Edgy MD

I cannot find a 2025 thread, so why not start 2026 early with this unfortunate picture that the AP used to report rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine violating his parole and getting a few months in the joint. I have not heard or read this figure's name before today, can only guess at how I may pronounce his name, but the AP reported on his situation, so I guess this qualifies him as a BS, and this is the photo they used to accompany the story that otherwise might have passed by me un-noticed, so I guess that qualifies him as ML. So ... yay? [fimg=600]https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/5124114/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6300x3533+0+0/resize/1440x808!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fef%2F2b%2F39e1dac1553729473503f6b5275c%2F079378d6057a421199619fdc07a4366c[/fimg]

Experience so far suggests to me that thoracic outlet surgery has served to be a solution that is worse than the syndrome, at least for professional pitchers. If my client is confronted by thoracic outlet surgery, I would humbly (for I am no medical professional) suggest he or she pursue an alternate course of treatment, quite possibly including nothing.

Ty’s Tigers tenure, which yielded no MLB appearances, predated his initial Mets’ Cockiness. He was released in the summer of 2024, but didn’t land with another organization and was signed anew before the season was out. Technically two terms, but in practicality he never left. Well, blow me down. Just what was it Ty was doing in that year in between his Mets release and his Mets re-signing? Was he perhaps employed as ... a narco-terrorist?!?!

Word. Word to The Ghost of Baseball Yet to Come.

His appearances over the last two seasons — and this is a specific unprompted memory — are from two different professional tenures, having thrown in with the Tigers in between. I imagine this means that, while we are indeed saying goodbye, we might be saying hello, again, hello, in the near future. I also remember that he looked like Daniel Murphy with a big shrubby beard. He was ineffective in his first go-around, but effective in the second, but what can you tell from three appearances?

I would sell my Kiss dolls to be the one to make those decisions.

Well, indeed, that is the shorter and less tedious way of saying it.

In 2021, the Mets traded not-yet-blossomed talent for apparent present value when the sent Pete Crow-Armstrong to the Cubs for Javier Baez. Despite two months of some of the best baseball of Baez' life, the team failed to stem their fall, and Baez moved on. In 2025, the Mets found themselves without any obvious answer in centerfield, while Pete Crow-Armstrong was putting up a six-WAR season for Chicago. They tried paper over that by trading not-yet-blossomed talent for apparent present value in giving up three guys for Cedric Mullins. They failed to stem their fall; Mullins left town in ignominy; and Raimon Gómez, Chandler Marsh, and Anthony Nunez may never make much of a splash, but they have their whole lives in front of them. I think we become emotionally attached to the present moment, and feel like we need to solve all problems at once, and we fail to see how quickly not-yet-blossomed talent can blossom and present value can rot. That is especially true when the metaphorical eggs of not-yet-blossomed target is frequently divided among multiple players, and the apparent present value all resides in the single basket of one man's arm, upon one man's UCL. Give me the allegedly unproven talent base every time.

Wisdom has this one.

Sheesh, I might prefer bringing back Julio Teheran.

Consolidation trades turn me off more than most trades. Top-of-the-rotation starters (which Ryan only barely qualifies as) blow up as easy as anybody else. I hate to put multiple eggs into such baskets.

If he stays with the Twins another season, I imagine his five-and-ten rights would supercede his contractual rights, and give him the right to reject trades. If he is acquired in a trade this off-season, that is out the window, though he may demand his contractual no-trade rights be extended/expanded in exchange for his consent to this trade.

Did you know the Braves signed Danny Young two days ago? I did not! And I care about that sort of thing. This is clearly vengeance for A.J. Minter. You sign the Braves' broken lefthanded reliever and break him worse, and you don't think there is going to be payback for that sort of thing? It is a pretty weird deal in that they signed him to a one-year deal when he probably won't even be allowed on a mound until the second half of the season, and quite possibly late in the second half. I was thinking maybe the report was referring to a different Danny, or a different Young, or maybe a different Danny Young. But nope, it's the same cat. Our cat. Or, our former cat, anyhow. [FIMG=500]https://a1.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0504%2Fr1487918_1296x729_16-9.jpg[/FIMG]

And Dean Chance!

The fun part about the winter meetings is that every three hours or so, there is new information about your team pursuing a transaction that would represent a fundamental new direction for the franchise. Usually, nothing comes of it, but twice a day, a new story is being contemplated. From a baseball perspective, I hate it. I will take the team and the organization that you have been mindfully curating with an evolving but foundationally consistent philosophy for years over the one you pivoted to on a whim. But from a storytelling perspective, it's fertile ground.

Thanks for offering a specific memory. These threads solicit specifics but usually have more generalities. I am as guilty as most, in that regard. As for PT, he also took time away from Jeff McNeil. Jeff was grossly out of position and playing hurt at the end of the year, and it is still hard to see how he would not have been the better player. I also remember that the team gave up three flesh-and-blood players for him.

Looks like Devin is official. And by my measurement, he is the top reliever in the house right now.

Offensively and defensively, he was living on checks cashed years before. Seemed like a perfectly honest guy, more or less trying hard, staying focused, nonetheless knowing in his heart but not able to admit it to his head that his game was just not going to come around. Which I guess makes him less than perfectly honest. I remember a late-game situation where one or two of the lesser Mets was/were coming up in the ninth with the game still within reach, thinking through the bench options and advocating out loud for them to pinch-hit with Cedric Mullins. Then I lamented my advocacy, because using Mullins meant that Mullins would be in the game. When the best option is the most dis-spiriting one, the post-season is not looking to be in the cards.

Kay was more than a Mets prospect. In 2023, for three and a third glorious innings, he was a flesh-and-blood Met. He spent the last two years starting for The Yokohama Bay Stars, and to his credit, revitalized his career enough to secure that two-plus-year contract. Good for him.

Twenty years passed between Matt Lawton and Cedric Mullins. But weren't they the same? I mean, weren't they? (Answer: Not really. The Mets probably would have made the playoffs if Cedric was that good.)

And I aim to please!

Well, if there were ads, it would be in other content on the domain, and not in the forum, but I appreciate your position.

Ben, I have sent an invite to your leaptoad address for you to access the back end of cranepoolcompanion.com. At least, I think I did. It is a secondary domain, underneath a domain using my name as a URL. I meant to give you access to the sub-domain, but I might have boo-booed.

I am under the ChemiCloud Pro Plan, currently.

The WebHost is ChemiCloud, and it looks like they support PHP. I might have to download and add-on or two, but I don't think it should add much to the cost. When renewal time comes around (October 2026), it might be a kick in the pants, as I am currently not much of a wage earner and am living mostly off of my lady-friend, and that isn't very sustainable. My situation should change by then, but, you know, all passing-the-hat is appreciated. And a good site could hopefully have enough features to pay for itself through advertisements. The trick is making it a good site, and effectively promoting it. Fun fact: I HATE AI so much that I would rather spend twenty minutes searching around the back end of my WebHost for information about whether my plan supports PHPbb than simply ask a chatbot. This is the sort of thing that makes me a sub-optimal Web administrator.