metsmarathon

i dunno. i like livan as an insurance policy which can readily be brushed to the side if and when both of pelfrey and humber prove capable of doing so. and the latest rumor i saw for santana had pelfrey in it. which makes me like livan a little more, if that is to go down. i mean, i don't love it.... but i don't hate it either...

if not for the rick reed trade, matt lawton would've earned a mention in this article.

yes, but kyle stopped. i tend to think that ryan just doesn't want to get involved in commenting on other players like that, moreso than that he personally has anything to hide. albert pujols

also worth pointing out is that the team with THE worst collapse, them yankees, followed that up with a handful of dreadful moves in signing pavano and wright, and a largely unhelpful trading for randy johnson, and still won the AL east. so the moves that they made to flush out the bad taste were terrible, AND the holdovers didn't roll over and die the next season.

iirc, the mets had one of the two most improbable failures to make the postseason in baseball history... at least according to baseball prospectus's figurings. and, yeah, the yankees' collapse was greater. in all senses of the word. (not that its consolation) and that doesn't seem to have hampered their ability to compete, has it?

without checking to see when kaat last pitched, i was thinking boggs.

well, we could just trade jose reyes to the twins... are there first basemen available that would make you say a) i'd dump delgado for that and i'd eat his salary, too? who else was responsible for the swoon? heilman? wagner? scheoneweis? the only one of them you'd want to get rid of is the one who had the best late season. was second the problem? third? left? center? starting pitching? wanna get rid of maine or perez? was el duque part of the malaise? pelfrey? you wanna start swinging an axe, start swinging. but tell us why and how it would actually help the team. on the field, by the way, not in some mystical karmic fashion.

mostly because i asked for a bunch of craptacular free agents...

Player old new edgy cougar Grimm smg nymr sharpie DocTee mm mgim attgig 1. Armando Benitez (FLA) RP FLA TOR PHI DET CIN FLA KCR PHI CHC STL HOU 2. Kris Benson (BAL) SP BAL STL PHI PHI BAL PIT CIN COL WAS KCR SFG 3. Barry Bonds (SFG) LF SFG CHW WAS NYY OAK Ret TEX TEX TEX Ret AK 4. Milton Bradley (SDP) LF SDP TEX WAS BAL SDP SDP SDP SDP BAL TEX SDP 5. Mike Cameron (SDP) CF SDP MIL BOS HOU SEA MIN PHI ATL NYY MIN SDP SDP 6. Luis Castillo (NYM) 2B NYM NYM NYM NYM NYM NYM NYM NYM NYM NYM NYM SDP 7. Ramon Castro (NYM) C NYM NYM CHC NYM NYM NYM NYM COL COL COL NYM NYM 8. Roger Clemens (NYY) SP NYY Ret Ret uns Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 9. Bartolo Colon (LAA) SP LAA CIN LAA SFG NYM LAA WAS TEX SDP LAA NYM 10. Francisco Cordero (MIL) RP MIL CIN STL NYY MIL MIL MIL MIL MIL HOU MIL BAL 11. David Eckstein (STL) SS STL TOR STL STL CHC STL STL BAL BAL TBR STL HOU 12. Pedro Feliz (SFG) 3B SFG NYY KCR SFG uns NYY MIN SFG NYY SFG PHI 13. Cliff Floyd (CHC) RF CHC TBR FLA FLA FLA uns SFG FLA Ret TBR FLA KCR 14. Josh Fogg (COL) SP COL NYM CIN COL COL COL COL COL PHI COL TBR 15. Eric Gagne (BOS) RP BOS MIL NYY NYM LAD PIT NYM TEX CIN SFG LAD BAL 16. Freddy Garcia (PHI) SP PHI BAL NYM TBR KCR CLE NYM CIN ARI PHI BAL 17. Tom Glavine (NYM) SP NYM ATL ATL ATL ATL ATL ATL ATL ATL ATL ATL ATL 18. Livan Hernandez (ARI) SP ARI NYM FLA CHW WAS TEX SEA SEA LAA NYM PIT 19. Torii Hunter (MIN) CF MIN LAA ARI NYY CHC NYY NYY TEX TEX SFG TEX BAL 20. Geoff Jenkins (MIL) LF MIL PHI HOU ARI ATL SDP SFG LAD SFG ATL BAL MIL 21. Jason Jennings (HOU) SP HOU TEX MIL NYM HOU COL --- CIN NYM COL NYM ATL 22. Andruw Jones (ATL) CF ATL LAD LA?D HOU SDP LAD ATL BOS CHW LAA STL MIN 23. Paul Lo Duca (NYM) C NYM WAS WAS SFG COL NYM COL CHC NYM NYM NYM COL 24. Kenny Lofton (CLE) CF CLE ATL CLE HOU ATL Ret CLE ATL LAD CLE ATL 25. Kyle Lohse (PHI) SP PHI CHC PHI PHI MIN PIT MIL PHI SEA CIN ATL 26. Kazuo Matsui (COL) 2B COL HOU COL COL COL COL SFG CHC COL CHW HOU COL 27. Andy Pettitte (NYY) SP NYY NYY PHI HOU NYY NYY NYY NYY TEX LAD NYY NYY 28. Odaliz Perez (KCR) SP KCR SEA mnl LAD ATL NYM LAA KCR PHI KCR ARI 29. Mike Piazza (OAK) DH OAK SEA OAK LAA MIN TEX MIN LAA OAK BAL TEX 30. Jorge Posada (NYY) C NYY NYY NYY NYY NYY NYY NYM NYY COL NYY NYY NYY 31. Mariano Rivera (NYY) RP NYY NYY NYY NYY NYY NYY NYY NYY NYY NYY NYY PHI 32. JC Romero (PHI) RP PHI PHI NYM PHI NYM BOS LAD PHI SEA MIL NYY PHI 33. Alex Rodriguez (NYY) 3B NYY NYY CHC NYM LAD FLA CHC LAD CHC NYM LAA LAD 34. Aaron Rowand (PHI) CF PHI SFG PHI HOU PHI PHI CLE SDP NYY ATL CHW ATL 35. Carlos Silva (MIN) SP MIN SEA KCR NYM HOU MIN MIN NYM COL STL MIN BAL 36. Sammy Sosa (TEX) DH TEX KCR mnl uns TEX Ret TBR CHW Ret TBR TBR 37. Yorvit Torrealba (COL) C COL COL NYM COL NYM COL NYY NYM NYW NYM COL HOU 38. Steve Trachsel (BAL) SP BAL SDP mnl uns BAL TBR CIN COL PIT KCR ATL 39. Luis Vizcaino (NYY) RP NYY COL JAP PHI NYY TOR NYY PIT LAD SFG NYY PIT 40. Kerry Wood (CHC) RP CHC CHC LAD TEX NYY NYY CHC CHC NYM NYM CHC MIN Total Correct --- 24 5 or 6 7 6 8 6 7 3 5 9 5 edgy, please be honest. did you mean andruw jones to the la dodgers, or la angels? or did i just misread your prediction? 16 players remain unsigned, so i think we're all still alive here...

