Edgy MD

What's the FBI doing operating in Ireland?

Holy shitski. Where have you gone, John Menso?

I've been interviewing a blogger by via Facebook in order to do a profile and she just stopped responding to my questions like a week ago.

Jeff Passan takes a poop on the Mets doormat and runs away. Eric Simon picks it up and throws it at him.

That's a tick higher than I was expecting. But looking over the numbers, he made $2.2 last year, so I guess that's about right. Still save $2+ million from Pagan and get a pitcher to boot.

Coulda been worse with Pelfrey, I imagine. I'm OK with those two deals and I think they were the tougher of the four.

Looking back and ahead with Loewen.

Wasn't there some.. complaint? that Obama wasn't 100% black and that someone lessened the historical nature of a black president? I'm not sure what you're referring to. I do know that the president selected "Black, African Am., or Negro" on the 2010 census despite "Mixed Race" being an option. I think it's shows how far we've come that Wally Matthews holds his job despite being half cracked.

A DH isn't a negative defensive score. It's a zero. Meanwhile, Murray Chass Why were they on the ballot? Why were Javier Lopez and Eric Young on the ballot? They each received one vote. Why? Did each have a friend among the writers who wanted to express his feelings for him? Did the writers honestly believe Lopez and Young belong in the Hall of Fame? If so, how did those writers last long enough covering baseball � 10 years � to qualify as voters? The writers get enough criticism for voting for legitimate candidates or not voting for players fans think belong in the Hall of Fame without incurring criticism for voting for players with career records like Lopez and Young. In last year�s election 16 players failed to get the 30 votes they needed to continue as candidates. Like this year, six players received no votes: Carlos Baerga, Lenny Harris, Bobby Higginson, Charles Johnson, Raul Mondesi, Kirk Rueter. Bret Boone and Benito Santiago each appeared on one ballot. Again, why? Why not? He apparently thinks its a real issue that writers need to be protected from the disgrace of casting embarrassing minority votes. Really? Stupid issues like this obscure real issues. How did this blogger ever get to vote in the first place?

I'm Edgy DC, and I'm here talking with Martin Luther King, III. Reverend King, looking at America now, would you say your father's dream has been realized? Oh, yes. Fully. Fully. Really? Certainly. I mean, look at Scott Hairston. Mountaintop. We're sitting on it. The amazing thing about that column is there is not one word for the reality that is President Obama. Wally Matthews, you are our Crackpot Columnist of the Week.

I was thinking the Braves were going with Pastor Nicky as their shortstop.

I'm sort of surprised to find out Ray Guy and Dave Jennings aren't.

I didn't misrepresent your point --- purposely or otherwise. You cited a lack of peripheral paraphernalia, and I listed some. I'm just trying to give and get opinions that are independent of the opinions of others.

...of the Mets and thier fans. Joke number two by Jay Leno, who doesn't really seem to get how to make a joke about the Mets: http://www.hulu.com/watch/318751/the-tonight-show-with-jay-leno-monologue-jan-12-2011-part-1#s-p4-sr-i1 Laugh now, sucker. Better yet, don't you have some other shows to steal?

It's interesting. Baseball-Reference.com puts him ahead of Glavine in WAR, 69.7 to 67.0, even as he sits 89 credited wins behind.

I love the actorly pose of Denny LeMaster, pondering great and crucial questions as he looks to the horizon. I wonder what happened at the moment they decided not to put positions on the cards. I get the niotion that they were up all night and tried to 15 different ways to get the position information on there, and then they finally said, "You know what, let's just leave it off. These simply look too FANTASTIC to ruin by breaking everything up with the positions." Three weeks later, the first cards are rolling off the line, and designers get a call from the president of company. The five of them walk in penitentially and trying to avoid eye contact. The senior guy decides to man up on behalf of the rest of them and says, "Look, Chief, if it's about the posit..." And then he suddenly realizes the president hasn't looked up. He has a sheet of Expos cards in front of him and he's crying. Expos. Finally, he removes his glasses, mats away a tear from each side of his face with his hanky, honks his nose, looks at the row of designers left to right, and cries out: "They're just so BEAUTIFUL!"

The funny thing is that the stories about Ojeda --- particularly from the year the Mets had six starters and he and Darling alternated being the odd man out --- suggests that his lifestyle didn't exactly place him under glass while he was pitching for the Mets. To say nothing of drunk boating at night as an Indian.

And Clemens is a borderline criminal miscreant. (And I place him on the "yes" side of the borderline.) To be fair, we have to put Rivera in that group kinda sorta also. Glavine cough! as well.

I like this deal a lot more if the Mariners go out and sign Fielder now.

Jack Wilson, Atlanta Brave.

with No MVPS, CYs, ROYs, or other such periperal paraphalia, has got an uphill battle to convince me that he's a HOFer. If those things matter to you (to me, they are also sort of summaries of other people's opinions) he's got 1.85 career Cy Young Award shares. 0.23 career MVP Award shares. (You long supported writers who refused to --- and discouraged their colleagues from --- supporting MVP causes of pitchers anyway.) six All Star (six innings, with a 3.00 ERA) selections starting pitcher honors in two of those games. The 1993 NL NLCS MVP. The 1995 Lou Gehrig Memorial Award (league-wide award given by Phi Delta Theta Fraternity in recognition of the player who best exemplifies Gehrig's character and integrity both on and off the field). The 2001 World Series MVP (shared), pitching to the tune of a 1.69 ERA over 21.1 innings as the D'Backs beat the Yankees and brought honor to America. 2001 NL Babe Ruth Award (given by MLB to the player with the best overall performance in the post-season). The 2001 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year. The 2001 Branch Rickey Award (league-wide award given by The Rotary Club in recognition of the player who best demonstrates a commitment to community service). 2001 ML Hutch Award (league-wide award given by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and displayed at the MLB HoF, to the player who best exemplifies the fighting spirit and competitive desire of Fred Hutchinson). 2001 ML Roberto Clemente Award (league-wide award, given by MLB to the player who "best exemplifies the game of baseball, sportsmanship, community involvement and the individual's contribution to his team.") 2001 NL The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year 2002 NL The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year Three rings, which certainly aren't subjectively conveyed, but certainly are team awards, but he was a big part of those teams. Those aren't MVPs, but it's a whole lotta junk for one man's closet, if you care about that sort of thing. And as far as the notion that the sock gave him an inflated reputation as a "winna," I think that that post-season record sure backs up the anecdotal. I'm not sure I'm voting one way or the other on him. The barbell shape of his career --- showing all of 18 wins from 1994 to 1996 --- is not only distressing, but also a little bit suspicious coming at pretty much the exact point that his mentor Roger Clemens' career was also sliding downhill, leading him apparently into a life of PEDs and bullshit. Maybe he went drugging too. But the pitchers of his ERA had it so hard. The few that flourished --- Maddux, Martinez, Johnson --- were magic users. But this guy ground out a heck of career. Hard to say. I think he could have held on a little bit more and won 12-16 more games and raised a few more eyebrows, but with a .600 adjusted winning percentage and a 128 ERA plus (ten notches higher than Blyleven's), I'm not sure he should have to pile on a few more counting stats when his rate stats are so good.

Ashie62 wrote: MFY's still have catching prospect Austin Romine.. Pineda would be our 1. I'll take our mountaineer over Pineda. But yeah, another massive guy pitching for the Yanks. They should just get Jonathan Broxton and be done with it.

"Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kranepool... they're separated there." Nice, Gil. If I have my facts right, I think she me her next husband on just about that time.

Thanks, but this is like with the movies. While I agree with your summary of other people's opinions, what I'm hoping to get is more about your own.

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