MFS62

Changing pitchers, a tribute to LaRussa. Later

Vic Sage wrote: stop the presses (what an archaic term!)... i agree with Ceetar. and with Irish. except i don't think there's hundreds of guys who could manage, I think there's 10s of 1000s of guys. With maybe hundreds who have the tools to do it successfully. But looking at that list, it seems there is something that might hold you back - you were a pitcher. I remember when it was said that pitchers don't become good managers. Maybe that stigma still exists to this day. The only one there who jumped out at me as having been a pitcher is Bud Black. And he was that guy: http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/blackbu02.shtml Anyhow, it seems that if you are a pitcher, you might want to consider another career objective other than major league manager. Later BTW- if you go to the bottom of that link, you'll notice that he was once drafted by the Mets, but did not sign with them and went back into the draft the next year. So fuck him.

Sandy probably didn't want to repeat the old "having two Bob Millers on the same roster" thingie. Later

Vic, thanks for re-posting that. Later

Peralta - a shortstop with range and power. Later

Lefty Specialist wrote: Well, if New Yorkers don't date the Yankees because they're losers, then where exactly does that leave the Mets? At home watching Flash Gordon re-runs? HEY! I watch Flash Gordon re-runs. When I played sports in high school, my nickname was Flash, not only for my running speed but because my friends knew I liked those old Flash Gordon serial films. When channel 13 showed them as part of fund raiser, I taped them. Later

Lefty Specialist wrote: Caught the magical inning listening to the Yankee broadcast, and the schadenfreude was so thick you could cut it with a knife. Sterling knew it was over, and something drained out of his voice. It was like he was slogging through molasses. Defeated. Delicious. The same thing happened to Yankee Announcer Mel Allen during the last game of the 1963 World Series. Later

