Edgy MD

Frayed Knot wrote: Except for the acne. Well, I'm making assumptions about his mindset here, but it's not like Johnson didn't come into the league with some facial anomalies. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I imagine Johnson didn't betray a steroid look to him like Piazza and Bagwell did. Or Biggio? (Also omitted on CHB's ballot.) Still assuming, but I'm guessing his case against Biggio isn't a broadside against the "PED Hall Pass," but rather an atomic wedgie opposing "analytic arrogance." The analytic arrogance that has given his city's team --- disappointed for 86 years --- three world championships in a decade.

I imagine Johnson didn't betray a steroid look to him like Piazza and Bagwell did.

If Sandy Alderson were in on an elaborate PR scheme, wouldn't he just put in a lowball bid? Bids are sealed, except for the winner, so he'd just say something like, "We were right there." Saying "We're thinking about it but probably not" doesn't sell anything to anybody.

How childish.

Sure, but as you note above when contrasting him with Kang, Flores' minor league track record still looks pretty sharp on his CV.

smg58 wrote: I think Montero's stock has suffered a bit because he didn't make a good first impression here -- which is ironic, because Thor didn't pitch well enough to make any first impression here. I'm still bullish on him. I'm not one for jumping guys past a level unless they were spectacular, and Conforto's .851 OPS in rookie ball says "maybe" more than "hell yes." Molina was spectacular, but he's at an age where I'd be careful unless he forces me to think otherwise. I don't really think of Brooklyn-to-St. Lucie as necessarily skipping. It's more of a half skip. Brooklyn doesn't seem higher than Savannah, so much as a short-season version of the same level of competition.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: On further thought I'd be very surprised if they go after this guy inasmuch as best-case he's a kind of Flores but older and more expensive. That's what I'm thinking.

Open Conforto in St. Lucie, you think?

Reduced to a Yes/No answer, I'm going with No. The team needs to get at-bats for Flores, and if second and third are closed, then shortstop let it be. The downside is risky, but the potential reward his high. They have safer selections elsewhere. I don't mind them rolling the dice a little at short and having a backup plan or three in place.

You shouldn't have left me a "not sure" option, because I'm really not sure. You've got to trust your scouts on this one. He certainly wallops the ball, but he looks to be a mistake hitter in a league where mistakes are more frequent.

Ask your heart.

Merry Christmas. Please leave the money in small unmarked bills in Locker 119 at the bus depot.

Frayed Knot wrote: Chase Headley looks like he'll stay with the Yanx for another four years. This sure seems like a Luis Castillo of a move.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: seawolf17 wrote: I can't believe this is a thing. Neither can I! I thought his perceived attractiveness was just a CPF thing. "Perceived"? Please.

Hopefully Mr. Met is calling on the black kids later.

You found my webpage.

The 1985-1990 uniforms also brought little shame. If I remember, they didn't really hang well, though. The scheme was better than the cut or the fabric.

The colors on the waistbands are reversed. That's all I see.

Clearing up the roster pinch with a diplomatic strategy, isolating the Germens. 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Uni Watch, blessedly, comes out and advocates a San Diego Padre return to brown. Problem is, our most vivid memory of the brown is this: But a few years before, they had this... ...and this...

The funny thing is that they were broadly derided as cheap when the payroll was in the top bracket. You spend that much and fall short of the World Series in 2006 and collapse in 2007 and 2008, while still retaining the long-term commitments that you invested in with the expectations of excelling in those seasons and beyond, you're in trouble. This plane was gonna crash whether or not Madoff happened or not, assuming everything breaks the way it did on the field. Sandy's first year here, they had a $142,797,166 payroll, with loads of money committed to unmovable contracts for players giving him nothing or near to it. Only three teams were reported to have lost money that season --- two of them lost $10 million or less, and the Mets lost around $40 million.

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: Again, which big free agent from this year, last year or even the year before did you want them to sign? Foolishly over-spending just to prove you are a big-market team doesn't make sense. It's not like they haven't offered a $100 million contract to any player recently. Just because it was one of our own guys -- Wright -- doesn't mean it didn't happen. And it's not like they've been utterly hapless. Recently, yes. We got deep into the playoffs in 2006 and would have been there again in 2007 and 2008 if not for the epic collapses. You are talking about 6 years of sucking. For a club rebuilding from the bottom up, I don't think that's unreasonable. Who knows what might have happened last year had the All-Star ace and closer not been lost to Tommy John surgery. Maybe I'm a little too removed, but I guess I don't see them as all that evil. Talk to a Marlins fan about evil. Six years of coming up on the red side of the win-loss ledger, certainly. I'd dispute the notion that it has been six years of sucking.

Whatever "it" is, I've certainly seen constant calling out of the Mets ownership. Whether you want to invest more in it and coordinate it more is certainly up to you. But I disagree that it's not the central conversation with regard to the team. And then batmagadan jumps into another thread to preemptively decry his victimization.

Diamond Strawberry joins the cast of season whatever of Love & Hip-Hop, which, judging by teaser reel I just saw, should be called Black Women Fighting.