Edgy MD

To heck with the Wall Street Journal, the AP obituary is the real homerun here. Handsome, well-spoken and irresistible to women, Sargent was known as a serious and eclectic thinker and an accomplished reveler who dined out most nights and was equally comfortable with authors, movie stars or socialites. John Sargent Jr. remembered his father�s annual �singles only� Christmas Eve parties, co-hosted with actress Joan Fontaine. �A Salvation Army band would play at midnight and everybody would sing Christmas carols,� Sargent said. �And you had to be single. There was no flexibility in that rule.� That ain't workin'. That's the way you do it. Doubleday during Sargent�s time operated under the principle MBP (Management By Party). Gay Talese, whose book �Thy Neighbor�s Wife� was published by Doubleday, remembered attending editorial meetings and watching everyone �get smashed.� �Many of the editors and senior executives were big drinkers,� Talese told The Associated Press. �You�d go up this spiral staircase, into this private apartment, and the meetings were like a fraternity party that went out of hand. And John, elegant as he was, held his liquor with the best of them.� Money? Nothin'. Chicks? Free.

Passing at 87 is former Mets board member and Jackie O. escort John T. Sargent. I think he was also Nelson's former brother-in-law.

Classic stuff is hard to get my hands on. Here's some contemporary Metpo. It's got better production quality, but lacks the nuance of the old-time character, plotting, and atmosphere found above.

The big mofo? If that's Davis, you've got a scoop, because that's not a firstbaseman's glove. If that's not a pitcher, than it's L.U.C.A.S. But both would seemingly have more chest than that.

It wasn't his agent but his editor. (If Megdal had an agent, I'd be a touch jealous.) I didn't read necessarily sarcasm in Cerrone, just clarifying --- limited to 140 characters in a public forum. And he made the corrections.

metirish wrote: some pix of facebook Murphy? Between the height, the lankiness, the presence of a bullpen mound, and the presence of the legend that is Al Jackson, I'm going to go with a pitcher.

I understand that distinction. And Cerrone reviewed it, apologized, and rephrased. It's point worth making but no big whoop and when you publicly unload on the guy with seven straight attacking tweets, you don't exactly come across as the pro's pro you're claiming to be.

Oh, those go well.

Megdal seems to be coming across a little tender, huh? I had read Cerrone's post out of context earlier and didn't think it discredited Howard at all.

Anybody who knows how to re-publish that badminton match in sequence, please do.

An athlete, an athlete, and the pudgy goofy kid we kept.

This is all jocularity about a misplaced decimal point, right?

In one of the all-time great exercises in futility, I batted .120 when guessing numbers in the 2012 Roster Thread. And that was only after a really strong finish. PlayerNew NumberI HadFernando Cabrera�5853Robert Carson�7350Ronny Cedeno134Matt den Decker�6816Juerys Familia�7546Wilmer Flores�711Frank Francisco�4850Matt Harvey�7049Reese Havens�7412Jeremy Heffner�5347Chuck James�3644Rob Johnson�1633Juan Lagares�7613Adam Loewen�2039Lucas May�6222Mike Nickeas413Kirk Nieuwenhuis72--Garrett Olson�3833Cesar Puello�6722Omar Quintanilla�66Ramon Ramirez�5252Jon Rauch6060Vinny Rottino3344Andres Torres�5656Jordanny Valdespin�6162

Now I'm kinda down with the idea that we missed an opportunity not signing Eric Hillman. He's like a B-team Keith Hernandez the way he walks on the rim of the volcano. OK, D-team, but still.

There's some Wonderful Woody action in that Flynn interview.

Bubblegum residue on the card, I'm sure. I love Youngblood's career. He came up as a lousy infielder who had the tools to play anywhere. When those tools didn't amount to a hill of beans as a secondbaseman, the Mets settled on him in right where he was a perfectly good player for a team with no aspirations. Decent glove, helluvan arm. After he left the team, he bounced through Montreal --- getting his hits-for-two-teams-in-one-day thing taken care of --- before settling in San Francisco. He hit everywhere he played, but not quite enough for a starting outfielder on a team with greater hopes than Joe Torre's Mets had. So he pinch hit, filled in in the outfield, faked it at third on occasion, and really faked it at second on the very rare occasion. Think Scott Hairston. But, well, he did all sorts of damage off the bench in 1983, so they figured, "What the hell, let's hope he remembers how it's done make him the 1984 starting thirdbaseman. He's a great athlete, so how bad can he be? Even if he muffs it, he's bound to hit enough to make up for it." He ended up putting up an absolutely Butch Hobson-worthy 36 errors in only 117 games over there. To make matters worse, his hitting fell off too. The record at bb-r says he managed 2.0 WAR on offense, but gave back 2.6 on defense. I think about that year every time a guy is hitting off the bench and I wonder why the team doesn't just give him a position and live with whatever defense they get. Sometimes managers know what they're doing. To their credit, the Giants put him back on the bench and kept him around until 1984. In 1989, he finished with the Reds in the town he started with in 1976, playing under Pete Rose, who he had backed up when he came up.

cooby wrote: Metfairy encouraged me to read these after work but where are they? Hopefully, all are here. Meantime, please pull up a chair and enjoy passing your time with some classic Met porn.

Wonderful Woody, Doug Flynn, Joel Youngblood and Sangre.

Jerry Grote, meet bus.

I'm playing it through now. Really good stuff.

It means you got some juicy material out of him. Nice job. Welcome aboard, SPORTSTALKNY.

The Mets. Are awesome.

Wow, it's like Joan Rivers was interviewing him. Eric Hillman: six feet and 10 inches of dishin' it. Meow!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I'd almost prefer a Steinbrenner type; he may have been an inveterate, irredeemable asshole, but he was a bit more up-front about it (blatantly illegal stuff notwithstanding). Bleh. Et tu? Give me the bumbling fools every time.

Ceetar wrote: Ceetar wrote: What if it was simply a move? may have been petty but does that make it wrong? You exist in quite the relativistic universe. Yes, it was wrong. Ceetar wrote: What if it's false redemption? Is it right for Vick or Jackson (or Paterno is another example) to eventually be redeemed? And you also spin things way off into the stratosphere away from the point. You brought those guys up. and we all exist in a relativistic universe. I'm just more wishy washy on taking a firm stance. Yes, I brought those guys up. And you seem to be misreading the why of it. Ceetar wrote: I'm just more wishy washy on taking a firm stance. Yeah, that's what I mean. I don't know why. These are pretty clear-cut choices.