Edgy MD

Not so much the consolation prize, but definitely the more risk-averse choice as demonstrated by his relative contract Holliday: Seven years, $120 million, $17.14 million per annum Bay: Four years, $66 million, $16.5 million per annum Bay actually signed his deal first. The deal also had the added attraction of Peter Gammons at his most inscrutable, reporting alternately that the Red Sox had a deal on the table for Bay during the prior season, but that he turned down, and that Bay "would rather play in Beirut than Flushing."

In retrospect, Doug Sisk's 1983 and 1984 are two of the more remarkable seasons of tightrope walking ever witnessed. He somehow did heavy-lifting, workhorse, shutdown work while walking everybody and striking out nobody. YearERAIPBB/9SO/919832.24104 1/35.12.819842.0977 2/36.33.7 In 1985, he hurt his elbow and lost his sink, his hit rate ballooned, and that was too much to bear. You look at those lines and say, "In no way is that sustainable," but the miracle is that he somehow sustained it as long as he did. If the Mets had one more pitcher in 1985, they win the pennant. In Bats, Davey Johnson recalled vetoing a deal to bring back Seaver. Johnson believed his young rotation was set for years, and didn't want to disrupt it. I don't know what this deal would have cost the Mets, but since reading that, I was certain putting Seaver in the rotation and Aguilera in the pen would have otherwise meant the division title. Aggie, of course, never matured as a starter, but eventually prospered as a reliever for some other team.

The interview is in text, but there's probably going to be a video window in the margin reporting on something or another.

What an unfortunate matchup that was. That's like Louisville and Kentucky both making the NCAA tournament and meeting in the first round.

He touches on his Civil War interest in his Sports Illustrated interview. He's probably not what I'd call an expert, but he's certainly dived deeper than I have. Then he gets all gender-y. OE: Then there's this. SI: What did you think of the city before you lived here? KH: We stayed at the old New York Sheraton, right off the park. It was always a rest town for me. I just went to the hotel bar. I went out in New York City twice when I was a Cardinal. I mean, the hotel bar was fine. They had a lot of airlines, European airlines that were staying there, so there was no need to go wandering around. Subtext: There were plenty of stewardesses to hit on right downstairs. And that's the whole point of being a ballplayer. So why leave the hotel?

I still weep for the downfall of THORRIBLE. That was some good, healthy calories.

Yeah, Keith is just a wealthy guy with swell tastes who wanted to join a swell club with a great course, and it just happens that ... and I just feel ickier and ickier trying to rationalize this. I mean I get that this club was started when Trump was merely a preposterous TV thing and not an existential global threat, but that's what he is and he should be shunned at all opportunities. And anything with his brand as well. By any and all even remotely decent people.

I want to vote for HARVEY WALLBANGERS for the same reasons. But it's emblematic of Newsday's general badness at composition. Over-saturated colors, bad contrast from non-outlined headline characters, coving the subject's mid-section with the headline text, all sucking some of the story from the photo. The blood-covered lightbox just finishes it off. Lightboxes are for the web. Tabloid layouts look better in frames. Newsday has the elements of a winner there, but in the end, they don't execute.

The 1986 Mets are better than almost all athletic seasons ever. The 1969 Mets are better than almost all things ever. My thinking, anyhow. But I mostly agree with the ranks and the reasoning. I'm a madman for 1983.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Callowness of youth? Edgy MD wrote: metsmarathon wrote: that said, does it not seem a little plausible that in the 30 years since return of the jedi that luke might've taught her even a little bit about how to use the force, and she'd just never taken up the opportunity to go flaunting various jedi tricks? You've got to at least hint at that sort of thing, no? Like Obi Wan's ghosting? Or force choking? I mean, you want hints? We're talking about a series that barely uses establishing shots, and completely eschews scene-setting captions. Obi Wan is a Jedi Knight, a master. As for Vader's choking, that is the hint. That's the introduction of the powers. Folks talk to him of his extinct religion (set up) and he demonstrates its power (establishment). Stuff that follows escalates from there. Super sword play, telekinesis, electro-shock powers. Projecting from the beyond, or floating through space, that's the sort of coup de grace that makes little sense, and offers little dramatic satisfaction, without a prior introduction. If you didn't think it was goofy, then you didn't. I thought it was totally goofy.

