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  1. Edgy MD
    What's the deal the first base coach? As far as I can see, the duties of the guy pretty much amount to... patting guys on the ass. I don't see this as a skill! How exactly do they list this job? Do they want recommendations from guys whose asses have been patted? Do they look at your hands when they bring you in? Does the interviewer stand up during the interview and say, "Excuse me, will you pat my ass?" What's the deal here? Is the interview over after the initial handshake? You shake the guy's hand and say to yourself, "Now there's the hand I want publicly fondling the sweet asses of my multi-million dollar athletes for the next five years"? I'm thinking there's a time limit for that sort of thing. Every few years, the players will want to change things up. Feel a little something new back there.
  2. Edgy MD
    When the Yankees finally bow out, just remember... the 2013 Mets made the difference.
  3. Edgy MD
    Wow, missed the 18-inning tie. Also in late September. Of the 30 games, seven (23.33%) take place after August. Above average (16.67%), but not such a big percentage after all.
  4. Edgy MD
    themetfairy wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Sounds good, but I wonder what the admission on that second building would be. Free with a ticket to that day's game or ballpark tour, and $5 all other times. As long as you're conceiving the building, you get to set the prices. I like it. Lefty Specialist wrote: Have a contest for a fan age 12-18 to wear a uniform, take batting and fielding practice and sit in the dugout for a game. Yeah, I know it's technically against league rules, but work it out. Keith Hernandez's head explodes.
  5. Edgy MD
    Sounds good, but I wonder what the admission on that second building would be.
  6. Edgy MD
    I can't imagine it'd've been pretty, but it'd've been interesting. I guess we should include hiring Randolph, a decision sold on that stupid winner label, but seemingly based on the Mets' desire to get good with the league by getting ahead of their affirmative action program. Neither was a particularly good motivation for the hire.
  7. Edgy MD
    This comes from a favorite FaFiF column, but I'd ask them to embrace a more expansive/inclusive philosophy regarding the Mets Hall of Fame, one that would allow for the inclusion (or at least the consideration) of Jane Jarvis, Marty Noble, and/or Karl Ehrhardt.
  8. Edgy MD
    Ding and ding. The idea that in Doubleday must be made a victim or a paragon just doesn't float. The sooner that notion dies the better.
  9. Edgy MD
    The best part would have been trying to name them when challenged: "Um... Zach Lutz.... Daniel Murphy... did I say Zach Lutz yet?"
  10. Edgy MD
    There's a few more that I didn't get to. And since I searched under "walkoffs" at UMDB, those are only the longest shutouts that they've had at home.
  11. Edgy MD
    Michael Malone is perhaps my favorite living novelist. I thought, "How strange and fascinating and beautiful to find out after all these years that my favorite is an MLBS." Turns out, it's a different Michael Malone. Unlike Hollywood, apparently, publishers are OK with their novelists running around using the same name.
  12. Edgy MD
    Yes, but traditional analysts certainly acknowledge the Coors factor. It's just that they view it binarily --- as in, 'He played at Coors, therefore I can throw out his numbers entirely."
  13. Edgy MD
    Wait --- Davis for Tulowitzki? Where do I sign up for that craziness?
  14. Edgy MD
    In our search for 12-inning bagels, we move on to the glorious 1980s, and we find a game on July 31, 1983, when the Pirates were blanked by Mike Torrez for eleven before Jesse Orosco grabbed the win. This was one of the two Foster-knocks-in-Mookie-from-second games. A rare spring marathon happened on April 23, 1992, as a 13-inning effort by Bret Saberhagen (9), Paul Gibson (2/3), Jeff Innis (1 1/3), and John Franco was capped in the oddest of manners, as pinch-runner Rodney McCray was sent home on a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch of Darryl Boston. (Gibson was really the best you could do for the first guy out of the pen?) What I expect will turn out to be the mother of them all took place the following year, in the midst of the miserable season of 1993. On September 29 (shocking), Bobby Jones labored for 10 innings before yielding to Jeff Innis (3), Goose Gozzo (3 more) and Kenny Greer (really?) for the final frame. The 17-inning marathon of futility was put to rest when Jeff Kent doubled in Eddie Murray.
  15. Edgy MD
    I went and checked the indispensable UMDB . There was a 12-inning 1-0 win 9/28/1965. Ron Hunt singled home Joe Christopher. Turns out a lot of these wars without weapons happen in late September when I really should be back at school. There was a 15-inning 1-0 win 6/14/1969. Wayne Garrett plated Tommie Agee. Same year, on 8/19/1969, they also pulled off a 14-inning 1-0 shutout over Willie Mays' Giants. Agee did the hitting this time, homering off of a distance-going Juan Marichal. Hunt helped out that day by going 0-6. No shutouts of 12 innings or more were completed thereafter until 6/17/1976. The honors were done, as they tended to be done that summer, by a Dave Kingman homer.
  16. Edgy MD
    Baseball is somewhat less wacky if you square up a pitch a couple of times a game and drive it. What's the record for the longest shutout the Mets have ever notched?
  17. Edgy MD
    That's Tracky filling in for Guys?
  18. Edgy MD
    It's like the two teams are conspiring to pay tribute to Justin Turner.
  19. Edgy MD
    Hawkins up for the ninth tonight/
  20. Edgy MD
    Black is black. I want my third place back.
  21. Edgy MD
    It's a shame when the crowd is so sparse that you can hear every word the batter says when he's mad at the ump.
  22. Edgy MD
    Catching is sort of a basic too. Sliding and demonstrating good judgement. Also key.
  23. Edgy MD
    Well history shows that it did. What history fails to indicate is how much was coincidence, and how much causality.
  24. Edgy MD
    Flores is slow and has injuredy ankles. I don't want to draw moral conclusions if he looks like he's carrying a refrigerator out there. He sorta is.
  25. Edgy MD
    The top offensive prospects called up by the Mets at the season. Wilmer Flores: .211 / .256 / .289 // .546 Travis d'Arnaud: .145 / .221 / .217 // .438 Matt den Dekker: .242 / .286 / .333 // .619 Total: .191 / .247 / .250 // .497 Not exactly how we drew it up. Transitioning is hard.
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