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Who is he kidding? Everyone know Ed Price is Carlos's BFF.

Considering it's been 23 years and counting, I will gladly take a GM that wins a championship once every 9 years. I realize the degree of difficulty is much easier for Cash, given the payroll, but he seems like a bright guy, seems to have a plan, and has shown an ability to be creative. Maybe it doesn't relate to much, but I want to hear my GM say things like not getting swayed by small sample size. It's much more comforting than hearing a GM say stuff like "He's a good RBI guy."

Wait, I thought the Mets were out of money...

Not jealous of the MFY's per se, but I do wish we had smart people running our team.

Given a chance, my vote would have been for Less' Nique.

Judging from that AFL ERA, that's a pretty bad bullpen if it needs Mejia.

Fantastic. Thanks for posting this.

On the other hand, the iconic Piazza is his follow through: I could only find this shot of it, but I think the statue should reflect the following: 1. Unlike Strawberry, Piazza's swing had no beauty or grace to it. Piazza swung hard, as if he were wielding a ten pound bat and trying to maim an intruder to his home. 2. This picture doesn't really capture it, but the classic Piazza follow-through should have his face in a grimace. Almost as if it hurt to be that good. 3. Ideally, he would be following his ball travel to right field. Why is there such a paucity of good Piazza pics? Where are the DGW photos now that KCMets doesn't hold them?

dgwphotography wrote: Yup.

I get nervous when I hear a guy has 5 pitches. Usually that means none of them are good. Maybe a LOOGY?

Oh, and it was Jim Baker. The one with the wife with the funky makeup. Tammy Faye? I think?

I remember. Especially the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg34iR1D49c

Phillips admits his mistakes. Checks into the same rehab clinic as Tiger. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4896683 It used to that guys like this were jerks. Now their "sex addicts". It's not my fault I goof off at work. I'm a goof-off addict.

I concur with most of the thoughts in this thread that Rourke and Marisa Tomei were great but that the plot was cliche and boring. I thought the other wrestlers did a great job with their bit parts too. And why didn't anyone tell me that Marisa Tomei was topless in this movie? These are things that need to be brought out. I almost skipped this film.

7 of 10. Whiffed on the Cubs, and the Pirates both times. That basically affirms that I should bet just enough to insure the win. My goodness some of those are easy.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Me, I think the biggest neglect of the winter has been the lack of a new starting pitcher. Second to that, I would have liked them to add somebody to hold down first base until Ike Davis is ready. Delgado would have been nice. Murphy and Tatis might end up doing fine. I think the Mets will be reasonably okay at second base and catcher and in the bullpen. I just wish they had added an experienced starting pitcher. It's funny because I thought they needed another bat more than a pitcher. I don't know, something makes me think Fernando Nieve might be something. I think overall I feel better about Nieve, Niese and Figueroa than I do about Murphy, Davis and Franceour.

Edgy DC wrote: Yeah, you don't see it, but it's all just a matter of opininon. It's all abstractions until the games are played. What did the Mets do in the 1983-84 offseason? It appeared pretty inactive. They dealt Bob Bailor and Carlos Diaz to the Dodgers for Sid Fernandez and Ross Jones. Their big free agent signees were Rafael Santana, Dick Tidrow, and Jerry Martin. They released Dave Kingman and Mark Bradley. Oh, yeah, they also lost their ace by accident. Judged at the time, it would be seen as far less impactful than this offseason. Yet the restraint was golden and they had a wonderful turnaround. They did crap-all in winter 1968-1969 also. I think you are now arguing a different point. Or at least, I am understanding your point to be a different one. I think it's clear that a team's offseason will have a direct on the games to be played the next year. (How different is 1999 if the Mets don't re-sign Piazza and trade for Leiter?) But I agree with you that sometimes it's hard to tell whether an off-season has been successful or not until you see how the season plays out. Sometimes the off-season sucks, but the team is good anyway. This is true. But most of the time, they suck.

Other than the mathematical simplicity of it, I don't see why .500 is something worth betting on. I want a legitimate World Series contender. Whether they finish 3rd or 4th means little to me. I think for the Mets to be a post-season team, they are going to need a hell of a lot of luck. Edgy DC wrote: There's no such thing, where I come, as successful offseasons. Games are still won on the field. This is just silly. Of course games are won on the field, but what is done in the offseason has a direct impact on the players taking that field. Successful offseasons don't result in wins. A successful offseason is one where the ballclub manages its resources by bringing in players that maximize their chances of success. I don't see that this has been done this winter. Hence the disappointment.

Bedard to the M's. $1.5 million, reportedly. Yes, that's $500,000.00 less than Alex Cora for those keeping score at home. (Yes, I'm sure that there are incentives and the deal is not official yet, I'm just saying...)

That's beyond stupid. Blaming Beltran for ending 2006 is one of the more shameful things Mets fans do. You would think calendars issued with the blessing of the ballclub would refrain from piling on.

Are those wings? I thought they were really big ears.

Are those teams coming from the skull's eyes? Does that say "Cryin' Hawaiian"?

Wow. I had no idea this was in the works. Somehow I missed the fanfare surrounding the closing of the Metrodome.

That was kind of the point of my post. It's plausible that JJ is lying and that it's just sour grapes. And I'd be much more inclined to think so if it were the only incident. But throw in that it mirrors what Beltran is saying, and what Delgado said last year. Tony B, the Reyes doctors, it's all a big giant mess. You'd have to think that there was some truth to it based on how much shit is floating around (and how consistent the message is behind the shit). And to the point that they admitted they did not do a physical before going forward with the trade...why not? So what if you have medical records, or that he pitched with it that year. Does it hurt to go take a look at it yourself? Maybe it got worse. Maybe the records are unclear. It's mind-boggling that you pick up a guy with a bone spur in his elbow and think "No need to look at it. I'm sure it's fine."