Frayed Knot

Didn't Jerry Grote have something like a 9-rbi day with the Royals? And he played very few games with them. Seven - which is a lot under any circumstance but particularly so considering he had only 9 total for them oe: and those were the final RBIs of his career

G-Fafif wrote: How are the Generals doing these days? One of the '30 in 30' films that ESPN has been running over the past year or so dealt with the quick rise and fall of the USFL. Virtually everyone interviewed blamed Trump for fucking it up. Not just the NJ Generals but the entire league.

CPF Ranks of Met/Royals: Bill Pecota = 404 (vs KCR ranking of 66) Fran Healy = N/A (77) Paul Byrd = 547 (89) Bret Saberhagen = 70 (??) Cookie Rojas = N/A (29) Jose Offerman = 562 (42) Kevin McReynolds = 24 (94) Emil Brown = no ranking (58) Brian McRae = 142 (40) David Cone = 23 (52) Brent Mayne = 519 (56) Clint Hurdle = 410 (63) Angel Berroa = no ranking (64) Michael Tucker = no ranking (73) Jay Bell = no ranking (100) Rey Sanchez = 526 (99) Amos Otis = 482 (??) Carlos Beltran = 20 (??)

Royals blogger, counting down his team's top 100, looks back at Jeff Torborg's favorite futility infielder. First comment to the blog piece on Pecota: He's one of my favorite "gritty, hustles" type player. Nothing fancy just gives it all that he's got everytime on the field. ... although maybe we shouldn't knock it seeing as how the CPF #66 guy is Ron Hunt.

Edgy DC wrote: Best/Worst Tool: Speed/defense That's always an unsettling combo. Except that I think, with a young player and particularly with an outfielder, defense is probably the one skill that's most possible to learn and improve upon, especially when the tool of raw speed is a given.

Kevin Goldstein's write-up at Baseball Prospectus: DOB: 4/1/91 Height/Weight: 6-2/195 Bats/Throws: R/R Drafted/Signed: 2007, Dominican Republic 2010 Stats: .292/.375/.359 at Low-A (109 G) Best/Worst Tool: Speed/defense Year in Review: This teenage Dominican recovered from a slow start to put up impressive numbers at Low-A. The Good: Puello is arguably the best athlete in the system. He's a plus-plus runner, and some scouts project some power for him down the road based on his size and strength. His arm is another plus tool, and he made some adjustments to his swing as the season went on, leading to more consistent contact. The Bad: The debate over Puello's power is wide-ranging, as some see him becoming a real power threat, while others see a line-drive swing and more of a leadoff profile. His second-half breakthrough came with a far more aggressive approach at the plate, and he'll need to find some balance there. He's a poor defensive outfielder who needs his speed to make up for poor jumps and routes, which have so far limited him to a corner. Perfect World Projection: If the power comes as some scouts believe, Puello could become a monster. Without it, he's a unique talent as a corner outfielder with a center fielder's skill set. Path to the Big Leagues: Puello will make his Florida State League debut just days after his 20th birthday. Even if he begins to drive more balls, it won't show up in the stat sheet until he gets to Double-A. ETA: 2013.

metirish wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Rib Tip Syndrome sounds like a delicious problem to have. This really clears up any confusion as to what it is ib-tip syndrome Neurology Intercostal neuralgia accompanied by sharp episodic pain at the costal margin, caused by hypermotility of the anterior end of the costal cartilage of�usually the 10th rib due to trauma. Sounds like a similar condition to the one which has apparently afflicted Lady Gaga's shoulder. Either that or she's recently been the victim of some bizarre industrial accident.

This year I expect ... to find out who Armando Rodriguez is. Or maybe I won't, who knows.

I think Tuesday is reporting day for P&C, Wednesday is first workout. Of course reporting day is today for the Yanx which proves they're more intent on winning.

