Edgy MD

Edgy DC wrote: I think he did more than expected. For our fourth option at shortstop, he put up a higher OPS than Jos� Reyes. I liked his look. It spoke of a certainly of faith in his compact body and wisdom beyond his years. He looked like a wandering samurai. Now his wanderings continue. Reminded me of this guy.

Steal third, you crazy nut.

10-9 Braves!!

bmfc1 wrote: No comments about Joyce missing the call at 2B that lead to the 7th Dodger run? It looked like Murphy got the runner. In other news, Joyce now can write another book about blowing another call. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the infield side of the bag, bearing a his cleats upon the brow of the encroaching shortstop. Meanwhile Turner is going to get a big at-bat unless somebody homers.

I'm not sure what you mean by "on it's head." I don't want to jump to conclusions about what I haven't seen, but I have to say news that the theater shooter styled himself on the Joker was, well, the least surprising thing in the world.

Dug it mostly. 3.5.

I bet Johan signed him, and wrote the date of the no-hitter in, in order to pump up his trade value.

Q joins Rottino as two guys in other organizations hoping to get a chunk of Mets post-season money. Traded To Baltimore For Future ConsideratonsInfielders =#0000FF]6 Omar Quintanilla DoB: 10/24/1981 2012 Mets (Orange Indicates Players Have Options) Starting Pitchers =#0000FF]47 Miguel Batista DoB: 2/19/1971 =#0000FF]43 R.A. Dickey DoB: 10/29/1974 =#0000FF]49 Jonathon Niese DoB: 10/27/1986 =#0000FF]57 Johan Santana DoB: 3/13/1979 =#0000FF]55 Chris Young DoB: 5/25/1979Relief Pitchers =#0000FF]27 =#FF8000]Pedro Beato DoB: 10/27/1986 =#0000FF]40 Tim Byrdak DoB: 10/31/1973 =#0000FF]66 =#FF8000]Josh Edgin DoB: 12/17/1986 =#0000FF]39 Bobby Parnell DoB: 9/8/1984 =#0000FF]52 Ram�n Ram�rez DoB:8/31/1981Relief Pitchers Catchers Infielders =#0000FF]60 John Rauch DoB:9/27/1978 =#0000FF]4 =#FF8000]Mike Nickeas DoB: 2/13/1983 =#0000FF]30 Josh Thole DoB: 4/28/1986 =#0000FF]13 Ronny Cede�o DoB: 2/2/1983 =#0000FF]29 =#FF8000]Ike Davis DoB: 3/22/1987Infielders =#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]1 =#FF8000]Jordany Valdespin DoB: 12/23/1987 =#0000FF]5 David Wright DoB: 12/20/1982Outfielders =#0000FF]44 Jason Bay DoB: 9/20/1978 =#0000FF]21 =#FF8000]Lucas Duda DoB: 2/3/1986 =#0000FF]12 Scott Hairston DoB: 5/25/1980 =#0000FF]9 =#FF8000]Kirk Nieuwenhuis DoB: 8/7/1987 =#0000FF]56 Andr�s Torres DoB:1/26/1978 Also on 40-Man Roster Starting PitchersRelief Pitchers =#0000FF]75 =#FF8000]Jeurys Familia DoB: 10/10/1989 =#008000]In Buffalo =#0000FF]53 =#FF8000]Jeremy Hefner DoB: 3/11/1981 =#008000]In Buffalo =#0000FF]32 =#FF8000]Jennry Mejia DoB: 10/11/1989 =#008000]In St. Lucie =#0000FF]34 Mike Pelfrey DoB: 1/14/1984 =#FF0000]On 60-Day DL =#0000FF]73 =#FF8000]Robert Carson DoB: 1/23/1989 =#008000]In BuffaloRelief Pitchers Catchers Infielders =#0000FF]48 Frank Francisco DoB: 9/11/1979 =#FF0000]On 15-Day DL =#0000FF]62 Elvin Ramirez DoB: 10/10/1962 =#008000]In Buffalo =#0000FF]16 Rob Johnson DoB: 7/22/1982 =#008000]In Buffalo =#0000FF]71 =#FF8000]Wilmer Flores DoB: 8/6/1991 =#008000]In Binghamton =#0000FF]74 =#FF8000]Reese Havens DoB: 10/20/1986 =#008000]In BinghamtonInfieldersOutfielders =#0000FF]65 =#FF8000]Zach Lutz DoB: 6/3/1986 =#008000]In St. Lucie =#0000FF]23 =#FF8000]Mike Baxter DoB: 12/7/1984 =#FF0000]On 15-Day DL =#0000FF]76 =#FF8000]Juan Lagares DoB: 3/17/1989 =#008000]In Binghamton =#0000FF]67 =#FF8000]Cesar Puello DoB: 4/1/1991 =#008000]In St. Lucie Coaching Staff ManagerBench CoachBatting CoachPitching CoachThird 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: 7/7/1958First Base CoachBullpen CoachBullpen CatchersHead Trainer =#0000FF]26 Tom Goodwin DoB: 8/27/1968 =#0000FF]25 Ricky Bones DoB: 4/7/1969 =#0000FF]78 Eric Langill DoB: 4/9/1979 =#0000FF]79 Dave Racaniello DoB: 10/15/1981 =#0000FF] Ray Ramirez =#BF8080].Assistant Trainer =#0000FF] Brian Chicklo

