Edgy MD

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Sucks against lefties and almost a platoon player at this point. If we made a move, we should also acquire the right-handed version of Andre Ethier to at least cover the at-bat song choices (just not his own). [youtube]UMwRJeh3Mwk[/youtube] "Hey, Seo..."

The greater point is to be deliberate and not to be baited into signings by agenda-driven tools and media players who promise to bury you if you don't and gild you if you do.

But Grandy may need more years AND may cost more (depending on what the Dodgers eat) AND will cost a second round draftee, which may not be much but certainly isn't nuttin'. i hate the trade market but it has its advantages.

Shortly after each game, raise a flag in centerfield --- blue for victory, gray for a loss. This pole would fly ten flags at a time, representing each of the team's most recent ten games, newest on top, and therefore provide a visual narrative of the recent state of the team. If you want to be un-necessarily dramatic about it, shortly (10 minutes or so) after the end of each home game, the manager could appear in centerfield withe a coach and a player (designated by rotation, rather than the hero/goat-of-the-day status), and raise the new flag and lower the oldest one. Once a decade, the team will get to fly 10 blue flags and that would be cool. And when they raise a championship flag, well, BAM! As for being afraid of fools attacking players, bah. That's exactly what we need to combat. The fans grow more hostile, the players grow more distant, and the fans feel justified in their hostility. We've got to restore good faith between the parties, and the nightly crowd walk (if only at the beginning of games) is just the gesture to get it started. I read yesterday that folks go a hold of the Dolphin's GM's phone number and filled his voicemail with hostile BS. Make it stop.

He's baited the Mets regularly over the years. The only difference here is he put more middle school composition class work into it.

It also has plenty to do with being young vs. being old. It just does.

metirish wrote: Edgy MD wrote: In other news, #lolcerrone is trending on Twitter. why? I joke. I just think it's pretty hilarious that he gets quoted by a legit outlet claiming that the Mets are to blame because he's turning into a nutcase... because they didn't give him enough to talk about November 13.

In other news, #lolcerrone is trending on Twitter.

If that's your vanity plate, you're an even bigger fan than I thought. Cryptic, too!

New pants. He owes me NEW PANTS.

Races cut no ice with me, but if I wanted to something fun, I'd have actual former Mets race. "Tonight's contestants: Kevin Roberson! Greg McMichael! Craig Paquette! And Tobi Stoner! Who do you think will win, folks? Get a good look at these athletes and make your best guesses! Text your predictions to 45678. All winners get five free DarlingDollars redeemable anywhere within the ballpark!"

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: If I'd think anything, I'd think they were silly for Philly. We need an act that's blushing for Flushing.

So they better play well! I figure a walk though 20 rows of the Thurston Howell set is a managed risk. You throw an egg, you risk losing rilly expensive field level box seats.

I had no idea you were so hot for the Cruz Missle.

I've been playing with this idea in recent months, of having a stairway entrance to the clubhouse 20 rows behind the dugout, so the players would enter and exit the field through the audience (or at least a small, high-rent sampling of the audience, absorbing whatever glory or shame comes with the walk. The stairs would have to be covered in rubber, and the dugout would almost certainly have to retain a tunnel to the clubhouse to enter and exit between innings, but the entrance and entering at the beginning and end would be compulsory for all dugout personnel.

It's going to be Nelson Cruz, right?

seawolf17 wrote: I hate Mets twitter. I'm slowly unfollowing people because most of them are fucking idiots. Invite the non-iddies by to try this place out, wouldja?

Huey Lewis and the News --- Giants fans Boyz II Men --- Cardinal/Sixer/WhiteSox/Generic NBA fans.

The funny thing is that, with the launch of so many post-Camden ballparks, the resident team would do a cheap knockoff of Boog's Barbecue, naming a greasy pit-stop after some beloved and high-quality-but-not-quite-Hall-of-Famery colorful team character with appeal to veteran fans. The Mets had a picture perfect opportunity to do the same, having just such a character on the payroll, and he happened to have a well publicized history as a gormet rib chef. Yet with the most obvious in the world idea on a tee, they chose not to swing. AMAZIN'! In fact, they had a small Rusty's Ribs kiosk type establishment in Shea's not-quite-final seasons, but ixnayed it, in favor of the Citi Field Preview Center. So, instead of being a vehicle to launch a lame-o, half-assed, obvious brand expansion, Citi helped squash one. It's AMAZIN' BUT TRUE!

I'm trying to take this with a grain of salt and not make too much OF IT BUTICAN'TANDIJUSTSHATMYPANTSANDOMGWHAT'STAKINGSOLONG?!?!

Certainly and true. On the other hand, when they get attacked for every fucking thing, it's not exactly going to encourage them to stake out bold, outside-the-box, comfortable-in-our-own-skin territory. That's why, when Greg joked about becoming the VP of tradition and fan experience or whatever, I was hoping he wasn't joking.

Rubicon is running with the Mets interest in Granderson being overstated.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Let's just pretend for a second that Ceetar's right and that the Mets are no lamer than any other franchise when it comes to their lack of originality, lack of imagination, lack of conviction and lack of self awareness. How is that OK? It's not. But the cure for unorginality and the lack of a commitment to distinctiveness is pretty easy to get at. Let's go, Mets, and whatnot.

With regard to Latino outreach, yes and no. If they were ahead of the field, the field has caught up to them, and generically so. "Los Mets," of course, sounds stupid in any language.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: The uniform, I'm talking about. San Diego's been doing it forever. The Mets in the meantime lack the courage to do anything innovative or original or meaningful on their own (the service department hats for example) and wait instead to follow someone else's lead on a uniform tweak. Yes, that's the real issue.