hawt Dianne Feinstein.

They are bith good covers but please keep in mind the Davis Game was much more important to the arc of the season than a silly batting-practice exhibition.

Omar will totally do this. Watch