metsmarathon

i feel like they're going to bring in dusty baker....

hmm, in every year of this league, my pitchers have had the highest strikeout total. too bad they couldn't do a goddamned thing else well....

this is a movie which, while i'm sure i've seen all of it in parts, i'm not entirely certain that i've watched it all the way through in one sitting. i was a mere babe when it was originally released, and i don't think i ever saw it in theaters, resultantly.

if i may continue a thought from the 2017 thread... instead of divisions, and if we did put some small meager cash money on the table, we could always award a smaller prize for the second-half winner. tally the stats at the all star break, reset the totals to zero, and see who does best from then on. that might be enough to keep people's interest. alternatively, and i'd mentioned this in the message board, we could try to run an off-line head to head mirror league, where we sum up every team's weekly stats and match 'em up against that week's designated opponent. it'd take a fair bit of work to pull off, but would offer some distinction and maybe a reason for lower-tier teams to play. altogether though, i was in 7th place at the end of june, and going into the last month, i honestly felt like if things broke just right, i might be able to make a run at the lead. and was really hoping to at least take second. and the devil toads climbed from 35 points to 60, and were within spitting distance of a few more points, too. and poor muddy chickens, looked like he was going to run away with the damned thing early in the season, and he dropped to 8th (and will plummet to 9th once his pitching stats get expunged). so the season is really up for grabs even late. i guess the bigger issue might be how do we get the bottom of the league to get into the game, and keep trying to run out the best lineups and build the best rosters, but theoretically, the dynastic nature of our league should make that happen. those teams should be shedding salary and building future depth.

i have a friend who might be interested in taking on a team, if need be. he's a mets fan. although, given the history of the league, maybe y'all shouldn't let me bring anyone else in, so as the rest of y'all might have a chance of winning!

good god, i'm pitiful. i think i've seen maybe a dozen of these films...

damn, my desperate run to catch first is sputtering... sigh...

also, why is EVER? not on its own line??? BEST. TEAM. EVER? would look a little more sensible.

looks like someone just dumped a big tub o' vomit all over him.

yeah, man. there's a lot of dollars still out there burning a hole in every team's pocket. at this point, you probably have to pay double what a guy is probably worth in the draft, or just hope to get really lucky. is there a type of player you might be in particular need of? i'm developing a bit of a surplus of players. btw... please don't quit fantasy. you're the commish of my favorite fantasy league, dangit!

i gotta say, i miss having kershaw.... though he wouldn't necessarily solve my pitching staff, he sure wouldn't hurt it right now. my staff is so completely and utterly revamped from the start of the season, that it kinda hurts my head. bottom line, i suppose, is that i'm glad i stuck with severino. heck, my offense has seen a hell of a lot of turnover as well. I've currently got so, so many decent cheap slugging outfielders and 1bmen that i really cannot play them all. i mean, shit, i've got miggy cabrera sitting on my damn bench and he's my most expensive player!

probably 85. certainly by 86.

95 wins, first in the NL east, and first in the world. i'm terrified just typing that.

Name the first Met to: 1. Record a base hit. reyes 2. 1st single reyes 3. Double walker 4. Triple reyes 5. Home Run bruce 6. Run batted In cespedes 7. Multiple runs batted in on a single plate appearance duda 8. Steal a base reyes 9. Draw a walk cabrera 10. Reach safely on an error granderson 11. Be hit by a pitch walker 12. Score a run reyes 13. Enter the game as a pinch hitter conforto 14. Record a sacrifice hit, including a Sac Fly duda 15. Get picked off or caught stealing cabrera 16. Drive in multiple runs in a single plate appearance that takes the team from behind in the score to ahead. conforto 17. Credited with a "walk-off" RBI conforto * Name the first Met pitcher to: 18. Record a strike out syndergaard 19. Reach double figures in strikeouts in a single appearance syndergaard 20. Issue a walk syndergaard 21. Hit an opposing batter with a pitch wheeler 22. Get a win syndergaard 23. Get a save reed 24. Appear as a relief pitcher robles 25. First pitcher to record a hit as a batter syndergaard 26. Throw a complete game syndergaard 27. Be credited with a "hold" robles * Tiebreaker: Which Met will be the last man to bat on opening day?r. rivera

i'd play another league, probably, but i cannot support an 8:00 PM draft.

you can look at it after the fact, to help inform your future decisions.

well, i managed to snag a fairly superfluous joe panik... he should significantly overperform his $6 salary, though i'm not entirely sure how much playing time i'll be able to give him. i need to offload an anchor first.

of course, maybe his strategy is to get us all to bid up against him, saddling us with players that we ourselves don't want, so that he can swoop in on our cuts! that clever devil!

except anybody he gets that a real good value, will continue to be a real good value next year, and if he's smart and good and a little lucky, he could easily build a juggernaut for next year, if we let him slide this year. fairly bid on the waiver wire guys you could use, or have interest in, i say. there's no reason he should get every guy for a buck. also, if you want to be able to get literally ANY decent mid-season waiver wire pickups, you should probably bid him up now.

i think the correct number would be closer to 10 than 3. i mean, if i could seed my team with the 4th best player from each team, well, hell, i might just drop my own team and pick up initech at the end of the year! if i just look at the 4th best player on each team, you'd get the following: Cory seager | albatrosses Carlos Carrasco | Assassins Jose Bautista | Baconators Edwin Encarnacion | Deathship Andrew Miller | Lunchladies Jose Altuve | Monks Lance McCullers | Red Flyers Mookie Betts | Chickens Rich Hill | smg58 Carlos Gonzalez | Snukes Aroldis Chapman | Devil Toads that's a hell of a team to start with - where do i sign up? 11th best player on each team still gives a solid lineup. i haven't gone all the way through it, but it'd still be a decent seed to plant. especially if it runs through like a full expansion draft. the real challenge would be how to run it efficiently and quickly.

i think that it's worth figuring out hte parameters now, and getting league input, too. before we need to. each team protects X number of players, and the expansion team gets to pick Y number of players overall. and what happens when one of your players gets picked? is there a maximum number of players you can pick off a given team? and when would we run the expansion draft? what if an owner crops up in-season? it's easier if we do it in the off-season, but that's no panacea either... if we wait to figure it out until we need to figure it out, we won't have time to figure it out until it's too late.

i love it when a plan falls completely to hell. had all my draft prep on my one computer, which failed to load at all during hte draft. boo. good thing i wasn't relying on that computer to play the part of m.e.t.b.o.t.! it would be tempting to spin up the 'bot to see how well he could do with picking up the pieces of the draft... there are still some useable pieces out there. and if the team were managed even a little, it could form the foundation for some future team to come in and not suck mightily for ever. or we could figure out how to run an expansion draft...

no deal. can't quite make it to the draft tonight, and no time to prepare even if he could. do we just let the team ride through the season, and let it get picked up at the end of the year? or let in some rando, either now or after the draft?

i have a potential lead, though he's pressed for time tonight, and a wee bit daunted by the challenge facing him. i should know after lunch if he's game.

it's conceivable that i could wind up m.e.t.b.o.t. and have him run his draft from a second computer... though last time i tried that it didn't work out so well for my primary team. for the record, my plan would be to use the average player salary for our league as his max bid, and also establish a set number of salary bins for the 'bot so he doens't just end up with a bunch of $30 players and $1 scrubs... though i may see if i could recruit a mets fan that i work with. that would probably be better!