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Wow, yeah. It was not only a no-hit game, but a two-assist game also.

He's defensible until he gets to his ballot of Jack Morris, Lee Smith, Curt Schilling, Don Mattingly. Ouch.

".612!"

I'm confused. That spreadsheet seems to suggest they have reasonably accurate versions of 56 ballots. In order to be elected, a guy needs to appear on 75% of ballots, which in that sample would be 42 votes. According to that sheet, this is a threshold that none of the candidates reach, with Tim Raines leading at 41. Are the early returns really leading to a projection of no electees?

Gar the batting stance guy posted this little stat set. 11-19 (.579) 3-2Bs, 2-HRs, 6-RBI. That's Edgar Martinez. Against Mariano Rivera.

Las Vegas continues their heartless raid on the Colorado Springs outfield, as Andrew Brown joins Jamie Hoffman among 2012 Rockies outfield bubble guys signed to minor league deals by the 2013 Mets. Looks kinda short:

Load up on those outfielders, Mets. LOAD UP! OutfieldersSigned To Minor League Contract And Invited To Spring Training =#FF8000]13 =#FF8000]Andrew Brown DoB: 9/10/1984 Your Projected Opening Day 2013 Mets (Orange Indicates Players Have Options) Starting Pitchers =#0000FF]35 =#FF8000]Dillon Gee DoB: 4/28/1986 =#0000FF]33 =#FF8000]Matt Harvey DoB: 3/27/1989 =#0000FF]36 =#FF8000]Collin McHugh DoB: 6/19/1987 =#0000FF]49 Jonathon Niese DoB: 10/27/1986 =#0000FF]57 Johan Santana DoB: 3/13/1979Relief Pitchers =#FF8000]40 =#0000FF]Greg Burke DoB: 9/21/1982 =#0000FF]73 =#FF8000]Robert Carson DoB: 1/23/1989 =#0000FF]66 =#FF8000]Josh Edgin DoB: 12/17/1986 =#0000FF]48 Frank Francisco DoB: 9/11/1979 =#0000FF]32 =#FF8000]Jenrry Mejia DoB: 10/11/1989Relief Pitchers Catchers Infielders =#0000FF]39 Bobby Parnell DoB: 9/8/1984 =#0000FF]62 Elvin Ramirez DoB: 10/10/1987 =#FF8000]34 =#0000FF]John Buck DoB: 7/7/1980 =#FF8000]20 =#0000FF]Anthony Recker DoB: 2/13/1983 =#0000FF]29 =#FF8000]Ike Davis DoB: 3/22/1987Infielders =#FF8000]18 =#0000FF]Brandon Hicks DoB: 9/14/1985 =#0000FF]28 Daniel Murphy DoB: 4/1/1985 =#0000FF]11 Ruben Tejada DoB: 10/27/1989 =#0000FF]2 Justin Turner DoB: 11/23/1984 =#0000FF]5 David Wright DoB: 12/20/1982Outfielders =#0000FF]23 =#FF8000]Mike Baxter DoB: 12/7/1984 =#FF8000]12 =#FF8000]Collin Cowgil DoB: 5/22/1986 =#0000FF]21 =#FF8000]Lucas Duda