batmagadanleadoff

I'm not a broken record. The Mets are a broken record. Two first place finishes in 30 seasons.. You think this is progress? How many GMs do the Mets need? Now it's a four headed triumvirate. Progress? It'll be three steps backwards when the Phillies sign Bryce Harper. What a joke. The Mets sign an agent with zero experience on the baseball side of anything as their GM and the Phils are gonna get Bryce Harper. And they''re lucky to get this guy because nobody wanted to GM for the Mets, just like just about nobody wanted to manage the Mets. And I'm a broken record but you're gonna write your posts about how every single Met is gonna be three WAR better than last season. Including David Wright because that's what you write every year.

It's gonna be the plan where everybody has a career year and free agent signee Andrew McCutchen returns to his MVP form of five, six years ago. Jeff Wilpon will hinder this guy in ways that we'll never truly get to know because that's who Jeff Wilpon is and in the end, BVW will leave in disappointment and gross underachievement while Jeff Wilpon blames him for everything under the sun that went wrong, all the while claiming that BVW could have increased the piddling payroll to any level he wanted to. BVW won't refute Jeff because NDA's and because BVW will want to continue working in the industry. Charlie Brown football kick. As if it matters who the Mets new GM is so long as eff and Jeff own the team.

Two first place finishes in 30 seasons.

Edgy MD wrote: Yes, that's my concern. BVW has proprietary information about what it will take to tie his clients down. I don't know that it's possible, but if I was deGrom's next agent, I'd insist BVW recuse himself from negotiations with his his former clients, and keep all client information to himself. Yeah, that'll happen. Also, Donald Trump never discusses his businesses with his kids, who are running the alleged blind trust that holds the president's business interests.

vtmet wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: The Dodgers and Red Sox are big market teams that don't spend a lot of money on payroll. Also, they hardly ever sign top tier in their prime free agents. were you being serious or joking around? Ask around.

The Dodgers and Red Sox are big market teams that don't spend a lot of money on payroll. Also, they hardly ever sign top tier in their prime free agents.

What a great little article about Fred giving back. Nothing better than someone who values education. Thanks for sharing. For anyone who can't get enough of stories like this, here is a nice little article about Frank McCourt donating $100 million to Georgetown University that I am sharing for reasons completely devoid of any ulterior agenda. https://www.georgetown.edu/content/mccourt-school-press-release.html Boy these baseball owners really value education huh? But it's not just owners! Check out the benevolent Roger Clemens giving to the University of Texas! https://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/college_sports/longhorns/article/Roger-Clemens-donates-1-million-to-help-Texas-12861587.php And who can forget Pete Rose, doing his Charlie Hustle for military vets. https://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/college_sports/longhorns/article/Roger-Clemens-donates-1-million-to-help-Texas-12861587.php Round of applause for everyone. Good stuff gentlemen. Good stuff. You left out the Waldbuhne, built in Berlin at the request of Josef Goebbels to hold classical music concerts. In Mario Puzo's The Godfather book, Don Corleone observes how easy it is to be a philanthropist after you've stolen millikns of everybody else's money. And those heaping praise for these scumbags acts of generosity are the biggest suckers. (Corleone's words, through Puzo, not mine) But good for Fred who benefited immeasurably from knowingly investing in what was a ponzi scheme, leveraging a fraudulent balance sheet inflated by imaginary profits from Madoff into full ownership of what is now a multi billion dollar baseball team and then giving back a coupl'a pennies to the wounded warriors.

smg58 wrote: He wasn't Cy Young caliber in a league that has Jake DeGrom.. Whether or not Corbin was Cy Young caliber's got nothing to do with how well deGrom or anybody else pitched last season. Still, I'll concede the point and instead, say that Corbin was all-star caliber. The main point of my post, about the total unlikelihood that the Mets sign him because they're bargain basement hunters and Corbin won't be a bargain stands.

Corbin was Cy Young caliber in this, his 28 year old season. Which makes this thread pointless. Because Wilpons. Corbin's Barney's. The Mets shop at Sears.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Kinda struck me as brutally honest. I mean, it's not the best thing to hear from a professional ANYTHING... but it's shockingly self-aware for an athlete. He's an honest jackass is what he is. They should be busting g it down the line every single AB.

Not a teardown. They're moving the sculpture to outside the stadium. But nobody's gonna respond to my joke above by pointing out that Jeter's a mulatto?

