metsmarathon

i wanna personally slap the motherfuckers who booed after that shot. uh, asshole(s), not helping.

i keep telling myself that this collapse isn't quite as bad as what the yankees managed against the sox those few years ago. no matter what happens in the next three days, i don't think we'll eclipse that. not in my mind at least.

just think positive, even in the face of the negative, and we'll get through this!

Reyes 3.7 Alou 2.7 Castillo 1.1 Green 1.1 Gotay 0.8 Sele 0.6

Beltran 1.9 Wright 1.8 Gomez 1.5 Delgado 1.3 Feliciano 1.3 Castillo 1.3

on the bright side... we are still in first place... well, until tomorrow at least.

time to watch earl...

lets go, mets...

i plan on eventually running the top MVP contenders in the NL through my schaeffer spreadsheet (the absolute points generator, not the relativistic vote generator that requires input from the entire team) to see how they compare. obviously, i'll be more interested in this project if the mets make it, but will likely have more time to do it if they don't... i figure i'll run matt holliday through forst, then maybe give peavy a try, and then go back to some more of hte top hitters. depending on how peavy compares, i might then have to do more pitchers. the one drawback is that i don't do too much in terms of defense. i mean, i do have a checkbox for "webgems" (also have one for brain farts, or other mind numbingly dumb moves like endy's stolen third base the otehr night) but for this task, i won't be able to account for them. i'd consider trying, based on mlb.com's available video highlights with top plays from each game, but those damned things never run on my computers, even the free ones. also, that'd just be a bit too much time to invest... maybe next year...

grumble grumble

fuck...

yeesh.... my heart just nearly stopped...

so much pressure...

Edgy DC wrote: Jose on schedule to make the last out. ...or not

yay...

yeesh... doin' the chop in shea...

the one-game playoff is my preferred modification to the current playoff system.

15 baserunners and we only score 4? that's not terribly good offense...

Anderson 3.2 Wright 2.4 Alou 1.8 Schoeneweis 1.0 Milledge 0.9 Heilman 0.7

why should boras care what makes baseball sense?

um, let's add another pesky half game to the one we already have!

peavy's lines inserted into the table... sorta... there's no good correspondence to EQR and RC, tho i am using PRC (pitching runs created) from hardball times as it seems the closest analogue on the same scale, or so. looks like he's about 6th. player WS WARP3 RC EQR VORP

i still go wright, as most measures i can find do agree, save vorp, which has him 2nd: player WS WARP3 RC EQR VORP wright 32 12.6 133 123.8 76.9 ramirez 27 10.1 129 120.8 86.7 pujols 29 12.2 115 117.9 66.6 cabrera 27 10.8 131 116 69 holliday 26 11.8 119 116.1 70.4 rollins 26 11.3 116 111.3 60.6 c jones 24 10.3 111 111.8 73.9 utley 26 10.8 107 102.3 67.6 fielder 26 7.5 115 115.4 62.2 beltran 27 9.4 99 96.3 48.5 reyes 24 10.1 105 103.2 48.2 byrnes 28 9.2 100 92.2 37.1 bonds 22 7.5 91 92.4 56.2 rank among mvp "candidates" player WS WARP3 RC EQR VORP avg wright 1 1 1 1 2 1.2 ramirez 4 8 3 2 1 3.6 pujols 2 2 6 3 7 4 cabrera 4 5 2 5 5 4.2 holliday 7 3 4 4 4 4.4 rollins 7 4 5 8 9 6.6 c jones 11 7 8 7 3 7.2 utley 7 5 9 10 6 7.4 fielder 7 12 6 6 8 7.8 beltran 4 10 12 11 11 9.6 reyes 11 8 10 9 12 10 byrnes 3 11 11 13 13 10.2 bonds 13 12 13 12 10 12

matsui would've been our best secondbaseman this year... if the young cuban wanted to emulate ozzie, rey, and omar defensively, then i'm way cool with that. regardless, which of the same cadre of talent evaluators that brought in matsui, shinjo, soler, etc., are poised to repeat the trick on this kid? or is it an inherent property of the mets that no matter whichever talent evaluator they bring in, they are incapable of properly evaluating foreign talent, as compared to the excellent ability of the rest of the teams throughout major league baseball?

that's what i get for doubting and changing my spelling of bush, and never verifying...