Edgy MD
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I more than suspect it. I wonder if Valdy's Met career is in endgame right now.
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Really? Those are both pretty good.
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Dillon Gee's last three games, pitching for his professional life, in a situation that could demoralize a mutant hybrid of Shirley Temple and Knute Rockne. OppRsltDecIPHRERBBSOHRHBPERAMay�30@NYYW,3-1W(3-6)7.1411012101.27Jun�5@WSNW,10-1W(4-6)791117001.29Jun�12STLW,5-1W(5-6)6.261127101.45Total18-33-021.01933326201.29
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Ike in Vegas: .174 / .296 / .217 // .514 in six games and 27 plate appearances. That's at least an improvement on the .500 OPS he was putting up in the bigs, but nobody's idea of a turnaround. He has no homers and one RBI. He's walked four times and whiffed seven. I suppose making more contact is as good a place to start as any. But crikey, that guy's a Nobel-level project to take on.
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Flashing back on this thread last night. Haren ended up on Washington and is sporting a 5.70 ERA after 13 starts, so it's hard to say who would have won this one. But we won last night and jerked Marmie's ERA up to 6.08 in the executing.
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Teams win and teams lose, man. And teams absorb national criticism. I'm sure Aardsma's joy wasn't partiucarly diminished because he wasn't a direct participant. Malone's wasn't. Mine wasn't. I'd rather be the hero, but the struggle was everybody's, the joy was everybody's, and the sting of Costas' comment belongs to everybody also.
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I was wondering where Jim Malone stood on this.
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I would guess that the likes of Deadspin and Olberman has brought the snarkosphere so much into the ascendancy of sports journalism that one can see this as Costas trying to navigate the new paradigm --- rush to judgment, execute judgment with smug superiority --- and navigating it poorly. The careful reflection which Costas at least once pretended to care about before pontificating would now perhaps be considered a weakness. Hey, Bob, if you can't be yourself, don't be Will Leitch. Be Vin Scully or Joe Garagiola or somebody. Be Jim McKay or Al Michaels.
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Agreed. As I said above, there seems to be an accepted truth among some fans of NL rivals --- and has been for a long time --- that any celebrating by the Mets is too much celebrating. Because they're the Mets. For decades, it's been "The Mets act like the champions they never were." Once that's your narrative, any such footage can be made to fit it.
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How many six-year olds will this be a watermark for? A lot, I hope.
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Turning point, shmurning point. If this season indeed goes nowhere, it's still a heck of a reprieve from utterly drowning in the first half --- even if only a brief one. Getting a losing streak off their backs before the series in which they unveil Wheeler is meaningful. So is a ninth-inning rally after a players-only clubhouse meeting --- a pill which almost never works, but everybody agrees has to work the first time if at all. And again, the guy's major league career, like the team's season, was uttlerly flat-lining. One heartbeat is worthy of celebrating. Last time the Mets had a walkoff-homer victory after trailing by two or more runs in the final inning --- August 30, 1992. Bobby Bonilla took Rob Dibble deep for a three run homer, at a magical place called Shea.
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Before his big swing, Nieuwenhuis, I think, had been 1-15 with seven strikeouts since returning from the minors. The guy was swinging for his professional life there. There was every chance that failure would have meant a sad conversation in Terry's office. Anyone who ever had a heart... .
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JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013
Edgy MD replied to a topic in New York Mets Talk
Strange bedfellows all over that record. Mutt Lange producing. Thomas Dolby on keys. -
I just completed a quick survey of every baseball team on the planet ever. and found that 1000% of them would celebrate at home plate at that moment. There's this strange thing around baseball --- for years now --- that Mets celebrations are somehow, by definition, more obnoxious than anybody else's, because they're the Mets. Costas, by the way kind, of bites it with his "A bit of Keystone Kops action early... " --- "early," meaning the bottom of the fifth.
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Great to have Rockin' Doc back. Even for underenthused theatrical reviews.
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I'll say it. Go see this film.
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All-purpose "Batmagadanleadoff Hates Mets Management" thread
Edgy MD replied to a topic in New York Mets Talk
Fred's three-finger changeup was devastating in its day. -
I mean, the Royals celebrate walk-off wins with a sexual assault.
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If being happy at the end of one game makes me wrong, I don't want to be right. I'll write the Costas thing off to bad joke and leave at that.
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Also got to give credit where it's due to Terry for the (insane) faith he showed in bunting to set up Nieuwenhuis (and Cowgill). With Davis in Vegas and Tejada on the shelf, Nieuwenhuis is the guy whose redemption would mean the most to the team right now.
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That wasn't a thoroughly shitty game, though. It was an 84% shitty offense. and a 53% shitty defense. The pitching was only 13% shitty. Gotta at least remind yourself that the pitching has been good.
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Gentlemen --- and ladies --- here's to real pie.
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[bigpurple:1d7m4285]KA-FUCKING-BOOM![/bigpurple:1d7m4285]
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Good bunt, but... for Nieuwenhuis and Cowgill. Let's go, Mets!
