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A-P "So You Think You're A Sportswriter" Thread
Frayed Knot replied to a topic in New York Mets Talk
][First and third, as pinch runner Mark Bellhorn had taken second on defensive indifference.] 1st & 2nd actually. Bellhorn never advanced on the Sheffield chopper.Minor potatoes maybe -- although it's possible that having no runner on 2rd would have meant that Erstad would have had to hold on Womack (Sheff's pr) to keep him from stealing and therefore would have been in a worse position to snag Matsui's shot for the final out. -
="Edgy DC"]I don't think that's the claim. It was at the time - although admittedly I'm dredging up slogans from an old war here. ]It's hard to argue that the notion of equal opportunity hasn't taken a hard hit since the early nineties. No question. But that problem started - beginning with the NYY/MSG deal in the late '80s - when the local TV money exploded but only in certain markets and MLB was too slow (or unwilling, or unable) to reach an agreement on spreading that money more equitably. Instead, they were still operating under the rules from the days when those differences were comparitively small.
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]That's a great decade for baseball, 13 of 26 teams won a pennant! No wonder why it seemed like every team had a chance when I was a kid. It's a shame how that new-fangled free agency ruined the competitive balance in MLB. The '50s & '60s on the other hand, now those were egalitarian decades ... oh wait! ]Drought watch aka; Who'll Start the Reign?
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G-Fafif wrote: Spiro Agnew resigned the vice presidency the same afternoon. The Mets beating the Reds was a bigger deal, even in Washington. I forget which Supreme Court justice it was who had his papers released within the last year or so (perhaps then Chief Justice Burger) who saved a note that had him asking a clerk for the score and receiving the news he sought. Whether he was interested in Agnew I'm not sure. It was Cincinnati native Potter Stewart. The justices were in the midst of a hearing concerning one of the pending Watergate related cases. Stewart decided to have his clerks pass notes to him on the progress of the game (day games as always back then). At first he wanted updates every inning, then every half-inning, and eventually every batter. When the news about Agnew broke (his resignation was unrelated to the Watergate matter of course) the clerk's next note read; "Kranepool Flies to Right ... Agnew Resigns"
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Yes, it was Justice. The other thing about '86 vs Sunday's game (besides the fact that you had less emotional investment) is that this one was a round earlier in the process. A win to get into the LCS is lesser than one to WIN the LCS. Other than that, what yesterday lacked was the back & forth in extra innings stuff. Teh catch-up was obviously great and dramatic but after that, not only were there no runs scored until the Burke blast (not that scoreless innings are uneventful) but there just weren't all that many chances. A lotta 1-2-3's and near 1-2-3's for both sides. Great pitching but it came at the expense of a little bit o' drama.
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The only one I'm old enough to remember is NYY = Ballantine Beer. Can't remember their cigarette sponsor. My first recollection of baseball game sponsors was that all seemed to be limited to: a beer, a cigarette co., and a gas station. Definitely not going for the female audience in those days. Mets; Rheingold, Sinclair, and I think Kool/Viceroy cigs. Yanx = Ballantine, 'Flying A' Gas stations (they became 'Getty'), ???
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]That whole inning Suzyn couldn't stop ballwashing the Angels for how great they were at moving runners over and that that's the kind of ball the MFYs should be playing. a) Media types love "small ball" because they think it's more interesting to talk about and "analyze" than HR-ball. Yanqui fans are largely under this impression that what they had during their winning stretch was some kind of scrappy, over-achieving, small-ball type of club -- as if having the better of the pitching matchups 80-some% of the time and that they were usually at or near the top in AL HRs (even while not having one huge HR guy) had little to do with the run.
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And a very happy 'Elimination Day' to you all!
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I guess yesterday's game more than makes up for Walt Weiss, huh?
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Supposedly there were discussions on the Houston bench about what to do when Clemens reached his limit (remember, this was only his "throw day" between starts) and needed to be taken out. The answer is that they would have put OFer Jason Lane - a college hurler - in to pitch. BUT, because they had no remaining bench players, Clemens would have had to stay in the game. Where do you put him?? Lane on the mound, Clemens to 1st base, Ausmus to the OF, Chavez back to catcher??? Now THAT would have been fun to watch! Joey Devine - the guy who served up the HR to Burke - was the Braves 1st round pick just this year! I hadn't realized they had called him up - he was one of those college closers put on the fast track type a la Hansen up in Boston. He only pitched 6 innings in the season and he's still the guy Cox chose ahead of Kolb.
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THE SCHAEFER METS PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2005
Frayed Knot replied to Benjamin Grimm's topic in New York Mets Talk
I'm strongly in favor of 2C: Schaefer Classic rules. Award a maximum of 10 points, no more than 6 to any one player. No minimum. I would have voted in a lot more losses had this been an option. Instead, I wound up skipping a bunch rather than give inflated grades for bad play simply because it was all-or-nothing. -
Gather the wood. . .time to fire up the Stove!!
