Edgy MD

Yeah, Ryan Freel is a tragedy baseball has to answer in part for. But if he was a football player, there'd be nothing remarkable in his case at all. I try and discuss this with football fans, and I too often get something that more or less amounts to fuck that forgotten mope, he got paid.

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Nancy!!! Sits really close to the wheel.

Great photo essay (or vid cap essay) of the 1971 ASG, featuring Mets Hall-of-Famers Tom Seaver and Lindsey Nelson, plus future Met Doc Ellis inexplicably wearing a lefty batting helmet during a righthanded at-bat. (Doc was a switchie.) How good? This good.

This Junioir Seau story uses the bone-chilling teaser, "Within 24 months of retiring, three out of four NFL players will be one or more of the following: alcohol or drug addicted; divorced; or financially distressed/bankrupt. Junior Seau was all three." Keep up the good work, guys. NFL, NFL I'm just not buying what you sell. speaking of under-reported so much in fact I'm blanking on his name.. the baseball player that just killed himself.. Didn't he have concussions and similarities to these NFL guys? Ryan Freel, but I feel confident that he's not indicative of three quarters of the league.

I've thought about the parity thing a lot of late. What seems to be rubbing up against the NFL's attempts to enforce parity that MLB supposed lacks is the reality that, despite financial advantages of some franchises it's harder to repeat in baseball because: In baseball, top teams win 60% of the time, as opposed to 70 and 80 in the NBA and NFL, respectively, more or less. Top teams playing closer to the mean, gives them less margin for error. In beisbol, until recently anyway, there had been a relative paucity of playoff slots. An injury or slump that hurts a good team's season in a league with multiple playoff slots, could possibly merely knock them to a lower playoff seed, where they could redeem their bad fortune in the post-season. A league with fewer spots has less such opportunities. Baseball features pitching. It's 35% of the game or somesuch. Excellent pitching is ephemeral. If LeBrano James scores 30 points for you at 28, you won't go broke betting on him to do it again at 29. If Chris Carpenter wins 20 for you at 28, you'd be a fool to bet on him to do it again at 29. It's probably not a good bet that he'd ever do it again. Oh, and fuck parity. Enforced dismantling of teams for being good is weak.

She made it in a few years ago, I think.

This Junioir Seau story uses the bone-chilling teaser, "Within 24 months of retiring, three out of four NFL players will be one or more of the following: alcohol or drug addicted; divorced; or financially distressed/bankrupt. Junior Seau was all three." Keep up the good work, guys. NFL, NFL I'm just not buying what you sell.

It's an MLB TV show in which they're asked about their careers. I wouldn't call that whining. I don't think it reflects on them that a minor league ump appears. (Is a AAA ump, by and large, more prone to blowing calls than big league umps? I don't know.) If we want a higher standard of sub, train and pay more big league umps, and send them around with five man crews, with the extra guy rotating into the press box every fifth game and acting as official scorer and injury insurance.

Let's experiment with the short bills and the loose rolling seams of the Cobb era:

I don't think they did. My biggest memories from last year: [list:1cvahnfh][*:1cvahnfh]Selected players being asked to wear stars on their uniform and hat in the week before the game, and the Yankees refusing.[/*:m:1cvahnfh] [*:1cvahnfh]Kung-Fu Panda edging Sugarpants at the tape for the third base spot.[/*:m:1cvahnfh] [*:1cvahnfh]Bryce Harper being the youngest non-pitcher All-Star in history and dropping a routine fly ball.[/*:m:1cvahnfh] [*:1cvahnfh]Fox somehow being at a commercial break and missing both "O, Canada!" and "The Star Spangled Banner."[/*:m:1cvahnfh][/list:u:1cvahnfh] The Commissioner's Award, however, is presented pretty arbitrarily and doesn't have to occur at the All Star Game.

Back to the Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award, which only Bud Selig and I apparently care about. My pet concern is that the Mets' home stadium becomes a game-stopping coronation site for Derek Jeter.

I didn't know the screaming guy had a name. If he shares the name Nok-a-homa with the wardancing mascot, then I certainly agree.

The Pirates got a nu park and the All Star Game followed, despite the fact that the only Pittsburgh-affiliated guy they could give the Commissioner's Award for Achievement in the Field of Excellence... had been dead for decades.

Nymr83 wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Long live the Collins! One could do worse than the Braves' screaming Indian. We don't know what he's screaming about. He's not nearly the caricature that the Cleveland guy is. The tomahawk chop is another matter. All I'm saying is that Atlanta's screaming guy isn't as particularly demeaning as Cleveland's smiling guy. Just as I think "Fighting Illini" isn't derogatory but a goofy wardancing mascot would be. I think it's important to look at this with some degree of nuance.

No idea. I mean, he's from Roosevelt (or maybe Freeport), but for a guy at the top of his career right in the middle of the period when the Mets were the biggest team on the planet, he sure wore a lot of Pirates hats.

Maybe. Hope so, I guess. Though who do we expect as of now to pass him? Bixler and Cowgill, I suppose. Wheeler, I hope. I just wonder how many times a week David Weathers logs on and goes, "Yeah, there I am --- right above Willie Mays."

And by voting your hopes and not your fears, you win yourself an autographed Aaron Laffey program, to be sent just as soon as I obtain one. Jaclyn Ayers Laffey is indeed front and center. The Indian maiden lineup in full are: Front, from left: Pamela Moore, then fiancee of Jason Michaels, Jaclyn Ayers, then fiancee of Aaron Laffey, Abbie Blake, wife of Casey Blake. Back, from left: Kate Wedge, wife of Eric Wedge, Christine Williams, wife of Dan Williams, Molly Peralta, wife of Jhonny Peralta, Amber Sabathia, wife of C. C. Sabathia, and Kristen Lee, wife of Cliff Lee. Molly Peralta should spell her name "Mloly."

Missed last weeks re-signing of veteran minor league infielder Josh Rodriguez. Other than that, we're getting a lot of Jays in the system. Go Ricciardi, go! Starting Pitchers InfieldersSigned To Minor League Contract And Invited To Spring Training =#FF8000]32 =#0000FF]Aaron Laffey DoB: 4/15/1985 =#FF8000]6 =#FF8000]Josh Rodriguez DoB: 12/18/1984 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]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].

Yes!! Pop quiz: Find Mrs. Laffey in this array of ballplayer brides!

Long live the Collins! One could do worse than the Braves' screaming Indian. We don't know what he's screaming about. He's not nearly the caricature that the Cleveland guy is. The tomahawk chop is another matter.

The current outfield roster includes Baxter, Cowgill, Duda, Nieuwenhuis, and Jordany Valdespin, with Jamie Hoffman, Juan Lagares, and Cesar Puello on the outside. Maybe Raul Reyes, Matt den Dekker, Wilmer Flores, Joe Bonfe, and/or Cory Vaughn get looks too. And heck, maybe Vince Vaughn and Hippo Vaughn. But it's December, of course, so calling out to the almighty may be premature. We knew this was where the team was thinnest going into the offseason.

Isn't the big guy usually depicted running right to left?

That was hours ago!

Any? Anywhere? I mean anything. New name for the stadium in St. Lucie? Is Kimmy Carter expecting a child? Is Leathersich tweeting about burritos again? Give me SOMETHING!