Vic Sage

hi bret try saying something about baseball. if people are rude to you in response, call them on it and MOVE ON. But, as you well know, we're constantly rude to each other here, so why can't you just ignore it and continue along in whatever tone you wish? the "martyr" thing is about your constant whining about how people here treat you. if you'd keep it about baseball, at least the rudeness would be about your opinions, not about you. suck it up and give me more reasons why WWSB sucks, from the vantage point of a devout Red Sox fan. oh, and i like the picture, by the way. But that's just me.

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Castro - 3.02 Beltran - 2 Heilman - 1 Padilla - 1 Looper - 1 Diaz - .66 Wright - .66 Reyes - .66

hail hail Hailstone....woo woo woo!

i love David Wright, but its harder to find a good defensive SS that hits like Crosby than a 3bman who hits like Wright. Crosby was ROY last year and, after returning from a serious injury this year, is playing even better. Don't get me wrong... i'm thrilled to have as complete a player as Wright has shown to be and to watch him grow up in the Mets org and start to get the kudos he deserves. I just don't think we need to underestimate Crosby to appreciate Wright.

]Why don't you tell him yourself if it's such a big deal to youbecause i don't want to be a pompous prick, you pompous prick.

why on Earth would i be surprised?

I've said it before and i'll say it again.WWSB is a moron. of course, i have the right to say it because im a mets fan. And also because i said it before he managed a single game (my judgement based on his reported managerial philosophies).Bret the Red sox fan, however, has no credibility because he wrote this team off before the season started, as having insufficient talent to compete this year. So now that they're 1/2 game out as September begins, he's jumping on the "we'd be leading the WC race if not for the idiot manager" bandwagon.Well, get the hell off my bandwagon, Bret. Terry Francona is your problem now.

i'm sorry i missed this thread the first time.Frayed Knot is officially elected VP of the TiTTS.

somebody tell Bret the Red Sox Fan that he is absolutely forbidden to enjoy a Mets WC race in september.

i went to the game last night.beautiful evening, with a pleasant sea breeze wafting in from the boardwalk."italian american night" seemed a rather redundant promotion in this neighborhood, but so it was. I caught a t-shirt hurled from the ballustrade above by a guy in a seagull suit. Cyclones are playing the "cutters". It would seem impolite to name a team after an obsessive-compulsive disorder, but hey... its Brooklyn. Impolite is what we do best.The Clone pitcher is all over the place, except for the strike zone. He's gone by the 3rd or 4th. The game is dragging on, taking over an hour for the first 3 innings. Then, in the 4th inning, with our boys down 3-0, we get 2 men on with nobody out. So guess what Mookie has the next hitter do? Did you guess? I bet you did! He.... (drum roll, please)............. (wait for it)........ BUNTS! Not surprisingly, we don't score. eventually, we get back 1 run, then another. Down 3-2 in the ninth, the Clones tie it up in exciting fashion, with a big hit by their big hitter, Caleb Stewart. I love that name. But with the bases loaded and nobody out, we fail to score another run. All Star Joe Holden strikes out. EXTRA INNINGS!we load the bases again in the 10th and don't score. ugh.but we push the winner across in the 11th, and the remaining Italian-Americans cheer "Bravo!"

word.peace out, brudda.

2 of my favorite movies of the last decade or so.I am waiting for the inevitable "director's cut" to purchase the dvds.

the only reason i don't bring my glove is my own self-consciousness. Because I still dream of catching a foul ball. Please let Patchy know that you CANNOT, in fact, buy the experience of catching your own foul ball from a major league game by purchasing a $5 baseball. If you had an opportunity to fuck _______[name of starlet of the week], do you think staying home and masturbating to a picture of her would be an equivalent experience? [Although masturbation is sex with someone i love, so its not to be dismissed out of hand... as it were.]Still, if i was going for a foul and some kid got in my way, i'd crush him like a bug.

Fonzie's OPS over the last 3 seasons is amongst the lowest of starting 3bmen, and would still be amongst the lowest if he returned to 2b (not to mention he doesn't have the range for 2b anymore). I think a legit SPer should be worth more than an overpriced player who has aged quickly, and would only be useful as a Cairo-type backup. that being said, i like fonzie and wouldn't mind seeing him on our bench. But not for $5m/yr more than Cairo, plus giving away a SPer.

]Bell and Mitchell don't seem superflous, methinks.aye, me2thinks that many here lack the understanding of the word "superflous". Also the word "final" seems to have slipped thru the net as well.

