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They certainly seem to trend in that direction more than other positions, but I'd disagree with "supposed to be..." And it certainly becomes a cart/horse thing regarding whether "loopy" players become closers or closers act loopy to put a brand on their act. But I think "loopy" is a more generous description than I'd use.

Bob Melvin gets two-year extension. Billy Beane, reputed to dismiss the importance of the field manager, gives Bob Melvin a two-year extension, giving his field manager more job security than anybody in the business this side of Mike Scoscia.

Mets � Willets Point wrote: I'd be happy to set up an account on Library Thing (http://www.librarything.com/tour/) to make our own catalog of books about the Mets. They have organizational accounts too (http://www.librarything.com/organizations). I'd front the $25 for a lifetime membership if other Crane Poolers think that they'd actually use it. This is good idea, yes? I'll contnribute.

Any suggestions for next steps?

Way to be on the ball, Steve. Should we do this?

Charlie Sheen thinks he's awesome!

This guy saw a different film than I did.

Sheesh. Suiciding shortstops. Make it stop.

My point, I think, is that nobody will ever cover the ninth inning to the fans' satisfaction. Perhaps nobody did it as well as Armando Benitez and few Mets are spoken with in such hostile terms as he is. So when deciding along the lines of "I can take his personality if he's awesome enough," assume he won't be. The job is too big, and the role is too small (if you get the distinction). Closers are set up to fail. And a closer with an act that cries for attention that loudly can only see his career end one way, and that's on a rail.

By available, we mean out on bail? Milton Bradley is an embarrassment to board games everywhere.

Documentaries where the real-life people made it hard to believe they weren't actors cat in the roles: American Movie The King of Kong

Rafael Santana was once tasked with carrying the corpse of a dead bird off the field, the unfortunate animal having been felled by a fly ball off the bat of Dion James, leading at least one tasteless announcer to quip that Rafael would want to cook the bird up and eat it. Deeply sensitive, Santana took the crack as a slight to his sophistication, and vowed to put himself on a path of self-improvement. Enrolling in college, Raffy matriculated in a variety of fields before gravitating in the direction of romantic poetry. "It tells us our lives have meaning," the shortstop told George Vescey in 1991, "and that's a good thing to have in a world where birds can just drop out of the sky. Atom bombs, multi-national terrorism networks, global warming.... still we look to the west with wonder." Santana's studies continued well beyond his career, leading to an eventual doctorate and a status of high esteem among his peers with regard to his expertise in the work of William Blake. He holds a professorship at La Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica Madre y Maestra in Santiago de los Caballeros, has published nine scholarly papers, and will be keynoting in February in Santiago, Chile at the Annual Meeting of the Blake Society of Latin America, presenting his paper, "'The Road of Excess: The Yankees and the Persistence of Sin." That's Rafael. Tell me what's little-known about Danny Garcia.

smg58 wrote: Obviously it depends on Wilson's health (and the price tag), but a healthy Wilson upgrades our pen by a LOT. Any facial hair-related distractions that come along with not sweating the ninth inning would be tolerated. It's hard to imagine signing him would mean not sweating ninth innings.

GO!

Well, as good and as valuable are two different things. Upton has an apparent future that is harder to envision for H.R. Dickenstuff. But maybe the market has shifted.

Read the article, man. People be dying.

Speculation is that price could include Wheeler, and that ain't right. I imgaine Sandy could go for Familia, Mejia, Flores, and maybe a fourth guy. If the Mets could push them towards Niese, they might.

Glee leaves no doubt that pumping musical drama full of irony can get it over with a small screen audience. That still leaves open the challenge for someone who actually wanted say something a little more sincerely than Fred Schneider might.

As the 'pedia says, "More generally, realist works of art are those that, in revealing a truth, may emphasize the ugly or sordid, such as works of social realism, regionalism, or Kitchen sink realism."

C.J. Nitkowski pitching winter ball in the Dominican and trying to score: https://twitter.com/CJNitkowski/status/289773114110390272/photo/1

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The increasing demand for realism has rendered the surrealism of the movie musical increasingly anachronistic. That leaves the filmmaker who dares make such an animal two options: add increasingly realistic elements, or to forsake realism and defy the trend. I don't know what the answer is, but executing becomes harder and harder. Do you go for the lighter material or the heavier? I'm a fan of Little Shop of Horrors, but it has the advantage of kinda being about popular tastes, which kinda gets it off the hook for being subject to popular tastes.. I'm also a fan of The Sound of Music, and am impressed at how it can still capture children's imaginations like no live action musical since. (Even Grease, probably.)

Pretty compelling PED article from the magic year of 1969.

Mets � Willets Point wrote: What about his acting stint as the villain in Teen Wolf?

I dunno, that picture just promises me so much.