Edgy MD

They're all more hype than results. Sooner or later, you consult with your scouts and make big decisions.

The mellifluous tones of Doug Flynn: [youtube:l2bgjr2g]qdiUdpiPOGM[/youtube:l2bgjr2g]

Flynnie could definitely give you some Kentucky Komfort.

Well, there's no requirement that an '86er play the role of Beercan McBackslap. There's Brian McRae, Doug Flynn, Sandy Alomar, Jr., Butch Huskey. Think harder, Homer. OOOH, Benny Agbayani.

I'm certain it's a fool's game to try and stick Reyes' failures, such as they were, on the guys on the left and right. The statistics are created to operate independent of that.

Well, they've fired the infield guy on the coaching staff. But Reyes has been in the division as long as anybody not named Chipper. He should know where to sit and when. It's a theory. I'm impressed on how pro-active the Mets were with the coaching staff cuts.

New Mariner minor league hitting coordinator: New Mariner minor league catching coordinator:

Well, if his positioning was wise, I imagine it would have shown up statistically.

You're a little late with that Goldstein link. As I included it on the guy's name.

If true, that should reflect statistically on Wright, not Reyes.

Yoenis Cespedes? mD_ZrcUZv94

Well, the way Wayne and Howie operate, there isn't really a one and two, is there? More like one-a and one-b. I'm sure a new guy with a successful track record could take the job with commensurate salary without any clauses indicating that he has to run errands for Howie and sleep on the lumpier bed and stuff. Not that I think they'll go that way. Looking at their recent personnel decisions, they'd probably rather go with a prospect then a vet.

Vic Sage wrote: Actually, if they re-sign Reyes (and don't trade Wright), i think the O will likely be ok. Not great, but adequate, especially with a wall-shortened boost for Wright, Davis and Bay. What, are you smoking crack?

I'm always a stand-patter, but this time, I may not be crazy. The Mets were sixth in the league in runs, despite a well-above-the-league injury rate and a park that depressed offense. Yeah, that was with Beltran. But I say that Duda hit comparable after the trade to Beltran before, whether that's true or not. A little health, some gerrymandering (or ungerrymandering) of the walls, and we're skating like Scott Hamilton. We have more guys entering maturity than exiting it. Yeah, there might not be room for Murphy, Tejada, and Turner, but that's a good problem to have. Yeah, the defense may be hurting the pitching, so if you want to keep talking turkey on upgrading on Pagan, I'm listening. Yeah, we've got to replace Hairston and Harris, and probably Paulino, but whatever. I tell you, if we can get this Reyes thing worked out, we're winning gold medals at Lillehammer. So... anybody got 100 million dollars?

From this IGT. A little historical perspective on Timmeh's Freak Show: Lincecum had a 96 game score -- a metric created by Bill James to determine a pitcher's dominance in a particular game ... The next-closest was Christy Mathewson's 86 for the New York Giants in Game 3 of the 1905 World Series (four-hit shutout, eight strikeouts). There's something about that statement that is both awe-inspiring and absurd. Christy Mathewson, three shutout victories in that very same World Series, the one New York Giant player whose name still resonates as emblematic of the city's first great professional athletic powerhouse -- still standing after everything else from that era has been long demolished or forgotten (sort of like the John T. Brush Stairway) ... 373 lifetime victories ... America's first sports hero ... the pitcher to whom Tom Seaver was compared for both talent and intelligence when came up ... the frigging Christian Gentleman ... ...and along comes this kid with the hair and the motion and the strikeouts and, by some measure, he exceeds Christy Mathewson in a Giants uniform 105 years later. Wow. The Brush Stairway is making the biggest comeback since Fernando Tatis.

I getty.

To come, baby.

Husky build. Right complexion. Neatly and geometrically trimmed chin fuzz. I CONCUR!

Here's a picture of the yearbook you don't win.

I'm busy cleaning out my desk. I swear, every one of you, go out into Mets cyberland and find me a chatty companion. Whoever gets the funnest new pooler gets one of my doubles from my 1970s yearbook/media guide collection.

The AngelO's are pretty good at piling up retreads. It's the "piling up," rather then the "retread" part of that phrase that I think is their undoing.

If there's a name, it'll undoubtedly be the Verizon Veranda or the Costco Cloister or the Bank One Balcony. You can take that to the bank. You can take that to Bank One, in fact.

That comment lends new weight to the picture of him and Roberto Clemente.

Takin' Yogi to Moneyball.

What's this I hear about the Mets bringing in their feces?