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I heard that Gottfried did a Mets version of his Aristocrats routine in the booth, with the Wilpons in the role of the aristocratic family. Is that true?

G-Fafif wrote: Mr. Met knocks covfefe off everybody's fingertips. This season is even taking a toll on Mr. Met. The lovable mascot reached a breaking point Wednesday and flipped the bird at some fans during the .... For the Mets, it just never ends. I read this post early this morning, shortly after I woke up and still groggy with sleep. And as I got mid-way throuhj, I thought it was one of Greg's April Fool's joke. I read the rest of the piece, all the way to the end, while in the back of my mind, working out the calendar, still half-asleep, trying to figure out if today was April 1st.

Ceetar wrote: But on the errors, it seems like for Rosario they might be at least somewhat rangy errors, in which case he's turning hits into errors not outs into errors. Big difference. If baseball's official scorers were perfectly efficient, this category that you describe as "turning hits into errors" wouldn't exist because a fielder shouldn't be charged with an error on a batted ball that was destined to be a hit. (Unless the fielder bumbles the play to such a degree that either the batter or a baserunner takes an extra base that the hit, alone, wouldn't have yielded). So are you suggesting that some of Rosario's errors are undeserved? And how would you even know this?

Edgy MD wrote: Seaver sure as hell gets my 1981 vote though. Maybe 1971, too.

I was surprised looking at it that [seaver's] '69 season was actually his worst, or second to '67, of his Mets seasons (sans '83) and that it wasn't until '70 that he truly became 'great'. Big K% increase. velocity-based? Some here will think that what I'm about to write is blasphemous, but if today's modern-day voters voted on the '69 Cy Young Award, Seaver most likely doesn't win it. Seaver had what mattered most to the typical voter of 50 years ago in spades: he led the NL in wins and pitched for a playoff team. (Though in 1969, there wasn't much history for the division winner argument - back then, voters instead gave extra credit to the pitchers on pennant winners since division winners didn't exist until that very season. Still...). And then there was the miraculous back story that Seaver was obviously a huge part of. But Bob Gibson was the league's best hurler that year and today, we should be talking about a Gibson who won three straight Cy Youngs from '68 to '70.

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Benjamin Grimm wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: The Primati's french-fries-on-a-sandwich thing is IMO overrated. The fries are soft and oily and the whole thing is like mush. Totally agree. The one essential dining tip for PNC Park is to avoid the Primanti Brothers sandwich! I did the whole Primanti's thing in Florida a few years ago. It was a total crapfest and, really, I'm not exaggerating, one of the worst things I ever ate in a very long time. I should've known, in retrospect. How the hell is that junk so goddamn popular? (Unless the Pittsburgh locations are superior).

Meanwhile, pound for pound, Conforto, right now, is about as effective a hitter as there is in all of baseball. Check out that RC/27 column. [fimg=555:3i2c4lhv]https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4270/34735491552_b90c213c61_b.jpg[/fimg:3i2c4lhv]

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G-Fafif wrote: [fimg=350]http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/ralph-padre-gm.jpg[/fimg] Padres GM Ralph Kiner, manager George Metkovich (nice name) and ball fan Bing Crosby. [fimg=716]https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4198/34863555136_1069235b77_h.jpg[/fimg]

Edgy MD wrote: [fimg=600]https://img.comc.com/ebay-both/ae0980e9-080b-416a-bc9f-f06fdc6c2214.jpg?refresh[/fimg] What happened to the rest of the watermark?

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Edgy MD wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Keith is selling the old, "Expansion waters down talent" story. He's right and it does. You surprise me. It seems to be obvious math that the growth of the US population and the growth of the international talent pool has far outstripped the growth of available MLB roster spots. I agree with your theory. But how much has the talent pool expanded? And since when? I wasn't watching the game when Keith spoke, so I don't know precisely what expansion period he was talking about, if any, or if he was just generalizing. MLB added two teams in 1998, just a few years after adding the Marlins and Rockies, for example. Did the talent pool expand so much in those four years before 1998 to account for two new teams without watering down the quality of MLB play? If the talent pool is as big as you suggest, and that there's room for more teams without watering down the quality of MLB play, then that means that it should be extremely easy to replace the two, three or four players at the bottom of every team's 25 man roster depth chart without suffering a noticeable drop in talent. But that, I don't see. OE -- Don't forget that -- assuming that talent evaluation is more or less accurate and efficient, when MLB expands, it adds players that otherwise would still be in the minor leagues. Two new teams means you'd have 50 new major leaguers, most of them worse than Adam Wilk and Rafael Montero. How is that not watering down the league?

Edgy MD wrote: Keith is selling the old, "Expansion waters down talent" story. He's right and it does.

I think that "blanqueado", in that context, simply means to get "blanked" or shut-out, and that there's no reference to bleach.

All those Mets injuries? Guess whose fault they are? Jeff Wilpon. (Mike Barwis, too) According to these, uh-oh, get ready for it .... anonymous sources. Mets' injury issues go far beyond the disabled list excerpt: Multiple people familiar with the Mets' operation -- most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity -- say the team has a less-than-optimal command structure that allows routine problems to fester until they become major conflagrations. Too often, the Mets' approach leads to communication breakdowns, mixed signals or a lack of trust between the team and its players. "It's the same old, same old mistakes,'' one industry source said. "The Mets are a successful, profitable organization. But no organization, over a protracted period of time, has more significant players on the disabled list. There's a failing across the board. And what changes have been instituted, if any?'' [***] So who's in charge? Multiple sources said the lack of a single medical point person allows for greater involvement by COO Jeff Wilpon in areas where he's lacking in professional expertise. They describe Wilpon as a micromanager who creates an environment in which the Mets simply whipsaw from one crisis to the next and are too often governed by how their decisions will be publicly perceived. "Jeff gets in the middle of everything that's going on, and he ends up doing more damage,'' said a person who has been involved in the Mets' internal operation. "He meddles. I can't come up with a more appropriate term.'' http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/19404194/new-york-mets-injury-issues-go-far-disabled-list

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I just mean, the ability to get out of the way if a pitch comes close. I feel like they are at the age where if you don;t know what you're doing you can get hurt. We played against a team whose kids didn't know anything about baseball a few weeks ago, and a kid got hit directly in the eyeglasses by a pitch. He didn't move! Fortunately the only damage was to his glasses and a small shape of his rims on his face, but worse for our pitcher who was all shaken up. Wolf Junior I'm sure knows that much. Sounds like the kid was wearing sports glasses. Good thing. If something like that happened when I was a kid, that might've been tragic.

This season marks the first time in the history of baseball since playoffs were instituted in 1969 that the final four remaining baseball teams from two seasons ago are all under .500 this late in the season. Two days ago, the Mets, Cubs, Royals and Jays were all under .500. The Cubs have since won their last two games and are now 20-19 - one game over .500. Read about it at 538.com.

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That's got to be the highest set of digits to be worn the number of times it represents. Let's see! First 1: Richie Ashburn Second 2: Jimmie Piersall .... A few years ago, I ran your post as a quiz. I posted the first 10 names on the list as baseball cards and asked who was the next Met in the sequence (Tucker Ashford). The quiz was a stumper. I remember posting a pic of Piersall in #34 because otherwise, the visuals might've given the answer away. http://archives.thecranepool.net/19400/f1_t19496.shtml

Edgy MD wrote: Tenth in batting average, 11th in OBP, fifth in slugging, 12th in homers, 18th in RBI. Fifth in OPS. Only 20th, however, in WAR. Yeah, rate-wise, he's hitting like an all-star. But he hasn't been playing as regularly as the true everyday players. So his counting stats aren't among the very best.