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Ollie is such an easy target for this kind of drubbing from beat writers, he needs to be more responsible.

Can there be such a thing as a big start in Spring Training? Maine makes for some dire reading in the papers lately.

It was an OK article. I certainly didn't think that Ollie was going to win 20 games after reading last week how the Mets found that kink in his delivery , it's a typical story from down there. But there is always hope that fixing that kink will enable Perez to win 20.

Of course I was for a brief moment confused by the thread title.....good work by Beltran.

Whoever in the booth telling us that it gets "cold" down here during the night...having a right old laugh they are.

I think the Mets Santana ,Pelfrey and Maine stack up pretty good with the other teams 1-2-3, what comes after those three is what's concerning . Boston and Chicago's top to bottom looks good. In the NL East I think we match up fine.

Sounds like the Mets are sorry they let Ollie go to the WBC....Dan Wharten with some very pointed remarks about Ollie.... ] "I was a little reticent when he left, and my worries have come to fruition," Warthen said. "I think he needs the camaraderie of people that push him. So yes, I think he's a guy that needs to stay with the group and be hands on. Ollie's a guy that has to repeat his delivery time and time again, with a lot of volume delivery-wise. Yes, it set him back. He's set back probably at least 10 days." ". "I think he's out of shape, the arm is out of shape. It's a combination. Since he's come back we really haven't seen the life out of the hand, the ball is just not jumping out right now....I think he's gained a little weight and needs to start pushing himself a little more."

2. Kevin Burkhardt's terrible pbp .

="TheOldMole":3er9cvjw]A friend of mine who was a baseball writer back in the day told me that Yogi Berra was the best-hung athlete he ever saw.[/quote:3er9cvjw] Some great posting here today. Yogi must have had a yogism for being hung like that. dinosaur jesus Mar 25 2009 12:15 PM ="metirish":3nsi0yhk]="TheOldMole":3nsi0yhk]A friend of mine who was a baseball writer back in the day told me that Yogi Berra was the best-hung athlete he ever saw.[/quote:3nsi0yhk] Some great posting here today. Yogi must have had a yogism for being hung like that.[/quote:3nsi0yhk] As I recall, according to David Halberstam it was the late Johnny Blanchard who set the standard in the Yankee clubhouse. TransMonk Mar 25 2009 12:23 PM ="metirish":2sh23i0j]="TheOldMole":2sh23i0j]A friend of mine who was a baseball writer back in the day told me that Yogi Berra was the best-hung athlete he ever saw.[/quote:2sh23i0j] Some great posting here today. Yogi must have had a yogism for being hung like that.[/quote:2sh23i0j] "Bill Dickey is learning me his experience." G-Fafif Mar 25 2009 12:38 PM ="TheOldMole":300nag1k]A friend of mine who was a baseball writer back in the day told me that Yogi Berra was the best-hung athlete he ever saw.[/quote:300nag1k] Imagine your agent taking that stat to arbitration. MFS62 Mar 25 2009 12:46 PM I worked with a guy who was a long time friend of MArty Appell. Marty worked in the YAnkee PR office for many years. My friend told me that not all the members on those "great" Yankee teams were great. Marty told my friend that Horace Clarke had severe shortcomings. Later Benjamin Grimm Mar 25 2009 12:49 PM This should be the "Too Much Information" thread. Edgy DC Mar 25 2009 12:53 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 25 2009 09:08 PM I think it should be the "Guys I know who tell me about other guys dicks" thread. Fman99 Mar 25 2009 08:46 PM Cut. Print. Gay. MFS62 Mar 27 2009 12:53 PM Back to Piazza. IIRC he had a "personal trainer" living with him in Spring Training a few years ago. He said the guy prepared meatless meals and "protein shakes". Y'mean that was just a sham? A coverup? Horrors! Later Benjamin Grimm Mar 27 2009 01:06 PM Are you implying that the "trainer" was a "boyfriend?" Time for another press conference! MFS62 Mar 27 2009 01:31 PM ="Benjamin Grimm":3uuccp5b]Are you implying that the "trainer" was a "boyfriend?" Time for another press conference![/quote:3uuccp5b] No! We're talking the stories about Mike on steroids here. Nothing else intended. Mike is married to a hottie. Those rumors about his sexuality were answered IMO. (Or should I say they have been put to bed?) Later LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 27 2009 01:51 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 27 2009 03:17 PM http://www.babychums.com/?p=741 Also... he's two times a daddy, so there goes the Playmate-as-beard rumor; he had to have shut the eyes and come into home standing up at least twice. If one of the kids grows up to have a biblical-scale case of bacne, does that help clear Pops? Benjamin Grimm Mar 27 2009 01:54 PM

