Edgy MD

Watching a highlight reel of Carter. Rare shot of a non-mustachioed Keith Hernandez joining him on the mound with congratulations for Gooden.

Fman99 wrote: Yay baseball! The medical staff gets a shout out at Opening Day? I'd boo these schlubs if I was there. Reports have Ray Ramirez getting the only (mild) booing. With all the negativity this offseason, it's pretty cool to get through the opening day introductions without some minor pissup. I thought for certain Bay or Pelfrey would end up being a lightning rod.

"I'm very, very happy to be here. At my age, I'm happy to be anywhere!" Stealing George Burns' material.

('Zat Martino breaking out the fedora for opening day in the front row?)

Terry Collins says Johan will get between 85 and 95 pitches today. Edgy DC says, "Stop making me sad, Terry!"

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I love the way they handled the scoreboard advertising. The copy looks like a transparency overlay, with so much white space that it appears as if the ad is not even there. I'm with you then I'm not. I share your appreciation for the absence of advertising's intrusiveness on that wall. But in its place, you have the architectural character of a convention center. And not THE convention center, but the old one, on the other side of town, that never really worked out. The shear eggshell white surface and the ventilated metal surface of the same color underneath are living death and they're only going to get more deathly as they absorb stains in the Miami humidity. It's strangely sterile in a park that is anything but, and I suspect new garishness will cover that wall in time.

Mets at batting practice. And, well, this is what I'm talking about. Or what I should be talking about. Good show, Mets.

What is that nasty thing falling out of Stokes' ear?

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Who was the last player to appear in the Mets opening day starting lineup, who missed the entire previous season to injury? Moiphy last year. Unless guys who spent time in the minors don't count.

From all that is good and beautiful and truthful.

I guess what's most surprising to me about the collapse is how they were there at the end at all when so many of their hitters had bad years: Uggla, sure, but also Heyward, McClouth, Prado, Alex Gonzalez. Bourne also wasn't the same guy after coming over from Houston, and wasn't much of an improvement upon McClouth. Pretty comparable to the 2001 Mets in that the end disappointment distracts you from what a yeoman's job the manager had done just getting them that far.

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Falling behind in his batting average title defense. NL Batting Leaders T1 Freese, StL: .600 T1 Furcal, StL: .600 T3 Molina, StL: .500 T3 Reyes, MIA: .500 5 Beltran, StL: .400 T6 Berkman, StL: .333 T6 Buck, MIA: .333 T6 Descalso, StL: .333 T6 Morrison, MIA: .333 10 Jay, STL: .250 Man, the Cards are looking good.

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Anyhow, good story of the Outliers variety of a fascinatingly inspiring figure. He grows up in a Beatle-like situation, where yeah, the neighborhood wasn't particularly good, but the home was stable and supporting. Somehow (1) he becomes obsessed with puppeteering at a very young age and makes it through school without getting the snot beat out of him, gets taken under his wing by one of Henson's senior designers (named "Kermit," interestingly enough), and breaks into an absolutely white world with no formal theater or deign training. As one of the younger guys in his field, the art form is dying on his watch. He gets plum roles with TV shows like Captain Kangaroo and Big Blue Marble and The Giant Space Coaster before his 21st birthday, but you know, we're in the early years of computer graphics, and puppetry doesn't hold the same magic for kids that it did for him, and all three of these shows die on shift. But he's got his friends in Henson's camp, so he gets a job on "the street" --- Sesame Street, the cornerstone of the industry. But they're a family that's been together for decades, and the new guy has to take the crumbs, getting assigned fringe and experimental characters that only get a handful of forgotten appearances. This little red Grover relative puppet has been appearing, and he's performed by another guy with a horse voice and an almost vulgar crassness. The operator knows it's not working and he comes back to the shop one day, throws Elmo in Clash's lap and says "See what you can do with this." Looking for the angle to make his statement, he takes Elmo home with him, talks to him, tries different voices, and shows up Monday morning having turned him into the naif's naif --- so innocently full of love that he makes Big Bird look like a burned out cynic. He creates something bigger than himself and, as the movie tells it, everyone who met him along the way knew he would. And I guess they really did, because there's a lot of file footage, of him learning his trade as a kid, him sneaking away from his class trip to New York to visit Kermit's studio on Great Jones in the Village --- stuff like that which I can't imagine my family or friends having the presence of mind to document on Super-8 if I was a young genius. But how would I know? Anyway, Clash is really a big deal no matter how Elmo'd out you may be. My main part is what's not there. There's more about him learning puppet making than about learning performing. There's a failed marriage in there that implications suggest was stressed to the breaking point by the demands of Elmo being an international celebrity and Clash insisting on being the only performer. And you know, there's the occasionally developed but not fully addressed theme of Clash being challenged with the suggestion that this not an authentic way for a black man of today to express himself. But you spend two minutes with the man and you're going to say, "This is one authentic guy, Elmo or no."

By the way, that Dodger poem in the other thread is by the father of the owner of Two Boots.

When I�m near you Niese, I get an extension! And I don�t mean Alexander Graham Bell�s invention!

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Five runs in the ninth yielded by Angel Cuan, shortstop Danny Muno, and thirdbaseman Ryan Sandoval. None were charged to late-entry (and Edgy adoptee) John Church, but he let several score after inheriting them.

He answered the second part, an answer I guess most of us would have guessed would be "both." I kind of still feel up in the air on the first part, which has long been a mystery to me, and I guess I wish I didn't ask a two-parter.

BOOOOOOOOOO

'Mazin. We're actually going to open the season without a righthanded-hitting chunky Caribbean catcher in the picture.