Whatever happens with Reyes will have nothing to do with Flores. He won't even turn 20 until August; should probably spend most if not all of the year in A ball; and NO ONE thinks he'll be able to stick at SS for very much longer and certainly not in the majors.

Was better than I thought it was going to be about 15 minutes in. When it started it had all the makings of one of those films/TV shows that thinks a loud, dysfunctional, and constantly arguing family is funny as long as said family is [insert ethnicity here]. Maybe a lot of people buy into that theory but, if so, I'm not one of them. This one, while not great, grew into something more. Didn't realize that was Garcia's daughter.

Carl Spackler fulfills his dream and wins the Pebble Beach Pro-Am this weekend. OK, it really helps when your paired pro - D. A. Points in this case - wins the overall competition, but the amateur part of the pairing can't screw it up and Murray, for all his clowning antics, is more than a decent golfer. It was a Cinderella story really.

That was actually well done --- as opposed to many 'Onion' ideas where the concept is funnier than the execution.

With all the conversation about how to escape paying one more dollar to Rodriguez than we gotta, I went to the archives find how wary we were at first: http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/10600/f1_t10685.shtml It's all very... nesty. The most disturbing part about that thread is the reminder that Craig Carton is still employed.

I always expected Paulino to be a Met since we all know Omar was obsessed with him so, as soon as he was available, it's no surprise that Omar immediately jum .... oops, nevermind.

bmfc1 wrote: Mike Breen, NBA and Knicks announcer. On tonight's Knicks game, Girardi was in the crowd and Breen said that he wanted equal time for the Mets. Also, the sideline reporter said that Mike was "Mets guy." Yes, Breen has always been a Mets guy.

"An investor group led by Martin Luther King III and including Ed Kranepool, Charles Dolan, Mark Cuban, Peter Kalikow and others are making an offer, as early as tomorrow, to purchase 100% of the Mets and SNY TV. " OK, it's tomorrow. I guess this announcement is staying rather low key.

Edgy DC wrote: Still, to play with it for a bit, who would you frame as senior partner in that gambit? Unless a ton of parties are lining up to lend MLK III money, it has to be Cuban over Dolan, right? Cuban & Dolan can cut cards to determine which one Selig wants in less.

metirish wrote: Is that a truck load of Fred's money? Yeah, and it's leaving town too.

"An investor group led by Martin Luther King III and including Ed Kranepool, Charles Dolan, Mark Cuban, Peter Kalikow and others are making an offer, as early as tomorrow, to purchase 100% of the Mets and SNY TV. " This strikes me as an awfully quick time-frame to get such a diverse group and what must be a huge wad of money all together. There's also that minor inconvenience of the current owners not wanting to sell.

metirish wrote: The Wayne True Grit os doing the rounds on AMC lately , I did DVR it a few weeks ago but it clocked in at three hours and I didn't have the heart for that. But that's with commercials - which AMC tacks on a ton of these days. The movie clocks in at just over 2 hours IIRC and you can DVR that down to almost the running time. It was also making the rounds of TCM about a month ago where I caught it commercial-free. Had seen it mega years ago so it was a nice refresher course. The Oscar was def Wayne's lifetime achievement award.

I'm all for giving Murph the opportunity and think he can be "a faking-it occasional second baseman". Of course that's not the same thing as an everyday one and for all the Mitchell at SS memories it's a spot he played 25 times in his career, 20 of them starts. I suspect Muffy will get more than that but, again, not full time.

I bet he's already in the best shape of his life.

Speaking of trainers, I saw an HBO piece last week on the health of football players in their post-careers and it largely featured interviews and comments by Mackie Shilstone.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: What square peg? He looked better at first-- quick, surprisingly decisive-- than he ever looked in the outfield; if he had one fault there, it was trying to cover too much ground... which is much less of a flaw at the keystone. The square peg where you take someone who was a bat-first corner player throughout his amateur and minor league career and try to re-make him in the middle of the diamond in the majors at age 25. Mora turned out to be just fine But not as a short-stop.