DoB: 2/3/1986 =#0000FF]9 =#FF8000]Kirk Nieuwenhuis DoB: 8/7/1987 =#0000FF]1 =#FF8000]Jordany Valdespin DoB: 12/23/1987 Also on 40-Man Roster Starting Pitchers =#0000FF]27 =#FF8000]Jeurys Familia DoB: 10/10/1989 =#FF8000]76 =#FF8000]Gonzalez Germen DoB: 9/23/1987 =#FF8000]20 =#FF8000]Darin Gorski DoB: 10/6/1987 =#0000FF]53 =#FF8000]Jeremy Hefner DoB: 3/11/1981 =#FF8000]72 =#FF8000]Hansel Robles DoB: 8/13/1990Starting Pitchers Catcher Infielders =#FF8000]45 =#FF8000]Zack Wheeler DoB: 5/30/1990 =#FF8000]16 =#FF8000]Travis d'Arnaud DoB: 2/10/1989 =#0000FF]71 =#FF8000]Wilmer Flores DoB: 8/6/1991 =#0000FF]74 =#FF8000]Reese Havens DoB: 10/20/1986 =#0000FF]65 =#FF8000]Zach Lutz DoB: 6/3/1986InfieldersOutfielders =#FF8000]79 =#FF8000]Wilfredo Tovar DoB: 8/11/1991 =#0000FF]76 =#FF8000]Juan Lagares DoB: 3/17/1989 =#0000FF]67 =#FF8000]Cesar Puello DoB: 4/1/1991 Also in Camp Starting PitchersRelief Pitchers Infielders =#FF8000]32 =#0000FF]Aaron Laffey DoB: 4/15/1985 =#0000FF]40 Tim Byrdak DoB: 10/37/1978 =#FF8000]67 =#FF8000]Scott Rice DoB: 9/21/1981 =#FF8000]59 =#0000FF]Carlos Torres DoB: 10/22/1982 =#FF8000]10 =#0000FF]Brian Bixler DoB: 10/22/1982InfieldersOutfielders =#FF8000]6 =#FF8000]Josh Rodriguez DoB: 12/18/1984 =#FF8000]13 =#FF8000]Andrew Brown DoB: 9/10/1984 =#FF8000]55 =#FF8000]Jamie Hoffman DoB:8/20/1984 Free Agents Starting PitchersRelief PitchersCatchers =#0000FF]55 Chris Young DoB: 5/25/1979 =#0000FF]45 =#FF8000]Justin Hampson DoB: 1/23/1989 =#0000FF]52 Ram�n Ram�rez DoB:8/31/1981 =#0000FF]60 John Rauch DoB:9/27/1978 =#0000FF]6 Kelly Shoppach DoB: 4/29/1984InfieldersOutfielders =#0000FF]13 Ronny Cede�o DoB: 2/2/1983 =#0000FF]12 Scott Hairston DoB: 5/25/1980 Coaching Staff ManagerBench CoachBatting CoachPitching CoachThird Base CoachFirst Base Coach =#0000FF]10 Terry Collins DoB: 5/27/1949 =#0000FF]7 Bob Geren DoB: 9/22/1959 =#0000FF]51 Dave Hudgens DoB: 12/5/1956 =#0000FF]59 Dan Warthan DoB: 12/1/1952 =#0000FF]18 Tim Teufel DoB: 7/7/1958 =#0000FF]26 Tom Goodwin DoB: 8/27/1968 Bullpen Coach Bullpen CatcherBatting Practice Pitcher Head Trainer Assistant Trainer Mascot =#0000FF]25 Ricky Bones DoB: 4/7/1969 =#0000FF]79 Dave Racaniello DoB: 10/15/1981 =#0000FF]78 Eric Langill DoB: 4/9/1979 =#BF8080].=#0000FF] Ray Ramirez =#BF8080]. =#BF8080].=#0000FF] Brian Chicklo =#BF8080]. =#BF8080].=#0000FF] Mr. Met =#BF8080].

