seawolf17

I thought we retired 47 for Glavine. Well, not retired so much as lit it on fire and swore we'd never speak of those days again.

No steroids, although I'm playing OOTP11, and OOTP13 was released this spring; I wouldn't be surprised if the most current version has steroids. It's a PC computer game. You can start at any year in history; I figured post-Straw would be a logical place to start. My first order of business? Re-acquire Straw. Took relatively little to pry his huge salary away from LA, actually: traded Tom Filer (threw 8 innings for LA in '92 then retired), Mike Birkbeck (threw 8 innings for LA over the 92-93 seasons, then spent three seasons in the minors and retired after an 0-12, 7.84 season in which he also somehow saved 26 games in AA), and Rodney McCray (spent 1992 bouncing around the league on waivers, then retired). Straw's still active in this world in 1998. He became a free agent after 1995 (.251/46/139), and signed with Toronto for four years, $21 million. Toronto, apparently not impressed (.167/4/11 in 72 AB), dealt him to Pittsburgh. (He was on the DL for the above-mentioned game.) Went .252/29/68 in 322 AB in 1997 (injury), though, so he's still got it. Currently has 490 career home runs.

Started an Out of the Park Baseball Mets franchise mode in 1992, to rewrite a little history. Well, it's 1998, and this happened in a May game against the Pirates: Top 11th: Mark Thompson pitching for Pirates. 6-6. LF Chad Curtis: double 2B Craig Biggio (acquired in 1992 in a Bonilla/Murray trade): single, Curtis to 3rd. 1B John Olerud: walk PH John Flaherty (for Benitez): walk, RBI (7-6 Mets) C Todd Hundley: grand slam, 4 RBI (11-6 Mets) 3B Edgar Martinez (acquired in 1992 in a Gooden/Sid/HoJo trade): single RF Jacob Cruz (1995 1st round pick): walk CF Kenny Lofton (acquired in spring 1998 for Lance Johnson): single SS Damion Easley (acquired in July 1994 with Flaherty for Rick Reed, Mackey Sasser, and Jeff McKnight): single, RBI (12-6 Mets) Curtis: walk, RBI (13-6 Mets) Biggio: grand slam, 4 RBI (17-6 Mets) --pitching change-- Olerud: single Flaherty: flyout Hundley: home run, 2 RBI (his second of the inning - 19-6 Mets) Martinez: groundout Cruz: HBP Lofton: groundout 13 runs, 9 hits in the top of the eleventh inning. Three home runs, including two grand slams and two from Hundley. Todd had a 3-3-3-8 line on the day, plus three walks. Biggio, leading off, had 5-5-3-4 line, plus two walks. (Nine Pirates pitchers walked a combined thirteen batters that day.) Poor Mark Thompson, who took the brunt of the damage, saw his ERA jump from 5.79 to 10.35, giving up eleven ER in an inning and a third.

Gah, I hate those grey unis with the maroon/purple P. I associate them with Von Hayes going 5-for-5 in every game against us.

Babymets on the AFL roster of the Surprise Saguaros. Starting PitchersRelief PitchersInfielders Chase Hutchingson DoB: 4/14/1989 7-7, 4.17 ERA 114.1 IP, 91 SO, 54 BB in St. Lucie Chase Hutchingson DoB: 4/14/1989 7-7, 4.17 ERA 114.1 IP, 91 SO, 54 BB in St. Lucie Greg Peavey DoB: 7/11/1988 7-8, 5.06 ERA 4 Sv, 61 IP in St. Lucie, Binghamton Adam Kolarek DoB: 1/14/1989 3-3, 2.79 ERA 137 IP, 34 BB, 80 SO in Binghamton Danny Muno DoB: 2/9/1989 .289 / .390 / .429 // .819, 6 HR, 18 SB in St. LucieOutfielders Darrell Ceciliani DoB: 6/22/1990 .324 / .388 / .451 // .838, 19 games in St. Lucie Cesar Puello DoB: 4/1/1991 .257 /.325 .424 // .748, 61 games in St. Lucie You gotta have a lot of Chase Hutchingsons, or else you're gonna have not enough guys with trust funds on your roster.

Or, worse:

Well, if he's facing Seaver, that explains why he hasn't hit more than 2 home runs this year.

Yikes. Where have you gone, Mike Piazza?

McHugh starting September 3, sez the internets.

Colin Hay was part of Ringo's All-Star Band that we saw several years ago at Westbury. Hay, Sheila E, Paul Carrack (Squeeze/Mike & The Mechanics), John Waite. Great show.

Looking closer - the Phils have thirteen straight games against MIL-MIA-MIN between May and June. Neat.

Ugh. We're going to clinch the division in Philly next year. Nobody get stabbed, okay?

Sandy can't trick the Dodgers into taking Bay and Santana? He's fired.

G-Fafif wrote: seawolf17 wrote: WHO GIVES A CRAP THIS TEAM SUCKS. Well, there goes the rationale for this board. I wonder if maybe there's some protection for paternity leave players that they're not sent down directly after using their collectively bargained right. Hefner, long relief utility notwithstanding, has been adequate, mostly. McHugh excelled. Even if it is a ten-day demotion (will have to be after Sept. 1), it's a weird message. Nah, of course we give a crap. Was it an options thing, maybe?

Yeah, but. You're not going to use McHugh until the 29th at the Phillies anyway, whereas if Niese gets lit up like a Christmas tree tonight, you stick Hefner in there. Plus, WHO GIVES A CRAP THIS TEAM SUCKS.

That would be the frefrigerator.

Edgy DC wrote: Very sorry to hear, but I sort of hope I die mowing the neighbor's lawn. Now THIS is a quote that's just waiting to be fmanned.

This is GOLD.

By "nice tumbler," I'm assuming you meant Gabby Douglas again.

I love when Keith goes off the rails because he's disgusted with the game, but it's pathetic that it's only a three-run game and he's pretty confident that this thing is over and he's already mentally checked out.

Frayed Knot wrote: If he slides in feet-first there Keith he would have been out. The "terrible" slide was the only thing that got him in there. Keith can get a bit unglued on stuff that doesn't adhere to his orthodoxy. Exactly. Even on the slo-mo replay, that much was obvious. Still an ugly slide, but he was right to do it.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Mets � Willets Point wrote: Nope, but Chad is on the right track with the relationship of the minor league cities to the major league cities. All are in the demarcated major-league "territory" of their respective parent clubs? All of them could beat the Mets right now?

Edgy DC wrote: Two prizes left for him to steal: Pete Rose's hit crown.Tom Seaver's HOF vote percentage crown. No and no. Pete Rose Jr played 21 seasons in both affiliated and unaffiliated minor league baseball and amassed 1,877 hits. He was 2 for 14 as a major leaguer. Li'l Pete was a Duck for a while. Dumbass behind us one night: "Hey, that Pete Rose Junior over there? That's Pete Rose's son."

a deal that would have sent Rivera to the Seattle Mariners for journeyman Felix Fermin. That would have been, in retrospect, the greatest thing in the history of things.