I think he did more than expected. For our fourth option at shortstop, he put up a higher OPS than Jos� Reyes. I liked his look. It spoke of a certainly of faith in his compact body and wisdom beyond his years. He looked like a wandering samurai. Now his wanderings continue.

Rubin has a source saying Quintanilla is going to the Orioles for future considerations. Who says Alderson is afraid to deal? When he can get a nebulous package of ephemera for an asset that's about to expire anyhow, he moves on that shit, baby.

Batman Begins kinda really turned me off. I was a fan of what Frank Miller was originally doing with his Batman books, in Dark Knight Returns and Year One. But beyond that, he seemed to turn into his own corrupted disciple and move beyond realistically depicting and confronting the violence to seriously fetishizing it. It seemed the Nolan films were going in that direction and I bailed. Just seems too culturally unhealthy to keep consuming that.

It would be awesome and you know it. We'd get a ton of traffic, as long as we built it really close to something better. Hey, look! It's Dave Steib!

Looking it up, I see there's a Roger Maris Museum and a Maury Wills Museum. That would a be a fun thing to do, actually --- build a museum dedicated to outstanding ballplayers not quite good enough for the Hall of Fame.

I think history might dispute (3). Duda dug himself some deep dark holes at the start of his career in 2010 and again at the start of his 2011.

It's all there in the narrative of my parenthood. The specifics aren't clear but you get the timeline. He appears to have been following Wally Backman up the ladder in the Mets' system, so he's been Wally's headache on like three different teams now, and when Wally MF Backman has to warn you about getting your temper under control, you're a loose cannon. As former field manager for the Mets farm system, Terry knows exactly what he's dealing with.

I hate to use a plastic word like "makeup," but Duda just doesn't seem to have the emotional constitution to thrive under a spotlight in the bigs. That's what I love about him to an extent, and I would hope he could perform well on a team that has so much offensive redundancy that he could lay low and not have to hit cleanup. But Selig has this gun to my head.

soupcan wrote: C'mon you guys are kidding right? There's absolutely no doubt that's Seaver. I don't do autographs.

Yeah, you right.

Two big leaguers born in Fargo: Christ Coste and Gary Serum. (Gary Serum sounds like a made-up name.)

I'm most committed to an initial J and a final r. But Jim Dwyer and Jim Gosger and Jimmy Schaffer don't work, as there's nothing jumping above or below the line in the last name to represent a y or a g or an f. I'd think Met Hunter could get this in two seconds.

Nymr83 wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I guess if there's a Williams-Williams equivalent with this club it could be Duda-Davis. Let's just say Sandy decides he can only have 1 high-whiff lefty slugger and he'll be a first base. Who will have the better numbers in the coming years? That's a kinda tough decision. If you decide that Duda's bat will never be good enough to justify his sub-par defensive presense in the outfield then you may get stuck with just that decision. And i don't know who i'd pick. Davis in a heartbeat. And I LOVE my Duda. But I'm not thinking it's going to come to an either/or thing. Independent decisions going forward.

Up to 37 at-bats, 36 strikeouts. Five whiffs today. Got his eighth walk, though, and came around and scored his third run!

I've always thought that part of the reason baseball fans always seemed to get more pissed off at high salaries and/or work actions of their players than those of other sports is that baseball fans tended to view the gap between themselves and the guys they were watching on TV as much smaller than did the fans of pro football or basketball. It's most likely the size thing. It's easy to say that just because you're not 6'10" or not 319 lbs that there's no way you could be in the NBA or NFL, but seeing a David Eckstein have a decent career or some other normal sized player and the mental leap to thinking that the only reason you're on your couch watching him rather than the other way around is because he was the winner of some sort of lottery that you forgot to enter. It's totally untrue, of course --Orel Hershiser, hardly known as a braggart, once said that the average fan would be hard pressed to catch a pitch from a ML pitcher much less hit one-- but it's definitely a trend I've noticed over the years. There was once a thread started on a previous forum to this one about who thought they could hit ML pitching better than Rey Ordonez. Not sure if the questioner was serious or not but the first several answers were definitely so and they were all variations on the theme of: "Oh I easily could" - and Rey, for all his faults, had gotten two knocks off of Kerry Wood the night before. Oh, I remember that chick. Dianne something.

Clones give us a 15-inning four-hit shutout. Over the Yankees, to add a little flava to that soup.