Edgy MD

Rookie move.

Be honest, though. Trading Alonso to get Lunchbucket back is a pretty sweet deal.

I think, to the likes of David Stearns, they are all rebuild years.

What a winter.

Neil Walker had been out in the hall, just waiting for a good asskicking.

Edwards, Jr. — skinny reliever signed by the Mets to a minor-league contract and invited to campo. [FIMG=600]https://www.chicitysports.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/usa-today-8806735.0.jpg[/FIMG]

Don Mattingly is teed up to become bench coach of the Phillies. His son, Preston, is currently the Phillies GM and will now be his boss. He left the same role in Toronto perhaps thinking another managerial opportunity would be in the cards after the Blue Jays pennant, so perhaps he let that play out before joining the Phils as his safe school.

I am not sure Joe McDonald knows what "ironically" means. If the issue is that I am in love with Diaz, I did not know that. Nor did I know I was on the ledge. Man, it has been a busy day.

The New York Post reporting that the Mets' offer was $66 million over three years with "modest deferrals." I understood those deferrals were moneys deferred from that $66 million rather than on top of that figure. The reporting also stated that the Mets indicated to Diaz that there was "wiggle room." I would guess that the $1-million-per-year salary difference and the deferments would fit within my definition of that term, but he up and bolted anyhow.

I wish.

In the mornings lately, it takes three or four tries to start the oven. My wife did not like it. I just think it is a side effect of the weather being cold. Tire pressure gauges go off in early winter, and it takes a few tries to start the oven. She was not satisfied. She asked if there was anything that could be done. I was not bright and told her that, yes, we could clean the igniter, but that is a lot of hassle. Dumb, dumb, dumb. She says that she cannot get the oven started. I remind her that it was like this last winter, and the winter before that, and then spring came, and everything was jake. She told me she found a video of a guy with a five-minute demo on how to clean the igniter on a Whirlpool oven. I have actually done this before, some time in living memory — back when I was young and had all the time in the world — but even if I had not, NOTHING lasts five minutes, but there I am, removing the oven door, removing the floor of the oven, pulling up the gas tubes and the igniter. Five minutes equals half a day. Ten minutes is a full day. An hour is a week. (EVERYBODY should KNOW this!) This is how home repairs go. And of course, we have to clean these filthy disgusting surfaces, and I am taking apart the door because somehow filth gets betweenthe inside window and the outside window. I get all that **** done and BAM! the oven starts with one try. I get kisses, but I know that I do not deserve them. At least, not yet. I still have to re-assemble this oven, and screws have disappeared into the housing. To recover them, I have to remove more housing and risk losing more screws. I get all that done, leave a few screws out because I would rather live dangerously than go screw shopping. It is all down to putting the oven door back on, and ... one of the hinges is JAMMED and cannot be un-jammed. I am online looking for a replacement hinge, while she is on the phone with the girlfriend of the Trump-supporting HVAC guy down the block, hoping she can send him over to un-jam our hinge which never should have been ****ed with in the first place. But, you know, I need machinist's tools to unjam this mofo, and I do not have them, and I go from goat to hero to goat to hero to goat, and the door is going to be off the oven all week or more as her piano students come and go, and conclude that we live like animals. And I am trying to find a way to explain to her that if I hadn't spent all morning fixing what didn't need to be fixed and breaking what didn't need to be broken, I could have stuck to what was really important and stood sentry over the Mets so nobody would sign away their closer, but somehow that line of thinking is "irrational" and "insane" and so I'm the bad guy.

Good God, no. Never. That does not protect fans, it protects owners.

Met pockets being picked left and right these days.

[MetsBlue][/MetsBlue]Kenticle certainly has enough red flags in his past to give pause to any voter otherwise on the fence, just by being churlish and dicky out loud and proud. Alienated himself out of all good graces in the Mets organization, despite being the best player on some very bad teams.The public and professional lying about the bike wreck. Went to blows in the dugout, on live television, with Barry Bonds. His public and financial opposition (he donated money to help lobby for Proposition 8) to gay marriage. Appeared on Survivor, which you might not find to be gross, but I do. When he was voted off, decided to unload the crack he had been holding onto that the million dollar prize was "six hundred grand by the time Obama takes it," as if he wasn't already a gagillionaire. Whatever was up his butt may well have helped make him the ballplayer he was, and he perhaps is a lovely man if you meet him on the right day (and aren't gay), but that is (of course) guesswork.

You can practically hear it sucking just by opening this thread.

He would be a fool not to be there. He works the concourse, gladhands some insiders, sits down with a reporter or two, gets a hello from Ollie Marmol, three articles get written suggesting the Cardinals are talking to him, and his price goes uppity up.

Yeah, that is my recollection too. And hey, you won't get me to support Selig. If you ask me, almost every commissioner has been a prop put in place to protect the owner's interests, players be damned. And the "Interests of Baseball" is a romantically phrased smokescreen. I imagine if you ask Alexa, she will tell you the same thing. Actually, if Selig did anything, he rescued the owners from the bouts of integrity that A. Bartlett Giammatti and Faye Vincent were prone to.

Awesome. Great to see everybone. After we figure out why the text "Forum Archives" text is overlapping with the "Not Affiliated" disclaimer, things are gonna be jake, but we're gonna have to move the archives anyhow.

Fun Fact — Kyle has led the league in schWAR for 11 straight seasons.

Somebody give that man an Amen! Hey! Let's play comps! Similar Pitchers through 28 Aaron Civale (989.3)Collin McHugh (978.9) Frankie Montas (978.6) Bailey Ober (970.5) Jameson Taillon (970.1) Joe Kelly (969.9) John Farrell (969.6) Wei-Yin Chen (969.3) Zack Wheeler (968.3) John Stuper (968.0) All those being a 968 comp score or higher suggests to me that the algorithm thinks they are all highly comparable, and seeing as there is probably one guy there in 10 over whom you would slobber to get the age 29-33 seasons from, I think we are looking at a foolish proposition.

And yet the stunning hypocrisy of electing Bud Selig doesn’t seem to have caused such breach. Who is supposed to get through the Bud Selig breach? George Steinbrenner and George W. Bush? Or maybe Marvin Miller? I figure that the standard is already established with commissioners. If you last for twenty years or more, by hook or by crook, you are likely to get in. It's too embarrassing for baseball, keeping around somebody for that long while acknowledging that he wasn't such a special figure after all, so they pretend he is.

It appears Fernando Valenzuela wasn't so much a lock as all of that. The path for Bonds and Clemens is still open as Manny Ramirez (for one last year, anyhow) and Alex Rodriguez remain on the BBWAA ballot, and in an otherwise weak year, they could certainly break through. If and when one such character breaks through, it likely becomes a breach in the seawall keeping all PED violators out.

We haven't turned that corner quite yet, but you're welcome. I will be getting on this tomorrow in earnest.

Holy ****! The Mets traded a Hall-of-Famer for Carlos Baerga!

Either Pete or his representation or both certainly seem to have a let-the-game-come-to-you strategy. That utterly fell through for him last season, so hopefully he is quicker to bite.