Edgy MD

The main surprise is that it took two guys to write that story.

Frayed Knot wrote: So is the Jerry Manual talk real or just to satisfy quota interviews? I'm betting on the latter. But triggering more than a little hate talk out there.

Exactly. Who's next? Buzz Capra?

Because orange and blue in the Astro color scheme is somehow new?

Good stuff, thanks. Is this your work?

I'm kind of working on an idea of all MLB post-season awards being presented in an autumn star-studded TV award show at Radio City, with speculation about the five finalists for each award, heavy wagering, musical interludes, baseball-loving comic hosts, awkward canned jokes by un-funny celebrity and ballplayer presenters, more musical interludes, VIPs (US presidents?) pontificating about the importance of baseball to the American fabric, morning-after comments on gowns worn by starlets and baseball wives/dates, all culminating in the presentation of the championship trophy by last year's champion. It'll initially start off on some wannabe sports network but move up to ESPN and then ABC in a few years because it'll be so. fucking. awesome. The all-time highlight will be Andres Torres and Lucas Duda re-creating Abbott & Costello's famed "Who's on First?" routine.

Two things the Mets have seemingly had their eyes on recently: [list:2k0anj21][*:2k0anj21]Players who can catch in addition to playing elsewhere around the field.[/*:m:2k0anj21] [*:2k0anj21]Former bonus babies from the foreign marketplace whose original contracts were voided due to shenanigans.[/*:m:2k0anj21][/list:u:2k0anj21]

Maybe more like Angel Pagan.

A recent rumor has the Mets interested in Melky Cabrera. This certainly doesn't diminish my dim suspicion that maybe Hurricane Sandy Alderson has sought to shop in a depressed marketplace for undervalued players who have sullied themselves with PED violations, but have served their time and are now available at a fraction of the value they would be worth had they never gotten caught, or even below what they would be worth had they never used. And who knows, maybe some residual PED-related amplified ability still flows through their veins. Sort of like trying to gobble up formerly good guys who got thrown on the scrap heap after major surgery, but have hopefully put that behind them, except with a moral angle. Mets Acquired in the Alderson Era with a PED Suspension in Their Backgrounds Ronny Paulino Omar Quintanilla Melky Cabrera? Mets Acquired in the Alderson Era with a Recent Career-Threatening Surgery in Their Backgrounds Taylor Buchholz Boof Bonser Chris Capuano Chris Young Taylor Tankersley Jason Isringhausen Rob Johnson Mets Acquired in the Alderson Era Who Have Switched from Pitching to Hitting or Vice-Versa Adam Loewen Not much of a pattern here, so let's invent one. Where do you want to the impoverished Mets to look for a new market inefficiency. Lefthanded catchers? Fat guys? Gimmicky pitchers? Ex-cons? Fantastic athletes who came late to baseball?

I think they could have if he wasn't already raking in more money than anybody on television by generating publicity as someone utterly unconcerned with redemption. Else, despite Martin originally suggesting Michael Douglas and Mel Gibson as leads to his son, the film turns into a family affair, with Emilo's mother Janet producing, and sister Renee appearing. The film does its job despite no real surprises, and the real money shots clumsily executed, the money monologues sounding forced, robbing the audience of the authentic pilgrim experience it attempts to deliver. Hanging over all of it is that Martin's character is taking the pilgrimage while devastated by the loss of his beloved son, played by Emilio in flashback, leaving the viewer feeling somewhat awkward watching a story not about how much he loves his dad, but how much his dad loves him. I think, with Wisdom, Emilo became the youngest dude ever (at least to that point) to script, direct, and star in a film, but 26 years later, despite laudably ambitious subjects, I'm not sure he's gotten the hang of it yet.

A barely fictionalized account of John Huston's adventures in Africa, using the filming of The African Queen as an excuse to indulge his obsession to shoot an elephant. The screenplay and the book are by the writer Huston apparently drove crazy during the filming. Clint Eastwood directs and stars and is sort of unsettlingly... wordy... in his performance as the Huston stand-in.

Yeah, Dick Young was never in anybody's pocket.

The Greenwich Yacht Club seems more Doubleday than Wilpon. More M. Donald Grant than Saul Katz.

time frame = "sooner, rather than later"

With freaks like this, you just wanna make sure bring down the whole network. GAH!

Well, I imagine he did speak to 10 officials outside the organization. What authority, expertise, or knowledge they have is certainly a matter of conjecture.

Martin Sheen stars as a grieving opthamologist walking El Camino de Santiago, meeting other pilgrims from other countries as he goes. No wife of bath, though. Emilio Estevez directs.

Not funny. I'm just wondering if it was the right move to pick this guy up or to try and place him and his conspirators under surveillance. That's some scary madness.

Ouch. Somebody's been visiting www.badpun.com. Yeah, don't think I didn't spend one hour in three while overseas dreaming of setting up a baseball academy.

Seems like a lot of extra effort to be taken in the name of feelings when you're in the heat of the battle, no? It suggests Girardi was either acting in premeditation or not really focusing on the game.

Thole didn't get the job done this year, but the idea that the turnip truck should automatically promise improvements is folly.

Requisite pile of hateful postings following the article. Nice!

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But walk away with serious cash from multiple other organizations he hasn't played for.

Vic Sage wrote: Take Gil, for example. Yes everybody credits him for the `69 turnaround. But might not that team have done what it did without him? After all, a few years later, Yogi took a similar bunch to game 7. And other than `69, he was a losing manager with the Senators and then the Mets in 68, and managed the 70-71 teams to 3rd place/just over .500 finishes. If you look at the trends, rather than the net, they both speak well of him.