metsmarathon

my god. i just clicked over to bbref to look at the mets salary situation for 2019. there's not a single damned player under actual signed contract for next year (meaning i'm not including any arbitration or pre-arbitration players) that would make you think, "yeah, i'd sign him for that money for next year" cespedes $29M wright $15M bruce $14M lagares $9M - this might be the most reasonable of the damned bunch! frazier $9M swarzak $8.5M vargas $8M that's a whole hell of a lot of money to spend in return for a bunch of negative and near-zero WAR. sheesh.

c'mon guys. the [spoiler alert] bad guy's name was evelyn deavor. how could anyone figure that one out? wait... evelyn deavor. evel yn deavor. evil endeavor. sonofa.. it was there all along! it was an enjoyable movie. but i like the cf/edgy version better. definitely an opportunity missed. the incredibles universe makes no sense right now. where were all these supers lurking about, with their costumes and all that ready to go? i guess the winced endeavor had been gathering them along the way, hoping to put supers back in good favor. but why start with the unknowns instead of the incredibles family? were they just easier to find? so many questions.

finally saw solo last night with minimm before it disappears from theaters. wow, what a fun ride! while some might certainly view it as a unnecessary answers to questions that didn't need to be asked, i personally don't give a shit, because it was cool, fun, not stupid, and showed the foundation of what the character of han solo is, and why for being such a scoundrel, he ultimately came back to help the rebellion at the end of a new hope. it also had a natural continuity with the films that follow it in the timeline, but precede it in the making. i also really, really don't care that they didnt get a guy who looks super-much like harrison ford. instead thy got a guy who evoked a young han solo, and that's far more important. there were also a number of times during the film that i got a distinct indiana jones vibe, mostly from the way the film was shot. and whether that was accidental or intentional, it really just bolstered the continuity between this han solo and his older self, as well as linking the film visually to the originals with the way it was shot. the effects were ether wonderfully practical, or exceptionally rendered, and therefore nothing like the shiny plastic prequels. no, it wasn't an epic saga like the rest of the star wars movies, and it didn't have stakes so high that the fate of the galaxy hung in the balance throughout (although, spoilers, the stakes might've been somewhat higher than we thought all along) as it was really all about han solo fighting for a personal cause, finding his way, becoming who he was to be. but it was fun. more fun than maybe any other star wars movie, save perhaps the original. it felt natural. and real. i hope that it breathes some new life into the surrounding galaxy, with stories and characters to follow perhaps through the events of the principal movies. while i never, ever got into the expanded universe books pre-disney's takeover, i am currently a vacuum sucking up all the star wars literature del rey can pump out (and that i can find when i drop into airports). they're building a fascinating universe that i hope the whining fanboy manchildren don't tear to pieces because it includes things like strong independent girls, people of color, and anti-oppression messaging. also, lando fucking calrissian. that guy.

hey, my team is a disaster, and i could sure use a slugger! [checks chris davis' stats] holy shit dude. he's so bad he wouldn't even help my shithole of a lineup. i, too, did not save during the draft, and am wondering what the hell i managed to spend my money on.

watch out league! my offense now has 6 points to it's name! that's more than i've had since the first week of the season, where i think i had up to 7.5 points of offense, for about a day. i'm coming to get you, drunken savages and red flyers! just you wait. and wait. and wait...

well. he's about to be proven right, for not being wrong.

i'm just so offended by the fact that rey is a powerful girl force-user that i'm boycotting this movie and all other things star wars from now until eternity. actually, i just haven't had a chance to take minimm to the theater yet. i can't fathom that there are people who actually subscribe to that first statement, but the internet sez its true.

counting bartolo, there are only three players left in the majors who are older than me, and one - ichiro - is all but retired already, having been moved into the front office this season. any guesses as to the only other 40-year old in the league?

i hope its still early enough, because i'm still trying to figure out how my team could possibly be so bad offensively. in terms of runs scored and slugging, i'm farther away from 11th place than the 11th place team is from 4th place! obp is better, in that the same gap only puts 11th place into 8th, and for homers only 9th. so i might have a chance at eventually getting some points in those two categories.... my pitching seems to have gotten better, too, after a few unnecessary bumps, with about the third best squad. but, man alive, i could hardly have a worse offense if i'd tried!

when minimm first started playing baseball in the backyard, he threw knuckleballs as matt harvey. and batted as [crossout:j6q5k5wn]ike[/crossout:j6q5k5wn]matt davis. ok, so he wasn't so good at choosing heroes (and getting names right) but he was three, and it was totes adorbs. he's still a rabid mets fan, now batting as michael conforto. wait, should i be worried about conforto...?

in the words of john kennedy: "We choose to root for the Mets. We choose root for the Mets to win and do the other things, not because it is easy, but because it is hard." Mets fandom builds character. yankee fandom builds douchebaggery - as the other kids are so helpfully demonstrating. choose character.

i think that to truly surpass seaver, a player would need to at least come close to matching seaver in terms of peak metly value instead of eclipsing him on career longevity. if curt schilling (78 bWAR to seaver's 76 metly bWAR) had been a met for his whole career (and presumably not been a hateful dick), would we really celebrate him moreso than seaver as the greatest met ever?

yeah, we seem to be at one dropout per year.