Frayed Knot replied to Mex17's topic in New York Mets Talk
]Bengie Molina headed to New York? He's a FA catcher and the Mets are a team w/money in search of a catcher so it's inevitable that writers will connect the two even though it's nothing more than speculation at this point. Apparently he and Castro are buddies from way back in the Puerto Rico days which only adds fuel to the fire. One negative: he makes Jason Phillips look like a speed demon. -
And remember, what you're trying to do with this stuff (I think) is not only to show how there's an aging group of players are on their way out while a fresh new batch is on their way in, but that this sort of turnover is somehow unique or more dramatic in this time period.
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Colon was sent back to Cali yesterday I believe. If not, he might have throw tonight (and Lackey for tomorrow on full rest if needed) once Washburn went down with whatever. Mussina's been in Anaheim the entire series. He never came back east.
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The cut-off is a tough call for Figgins - especially cuz he's not a full-time 3Bman - and McCarver is right in that he probably couldn't hear for a cutoff call even if one was made. Essentially he'd have to be on his own there and the one thing he could have done - assuming he was lined up properly - was to see that the throw was headed for the 1st base side of the plate. Once you realize that the throw is on that side you NEED to cut it because even if it's in time it'll pull the catcher away from the plate w/o the possibility of making a tag. A cutoff is less critical if the throw is off to the other side.
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Yup! The one from Anderson in LF was closer than I thought it would be as I assumed that was a run immediately. He isn't much of a LFer or a thrower and didn't charge the ball well either. The one from Vlad c/s-hould have gotten Cano. For all the marveling at the strength of his arm, Vlad can be more than a bit erratic. Better throw gets him, Cano's fairly slow for a middle-IFer. The throw from Figgins was just plain bad. Anything even mediocre there gets Posada who's a plain bad baserunner. Tough to get on him there after making 2 game-turning catches earlier in the series.
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It's bad enough watching this comeback ... but oncea-fuckin-gain those pinheads did it by hitting almost nothing hard. Same as in game 1. Cano - broken bat IF 1B Posada - walk (the real crime of the inning) Sierra - RBI 1B (only hard hit ball all inning) Jeter - topped IF single + bad throw scores Posada they're effing frustrating to watch. NO ONE gets as many dinky IF hits as Jeter & Sheffield
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Here? -- no one I know of. Baseball fans in general? -- shit, it happens all the time.
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]I was just exploring the idea that collusion was bad not only for players but for fans because it affected things in ways we'd never know. Oh hell yeah it was bad for teams and fans. Those who want to return "to the good old days" when FA-gency didn't exist (like it didn't for those few years due to collusion) don't know what the F they're talking about. I had forgotten that Raines was available that year. Whatever "penalty" the club owners had for one another in order to keep the collusion thing from springing a leak must have been a doozy because no one - not even the league mavericks - ever breached that wall even a little bit. That was the argument at the time that they couldn't possibly be guilty of collusion; that there was no way that disparate group could all agree on lunch much less a conspiracy on free agents.
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Also to consider: - I think McR was a much better defensive LFer than Raines (not that that entered into the decision much in all probability). I remember Raines and being somewhat tentative out there which ruined the one great asset he had; his speed. - The one who was really hot after K-Mac was McIlvane. He had scouted him years earlier and described him as "the best amateur player I ever saw" (he wasn't around when Straw was being scouted). He was sort of Joe Mac's white whale, the kind he envisioned as a 40/125/300 guy w/30+ steals and a glove. - that getting rid of Mitchell was a part of the plan also - although maybe not as much as many fans believe.
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Holy shit what a fuckin' blast that was!! I was half rooting for Atlanta there by the end just because I wanted to see the two squads have to do it all over again tomorrow (I can be a cruel bastard at times). By my counting, Garner used: - 3 catchers: Ausmus, Chavez, then Ausmus again - 5 1Bs: Lamb, Berkman, Vizcaino, Ausmus & Chavez - 5 SSs: Everett, Bruntlett, Viz, Bruntlett again, then Viz again Not to mention the 8? different pitchers and I lost track of the OF machinations a long time ago. Clemens didn't just relieve and win, but he PH first. At one point he pinch-ran for Berkman when he was the potential winning run and winds up not scoring the run AND being without his big bat for about 9 innings ... then that PR is the guy who hits the game-winning HR.
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seawolf17 wrote: Actually, I found this site because I wanted to see how my pigeon performed at the Iowa State Fair. Which is odd considering how this forum is devoted to news on cranes only.
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Joe Girardi will indeed interview for the Tampa job as well as the Marlins (he's already talked to the fish and is scheduled to again). And Bobby V is also on the Tampa list. There's been some contact although apparently nothing official yet. Jim Duqette is a candidate for the Baltimore GM job. Of course there's a snag there since they not only still have one but actually have TWO. Speculation has Mike Flanagan being bumped to a different job within the org and Jim Beattie being just plain bumped.
