Edgy MD

I have no idea what they'll be doing this offseason. Top priority is shoring up, I think. But no, I think there are plenty of internal options at second.

Just jumped up to fourth in the Eastern League in RBI. Fifth in total bases, second in OBP, and third in OPS (that last one behind two guys who've logged significantly fewer plate appearances). We're looking at an MVP candidate. Good adoption.

3-5, 2B, 2 R yestidday. The Bees are looking to win their third straight series and have Robert Carson taking the hill for them, but, seriously, some of youse adopt Satin and Dykstra. Those are the bats carrying this team.

I expect Rainy is a diminutive of Rainier or somesuch. Be a good name for a dominatrix. Yeah, I've had some adventure looking for photos.

Rainly Lara is coming out of the bullpen and delivering rainy day music to Gulf Coast batters, having just logged his fifth straight scoreless appearance. He has 1.86 ERA over 9.2 innings, logging six saves, along with eight strikeouts and only one walk. That WHIP? It's 1.14, baby, and it's been dropping.

Matt gave up a pair in the first, but then settled down. All part of the growth process, I say. 5 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 9 K, 3 BB

Scorcese doesn't do wild and zany comedy. He does dark and disturbing comedy. Even when he did the screwball comedy, with the greatest screwball in history in Jerry Lewis, he had that guy be the sap, and DeNiro be the screwb. What a sadist that guy is.

It's sort of hate mail for yuppies, isn't it? You can't just be a day tripper in this world, buddy, trading on people's lives but not living one. It's like an ancient tale of a god who fell to earth and found himself in a mortal world he couldn't navigate, except Olympus is the world above Houston and earth is the world below. Anyhow, one more movie that couldn't take place in a world of cell phones.

Amazin' Avenue inexpiclably put their farm report today in Ring Lardner-era sportswriter prose: BINGHAMTON 9, NEW BRITAIN 4 (Box) The game was: Club Matt Den Dekker Home. Allan Dykstra had the first whack (1st Inning) and sent Matty spinning in from 1B. Then Valdespin took his turn (3rd Inning, from 1B), selected "try again" (5th Inning, from 2B), and proved himself master indeed. So Josh Satin wanted a go (7th Inning), and Matty obligingly measured his lead at first. Crack! Oh how the Dutchman huffed and puffed around the bases. Then in the 8th, John Henry-like, Matthew G. Den Dekker died on the bags. Fourth straight B-Mets victory. Wally tossed.

Tearing apart the Florida State League right now.

Tearing apart the Florida State League right now.

Start three, Matty had his strikeout pitch working, but also his homerun pitch. Yoops. 3.0 IP, 6 H, 7 ER, 2 HR, 1 BB, 5 SO. It was raining and Matt couldn't find his grip. That's what I'm going with.

Somebody needs to take him out and show him the wonders of extraFloridian living. And I think you're that man.

Might have been the quality of opponent, but he looked stronger in start two: 5.0 IP, 5 H 2 ER, 1 BB, 5 SO

Yeah, every time he comes over, it sort of goes like: > Jordany, it's nice to have you back. You know, we're just so pr... > Here's my laundry, bitch.

JV has been visitng the .300 Club on recent trips to town, and is now slashing in at .302 / .347 / .469 // .816. He won't be ignored. He's been caught stealing at inopportune times of late. Not that there are any oppotune times, but he'll need to curb his enthusiasm a bit. Valdespin Shows Great Improvement This SeasonBy WBNG News July 2, 2011 Updated Jul 2, 2011 at 11:08 PM EDT Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) He may not have had the game winning hit, but one of the keys to Friday night's victory was second baseman Jordany Valdespin. Valdespin went 2 for 4 with a run scored and an RBI that put the Mets ahead in the 5th inning. Manager Wally Backman says Valdespin, one of the team's 3 all-stars, has come a long way since the beginning of the season. "He's showed his teammates a lot more respect which...he's had a few issues with players in the past and this year, he's been good. I think it's showed in the way he's played the game. He's done a great job for us. He's already stolen more bases than he's stolen anywhere else," says Backman. Valdespin is set to appear in his first all-star game. He's batting .283 with 8 home runs in 68 games this season and has already stolen 22 bases. Valdespin is one of 3 B-Mets on the Mets 40 man roster and is ranked as the 25th best prospect in the Mets sytem by Baseball America. Seems to be more than a little evidence in this thread suggesting that my adoptee is a punk.

First AA win for Jeurys: 5.0 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 6 SO. Portland came back aganst the Bingo pen, but the B-Mets held on.

