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IPP: Zach Lutz (formerly Zach Lutz)
Lefty Specialist replied to Edgy MD's topic in New York Mets Talk
Edgy MD wrote: If Lutz doesn't appear until September, that means a 100% healthy season from both Wright and Davis, I think. My heart would flutter. Or Duda's playing first and Turner's playing third in front of 300 or so fans. -
IPP: Zach Lutz (formerly Zach Lutz)
Lefty Specialist replied to Edgy MD's topic in New York Mets Talk
Zach Lutz will lack zutz, and will only be seen when rosters expand. -
What starts in Vegas stays in Vegas. We'll barely see him at all this year.
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Can't hit and will be mercifully replaced by d'Arnaud in mid-June. .220/10/30.
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Nice debut, second-year terribleness, entering age-27 season... ... I'm feeling optimistic. Let's give him a prorated/tweaked version of Burnitz's third/age-27 season, along with terrible defense: 450 PAs, 400 AB, .255/.356/.470, 18 HRs, 67 RBI, 46 XBH, 55 R, 94 K. This. I'd say that he'd be in a platoon by mid-season, but I expect all of their starting outfielders will be in that situation and there won't be enough people to platoon with. So he'll stay in the lineup most days for 'maybe he'll run into one' reasons. Just hoping that the 'maybe he'll run into one' isn't one of the other outfielders.
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He's 28 already. I don't expect him to improve, and I imagine he'll eventually lose playing time to a Byrd/Cowgill/Reptar/Whoever platoon. .250/4/20 in 200 AB's. Sorry, Whitestone.
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Hey, Buck's a .333 hitter. Cool.
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Touch Me I'm Sick - Injuries (and Recoveries) in 2013
Lefty Specialist replied to TransMonk's topic in New York Mets Talk
Something tells me I'm going to have a lot of mid-section discomfort watching this team this year. -
Tom Grieve was pretty much running on fumes when he got to the 1978 Mets. After his career, he returned to Texas to take up a job installing cattle horns on the hoods of El Dorados and Chrysler Imperials. It was there that he was discovered by a casting director for Dallas, where he spent four years as Shale McRigg, J.R. Ewing's nemesis. After the producers killed him off in a bizarre backflow valve 'accident' orchestrated by J.R., Grieve wandered the Hollywood studios looking for someone to give him an acting gig. But the typecasting was too strong; to make ends meet, he was forced to sell maps to the stars' homes and make balloon animals dressed as a clown for childrens' birthday parties. Finally Dallas was renewed and Grieve thought his prayers might be answered, since dead people reappear on soap operas all the time. But alas, all he could get was the part of 'Clown who scares little kids at J.R.'s great-grandson's birthday party'. So what's the 411 on Chin-lung Hu?
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Out of work and going, going, ... ?
Lefty Specialist replied to Frayed Knot's topic in New York Mets Talk
I'd like them to give Miguel Cairo a spring training invite do they can short-sheet his bed and humiliate him for a few weeks, then release him. Have I mentioned that I don't like Miguel Cairo? -
Useful in that he was an object lesson to my son that a lot of tattoos look stupid.
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I don't think Fielder's going to be a lot of fun in year 9 of that 9-year deal. By then he may be generating his own gravity vortex. If I'm looking at it completely color-blind and not knowing about PED's, and could only sign one of the two, I'd pick Braun every time.
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I though he'd be the sleeper in the Pagan trade. Turns out I was right; every time he got into a game, I turned off the TV and went to sleep.
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I hate when they sign a guy and your first thought is, "Gee, I thought he retired."
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Guess I need to go to the supermarket and pick up a case of quantifiers.
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Bobby's a smart guy. But. At the end of his tenure in 2002, Met fans couldn't wait to be rid of him. There's nobody better at in-game maneuvering (provided he has the tools, and it's something that's less important in the AL), but outside of those nine innings, he's not all that wonderful. He manipulated players and trashed them in the press, something that seemed to carry on in his Red Sox days. His ego is still an issue, as it may be difficult to fit inside the reduced footprint of Citi Field. Putting him as an analyst/looming managerial possibility is a typically Metsian doofus move (if it happens). I know there's a lot of Bobby V love out there, but I'm not on board.
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Somehow it often seems that when a majority of Met fans like a particular move, it turns out badly. Not all the time, mind you, but often enough that it's statistically significant. I hope Marcum does well, but I just get the feeling he'll fracture David Wright's wrist while shaking his hand, or some such. I dunno, maybe I need to up the Xanax in my coffee.
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So when are the open tryouts for outfielders being scheduled?
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Rode in an elevator with him in DC last year after he had 3 hits and a couple of RBI. Nice guy, although having a good night probably helped his mood. One of the creepiest Twilight Zones ever.
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Mike Phillips may have hit for the cycle with the Mets, but the truth is that this lifetime .240 hitter was dogged by job insecurity and stress. As his career was winding down in Montreal in the early 80's, he developed erosive gastritis and more than once was unavailable for pinch-hitting duties as he was stranded on the porcelain throne in the clubhouse. Desperate for a cure, he visited noted chemist Merde de Boissons, who gave him a mixture of magnesium hydroxide diluted with water. It worked like a charm! Even his release by the Expos later that month could not upset his digestive system. Phillips threw himself fully into bringing de Boissons' formula to market, and within a year he'd decided on distribution and advertising. The only remaining task was the design of the bottle, and snubbing the Expos, he reached back to his Met days for the distinctive bottle color of.... So what's the poop on Jeff Duncan?
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I'm impressed that somebody would devote such an incredible amount of time to dissecting 26 seconds of a TV episode. The next time anybody accuses me of wasting my time, I can bring this up for comparison.
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When Frank Lary hung them up in 1965, he retired to Mississippi, becoming a lead inserter at the Dixon Ticonderoga factory. The switch to graphite came too late for Frank, and years of lead poisoning took their toll on his higher brain functions. Delusional paranoia and mood swings led him to consider suicide, but when Billy Joe MacAllister tried to talk him out of it he threw him off the Tallahatchie Bridge in a fit of rage and country music angst. Is it true what they've been saying about Mauro Gozzo?
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One of the high points of my life is grounding out to short off Bob Apodaca. Because 1) I have it on tape, and 2) I pulled the ball.
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I did it in 2002. Most fun you can have with your clothes on. Worth every overpriced penny.
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Edgy MD wrote: Cliff Floyd looking unrecognizeably skinny in his shorts and sanitaries. Way to check in at your pre-steroid weight. Fixed that for you.
