Vic Sage

i don't think i'm comfortable knowing that when i take my daughter to the game on saturday, they're going to give us shirts with a "69" on it. I see years of therapy... though i could probably be charged with child abuse for turning her into a mets fan to begin with.

i put the over/under on that lineup at 3 runs. Make that 2 runs. I mean 1 run. yeah, 1 run... and i'll take the under.

...on base like a crackhead... BOC nominee!

i'm supposed to take the family to the game this saturday, and none of us want to go.

"Welcome to a new season of Mets Baseball!"

ditto.

="metsguyinmichigan":350jsmxr]We keep forgetting that the team was in first place prior to losing everybody. [/quote:350jsmxr] That's totally disingenuous. They were under .500 when the bodies started dropping, after failing to make the playoffs since Beltran watched strike 3. John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 11 2009 09:27 AM I think if there was a time Omar should have been whacked it was last off-season, seeing as the all-stars he assembled nearly all performed to the best of their abilities and they still shat the bed because he did such a rotten job of addressing the bullpen/bench before and during the season. He also had the Willie debacle to answer for. I think Omar did a decent job of improving that depth and flexibility for this year, but the injuries just go to show how wasted an opportunity last year was. soupcan Aug 11 2009 09:39 AM You guys are making me sad. Edgy DC Aug 11 2009 09:45 AM ="Nymr83":138c2a9j]If they get rid of Omar they should really CLEAN HOUSE and get rid of everyone from the Omar or Phillips era left in the front office.[/quote:138c2a9j] And I hope they're a lot more deliberate and less bloodthirsty than that. Valadius Aug 11 2009 09:48 AM ="Nymr83":5jhw86yi]If they get rid of Omar they should really CLEAN HOUSE and get rid of everyone from the Omar or Phillips era left in the front office.[/quote:5jhw86yi] It's been my experience that if you totally clean house and get rid of everybody from the previous regime, the new regime won't have anybody who can show them where the bodies are buried. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 11 2009 10:27 AM ="seawolf17"]="John Cougar Lunchbucket"]He said that farm director Adam Wogin was given Bernazard's responsibilities following the whacking but that ... wait for it ... "the entire hierarchy would be reevaluated after the season." Wait, wait, wait. After the whole Adam Rubin-pining-for-a-job escapade, they replace Bernazard with a guy named "Adam Wogin"?!? That's hilarious. This guy was taken. (If running a farm system isn't "Foreign Assets Control," what is it?) LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 11 2009 07:07 PM Finally got around to actually reading the Rubin article. ]Minaya credited Ricco with proposing the Francoeur-for-Ryan Church swap that was swiftly executed a month ago, but Ricco's background primarily is administrative and not in evaluating players - more along the lines of former GM Jim Duquette than Minaya. As a result, Ricco likely would need to lean on his deputies for recommendations. Is nobody else getting a Harazin-like whiff here? (Non-player eval guy who didn't seem to let that get in the way of his getting hipdeep in player eval once the opportunity arose...) metirish Aug 11 2009 07:38 PM I hope Ricco suave doesn't like Grudzielanek Ashie62 Aug 11 2009 08:10 PM I don't think Rubin has an axe here. Ricco would appear to be in training for a promotion A change in appearance and voice from Omar..thats for sure I hope he is not better suited to do morning swauk on cnbc This is an ill franchise Mex17 Aug 12 2009 04:33 AM ="metsguyinmichigan":wysemdh8]You can't blame them for Church getting a concussion from getting whacked in head with a knee[/quote:wysemdh8] No, but you can certainly blame them for making him endure multiple transcontinental flights after the incident.

i haven't been to a Clones game this season. Thanks for the update, Jon. But who won the condiment race?

i couldn't find it, so i had to reconstruct it.

