seawolf17

19 games, right? Give me four Tom Koehler starts like this one and ten wins in the other fifteen games and I'm good to go.

Thought this was a thread about Rey Ordonez's annual home run.

RealityChuck wrote: The Mets were the final team for the last active New York Giant (Willie Mays) and the last active Brooklyn Dodger (Bob Aspromonte), so maybe they can go for the trifecta. That's an interesting fact. I didn't know that.

Aaron Harang was a Met?! I have zero recollection of that. Even with the photographic evidence in this thread, I still checked b-r because I didn't believe you.

A Mariners roster with Jeter/ARod/Griffey/Edgar/Unit would have won a crapton of games.

I love that every few weeks, we get a new "my favorite thread of all time." This place is the dog's bollocks.

There's no point arguing with Yankee fans. Just shoot them. Highlight: Me: JAWS puts him 12th among SS (http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/jaws_SS.shtml), which I think is reasonable. Friend: Some of the guys ahead of him played more than half their careers at other positions. Banks, Yount, Ripken, A-Rod. The list needs some fine tuning. Me: Only Ernie Banks on that list played "more than half" of his career at another position, and even then, just barely (120 more games). Yount played 300 more at SS than OF, Ripken only played 3B at the end of his career (and moved because the O's got someone who played the position better). ARod started playing third because the Yankees got someone who played the position better but Cap'n Intangibles, Mr. "Class," couldn't be bothered to make his team better by keeping the better player in his natural position. So let's not get too crazy there. Friend: My mistake on Ripken and Yount (so Yount played almost half his career in the OF), but their time at other positions was significant enough that they accumulated the necessary stats they wouldn't have otherwise had to make the HOF. I also love how you hold A-Rod above Jeter when it suits your arguments. Ask anyone who they would rather have hitting in a clutch situation (regular season or postseason), regardless of fan affiliation. Me: OH COME ON. "When it suits my cause?" Career OPS with RISP (ARod .929, Jeter .816), career OPS with 2 outs, RISP (ARod .862, Jeter .833), career OPS "late and close" (ARod .896, .792), career OPS in the ninth inning (ARod .836, Jeter .673). Friend: Break out the postseason too, please. Me: Postseason: ARod .263/.369/.464, Jeter .308/.374/.465. So they're THE SAME, except Jeter had a few hits where ARod had walks. And Arod had 41 RBI in 326 PA to Jete's 61 in 734 PA, so he's got a higher RBI/PA ratio too in the postseason. All of Jeter's "value" is in "intangibles," which are only a thing because he had great talent around him his whole career. Players with a career OPS+ of 117: Derek Jeter, Jesse Barfield, Carlton Fisk, Steve Garvey, George Hendrick, Matt Stairs, Lou Whitaker. And you know what? That sounds about right too. Friend: They're the same in OBP & OPS. It's not a contest when it comes to BA. Jeter has 128 more hits in slightly more than twice the games A-Rod has played, which shows he has been able to maintain that high level across more pressure situations. .308 over .263 is not due to a few more hits. Me: Actually, mathematically, that's exactly what it is. Did you forget how to calculate batting average? Oi.

Kong76 wrote: I took The End ... it took balls (and it works pretty well) to pick such a long a dark song. And I don't particularly like The Doors, but I agree.

Been arguing with all my Yankee fan friends who are trying to say he's a Top 5 All Time Shortstop all day.

GAH I HATE THIS WHOLE THING. I'm going to have to turn off the internet.

They're going to fucking "honor" him in May, and I'm going to be sick to my stomach. EFF THAT GUY, METS.

I thought we all agreed NEVER TO DISCUSS JUAN SAMUEL AGAIN.

Going with my standard answer. McReynolds, Dykstra, Strawberry.

McReynolds, somebody (Dykstra?), Strawberry, from 1987-1989.

My gut says 1988, because everything would have been so different, but it has to be 2000.

metsmarathon wrote: seriously, go see it. if you have a kid, are a kid, or ever were a kid, you should enjoy it. no, you should love it. unless you are broken inside. its not just a movie about lego. it is so very much more, in a way that i couldn't describe without undoing some of the magic of the movie. its a movie about lego as much as toy story is a movie about toys. THIS, all of this.

Mike Cameron?

Have both of those Fleer 2002 cards. Also this one:

I'm surprised I didn't get more emotional with Ralph. I openly wept multiple times when Bob Murphy died.

Frayed Knot wrote: Memories of Lance Berkman Voted "most likely to look like seawolf17" thirteen times in his fifteen-year career.

If he's between Sasser and O'Brien, he's gotta be 1990 or thereabouts. And when you think 1990...

If this team won the World Series this year, I'd go to the parade and cheer every single car I saw, from Dabidrye down to the clubbies -- except I'd boo the Wilpons with every fiber of my being.

Oh, how different the 1987-88-89 Mets would have been with Kevin Mitchell at SS.

Hurdle would have been earlier. Mike Fitzgerald is my guess for 12. The missing 17 is 1990 or thereabouts.

I don't know that Tejada's the answer either, but spending good money and a draft pick on a guy who's going to strike out 140 times and hit .250 and is eight years older isn't the answer either. I still pass.