Frayed Knot

Wife is sick, daughter is now sick, so I'm putting them up for sale. You might want to see if they get better first before getting rid of them. I mean, there is that "in sickness or in health" clause and all.

Vic Sage wrote: i've been engaging in the pointless exercise of thinking about the best possible lineup with our current roster. Ultimately, i don't think it makes much difference over the course of a season, but i just can't face the reality of our current lineup. Reyes/ ss - he pouts if he's not leading off Thole/ c - patience, bat control, ob%, LHed Pagan/ cf - line drives, speed/power, SwHer Wright/ 3b - nuff said Beltran/ Rf - next 3 are interchangeable, based on matchups, until someone gets hot Bay/ Lf - ditto Davis/ 1b - ditto -pitcher- ? yup Castillo/ 2b - i like the idea of having someone on base in front of reyes I like it - except that Davis doesn't get pitched to much and he's the only one knocking the ball over the fence these days. The Mets have been in the suckitude department ever since Beltran and Castillo got a whiff of coming off the DL. Bench 'em. Especially since it was Beltran and Castillo who caused Wright & Davis to hit sub-.200 during that same period, as well as Bay to Slug under .240

Dickey - 3.8 Valdes - 0.8 Castillo - 1.5 Davis - 0.6 Francoeur - 0.4 Acosta - 0.1

Pelfrey - 2.4 Valdes - 0.9 Parnell - 1.0 Dessens - 0.6 Reyes - 1.0 Davis - 1.0 Barajas - 1.0 Bay - 1.0

Santana - 4.2 Parnell - 0.5 Rodriguez - 0.5 Bay - 2.3 Davis - 1.5 Reyes - 0.6 Castillo - 0.4

Post ASG offensive splits: TEAM3887624.196.252.302Wright4483.182.224.295Davis4697.196.229.478Beltran3662.167.268.250Castillo2462.250.308.333Reyes32102.313.333.375Bay3981.205.279.231Pagan4194.220.273.415

MFS62 wrote: Meche strugled early this year, but seems to have found "it" and has pitched pretty well lately. When's "lately"? He hasn't pitched since May Farnsworth throws harder than any Mets current reliever except for Parnell. Which isn't to be confused with 'better' And the trade of Castillo paves the way for the development of Tejada. A development which would best be served by him playing everyday in the minors IMO. Right now, Tejada has Castillo's power only minus 50 points of OBA

Second pitcher rumored to go to the Bronx who apparently isn't. I guess this is part a last ditch attempt to catch the Rangers but Haren, unlike Texas prize Cliff Lee, is also signed beyond this year. The Angels have acquired RHP Dan Haren from the Diamondbacks for Joe Saunders, Patrick Corbin, Rafael Rodriguez and a player to be named later. According to Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic, the player to be named later will be from a list of top prospects, and Buster Olney from ESPN says the Angels will take on all of Haren�s remaining contract.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: holy mackeral. Meche used to be good. So did Ollie

I don't care if it's Furball vs Jamey Carroll, you can't be walking the bags loaded and leaving Ollie no room for error.

Ubaldo not quite having a Pelfrey 1st half/2nd half - but definitely a decided difference Josh Johnson in Florida must now have the inside track on the CY award.

Probably Frankie's cleanest, easiest inning of the year - 8 pitches.

Frankie Five Runs. Wasn't he the turncoat in 'Godfather Part II' ?

btw, in answer to an earlier discussion in this thread, Russell Martin is the son of a black, Canadian jazz musician (y'know, that old stereotype) and a white mother. Russell Nathan Coltrane Jeanson Martin Now we just need to figure out why he goes by Russell yet his uniform says: J. Martin

I think this half-inning took longer than the previous four full innings combined.

So how'd all those pitching changes work out there for you Joe?

Just on a quick glance and without bothering to fully dive into the research, I suspect that above list would show (with the usual small sample caveat) that a manager's one-run game pct would fall within spitting distance of his overall W/L pct. So the fact that Davey's and Bobby's and Gil's are all not only good but also better than Jerry's is not surprising ... and probably not all that telling either. Comparing Jerry's to his overall Met record shows that we "should have" won about 4 or 5 more one-run games than the 40 of 91 that we did. Five games, over two and a half seasons. Maybe that's something, or maybe it's just statistical noise.

