Edgy MD

How dis-spiriting to enter into this conversation at 4:44 Ceetar wrote: For that matter, bleacher report comprises a lot of different people too. I spoke about the standards of the source. Not the people. Ceetar wrote: Silly to paint broad strokes. I mentioned two specific sources. That isn't broad. Ceetar wrote: I'm not sure what your sentence full of buzzwords even means. I wrote pretty plainly. Which words (not buzzwords, but real words with actual concrete meanings) would you like me to elaborate on? Ceetar wrote: Amazin' Avenue is one of the better places to get Mets news/talk/analysis that's out there. Again, I spoke about the standards of the these sources, not about any and all who use them as a platform. I have no doubt they have many good people doing their best trying to provide interesting and unique content, and not a few succeeding (OE: if not necessarily getting paid for further enriching Ted Turner).

The Billy Beane of Baseball: .388 / .488 / .507 // .995. He's just making it all look silly right now in St. Loo. Only five of the 26 hits have gone for extra bases, but it would be real miserly to complain about that sort of thing at this moment.

Ceetar wrote: I'm not sure why SBNation is 'barely legit'. Because wildcat journalism sources have diminishing fact-finding capacity and accountability.

The 2014 accounts and travails of Matt Harvey being the most publicized Met outside of the sports pages, while not actively being a Met. Like today, when Matt created a dustup tweeting a photo of him flipping the bird on Twitter, and deleted his Twitter account shortly after, and Generation Tweet (and barely legit sports sites like SBNation and bleacherreport) just can't shut up about it. Maybe his goal in life is to drive Jay Horwitz over the edge. [fimg=500]http://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/assets/4340595/Harvey_middle_finger_medium.png[/fimg]

Gary has been pronouncing "Jeurys" as "JER-ris," while in my mind, it's "HYOR-ees."

A Spider-Dude-themed uniform brings advertising onto the uni in a distinctly new way that brings us across the Rubicon. It's only a matter of time before they are the Sanyo Mets. I'd like to stay that execution as long as possible.

Who is being advocated for here? deGrom? Montero? Syndergaard?

Another Cardinal offense watcher I just stumbled upon is inching out on the ledge. It continued Monday night in New York as the Mets blanked the Cardinals 2-0 as someone named Jenrry Mejia blanked the Cardinals on four hits for 6.2 innings, as another National League pitcher fattened up his stats on the NL Champs. That crown means nothing in 2014 and the Cardinals play has resembled little from the previous season. His name is "Jenrry." Two R's. Get used to it.

Helmets, blessedly, remained royal.

He's swinging like that guy in the lottery commercial who gets to stay in the lineup because he owns the team.

If d'Arnaud, Brown, or Satin get a hit in their next at-bat --- assuming Brown gets promoted --- they will leave the interstate. Perhaps it would even be advisable to pull them from the game if this comes to pass, so they can enjoy the sleep of the just for at least a night, knowing their mugshots have been removed from my symbolic post office. Granderson, on the other hand, would need seven straight hits to escape most immediately. His start has been positively Ike-like.

It's April 22. Taxes have been paid, Easter has been celebrated, the Boston Marathon is underway and the firstbaseman has been traded. It is no longer just one of them things if your batting average starts with a one. It is indeed an embarrassment. Gentlemen, get off the interstate. Travis D'Arnaud, you are hitting the ball hard and trending in the right direction, but if you died tomorrow, would you really want to meet your maker with a .192 average? I tend to think you would not. Andrew Brown, you have turned the footnote of Colin Cowgill into a tradition --- the tradition of the fringey outfielder who gets a start on opening day, rewards his manager with a big homer, and then has disappeared before the calendar hits May. This is what a .185 average can do. Josh Satin, the team showed faith in you. FAITH! Non tendering Justin Turner? That's FAITH! Giving you first base against lefties? FAITH INDEED! Dealing off the big guy so you're the only guy standing between a Lucas Duda injury and oblivion? THAT'S A GEORGE MICHAEL DEGREE OF FAITH! But when you reward that with a .143 average? Faith will fail. Curtis Granderson, a .121 disaster of a season thus far has turned your rep from "character guy" to Jason Bay and Tom Glavine rolled into one. Both a failed free agent outlay and an embedded enemy. A .121 average is a palindrome of failure. Gentlemen, I don't need you to have career seasons. I need you to get off the interstate, and get off NOW!!!! It's just so unseemly to see those numbers beneath your face as you approach the plate. .192 .185 .143 .121 That is all.

Yeah, he was probably wearing camo under his jersey too. There was a bit story today that he was shaking out his arm in obvious discomfort in the tunnel shot after the game. Anybody catch that?

Guess which 27-year-old minor-league vet is the Pacific Coast League Player of the Week? It's the guy who had two homers and ten RBI, reached base at a .593 clip, and slugged .900.

�Do you know how to optimize a nine-beam multi-beam antenna system?� This ad makes me sad, my sympathies with the under-educated, unemployable party dude burning through his dwinding dollars as he takes his baby to the ball game.

I like how Keef says "periphial." Is Murph going to suck his finger all game? Is that from the DP or sliding into third?

Nice to see how hard d'Arnie is hitting it. Didn't see if Terry got in Murphy's face after he scored.

Murphy was safe. Stupid, but safe.

Jenrry Jiudinni.

He looks pretty much the same.

Holy spats! That's what other double plays HOPE to be.

Slow or fast. That grounder would have doubled up a 20-year-old Mickey Mantle. Didn't notice that he dogged it, though. Meanwitz, that drive by d'Arnie would have been 12 rows deep at YSIII.

Hard to imagine a MORE tailor-made double play ball than that what was just hit by Satin, huh?

"I am Daniel Murphy's bat. I will be hitting balls to left against lefthanded breaking pitches. It is what I do."

"Hi, I am the glove of Ruben Tejada. And I will be taking things from you. First, I will take your base hits. Then, I will take your joy. Lastly, I will take your dignity. Good day to you."