Edgy MD

Where's the thread with the pictures of Matsui tooling around the theater district?

That doesn't make any sense in the world. Do you really believe "the Mets" are all in Florida fucking around and getting drunk and not working to improve the team? That the offseason has been a festival of carnality and leisure with little activity to speak of except for half-thought-out contract thrown at Granderson to make it look like you did some work for the year-end report? You can't possibly think this.

I would beg you to try again with that post.

Yeah, but Bill Madden invited to join a club for excellence in baseball writing before him is a little more qualitiatively questionable.

I think he could've been a better offensive player if he didn't make such dramatic adjustments, forcing himself to hit grounders and relying on his speed. That act might've played on artificial turf but it didn't work in the MLB of the aughts. Defensively, it was really foolish of the team to set him up at short. Really foolish. He really had a pretty good package of skills, but between coming to MLB relatively late, having a losing strategy to adapt, and being caught up in a political/marketing strategy disguised as a baseball move, he was undone. Trading him for Eli Marrero was pretty funny. Marrero joins Kelly Shoppach as veteran Mets catchers acquired late toward the end of the season, when they apparently weren't really certain they even wanted to play anymore.

Frayed Knot wrote: Well, when they play poorly, they're similar. When they excel, they're a little different. Not very different. ID career per/600 ABs -- .242/.334/.434 // 768; 30 2Bs, 1 3B, 25 HRs in 1,711 ML ABs LD career per/600 ABs -- .246/.342/.424 // 766; 27 2Bs, 1 3B, 20 HRs in 1,282 ML ABs That speaks to their career averages but not to the distinctions between how they perform when they excel, when Duda is a better contact hitter who uses the whole field, and Davis is the better pull hitter for power. When they fail, which they both mostly have for two years, we get neither of this, and so, yes, their career averages are similar. Frayed Knot wrote: You also have (theoretically) one fewer hole elsewhere by dealing either/or as opposed to redundancy at one spot with two guys who may both be out of options at this point(?) and will turn 27 & 28 y/o (Lucas is 13 months older) before the season starts. Well, we speak here of not dealing one for the sake of a deal, and encouraging the Mets to hold rather than to take a less-than-advantageous deal that would not plug much of a hole. We do not speak of refusing to deal outright. Frayed Knot wrote: Is the hope that keeping both will light a fire under one or the other really that high (after all - it hasn't worked so far)... They haven't been pitted up against one another for playing time thus far. Frayed Knot wrote: ...to justify burning a roster spot with two guys who essentially have the same strengths and weaknesses. I don't want to dump either one just to dump them, but if I'm Sandy I'm turning over every rock to see what I can find in a SS, a prospect, a pitcher, or even a good bench player in exchange. I do not consider a roster spot given to a capable player to be "burned." Teams tend to carry lefthanded hitting outfielder/firstbaseman types with power on their bench under any circumstances. Many of these guys are former starters who have been downgraded. If Duda breaks camp in the role that Baxter had last year, what's burned?

Why do people confuse a closed transaction with activity?

There I was feeling all big about mice elf.

The season is over! Your season score this year is 53 out of 100. This is a very good score, Edward.

That does not look like a motion that's healthy on the shoulders.

Edgy MD wrote: A Yankee signs a LTBB contract with the Mets. The presidents of the US and Cuba shake hands. It's a good day for rapprochement, even a rapprochement with our own history. Congress reaches a bipartisan budget deal. Hallelujah.

Possibly a good move considering they will need extra pitching in the second half as innings limits and attrition come into play. Any notion on when he is due back?

I nominate the guy standing background right as the biggest Yankee fan ever. "This guy's totally dying but that's D-d-d-derek Je... Shit. Cameraphone. Better cover up my sweet Jeterboner fast!"

Frayed Knot wrote: So if I've got this straight, a guy starts having a heart attack so Jeter uses the occasion to chat-up the victim's shapely, blonde table-mate ... and somehow out of all this Saint Derek gets the credit for the guy not dying?!? You should see what he could've done if he wasn't rehabbing. Yeah, I dunno.

Derek Jeter intangibles dude back to life: http://deadspin.com/derek-jeter-revived-a-dying-man-with-his-handsome-face-1480621917?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Well, yeah, and Vic Black can turn out to be Vic Darensbourg. But we've got to go forward. Date new boys. A Yankee signs a LTBB contract with the Mets. The presidents of the US and Cuba shake hands. It's a good day for rapprochement, even a rapprochement with our own history.

If I had a nickle for every time someone was impressed by my Lance Broadway.

WAyne GaRrett.

Well, then, here's something to fuel your palpitations.

Maybe "We went out and bought some guys and now there's only room for one of youse in this lineup" focuses one or both of them to produce like never before.

Well, when they play poorly, they're similar. When they excel, they're a little different. But being similar isn't an issue as far as I'm concerned. Getting good play out of at least one of them is the issue. And that's less likely if they deal one away.

seawolf17 wrote: metirish wrote: The mets never fail to get the last shitty word in with a player on the way out. Yet another reason why I don't know why anyone ever signs with this fuckin' team. Because while it strikes us as ungracious --- a wintertime moment of talking out of school by an alleged unnamed executive claiming that a utility guy didn't run to first as hard as he should have is no big whoop. I mean, I can think of 60 million reasons Granderson signed with the Mets. If his buddy told him, "The Mets? You see what they said about Turner? That he didn't run hard?" I imagine he'd reply, "Well, I don't do that."

Juan Lagares.

I'm there too. Don't think the Mets are, though.

I don't know. I guess I'm alone on this, but yeah, while Kemp had one MVP quality season in 2011, Matt Kemp on the DL is worth no more or less than... Omar Quintanilla on the DL --- absolute bupkis. And a physically compromised star is no fun either. Health counts! WAR the last four years: Kemp -1.1 8.1 2.4 0.5 --- 9.9 Ethier 1.9 2.4 3.8 2.7 --- 10.8