When either one is stuck for an idea, they can be counted on to go with the Eagles.

Rob Castellano does a great job piecing apart Davidoff's Folly.

Yeah, Stanton is a win now/win tomorrow/win on Mars/win on Venus property. If the price is right, but you're set at his position, you still want him.

How is J.R.R. Tolkien like a classic rock DJ?

smg58 wrote: If he can handle second base or centerfield, he could still be very valuable to us as something other than a trading chip. I'm certainly not arguing that he should be a trading chip. (I hate trading chips.) I'm just not sure why the Mets he's necessarily a property the Mets have to see through, as opposed to other prospects. But I'm pretty sure there's little chance of him landing in centerfield. By almost all reports, the speed just isn't there.

I split this off for 2013 goodness. Hope you don't mind. The 2012 thread can be found here. When retired, it can be found in the archives among threads started in January 2012. I have Endy leading off for my parallel world OotP 2012 Mets. I think Andres Torres has hit the DL four times.

Hey, like Sauron's bringing the dwarves and elves and men together in opposition to his treachery, Jackson has forged a pretty solid alliance between Sage and myself here.

Why would they have to wait? Wouldn't he be as tradeable as any other prospect at his level?

As I kinda suggest in my last sentence, absolutely.

I guess that means me. I'm going to vote three stars, allowing myself the possible option to upgrade on reflection to 3 1/2. But this really gets lost tone-wise. Adapted as it is from a young adulty novel with a lot of silly elements, it can't really allow Bilbo to slowly stumble out of his innocence, as the viewer has already seen the far darker story that unfolds from it. They give a long prologue --- voiced by Ian Holm as Bilbo, flashing back from the morning of the birthday party that started LotR, explaining the history of the dwarves under the mountain and the mountain's eventual loss, bloody and vicious and horrible and hateful. So when he gets to reciting the opening lines of the book --- "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort." --- it's silly. We all know about Hobbit holes, we know about the fantastic world of Middle Earth beyond Hobbit holes, and the story can never unfold for us as it's meant to --- with Bilbo's stumble from his innocent world of comfort and food to the dangerous world beyond. Even if there's single viewer who hasn't seen the LotR trilogy, director Peter Jackson makes clear that he hardly cares to maintain that pacing. Innocence is lost before Gandalf ever visits bag end. We know all about what's up the beanstalk before we ever know Jack. Jackson, as game as he is to create some impressive set pieces, is not game for doing the hard work of the imagination that it would take to restore that innocence. Pity. And when he does try --- restoring some of Tolkien's songs to the narratives --- it seems an embarrassing departure from what Jackson really wants to do, which is enter into darkenss, and cut some shit up with some awesome extreme fighting moves out of the Jedi handbook. Half the dwarves lack anything resembling the stout and foreshortened body type (and a few lack full beards) characteristic of the race. They made a commitment clearly to give Thorin Oakenshield the role of brooding swordsman that Aragorn ably fills in the LotR trilogy, but you know, he's a dwarf, and the traits that we find in his compatriots --- randy, stout, stouthearted, good in a tight spot, but awkward in a world full of taller creatures --- are absent in him. The dwarves really are pretty hapless in the first half of the novel, getting captured again and again before getting bailed our by Gandalf, or eventually Bilbo as he grows in his resources. One thing that really does work, and to some length is in the spirit of the book, is, ironically, material that's not from the book at all. We spend some time with Gandalf's brother wizard Radagast the Brown, who is briefly alluded to in the book but never appears, and only briefly appears in passing in the Lord of the Rings books. Taking from background on him in the Simarillion, and doing some liberal construction of their own, they create a figure that's part Green Man, part St. Francis, part St. Nicholas, and a little bit of the (also absent from the films) Tom Bombadil. Drawn through the woods on a sled pulled by Rhosgobel rabbits, with birds nesting (and pooping) in his hair, Radagast is a holy fool, tasked (apparently by the ancients) with looking after the flora and fauna of the forest, acutely sensitive to shadows and suffering in nature, and first to realize that something evil is afoot in Middle Earth. Bully to them for creating him, but it speaks to the inability to live of to the challenges of adaptation that the best thing they did is extra-canonical. As the dwarves pass through Rivendell, we re-meet some the timeless characters of the LotR trilogy, as Gandalf confers with Elrond, Galadriel, and Sarumon, but we already know the fates of these three, on the page and in film. How pointless it suddenly seems to care about them. Even Bilbo, who in the books falls in love with Rivendell's pleasures and keeps them in his heart until he returns in his aged years, seems to reflect the audience's been there done that attitude. I don't know how you go back to The Hobbit after The Lord of the Rings, but Jackson --- torn between the challenges to take us to an earlier, more innocent story line, and on the other hand improve on the cinematic spectacle of a decade ago --- doesn't really pull it off to my satisfaction. Maybe future generations blessed with the opportunity to see these films chronologically will feel differently.

Stanton slugged over .600 last year. And his glove and arm are weaponized too. Whatever we're hoping for from our outfield prospects, he's it.

Yeah, giving up the fantasy of Harvey and Wheeler at the top of the rotation is not something I'm ready to do, Giancarlo be damned. Flores is more or less close to ready to play in the bigs, although probably not ready to play well, but the Marlins have clearly cashed in the present. He doesn't have a position, but the Fish have to fill 'em all, so... .

I'm not sure I could deal with the pain of that package. A fair one, however.

Build your Mets package for Giancarlo Stanton --- GO!

A tremendous year for hands tucked in back. What's up with that? I remember Rod Carew as being quite dapper. Seeing him with that big greasy chaw is fascinating and disturbing at the same time.

Thank you metrotheme and don't listen to him.

So, nobody followed that link? At all? Or did you follow it and find it wanting? Did I desperately oversell it?

You get 13 dwarves, a few trolls, a wizard, a sniveling imp, and a southearted furry-footed guy who likes to eat. Anybody see this yet?