="Methead":23hlms6v]="A Boy Named Seo":23hlms6v]That kid would probably hit like 109 on FOX's playoff gun.[/quote:23hlms6v] Quick! Get the graphics department to add more flames![/quote:23hlms6v] Funny , thankfully that phase passed for FOX . I remember when they got the NHL , flames all over the ice. Frayed Knot Mar 27 2009 06:55 PM But Tom Boswell tells the Nationals (owners of next June's #1 pick): Be afraid. Be very afraid[/url:2cmzvydt] Edgy DC Mar 27 2009 08:03 PM Hey, where you been?

I apologize for any misunderstanding on my part. Not t hat it means anything but I thought Wagner was clocked at over 100.

I'm pulling out guys , I just can't commit to the draft and other years when it got auto drafted for me my team sucked, sorry.

Oops , he could fall to them although the article says they feel they have no shot at him. It will be worth watching to see what happens to this kid.

="MFS62":2oj7h798]Here's a link that looks like they may have missed one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Dalkowski Later[/quote:2oj7h798] Dalkowski gets mentioned in the sixth paragraph from the end . Where do the Padres pick in the draft? They must be salivating with a kid form San Diego State and all the hype it would generate for them , plus they could use that hype I would think. Edgy DC Mar 25 2009 11:05 AM Pads pick third, according to the fourth paragraph above the last dividing line. Why don't we all just read the article to each other? metirish Mar 25 2009 11:10 AM Oops , he could fall to them although the article says they feel they have no shot at him. It will be worth watching to see what happens to this kid. MFS62 Mar 25 2009 11:19 AM I saw the name, but I added my link because it provided an MPH number for Dalkowski. Later metirish Mar 25 2009 11:40 AM I apologize for any misunderstanding on my part. Not t hat it means anything but I thought Wagner was clocked at over 100. Methead Mar 25 2009 11:48 AM ="A Boy Named Seo":i9fro6an]That kid would probably hit like 109 on FOX's playoff gun.[/quote:i9fro6an] Quick! Get the graphics department to add more flames! metirish Mar 25 2009 11:59 AM ="Methead":23hlms6v]="A Boy Named Seo":23hlms6v]That kid would probably hit like 109 on FOX's playoff gun.[/quote:23hlms6v] Quick! Get the graphics department to add more flames![/quote:23hlms6v] Funny , thankfully that phase passed for FOX . I remember when they got the NHL , flames all over the ice. Frayed Knot Mar 27 2009 06:55 PM But Tom Boswell tells the Nationals (owners of next June's #1 pick): Be afraid. Be very afraid[/url:2cmzvydt] Edgy DC Mar 27 2009 08:03 PM Hey, where you been?

I'll submit it but I think before they would accept it it needs to be polished up a bit.

Back acne is one thing but before I'm convinced of anything I would like to know if he's balls were shriveled , did any of the beat writers ever notice his nuts?

Hard Rock Cafe vendors behind the bleachers A view of the great hall in the new Yankee Stadium. Jeter's locker

I was seeing or at least trying to see D. J. Dozier .

I've no beef with Pearlman , loved his 86 book.

