Edgy MD

I'm sort of wondering if perhaps it shouldn't be exactly the opposite --- start the season with a 40-man limit --- and cut that to 35, 30, and 25 at the end of each week. Start the minor league season with a week to go in April. Sort out who you really want on your team after seeing them in actual combat. Nurse the Beltrans through the beginning of the season and such. ANNND... Vic beats me to the punch.

The Second Spitter wrote: So much fuss over a .507 career manager with no regular season pennant. I don't know about a "regular season" pennant. That's sort of parsing things. A manager is a manager is a manager. Trying to look at records and pennants, as if they operate independently of the talent they're given, is impossible.

Old Hoss Radbourn ? @OldHossRadbourn I have not pitched in Boston in 122 years and I would punch G. Ordway in the mouth right now. B. Valentine gets a pass on this one.

...for the record.

The amazing thing is the notion that the problem with this guy is supposedly that he's an over-the-top control freak spotlight hog, and now he's being ripped for "checking out"? Which is it? That's hardly going apeshit.

That almost sums it up for me. The plot contrivances were visible far-off. I was perhaps more tolerant but not very much so. I don't know what was particularly good about Emily Blunt. I guess her character started off more interestingly. If you think about the shallowness of the soldier subplot, it really sums up what's become of the broad attitude about soldiers. They're convenient when you need them, with a cool and sexy image, but not really considered as real three-dimensional people, and easily disposable with no regard for the suffering of their offscreen families. Add in a cheap Asperger's Syndrome joke.

Zvon wrote: Beltran ran over to our dugout and told Collins to appeal. Nice.

Wins in a Season, Mets Pitchers 1) Tom Seaver,1969: 25 2) Dwight Gooden, 1985: 24 3) Tom Seaver, 1975: 22 R.A. Dickey, Projected to End of Season: 21.28 T4) Jerry Koosman, 1976: 21 T4) Tom Seaver, 1972: 21 T6) Frank Viola, 1990: 20 T6) Tom Seaver, 1971: 20 T6) David Cone, 1988: 20 T9) Jerry Koosman, 1968: 19 T9) Dwight Gooden, 1990: 19 T9) Tom Seaver, 1973: 19 T12) Bob Ojeda, 1986: 18 =#0000FF]T12) R.A. Dickey, 2012: 18 T12) Tom Seaver, 1970: 18 T12) Dwight Gooden, 1988: 18 T16) Jerry Koosman, 1969: 17 T16) Dwight Gooden, 1984: 17 T16) Dwight Gooden, 1986: 17 T16) Al Leiter, 1998: 17 T16) Jon Matlack, 1976: 17 T16) Ron Darling, 1988: 17 Best Winning Percentage in a Season by a Mets Pitcher (MInimum 15 Decisions) 1) David Cone, 1998: .870 (20-3) 2) Dwight Gooden, 1985: .857 (24-4) =#0000FF]3) R. A. Dickey, 2012: .818 (18-4) 4) George Stone, 1973: .800 (12-3) 5) Bob Ojeda, 1986: .783 (18-5) 6) Tom Seaver, 1969: .781 (25-7) 7) Bret Saberhagen, 1994: .778 (14-4) 8) Dwight Gooden, 1986: .739 (17-6) 9) Al Leiter, 1998: .739 (17-6) 10) Sid Fernandez, 1989: .737 (14-5)

Mitchell Boggs, Lance Lynn, Shelby Miller, and Adron Chambers --- four St. Louis Cardinals who sound like solid votes to repeal the capital gains tax. I want to golf with those guys.

If we were the Sox, our manager would have just gotten here 10 minutes ago.

"Four o'clock, like that's so late for a 7:15 game. Joe Maddon gets there everyday at 4 o'clock, just for the record," said Valentine. I hope the writers give him chocolates, because he's giving them gold.

Oh, shit, they got one back. BULLPEN PROOF THIS SUCKER!

To heck with the Phils. They're toast. I wanted to catch the Cards. Can we get a do-over on the first two games?

Player of the Year Wilmer Flores GPAABRH2B3BHRRBISBCSBBSOBAOBPSLGOPSTBGDPHBPSHSFIBBSt.�Lucie6427224231701201042321830.289.336.463.79911263182Binghamton662752513778182833002030.311.361.494.85512491120Total130547493681483021875323860.300.349.479.8272361542102 Pitcher of the Year: Rafael Montero WLW-L%ERAGGSGFCGSHOSVIPHRERHRBBIBBSOHBPBKWPBFWHIPH/9HR/9BB/9SO/9SO/BBSavannah63.6672.521212000071.1612420480541122860.9677.70.516.86.75St.�Lucie52.7142.1388010050.23513122110562101930.9086.20.429.95.09Totals115.6882.362020010012296373261901103224790.9437.10.41.48.15.79

I like HYOO-rees the Spider as a potential nick.

Congrateulations Jeurys

More exposure, scandal, and disgrace would be nice.

Fred Lewis, like Rob Carson and Bobby Myrick before him, is a native of Hattiesburg, MS.

Yemeni sheik wants to take his favorite Scottish hobby home, so enlists the help of UK fishery civil servent (Ewan McGregor) and financial project manager or something (Emily Blunt) to introduce salmon to Yemeni waters. Metaphors happen.

Zack wheeler @Wheelerpro45 First meal at home? Zaxbys. Just killed it

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I like to think Cook would be doing that anyway.

David confesses optimism. �My favorite player was Cal Ripken,'' Wright said. ��The biggest reason for that was, I like that he stayed.'' (Wright's agent begins weeping inconsolably.)

Oh, no, I haven't seen it. I imagine you're absolutely correct, but when it comes to sci-fi, we many of us live in denial about different potential quality films out there, until we finally see them and, more often than not, concrete reality comes crashing down. Some films (A Boy and His Dog, Krull, ...) I may never see, because I know they will probably be awful, even as I choose to believe they won't.

Batista seems like five years ago to me. I imagine he'll be the last-ever former-Expo Met, looking to join the last-ever Sentators and Pilots and Milwaukee Braves and such. Was there ever a St. Louis Brown who became a Met? Probably, right?