Edgy MD

TH Number ThreeApril 14Mets 5, Philadelphia 0 Mets 5, Philadelphia 0 Anaheim 7, Yankees 1

This 6-2 team is: A. large illusion B. a slight illusion C. just a thang D. a brief departure from an otherwise sad reality E. an ephemeral tease before a cataclysmic disaster Any re-assessments, or do we wait for game 10?

Vic Sage wrote: So... it's like every Muppet thing ever made? similar, not identical. While somewhat more self-referential than most of the movies, that self awareness was always an aspect of their shtick. And it's superior in quality to most of the later films. If you liked the TV show and the first movie, this is in that spirit, with a bit more cheek. And if you don't like the first movie, well, check for a pulse. Really, though, guys, you could have told me how bad most of the original songs were, and how whenever this baby got any momentum, a musical set piece would bring it to a screeching halt.

Niese 1.95 Duda 1.93 Wright 1.59 Murphy 0.86 Baxter 0.80 Nieuwenhuis 0.68 Parnell 0.62 Rauch 0.60 Tejada 0.53 Thole 0.42 Cedeno 0.02

Eight games in and the post-Reyes Mets finally garner their first stolen base. If you had Baxter in the pool, well, you are amazing.

Here's what the game was like.

So, who has the board --- gwreck or Monk?

Wright 3-4. If I'm pulling anybody, it's him.

Intentionally walking Thole. Suckers.

Tejada getting the infield hit the old-skool Reyes style.

I am. I was pumping irony originally but didn't take the time to put an indicator in there like "Wait.. what?" Lazy and lazy.

Davis gets a hit with a runner in scoring position, but it's hit hard and Teufel holds the runners. Bases loaded... ...for Bay.

Wright: "During the game last night I kind of tested it out a little bit and it felt good, and it feels a lot better today, obviously. I think I'm ready. I got a lot of treatment yesterday, and a lot of the techniques that the hand specialist gave me to speed up the recovery, I was just doing it nonstop, and it surprisingly felt pretty good. So during the game I messed around with it a little bit and it felt OK. And then I took it to the next level this morning and it feels pretty good." Collins: Wright has a bone chip in the finger. Wright: That is not the case. Satin: @#$%! Wright: "The fracture didn't break off. It now a matter of it's just got to heal itself. I guess in an ideal world, if you weren't a baseball player, you'd splint it up for a little while and let it heal that way. But I don't have that luxury of the time right now. It's going to heal on its own. It might take a little extra work doing it while playing at the same time. But I'm confident it will heal correctly on its own." Collins: "He just hit. The swelling is down. The grip's good. The strength's good. He just took probably, I don't know, 20 tosses and took some batting practice in the cage and looked great, so we'll put him in there today. Wright: "I'm going to go with a little extra padding, but nothing that's going to prohibit me from feeling the bat the way I normally would." Lutz: #&*%!! Wright on Sliding: Feet first, or at least with a closed fist. Wearing a splint away from the ballpark. Collins: "The doctors actually told us the other day, when he could tolerate it, he could play. It wouldn't get worse. It's all about the discomfort side, getting the swelling down. The swelling is down." Valdespin: $*&!! Wright on Throwing: "Well, I guess it's always been an issue for me, but not any moreso. Throwing should be fine. Mainly the focus was hitting. Like I said, I feel confident enough where I'll give it a go today. ... Obviously how it feels after the game is a pretty good indication how it's going to feel for the short term. I'm sure it's going to be a little sore and a little stiff afterward. It will be good to get in there and just prove to myself that this is something I can play through. I wouldn't go out there and play if it was a coin flip how I felt. I feel pretty good, and I feel close enough to where I can go out there and help the team more than I could hurt it." Collins: "As much as I said a few days ago that my gut was that he was going to be able to play on Friday, yesterday talking to him I was doubtful he was going to be OK," Collins said. "But he is OK." Tuiasosopo: GARRR! Wright on his Practice: Not played since suffering the injury Monday. Collins: "One of the things I hope everybody reads into this is that this guy is tough. Very tough. He loves to play. He wants to play. But he's also professional enough to understand that when the medical people say, 'Look, our expertise says this needs rest,' he rests. It's my fault we didn't get him checked last year when he hurt his back, but nobody ever thought it was anything more than he dove and tried to tag the guy and maybe tweaked his back a little bit. We might have saved ourselves time had we addressed it earlier. I'm certainly responsible for that." "I think it's going to be huge for us. When you see this guy who is going out there -- the face of this team and the face of this organization -- playing with a broken finger, the hamstrings may not be as tight. I'm serious. I don't mean to make a joke about it. If you're a guy on this team and you're saying, 'Well, I've got a star on this team that's playing with a broken finger, I've certainly got a sore shoulder, but I'll throw some aspirin down and let's go." Pascucci: I hate you, David Wright.

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Edgy DC wrote: I agree, but Phillie hasn't thrown one of their three aces out there at us yet. Wait, Lee isn't one of the Phillies' three aces? No, definitely Blanton.

So, this new road jersey my friend Tim gave me... do you think I can break out a razor blade and excise the black drop shadows on it without ending up with a disaster?

[*:1nnoozl0]Rube Tejada, ss[/*:m:1nnoozl0] [*:1nnoozl0]Irish Murphy, 3b[/*:m:1nnoozl0] [*:1nnoozl0]Red Turner, 2b[/*:m:1nnoozl0] [*:1nnoozl0]Moe Davis, 1b[/*:m:1nnoozl0] [*:1nnoozl0]Dizzy Bay, lf[/*:m:1nnoozl0] [*:1nnoozl0]Moose Duda, rf[/*:m:1nnoozl0] [*:1nnoozl0]Noodles Thole, c[/*:m:1nnoozl0] [*:1nnoozl0]Dutch Niuwenhuis, cf[/*:m:1nnoozl0] [*:1nnoozl0]Knucksie Dickey, sp[/*:m:1nnoozl0][/list:o:1nnoozl0]

Dickey 1.91 Bay 1.28 Hairston 1.27 Francisco 0.81 Murphy 0.73 Parnell 0.58 Nieuwenhuis 0.45 Cedeno 0.44 Tejada 0.35 Davis 0.05

I agree, but Phillie hasn't thrown one of their three aces out there at us yet. What we need to do is show we can do well against some of the division's top pitchers. Be nice to get our lefty mashers mashing a bit, too.

Yup. Looking good, Mets.

Daniel Murphy doing a perfectly cromulent Wright imitation with the ninth-inning yips.

Hairston Hits Hard

#LikingLife

Davey Johnson and Bobby Valentine were managers of the year, even while they weren't Managers of the Year, but yeah. That's why I like the Niese signing --- very convention-bucking. I guess, if you're looking for bold strokes with manager-making with the Mets, Hodges and Torre should count also.

Frayed Knot wrote: Dutch -- a name frequently slathered on anyone of German and/or Dutch descent -- is also most often found in the early part of the 20th century. Of players listed with that as their main baseball name, the most recent are All-Star hurler Dutch Leonard who played through 1953 and the brief career of Dutch Romberger who pitched 15 IPs in 1954 Darren 'Dutch' Dalton played into the 1990s but that was only an occasional nickname as were many of those who appear at BB-Ref when you type in 'Dutch' On the minor league side there are 40 entries as 'Dutch'. Of those two appeared in the 1970s but I suspect every one of the rest is dead at the present time.

The last "Rube" was Rube Fischer, who played until 1946. Check the chart at the top of this thread. It was Rube Walker who played until 1958. Indeed, and shame on me for missing out on my Rube Walker lore.