Edgy MD

It's important to remember that jump starting Reyes without proper spring training prep work was an unmitigated disaster last year and remained so for the first five-six weeks of the season.

Stands to be the most lovingly rendered portrayal of a resin bag in the entire National Portrait Gallery. And that's saying something.

A press release from "New" Smithsonian stated that this acquisition made landing the subseqeunt Carlos Beltran portrait possible.

I think you're thinking with your heart there. The team the Pons control through the credit of lendors is still theirs until they default. Anybody who comes and buys $250 million worth of the Mets isn't likely to pay them out of pocket but likely will likely rely on creditors also.

Gotta love the Google ads on the side of that Forbes article: Get Out of Debt Instantly Drowing in Payday Loans? Hit the Ball with Power Tired of Being in Debt?

i think that's the cloudy plan. But I suspect some in the organization haven't completely written off shortstop, suspecting (with good reason) that there'll be an opening there shortly.

Wish somebody asked him what position PDP sees him at, because he better get there soon.

This goes back about a month, but former Mets have been drinking from the most boring of volcanos. Charlie Sheen Screens �Major League� With Major Leaguers & Colin Farrell LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- With baseball�s spring training underway, what better way for some current and former baseball stars to get ready for the new season than�. a party at Charlie Sheen�s house. The rehabbing �Two and a Half Men� star had several superstars of America�s favorite pasttime � along with fellow Hollywood superstar Colin Farrell � over to his home on Friday for a viewing of Charlie�s own baseball classic, �Major League,� Access Hollywood has learned. Among the ball players who joined Charlie and Colin at the house were former players Lenny Dykstra, Eddie Murray, Todd Zeile and Kenny Lofton, as well as current San Francisco Giants star Brian �The Beard� Wilson. Charlie played baseball bad boy Ricky �Wild Thing� Vaughn in 1989�s �Major League,� a man who gets out of jail and quickly turns into a major league superstar. The film also starred Tom Berenger, Corbin Bernsen and Rene Russo. Earlier this month, in his uncensored interview on �The Dan Patrick Show,� Charlie named the aforementioned Lenny Dykstra and Todd Zeile as guys who often stop by his house to hang out. �[Dykstra] makes you look boring,� show host Dan Patrick told Charlie of former baseball star � and notorious wild man � Lenny Dykstra. As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Charlie is expected to return to the set of �Two and a Half Men� on Feburary 28.

Sure. But that's also why he has to be responsible and dilligent. It's completely lousy but completely predictiable that Castillo caught the blowback there.

My Spanish is pretty bad. I work with a group that is probably 55% black, 40% Latino, and 5% white. I find myself working most intimately with those I'm most familiar with and comfortable with and that's frequently going to be the guys I'm most like. But to do a good job, I have to catch myself and push myself beyond my comfort zone. To fail in this regard isn't pariticuarly racist. To not care to succeed, though, is. The truth is that I probably get accused of racial/ethnic discrimination every week. It gets my cackles up but I've got to absorb it and deal with it, and be honest that it's not always completely invalid. It's important to distinguish beween racist acts, which happen a billion times a day in often small and subtle ways, and racists, folks that openly, aggressively, and shamelessly delight in practing them. Discussing how we and those around us engage in the former, is not to state that we're all among the latter.

But there's a certain degree of a race issue in there, isn't there? If you have a job to do, and a story to get, that should mean going into more challenging situations, talking to guys who you are less comfortable with, who are less comfortable with English, who perhaps trust you less, workng hard to suss out the nuance in their meaning when they perhaps can only express themselves broadly in English, and presenting the work they do in an equal (if more elusive) light.

Ceetar wrote: But he should look around that press box a little because plenty of the guys in there clamor for David Eckstein and Jeff Francoeur. Whoah, you went there.

I agree with Coleman broadly and celebrate his courage, but I thought Martino fumbled the ball badly there, wondering out loud but not working hard enough to come up with any meat, talking to nobody but Castillo (who tried not to take the bait) and a nameless buddy. The end result was that the next day, Castillo --- already under siege --- ends up looking like the racial whiner, when he wasn't.

He's 5'10"' and slightly overweight, for God's sake! What more do you need?! Yeah, I meant to edit that post, but what's interesting about that article is trying to figure out who is doing the hurling. Any number of folks could have motivation to feed the author that story, but it sure looks to have been fed. Kosman is supposedly a real financial reporter and stuff, but this is of Page Six gossipmongering. "Why?" I ask. And "Who?"

Spring Stats: W: 0 L: 0 ERA: 1.33 G: 5 GS: 5 IP: 20 1/3 H: 15 R: 4 ER: 3 HR: 2 HBP: 1 BB: 3 SO: 9 How meaningful?

Pants.

Somebody's being hurled busward.

Yeah, I guess this is one of those days I don't know what you're getting at.

Their money is as good as anyone else's.

I don't think that's what Calterra is saying. Nor do I think it's in bed. At least, not for any quiet slumber.

Who could forget the "Kiger Counter" thread?

Baseball will be fine.

If you read back, I hope I've made it clear that I don't assert that it's not localized to the Mets community. But it's my community. And I'm embarassed by it. As in all things, I prefer my community lead and not follow.

I'm not sure what he said or what he brought on himself. Look, if I'm the only one who is bothered by what I see as some of the uglier shit that has bubbled up in the culture surrounding this team, I'll happily drop it.

Shorter sentences, please. I'm having trouble parsing.