Edgy MD

Feel free to use it as long as my name isn't attached. I'm job-hunting.

Tick, tick, tick ...

"In pursuit of team unity this spring, David Wright used the off-day Monday to organize a trip to the movies for all the players still in camp. Delegated to choose the movie for the outing, Daniel Murphy selected Call Me by Your Name."

Healey: Morning, Mick. That the crossword? Callaway: Yeah, I need a five-letter word for "Get the fuck out of my locker room." Healey: Always a pleasure, Skipper.

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Previous conversations on record between Callaway and Healey: Healey: Hey, Mick. How's your day going? Callaway: Go fuck yourself, Tim. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Healey: Yo, Mick, have you seen the new Toy Story? Callaway: Yeah, I went with your mother, Douchebag. She didn't watch. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Healey: Thanks for your time, Mickey. Callaway: Yeah? How 'bout you come back and say that while you're eating my ass out, you fucking little shit!

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Well I think Mickey was unnerved by the questioning and interpreted the "see ya tomorrow" remark as a flippant and passive-aggressive comment on his unraveling job security. This has got to be it.

August 26, 1989, Jeff Mussleman (#13) relieved Ron Darling (#12). This, of course, falls short if Darling had already done his in-season swap to #15.

The Vargas situation is as old as organizational psychology itself. Guy whose job security is most tenuous attempts to demonstrate his value by acting as the manager's heavy. I'd call it the Shelly Duncan Rule, but it flourishes most obviously in the NHL.

So, we have an official statement released by the organization, and a personal call from Wilpon. Have Callaway or Vargas apologized yet?

That was pretty much my wife's first thought also.

While I'm sticking with "Pete LaCock."

Edgy MD wrote: Tim Healey just became my favorite bear reporter. I don't know if this was meant to read "beat reporter," but it works either way. Good work. While walking the dogs, it struck me that this may provide a perfectly reasonable pretext for management to let go of Callaway. "We respect Mickey and what he can bring to the game, but we can't have members of our staff mistreating members of the media like that. Those guys have a difficult enough job to do as it is. Our staff represents our organization to members of the press, and this reflects on everybody. The Cubs are the enemy, not the press pool. We've been down this road before, and if we don't set a standard throughout the organization, top to bottom, we're the ones responsible when something unacceptable happens." "We wish Mickey the best, but this is the choice we felt we had to make to be the organization we intend to be, and frankly, we felt lucky that we were able to get a great baseball mind like Tony Muser on such short notice." pinning his firing this would set a dangerous precedent. When Edgardo Alfonzo has the 2025 Mets sitting at 51-30 in first place at the halfway mark and insults a reporter is he toast? and frankly, Mickey shouldn't get fired. a few curse words deserve an apology not someone's job. Vargas threatening a fight is a much bigger issue imo. Well, it was more than a few curse words. Beyond that, in the end, of course, it wouldn't be this incident alone, so much as the bedshit it is all part of. But that's too much to put in a statement, so make it about policy and everyone moves on. Fucking up in public and looking to blame it on the nearest someone else is a natural human instinct. Adults take a few deep breaths and accept ownership of their own choices and the consequences. I tend to hate when public sentiment is gunning for a manager. It's almost always unfair. I applaud the out-of-the-box thinking that led to Mickey's hiring, but I've found so much of what he's done as counterproductive. And even when he gets a choice right , he often lets weeks go by as he cycles through bad choices first. It's sort of like one of them damn curly-haired basketball coaches who arrive at a new organization with a system. Through one failure after another, he'll insist that "the system" is sound, but he doesn't have the right players for it, and the ones who are right refuse to get with the program. Years are lost an careers fade as all the possible juice that can be squeezed from that argument drip out. He's young, he's in shape, he's energetic, but he's as aggressively stubborn as the worst old coot of a manager.

"The Mets sincerely regret the incident that took place ..." A variation on the implied absolution of the passive voice in apologies.

That can for sure go in there. I've certainly argued it here in the past. Get what you can out of a guy who is effective. Conversely, don't be afraid to pull a guy who is ineffective (the lay-an-egg rule, expanded), even if it's his role to pitch that inning and that situation.

"Also, we're pleased as tits to announce that we've traded Jason Vargas for Matt Harvey."

Tim Healey just became my favorite bear reporter. I don't know if this was meant to read "beat reporter," but it works either way. Good work. While walking the dogs, it struck me that this may provide a perfectly reasonable pretext for management to let go of Callaway. "We respect Mickey and what he can bring to the game, but we can't have members of our staff mistreating members of the media like that. Those guys have a difficult enough job to do as it is. Our staff represents our organization to members of the press, and this reflects on everybody. The Cubs are the enemy, not the press pool. We've been down this road before, and if we don't set a standard throughout the organization, top to bottom, we're the ones responsible when something unacceptable happens." "We wish Mickey the best, but this is the choice we felt we had to make to be the organization we intend to be, and frankly, we felt lucky that we were able to get a great baseball mind like Tony Muser on such short notice."

You've got a closer? Make two innings the standard usage you expect of him. He can't got two innings? Then you don't have a closer. Trade him to the Reds. Don't use him with a 1-to-3-run lead, but rather in a tie or a 1-to-2 run lead. Your other guys? Make two innings your minimum standard up and down the organization. You pitched your closer for two innings? Great, you can use somebody else tomorrow ... if you need somebody else. You don't even know what tomorrow's needs will be. Win today. Closer laying an egg? It's not an insult to his manhood to get somebody up behind him. Don't wait for the tying run to get on base when you go to Johnny Closer. Get him in there when the tying run is at the plate. That way, he's in control of the game. If that means he has to get six outs, talk to Bruce Sutter. If that means he has to come in the seventh, and even if he succeeds, he may have to give way to somebody in the ninth, great. Talk to Hoyt Wilhelm. You gave up two number one picks to get this guy. That's the sort of package you give up for John Elway. Don't lose a game because you didn't want to ask more than an inning from him. And if you do, Tim Healey is not your problem. You won't be sorry.