Is "Goonies" a pirate movie? It has eyepatches, booty, skulls, and a plank scene. What a classic.A plank scene may be a "necessary condition" not a "sufficient condition".While GOONIES does have the pirate trappings, it lacks one key ingredient... PIRATES!Also, Pirate movies are set sometime during the 17th to 19th century. If there set in the current day, they may be ABOUT some modern-day pirates ("The Island"), or analagous to a pirate movie, or metaphorical, or a spoof of pirate stereotypes, or whatever... but it ain't a "pirate movie".

i'm with the rockman...Benson 6 Floyd 2 Williams 1 Hernandez 0.5 Looper 0.5

7 seconds... I waited to give him the benefit of the doubt.

it seems to me emblematically empty-headed for Klapisch to pick Beltran's .267 BA as the indicator of his poor season, when he hit the same last year. Meanwhile, he ignores the 100 point drop in OPS. and then there is this:]What, exactly, happens to the Mets away from Shea? Like all the other burning questions, no one in the organization seems to know. "I can't explain it, but we have to do something about it," Martinez said. "We have to beat up on the little teams. If not, forget it." the pythagorean w-l is higher than the mets actual record. They're better then they were, they just haven't been lucky this year.It continually amazes me how sportscasters and players alike refuse to acknowledge the importance of luck in determining wins and losses. Instead, they seek metaphysical explanations, and try to do "something about it". There is nothing to be done except keep playing as hard and as well as you can, don't get down, and wait for your luck to turn. this is not to say they deserved to be a playoff team this year, even before the "collision", but with better luck their actual production could've netted them a 85-88 win season. Maybe 90. The good thing is, this type of underperformance relative to runs scored/allowed doesnt customarily happen 2 years in a row... unless, of course, your manager is a complete bobo who gives away outs like they're candy corns on Holloween. oh, and great move, Mr. WWSB... the incapacitation of our entire OF has finally forced you to bat Wright in the top 1/3rd of the order. Mazel Tov. Now, if Reyes gets Gout, maybe you'll bat him 8th?

]Well Vic likes to beat his chest and make his sound, it's trueoooga ooooga

i don't come here JUST to rip people's messages apart... it's merely an ancillary activity i engage in for the pure, unadulterated joy of it. mostly i come here (as i have for many years) to join my friends in amiably obnoxious banter, to enhance my understanding of this great game of ours and cultivate an online comraderie that has spilled over into our real lives. If you want to add some research, some information, some educated insight into the ongoing conversation we're engaged in, or just some amusing material (haikus are always welcome!), you'll be greeted with open arms. But if you just offer unsupportable opinions or unsupported assertions, you're posts are likely to be mocked. Anyway, i can't do you any actual harm, you know. You're there and i'm here. So stop whining, and either swim in the pool or don't.

"seafaring adventure films" is a much broader category. "Pirate movies" deal with specific archtypal pirate characters and plot elements... buried treasure, sword fights, jolly roger, the tough pirate-girl or tavern wench, the governor's daughter held for ransom, the British agent in disguise, the wronged hero who turns to piracy, the corrupt british governor, Tortuga and Port Royal, pieces of eight, walking the plank, sea chases and battles, pirates who turn patriotic privateers, cannons decimating a seaport, lashing, hanging from the yard-arm... My name was Captain Kidd, when I sail'd, when I sail'd, And so wickedly I did, God's laws I did forbid, When I sail'd, when I sail'd. I roam'd from sound to sound, And many a ship I found, And then I sunk or burn'd, When I sail'd. I murder'd William Moore, And laid him in his gore, Not many leagues from shore, When I sail'd. Farewell to young and old, All jolly seamen bold, You're welcome to my gold, For I must die, I must die. Farewell to Lunnon town, The pretty girls all round, No pardon can be found, and I must die, I must die, Farewell, for I must die. Then to eternity, in hideous misery, I must lie, I must lie.

WWSB ruled out a 6-man rotation (with no explanation) and he and Trax agree he wouldn't be useful working out of the pen ("it takes me 30 minutes to warm up", he said). Since they can't leave him down there indefinitely, somebody's got to go. i think they're waiting for Seo to have a mediocre-or-less start, so they can send him down without guilt.

]Although Kazmir hasn't been what everyone's expected in TB, he's been EXACTLY what people expected... an erratic young strikeout pitcher, with obvious upside that may or may not develop. Anybody expecting him to step out of AAn and be Doc Gooden wasn't really paying attention to his minor-league production. In an organization with a deeper pitching staff and less desperation, he'd have started in AAA this year, and, presuming he did well, have had a late season call up. They pushed his schedule up a year. We'll see how that works out. Too early to tell.]I think he would have thrived under Rick Peterson.This sounds like the groundwork being laid to be able to blame the Mets even if they were right and Kazmir never develops. "well, he would've been great if we kept him and he got to work with Rick "fix him in a minute" Peterson.", disgruntled Mets "fans" will claim.I hope you'll use your great powers of prescience for the forces of good, not for evil.