Frayed Knot
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I've always said that Sterling's biggest failing isn't that he spends too much time promoting the home team, it's that he spends it all promoting himself. He can be entertaining at times if you can get through the fact that he treats big moments of the game as merely a set-up for his catch-phrases. The problem lately is that he's making a lot of mistakes on regular action calls; it's like maybe his eyesight is going or something. Or maybe just the strain of having to do all 9 innings of p-b-p every night while having not missed a game since the NYY hired him. Meanwhile, there's a caller to FAN who not only does a dead-on impersonation of him but also calls is as "John from the Bronx" and has conversations with the hosts as his character. Hysterical.
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"Sterling isn't really originally a Yankee guy though is he? " Nah, he's been around since forever. He was in Atlanta for a decade or so: Braves plus Hawks basketball. Hell, he may have even done Atlanta Flames hockey for all I know. He also did Islander radio in their early days. In fact; Yankees Win, Yankees Win!' has the same cadence as, 'Islander Goal, Islander Goal' did back in the day. I also used to hear him doing a sports talk radio show (back before dedicated sports stations) on WMCA. He used to play the very ascerbic, 'Get off the phone, you dont' know what you're talking about!!' type of guy.
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Countdown to 300 wins for Mr. Glavine
Frayed Knot replied to stevejrogers's topic in New York Mets Talk
"but if he keeps up his turnaround, begun 2nd half last year, he'll make it by the end of next year." At his current pace he'll make it a lot sooner than that. "He's still signed with Mets thru next year, right?" Not quite. He and the team did reach an agreement which gives both sides an option for next year, but it seems like that was done merely to re-arrange this year's payments and, while his presence here next year is likely, it's still up in the air. What it sounds like is if he requests that he'd like to go back to Atlanta (and assuming they'd want him) that the team will let him go. -
All-Purpose 2006 Where Have You Gone... Former Mets Thread
Frayed Knot replied to a topic in New York Mets Talk
Except that he didn't get the win. * Carries a shutout for 8 innings * allows the first batter in the 9th to reach * leaves with a 2-0 lead * yadda, yadda, yadda ... Royals lose 4-2 -
Final Breakdown: 49 Picks 25 College; 15 High School; 9 Juco 22 Position Players; 27 Pitchers The 1st pick; Mulvey from Villanova (via New Jersey) - who claims to have been a Met fan growing up - appears to be the closest thing to a local.
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I don't see why everyone's making a big deal about Almonte marrying a 30 year-old. Lots of guys marry younger women.
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Schaefer POTG 6/7/06 - Mets 9, Dodgers 7
Frayed Knot replied to Gwreck's topic in New York Mets Talk
Milledge - 2.9 Glavine - 0.6 Wagner - 0.7 Woodward - 1.0 Beltran - 1.1 Wright - 1.3 Valentin - 1.0 Franco - 0.6 Bradford - 0.4 Heilman - 0.4 -
Saenz, Saenz, everywhere there's Saenz
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Gwreck wrote: Strange question: why Lastings in left? Figured they'd keep him in right even with Floyd out. Willie says that he thinks Endy's arm is a tick better.
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Nice tag by Valentin too. Keep makin' hard for them to send you down kid.
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Nor would we have to.
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Probably. The timing's about right.
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I'm going to take my AL ballot and punch everyone who's NOT a BoSox or Yanqui
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Wants to give Delgado a break. Lefty going tonight while the upcoming Snakes have no southpaws on their staff.
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I once walked right across a movie shot with Bea Arthur over on 3rd Avenue. She and (the now late) Richard Kiley were filming some TV movie in front of a building I was working in at the time. It was around lunch time and they had stopped all sidewalk traffic on either side of the block. Except that didn't stop those who were jaywalking directly across the middle of the block; like, umm ... me. So as cameras are rolling, I appeared from between two parked trucks and right across the shoot I had no idea was there. The suckers never saw me coming. As far as I know I was cut out of the final take although I never saw the flick.
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Willie: - Reyes: probably tomorrow, available tonight to pinch-run - Cliff: Will most likely miss the Ariz series, are shooting for Tuesday
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ESPN was sked to do the NYY/Bost game tonight. That one was obviously (for anyone here) rained out so that's why they're going to "bonus coverage". What I suspect happened is that they have no espn announcers at any of those games and may only have the rights to broadcast parts of those 'extra' games and not have the rights to those local announcers. Hence their studio guys [Ravech/Kruk/Reynolds] are in Conneticut voicing over the imported video while the real ones - the ones who actually could tell you something about the game - are faded into the background. Right now they're showing Cinn/StL - with the Cards getting beat for about the 4th or 5th straight time.
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Jeff Goldblum's character in 'The Big Chill' also used "rats with wings" to describe pigeons, after someone else had suggested that bats were rats w/wings.
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I hadn't realized that Darling was that high a draft pick (#9 overall) or that they dealt him within a year of selecting him. That sort of stuff wasn't all that highly publicized back then. In retrospect: dealing your 1st round pick and #9 overall PLUS another AA pitcher for Lee Mazzilli ... what da fuck was Texas thinking???!!?!?!? There was a story where a Texas area scout went up to his NYM counterpart after the deal was announced and said something along the lines of; 'you guys just stole all our players'
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D'Backs release Grimsley
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]Didn't Johnson just turn that bird into so much dust? Oh yeah. It was in Spring Training, IIRC, and was a smaller bird; not a gull, maybe a pidgeon. The fuckin' thing just exploded in mid-air. Blood and feathers everywhere. Reminds me of the time I smoked a goose with a golf ball. Man, that was ugly.
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Via Eddie C on FAN: Floyd - "Low" ankle sprain. Out a few days. Maybe the weekend Reyes - Day-to-Day. Probably in tonight Beltran - "Guessing" that he'll be in tonight
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I'm just so shocked to see that they're actually winning games w/o Jeter. I had been led to believe that that was impossible. * And while this is obviously just a small sample, the funny part is that the Yanx have been without Jeter's bat for two somewhat lengthy periods. - One was the time he busted up his shoulder on opening day and missed about 5 weeks or so as the immortal Erick Almonte subbed. - The other was the following year I believe when he went into a ridiculous month-long slump: hitting .150 or so w/o power for 100+ ABs. And during both stints, the team thrived.
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IGT 6/6/06 - Mets (Pedro) at Dodgers (Lowe)
Frayed Knot replied to Gwreck's topic in Archived Game Threads
And the comeback has begun (single, walk, walk) -
Yeah but surprisingly, the Angels won.