It was cool when Bonilla was menacing the reporters. Going with Vargas there just seems so Bush League.

Keon Broxton seemed to disappear in the snap of a finger, didn't he?

No, we CAN have good things. His current rate puts him at having the 17th-best home run season of all time. I no longer have to put a "* * *" gap between the top-ten all-time seasons and the guys Alonso is around. Also, Wilin Rosario is a name I had forgotten about. His he still getting it done or has he fallen off the map? [TABLE][TR][TD]Home Runs in a Season by a Mets Rookie Pete Alonso Projected to End of Season (2019): 56.08 ✭✭✭=#0040FF]1) Pete Alonso (2019): 27✭✭✭ 2) Darryl Strawberry (1983): 26 t-3) Ike Davis (2010): 19 t-3) Ron Swoboda (1965): 19 t-5) John Milner (1972): 17 t-5) Jay Payton (2000): 17 7) Johnny Lewis (1965): 15 t-8) David Wright (2004): 14 t-8) Benny Agbayani (1999): 14 t-10) Jeromy Burnitz (1993): 13 t-10) Travis d'Arnaud (2014): 13[/TD][TD]Home Runs in a Season by a Mets Hitter of Any Stripe Pete Alonso Projected to End of Season (2019): 56.08 t-1) Carlos Beltran (2006): 41 t-1) Todd Hundley (1996): 41 3) Mike Piazza (1999): 40 t-4) Darryl Strawberry (1987): 39 t-4) Darryl Strawberry (1988): 39 t-6) Mike Piazza (2000): 38 t-6) Howard Johnson (1991): 38 t-6) Carlos Delgado (2006): 38 t-6) Carlos Delgado (2008): 38 t-10) Darryl Strawberry (1990): 37 t-10) Dave Kingman (1976): 37 t-10) Dave Kingman (1982): 37 ... t-38) Michael Conforto (2018): 28 t-38) George Foster (1983): 28 t-40) Carlos Beltran (2008): 27 t-40) Edgardo Alfonzo (1999): 27 t-40) David Wright (2005): 27 t-40) Michael Conforto (2017): 27 t-40) Kevin McReynolds (1988): 27 =#0000FF]t-40) Pete Alonso (2019): 27 t-40) Darryl Strawberry (1986): 27 t-40) Lucas Duda (2015): 27 t-40) Eddie Murray (1993): 27[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Home Runs in a Season by an MLB Rookie Pete Alonso Projected to End of Season (2019): 56.08 1) Aaron Judge (2017 Yankees): 52 2) Mark McGwire (1987 Athletics): 49 3) Cody Bellinger (2017 Dodgers): 39 T-4) Frank Robinson (1956 Redlegs): 38 T-4) Wally Berger (1930 Braves): 38 T-6) Albert Pujols (2001 Cardinals): 37 T-6) Al Rosen (1950 Indians): 37 8) José Abreu (2014 White Sox): 36 T-9) Mike Piazza (1993 Dodgers): 35 T-9) Hal Trosky (1934 Indians): 35 ... t-36) Cal Ripken (1982 Orioles): 28 t-36) Luke Easter (1950 Indians): 28 t-36) David Justice (1990 Braves): 28 t-36) Prince Fielder (2006 Brewers): 28 t-36) Wilin Rosario (2012 Rockies): 28 5-41) Evan Longoria (2008 Rays): 27 t-41) Alvin Davis (1984 Mariners): 27 t-41) Dan Uggla (2006 Marlins): 27 t-41) Zeke Bonura (1934 White Sox): 27 t-41) George Scott (1966 Red Sox): 27 t-41) Trevor Story (2016 Rockies): 27 t-41) Eddie Murray (1977 Orioles): 27 t-41) Miguel Andujar (2018 Yankees): 27 =#0000FF]t-41) Pete Alonso (2019 Mets): 27 t-41) Norm Zauchin (1955 Red Sox): 27 t-41) Daniel Palka (2018 White Sox): 27 t-41) Tony Clark (1996 Tigers): 27 t-52) Corey Seager (2016 Dodgers): 26 t-52) Kris Bryant (2015 Cubs): 26 t-52) Ronald Acuna Jr. (2018 Braves): 26 t-52) Joc Pederson (2015 Dodgers): 26 t-52) Bobby Murcer (1969 Yankees): 26 t-52) Ken Keltner (1938 Indians): 26 t-52) Josh Willingham (2006 Marlins): 26 t-52) Jose Cruz (1997 Mariners/Blue Jays): 26 t-52) Jason Bay (2004 Pirates): 26 t-52) Mark Teixeira (2003 Rangers): 26 t-52) Preston Wilson (1999 Marlins): 26 t-52) Josh Bell (2017 Pirates): 26 t-52) Hunter Renfroe (2017 Padres): 26 t-52) Matt Davidson (2017 White Sox): 26[/TD][TD]Home Runs in a Season by an MLB Hitter 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On paper, there's no shame in splitting with the Cubs on the road. In reality, ugh.

That Canó hustle. It's moving.

Not that it should matter, but neither should it go unacknowledged: deGrom burned by his bullpen (and his manager's bullpen deployment) again.

=dgwphotography post_id=13905 time=1561323148 user_id=78] =bmfc1 post_id=13904 time=1561323054 user_id=73] Plenty of second-guessing here.