Edgy MD

Yeah, I apologize for posting it. I found it interesting only insofar as it underscored the comic hopelessness of the insistence back in camp that Matt Harvey would NOt be the story. Naturally, the only way to keep banal stuff like his soiled underwear and pungent aroma from being a lede is for the team to start careening toward the division championship.

That's interesting. The same logic has d'Arnaud headed to Yakima, Washington, Brown pulled over and parked on his way to Montgomery, Alabama, and Satin careening toward downtown Columbus.

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A box like this has to be preserved for posterity. Francoeur pitched! He was, in fact, the only thing that kept LV from scoring in every inning.

Yeah, seriously. You've got to spell the guy's name right.

What if it's true? What if the entire front office thought Justin Turner was a lazy and problematic little gnome. You wish nobody had leaked the existence of the leadership team's consensus disposition, but if pinned down on it, you'd have to lie out loud to deny it. WHAT THEN?!!

vtmet wrote: Mets fans, media and the Front Office are going to "shocked" when Harvey bolts at the first opportunity in Free Agency...Every thing this guy has done since getting surgery (that he didn't want to do to begin with) has been condemned by somebody...Just let the kid be, he's not even old enough to rent a car yet and everyone is acting like he's doing something wrong for enjoying life a little... Harvey is 25. Last I checked, you can rent a car on your left and another one on your right. In New York, you can rent as young as 21, with an added fee. I refuse to believe he had un-necessary surgery because the Mets coerced him. Everyone is not acting like anything. I'm not sure where this magic place is where you get to do stupid stuff and everybody ignores it but gives you all the shiny publicity that you want when you are seeking it. If he's expecting to go to there, he can tell me how it is. I don't care about his finger, but anybody anywhere would expect their team to ask them to remove it. "Ha, ha, oops, I guess so," is a perfectly sound response. Blowing up your account --- the choice of stupid athletes doing stupid stuff since the dawn of Twitter --- just seems so petulant.

I believe he is.

d'Arnaud goes 0-3 today. Keith was right yesterday that his timing is solid but he's getting under it. Totally un-expert observation by me says that a starting catcher needs a little bit o' swagger, and d'Arnie is lacking it. Brown was not in the lineup tonight as the Las Vegans pounded out 21 runs on 21 hits against the El Paso Chihuahuas. Wouldn't have helped his big-league numbers anyhow. Josh Satin lofted a high lazy fly to center in his one pinch-hitting appearance. Granderson looked bad against Wainwright's curve, but did get one good rip in with runners on base, but unfortunately didn't get enough lift on it and lined it straight to the firstbaseman. He also walked in the ninth to get the tying run to the plate. None of these achievements represented a hit, and his hole deepens. He's not far from the trainer suddenly discovering a phantom injury. Bobby Abreu put one just short of the warning track in his debut at-bat in the ninth. .182 .185 .133 .116 .000 I can say no more.

50-100 if only just. He'll get a couple of homers early and that'll keep him around longer perhaps than it should. Maybe.

Hard to believe most PR guys wouldn't ask you to take that photo down. Right or wrong, clearly, responding by shutting down his shop was about playing the part of a victim. Guess he's just never not competing. Even if it's a battle of PR pride with an old man.

Gotta swing there David. Drive safely, folkz.

Derek Lilliquist walks to the mound like he's looking to mess somebody up.

Speaking for myself, I haven't fellated anybody. Why? What are they saying?

Hesitation out of the box costing you there, Youngie.

Hard-hit ballz by the Mets keep finding Cardinal leather tonight.

I'd like to build my house in a Kiner patch.

It's a different game otherwise, to be sure.

Taking out the guy turning the DP is part of the game. They can outlaw it, but until they do, most other players would have done the same, and some would have come in higher. Striking out Grandy was like taking the baby's candy there.

Quite the escape act. Now let's get those runz back.

I couldn't click on too much or I would have died, so I don't know how much outrage, faux or otherwise there is. I'll take your word for it. Whatever your reaction to the photo, would it somehow be applauded if he played for San Diego or Texas? Is this really that much a reflection on New Yorkers? Are the outraged all alleged Mets fans?

I never had the idea that it was an end.

On a good run right now or for reals?

Ceetar wrote: your "two specific sources" encompass hundreds if not thousands of writers and dozens of sites. How many times do we need to return to discussing the fallacy of the part and the whole? Ceetar wrote: Their standards seem to be higher than say the New York Post or the Bergen Record from where I sit. That's just fine. Ceetar wrote: wildcat journalism sources have diminishing fact-finding capacity and accountability. I don't know what wildcat journalism is and I have no idea what you mean by diminishing fact-finding capacity. A wildcat enterprise is generally one lacking in authority or regulation of its industry's generally established standards. I have difficulty believing you have no idea what a diminishing fact-finding capacity might mean. But I mean that to suggest that, not having many reporters with credentials and budgets and time to devote professionally to pursuing their stories, they don't really report, but re-report the findings of more established journals. (Or each other.) Ceetar wrote: accountability? why? Because they can't be fired? Well, maybe not in the traditional sense, but a lot of those sites on SB Nation have a bunch of writers and those writers can absolutely be 'let go' if they're not up to snuff. And it's all a subsidiary of Vox Media. Because the operators demonstrably don't really care about maintaining journalistic standards. That doesn't mean that some writers haven't absolutely hit homeruns. Ceetar wrote: Whatever "Can't shut up about it" means, these people aren't the ones going up to Matt Harvey and asking him the specifics of a photo his mom took of him recovering from surgery. It means there are a lot of redundant stories to sort through, each amounting to little more than the previous one. I'm sorry if my opinion hit personally in some way. I just meant to suggest that there was a proliferation of journalism platforms to sort through (and yes, with diminishing returns) that respond to this sort of thing and disproportionately blow it up while offering little new, helpful, or meaningful. There are. For the record, I've enjoyed a lot of work published at SBNation, and even a little from Gawker sources.

Campbell gives me a read like Justin Turner without the illusion opf job security that softened the latter up. Plays pretty much every position and still has the grind in him. Even came to camp in a beard. [fimg=500:2ihzya87]http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Eric+Campbell+dhIbF6Tr2nUm.jpg[/fimg:2ihzya87] He's one of three 51s (along with Dykstra and deGrom) I imagine could help the big league team TODAY.