="G-Fafif":63538mrz]="Edgy DC":63538mrz]I actually thought this was going to be about Wally Backman.[/quote:63538mrz] I did, too. Hoped there'd be some umpire getting a YouTube beatdown or something.[/quote:63538mrz] I never even thought of Backman , shame on me. That was brilliant Seawolf. Methead Mar 24 2009 02:58 PM Excellent work there, Seawolf. G-Fafif Mar 24 2009 03:06 PM Fire Wally. Fire Chico. Seawolf writes everything from here on out. themetfairy Mar 24 2009 03:18 PM Great job Wolf! Met Hunter Mar 24 2009 03:58 PM Excellent job there SeaWolf. You make me proud to be a Met fan. You need to send it to that dickhead. batmagadanleadoff Mar 24 2009 04:04 PM This is another in a never-ending series of idiotic Mets articles by Wally Matthews, as everyone else here noticed. In this latest, the Mets are failures, not only because they aren't as successful as the Yankees, but also, because their sins aren't as sinful as those of their crosstown rivals. I'm not defending Wally in this paragraph; the article's obviously contrived and dumb -like most of his other Met pieces- to the point where the man cannot be said to be objective about the team. And a writer without objectivity is irrelevant. But don't get me started on Wilpon, either. He's a bad baseball man and really, under the guise of a baseball owner, still a ruthless businessman whose main purpose always, always, always is to squeeze every single penny out of life at the expense of everything else. Fman99 Mar 24 2009 08:11 PM Seawolf is the bizarro Wally. Amen brother, Geneseo in the house! seawolf17 Mar 25 2009 10:35 AM Thanks for all the kind words. It's really Wally's work; I just edited it for him to read properly. I understand that you think you can sell papers by being "controversial," but it's crap. Knock Murphy, but not Brett Gardner? Knock Maine, but not Wang? Knock them for "only" charging $300 for a top seat? And fuck, all we've heard about all winter is about the fucking collapse. We haven't heard anything about the Yankees not making the playoffs. Go to hell, Wally. metsguyinmichigan Mar 25 2009 10:45 AM Nice job, 'Wolf. In a way, the Yankees are like the Mets' douchbag neighbors. You just know they'd build an ice rink righ outside your door if given the chance. Edgy DC Mar 25 2009 10:52 AM I kind of hated them buying up interest in the Nets. Not that I dig on the Nets, but I hated the Steins breaking up the Mets-Jets-Nets continuum. Vic Sage Mar 26 2009 07:48 AM don't forget the brief, if beloved, NY Sets batmagadanleadoff Mar 26 2009 08:25 AM ... and the NY Bets. (mid 70's OTB ad campaign tying into that whole MetsJetsNetsSets thing) Edgy DC Mar 26 2009 08:29 AM And the New York Threats --- a public relations initiative trying to gain broader acceptatance for a mafia shakedown campaign.

Wow , I'm not so sure Rodriguez is suited for the unique pressure of playing in NY.

Pitching changes will now be known as withdrawals - " Manuel goes to the mound to make a withdrawal , hey folks you too can make withdrawals all over Citi Field"

And every Bill Webb shot of the NYC skyline from now on will be greeted by Gary with " great Citi shot".

