Edgy MD

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Well, again, the idea would be that whatever is lost is gained elsewheres. I'm not advocating, at all. But folks are speaking of Plan C, and that's one.

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Well, presumably, it would be Murphy to first so that Duda and Davis could be dealt for wonderful things. Part of the appeal of sticking with them both is that I celebrate Sandy's willingness to walk away from the table until somebody comes back to him with an offer that hurts them. We should support the team in this.

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At least one version of Plan C has Murphy returning to first. He'd probably never make an All Star team there, but the defense wouldn't be as much a downgrade, and the offense would at least be less mercurial. The certainty would be worth something.

Congratulations as usual to the designers and photographers, but the film I saw was bloated and hamfisted.

In the earlier Jordan/Seaver story I was referring to, he goes more deeply into the circumstances behind that autograph Seaver sent to his grandson. That he was estranged from his daughter and hadn't met his grandson or had only just met him maybe once in passing. One day his daughter calls him out of the blue and said his grandson was just discovering baseball and was nuts for it and asked if he knew any ballplayers that he could get an autograph from. He had been sort of out of circulation and didn't have any contemporary figures he could call on, so he calls Seaver, they shoot the shit for a while, and he coyly asks if he could send his grandkid an autograph. He didn't come right out and say that his reconciliation with his daughter and grandson was on the line, but the gravity got across, and somehow Seaver, who has little time anymore for all the sorry saps who worship him, went overboard for this guy who calls him every now and then only to bust his balls. Sends his grandkid the full package: autographed photo and personal letter with references to his respect for the kid's grandfather, and how he hears the kid has a great future. (Moral of the story: If you meet Tom Seaver, give him hellish grief instead of the sycophancy. He'll respect that.) My other memory was that Tom mentioned a favorite dog (a lab, surely) he had from his playing days named Slider. Jordan decided to bust on him and told him if he had another dog named Curveball, he'd have won 400 games. Seaver, who rarely threw a curve and almost never for strikes got all serious and introspective and said, "I could never grasp the philsophy of the curveball."

I'm just not so sure that Kemp is so can't-missy. But as philosophically trade-averse as I am, I guess I shouldn't cling to Montie as tightly as Syndie. Oh, Montie!

Gosh, that's a tough bullet to bite. Half salary even.`

Zvon wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Certainly not everyone is saying to push a Davis trade. Everyone who counts who's saying something or anything. This hurts me so very deeply.

Certainly not everyone is saying to push a Davis trade.

There's a man who represents his client If someone tries to steal his guys, he's vi'lent With every move he makes Another jaw he breaks Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow Secret Agent Man! Secret Agent Man! You stand up for your business and they're smearing your good name. Beware of pretty faces that you find Stealing clients with a sweet behind Jay-Z, Shef, and Terry Bross All know Boras is the boss But odds are he won't live to see tomorrow Secret Agent Man! Secret Agent Man! You stand up for your business and they're smearing your good name Signing with the Red Sox pitcher one day Then NASA jokes about the Mets the next day But you don't let your clients down With two fists in Miami town Odds are you won't live to see tomorrow. Secret Agent Man! Secret Agent Man! You stand up for your business and they're smearing your good NAME!

Who was in on the agent fight? Name those agents now and win!

He would join the ranks of Mets whose names are complete sentences (Rick Waits, rush chairman), but otherwise, there's wisdom in not killing yourself to solve all your problems at once.

That would be quite obviously counterproductive and pointlessly vindictive. Please try harder.

Well, if you disagree, then it makes no sense to preface that disagreement with "Duh." It would actually be quite easy to move him.

I'm not sure what folks are asking for, but your team is a contender. Yeah, plenty has to go right. That's always true.

Change-up was his third pitch, too. He couldn't have gone to a slider, because McCovey might well at least have fouled it off and then the element of surprise is gone. OE I have another great essay this guy wrote about Seaver.

There are two Juans. Baseball-reference seems to have seen a slimmer man play than UMDB did. MetHeightWeightBMICategorybb-ref Juan Berenguer5'11"18625.9OverweightUMDB Juan Berenguer5'11"21530Obese

In seeking the fattest Met ever, we're up against some challenging facts. Few are honest, and little changes. If your 1971 baseball card says you're 195, it's a pretty safe bet that your 1988 card says the same. So, stipulating that (1) official weights are mostly lies, and (2) they rarely if ever change during a player's career, let's acknowledge that they're all we have and hope against hope that the degree of error is the same for everybody, and look at the BMIs of some notably chunky monkeys from Mets history. MetHeightWeightBMICategoryBartolo Colon5'11"26537Morbidly ObeseMo Vaughn6'1"26836Morbidly ObeseButch Huskey6'3"24430OverweightBenny Agbayani6'0"22530OverweightSid Fernandez6'1"22029OverweightRamon Castro6'3"23529OverweightRusty Staub6'2"21528OverweightMickey Lollich6'1"17022Normal Weight All weights from UMDB, except Colon's, from baseball-reference. Man, I'm fat.

I'm gonna stick with Mo Vaughn on that one.