Frayed Knot

i mean, unless we're somehow drawing, say, brain cashman over from the evils Whether a typo or sarcasm, this is funny either way.

Maybe the most brazen Francesa 'I know more than you' moment came on 9/11 As a Long Island resident he was the only one who could get in that day w/o needing a bridge so he took over directly from Imus's extended show that day and solo-ed throughout the afternoon. Obviously it wasn't a day to discuss sports but Mike, never one to limit his own expertise to just one area, didn't hesitate to tell his listening audience about how there was no doubt that the Pennsylvania plane was shot down by our government to prevent further damage and it's only a matter of time before those facts came to light and the rest of us were told what he already knew.

metirish wrote: Francesa "Madoff didn't take on non-jewish clients" is that true? No, although, from what I've read, he did use the 'you can trust me because I'm one of you' sales pitch when targeting potential Jewish clients.

Yesterday's rumors had Kirk Gibson being re-upped in Arizona despite a nothing special record since his mid-season takeover. Don't think that's official yet but sounds like it's one job that will NOT be open this winter.

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Heyman saying Omar to say with some job other than GM. HOTDOGS ... GET YER HOTDOGS HERE

If the Mets sign a Type A FA (assuming he's offered arb and all) the team that loses him will get [u:36k9j6kv]the Mets 2nd round pick[/u:36k9j6kv], not the 1st. So depending on how many sandwich round picks there are that pick will probably be somewhere in the 50s or so. The team losing the player also gets a sandwich pick - that's independent of whether the team that signs him has a protected pick or not - but that's merely an extra pick and not one they take away from us. oe: the Mets lost the 57th pick overall to the BoSox last season for signing Jason Bay instead of the 7th pick which was protected.

2011 DRAFT ORDER: 1 - PIRATES 2 - MARINERS 3 - DBACKS 4 - ORIOLES 5 - ROYALS 6 - NATIONALS * 7 - D'BACKS 8 - INDIANS 9 - CUBS * 10 - PADRES 11 - ASTROS 12 - BREWERS 13 - METS 14 - MARLINS * 15 - BREWERS 16 - DODGERS 17 - ANGELS 18 - A's 19 - TIGERS 20 - ROCKIES 21 - BLUE JAYS 22 - CARDINALS 23 - WHITE SOX 24 - RED SOX 25 - PADRES 26 - RANGERS 27 - REDS 28 - BRAVES 29 - GIANTS 30 - TWINS 31 - YANKEES 32 - RAYS 33 - PHILLIES * Compensation pick for failure to sign 2010 1st round pick I believe that the insertion of the compensation picks means that the first 18 picks - up to an including the Tigers - are protected from being lost through a FA signing In either case the Mets' 1st rounder is protected.

Valdes - 2.2 Dickey - 0.5 Acosta - 0.5 Duda - 1.5 Wright - 2.2 Pagan - 1.1 JFeliciano - 0.5 Green - 0.2 PFeliciano - 0.2 Carter - 1.1

Pelfrey - 4.1 Acosta - 2.0 Igarashi - 0.4 Takahashi - 0.5 Green - 0.5 Tejada - 0.5

I bet Fred's not gonna show.

Never been a real Braves hater, but I think the Giants are the better team. They can't hit for shit, but that pitching in short bursts could be awesome.

Rays win in 12th, finish one full game ahead of Yanx and with best record in AL (96-66)

TheOldMole wrote: Will Ollie end his Met career with one last loss? Nah, he's usually pretty good on 62 days rest.

Officially there's no such thing (and I was really just trying to be funny there) but there have been a couple of instances where the 'losing' (hence WC) team has raised a co-Champ banner the following year, amid some grumbling from the real winners. I think Boston did it one year where they tied w/the Yanx (I remember Bill Madden yapping about it) and I know StL did so following a year where they tied w/Houston.

TB still has to fight hard so they don't get stuck with a co-Division Champion flag next Spring

Only if Papelbon can get the final out before surrendering 4 more runs ... I'd say that's about 50/50 at this point. oe: although Tampa has tied up KC in the 9th, so maybe they won't need it.

Braves assured of at least one more game. Cox went to Wagner in the 8th w/a 4-run lead and men on but he threw gas on the fire and suddenly it was just an 8-7 lead. But then he got the side in the 9th. Braves can now do no worse than a WC tie

The season that just won't end !!

Gwreck wrote: Jerry takes Wright and Reyes out of the game at the top of the 9th so they can get an ovation from the crowd. It's like he had to perform one final act of stupidity before leaving us. I'm glad they could be recognized by the crowd but it's a TIE GAME. We do still want to win, right? Plus he did the double-switch thing (pitcher's batting 3rd) and then pulled Takahashi after 1 inning anyway and before Hessman's spot ever came up.

We're taking a poll as to which batter Green hits. I'll take the 3rd guy he faces.

Did Riggleman really think Tejada was such a threat that he couldn't leave in his Lefty? It's like a manager dumb-a-thon out there.

Yeah, I remember that game. I just couldn't remember if Clippard did something particularly assholish on top of it. The Nats have had a killer bullpen this season, one which was barely dented by the mid-season trade of their closer (hint, hint) and Clippard's been a big part of that, especially recently. In fact, he was on some 17 consecutive innings scoreless streak prior to Thole's HR. Nice that we could get to him two nights in a row.

Been catching peeks at the Yanx/BoSox DH today ... - First of all, what a freakin' joke. They got rained out last night and were the 4PM FOX game today. So instead of making it a regular DH, Sox mgmt didn't want to get stuck with refunds and/or credits so made it a separate admission DH with start times of 4:10 & 9:05. That's 4 hours 55 minutes in between games by two teams who routinely take 4-1/2 hours to play. And guess what? -- They did. Game 1 ends at around 8:40 (10 innings) and so they have to clear out the entire stadium to get the new fans in who have already got to be at the gates where the game 1 fans need to file out. Amazingly enough they did all that in around 45 minutes and got game 2 started just before 9:30, but that's a 9:30 PM start ... in New England ... in October. The Wilpons would get skewered (and rightfully so) for pulling something like this. - These have been two of the worst played games I've ever seen. The Sox get 11 hits and 8 walks in game 1 and were lucky to get 5 runs out of it. Pettitte sucked again but Boston let him off the hook repeatedly by leaving runners on all over the place, hitting into DPs, making errors, had runners thrown out at home despite two Yanqui overthrows, and generally sucking all over. And after all that I think they still out-played the Yanx. Oh yeah and Papelbon sucked again. - They're now an hour into game 2 and they just started the 3rd inning. Well, it's Burnett & Matsuzaka, whaddya expect? Yanx are up 3-1 and I think they have 2 hits. There are more HBPs & BBs so far than balls hit out of the infield. Now 4-1. 3 more MFY baserunners on 1 hit. Rays finally beat KC, but if the Yanx take game 2 tonight they'll take the one game lead into tomorrow. Rays still win in case of a tie but they'll need double good fortune tomorrow to do that. Nice 9th inning comeback win for Minnesota today (esp after losing 7 of their last 8) but it looks like a #2 seed for them no matter what.

Probably less platooning in the minors so I'm sure the ABs aren't nearly as lopsided as are his Jerry-influenced ML ABs. Somewhat less power hitting lefty according to those (not that there's going to be a lot either way) but otherwise not bad at all.

What I am forgetting about that seems to have Tyler Clippard atop everyone's shit list? I mean besides him being a former MFY and all.