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Seventh on the outfield depth chart, and falling. Somehow, they'll struggle on. But yes, 2015 MVP for Oakland.

I don't think there's a third base coach with balls big enough to take the chance that he gets a runner thrown out at home to end a World Series. A halfway decent throw and he's out by 30 feet.

Great series. Lots of mood swings. Bumgarner pretty much won it singlehandedly for the G-Men. Never seen someone come on in relief and pitch the last five innings protecting a one-run lead. That's some serious baseballin'.

Edgy MD wrote: Jeter's last stand tonight. His 2-2 with a run scored in the All-Star game helped the AL to a 5-3 victory and KC to home field advantage. I got a little money that's saying Bumgarner is an MVP. Nobody is taking that bet. Bumgarner is playing a game with which I am not familiar.

Boy, now who'll write snappy headlines like: Check out the Mets Pulse Page, presented by Citi

Boy, there's genius, and then there's Super Genius.

This is what you ask for as a baseball fan. Game 7. All da marbles. Fox will be wheeling out the cliches. There should be a Game 7 Cliche Drinking Game. "There's no tomorrow." "Do or die" "All hands on deck" "Leave it all on the field" And many others....

Paniked when he pulled Peavy, perplexed by Petit's pitching problems.

7-0. Cool.

Kevin Burkhardt did it better. Not only did he get to kayak, he got to take heaps of abuse from Keith Hernandez.

They traded him because they were incapable of moving those other guys with the ponderous contracts. Ruben Amaro- not a genius.

Yeah, we've seen this before...... http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/78767/mets-aim-to-follow-red-sox-model http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/harper-watch-closely-mets-young-arms-dominating-postseason-article-1.1483409

Hm. Kinda douchey. "I know so much more than you do that it's not worth debating you." I dunno, for some people that might come off as being a little arrogant. Cerrone lost any semblance of credibility when he joyfully jumped into bed with Sterling/SNY. Yeah, he probably knows more than we do, in the way hookers can see family pictures of their clients while they're riffling through their wallets.

Well, I want him but not for a Cano-type deal. Poop seconded. Still don't want Cuddyer except as an adjunct to a real acquisition.

Well, if they dumped their owner's son and landed Maddon that'd prove they're serious.

I basically want KC to win at home. So the Giants have to win one of the next two games, and since Bumgarner is pitching one of them that should be doable.

YESpedes.

Irritating Marlins Guy is in San Francisco, too. It's not as jarring as it was in KC, as lots of people are wearing orange.

Unless Juan Lagares can cover the outfield line to line, they've got a relatively poor outfield defense. Granderson will get to things but he has a noodle arms, which is why they want to move him to left.

TransMonk wrote: It's not about marketing Cuddyer, but rather management possibly implying that any one move is the only or best move. I don't see this team as just one player away. I hope the team gets shaken up. Move Murphy. Move Wheeler. Change some parts. With all the young arms, I think there are several options to re-think the roster without spending a bunch more money in the short term. But I can't take the rinse and repeat of adding a marginal player and somehow thinking the team is on track to win more than 80 games. Cuddyer would be a great pick up...as a supporting addition in conjunction with other moves. Agreed. My concern is that they'll pick up Cuddyer and call it a day on offensive additions. And if he gets injured or gets his ears caught in a mechanical rice picker, well, we're right back to healthy servings of den Dekker & Nieuwenhuis. I'd like Cuddyer, if they get him, to be a better-hitting Eric Campbell, playing all over the place to give Wright, Duda, Granderson et al a rest. That means you still need to add an everyday outfielder. But the FO won't look at it that way. He'll be the every day left or right fielder. And that's my concern; just like they played Chris Young every day because they paid him a lot of money, they'll play Cuddyer every day to justify the expenditure. I want this roster shaken up a little more than just adding a 36-year-old FA.

First of all, I do think they'll get him, because it's the kind of move this franchise makes. And they will be marginally better because he'll probably be better than the enormous offensive sinkhole that was left field last year. Frankly, it'd be hard to be any worse. We'll all pray that he'll be more like Marlon Byrd and less like Chris Young. But you won't hear any fans saying, "Holy shit, they got Michael Cuddyer!" He won't be a difference-maker. He's not the piece that sends them to the playoffs. Who should that guy be? Damned if I know. That's why they pay GM's good money. I'm not big on WATP's because they always overvalue your own guys and undervalue the trade partner's guys. I want Sandy to be bold. He's going to dump Colon and Murphy because of the bucks involved. He's got an excess of pitching. So add something that makes a difference. If you just exchange Colon's salary for Cuddyer's, you've gotten nowhere.

My huckleberry? I want someone else's decent-hitting right-fielder or shortstop. And if that means we have to trade a decent pitcher (or two) to do it, then fine. I understand that a Gee or a Colon way not bring that player back, so we may have to take a chance with one of the other arms. Yes, it may come back to bite us. But I want to try to do something to shake up this team. Cuddyer is not that person. He's the guy you add AFTER you add that other guy. Sandy has a lot of chips. We can go into 2015 with an awesome great 8-man starting staff that loses 2-1 because they can't get the runner in from 3rd with less than 2 outs. Or we can get a guy that energizes the middle of the order and makes the whole lineup better. We had high hopes for Chris Young, too. But I don't want to play the 'He'll fit in because he's a good guy and won't cost too much' game any more. I know, I know, the Wilpons. I'm just tired of this story played over and over.

No, no, no. No more Band-aids. Get a real hitter or don't bother at all. We're like beaten dogs, factoring into our thinking what crumbs the Wilpons will throw us. I want someone who'll make a difference, not warmed over crap like Cuddyer. He's old, his most recent power is Coors-aided, and he's coming off an injury season. I don't care if he cleans Wright's pool in the off-season, I want better than this, dammit.

Frayed Knot wrote: Mets � Willets Point wrote: I'm irrationally irritated that there's a man in a Marlins' jersey sitting directly behind home plate. Somebody did a profile on that guy the other day. Seems that he's a Florida attorney who reasons that, with no wife and no kids, he has the money to go all over the place to sporting events ... so he does. You're not alone. That guy irritates the crap out of me.