Edgy MD

That's so Texas. They pulled that same shit with Logan Verrett.

=G-Fafif post_id=5143 time=1553633177 user_id=55] It won't show up here as an entry, but the Parade cover is a nice prequel to the People cover of Tom and Nancy eight years later (where they're both wearing...ugh...Reds jerseys).

https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/jed-lowrie.jpg?quality=90&strip=all> What is the deal with me? I mean, I signed with the team back on January 16 for two years and $20 million, I pulled the jersey on (see above) and proclaimed I was all happy and excited to be in the Mets' unlit locker room with the ugly drop tile ceiling: But I haven't been seen in a Mets shirt since, and in the one shot of me in a hat, I look decidedly UN-happy. https://securea.mlb.com/mlb/images/players/head_shot/476704.jpg> A strained knee, they tell me. Didn't they do a physical on me before the contract was finalized? I'm not sure they did. Maybe they just asked a bunch of civilians to put on white coats, prod me, and ask questions. Maybe it was a special perk for luxury box owners. I don't want to be one of those putzes who gets hurt his first spring and never catches up, like Swarzak or ... I don't know ... Putz, I think. I have a pretty slender body for a guy definitely on the back nine of his career, so my knee hasn't taken the beating of a lot of other vets, but my age is my age and there's only so much you can do about that. The Mets have some good players to cover for me, but having been in the American League almost my whole career, I was hoping to use Spring Training to get a good look at the Senior Circuit pitching. Having the Nats, Marlins, and Braves in steady rotation, that might have really helped. Now that idea is gone. Faded like the snows of winter. I'll be out there, and I intend to be ready when I go. Second, third, and short. I'll be like a light-footed Wilmer. If this damn knee cooperates. I'm taking calcium, doing my PT, easing into the quick cuts in my workouts, and soon I'll be ... What? What will I be? In 2019, it's a mystery, and I need your help.

I stand corrected by Leonard Shecter. Again. Jeez, that happens to me at least once a week.

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Edgy, I know you say Noah has a lot of Harvey in him, but Harvey would never do this in a million years (even if it's clearly pandering to Syracuse peeps over the travel rift). I think Harv and Noah were both heavily invested in their personal brands as "New York sports superstars", but Noah doesn't take himself as seriously and tries way harder to ingratiate himself to the fanbase. Harv just wanted the hawt models and the big buxx. And the Rangers tickets and the Jeter reputation. Harvey might do this. He'd just look completely contrived trying to. And his eyes would be literally saying, "I'd rather be golfing with Don, Jr." And of course, he'd be too lazy to think of it. Somebody would have to pitch him the idea and sell it as career advancing.

Well, the practees is well under way. Syndergaard and all. I was surprised they used the Carrier Dome instead of the ballpark, but duh, it's probably as cold as Sol Katz' teet up there. PIX: https://cnycentral.com/sports/content/photos-new-york-mets-practice-at-the-carrier-domehttps://cnycentral.com/sports/content/photos-new-york-mets-practice-at-the-carrier-dome

They also "sold" shares to SNY, which they own, so it was, in a way, pulling from a thriving asset to prop up a shaky one.

LOOK AT ME! I'M TALL, BALD, AND I TAKE TWO YEARS TO RECOVER! I don't really have a good Wheeler imitation.

A good job by Callaway in the Norville Barnes role.

A Bohanon of Mets is a whole load. An Asdrubal of Mets is a very unpleasant whole load. A Feliciano of Mets is joyful gathering.

We may need a derby after the Magazine Cover Derby is over.

Stirrups and 3/4 baseball sleeves add a dreaminess to it also. It's funny. It's NOT a good picture, but I can't resist.

Exactly. The suffix "-pool" suggests a collection, and Ed — in his usual ordinariness, and occasional pretty goodness, his New York nativeness, his celebratedness linked to his status as a Met icon that has frequently alienated various incarnations of management, his ironic stardom, his 1962 link, his 1969/73 membership, his quixotic attempts to acquire the franchise — remains about as definitive a Met as there can be.

I actually had it briefly on the short list, but I thought the redundancy would make it un-appealing.

Edgy MD wrote: [YOUTUBE]44Cclk61fJ4[/YOUTUBE] I just watched this again for the millionth time, and I just realized for the first time that at the end, Bench and the Chicken are conspiring to mime a conversation about how Gary's an insane maniac, surprisingly assholish, and shouldn't be allowed near children.

So, this is deGrom's to lose now, right?

I went for that too. (That cover is my Twitter avatar.) But then I just couldn't stop staring at the Kong kover. And so I was forced to switch. Such witchcraft.

Brodie pulling out the old exit-clause AND a no-trade clause. Whether deGrom comes to love the Mets too much to leave, or to hate the Mets too much to stay, he controls his own fate.

6-5-4-3 is a cool final score.

There's something to recommend each of these contestants — both intentional virtues and accidental ones. Look at the foreshadowing in the Kingman cover. There's no one in the seats, the stadium lights are out (despite scant natural light), and the dugout and seats and façades are finished with the drabbest of colors. Nobody has coined the term "Grant's tomb" yet, but the soon-to-be-realized future is right there for anybody to see. The long legs, the big bats, the bad-ass white Pumas. The photographer is trying to tell one story about this imposing giant, but he or she can't help telling a different story to come without realizing it.

"He is in New York right now for a physical." Have they not examined him throughout spring training? Maybe it's been too long, but I don't recall extensions of players already under contract to be dependent on a fizz.

Syndergaard is magic.

Fun to say is important. "A Teufel of Mets" is an overlooked contender.

No, he's totally farmable.

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