Edgy MD

I would not only make that deal 100 times out of 100, but I would cherish the years at the back end, as the player perhaps finished his career as a bench player. But the system is wrongly built to penalize such contracts several times over.

Yeah, representing Mister on a whiskey bender is foul play.

It was some sort of thought expressed in gothic Roman numerals or the like, but on TV, as he pitched, he seemed to have a necklace of nails tattooed around his neck. [FIMG=650]https://staticg.sportskeeda.com/editor/2025/12/008df-17653453691997-1920.jpg[/FIMG] Even though it was ink, and not actual hardware, I had an anxiety that one of those nails would get twisted around and puncture his throat.

That's great. All of it. That's the way it's supposed to be.

This space reserved for memories that may occur later.

There was always a stress between him being a one-dimensional thumper and a well-rounded transformational figure. Guys in the booth would describe him as a "future captain" (Gary) and "not a good power hitter, but a good hitter" (Keith), and it wasn't that they were wrong, but you sort of had to squint to see it. Obviously, the 2024 homer in Milwaukee — that redeemed a meh season, turned around the series the Mets were about to be eliminated in, and broke poor Bob Uecker's heart — stands out as an individual memory, but more generally what I recall was the way he kind of arrogantly but kind of goofily pushed his way into Mets culture and asserted himself in ways he wasn't supposed to, like a teenager in a comic book or stupid movie having the high school administration wrapped around his finger. He was the one who somehow successfully lobbied to bring back black uniforms. He was the one who turned walkoff wins into strip shows. He was the one who invented a fake coach. He was the one who dangerously insinuated an F into LGM. He was the who (seemingly) first embraced Jose Iglesias' silly record to help make it transcendent. (He was probably more accurately the first English-first guy to embrace it and therefore helped it cross over.) The ironically amazing part of taking that role is that the fictional teenager who pulls that off (think Archie Andrews or Zach Morris or Ferris Bueller) always has a charisma completely embodied by a confident fashion sense and a great haircut, and Alonso (far more Moose than Archie) could never figure out anything to do with his hair that wasn't a complete (or near complete) disaster. I feel you, Pete. [fimg=625]https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/BASEBALL-MLB-MIA-NYM_-3.jpg?w=1024[/fimg]

The stunning 2024 meltdown comes first, when Diaz utterly blew up against the Diamondbacks. Diaz was http://brought in a four-out save and was magnificently ineffective in a performance that ended with a grand slam, leaving the Mets deep in the hole in a crowded playoff race, with a lot of playoff rivals coming up in their schedule and closer lost in a fog. He was brought back the next day, threw nothing but fastballs, and was untouchable, and the team was off to the post-season. I didn't know if he was the genius or Jeremy Hefner was. But they are both gone now, along with Pete Alonso and Jose Iglesias and other heroes of that day. Looked terrific in the road greys. [FIMG=625]https://image-cdn.essentiallysports.com/wp-content/uploads/edwin-diaz-fi.jpg?width=900[/FIMG]

I am not sure what qualifies as a "thing," but Brandon Nimmo was offloaded before either of them got signed.

I don't think Dave Parker ever forgave Stearns.

I heard TJ was very unsettled by his being taken by the Rockies[MetsOrange].[/MetsOrange] A TJ, a Dylan, and a Trey are very much a solid cross-sample of boys' names from their generation. They just need a Bryce and they will be a complete set. More seriously, TJ is coming off a real solid season at the highest levels. Tebrake has been hurt most of the last two seasons.

Seaver. Strawberry. deGrom. Wheeler. Reyes. Diaz. Alonso. Stearns and Cohen have badly underestimated what losing a franchise icon means. I will never forgive David Stearns. I'm not sure that Wheeler was a franchise icon, but yeah, I get the larger point. You'd think having two longtime Mets fans running the team that they'd be more conscious of this. They say they are, but recent evidence suggests otherwise. Plenty of longtime Mets fans would (and regularly and loudly announce as such) that they would dump most of those guys and more, certain that they are that they could intelligently move forward otherwise. I am not such a fan, but I encounter them oft enough. Me — I'm still fighting a lost fight for Jose Iglesias in 2024 while they are throwing Nimmo over in 2025.

I encourage you to save your passwords by clicking that "Remember Me" toggle, so it is a single click or two to log in. I will, in the meantime, tweak the back end to see what adjustments I can make. Fifty percent chance that I break more than I fix, but what are you gonna do?

Damn, that's some frigid ****.

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.