Edgy MD

G-Fafif wrote: Edgy MD wrote: "Believe me, there's no more appropriate way to honor you than a ROTUND-a." Ooh, they're gonna retire your number, Alice. They're gonna retire it TO THE MOON! It's been a pleasure working with you.

Next time you open a Baseball Encyclopedia, you'll get a Met on page one.

Yeah, it seemed crazy that they'd debut him at home.

The Mets wasted a draft pick on Glen Johnson who up and went to college. You'd figure if anybody's going to be square with you about what'd it take to sign their kid, it'd be your major league batting coach. As for Mazzilli Junior, the next move the Mets need to make after signing him is to convince his dad to abdure his sinful ways and take their offer to manage the Cyclones (and LJ) this summer.

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Here's hoping our next callup (who just had himself a Meh start in his last tuneup at AAA), makes our team as interesting.

Problem with that one in particular is that if he's Biggio's kid, he's probably not hurting for a new car. I imagine that most of the legacies do at least a few years of college these days.

Modern-day Tom and Huck find a vagabond living on a river island. When he turns out to be a fugitive, they agree to run errands between him and the mainland, and act as go-betweens for him in his mysterious relationship with his mysterious girlfriend. Trouble's got to ensue, and the sort of trouble you get into when you live on the river ain't usually too good.

Sheesh, it's like tax law. You claim it's designed to help the poor, but all it does is encourage the rich to come up with ever-more-sophisticated dodges.

1976 and 2013. Like father, like son. "Undershirts for other men, Junior. Lesser men." "What's an undershirt, Pop?"

"Believe me, there's no more appropriate way to honor you than a ROTUND-a."

Can you imagine having to console yourself with coming in "close second" in a race won by Jackie Gleason?

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I'm not sure how the "immoral" aspect is addressed by imposing a cap. A monopoly imposing price controls on the suppliers is the crux of the immorality. The idea is to strike a balance between allowing the amateur the freedom to choose his employer and yet preserving competitive balance. We all know that the real reason for the draft, despite what MLB has always claimed, is mainly to control salaries, and thus, team expenses. An amateur has no choice but to play for the team that drafted him or wait at least another year before another team drafts him, and then go through the same process again. But reverting to the pre 1965 way of doing things, where every amateur is essentially a free agent will likely result in the richest teams acquiring the cream of the crop almost always. The author addresses this concern. Thanks for summarizing, but I'm up for trashing the notion of competitive balance, too. Real competitive balance would allow any team that thought they could pull it off to park a stadium in greater New York and go head-to-head with the Yankees and Mets. You want competitive balance, then don't entertain notions of exclusive access to marketplaces. Greater New York could support six teams.

I'm not sure how the "immoral" aspect is addressed by imposing a cap. A monopoly imposing price controls on the suppliers is the crux of the immorality.

If only TV were the issue. I'm not with Rany, I'm way ahead of him.

The league just needs to make adjustments. Ummm....

So, maybe Darryl Strawberry can mentor young Dominic Smith. And maybe that's the worst idea in the world.

Santana made it to opening day for me. He started and threw five dazzling innings and walked off the field. Out for 4-5 months. I'm going to guess OotP's programmers were not very bullish on his health. Harvey is my top starter... for St. Lucie. Wheeler passed him last year and is a solid fixture in my MLB rotation. Dickey, while he was winning the Cy Young Award last year in real life, was walking the planet for me after getting a two-year pre-emptive extension. Now I can't trade him for magic beans.

Seriously, wouldn't that be great? Nothing would come of it, but for two or three hours, all of baseball would be going nuts. "Did they... fix Rick Ankiel? After all these years? It seems... impossible, and yet... there he is, penciled into the lineup as the starting pitcher. If this works, we're doomed. DOOMED!"

Then I would have penciled Davis in as the pitcher. No, wait, fuck it... I would have penciled Ankiel in as the pitcher.

It strikes me that a modestly fancy pants programmer could create an auto-card generator.

"The fucker hits," reports Tommy Tanous, Mets chief scout. "I got a report from my regional crosschecker that said, 'Good fuck!' We knew who we were going for right there and then."

Flawless game for Turner in left.

Turner, lf Murphy, 2b Wright, 3b Byrd, rf Buck, c Davis, 1b Lagares, cf Quintanilla, ss Marcum, rhp Hagar's first career start in the outfield. He has all of one career inning (no chances) logged there from a game back in May. His handful of minor league appearances in the outfield came way back in rookie ball in 2006.

I'm plenty patient.