i don't think there's a good case to be made that their accomplishments are equivalent. the barrier was already down when clemente started up, and there were already a growing number of latin players in the league. will we be retiring nomo or ichiro's numbers from the entire league for their pioneering work for japanese players as well? i'm sure clemente was met with a superlative amount of resistance in his career, but it wasn't he alone blazing the trail, and i'm sure it was in many way due to the color of his skin moreso than the tongue of his nativity. and isn't hiram bithorn getting the shaft here?

i'm kinda hoping fred is...

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ="metsmarathon"]see a mets/braves game in disney. we did. Don't go to Disney World until your child is old enough to ask you to take him/her there. Otherwise, what's the point? well, if the wife really likes it, and/or they hold races...

see a mets/braves game in disney. we did.

not a big fan of the "siever" jerseys?

AG/DC wrote: I like his selections also, but I note a slight paucity of pitchers in his select, and only Rivera can be said to be close to the middle of his career. This may be because: 1) Few great pitchers have been allowed to emerge in the steroid era. 2) Pitchers' careers are so volatile, it's hard to project where they may finish until they get close to the finish line. 3) It's just how things have shaken out. I notice Randy Johnson isn't included, so you may have to knock out Ichiro for now. there are fewer than half as many pitchers in the hof as hitters.

the most telling thing to me about that tape recording was that each and every time mcnamee said "what do you want me to do?" roger never once said "tell the truth about me" or "say i didn't do steroids" and the only reason i can think of why is that the whole point of the conversation was to try to get mcnamee to waver on anything, by beating to death their prior friendship and relationship and staying the hell away from anything that might put him into a defensive stance where, when accused of lying, mcnamee would say "but roger, you did take steroids" or "i'd go to jail if i lied for you" i'm not sure i call mcnamee pathetic, necessarily, but really broken up about what he's done to his good friend and older-brother-figure - that he's truly conflicted over what he's had to do. but in the parts of the recording that i heard, it never sounded like he was sorry for lying - rather that he was sorry for telling the truth. i'll admit, i'm looking at it from my presupposed conclusion of clemens' guilt, but i'm just not seeing anything that roger says as the words of a reasonable, innocent person. rather, they strike me as the words of a reasonable, guilty person trying to clear his name.

moby

]In Florida, Leyritz blew through hundreds of dollars at liquor stores, including Fine Spirits in Cooper City. One day that August, he spent $256.23 there on alcohol. He returned two days later to buy an additional $169.53 worth of booze. that's a whole lot of pabst blue ribbon! seriously, though, i doubt that purchases such as those are where all his money went. also, this doesn't tell me whether he blew his load there on gallons and gallons of cheap swill, or a vastly smaller quantity of the much better stuff.

i might have to get out to a theater to see this. i like movies wherein i can marvel at the technical implausibilities and logical impasses mixed in among overwrought and unneeded cgi and barrels of untapped potential. i just read a synopsis, and it sounds like the type of movie where they try to hit a five-run home run with everything in the movie, and predictably striking out more often than not.

i think the critical consensus is that will smith carries the movie as far as it can be carried, to the point htat his performance is considered by some to be its one redeeming (or positive) quality. if wild wild west didn't undercut his career, i am legend surely cannot. but i haven't seen it, so i can't say for sure.

am i the only one who didn't know leyritz' nickname was "the king"?

jeez, its been a bad month for yankees...

boo, long island.

="Edgy DC"]="SteveJRogers"]="Frayed Knot"] The remaining 5 are the ones who never played a day in the majors: 2 of which never will: Steve Chilcott (Mets 1965) Just imagine if the Mets had picked Reggie instead. Course that being said, then the deal would have been Reggie Jackson for Rusty Staub, or Nolan Ryan and Reggie Jackson for Jim Fregosi (the last one I don't even want to fathom)! Don't be a Met fan. fixed...

jeez... i wish i had tried pitching...