Edgy MD

Braden Looper to the Cardinals for... I dunno.

Jhonny Peralta has been hit with the first major injury of spring training, tearing a thumb ligament, knocking him out for an expected two-three months and firing up the rumor mill, with ESPN's Jim Bowden openly designating Ruben Tejada as their most realistic target. At any rate, it would probably likely that the Cards would move to deal until the end of spring training (like the Mets grabbing Torres and Blevins as camp broke last year), when they've had a chance to look at all available internal options, had a chance to scout potential acquisitions (Ruben had a bad day yesterday, and tends to start slowly in spring training even with a healthy foot), and let other people get hurt on somebody else's payroll. If such a deal goes down — and I have my doubts — I still think Muno or Reynolds would get his job before Eric Campbell.

Hit by righties or lefties?

Indeed it was 1990, and those lightweight questions inspired this quiz. No Donald Trump content in that thread, unfortunately. But I would encourage any 1990ers working from home today to pull their yearbooks and count the DT references.

Fred, you've been shunned. You should know how to shun. Hi, I'm the fifth inning, and I'm here to bring you four Mets runs. Mets up 4-2 in the seventh.

This photo takes us back to 2012, so if she's indeed a romantic interest, her current status is unknown. 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Girlfriend

I challenge you to put down what you think my 2016 season will look like, because everything about me confounds expectations. I'm old. I'm portly. I learned a new skill in my forties. I was signed with the idea that I'll last until I don't and then be tossed over, but I doggedly stuck around through the course of my contract. If I pitch stinky for a few weeks and look like I'm done, I turn a corner, like, EVERY TIME. And now I got a new contract, and I was offered more than one. If it was anybody else, you'd say I was due to retire before breaking camp. But it's not. It's me. What's 2016 gonna look like for me? [fimg=500:1xngkh4f]http://m.mlb.com/assets/images/8/2/2/147674822/cuts/colon1280_bxnkbu76_vb9hufgi.jpg[/fimg:1xngkh4f]

The king of all the Cossacks.

Well, I guess we need to pay a licensing fee for this thread.

Edgy can't help himself. He's a completionist. He's bought more Mets books than he can frankly read. And his completionism leads him to put up soothsaying threads for the Raywilly Gomezes of the world in order to have all potential Mets covered. But seriously? What's to predict? Will he be flotsam or will he be jetsam? Will he get zero plate appearances or nine? The difference, as they say, is negligible. But then there's me. I'm Yoenis Cespedes, and I'm a big, crazy, slugging Cuban expat. I might slug fifty homers, or I might slug a cop. I might unleash spectacular throws from the centerfield fence, or I might unleash ravenous doberman pinschers in a park full of middle schoolers. WHO KNOWS WITH ME? I could be a disaster in centerfield, or I might steal home five times. I'm what they call volatile. Here, have a smoke. So yeah, the range of outcomes with me is, as Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders will tell you, YOOJ. It's one thing they agree on. But it's my job to drive super-expensive and attention-grabbing automobiles, count my money, and play a little baseball once in a while, and it's your job to predict what my season will look like when the dust settles. I don't envy you. At all. VROOM! [fimg=500]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2315012.1438747045!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_635/nl-baseball.jpg[/fimg]

Zach Thornton comes in with that same one-run lead in the ninth and coughs it all up. Your final is 5-4 Braves.

We're at 4-3 through 7. Got a two-hit scoreless inning from Chasen Bradford, so the Mets continue to live on borrowed time. Chase Huchingson coming in, on this, the Chasiest day in Mets history. Huchingson isn't even a camp invitee, but he's been floated up for the day to absorb an inning on behalf a split-squad-depleted staff.

You keep your car I'm on my bike Apparently the trike was how he got around in Cuba.

While typing that, Wilmer Flores made a liar out of me, singling for his third hit, and plating Roger Bernadina. Mets lead by an insurmountable 4-2 score.

Listen, you nerds, this is an IXGT, and I'm not hearing a lot of IXGT chatter. Mets lead 3-2, for they are the superior squadron. Wilmer Flores has two hitties, Juan Lagares has knocked in two, and four Mets have walked through two innings. Ruben Tejada has been Ruben TeNADA, as he's whiffed twice in three at-bats, and Matt Harvey gave up one run in three innings, scuffling all the way as he yielded three hits and two walks, while fanning only one. Rafael Montero has relieved and gave up a run in his first inning, lowering his ERA to 22.50.

Seriously. Welcome to Pete Bestville, Jared Diamond.

METSBRAVESBernadina, rfTejada, ssConforto, lfFlores, 3bMonell, cSoupcan, 1bLagares, cfKubla Krauss, dhHererra, 2b Inciarte, cfAybar, ssFreeman, 1bMarkakis, rfGarcia, 3bPierzynski, cSwisher, dhCastro, 2bSmith, lf Shmarvey, spWisler, sp Mets go in order in the first.

The Mets will honor their beloved 44-year-old media relations director Shannon Forde — who died of breast cancer last Friday night — with a public memorial service at Citi Field on Wednesday at 3 p.m. All are welcome.

I caught the Taijeron/Tyrone pronunciation over the weekend. Color me impressed, but why should anybody be surprised to find Gary in mid-season form? He looked like a player over the weekend, but maybe he fits the axiom of AAAA players being the guys who do things right 90% of the time, while big leaguers do it 99%, or something.

With regard to the ultimate Expo, I have this strange and totally insupportable suspicion that Milton Bradley, after getting out of jail, is planning on pulling a Julio Franco and making a comeback in his 40s.

Is it possible to display the scorecard next to ballot, to allow the voter to view the players' performances in context?

I put some further up in the thread: a spurned agent, a vindictive opponent, a wronged woman. His suggestion — an MLB investigator (or investigators) who sold him down the river because he didn't rat out his sources — may or may not sound less plausible than those, but it's a motive. I mean, there was certainly irregularities in the Biogenesis investigation. And we know the default condition of cops isn't by definition purity.

If I have to make a choice, I don't believe him either, but I don't, so I'm happy to entertain alternative theories, and I don't think a conspiracy to ruin his career has to be massive at all.

Luis Carpio, already seemingly gravitating toward second, looks to be sidelined for an extended period of time following surgery on his throwing shoulder last week.

I checked the Uni Watch page, and his main concern is less the attempted snakeskin tapering (that creates the bloody cuffs effect), so much as how dark the grey pants are, making them look like umpire pants. Combining them with the black tops could create an embarrassing situation.