Edgy MD

Just here so far, baby. For I will decide what is and isn't a thing.

A quick review helped me find a few former ballplayers who became gynos, including one former big-leaguer, two from the affiliated minors, and one who spent three years in the indy leagues, but none with Mets pedigree that I could find. Dunham has made the claim a few select times over the years, getting enough mileage out of it that I imagine somebody would have sussed out the identity of the doctor if it was true, but she's used it selectively enough that nobody has bothered exploding the claim if it's untrue. I imagine somebody will now, though, as her book is on the NYT bestseller list.

Darren O'Day, you let me o'down.

Do it now, O's.

He's already been more useful in this post-season than he was in 2000's. WHOAH!

I think Squiggy is sitting behind the Baltimore dugout.

Andrew Miller. The Mets and the Yanks should try and get this guy.

Oh that's definitely going to be challenged, right? NOPE!

Markakis is going to get a contract extension too, the way things are going.

I'm getting a weird MLB.tv feed where I can hear the announcers following the game, but the visuals are exclusively one camera shot fixed on the Kansas City dugout.

And now it's 5-4. "You never expect somebody you draft in June is gonna help you in September." Or October!

Big catch helps Big Game Shields to live up to his big name.

Former Mets who I wouldn't put it past to masquerade as a gynecologist: [list:3sg3dsvu][*:3sg3dsvu]Paul LoDuca[/*:m:3sg3dsvu][/list:u:3sg3dsvu]

She's made the claim before apparently.

Lena Dunham, the creator and star of Girls, has released a book of essays. I had no intention of reading it, but then I stumbled into a Sunday Telegraph review, which included this excerpted paragraph. �Randy is my gynecologist. I have had a number of gynecologists over the years, all talented in their own ways, but Randy is the best. He is an older Jewish man who, before deciding to inspect ladies down there for a living, played for the Mets. He still has the can-do determination of a pitcher on an underdog team and, to my mind, that is exactly the kind of man you want delivering babies or rooting around in your vagina.� So, this is non-fiction, and therefore, assuming Randy isn't actually "Randy," this should be an easily findable OB/GYN. A visit to the UMDB suggests our good doctor is either Randy Jones, Randy Milligan, Randy Myers, Randy Niemann, Randy Sterling, or Randy Tate. The "older" label points us generally toward the first and the last two. But we know Randy Jones went on to become a baseball executive. Has Randy Sterling (sounds more likely to be Jewish than Tate) joined Ron Taylor in the small club of Mets-righthanders-turned-physicians?

Not all the assistants go, though, as his replacement was the team's development director. Got to think this refuels all the trade-Tulo-and-Gonzalez fires. This guy presumably wouldn't be as wedded to those two guys. Following that logic, it's hard to avoid the image of Tulowitzki in the Bronx. He'll wear 22 and #2lo will become, like, a thing. Everything he does won't be credited to him so much as a noble continuing of Jeter's legacy, a living tribute to the standard bearer of standard bearers. Everything he fails to do will be a blasphemous disgrace upon Jeter's position/name/digit, and if he doesn't perform well, he'll be hated like A-Rod.

Not definitive, but indicative of a minor victory --- if a pyrrhic one --- for Sandy's restraint. Now we go back to the same situation with perhaps many of the same names on his list. All maybe a year older with that much of their growing pains behind them, but the same can mostly be said of Tejada and Flores too. What's amazing is that Tejada --- along with Duda and Grandy --- ended up having one of the highest walk rates in the league. If he even hit .250, he would have been a clear asset.

That contract was signed after his outlier season, with an .877 OPS. He's been 100 points lower since then. No way Sandy takes the butt end of that contract without some generous cash-eatin' by Toronto.

metsmarathon wrote: more outsized a nickname than "edgy's mancrush" anthony recker? "The Crusher" would be a good nickname for him. It has a Bugs cartoon and a Ramones song to go with it and everything. [fimg=500]http://www.barkeranimation.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/16754ff79e5ed91fd2192ddb1cd7df33/9/7/978.jpg[/fimg]

That would be a good one. Super Joe is the most obvious. Gorfax is certainly another. Maybe Anthony Recker needs an outsized nickname.

Jose Oquendo, prototype for Rey Ord��ez.

I like pedestrian ballplayers with outsized nicknames for that they can't possibly live up to.

Jeff Duncan (R-SC)

Alex Cora.

What an amazing spread of votes!