Wally kills me , any point that might be worth something gets lost in all the hate he seems to have for the Mets organization. It's as if he was bullied by Fred Wilpon or something for years and now this is his way to pay him back , just very strange. ] Imagine a world without Yankees. Imagine a world in which there was no $210-million team playing in a brand-new $1.3-billion ballpark, charging as much as $2,500 for the rights to watch its quarter-of-a-billion-dollar third baseman try to outrun a passel of paparazzi. Imagine if there were no 26 world championship banners flying in the Bronx, no Monument Park to remind us of all the exalted ghosts who helped hoist them, no Boss to create the monster and no Prince Hal or Boy George to systematically destroy it. Imagine if there were no Bob Sheppard, no Robert Merrill, no Challenger the Bald Eagle, no Ronan Tynan. No John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman. No - heaven forbid! - Derek Jeter. What would that leave us with? Right. The Mets. How do you think you'd like that? Better question: How do you think they'd like it? The Mets, that is. The answer, of course, is not much. In a world without Yankees, the Mets would have a whole lot more to answer for. In a town that prides itself on giving no free rides, the Mets have enjoyed a lifetime Metro card into blissful anonymity for most of their 47-year history. They build an $800-million ballpark (Troubled Assets Relief Program Field) financed in large part by government subsidies and taxpayer bailout money, and nobody gives a damn because the Yankees did the same thing, only on a bigger scale, in the Bronx. The Mets raise their highest ticket prices to nearly $300 a seat, which in most locales would be a scandal and an obscenity, and compared to the Yankees, they look like a discount store. The Mets spend more on ballplayers than all but one other team in Major League Baseball. But because that one team is the Yankees, who outspend their nearest competitor by the value of the entire Colorado Rockies roster, nobody cares. And when, with that $140-million roster, the 2008 Mets execute the second of two of the most disheartening back-to-back collapses in baseball history, they somehow fly under the supposedly sensitive New York radar. Why? Because in 2008, the Yankees failed to make the playoffs, too. I would submit that never in the history of organized professional sports has a team benefited so greatly from constantly running second in a two-horse race. Once again, the Mets have enjoyed a fabulous spring. And once again, the Yankees alone take a bullet that should pass through both of them. Despite blowing the NL East for the second straight season, the 2009 Mets come out of camp full of optimism and confident that whatever ailed them in 2008 has been cured. They rid themselves of their in-house "culprits'' - Aaron Heilman, Scott Schoeneweis, Duaner Sanchez, Luis Ayala and, of course, the Wicked Witch of the NL East, Willie Randolph - and added two "saviors,'' Francisco Rodriguez and J.J. Putz. With the help of their main divisional antagonists, the Phillies, they also rid themselves of longtime Mets-killer Pat Burrell, out of the National League. And with the annual assistance of the Yankees and their ever-helpful third baseman, they have rid themselves of having to answer the kind of questions that are routinely asked in Tampa and the Bronx but rarely are heard in Port St. Lucie or Flushing. Such as, after Johan Santana and, hopefully, Mike Pelfrey, which starting pitcher can you truly rely on every five days for a full season? John Maine? Oliver Perez? Livan Hernandez? Pedro Martinez? Or, do you really expect that Daniel Murphy, with all of 131 major-league at-bats to his credit (and, ominously, only two home runs), can handle the responsibilities of an everyday leftfielder? Same goes for rightfielder Ryan Church, who suffered two serious concussions last year and was never the same. Are we to trust that he is fully recovered now? What about Luis Castillo, the subject of this year's spate of disingenuous "rededicated and in the best shape of his life'' training-camp space-fillers? And then there's Brian Schneider, who didn't hit a lick last year but will this year, we are assured, because he now is "more comfortable'' in New York. Never having heard this before this spring, I wonder: When exactly did his comfort level become a problem? Then, of course, there are "the collapses'' to be dealt with. If they didn't choke in 2007 and they didn't choke in 2008, what exactly did they do? Each collapse may have been hideous in its own unique way, but that doesn't change the bottom line. Two years running, the Mets, with the fattest payroll, the most talent and, it often seems, the biggest egos in the division, needed to win one more game to reach October. Two years running, they couldn't do it. Why not? And, considering their history, why should we believe they will do it this season? In a world without Yankees, those are the kinds of questions the Mets would have to answer. In the world the Mets inhabit, those kinds of questions aren't even asked. Their fans may not be able to live with the Yankees, but the Mets wouldn't want to live without them.

