Edgy MD

OK. I guess I see it diff. He's a fanboi publickly taking his fantasy out for a walk, which is fine. But I think it does hurt the Scoop persona. As a journalist, he's in many ways what Minaya insinuated about Adam Rubin. In the end, if he has a source, he has a source. Sounds like interesting conjecture to me. I do think he's right enough in anything that matters. Wilpon's deal was going to bite him in the ass, he got gold feet, tried to get the clause altered, and Einhorn walked.

Bonds sentencing hearing under way.

The Wilpons are still major league owners, to my thinking, because every step of the way, they've supported Selig's initiatives, be they his outreach to folks of color or his strong-arming teams to offer amateurs slotted, controlled signing bonuses. And they've done it at a cost to the team's success. I think Megdal's desire to bring down the Wilpons is clear and it's easy enough to dismiss him as a pretender out of his depth, whether he's got something or not. But their ownership is in an existential crisis, and their relationship to Selig has been a lifeline, and anybody trying to drive a wedge between them is probably a frightening thing to the bosses. A thought: even if they surivive a year or two, there's little reason to think Selig's successor would be as willing to continue helping them out of the quicksand.

George Vecsey, enigmatic sportswriter who inspired this deconstruction from MetsGuyinMich, but also once penned this book, turns in his last column.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: So are you. What am I going to say next? Huh?

Megdal is pretty predictable too.

I'd bet it's because of a sense that quality pitching is more ephemeral than quality hitting.

The Ladies Call Me Puma says the talk starts at Davis and Niese. Ouch.

I really appreciate you getting me in on such short notice like that. Great work.

Apparently, Ken Rosenthal set the Twitters on fire late last night with a tweet. @Ken_RosenthalKen Rosenthal Sources: #Mets, Mariners now among teams on #Athletics' Gio Gonzalez. #Marlins remain persistent. #Reds, #RedSox, #Rangers remain in. #MLB A young cheapish lefty star and a possible future ace, Gonzalez is the type of guy 30 teams want, so the asking price is going to be driven up by an aggressive market. Naturally, the snarkosphere, already hard at work on their Jack Wilson jokes, laughed silly at the Mets being linked to the name of a real dude. It's like Rosenthal was throwing out catnip. What's forgotten in the laughter is that, while the Mets are indeed cash poor, they are not necessarily poor in the talent that it takes to make a trade. They have some redundancies: first base and AA-level starting pitching, to name two. Naturally, the environment is so toxic that any deal is going to get broadly derided. But what do you open with there? Could Murphy plus Beato plus Familia get it done? Would it be close? (There is precedent for trading Santa Claus.) I get the idea the stadium would get burned down if they offered Davis.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Olberman tweets The Marlins signed Jose Reyes. The Angels signed Albert Pujols. The #Mets have just signed Chuck James (LHP, Braves, 06-08). Sigh. Kinda sorta should be beneath him. It's not like the move is that relevant. Even if Reyes signed, The Chuck Jameses of the world will be invited to camp, as they are by all teams every spring. Besides, who are you to sigh over the Mets? Get off the bandwagon. I hope you try and shut him up. He's a fucking embarrassment. Damn you, I don't know if I have what it takes to go toe-to-toe with a smug cable TV host blowhard. The guy pretty much invented cablesnark. @KeithOlbermann The Marlins signed Jose Reyes. The Angels signed Albert Pujols. The #Mets have just signed Chuck James (LHP, Braves, 06-08). Sigh. @EdgyDC @KeithOlbermann Dear God, Olbermann. The move is irrelevant to Reyes thing. Chuck Jameses will be signed by each team and be in every camp @KeithOlbermann @EdgyDC Dear God, Mr. Whoever You Are, the point is the Mets are running a #1 market team as if it were a struggling AAA franchise in Ottawa @EdgyDC @KeithOlbermann And you just decided to squeeze this guy into that narrative, as if the Mets and every team don't sign his ilk every year.

Put down the microphone, Shecky.

Olberman tweets The Marlins signed Jose Reyes. The Angels signed Albert Pujols. The #Mets have just signed Chuck James (LHP, Braves, 06-08). Sigh. Kinda sorta should be beneath him. It's not like the move is that relevant. Even if Reyes signed, The Chuck Jameses of the world will be invited to camp, as they are by all teams every spring. Besides, who are you to sigh over the Mets? Get off the bandwagon.

My first thought was of super-hateful turn-of-the-century Cardinal reliever Mike James.

I think the only conclusions they'll be able to draw from most trap/catch super-slow replays is that the outfielder had a homophobic slur on his glove and a Bristol Myers Squibb tatt on his forearm.

Sheesh, that's a heck of biography. Let's add to it. 2003: Sucked into a turbine. 2004: Bungee diving entanglement. 2005: Taken by Pirates in the Indian Ocean. 2006: Taken by Pirates in the Rule Five Draft. 2007: Stung by a bluie while diving off of Australia's Great Coral Reef.

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Fman99 wrote: Dang, I'm disappointed that I won't be able to write a Lastings Milledge parody which was my plan had I beaten MF. Had some good hip hop stuff in mind for that one, too. Well, you can still write it.

And Dotel became a Tiger a week or so back for $3 million plus an option.

Hererra at 5'6" and Rauch at 6'11" would give the Mets the shortest and tallest active major-leaguers, and presumably the all-time greatest height difference between two teammates.

Kay. I'll get to play around with some other ideas, too.

Ready when you are, Met Fairy.

TransMonk wrote: � The possibility of players wearing microphones during games. Boo!!! � No offensive nicknames written on equipment. That's the funny part. Why are they putting a rule in the collective bargaining agreement in 2011 seemingly in response to a 1989 baseball card. A Fleer 1989 baseball card.

Lucas May shown in his engagement photo with his now wife, the empire-waisted Mariah May (nee Murdock). Introduced on a blind date by their great friends Tara and Andy --- affecitonately known as T&A. (Seriously!)

Lucas May may be cool because it'll be remarkable to have two Lucases on the team. Vinny Rottino may be fun because catchers that get move around the rest of the diamond are always a trip. Koyie Hill would be likely the first, last, and only Koyie in Mets history. If they can sign him to a minor-league deal, having him in camp could also give Nickeas confidence in his hitting. J.R. Towles might make a good designated catcher for R.A. Dickey. And maybe D.J. Carrasco, too. But seriously, check out the nationality action we currently have going in the catcher corps to back up Thole: Mike Nickeas: Anglo-Canadian Jean Luc Blaquiere: French-Canadian Kai Gronauer: German Rhinelander Francisco Pe�a: Domincan Juan Centeno: Puerto Rican Vinny Rottino: Italian-American Sconnie Lucas May: Emo-American