Frayed Knot wrote: Besides, Francesa, when I heard him the other day anyway, wasn't moaning at all - and that was on the day following that horrid call at 2nd base that screwed them. quote] Since that time, he has been beating the Yankees like a rented mule. And screaming while doing it. A really fun listen. Later G-Fafif Oct 18 2012 07:34 PM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST Congratulations to humanity and the Detroit Tigers. themetfairy Oct 18 2012 08:02 PM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST Here's to the Winners! John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 18 2012 08:41 PM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST I'm gonna miss John and Suzyn, I really am. Caught almost the whole thing by radio driving today. Frayed Knot Oct 19 2012 06:22 AM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST I always like to check the newspaper the morning after the Yanx get eliminated just to make sure I wasn't the victim of some elaborate prank. So let's see here ... Yup, it really happened! OK, you may all now carry on with your days. Ceetar Oct 19 2012 06:54 AM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm gonna miss John and Suzyn, I really am. Caught almost the whole thing by radio driving today. I couldn't do it. I listened to the ESPN feed. batmagadanleadoff Oct 19 2012 07:01 AM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST Frayed Knot wrote: I always like to check the newspaper the morning after the Yanx get eliminated just to make sure I wasn't the victim of some elaborate prank. So let's see here ... Yup, it really happened! seawolf17 Oct 19 2012 07:31 AM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST That Post cover is pretty funny. batmagadanleadoff Oct 19 2012 08:50 AM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST seawolf17 wrote: Nothing unusual here. This is how it should be. Two good baseball teams in a short series are in a crap-shoot. Thus, a team that makes the playoffs (I'm not counting the new one game WC qualifier as playoffs) has, essentially, a one in eight chance of winning the World series, whether it's the team with the best record in baseball or the wild card team with the worst record. That's how I see it. The Bobby Cox Braves get too much disrespect for supposedly not winning more WS', but they won about as many as they ought to have won. Lefty Specialist Oct 19 2012 09:32 AM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm gonna miss John and Suzyn, I really am. Caught almost the whole thing by radio driving today. Caught the magical inning listening to the Yankee broadcast, and the schadenfreude was so thick you could cut it with a knife. Sterling knew it was over, and something drained out of his voice. It was like he was slogging through molasses. Defeated. Delicious. By the way, if you've ever heard the radio broadcast of the 10th inning of Game 6 in '86, the same thing happens to Bob Murphy's voice after the Sox tack on a run to make it 5-3. Bob's voice loses the spring in its step as he contemplates a long painful winter. (Spoiler alert: he gets it back and then some a few minutes later.) Mets � Willets Point Oct 19 2012 09:37 AM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST TIGER, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder and what art Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand and what dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see? Did He who made the lamb make thee? Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? MFS62 Oct 19 2012 09:47 AM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST Lefty Specialist wrote: Caught the magical inning listening to the Yankee broadcast, and the schadenfreude was so thick you could cut it with a knife. Sterling knew it was over, and something drained out of his voice. It was like he was slogging through molasses. Defeated. Delicious. The same thing happened to Yankee Announcer Mel Allen during the last game of the 1963 World Series. Later metirish Oct 19 2012 12:21 PM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST Vic Sage Oct 19 2012 12:42 PM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? What must've been going on with the English language in London during the late 18th century that William Blake thought those 2 lines rhymed? metirish Oct 19 2012 12:48 PM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST Ah, the NY Post Lefty Specialist Oct 19 2012 01:42 PM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST Well, if New Yorkers don't date the Yankees because they're losers, then where exactly does that leave the Mets? At home watching Flash Gordon re-runs? I live in New Jersey, so it's not an issue for me. Edgy MD Oct 19 2012 05:40 PM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST Yeah, the News front cover and the Post front and back covers all leave me with a bad taste in my mouth. The Yankees losing in the playoffs doesn't make them beneath their fans, and it's the typical cheap pandering populism of the tabloids to suggest otherwise. Three and half million saps walked through the turnstiles and dated the team this season and I imagine as many or more will next season. MFS62 Oct 19 2012 09:02 PM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST Lefty Specialist wrote: Well, if New Yorkers don't date the Yankees because they're losers, then where exactly does that leave the Mets? At home watching Flash Gordon re-runs? HEY! I watch Flash Gordon re-runs. When I played sports in high school, my nickname was Flash, not only for my running speed but because my friends knew I liked those old Flash Gordon serial films. When channel 13 showed them as part of fund raiser, I taped them. Later batmagadanleadoff Oct 20 2012 08:57 AM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST Frayed Knot Oct 20 2012 09:45 AM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST Let me guess, those Curtis Granderson vision problems suddenly popped up between the end of his 43 HR season and the beginning of the playoffs, right? Baseball Prospectus did a wonderful skewering of the overly-simplistic Daily News 'Keep 'em or Dump 'em' poll essentially by just letting the results speak for themselves. Mets � Willets Point Oct 20 2012 10:39 AM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST Whoah! Newsday is taking a measured, rational approach that's completely out of line with newspaper tabloid headline writing conventions. Lefty Specialist Oct 20 2012 12:54 PM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST MFS62 wrote: HEY! I watch Flash Gordon re-runs. When I played sports in high school, my nickname was Flash, not only for my running speed but because my friends knew I liked those old Flash Gordon serial films. When channel 13 showed them as part of fund raiser, I taped them. Later I'm betting that George Steinbrenner was a Big Ming The Merciless fan. G-Fafif Oct 22 2012 12:26 PM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST Every series thus far but ALCS goes the maximum. The MFYs are a blot on baseball's showcase month and should therefore be contracted. Though I suppose their having imploded will do for now. metsguyinmichigan Oct 22 2012 06:23 PM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST G-Fafif wrote: Every series thus far but ALCS goes the maximum. The MFYs are a blot on baseball's showcase month and should therefore be contracted. Though I suppose their having imploded will do for now. Bad ass! bmfc1 Oct 23 2012 06:23 AM Re: ALCS -- Tigers vs Opponents -- IST "A good indication it's autumn: the Yankees are cleaning out their lockers."--David Letterman, 10/22/12

If you've been waiting to listen to Mike Francessa lose it again tomorrow, take some time to listen to Steven A. Smith on ESPN radio (NY). He has been just as bad a moaner as Francessa, but maybe twice as loud. And he uses "we" when referring to the team. It will be fun switching between the shows on my drive to work tomorrow to see who blows a gasket first. Later

