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What the hell is going on in the crowd tonight? They talked about that on the radio on the way home, then something just happened again. What the hell is in the Bud Light at Shea this year?

For what it's worth... if you compare Jeter (96-97) and Reyes' (05-06) first two full seasons, they're surprisingly close. They have a similarity score of 968 over those two years. The major discrepancies are in BA (Jeter .302-.286), SLG (Reyes .435-.417), SB (Reyes 124-37), and triples (Reyes 34-13). Everything else -- runs, hits, ABs, home runs, doubles, RBIs... within a few either way. Jeets hit into 27 DPs; Reyes 13. Jeets walked more (so his OBP is higher), but K'ed a LOT more. I'll take some combination of Jeter, Renteria, and Joe Morgan, which makes a lot more statistical sense than Bud Harrelson. But thanks for trying.

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Comparing him to Harrelson, despite the team and the position, is really arbitrary. David Wright's only driven in 384 runs in his career; hell, Wayne Garrett drove in 340. The Mets have to get Wright out of there ASAP, because he's a drain on the offense. batmagadanleadoff wrote: I love rooting for Reyes, and I believe that at 24 years, there should be significant upside here. But there's also some truth to what 62 wrote about Reyes. In many ways, Reyes hasn't lived up to the hype. ="*62"]I don't dislike the guy; I root for him just as hard each and every night, just as I did for far lesser players through the years ..... his learning curve, though, has been a disappointment. That's all. I think there's a lot of merit to this. The hype made sense; if you look at baseball-reference.com, Jose's most similar batter at age 22 was Joe Morgan, which would obviously be a best-case scenario. But by age 24, he's most similar to some guy from the 1800s. But the closest modern player, by age, to Jose is Edgar Renteria. I'd be perfectly fine with somewhere between Renteria and Morgan. ="*62"]Kaz Matsui ...... MLB OBP ...... .325 Again, an arbitrary comparison. Matsui came over here as an established hitter at 28 years old. ="Zvon"]I personally don't think Reyes will be going anywhere soon, tho I do believe he needs to mature a bit more to be able to reach his true potential. In regards to the quote above, I have wondered if the contract status, or differential compared to Wright, has not affected Jose's attitude in some way. Knowing what we know about Jose's psyche, which, realistically, is very little, I think there might be some sense to this also. But you know what? HE'S 24. You have to give this guy time.

Effin' A.

How many bad catchers do we need? And why is David Wright wearing a black hat?

Great fucking thread. I don't know why nobody thought of this sooner.

It's kinda like the Yankees winning a lot of games during the regular season, then getting their asses kicked in the playoffs.

I heard back from Nick last week, but only for him to say he's "working on it." In the meantime, he was getting his ass kicked in Binghamton (5 IP, 11 H, 10 R, 6 BB, 2 K), so he got sent back to Port St. Lucie... where he promptly gave up three runs in his first inning there. That's a 19.50 ERA through six innings, folks. Ugly. I'll follow up with him again to see how he's doing.

Projected number of strangely offset eyes: 2

Hagin and Howie are saying that their both is as high as the upper deck is at Shea... I wonder if the camera wells are in weird locations also. I don't remember weird angles during the ESPN season opener, though.

I like one seven-game interleague series every year; the WORLD SERIES. Eff the DH, add a 26th player to the roster to shut up the PA, stick the Brewers back in the AL, and make each league one huge division. I want to see someone finish sixty games back.

Nymr83 wrote: ="AG/DC"]Who? Who? Who? Who? Who? you're joking right? in any case they are indeed loaded but two of those guys languish at AAA (thanks alot dusty) while a 3rd was only recently elevated to starting over hatteberg. firing the guys after a 9-12 start is pretty silly. Seriously. Cueto came on like gangbusters in his first start this year, Bailey's their stud prospect who flamed out ugly last summer. Votto's their everyday 1B, and Bruce is considered by some to be the top prospect in the minor leagues right now (since the Rays called up Evan Longoria).

Make the regular season 200 games.

What's funny is that he's part of one of Topps' "Fan Favorites" sets they put out a couple of years ago. Who knew Jocketty was that beloved in St. Louis? Theo Epstein has a card in one of the sets too.

Jocketty is one of the few GMs to get his own baseball card:

themetfairy wrote: My son has a friend who is taking 6th grade German. Once we know where Kai lands, the kid wants to write him a welcome note Dear Mr. Gronauer: Welcome to America! Where is the airport? The lady is ugly. I have three green apples.

Fman99 wrote: Fuck him and his bearded ass. Wait, how do you know that he has hair... actually, I'd rather not know.

What Willets said. Never liked Smoltz, but that said, it's a nice accomplishment for a guy who's going to make a really interesting HoF discussion.

Sorry folks. Been too busy. I'll be on top of my next series.

Actually, how great would that be!! I hope Hank just claims him.

Yeah, because the Yankees need more DHs. Seattle'd be a good fit.

The Hanover Regents' logo looks oddly familiar... http://www.tus-vahrenwald.de/baseball/templates/Carbon_07/images/header.gif

Hey! The Untouchables have an online fan shop! Apparently, they don't have logo designers in Germany, though.