The power has been dropping off, but he's really been getting his hits in (if almost all of them are singles), and he sits at .283 / .333 / .450 // .784, and that looks just find for a AA middleinfielder. At 23, he's certainly mature enough to move up (if still unrefined), but Jonathan Malo got the last callup instead, with the Buffs looking for an outfielder. Amazin' Avenue has some opinions, also: Finally, there's the hot name right now, Jordany Valdespin. Valdespin is interesting. He's been quite good this season for Binghamton, especially lately. Plagued by inconsistency and rawness coming into 2011, this year Valdespin is exhibiting the excellent mix of speed, power and all-around athleticism that has always made scouts drool. A .362/.413/.667 June has people excited as the toolsy MI is finally starting to harness all of his physical ability and a .313 BABIP means this may be for real. The problem is that aforementioned rawness, in his game and in his temperament. He's been suspended by the org. more than once for inappropriate behavior marked by a foul temper. At the dish, his patience has improved but he's still striking out 3-4 times more than he's walking. And in the field, he betrays his athleticism with out-of-control play, marked by 16 errors in 2011. If he can continue to harness his athleticism he could be Jose Reyes-lite, the kind of player that affects every aspect of a game. If not, he may be the next Angel Berroa.

Rocketed around the ballpark in his Bingo debut: 4.2 IP, 9 H 4 ER , 2 BB, 4 SO. bmfc1 has the real skinny.

This is what they call themselves when Todd Rundgren is singing, right? Wait, what?

Matt left a message on my machine. He and Jefry Marte are going to the Futures Game.

It opens sort of like Lord of the Rings, in that you need so much backstory to catch up with the layout that they bring you up to speed with a ton of narration accompanying shortcuts of the Lanternian history. (The narrator actually sounded like Alec Guinness.) Once I got that in my head, I started realizing that it had a lot of the same themes --- a ring of power coming to an unlikely holder, opening up the entire universe to a sheltered isolated people, but with him left to wonder why, in such a vast universe, the responsilbiitly has been left to him. Meanwhile, an unspeakable but relatively formless foe that had been defeated but not destroyed ages before has been inexplicably left unguarded and is gaining power. You get douchebags in the hero's company, and the allure and power of the dark-side-turning mentors. And I didn't like it and don't see people watching this five years from now. The big problem with all stories in the DC universe exists here: if a big evil spidercloud guy the size of Canarsie (sometimes he's the size of a city, sometimes he fits in a room, so I'm compromising) is threatening the Bay Area as his first stop in destroying the planet before going on to conquer any far off races that get in his way, why isn't Superman on the job? Where's the Flash? Hawkman? The Wonder Twins? Why is it left to a rookie? Some of these DC guys are just too omnipotent. In order to make threats big enough to challenge such godlings as these, the whole planet --- the very existence of mankind --- has to be in the balance. In every film! How can mankind survive in such a state perepetual existential crisis? The PTSD plague would turn us into a race of jibbering nincompoops. I really wish these guys would fight purse snatchers or car theives once in a while. Build a movie around them foiling a ring of nursing home executives bilking seniors out of their benefits. Anyhow, I realize that Iron Man has already established that, in superhero movies, chicks in Boston Proper cocktail dresses can be capriciously promoted to become CEOs of multi-billion dollar defense contractors, but at least Gwyneth Paltrow wasn't 23 or so at the time, like this one seemed to be. Give me an anchor of reality to make the fantasy more believable, you know? I can't focus on the screen with my eyes rolling all over the place, boobies or no. So, yeah, more of the same with these films. Some good ideas jumbled together on storyboard, but indifferently sewn into a semi-coherent script, apparently springing from the FX and design concepts, rather than vice-versa, culminating an a rather goofy climax*. But there was clobbering, smartassery, and legs, so congratulations, 14-year-old boys, the world is yours and not mine. * Did you know once you leave the Earth's atmostphere, you pretty much have all you need in outerspace, right there just beyond our communications satellites? You have big meteor fields and worm holes, and the Sun is like, right next door.

I'm adopting the man, and I'm adopting the name for my new emo band. Lara rained dominance down upn his fellow Dominican teenagers last summer, going 4-2 for the DSL Mets with a 1.97 ERA and a .209 batting average against. Twelve of his 14 appearances were starties. When you have a 0.95 WHIP, I call your name. In 64 innings, he yielded 2 homers and 13 walks against 51 strikeouts. Yeah, maybe nobody hits too many homers in the DSL, but I'll take Walter Johnson numbers when and where I can find them. Is that so wrong? He has yet to be unveiled stateside in the Gulf Coast League. Stay tuned.

There's a 3-D version in the theaters, if that means anything to you.

Way too little. They also put a lot of thought into slinky dresses, says Ms. Edgy. Comparable to Flash Gordon, I thought, without the self-awareness. So it wasn't camp and it wasn't quite earnest, and in between is a difficult place to land.