Edgy MD

Other beat writers supress laughs as Gabby fields question about Wright intimidation campaign from Megdal.

She's from Tide Territory, right?

Mets are 3-0 on Thursdays this month, with 23 of their sixty runs on the day that gives children far to go. It's been the hump day that the team finally says "Enough bullshit this week," before tanking the weekend away as well. A confluence of Gabby and Thursday and Morrissey McHugh. Get your money down on the Mets today, folks.

Gabby Douglas in the house today.

Only wish some of that water that spilled out of the Yankee bucket ended up in our'n.

Yeah, I definitely think that was a thought in the Shoppach trade, and I definitely think opening with Nickeas on the roster was an egg-on-the-face error.

Just as long as I get to pick the band.

Let's see what you've got, good Collin Good times for a change See, the luck I've had Can make a good man turn bad So please, please, please Let me, let me, let me Let me get what I want this time Haven't had a dream in a long time See, the life I've had Can make a good man bad So for once in my life Let me get what I want Lord knows, it would be the first time Lord knows, it would be the first time

Ceetar wrote: I'm fine with what he gave us last year (.268/.345/.344) maybe occasionally he learns to take big cuts in the right situations. I might agree if he was regularly bringing value on defense. But progress comes in fits and starts. Todd Hundley came up in 1990. It wasn't until they were ready to open the 1996 season with Brent Mayne that Todd became a dude. The lesson? Don't just trust development to happen, but push your players in their development by always bringing in threatening alternatives. That, and to take lots and lots of steroids.

Collin McHugh (?@Collin_McHugh) wrote: "And if a double decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die." - me, to my teammates on the bus

Welcome aboard, Ashley McHugh, wedding crafterer.

Collin hasn't updated his blog since his good news --- indeed hasn't updated it at all since July 11, but that was a winner. Wednesday, July 11, 2012 Marriage Of The Traveling Suitcases As my wife and I reached our All-Star break destination we sat down with our two suitcases. These two suitcases contained almost the entirety of our "in season" wardrobe. You see we've gotten progressively better at packing/traveling/living abroad as my career has gone on. We've narrowed it down this season to whatever we can fit in the back seat, trunk, and any potential nook and cranny of my compact car. It hasn't always been that way...let's take a journey back in time. Year one: Kingsport, TN Professional college kid. Age 20. Single. Youthful exuberance and youthful hygiene. I brought one bag of regular clothes (clothes that I could wear to and from the field) and one bag of baseball clothes/equipment. I never once unpacked my suitcase, deciding instead to house my insanely diverse selection of white v-neck tees and khaki shorts within a 5 foot perimeter of said (Samsonite) suitcase. Having 3 other recently freed Collegiate roommates, our apartment could best be described as unorganized chaos. Amount of times laundry was done that season: don't ask, don't tell. Year two: Brooklyn, NY I'm a city boy. Proudly and unapologetically. New York was the ultimate metropolitan paradise for me. However, for my clothing, it was unapologetically difficult. New York, as some of you probably know, can be quite sweltering in the middle of the summer. But unlike Atlanta, it get's downright chilly at night in September. My lone suitcase multiplied (thanks to Chinatown's Adidas sector) into a duffle bag hanging off the suitcase running (late) through the JFK terminal. My wardrobe expanded, unfortunately that was just about the time the airlines redacted the right of free checked bags. Amount of knock off Ray Bans I collected that season: 3 How many I still have: ugh...0 Year 3: Savannah, GA This is where it gets complicated. Ashley and I had been married for roughly 6 months and collected roughly 300 sq. ft. (our storage space) of wedding gifts and KitchenAid gadgets. Being new to a full baseball season and so close to home, Ashley and I decided to take both of our cars (and mom's SUV) down there. We packed the vehicles to the brim with an Industrial sewing machine, waffle maker, dishes, mugs (which I lost), etc. The cracks in the master plan began when Ashley left before the season ended, leaving me to pack up the aforementioned compact car. I crammed everything I could into it, including the oddly shaped mop that I stuffed through the back window. Unfortunately, on the first turn I lost the mop to Interstate 16, never to be heard from again. Something had to give. My vote was for the food processor...no, the other food processor...the smaller one. Amount of shirts that I sweat through moving out of the top floor apt: 3...and 2 pair of athletic shorts Year 4: Port St. Lucie, Fl: Atlanta, GA: Binghamton, NY Yikes. Where to start? We did a better job of packing this time around. We narrowed it down to just the back seats (trunks, nooks, crannies, etc.) of our two small cars. Our wardrobe was easily pared down to summer clothes. The FL heat made that an easy decision. We were settled and it felt good. And just like that, baseball yanked the rug out from underneath us. With Ashley back home in Atlanta for some work stuff and me in FL playing ball, the Mets promoted me 1200 miles away to Binghamton, NY. I had about 8 hours to pack up my two bags and catch a flight, leaving little to no time to pack up the rest of our life down there. When Ashley was finally able to join me in NY, she first had to drive back to Port St. Lucie, pack up everything we had from an apartment that we no longer lived in, then haul it up the Eastern seaboard. Not exactly how we planned it before the season started. On top of all that, we added another teammate passenger on the way back home. It was cozy. It was crowded. Amount of times the mantra "We need a bigger car" was repeated: Everyday Year 5: Binghamton, NY: Buffalo, NY: Present We did it. We're down to 2 bags. Granted, we just upgraded Ashley's clothes receptacle from a couple Target bags to a ballin' Samsonite with 4 WHEELS. Movin' on up! We've also absorbed a couple necessities along the way this season. Pillow top mattress cover, Polartec blanket, and a mountain of mail that we've collected from various residences. The good news is, however, that we finally have room to grow. Maybe not enough room to have a baby or a dog right now, but definitely enough margin for the other important things. I believe that's what they call progress. Good to know we're learning something new every year in this whole journey! Amount of years it takes to get it right: We'll let you know when we get there.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Ecuador-Chile sold out in driving rain, and the other two soccer matches before this year were also big sellers. As I'd like to be able to sign more than one non-minor-league FA per offseason, let's put more money in the coffers. Let's schedule as many international/club friendlies as possible, whether the Mets are out-of- OR in-town. It's not like they're using the field for anything important or interesting during those home dates, anyway; I'm sure Met fans would appreciate the visual distraction. You know, depending on what you mean by "non-minor," I'm good with signing only one non-minor free agent per offseason. As long as the next one plays the outfield and is good. It puts a lot of eggs in one basket, but doubling down is what got the 'Pons over-exposed. It's enough pressure to re-sign Wright and Dickey. It'll take a lot of soccer games for them to get more than one big fish this off-season.

