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and he'll be our #5 starter, too!

batmagadanleadoff wrote: metsmarathon wrote: [crossout]david justice[/crossout] oops. not "acquired during a season". dangit. And he never played for the Mets either. he was acquired by the mets. i don't think you explicitly stated that hte player played for the mets, though it is implied by "metly season" although is it absolutely necessary that the player finished hte season as a met? could a player have been acquired from an eventual world series winner, and subsequently traded to another team, and still be considered a viable answer to this quiz?

[crossout:1casu55k]david justice[/crossout:1casu55k] oops. not "acquired during a season". dangit.

i wish they would get around to putting my clearly injured and out for hte season guys on the 60-day DL already. dude just had TJ. he ain't coming back anytime soon. clear up the damned roster spot already!

dice dice baby. see if he can offer anything on a limited return audition, and if so, great. if not, cut bait.

i should rename my team the tommy johns. i've already got at least 3 on my roster.

nope. if nobody else bids, he's yours for $1, wether you want him or not.

so... what happened?

wont somebody fix the draft?

i might try to slap one together, but don't wait one me is all im sayin

im dropping out. no time to think about beatley song parodies.

muddy chickens, mohawk red flyers, and im back are all friends of mine. the rest of us are, i think, all cranepoolers. not that you're not all friends of mine. just that. well. they really exist. i mean i'm sure you all exist. i just can't readily prove it. this place needs a capcha, is what i'm saying.

can i use him as a hitting instructor? doesn't show up on my team page. does show up on my transaction listing. odd. if you could remove him altogether, it would be muchly appreciated. thanks for fixing the things!

so, my new strategy will be to abandon my team, have someone come in and cut all my players, reclaim my team, and have all my old players reinstated at 50 cents on the dollar. note, for instance, alex gordon had been salaried at $32. he was cut by cherington's puppet, reducing his salary to $16, and was reinstated at $16. his salary should be reinstated at $32, as well as for all the other players cut by cherington. this may be something you're already aware of and working on.

jim is interested in returning. if we boot random interloper, does he get his money back (did he have to pay to usurp the team?)? i'd hate to screw him needlessly.

weird. well, i'd suggest that seawolf should pay up!

did we have anyone else who wanted to get into the league? i had one other friend who expressed interest a while back. not sure if he's still interested.

no. keep it at the 19th. if random interloper can't do it, then too bad for him.

he didn't pay. apparently ottoneu dropped him, and freed up a team for someone to gobble up. the puppet is a random interloper. not sure if we want to or need to or really can do anything about this...

wait... what just happened? who is cherington's puppet? that should be my friend jim's team. it is not. i'd not heard from him an intent to drop out of hte league. perhaps he didn't pay up...?

to piggyback onto vic's definition of 'keyness' i would suggest that the key met is not only the met for whom exists the widest expected variability of likely outcomes, but also for whom there exists the least-good backup plan, and therefore to whom the mets fortunes are the most tied. for this reason, neither ike davis nor lucas duda can really be the key met, as they are their own backup plans, followed by josh satin. and tejada cannot be either, as flores is a fairly passable plan b that many of us would like to see as a plan a (plus there's the whole debate of how good the likely upside can be). i think that d'arnaud or grandy are the key mets, as the upside for each of them is fairly high, the foreseeable downside could be low, and the lack of backup plans are equally apparent. i think the mets could swallow a struggling d'arnaud slightly better than they could a struggling granderson. if he's healthy enough to play, he's going to play - he's not getting benched in favor of duda or lagares. and while we expect good things from him, i believe, he's coming off an injury-stricken season and getting older, so anything could happen. if granderson turns into jason bay, teh mets are sunk, in other words. if granderon turns into vintage granderson, the mets will likely be just fine.

starts surprisingly strong. stays in the rotation due to his production, and the struggles/injuries of jon niese, until things fall apart suddenly in mid august, followed immediately by an injury. mets fans, predictably, lament the team's being in contention at mid season as a reason he is not flipped to a contender for prospects.

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on-air fafif shout-out from josh. nice!