I looked for my JOHN HUGHES FILMOGRAPHY in the archives, but i think it went down with the last forum's collapse. so here it is (from my personal archives), with some annotations: ------------------------------- JOHN HUGHES: SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY This Chicago-area native became hugely successful as the primary auteur of teen angst comedies of the 80s and family comedies of the 90s. A child of the 60s, Hughes' films often have a theme running through them about the "haves" and the "have nots"... conflicts and romances between those on different sides of the tracks. sometimes its just upper-middle class suburban snobbery vs working class crassness. He finds humor and pathos in the romantic and class conflicts of his teen protagonists. There is also a distinct thread of "empowered youth defeating moronic adults" in most of his films. His films also deal with the dysfunctional family, and how they overcome their problems with love. Which was certainly at odds with his more youth-oriented films. Ultimately, in his career, the gooey sentimentality won out over the angst and he became a hack. He began as a staff writer for National Lampoon, seguing into screenwriting on the Lampoon's feature productions. Despite the success of his screenplays for VACATION and the subsequent MR. MOM, it was the overlooked NATE & HAYES, his unsuccessful attempt to recusitate the pirate genre, which was probably my favorite work of this period (ON EDIT: with apologies to Edgy) Writer: National Lampoon's Class Reunion (1982) - sucked National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) - ok, big hit Nate and Hayes (1983) - interesting flop (though critics and Edgy hated it) Mr. Mom (1983) - ok, big hit VACATION and MR. MOM gave him the leverage to direct. He then directed 8 films in the next 7 years. While the first 5 were good to excellent, the last 3 sucked, and he finally gave up directing for good (for OUR good, actually). Writer/director: Sixteen Candles (1984) - launches his directorial career and his own sub-genre... the "teen angst 80s comedy". Writer/director/producer: The Breakfast Club (1985) - The brat pack is born. Dated, but still worthwhile. And if you were of a certain age, this movie touched you. Weird Science (1985) - stupid, but almost amusing. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) - Hughes creates a teen icon that still persists. Bueller? Bueller? Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) - His best grown up comedy, John Candy breaks your heart. She's Having a Baby (1988) - young marrieds; not good Uncle Buck (1989) - Candy almost saves it, but not quite. Curly Sue (1991) - unredeemed treacle. During his directing period, he produced some of his screenplays while others held the directorial reins, thereby continuing his Lampoon films, and his "chicago-teen angst comedies with heart" movies. Apparently realizing it was easier to make money hiring other people to direct his scripts, he became an even more successful writer/producer, with crap like HOME ALONE. Again, his most interesting film of the period was a John Candy flop ONLY THE LONELY, which was a touching romantic comedy with John Candy (Hughes neither wrote nor directed it. He produced it, with Chris Columbus the writer/director). Writer/producer: National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) - if you liked the other one, you'll like this one Pretty in Pink (1986) - another solid addition to the Hughes oevre Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) - as was this, but Mary Stuart Masterson is no Molly Ringwald (despite Edgy's bizarre fixation) The Great Outdoors (1988) - amusing Candy vehicle, but not great National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) - yet another vacation; he should've had his passport revoked at this point. Home Alone (1990) - HUGE movie, some entertainment value. Career Opportunities (1991) - bad, but Jennifer Connelly... Oh, yeah.... Only the Lonely (1991) (producer only) - a flop, but the best of this period, likely due to a lack of Hughes' direct involvement. After the failure of a good film like ONLY THE LONELY and the incredible success of crap like HOME ALONE, Hughes continued down the road of utter hack, ultimately becoming a Disney hitman, churning out one abomination after another. He even used the pseudonym of "Edmond Dantes" on some scripts, revealing (either consciously or unconsciously) the depths of his imprisonment within his own cynicism. Writer/producer: Dutch (1991) - crap Home Alone 2 (1992) - more crap Beethoven (1992) (writer only, as Edmond Dantes) - family crap Dennis the Menace (1993) - BIG crap Baby's Day Out (1994) - crappier crap Miracle on 34th Street (1994) - appallingly insulting crap 101 Dalmatians (1996) - Disneyfied crap Flubber (1997) - more Disneyfied crap Home Alone 3 (1997) - yikes! Crapalanche! Reach the Rock (1998) - interesting flop, coming full circle to end the "chicago teen angst comedies" he'd created* Just Visiting (2001) (writer only) - ohmygod. so craptastic Maid in Manhattan (2002) (story only, as Edmond Dantes) - kill him now. [on edit: i guess they finally did] Drillbit Taylor (2008) (story only, as Edmond Dantes) *REACH THE ROCK was a "dramedy" in his old "chicago-teen angst comedy" mode but an utter failure. He has not produced a film since, writing a few unsuccessful scripts, getting credit for the characters on BEETHOVENS 2-5, and collecting residuals. It is kind of sad to see this formerly interesting filmmaker, who wrote about class consciousness during the Reaganomic 80s, become a cynical hack with absolutely nothing to say for the past 15 years (on edit: 18 years). The "John Hughes" teen comedy sub-genre: Sixteen Candles (1984) The Breakfast Club (1985) Weird Science (1985) . Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) Pretty in Pink (1986) Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) She's Having a Baby (1988) . Career Opportunities (1991) Reach the Rock (1998) Top 10: National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) Mr. Mom (1983) Sixteen Candles (1984) The Breakfast Club (1985) Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) Pretty in Pink (1986) Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) Home Alone (1990) Only the Lonely (1991)

and some of them know less than nothing

nah, build a bridge out of him!

Does Oliver Perez have a kid? If so, I bet he walks early... and often.

no, they just moved him to the major league roster.

wow, a guy with a career OPS+ of 60. Yes, that's much better than moving Murphy back to his natural position to see what he can do over the rest of this meaningless season.

a typically horrible Hollywoodian idea.

Doumit is 28, and is a decent defensive catcher with a 280/20 hr bat. I'd take him in a heartbeat, despite his ongoing injury issues.

sell NOW!

Olerud got the tix and ended up taking his dad to a pretty good game. Did you have fun with dad, Ollie?

there yours. Come to my office and get em. send me a private message and i'll give you info.

Goossen could star in the Rondo Hatton Story. http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2023096601/

i've got them here in my office (times square area), so if you want to pick them up, they're yours, gratis. They suck (upper LF corner / Section 533), but their yours.

The great man finally speaks on the topic: http://www.actapublications.com/images/small/PressReleases/Cooperstownandthe%27Roids_F2.pdf

i represent the Pagan Anti-Defamation League (the PADL), and we demand a retraction of that bigoted statement. In America, a pagan is entitled to earn as much as any religious ballplayer.

Triple Dee wrote: Natalie Portman has been cast as the female lead in "Thor," Marvel Studios' adaptation of its comic book featuring the Norse god of thunder. Kenneth Branagh is directing. Hopefully, he'll teach her how to act. An earlier discussion of Natalie Portman's acting talents here: http://cranepoolforum.qwknetllc.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=3718&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0