Edgy MD

Just in case it isn't clear, Sean is sitting 2011 out. Mets prospect Sean Ratliff broke six bones and suffered a partially detached retina when a foul ball struck him in the right eye while he stood in the on-deck circle during a game this spring. I'l be using this thread to update you on his sprints and weightlifting and doing sosh research.

Damien is still a jerk and now is a jerk coming off missing a JuCo season because of a stress fracture in his elbow. But I want to revisit this thread to repost this kid. [youtube:3s7r0vgw]Uy09qsqlEbU[/youtube:3s7r0vgw]

Plus he's broke, out of credit, and running out of friends.

Dykstra wasn't able to post bail. Meanwhile, he's loading up to go full Sheen on us.

And while we're on that early seventies country-rock tip: [youtube:271jbmzo]dPpnvNlywP8[/youtube:271jbmzo]

I meant thees: [youtube:3gxu6hyg]e49HLHoHcJE[/youtube:3gxu6hyg]

Also a big fan of "Please Come to Boston."

One guy who ride that merry-go-round was Mike F. Bordick. He was traded in the midst of his best season in Baltimore and even as he went, there was an understanding in the local media here that the O's would be looking to re-sign him after the season. And indeed they did. They walk off with Melvin Mora --- and Leslie Brea and Mike Kinkade to boot. What did the Mets get? A crap shortstop in the postseason. Was Aaron Heilman a compensation pick? Alhaji Turay? Anyhow, any secret deal between the team and the player would obviously be illegal. More importantly, I can't imagine either party feeling much compelling them to adhere to the deal if fortunes changed by the time the season ended.

I'll disagree courteously. If the Mets come with a generous offer that Reyes' agents view as comparable to what he'd get on the open market, then it could be foolish to pass up an offer made while you're client is playing well and calibrated to good play, in favor of the relative abstraction that is competing offers at the end of the season, a season that could well be filled with less effective play and/or end in injury. A poor economy, too. It's a bird-in-the-hand/birds-in-the-bush choice, and I think we'll have to see what the bird in the hand looks like before we judge what the foolish choice is.

And there's no reason that an experienced agent can't arrive at an estimate of what that is and present it to the Mets.

Nerdiest correction in Times history.

Love a lot of those Coloradosongs. This is my favorite. [youtube:1w14ow2b]49HLHoHcJE[/youtube:1w14ow2b]

Also, kinda funky to see Jay Gibbons wearing 31.

Dodgies wearing number 4 patches for Duke Snider. The Mets could stand to do the same, at least for this series.

Ceetar wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Ain't no big business going to happen until after that big chunk of the team gets sold off. That seems to be the way it is. Good news is that that seems to be a matter of weeks. A team with Reyes on it is more valuable. So being able to resign him immediately after instantly provides return on investment right? The Mets are a team with Reyes on it. A team that is most valuable is one with Reyes on it and the potential of re-signing him. To a fan, it's one thing. To an investor, as soon as the contract gets locked in --- with big number outlays that one's accountants get to measure against projected revenues --- it's another matter. Cohen, if indeed he is our buyer, is a lifelong fan and therefore we can hope hope he's an advocate for Reyes being extended. But as long as that's a potential deal and not an actual one, the sale can be made with the possiblity that any such deal will be made on terms most advantageous to the Mets. Its just a sports business reality. Teams, usually the wealthier ones, tend to hold the line on payroll before a sale --- and poorer teams slash it to bits.

Somebody has to write a counter-article. I mean, it's fucking Forbes. Where do they get off being so willfully stupid?

Oh, and a brain-dead article from Forbes disagrees with you.

I, as well.

Ain't no big business going to happen until after that big chunk of the team gets sold off. That seems to be the way it is. Good news is that that seems to be a matter of weeks.

I must of missed something about Stardust. We made it a half hour into it and bailed. It felt corn-fried and Disneyfied, as obvious as the day is long and not enchanting at all. Susanna Clarke is a fantasy writer we've enjoyed a lot, and she'll likely be adapted onto the screen in a big way. She's enough of a Gaiman fan that she's set some of her stories in his fantasay world, so I'm resisting the temptation to judge based on the adaptation.

Until/except this year in Cleveland. Best record/worst attendance in the American League. It's like Lebron James took the last breath of economy/identity right out of town with him.

Reports coming out about Cohen being the frontrunner, despite being under SEC investigation.

Conan is sort of set in a Scandanavian-like place just outside the fringes of Rome-like receding empire, but I guess doesn't quite qualify. Necessary conditions for a Viking movie Horned helmets Round shields Long boats with square sails and optional dragon's heads on them. Nice list. Somehow Hollywood has been sane enough to never make a feature-length live action Hagar the Horrible film. One less job for John Goodman.

Well, if it hadn't been for the economy, he might have been able to keep the racket going for a year or two. In theory, a Ponzi scheme can keep going as long as the alleged returns are so great that folks don't want to touch the money as it keeps making more for them accounts. But as folks felt the pinch with their other obligations, they suddenly started making more withdrawals than deposits.

it may be a year or so late, but the economy is really catching up to MLB. It wasn't long ago that you couldn't see an open seat at Jacobs field. Now the Indians are in first place and they can barely get 20,000 for a weekend game. Averaging 14,650.