metsmarathon

what's this nonsense about time commitments?

didn't he screw up his own contract when negotiating it with the yanks way back when?

that's the field they audiitoned jason bay on before signing him. boy, did they think they had somethig special!

i do have some other people i could try to drag into this thing. 8 seems too few. i feel like we should have 10-12 minimum. also the more we have the less likely this'll just be a one time flash in the pan sort of thing.

no, but i've got an idea for another 'shop

TransMonk wrote: Where's Jeffy? that took a while to find. enough so that i almost assumed he wasn't there at all. and then, after i saw him, i couldn't quite believe it took me so long in the first place. also, there's a lot of nudity in waldo's vicinity.

paint shop pro, because i like to be different. i do need to invest me in some adobe photoshop software though...

we getting any more teams? scheduling wise, i can basically do any night after the first week of march, except the 14th, 20th and 21st. the first week of march, i'm a single parent. the other three days are for volleyball playoffs.

how long does it take, from receipt of sample, until hte time that the results of the test are known? is it at all weird that braun wasn't informed of his failing the test until two weeks later? i'm a little surprised in all the news articles, that tehre's no in-depth discussion of the actual process / procedure. the more i read, the more i tend to lean towards "he's probably cleaan" but i'm maybe 60/40 on the issue. the wackiness of the sample is difficult to reconcile, and the apparent mishandling of the sample surely lends itself to that end. but i'd still like to understand how simple mishandling could result in such a marked difference. i'm actually a little surprised nobody's called on a pee-expert to expound on the matter.

there are a few possibilites in this case: 1. the sample is braun's, and that it has not deteriorated, and he's on some innovative drug schedule that nobody's ever tested before 2. the sample is braun's, and it has deteriorated... a. ...because the mishandling by the tester (perhaps in concert with something that braun had recently ingested) caused it's makeup to change from a clean sample to a remarkably dirty sample b. ...because the mishandling by the tester (perhaps in concert with something that braun had recently ingested) caused it's makeup to change from a dirty sample to a remarkably dirty sample 3. the sample is braun's, and it has been accidentally contaminated due to the conduct of the tester 4. the sample is braun's, but has been intentionally contaminated due to the conduct of the tester 5. the sample did not come from a human. i think the meat of the argument lies between 2a and 2b. it seems very likely, given the oddness of the sample, that it deteriorated between the time that braun gave the sample and the time the sample was tested. maybe he is on some cool drug regiment that jacks his testosterone through the fucking roof, but you'd have to be pretty ballsy to give it a try. i guess you could always rely on the fact that your test result would then be so wacky that it would call into question the velidity of the test. in which case, well played, braun! since it sounds like the samples arrived at the testing facility in the same sealed containers as they were put in at the time of the pissing, then 3 and 4 are fairly unlikely. i suppose the possibility exists that the sample containers were contaminated before braun ever let loose his golden stream, but that would call into question any test ever anywhere. plus wouldn't braun cry foul immediately if hte sample container were not removed from its sterile and hermetically sealed container right in front of his eyes? and so i return to my prior-stated desire to have hte chemistries better explained so as to offer up a rational explanation for the process by which a clean sample could turn into something so dirty, or wby which such a dirty sample could only come from a sample which was dirty to begin with, just less extremely so.

the conspiracy theorist in me thinks that the refrigerator story was come up with after the fact. but that guy's a kook.

what i don't understand is, was there an established procedure for handling the sample in lieu of a readily available shipping location? it almost sounds like there was, but the article is vague. if the bag and box remained sealed, then is the concern that the samples could have deteriorated due to exposure to suboptimal temperature conditions? if so, there should be some straightforward chemistry that would explain why or why not the detected substances and levels thereof could come about. is the guy's refrigerator any less secure than a fedex box truck? is it any less temperature-controlled? and how did braun know of the handling that enabled him to immediately claim that it was bullshit due to some specific circumstances that he didn't want to get into then and there? was the chain of custody expressed to him immediately upon informing him of the results?

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before 7:30 is tough. also the first week of march is out. i'll have a better handle on the remainder of my coming schedule once my volleyball playoff schedule is out, but those games fall midweek, tues/wed/thurs

mind if i invite a buddy of mine into the league? this is right up his alley, and it seems like we might need the help getting a decent number of teams. he's a cards fan, but we shouldn't hold it against him too much.

damn. too soon, kid, too soon.

i keep reading that as greenpoint lunchlad[u:3qa5yrut]L[/u:3qa5yrut]es, and giggle at the absurdity.

that was only a smidge obtuse. in.

i think the point of that is not necessarily to give the boot to your best player, but perhaps your most underpaid player. if you have albert pujols for $1, we're probably gonna vote him off. but if you have him for $100, well, if that's how you wanna spend your cap space, who are we to argue? i like it, especially for the first year as we try to figure things out. besides, maybe we'll all be gentlemanly, and vote for noone, or agree in advance to vote for noone, and if anybody violates it, then we shun them and give 'em the stinkeye.

maybe what we could do is block off an evening early in spring training, see how far we get, and suspend it for a few weeks to pick up the rest of our rosters if the draft takes too long. it runs the risk of not having a full spring's worth of knowledge and scouting and what not on those early rounds, and of having a high pick felled by early injury, but it might make it much more manageable. it also will help with the later rounds as we'll have a better picture of who's on what teams.

i think the auction is tied to the league. while that's a novel concept, it would only work with either a custom application, or an offline draft.

i imagine hte online auction will hasten things up a tad... maybe not a whole lot, i guess, but a bit. regardless, i'm willing to give it a try. what the fuck, right?

i fuckin' love it

49. blanked on that guy in chicago, and that guy in pittsburgh, among others.

to be fair, since the end of last year, we're replacing jose reyes and angel pagan on the field, with (presumably) johan santana, ike davis, danny murphy, and andres torres. so he's not entirely wrong. now if only we could replace jason bay with jason bay, we'd potentially have something.