="metsguyinmichigan":1cddko2p]How does a 26-year-old get a job at the Washington Post, much less covering a dream beat at the Washington Post?[/quote:1cddko2p] Harlan was working for the Daily Telegraph in Sydney, Australia, last year when Eli Saslow phoned to say that the Post�s baseball beat had come open. Saslow, a rising star at the paper, was Harlan�s roommate and best friend at Syracuse. �Eli facilitated the sell,� Harlan says. The first comment below the article calls it a " prime example of the Syracuse mafia"...... Fman99 Mar 24 2009 09:24 AM I got douche chills reading that article. This guy can go screw. TheOldMole Mar 24 2009 09:58 AM Reading it again, he's stupider, and I'm angrier. When was the last time a beat writer for a daily newspaper gave nitty gritty play by play. Has this guy ever read a sports page? TheOldMole Mar 24 2009 10:50 AM And...so much for "baseball been berry berry good to Chico." G-Fafif Mar 24 2009 10:57 AM Should he walk away from this assignment, consider him Chico, walker[/url:51n9j4wv]. bmfc1 Mar 24 2009 11:00 AM The thing that gets me is that he's 26 so he's not an old and jaded reporter who has "seen it all." He hasn't seen anything! He just wanted the job, and who could blame him, but he shouldn't have been given the job. I know someone that knows him and says he's a good guy but he should be reassigned. John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 24 2009 11:02 AM I write about food. I propose me and Chico Harlan switch jobs. G-Fafif Mar 24 2009 11:15 AM ="John Cougar Lunchbucket":30nnpnmp]I write about food. I propose me and Chico Harlan switch jobs.[/quote:30nnpnmp] "Food is for losers," said new food reporter Chico Harlan. "I'm embarrassed I even have to eat it. I can't wait to stop. It is a means to sustenance, and I just as soon not sustain my existence on this plane any longer." Harlan added he exists mostly on a higher plane in which the ingestion of food is a completely superfluous activity. Ironically, before this story went to press, Harlan was eaten alive by cannibals. TheOldMole Mar 24 2009 11:44 AM Had to blog about this.[/url:3974xxx9] metsguyinmichigan Mar 24 2009 11:49 AM ="TheOldMole":2ab2loh9]Had to blog about this.[/url:2ab2loh9][/quote:2ab2loh9] Nice job taking him apart. Jason Giambi's apology was better! G-Fafif Mar 24 2009 11:51 AM Outstanding piece and perspective, Mole. If I were Chico Wanker's editor, I'd release him. At 26, that may be the bracing professional slap this little bastard needs. He can go somewhere where they don't care who his SU roommate was. Never mind the obnoxious quotes, the bad-for-business de facto spitting on your readers and the insincere apology. You have a problem with your job, you don't go to the outside world and announce it. You bring it up internally. In his case, you go to your editor and say, "Any way I can get off this beat? I think I might be better suited for something other than the Nationals." It's not an unreasonable request. bmfc1 Mar 24 2009 12:00 PM Nicely done, TheOldMole. I hope it gets the attention of a [u:3ahobw1b]Post [/u:3ahobw1b]bigshot. The [u:3ahobw1b]Post [/u:3ahobw1b]is making numerous cutbacks--including eliminating the Sunday Books section, dropping six comic strips, dropping a separate daily Business section--so this guy is lucky he's employed. Edgy DC Mar 24 2009 12:18 PM For the time being. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 24 2009 12:33 PM Nicely, nicely, Mr. Mole. ="metsguyinmichigan":1kcywfpg]How does a 26-year-old get a job at the Washington Post, much less covering a dream beat at the Washington Post?[/quote:1kcywfpg] ="bmfc1":1kcywfpg]Nicely done, TheOldMole. I hope it gets the attention of a [u:1kcywfpg]Post [/u:1kcywfpg]bigshot. The [u:1kcywfpg]Post [/u:1kcywfpg]is making numerous cutbacks--including eliminating the Sunday Books section, dropping six comic strips, dropping a separate daily Business section--so this guy is lucky he's employed.[/quote:1kcywfpg] I think the two issues aren't entirely unrelated-- the fact that a young, relatively unheralded guy with some talent is assigned to a beat job he doesn't love is largely due to the fact that he's not an older guy with greater, and more specialized-- and more costly-- talent. Edgy DC Mar 24 2009 12:57 PM I think it's a buyer's market for talent right now. How many New York sportswriters were laid off this year? themetfairy Mar 24 2009 01:28 PM Well stated Mole!