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  1. Vic Sage
    yeah, i'm sick of all this "buy-high-sell-low" thinking.
  2. Vic Sage
    i had him 4th, behind Longoria.
  3. Vic Sage
    freakin' Cano. He can suck Longoria's nutsack.
  4. Vic Sage
    3 for 3, with 3 trifectas... 1 to go. i think this is the one where i go down.
  5. Vic Sage
    and just for the record, i had picked it as follows: *AL MVP: Josh Hamilton / Miguel Cabrera / Evan Longoria *NL MVP: Joey Votto / Albert Pujols / Carlos Gonzalez So, i had picked Votto too, but i have no beef with Longoria over Hamilton. I think your methodology got good results for less than good reasons.
  6. Vic Sage
    i love this. and i've been saying it for years. the fact is when the MVP was designed and named, it was a more genteel and literate age. Sportswriters waxed poetical. When they said "valuable", they simply meant "best", since how could the best player not be the most valuable one? The early MVP voting bears this out, too. It was only in later years that writers became overly narrow in their interpretation and started giving out the award primarily to the best players on the best teams, with fewer exceptions. the notion that a player should be either rewarded or penalized because his teammates were great or terrible (beyond the rewards and penalties of winning and losing), and be discounted for INDIVIDUAL awards because his TEAM was inadequate, or be carried to INDIVIDUAL glory carried on the backs of superior teammates, is just lunacy. what is being honored then? "clutchness"? it doesn't exist. And if this is NOT the award for the best player, what is? the Hank Aaron? please.
  7. Vic Sage
    Sometimes the run support isn�t there, but you sometimes just find ways to win games. yes, because some pitchers are "winners"; they have a metaphysical ability that supercedes others, rendering them morally superior. That a winning pitcher would say this, of course, does not surprise me, as it constitutes self-aggrandizement of nearly megomaniacal proportions. But when sportswriters and fans repeat this tripe, romanticizing "winners" with superhuman qualities.... it makes me wanna hurl, and has poisoned the way we look at athletes for far too long. If quantitative analysis has done anything to combat this, i'm as happy as a fly on a turd.
  8. Vic Sage
    I'm still pushing for the MBot 5000
  9. Vic Sage
    so was the NL Cy voting... I'm 6 for 6, calling those 2 categories in order. I don't think i'll be that lucky in the MVP balloting.
  10. Vic Sage
    first, the Mets hire a front office of Alderson-Depodesta-Ricciardi, then, King Felix wins the AL CY over CC... yes, folks, it's morning in Mets-America! I'm practically giddy with a nearly unbearable lightness of being.
  11. Vic Sage
    King Felix wins, and the troglodytae go bonkers! 2 for 2, and counting...
  12. Vic Sage
    What would be absoutely perfect, IMO, is a big beer garden with tvs. when would this not be true?
  13. Vic Sage
    oh, the m`Bot is ready! Hire [crossout:1ln1metw]him[/crossout:1ln1metw] it, Sandy!
  14. Vic Sage
    Listen up Sandy, here's my FA list (assuming Lee, Crawford and V-Mart are not gonna happen): SP - Ill take Garland for the IP, and take a flyer on Capuano's upside. Harden? I'm not that crazy. C - Torrealba or Olivo, to platoon with Thole. LHRP - having lost 2 LHRPs, we need one from column A (Downs, Fuentes) and one from column B (Romero, DReyes, Beimel, Ohman) 2b - with Uggla gone, no obvious upgrades available, tho' i wouldn't mind Hudson for a year, or taking a flyer on LLopez as a general UT. or i'll take Lee, Crawford and V-Mart...
  15. Vic Sage
    Citifield hurts certain XBH (hr) and helps others (2b,3b). Marlins stadium isnt exactly a launching pad either and a 2bman with nearly a .900 OPS over 5 full seasons there can botch grounders for me anytime. And, frankly, he's not that bad a glove. The fact that Altanta got him for a UT coming off a career year and a young LHRP with more BB than IP is a great get for them, and just made our division that much tougher. Oh, well. Turner / Murphy will be just as good (yeah, right).
  16. Vic Sage
    If they can both field the position no worse than barely adequately, a Turner / Murphy platoon could actually work for this year, while Tejada learns how to hit playing SS in AAA and Havens learns to play a full season in AA. It would maximize their strengths, and surely result in something significantly better than the worst production at the position in all of MLB. Adding either of them to Evans and Carter would also give us a bunch of versatile bats off the bench. Add 1 UT glove and a backup catcher, and it would be good to go.
  17. Vic Sage
    there is a name for a government that uses its power on behalf of private commercial interests at the expense of individuals. It used to be called fascism. Now, it includes our own bailout nation. National socialism for the rich, laissez-faire for everybody else.
  18. Vic Sage
    Edgy, you should sticky this thread, so people can see it at the top each day and add to it as they see fit...
  19. Vic Sage
    I tell you what. We've got a smart, experienced management team in place... for a change. They're engaged in a process that seems thorough, transparent and professional, and they know a hell of a lot better than anyone here what is needed at the helm for this current roster, and for the type of team they'd like to field going forward, and who these guys really are. Since we have no real vested interest in any of these candidates (it's not like Bobby V is in the running), i'm all for deferring judgment on the outcome of the process to those entrusted with the decision. "Nightmare"? "Stinking up the joint"? please. take a pill and calm down. Its the manager, not the 2bman.
  20. Vic Sage
    lets agree to disagree...
  21. Vic Sage
    1 down, 3 to go...
  22. Vic Sage
    batmagadanleadoff wrote: I'd like Dan Uggla. I liked Kevin Mitchell at short. And Melvin Mora. You can't win if you don't put runs on the board. batmags / sage similarity score = 98.634
  23. Vic Sage
    I think we have too many internal options at 2B... yeah, but none of them are very good options.
  24. Vic Sage
    With Tejada, if everything goes right, and he learns how to take a walk, he's a poor man's Castillo. If it goes wrong, he's Jose Lind. Turner has some legit thump, and is much readier to play right now.
  25. Vic Sage
    While i'd be happy to have Bobby V back, cuz he's done it here before, clearly that's not going to happen. So, i'd be just as happy with a low cost / low profile "middle manager" type who has a track record of staying the hell out of the way (i.e., doesn't give away outs) and evinces a willingness to bring the hammer down on underperforming players (ie., make them accountable with playing time), both as a surrogate for my frustration and as motivation to the rest of the roster. With that in mind, these are the things that mean absolutely nothing to me in searching for the next Mets manager: 1) genius-osity; 2) ability to "handle NY"; 3) philosophy (beyond doing what Sandy tells him - ie., not giving away outs); 4) playing pedigree; 5) Met-liness; 6) military service; 7) "grit"; 8) willingness to yell (at umps, media, players, owners, fans); or 9) "star" quality
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