Ceetar wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Jack Leathersich ‏@LeatherRocket Can't wait to get out of this #brutal art class so I can wash my car. Hope everyone has a great day! He's taking an art class in the offseason? That seems very unjocklike. Jim Bouton designed and made cosume jewelry. Ya never know what interests them. Later

Edgy DC wrote: I like how the URL betrays that the original headline writer didn't know what team Trout played for. Maybe he was Dizzy. Later

HahnSolo wrote: Probably mindless speculation on my part, but we're overlooking the likelihood that first base might be ARod's destination if in fact he ends up in the NL. And if he were here, and so was Wright, that would be where I would expect him to play. What that means for Ike, I don't know? I'll super-speculate. He was a pitcher in college and has an arm good enough to play the outfield. He has said he would move to the outfield. So with righthanded hitters to protect him in the lineup, I'd guess it means MVP. We now return this thread to sanity. Later

I think we're concentrating too much on the money. When the first discussions of re-signing Wright showed up in the papers, there were also comments that he would want to sign with a team that had a genuine chance of competing for a championship. I'm not sure if they were actual quotes from David, or stuff made up by the writers to take a shot at the Mets and downgrade the possibility of their re-signing him. But if he feels that way, I fear a "Gift of the Magi"-type situation happening. Sandy could spend so much (players, prospects and money) to upgrade the rest of the team that they wouldn't have enough money to pay Wright what he and his agents think he deserves. I'm anxious to see what Sandy can do to satisfy that part of his requirements if it is in fact real. Later

As the title of the thread says, any way you look at it, A-Rod is definitely getting poll-ed. Later

Cards win, and Beltran is listed day-to-day with a "sprained knee". Later

Elvin Ramirez was born in 1962? Looked strange, so I checked. 10/10/87 as per Baseball-register. Later

Frayed Knot wrote: Rain started falling about 90 minutes after the scheduled start time of 8 p.m., and a steady rain fell for hours afterward. Major League Baseball officials said the contest was postponed "in an effort to preserve the integrity of an uninterrupted full nine-inning game." More rain is forecast for the Detroit area on Thursday morning, but it is expected to clear up completely around noon. Where was that integrity when they allowed the NL game to start and then had an over 3 hour rain delay during the game? Or are we not allowed to ask that? Later

I not only remember him as a coach for the Mets but I remember him playing for the Senators. I had a Rawlings PM-5 (or was it a PM-20?) Eddie Yost model glove. RIP, Eddie. OE, it was a George Kell model glove. But I still remember watching Eddie playing. Later

Ashie62 wrote: I am waiting for a rumor that Jeter will sack up for game 4. He will slowly pull himself up out of the chair and say "Mr. President, I can walk!" If not, the motivational speech in the clubhouse tonight will be "Win one for the backhand flipper". Later

Frayed Knot wrote: It's such an advantage to the Yanx to have an iconic SS on their side to make run-saving plays in the field and then hit HRs in the 9th inning ... Oh wait. They obviously miss the inspiration Jeter gave them. So here's an idea. Each MFY can tape a Jeter baseball card to a brick and shove it up their ass. Later

seawolf17 wrote: He is dating model Hannah Davis, who was spotted in his family box Saturday. OH MY GAWD HANNAH DAVIS IS IN DEREK JETER'S BAWX! (Channelling f-man) And, I'd guess, vice versa. Later

Ceetar wrote: So there you have it folks. Jeter is not worth any more to the Yankees than Jayson Nix. That might be worth its weight in gold when the Yankee fans in my office want to use his injury as an excuse for losing. Later

Mets � Willets Point wrote: ... , with Jeter hobbling out to hoist the trophy at the end, and the nation's sports media lining up to fellate him. And the fans and reporters will compare the moment to when Willis Reed came out and actually played. Later

Tigers - d'oh. Cards - so that Tony LaRussa can see that it wasn't just him. Later

I have this feeling in my gut that Angel Hernandez will make a wrong call that determines the outcome of the game. Later