metsmarathon

oh my goodness gracious!

not to suckle at the yankee teat, but gibson over mattingly?

i think it just pulled ahead of bannister/burgos... but tis close!

="AG/DC"]He has five daughters, all with last names that sound like first names: Taylor, McKinzie, Madisyne, Camdyn, and Parker Elizabeth. wow! i do wonder, though, what are the girls' first names?

without going point by point, i think that the observer gets the big picture right, but is wrong on many a detail. yes, the mets will miss him when he's gone, but only if he pitches like he did last year. if his performance last year is the exception to the rule, and not the rule the observer seems to believe it to be, then the mets should not miss him terribly much, as he would then be imminently replaceable. as a matter of fact, the mets already miss oliver perez, as he has yet to appear as he had last season. and the observer misses this rather easy point.

SteveJRogers wrote: ="metsmarathon"]am i alone in never being able to figure out what the hell steve is talking about, and what his actual point is, because i can't for the life of me figure out what his point is, and whether its his point that he's making, or if he's manufacturing a point on the behalf of some mysterious unmentioned met fan collective... or is it just that when his point gets squashed and refuted that he then attributes it to the mysterious mythical met fan collective which allows him to then distance himself from his own point... i can't tell, because i just can't follow it. Would it be better if I just came out and said, I've heard WFAN and 1050 ESPN hosts and callers, as well as members of the MOFO say whatever? yes. always cite your source. duh. especially when that source is you.

am i alone in never being able to figure out what the hell steve is talking about, and what his actual point is, because i can't for the life of me figure out what his point is, and whether its his point that he's making, or if he's manufacturing a point on the behalf of some mysterious unmentioned met fan collective... or is it just that when his point gets squashed and refuted that he then attributes it to the mysterious mythical met fan collective which allows him to then distance himself from his own point... i can't tell, because i just can't follow it.

probably the yankee fans that post on message boards under the moniker stevejrogers...

as a teammate, if a teammate falters, i can provide either encouragement or criticism. if i choose to provide criticism, i can choose to provide either constructive or destructive criticism. constructive criticism is more likely to result in improvement by the faltering player. destructive criticism is more likely to result in continued struggles and a hostile atmosphere. as a teammate, if a teammate falters, i shoudl choose encouragement and/or constructive criticism over destructive criticism except in the most extreme of circumstances. as a fan, i can provide either encouragement or criticism as well. however, if i choose to provide criticism, it is extremely unlikely that i will be able to provide it constructively, as i lack access, immediacy, and a relationship with the player. as such, if i am to provide criticism, it is likely to be destructive in nature. since destructive criticism is more likely to result in continuing struggles and a hostile environment, why would i choose to provide it? ... it irritates me so that people continue to drag out the fans' right to boo as some sort of argument within the discussion of the booing of players, etc. who the fuck is questioning the right to boo? is anybody suggesting that the fans who boo should be refused service, that they should be booted from the stadium, arrested, and/or prosecuted under the patriot act as america-hating terrorists? its akin to somebody responding to a plea to conserve resources that a person has the right to drive whatever the hell car they want to, and how much. in either case, all i can think is "so what if you can, you fool - the question is if you should!" we've lost our collective minds as we no longer seem to recognize this demarcation. nobody is arguing that fans should be prohibited from booing. the argument is to the wisdom and efficacy of booing as it pertains to the improvement of play on the field. if a player is struggling, booing isn't going to help. if a player is injured, booing isnt going to help. if a player is still developing his skills, booing isnt going to help. if a player is trying, booing isnt going to help. if a player is getting old, booing isnt going to help.

Delgado 3.8 Casanova 1.9 Wagner 1.3 Reyes 1.2 Castillo 1.0 Schoeneweis 0.8

Wagner 2.4 Church 2.3 Maine 1.6 Beltran 1.4 Sanchez 1.2 Wright 1.1

Beltran 1.6 Casanova 1.6 Schoeneweis 1.4 Anderson 1.2 Sanchez 1.1 Feliciano 0.7

Castillo 3.5 Anderson 1.9 Church 1.8 Casanova 1.4 Feliciano 0.8 Beltran 0.6

see, while more vulgar, i think that motherfucker is a more appropriate chant for an ump who blows a call than asshole. on the whole, i prefer bullshit to either option.

chanting asshole implies that he blew the call knowingly/intentionally.

an infinite number of universes, and they only go three digits deep? sheesh...

i'm playing catchup, as i've been a slacker of late. shall vote in all available games by the close of today.

or a dead one...

pagan... out at home...

Nymr83 wrote: ="TransMonk"]Nymr83 wrote: Delgado gets that ball out of the park a few years ago. Delgado gets that ball out of the park on a less windy day. Shea is a very strange park this year with citifield looming out in left field, i have no idea what effect that has on the wind patterns but i have to imagine it makes a mess of things the mets have hit 7 home runs at home, to only 5 on the road...

in 2007, about 195 relievers were tasked with stranding 15 or more baserunners. these relievers stranded, on average, 69% of the baserunners they inherited. aaron heilman, in 2007, stranded 72% (21/29) of the baserunners he inherited. in 2006, about 190 relievers were tasked with stranding 15 or more baserunners. these relievers stranded, on average, 68% of the baserunners they inherited. aaron heilman, in 2006, stranded 50% (7/14) of the baserunners he inherited. in 2005, an unknown number of relievers were tasked with stranding 15 or more baserunners, as the only site i could find with a sortable list of inherited runners only had 2006 and '07. these relievers probably stranded, on average, 68-69% of the baserunners they inherited, based on the similarity of the prior two years' data. aaron heilman, in 2005, stranded 71% (20/28) of the baserunners he inherited. over the three year period, aaron heilman stranded 48 of the 71 runners he inherited, for a 67.6% stranding rate - approximately league average, if ever so slightly below it. including this year, he has stranded 50 of the 78 runners he has inherited, for a 64% stranding rate. the difference between this rate, and the league average rate of a presumed 69%, is 3.5 runners. since 2005, aaron heilman is about 3.5 inherited runners scoring off of league average pace, and those 3.5 runs all basically came in this year. does that really make the case that he is awful and should never be brought in with runners on base? not to me. granted, he has to start getting it done this year, but he's proven in the past that he can indeed get it done. (inherited runners sortable list credit sportsnet.ca - aaron heilman's career stats credit espn.com, which maddeningly does not allow one to find inherited runners in any sortable table. grr.)

*62 wrote: You could look at it that way ..... or you could also say he's the friggin' six-year incumbent starter at the position with a career OBP identical to Bud Harrelson. Perspective is all. bud harrelson? through the season of his 24th year, bud harrelson had a career obp of about 0.291 and an OPS+ of 68 i don't think that's a remotely fair comparison

i like the 16/9 ratio idea. or interleague play with an inverted dh rule or a total repeal of the dh rule, no matter what they do with the schedule.

Smith 2.8 Reyes 2.0 Wright 1.9 Casanova 1.3 Sosa 1.2 Beltran 0.8

Reyes 2.7 Perez 2.7 Wagner 1.5 Wright 1.1 Sanchez 1.0 Heilman 1.0