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You Always Remember Your First Time
batmagadanleadoff replied to MFS62's topic in New York Mets Talk
I doubt that you understand. The reason for my post is that David Wright is not a Hall of Famer. He was already done --- toast -- by his age 31 season, four years before he would officially retire, after having already missed large chunks of almost two seasons even before that. He had the talent and the character to make the HOF and was on a HOF trajectory for the first few seasons of his career. But he lacked luck. Injuries demolished whatever chances he once had of Cooperstown enshrinement. Career WAR (49.2) Average HOF 3B (68.4) JAWS (44.3) Average HOF 3B (55.8) But if youse wanna turn this into a Romper Room festival of giddy posts where every Met supposedly belongs in the HOF because they're Mets, go ahead. If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands. If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands. Ring around the rosey. Pocketful of poseys. Yay! -
You Always Remember Your First Time
batmagadanleadoff replied to MFS62's topic in New York Mets Talk
I guess your rule is that if you were a Met, you could engineer one of the most disgraceful cheating scandals in sports history and still get into the HOF. Because you were a Met! And what do you suppose they'll discover about Wright that they don't already know? A secret stash of 200 HR's that he's been secretly hoarding from the public? -
it's all relative. 4/115 isn't quite Aaron Judge money but it's one heckuva score for a 30 year old man.
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I think he's gone. I think that some other team will give him the money, more or less, that he's asking for. It only takes one owner. He's an all- star and presumably, a big draw, a marquee name. And some team will be looking to make a big splash with their fans after coming off a disappointing season and so will pay Alonso what he wants. But it won't be the Mets. I think that Stearns will evaluate Alonso in a cold and calculating manner, very much devoid of all of the emotional attachments at play here and the gap between what the Mets offer and what some other team offers will be too large for Alonso to stay here. Me personally, I have no idea what I prefer.
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Sequels. Not remakes. Coming to America and Coming 2 America were many years apart. Bambi and Bambi 2, too.
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When the Rogers Centre debuted some 35 years ago, (originally, it was simply called "the Skydome" -- this was back in the day before the grubby and greedy large corporations got their names on practically all of the sports stadiums), it was as state of the art as a sports stadium could be. During its inaugural season, the "Game of the Week" did a pre-game feature on the stadium, including a bit about how there was even a McDonald's inside of the Skydome. I thought that was the coolest thing I ever saw in a sports stadium, which shows just how bad and limited stadium food was back then. I immediately got in the mood to go and watch a game at the Skydome just because of the McDonald's in there. Which itself, was kinda odd, because even 35 years ago, McDonald's was so ubiquitous that if you lived anywhere in the five boroughs, no matter where you lived, you were probably no more than a 10 minute walk or drive away from a McDonald's. To this day, I never did get to go to that stadium.
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I've thought about that too. Pete's going to want an awfully long contract, and Stearns may not want to give it to him. I've been thinking about that for weeks now.
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Also, small sample size, like you said, but Alonso was never as good as Vientos is this year, not even in 2019. And 2019 was the year of the juiciest juice ball in the history of mankind while this year is closer to 1968, the year of the pitcher. Vientos is absolutely killing it this year.
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Mark Vientios is now a beast and the Mets scariest hitter. Hope his awesomeness lasts and it's not a fluke.
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Wow. This is new to me. This is a problem I had no idea existed until I read that piece. Not to sound like the "Master of the Obvious", but it's so true that money really is the root of all evil. The most extreme example being these greedy corporate scumbag fatcats who are going to destroy our planet by knowingly undermining the climate change movement because the multi millions of dollars that they already have arn't enough dollars for them. /gets off soapbox
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My guess is that the Mets won't trade Alonso if all they can get for him in return are "middling prospects ". I don't think that the Mets will trade Alonso simply for the sake of trading him.
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That's my understanding, too.
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Of course, when I wrote "three year plan ", I was writing like from the mindset of the olden days. Because what is a three year plan today when 40% of the teams make the playoffs?
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If the Mets are still where they are now come the trade deadline, it seems they're going to go into a total teardown --- a three year plan --- despite whatever happy talk euphemistic spin Cohen and Stearns come up with. What else would you call it when everybody can be had other than maybe Lindor, Nimmo , Alvarez and Diaz?
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According to all of the commentary and media coverage, it seems like a foregone conclusion, a certainty that Pete Alonso will be traded by the trade deadline.
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Stone's version might be wacky, but no more wacky than the Warren Commission's official conclusion that Oswald, acting alone, killed JFK.
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Money always talks the loudest. That's also why practically half of the teams now make the playoffs.
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Could be. In 1985, Gooden had his season for the history books. Keith was still prime Keith. Carter had his best Mets season. And Strawberry, rate-wise, had the best season of his entire baseball career. The Cards were also terrific. And deep. But they were also Jack Clark and seven singles hitters. But you can't make anything meaningful out of those standings results. The Mets finished three games behind the Cards in the standings. That difference can easily be explained by simple randomness and luck, especially over 162 games and 18 head-to-head games. The Mets would've had to flip just two head-to-head losses to win the division. Also, that season, the Cards beat the Mets by just one run five times. And factor in that there's way more luck in baseball than in any other sport. Personally, I always thought that the difference between two baseball teams that finished 10 games apart in the standings is tiny. That's why today's game, with 12 playoff teams, is a stupid shitshow.
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Sandy Koufax is now the last living member of the WS champion 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers. 1955 was Koufax's rookie season.
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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
batmagadanleadoff replied to Chad ochoseis's topic in Film Review Forum
I kinda have the same issue. Kinda. My issue is that I've seen very few new movies over the past 10 years or so. Not only in movie theaters, but even when they play on TV/Cable TV. I just have less patience. This doesn't apply to movies that I've already seen. I could watch those all over again. Also, this doesn't apply to older movies that I've never seen. I'm a big fan of TCM. But I have less patience for newer movies. I don't know exactly why that is. -
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I'm totally with FK here. They're trying to make a tight two hour movie, like always. If the story could be told without the 9/11 tragedy, it should. The Chad Bradford factual alteration makes perfect sense from a movie storytelling perspective because Bradford epitomizes the sabermetrics philosophy adopted by the A's: the unorthodox looking pitcher who is nevertheless, extremely effective stat-wise. So the scriptwriters had Oakland acquire Bradford for 2002 to better demonstrate the A's philosophy shift. Very few true story movies are 100% accurate. I watched Bohemian Rhapsody last week and Queen was performing Fat Bottomed Girls years before the song was actually written. This week I saw Black Mass, which absolves practically the whole Boston FBI other than two agents, of complicity in the Bulger scandal and ignores entirely that rogue agent Connoly was also on the take. Makes you wonder what Connoly's motivation was. Moneyball is about 20 years old and I've never heard anybody mention the missing 9/11 angle. It would've needlessly cluttered the movie.
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Does anybody still watch SNL? I haven't in decades. If I hear about a funny bit, I'll watch the clip on the web.
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Then there was Phil Hartman, an SNL host who was murdered. But that doesn't count.
