Frayed Knot

In the brief few minutes I saw of the Bachman/Turner show, Randy Bachman introduced 'YASNY' as the song no one thought much about and only got included on the record as an afterthought ... "and then it sold ____ million copies and was #1 for ____ weeks".

TransMonk wrote: And would you cry if I told you that I lied? And would you say goodbye or would you let it ride? Good bye, hard life, don�t cry, would you let it ride? I was flipping channels last night after the game and stumbled across a station showing a somewhat recent (not sure exactly when) Bachman & Turner reunion concert. Only hung on it for a few moments and clicked off when the intro to 'Ain't Seen Nuthin Yet' began (never liked that one). What I was hoping for was a rendition of 'Let it Ride' which was always my favorite BTO song.

Dickey - 3.9 Rauch - 0.2 Parnell - 0.2 Acosta - 0.3 Wright - 2.0 Duda - 1.1 Baxter - 1.1 Tejada - 0.7 Murphy - 0.5

Santana - 4.0 Ramirez - 0.1 Rauch - 0.5 Francisco - 0.5 Murphy - 1.0 Duda - 1.3 Nieuwenhuis - 1.0 Thole - 0.8 Turner - 0.4 Hairston - 0.4

Acosta - 0.7 Parnell - 0.5 Duda - 1.3 Turner - 1.0 Tejada - 0.5 Murphy - 0.6 Bay - 0.5 Nieuwenhuis - 0.4

Hefner - 1.5 Ramirez - 0.25 Parnell - 0.25 Acosta - 0.15 Nieuwenhuis - 1.0 Murphy - 1.0 Baxter - 1.0 Tejada - 0.5 Duda - 0.7

Mets � Willets Point wrote: What we really need to see is a giant ceramic pig full of hot sauce. Do you really want to be around a pig after it's had a whole bottle of hot sauce? I've seen that before my friend and the results are not pretty.

Next up: Runs Scored in a NYM Career. With two tonight, Wright now is 28 behind Reyes. Sounds like late June/early July barring injuries.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Baxter? I love that kid. The GKR trio certainly giving young Baxter a lot more love than he gets around here.

1 hour = half a game

Edgy DC wrote: Anybody have a scouting report on this shit character? I hear he stinks.

Were this the old days, that elder Steinbrenner character would right now be petitioning the league (or at least threatening to via the press) for a reversal of the trade on the ground that the Mariners knew he was damaged goods. He would then claim anti-NYY bias as the reason the commish allowed the deal to stand.

Edgy DC wrote: A pretty lefty-licious lineup for Buehrle to face, no? Pretty tough for Terry to even create much of a righty-licious one.

Would suck if this near gem turns out to be Pelf's last game as a Met

So we'd have to start with what you could do which is to generate a list of those who made NYM April debuts (rather lengthy I'm sure) and then cull it manually from there by checking on call-up dates and previous ML experience. Hmmmm, a bit more work than I was bargaining for.

Ceetar wrote: Hefner isn't an MLB debut Yeah it is. He came up through the Padres system but never played for their big league club. This question doesn't limit itself to only those who have been NYM property all along, just for those breaking in for the first time during April but weren't there from the very beginning of the year.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Zoilo, by the way, is a great name! Sounds like some kind of butter substitute. And his middle name is "Parahoy" In retrospect, I wish I had named my kids (both of them!) Zoilo Parahoy. And will you recall / the most famous Zoilo of all? That would of course be 1965 AL MVP Zoilo Vesalles The Cuban-born Versalles had himself a more than respectable 12 year big league career highlighted by his season for the pennant winning '65 Twins when the 5' 10"/146-lb SS managed to lead the AL in PAs, ABs, Runs scored, 2Bs, 3Bs, and Total Bases (also Ks) for a seemingly modest (for an MVP anyway) slash line of .273/.319/.462 in the midst of that offensively challenged era. Also won the Gold Glove. Within two years after that his offensive game had totally collapsed. He hung around for a few more years with the Angels, Indians, Senators and then popped up briefly with the Braves in 1971, hitting around or under .200 in most of those seasons. I later read a story about him pushing shopping carts in the Twin-Cities area as he became a kind of symbol of the former Latin-American athlete who had fallen on hard times as the result of possessing limited job skills and English proficiency. He died in Bloomington, Minnesota in 1995 at the age of 55.

Can your magic spreadsheet conjure whether five or more players making their ML debut in April with the caveat being that none of them were on the roster for opening day is a first in NYM history or is it something more akin to the norm? (NOOOOORM!) This year has so far featured debutants Nieuwenhuis, Valdespin, Lutz, Hefner, and, presumably before the week is out if not today, Carson. Seems to me that the situation featuring this many guys showing up in April but not from day 1 would be unusually high, but maybe not.

Edgy DC wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: "Hi, I'm Mike Wallace from '60 Minutes' and I'd like to talk to you about your company's finances" Yeah, I can't tell you how much that would creep me out. Particularly if it happened, like, this week.

Now 0-fer-15 plus a walk & 2 SFs in 18 PAs w/bases loaded. I'm think I'm going to keep tracking this at least until we get an actual hit.

And all is right with the world again.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Holy hell. Ike sucks right now but really? Why is hitting 4th then? 6th tonight actually. And with the LHP in I would have made the swap too.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Lutz wearing a little league helmet Magadan used to wear the double ear-flap helmet. Claimed it made him more aerodynamic.

Two sentences most Americans never want to hear: - "Hi, I'm Mike Wallace from '60 Minutes' and I'd like to talk to you about your company's finances" - "It might be nothing but we've made an appointment for you with Dr. James Andrews"

Would somebody please close that damn gate!