DePodesta wore two pretty big hats for the Mets: Vice President of Player Development and Scouting. When he left, Alderson said specifically that a corresponding hire wouldn't be made, as Depodesta had worn so many hats, his responsibilities would be spread around. This struck me as at a little odd, because those were two departments that needed a hierarchy, but I think he meant that they wouldn't be replacing him with the double hat. Ira Levin is now the director of player development. Tommy Tanous, who has long been the chief scout, is now vice president of international and amateur scouting, and a pretty anonymous guy for someone who has held such big roles

I talked this over with J.C. Lunchbucket once, and we estimated that about 70% of the value of the 1979 Mets came from Lee Mazzilli's performance in the All-Star Game. That's 70% of the value of the team's whole year garnered from two plate appearances, and two innings in the field. With no chances. In an exhibition game. In the Kingdome.

Was kick coverage failing to keep a kick return from turning into a touchdown and the receiver dropping the ball in the end zone all in the final game part of the plan?

[fimg=550]http://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-big-shots-are-only-little-shots-who-keep-shooting-christopher-morley-20-61-25.jpg[/fimg] Hey, is that Jessica Lappin? President of the Downtown Alliance? Lappin is a Mets fan. Not because she’s “a glutton for punishment” — though she’s a Jets fan, too — but because of her mother. “My mother grew up in Brooklyn and was a Dodgers fan, so there was no way we could root for the Yankees,” she said. In 1999, City Council Speaker Gifford Miller received a baseball signed by Yankee pitcher David Cone, who formerly played for the Mets and briefly rejoined the team before retiring in 2003. Miller gave it to Lappin, who was working as his chief of staff at the time. She was OK with the fact that Cone was a Yankee at the time. “To paraphrase from a famous musical, when you’re a Met you’re a Met all the way,” she said.

Man, that multiple points-of-view and multiple points-of-time made it purty hard to anchor yourself into this. Did Kurt Vonnegut write it?

Man, I guess I'm REALLY not.

There's been one player acquired by any of the 30 MLB teams all week. As for rumors, well, I can make one up! Hansel Robles for Brandon Drury! It's totally going to happen! Sources are buzzing!

Yes, scarcity marketing is an established principle of the marketing game. This combines with premium pricing and production of SRO overflow tickets to give teams exactly the sort of guaranteed base profitability that teams scientifically position themselves for. Of course it works. Fight the antitrust exemption, man.

And why does Rey not seem to give a shit when she messes up all the nuns' stuff?

Outstanding! We needed some fresh material at the Lorn Brown page.

And of course, because it's Disney, she has to fly exactly like Mary Poppins, even if she's a popsicle.

metsmarathon wrote: that said, does it not seem a little plausible that in the 30 years since return of the jedi that luke might've taught her even a little bit about how to use the force, and she'd just never taken up the opportunity to go flaunting various jedi tricks? You've got to at least hint at that sort of thing, no?

The thing is, I'd sign up for those numbers. And I'm all for the Mets signing Judys. Heck, there's a Judy in the Hall of Fame.

Force, my hairy ewok butt. She's never demonstrated that sort of facility with the Force. You know that. I know that. Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes all know that. The best she ever did was have a psychic phone call or two. And that was Luke calling. She just answered. Hell, Yoda himself never went spacewalking. Anakin/Vader never went spacewalking. Come on, admit it. That was, like, stupid goofy. And apart from copping a look from the early 90s cocktail party set, where does Laura Dern get off making the sacrifice play. That was Leia's move to make. She was supposed to say, "Somebody has to save our skins," launch a kamikaze counter attack, and bow out of the serial a hero. And for all Disney's careful gender and ethnic casting, why is the Resistance suddenly like 90% humanoid? Very little key action goes to any non-humanoid. Chewbacca gets treated like an old handbag, and apart from BB-8 pulling a half dozen deus ex machina plot saves, our old droid buddies C-3PO and R2-D2 are treated as old karma that the serial has to drag along. Even Yoda. EVEN YODA! They tried to touch on the grave and wise side of his personality and they tried to touch on the playful, winking side, and they absolutely got neither. He has a few minutes of ghost time, and he just comes across as a little green dick with a combover. Sheesh. Do I have to write everything?

Ron was with the Mets through 1966, and Seaver emerged in 1967. Close. We have a pitcher and an outfielder remaining.