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how does it compare with other of seattle's pitchers? do they all or mostly all do better with johnson, or is it just a king felix type of thing? y'know, for however much cedence you lend cera.

a pitcher doesn't need to see a hitters' batting stance to know how to pitch to him - at worst, he must adapt to a new catcher. a hitter needs to see a pitcher's release point, delivery motion, spin, and break to get a feel for him. the advantage belongs entirely to the pitcher.

Valdespin 3.8 Byrdak 1.9 Wright 1.4 Francisco 1.3 Niese 0.8 Acosta 0.8

she can play my side of the fnece any time she wants to

Dickey 5.3 Murphy 1.8 Francisco 1.5 Byrdak 0.6 Torres 0.4 Thole 0.4

Santana 4.1 Francisco 1.4 Torres 1.4 Parnell 1.3 Murphy 1.1 Nieuwenhuis 0.7

Gee 3.9 Torres 1.8 Wright 1.6 Murphy 1.1 Parnell 0.9 Ramirez 0.7

it's obvious to me in the wake of this injury, that pitchers have no business attempting to field balls, and especially should not practice to do so. they should throw the ball and get the fuck off hte field. major league baseball needs to adopt the DF (designated fielder) rule immediately and put an end to this ridiculous charade.

i never loathed bonilla...

Wright 2.6 Tejada 1.8 Byrdak 1.5 Francisco 1.3 Torres 0.9

soupcan wrote: metirish wrote: Yes, it's absolutely not a place I would bring my son. That's how I felt about Giants Stadium and probably holds true for Giants/Jets/MetLife Stadium. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: SteveJRogers wrote: Did have another experience outside a ballpark here in the Westchester area one time that was similar when I saw a child in a Chipper Jones Braves shirt outside of a movie theatre. I walked up to him, same manner chuckling and smiling and saying how it was pretty bold to be wearing that shirt around these parts. Kid stared at me blankly and didn't respond, the mother (or a woman whom I'd assume was his mother) scurried him away as I was explaining what I was talking about, saying, it looks like he's a Braves fan. Her response while walking away was "No...no...he's not." Almost as if the kid had real stupid DB shit thrown at him that was worse than a simply saying it's a bold move to be wearing that shirt in this town. also possible, Jeets, that she saw an older guy talking to her little boy and made another protective assumption. I would say that that is EXACTLY what she did. stranger danger!

Thole 3.6 Turner 2.4 Wright 1.2 Hairston 1.0 Rauch 1.0 Ramirez 0.8

yankee fans were raging assholes before the housing house of cards tumbled to the ground. mets fans were raging lunatics before the madoff hit the fan.

for what it's worth, baseball prospectus has our third-order winning percentage at 0.541 (12.4/10.6 W/L) that appears to take into account underlying statistics and what-nots, but also quality of opponent, whatever that means. as a comparison, the nats sit at 0.596, the braves at 0.511, the phillies at 0.477, and the marlins all the way down there at 0.384 poor marlins.

kaz matsui april 2003 (or whenever the right year is)

strange. i had dickey at 6.2 schaefer votes, but had to ratchet him down as well. nieuwenhuis and parnell picked up an extra 0.1 votes apiece. it's not that dickey pitched remarkably well, just that, well, nobody else really did all that much of anything in comparison.

Dickey 6.0 Nieuwenhuis 1.3 Parnell 1.1 Byrdak 0.7 Davis 0.5 Torres 0.4

bmfc1 wrote: It must not have been decided on penmanship. picture if you will the cracked-out scribblings of the san diego chicken, and the meth-hopped ravings of the phillie phanatic, and you'll quickly understand that mr. met actually has excellent penmanship for a mascot.

red sox chick walked outta there with a concussion, no? bitch-kicker shoulda walked outta there with an assault & battery charge. usher should walk outta there with a pink slip.

Santana 3.3 Wright 2.2 Ramirez 1.6 Nieuwenhuis 1.5 Batista 0.7 Parnell 0.7

Hairston 4.8 Duda 1.6 Tejada 1.1 Byrdak 0.9 Batista 0.9 Nickeas 0.7

Duda 3.7 Wright 1.8 Gee 1.6 Byrdak 1.1 Murphy 1.0 Tejada 0.8

jeez, think how much harder it would be to ifnd a good parking spot at the game!

Edgy DC wrote: We're just the best people in the world, aren't we? If only the world would act more like us. well, there'd be a lot more mets fans, thats for sure.

HahnSolo wrote: I agree with his first comment: "This is just a blip. There's gonna be much worse to come, kid." This generation needs to toughen up. I generally agree, but the couple didn't have to be total asshats about it. this. they cannot NOT have known that tehy were sitting by a toddler who subsequently was crying because they got the ball he wanted. the couple got a ball. good for them. they could have made a kid's day. that's better.