Zvon wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Do you adore a minuet... the Ballet Russes, and crepe suzette? Or would you rather rock-and-roll? Does a hot dog make you lose control? I'm embarrassed to say I know the origin of this. Patty Duke Show, I'm proud to say. Not positive that was the name of the show but it was her show. Like F-troop, I love old TV show theme songs. Don't be embarrassed FK. Be happy and proud you remember kool stuff. Yes, it was 'The Patty Duke Show'. The odd thing being that I never (or maybe rarely) actually watched the show as I think the idea of physically identical but otherwise totally different cousins sounded really stoopid to me even way back then. Maybe it came on either right before or right after something I did watch, or maybe my sister watched it for a time and I picked it up via osmosis that way, but it's amazing how those stupid theme songs stick in your head. I couldn't have recited the words from memory, but I would have gotten a chunk of them and recognized the origin above as soon as it was printed. Meet Cathy, who's lived most everywhere, From Zanzibar to Barclay Square. But Patty's only seen the sight. A girl can see from Brooklyn Heights -- What a crazy pair! But they're cousins, Identical cousins all the way. One pair of matching bookends, Different as night and day. Where Cathy adores a minuet, The Ballet Russes, and crepe suzette, Our Patty loves to rock and roll, A hot dog makes her lose control -- What a wild duet! Still, they're cousins, Identical cousins and you'll find, They laugh alike, they walk alike, At times they even talk alike -- You can lose your mind, When cousins are two of a kind. Now, F-Troop on the other hand, there was a great show!!

A bit more sobering news in the Q&A session that followed: Q: Is Cory Vaughn better than most people thought heading into the draft, or is this just a hot streak that he doesn't have the tools to maintain? A (Matthew Eddy): This is exactly the question I've been trying to answer, so I turned to college baseball guru Aaron Fitt for more. His response: "Vaughn has always had big tools ... and he's had hot streaks like this in his college career, but sustaining them has always been the issue. As pitchers adjust to him, can he make adjustments? He did not show a whole lot of ability to do so in college."

Mets 4th round pick in 2010 is off and flying in Brooklyn (take that Keith Law!!) enough to place 6th in BA's 'Hot Sheet' for the week: Team: short-season Brooklyn (New York-Penn) Age: 21 Why He's Here: .517/.545/1.270 (15-for-29), 1 HR, 3 2B, 8 RBIs, 4 R, 3 BB, 5 SO, 4-for-5 SB The Scoop: The son of former big league slugger Greg Vaughn�he of 355 career home runs�Cory has launched his pro career in style after quickly signing as the Mets' fourth-round pick. (At San Diego State, he was teammates with some Strasburg guy.) Vaughn is batting .326/.403/.620 through 129 at-bats, with a New York-Penn-leading nine home runs and 32 RBIs (17 of his 42 hits for XBs). And if he connects for seven more longballs this season, then Cory will match his father's output during his pro debut. A 21-year-old Greg Vaughn hit 16 home runs in 1986 for Helena of the Rookie-level Pioneer League.

Edgy DC wrote: Source says MLB unhappy with #Mets for giving 24th rd pick Erik Goeddel $500k because he's a college kid in 24th round, could set precedent about 13 hours ago via web .joe_demayo Joe DeMayo Yay! This has been one of those singings 'rumored' for weeks now but not officially announced at least in part because of it being over-slot and the irrational fear of triggering an avalanche. Of course I prefer they just tell MLB to stick it up their ass if they don't like it but it's not like the Mets have a history of doing that. Having said all that, I have no idea what it is about this particular guy that makes them cough up the extra bucks and, why, if they decided he was worth it, they didn't pick him several rounds earlier. Meanwhile, I've heard nothing about their 1st round pick Matt Harvey although first round signings all over the league have been going very slowly this year. August 15th deadline.

seawolf17 wrote: There would be something gloriously macabre about the legendary pinstripes if, say, three or four more greats were to pass during the season. Honestly though, how many more 'Win this one for _______' stories do you want to read/hear this fall?