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  1. Edgy MD

    Who's Next

    Edgy MD replied to a topic in New York Mets Talk

    I think, whatever he said, the fact that Davis hit like a superhero while in the PCL has got to be worth something. And coming back to the bigs, if nothing else, without his absolutely crippling penchant for chasing junk at his ankles, that was good too.
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    I'm not so surprised. Ken Burns have given the world wonderful stuff, but despite his tortured attempts at balance in stuff like his Thomas Jefferson bio, his scope has been as limited as most people's.
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    Who's Next

    Edgy MD replied to a topic in New York Mets Talk

    I briefly saw in passing that Pedro Lopez has joined the staff as a September coach. ("Run that ball out, September!" "�Apoyarse en ella, Septiembre!" "I want to see some hustle, you lazy, good-for-nothing, autumnal lunar cycle!") I didn't see anything indicating Backman has gotten the same honor (though he did, last season, I believe). If you're looking for indicators, that's certainly one.
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    I missed where Howard was the problem, but OK. Knocking down Shea.
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    He may need a neurological workup.
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    ... invested their money and the future of the franchise in an elaborate con scheme
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    Grote WAR by year. 1963 -0.1 1964 -0.8 1966 0.7 1967 -0.3 1968 2.8 1969 2.5 1970 0.7 1971 1.9 1972 1.0 1973 0.4 1974 1.2 1975 3.2 1976 1.6 So it wasn't about hitting well, so much as hitting well enough to keep your glove in the game and not completely offset all its value with your bat. Dude hit sixth frequently enough. SIXTH!! How much must writing "6. Grote, c" onto the scorecard have contributed to Gil Hodges early demise?
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    No, it's simply grouping them into a set of catchers who got better after starting poorly, albeit getting better in different skill areas and to different degrees.
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    I'm just offering a list. The semantic thing is un-necessary.
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    Well, the dawn of the blackies is from the Doubleday/Wilpon era, but demerits go in the other thread.
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    Sticking generally to off-the-field stuff. 1. Capitulated on hats thing. 2. Got in bed with a pyramid scheming tenant. 3. Not gotten out of bed with 1-877-kars-4-kids. ...
  12. Edgy MD
    Sticking generally to off-the-field stuff. 1. Dressed a ringer in the Mrs. Met suit and publicly beat Serena Williams at table tennis. 2. Did that without getting caught. 3. Booked Speedwagon. 4. Replaced Hagin with Lewin. 5. Built a network. 6. Built a top-level broadcast team for the network. 7. Kinda sorta got on board the anti-bullying thing. 8. Autism Awareness --- that's pretty cool of them. ...
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    I think the correct answer is 1968. He was never a good hitter, but his 1967 was one for the ages. Afterwards, he was at least steadily bad --- occasionally maybe even approaching average by of-the-day catcher standards --- instead of mercurially dreadful. It really says something that they stuck with him beyond 1967.
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    Everything? They booked REO Speedwagon, you ungrateful jerk.
  15. Edgy MD
    Well, half the damn thing. New Era might be sanctioning it, but MLB will then have a nettlesome precedent of a team going off the ranch wearing non-uniform uniform caps and deviating from the pre-written norm.
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    Ceetar wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: IOW, it's not the actual game telecast or even pre & post game shows that'll change much if at all, but in that time slot after all that is over when you're still interested (assuming you even were) in hearing and talking about the ballgame or about baseball in general where the fan (as opposed to 'The FAN') may lose out. well, that's the only thing that actually concerns me here, that there will be some..oversight as to the pre and post agendas. Or that ESPN or someone will decide a corporate crony should interview the players afterwards, or Zeus forbid, decide they don't like Howie Rose and Josh Lewin. Zeus is a freaking anti-Semite.
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    Lefty Specialist wrote: RAnd Fred is so happy that Bud let him stay owner that he'll do anything up to and including wearing a leash and barking like a dog, so don't look for him to ever stray on this issue. There's another angle that argues the opposite --- that Bud let him stay owner because of his successful leash-wearing. Either way is speculative. The bottom line is that the team has a history of playing nice with others.
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    Oh, they give a crap. I think they're one of the crap-gvingest organizations there be. They just sublimate the crap they give in the broader, but more bowdlerized message of MLB, because they're good MLB citizens, and they tone-deafly believe this is the stronger move. And this is the story of MLB in the last 25 years at least, weakly warm cooperation instead of the red hot and dangerous theatrical cultural combat 30 different organizational gladiators tossed into a single arena. Baseball is much better when each team generates it's own distinctive culture and clashes with/challenges the others with it. Is there any doubt that 30 organizations with 30 expressions couldn't do better than the collective expression of them all as one? Fred loves his country. Fred loves his league office. But I guess you're right. As the vibe is the vibe.
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    Coach Phil Cavaretta, the only Met to wear 50 before Sid Fernandez.
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    No shortage of ancillary storylines this eve.
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    In a tactical surrender to good taste, MLB will have her member teams merely wear US flags on the side of their caps , ending an ugly tradition of 10 years of hattery abominations. In a refusal to surrender to good grace, the league continues to forbid the Mets from wearing the caps of the NYC service agencies. And of course, surrender is too strong a word, as nobody particularly cares to press the point. Benny Ayala was right. Nobody wants to rock the boat. Dan Haren opposes justice this eve. Zack Wheller defends it. It's a matchup that you might think would favor the Mets, if you hadn't seen the offense of the last few days.
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    Grote, Stearns and Hundley were all offensively inept in their earliest auditions. Exactly what I'm saying. The problem is that at least two of those guys didn't exactly turn it around quickly. And Gibbons came up at 21 and never found his groove at all.
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    A lot of buzz that Syndergaard is now to be considered the real centerpiece in that trade. I hope that speaks more of the ascendancy of Syndy rather than the downgrading of d'Arnie. Hopefully, they're both successful enough to make such a discussion FUN!
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    d'Know yet. (And that's the last you'll ever see of me using the "d'" thing.) But catching prospects do tend to come along a little slower than most, so folks should be prepared for him not necessarily being awesome next year either. Taking on a big league starter's workload is going to be hard, especially considering the time he's lost to injury. He's not a big buck like Buck, either. I hope what we're seeing is the vagaries of the comeback trail, and what we see next spring will be more meaningful. Unless that sucks too, then I hope it's meaningless. I'm actually growing more certain that any failings he has displayed thus far can be traced to the inverted P on the back of his uniform. What a sad sartorial surrender to lack of imagination and forethought that is .
  25. Edgy MD
    You know, it strikes me that buying $50 seats and moving after a few innings to some $100 ones that are unpurchased, unoccupied, and unloved is dyamic pricing, and teams who are little bit strategic about allowing it could win at the marketing game. They probably had been winning all along and never knew it. I mean, you kind of feel stupid and lonely and ripped off if you're the only ones sitting alone in a gated community. Sure, let some of the rabble in, as long as they don't abuse the upgrade with obnoxious behavior. By the way, my experience from two games with DGWPhotography at a relatively packed Shea tells me he is the king of the free upgrade. Spotting a group of seats the exact same size as our party through his telephoto lens, and finding an approach that bypasses any ushers, and we're rooting from the sweet seats for the next seven innings. And the camera was a great diversion, because if we did run into any 108-year-old staffers, they'd give his a little shit about his camera and forget to check our stubs. WIN!
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