metsmarathon

amazing detail. simply amazing. and a very good movie to boot.

lousy cheapass organization...

Milledge 4 Beltran 2 Wright 2 Valentin 1 Glavine 1

bah, i'm far too busy and using far too complicated a formula to vote promptly! well, ok. i'm not really all that busy...

wright 3 woodward 2 delgado 1

Soler 6 Bradford 1 Delgado 2 Reyes 1

boy, when you say morning, you mean morning.

Martinez 6 Valentin 1 Wagner 1 Sanchez 2

Oliver 5 Valentin 2

argh... i liked it better for the brief time that i had till friday to get my votes in...

valentin 4 beltran 3 feliciano 2 oliver 1

trachsel 5 wright 1 sanchez 1

glavine 4 wright 2 delgado 2 wagner 2

martinez 6 delgado 2 beltran 1 floyd 1

heilman 3 nady 2 beltran 2 loduca 1 wagner 1 wright 1

Reyes 5 Gonzalez 2 Bell 1 Floyd 1 Nady 1

Soler 4 Wright 3 Beltran 2 Wagner 1

oliver 3 beltran 2 reyes 2 floyd 2 sanchez 1

kaboom

well, this'll help in the longest game prediction. by my count, the following folks are still in the running: MFS62 5:10 abogdan 5:15 metsmarathon 5:20 Elster88 5:31 DocTee 5:55

=nymr83]what are we going to do when milledge comes up? show a blotted out picture of his alledged rape victim? (excuse me if this wasn't milledge and i've got the wrong guy) hahaha. statutory rape allegations. always funny. (dontcha just hate when these type posts lead off pages? i sure do)

sigh. a bp meltdown away from sweeping the hated yankees. the yankees suck, man.

so i guess there's just no benefit whatsoever to having players actually perform, in game situations over a period of time, and use such performances as a basis for evaluation? major league baseball teams should simply look to what players do in practice, in winter league, in spring training, and in teh weight room, and base their evaluations solely upon such things, and should cement those opinions at the beginning of hte season never to be altered until the following offseason? what is so hard to wrap a mind around about a guy coming in largely as an unknown, with an extended layoff, and wanting to see how the guy actually performs before promoting him to the majors to fill a rotation spot? or is the only conceivable scenario that the mets thought soler sucks bhmc, and now, a month and a half later, they're stuck with no options and are scrambling to cover their asses and are only now looking to see how the guy actually pitches, or are maybe just bringing up someone they know sucks? i guess that makes more sense than wanting to see what the guy could really do, and bringing him up once they are resonable confident in his ability to perform. sure.

my personal thinking all along was that soler was to be an option if anything untoward happened to our rotation. that said, i'd still like to see heilman in there, but i guess there are still other options to explore. in a way, its a good, if frustrating, thing to know that he's still available as a last resort.

at least we know this wasn't a big game. if it was, you'd hafta think captain intagibles would've won it right therre, instead of bouncing out to matsui...