Fuck that philistine Jeter whose art tastes probably run conservative if not prudish. He probably voted for Trump, too. Which means he's also for voter suppression. Which makes him a racist, too.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Ceetar wrote: Sherman isn't a baseball insider, he's an idiot. He tells you more about the Mets than you realize. All the post contains is unsourced opinions. Actually it is full of verifiable facts, loaded with context and perspective, and offers an informed opinion based on them. By "baseball insiders", I meant Sherman's sources, not Sherman himself.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I don't see how anybody would want to be the Mets GM. Obviously, I don't mean that literally --- the Mets'll get somebody in the end. There aren't very many GM openings that come up in any given year, and the position is prestigious and high-paying. But I don't see how any candidate who thinks he might get a similar gig with another team down the line would want the Mets job. He'd be working for a tyrannical meddler in Jeff Wilpon and every baseball insider knows just what a colossal douchebag he is. And then he'd get the worst aspects of working in a large market --- the hyper intense scrutiny of a huge fan base and large media presence -- large markets generally mean more stupid fans and asshole media personalities ------ but without any of the advantages of a large market because the Mets are cash strapped and cheapskates on top of that who don't participate in the free agent market the way they ought to --- instead signing past their prime Joe Palooka free agents on the hail mary miracle plan. Any candidate with clout and a track record just ain't coming here. And if the candidate has clout and a track record, that means he done good somewhere else. This is mirroring the Mets managerial search of last off season. This doesn't mean the Mets won't sign a good GM in the end, but they have obstacles to landing a good one. Baseball insiders know exactly what kind of colossal douchebags the Wilpons are and just how full of total shit they are about their GM hiring process and how much supposed autonomy the new GM will really get. https://nypost.com/2018/10/15/empty-vows-alderson-back-stab-inside-mets-gm-search-mess/

I don't see how anybody would want to be the Mets GM. Obviously, I don't mean that literally --- the Mets'll get somebody in the end. There aren't very many GM openings that come up in any given year, and the position is prestigious and high-paying. But I don't see how any candidate who thinks he might get a similar gig with another team down the line would want the Mets job. He'd be working for a tyrannical meddler in Jeff Wilpon and every baseball insider knows just what a colossal douchebag he is. And then he'd get the worst aspects of working in a large market --- the hyper intense scrutiny of a huge fan base and large media presence -- large markets generally mean more stupid fans and asshole media personalities ------ but without any of the advantages of a large market because the Mets are cash strapped and cheapskates on top of that who don't participate in the free agent market the way they ought to --- instead signing past their prime Joe Palooka free agents on the hail mary miracle plan. Any candidate with clout and a track record just ain't coming here. And if the candidate has clout and a track record, that means he done good somewhere else. This is mirroring the Mets managerial search of last off season. This doesn't mean the Mets won't sign a good GM in the end, but they have obstacles to landing a good one.

Centerfield wrote: Even if you sign an NDA you can right the record on any lies circulated by the other party. There you go! But I want more. I want Sandy to tell us what fucking assholes the Wilpons are.

Centerfield wrote: I wonder how Sandy Alderson reacted to that press conference. After being handcuffed all those years then blamed for the shortcomings. I wish Sandy were a bit more reactionary and petty. Would love for him to write a tell all book. That's exactly what I was thinking recently. Sandy likely signed a non-disclosure as part of his Mets contract, so he'd ordinarily need the Mets permission to gossip. But -- and I don't really wanna sound ghoulish here even though I will -- if Sandy knows he's "going", maybe he doesn't give a shit and adds a coupl'a tell all chapters on the Wilpons for the revised edition of his last book, Baseball Maverick. Revenge for that snit Jeff dumping on Sandy all these years. Because Jeff's the baseball genius unless things go wrong -- then it's all on Sandy. What a crock. [fimg=333]https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-HX082_bkrval_JV_20150415132007.jpg[/fimg]

Centerfield wrote: 41F, I'm going to level with you here.... He's a Met shill, just like he's a Republican shill. If the Mets were perennial big spenders, AS THEY SHOULD BE, he'd be writing that large payrolls are the essential way to go, especially for big market baseball teams.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: But he still needed about 5.8 points in that last start, and he got 6. So a more ordinary start from Syndergaard on Sunday and deGrom would have swept. Yeah, I don't have much of a feel for those point spreads and how far apart Noah was from Jake, being that I don't participate. I mean, actually, I know how far apart they were numerically, but I don't know what that means, or how close it really was. Still, what would Jake have needed to do to beat Noah if he had that sixth start?

Edgy MD wrote: That's pretty cool that the shutout prevented the deGrom season sweep. Had the manager lifted Syndergaard again after six or seven innings, or had the offense put up five runs instead of one, the voting might have shifted a tick, and history may have been deGrom's. I think it was mostly that Syndergaard had six starts in September while deGrom had just five.

Some addition by subtraction: Here's a silver lining -- Jose Reyes won't be around next season. That Reyes got about 250 PA's while batting under the Mendoza line might've been one of the biggest scandals of the baseball season. I suppose Sandy insisted on Reyes playing and probably threatened to squeeze the trigger of the gun he was holding to Jeff Wilpon's stupid head if Reyes didn't get all of that playing time.

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Benjamin Grimm wrote: My Spidey sense tells me that the Mets are going to go after McCutchen. Too early. They'll wait another year, so that McCutchen's more diminished, and most importantly, cheaper. Cheap is as cheap does. But that's Sandy's fault. /rolls eyes.

This might turn off some on the fence voter from voting for deGrom. But my main point would be that the 5th inning pitcher doesn't automatically get the win even if the Mets hold the lead all the way. When the starter doesn't pitch five innings, it's a judgment call where the official scorer can give the win to any pitcher but the starter.

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