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  1. Edgy MD
    Strange to think that both the Mets' assistant batting coach and assistant hitting coach are named "Barnes." I hope to have distinguished the two of them before their tenures end. Also, they have two coaches named "Jeremy," but none name "Jeromy."
  2. Edgy MD
    But it's the owners who squeeze municipalities for facilities while offering the promise of tourism and park-related revenues.
  3. Edgy MD
    That's the sad truth. MLB has a stupid anti-trust exemption, but in many ways, the other top-level US-based leagues operate with even more impunity.
  4. Edgy MD
    Games are typically underway by then. I hearby give Steve Cohen permission to negotiate his own general agreement with his shop.
  5. Edgy MD
    It seems like apathy is their flagship product at this point.
  6. Edgy MD
    It's also, in part, a bi-product of us allowing our leagues to operate as cartels. Where are you going to go if you want to walk away from a situation and perhaps find another doorway into the sport?
  7. Edgy MD
    =Gwreck post_id=85975 time=1645111979 user_id=56] Who was insulted?
  8. Edgy MD
    I think it's more that the level of reporting is indifferent. I've certainly had to seek far and wide for information.
  9. Edgy MD
    I've grown very pessimistic the last two days. The league is waiting weeks and weeks between offers, has now made two entirely unacceptable and insulting submissions, and Manfred is acting like a jerk.
  10. Edgy MD
    It's very instructive at a level. He passed the buck and felt like he did his part. That's what modern leadership looks like today. It's infuriating, but it's hardly unique to Terry. And he at least owns it to the extent of "There were signs that we should have addressed some things." But a few beats later, he's back with, "We certainly addressed it." Clearly, not so much.
  11. Edgy MD
    That's pratty disappointing to hear coming from a big union guy who bragged about flipping pizzas during the strike and later shit-talked the replacement players who made it to the bigs.
  12. Edgy MD
    =duan post_id=85943 time=1645032853 user_id=99] that's called being a pr person.
  13. Edgy MD
    How do you get a gig in helping athletes clarify their thoughts usefully before they speak?
  14. Edgy MD
    A worthwhile point to make. I think the answer is that he feels a tad defensive.
  15. Edgy MD
    I'd put Ken Boyer in before him. Heck, I'd probably put Buddy Bell or Toby Harrah or Ron Cey in before him. Citizenship aside, I'd put him in a category with Bobby Bonilla or maybe Matt Williams.
  16. Edgy MD
    He's old enough that his tenure with the Mets pre-dates that reference by three years.
  17. Edgy MD
    Sounds like Terry is about as awkward at confronting such issues as most people. Look at him being indirect about being indirect.
  18. Edgy MD
    I thought it had more layers than that (but average can be a pretty flexible bar, depending on what romcoms you've endured). Ambiguities, dinosaurs, the foundations of morality, nihilism. In fact, I think the protagonist dude was named Niles for symbolic reasons.
  19. Edgy MD
    I think so also.
  20. Edgy MD
    Worth remembering that an entire team attempted to intentionally fail tests that were meant to be sealed, in order to help trigger mandatory testing.
  21. Edgy MD
    So that year's team copious drug use is still looked at in “no big deal” veins, including wondering if it's the ticket for current rosters to get over the hump! That's firstly assigning a consensus point of view to your own perspective. Secondly, it's speculative. Thirdly, to the extent that it is looked at as no big deal, it's a closed book from 37 years ago. I'm trying to considering what a reporter's role is when it is current information he discovers on his beat. As for "no big deal," the choices made by that team left behind a lot of human wreckage. It still does. It is, in fact it is the human wreckage of a young man's fatal fentanyl overdose that has Harvey in court in the first place. I'm not looking for Harvey's head on a platter here, but yeah, I don't know that a reporter is doing his or her job if he or she sits on that story. And as (mostly) a fan of Adam Rubin's work, I'd like the conversation to go beyond "I'll say this and stop."
  22. Edgy MD
    Well, there's a middle ground between ignore and "jump at the first whisper of an issue," and that's pursuing the facts and reporting responsibly. Whatever the Mets source gave him was probably officially off the record, but it's still information you can follow up on. I am certainly sympathetic to the idea that it's a "private matter," but when it's a public figure and you have information about an illegal matter that is affecting his public performance of a job people have an investment in, that can change. I don't know at what point it changes, but presumably, there's something like an authoritative journalistic playbook that clarifies that. Anyhow, it's certainly something I'm curious about.
  23. Edgy MD
    "http://archives.thecranepool.net/23700/f1_t23723.shtmlMatt Harvey and White Lines"
  24. Edgy MD
    Is it the reporter's role to sit on such information or to pursue and report? I realize it's not his gig anymore, but I'm not sure "I'll say this and then stop" works.
  25. Edgy MD
    What always got to me was, in all those photos of him stepping out with professionally beautiful women, how insecure and misbegotten he always seemed as he tried to project a cool smoothness. [FIMG=400]https://www.nydailynews.com/resizer/oR9HDf_Ui-lpUqFUl_iJHQDYzzY=/1200x0/top/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/53VKCGQXLVDVS64AIXJJ2GFTJE.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=400]https://data.sportsworldnews.com/data/thumbs/full/31340/830/415/48/13/matt-harvey.jpg[/FIMG] I always got the idea that he was about to throw up. [FIMG=400]https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/711x1066/https://blogs-images.forbes.com/josephdeacetis/files/2016/03/x-4.jpg?width=960[/FIMG] Breathe, man.
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