this is what i get for questioning the commitment of other owners - my offense is basically carlos baerga in a mets jersey, and thanks to some terribly poor outings of late, my pitching isn't even holding up its own end - basically steve trachsel with a much, much better strikeout rate. its early sure, but yeesh this is looking ugly.

aw man, i forgot to participate in this thing. boo. and after i did so well in the free agent contest, too!

i'm celebrating with metly socks and undershirt. let's go already!

well, with opening day upon us, it's time to announce the winner of this year's thoroughly interesting and exciting free agent prediction contest! personally, i'm a little surprised we had enough players signed by now to call a winner. and while we're still waiting for greg holland to find a home, he's not going to turn anyone's fortunes. well, he might save me from an embarrassing gooseegg, but that's about it. so, fire up the drum roll and get those trumpets blaring! your 2018 free agent predicting champion is none other than.... KC[/bigpurple] he flat out killed it this year, netting six correct predictions. he correctly divined the future homes of jd martinez, mike moustakis, zack cozart, cc sabathia, lance lynn, and even eduardo nunez! mighty impressive indeed! cc sabathia was the only player with multiple correct guessers. though in hindsight, it should have been obvious that no other teams would want him. john cougar lunchbucket came in second with two correct predictions, adding jay bruce to his cc sabathia. seawolf and ben grimm both netted one correct answer. sadly, edgy's prediction of the top six players going metly failed to pan out. and i, apparently, am an idiot whose baseball intuitions are not to be trusted. greg holland and san francisco, you're my only hope! see below for full results: rankFirst namelast namepositionOLDSWKCEDCMMBGJCLActualWinner1YuDarvishRhSPLADBOSSTLNYMNYYLADMILCHC2JDMartinezOFARIDETBOSNYMNYMSTLTORBOSKC3JakeArrietaRhSPCHCNYMCHCNYMCHCARISTLPHI4CarlosSantana1bCLECHCNYMNYMSEACLENYMPHI5EricHosmer1bKCRKCRKCRNYMBOSKCRKCRSDP6LorenzoCainOFKCRSDPSFGNYMSFGNYMSFGMIL7WadeDavisRhRPCHCMILCHCWASBOSHOUCOL8MikeMoustakis3bKCRATLKCRNYMTEXATLKCRKC9ZackCozartSSCINSFLAATORTORBALLAAKC10AlexCobbRhSPTBRHOUCHCLADTBRNYMBAL11NeilWalker2bMILPITNYMCOLMILPITNYY12CCSabathiaLhSPNYYSFNYYATLNYYNYYNYYKC, BG, JCL13ToddFrazier3bNYYNYMNYYKCRCHWPHINYMSW14JayBruceOFCLEPHITORCLETEXNYMNYMJCL15LanceLynnRhSPSTLLADMINSTLDETCHCMINKC16BrandonMorrowRhRPLADOAKLADNYMNYMCOLLAA17TylerChatwoodRhSPCOLCOLBALMINSTLTBRCHC18GregHollandRhRPCOLNYYNYMSFGCLEHOU19AddisonReedRhRPBOSNYYSTLTORNYYCHCMIN20JarrodDysonOFSEABALSEASTLBALKCRARI21EduardoNunezIFBOSCHWBOSKCRNYMLAABOSKC23JonathanLucroyCCOLSEAHOUWASPHICOLOAK34CarlosGomezOFTEXBOSTEXSDPTEXCHWTBR42LucasDuda1bTBRBOSBOSCOLBOSOAKKCR--ShoheiOhtaniP/OF(?)JAPTEXNYMNYMNYYNYMLAAtotal correct160012KC

don't mind me, just posting in the thread so that it finally comes up as having been read. apparently, when users don't exist anymore, the threads they participated in (or polluted) remain unread.

man, there's a lot of money still out there! that strikes me as unhealthy. are teams even trying to win...?

yay, no playoffs! (more specifically, yay no format change for playoffs! i'm not necessarily opposed to playoffs in general.) i spoke with the new owner of the deathship. he expects to have his cutlist done by sunday. hope that's enough time. sorry for helping to keep him very very busy at work. welcome backabordick seo!

Ceetar wrote: Ceetar wrote: a few people seem adamantly against playoffs because of a slightly different format for determining the winner. No one's vehemently come out in favor of playoffs so that sounds rather like the basis for making a decision, doesn't it? I'm still wavering between that and the "fuck it all, you're wrong and it's not a big deal. it's my league. deal with it." side. But I'll decide by the end of the day. And that attitude will see you lose owners. Enjoy your league all to yourself.

Ceetar wrote: a few people seem adamantly against playoffs because of a slightly different format for determining the winner. No one's vehemently come out in favor of playoffs so that sounds rather like the basis for making a decision, doesn't it?

so i just PM'd seo; a spot may be opening up. the playoffs thing is a factor in the decision-making - not the only consideration, but it pushed him over the edge. i _really_ think you should reconsider the playoffs...

we do seem to have a 1 team / year turnover rate! i'm sure you'll get in sooner or later.

the guy wants the team, and is a mets fan. he was this ][ close to joining last season, but because initech dropped out literally the day before the draft, he decided to hold off. i'm literally about to send you an email with his contact info. the email is open on my other monitor ready to send.