That's NOW!!!!

I've missed a lot of baseball the last week, so maybe I've missed the most telling moments ever, but the idea that Torres is done seems premature when when we gots nobody elses who plays centerfield. Plus he's under control. I hope to improve, but I ain't for setting sail without a full crew. If you don't have a centerfielder, you give up a lot of inside-the park home runs!

One more reason the reserved territory rule of Major League Baseball is destroying America. All six of those teams should unaffiliate and start a third Major League. Or second. Or whatever.

I'm not a zither guy, but live music of any sort is appealing and reasons to go to Citifield are running thin. Live at Citi Field: When you're a Billy Joel tribute act, it might help your marketing if Billy Joel's name was bigger than B.B. King's.

I'm not a zither guy, but live music of any sort is appealing and reasons to go to Citifield are running thin.

In left field, we have Jason Bay. He can't hit but never bats out of order, and on this team that's no small thing. What's the use of having a real humdinger if he never knows when he's batting? I give you Jason Bay and there it is. Murphy probably couldn't clear waivers, so trading options are few at this point.

I don't see the wisdom in dumping Torres as he's not being pushed in centerfield by anybody. As for "you never know who will blossom," I agree, but you pay folks a good amount of money to bring professionally formed opinions to their guesswork. And if their opinions were that nobody was being offered that was likely to bring more to the team than even Hairston was, I can accept that. Until we have actual names of who was being offered, we have nothing. No time for looking back now. This isn't that thread.

Wow. You don't want to promote him too quickly or else you get the latest in a long line of speedsters who aren't ready for big-league pitching, but you don't want him to give his legs' best years to minor league ball.

I like G's thinking mostly. G-Fafif wrote: Get Duda back up here and put him at first for a couple of weeks. Davis hasn't earned a pass (and maybe needs to rest up from valley fever residual effects) and Duda, who is a horrible outfielder, should be given a stretch to see if he can hit consistently somewhere. Crank up his trade value or decide he's a keeper. Or give up on him. Too much in 2012 hinged on the assumption Duda would progress. Give him one more shot where he's allegedly comfortable. I like. G-Fafif wrote: Pick a position for Valdespin and leave him there for two weeks. Not against righties, but against everybody. Enough with Hairston in the starting lineup. Trade him and get something. If Valdespin is still more idiot than horse, consider him not in your plans. But give him an extended look to find his inner horse. I like this too. G-Fafif wrote: Let Thole catch Dickey, let out-of-shape Shoppach catch everybody else for a couple of weeks. Thole's earned nothing. Shoppach looks like nothing also, but he's the new nothing. I'm down with giving more time to Shoppie, but I don't see why he shouldn't get a crack at catching Dickey also. I think part of his potential value is that he has some history catching knucklers. G-Fafif wrote: Rauch closes. Francisco can be the 8th inning guy. Parnell can come in last week. I'm down with promoting Rauch, but I can't see why Francisco should even be the eighth-inning guy, or why we should ever use the term "eighth-inning guy" ever again. It's a tool of Satan's, that term.

I guess I try to move (or if I'm manager, convince my GM to move) some dead wood at the back end of the roster --- Cedeno and Turner (hasn't really had much time anyhow). Tell me Cincy couldn't replace Cairo with one of them? And then try to get some warm bodies in their place --- even if the talent's not there, surely there's somebody Wally thinks will inject some energy into a demoralized roster. Maybe something crazy to make them realize how embarrassing this is getting. Everybody move over a position. Or better yet --- all outfielders are now infielders and vice versa. All you starters are relievers. Edgin, you start tomorrow.

On a pace to do it on the 18th of September at home against the Phillies. A lot of chances to do it at home coming up with only three road games (Milwaukee, 9/14-16) between the seventh and the 27th. (And let's not pull a Jeter and feign injury if it looks like it's going to land then.)

Ash, were you drinking last night? Megdal's losing it.