Vic Sage

My faves: "open your heart and let the sun shine in" by Frente! also, "the bugaloos" theme by Collective Soul. And i can listen to the "Josie and the Pussycats" theme all day long.

VAL PASCUCCI?

Castro?

Tatis?

sheffield?

you can't imagine a Kanye biopic?

Angel Pagan?

=Fman99 post_id=12484 time=1560131179 user_id=86] I hope everyone on the MFY's all simultaneously get diarrhea while standing at their positions, down 10-0 in the first inning.

Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, but that's the Oscar-bait, because who knows if Shailene Woodley is really evoking Tami Oldham in Adrift. But we have a good idea about how well Jamie Foxx captured Ray Charles in Ray because we have have a long lifetime of Ray Charles footage to compare it to. So Rami Malek must be great, or something. What troubles me about biopics of rock stars remains that they've found one more way to milk enormous money out of the classic rock canon, but it's still nearly Herculean for a contemporary rock act to make two dimes from their original music. So, rock and roll is still big business, but only legacy rock and roll that's under glass, and owned by suits, septuagenarians, and heirs. And that's as culturally stale as it is economically unjust. They're monetizing nostalgia. In 20 years, they'll be milking this year's top acts for another bucket of money.

Yeah, Dom! Push bunt to vacated 3b position for easy single. and that is how you beat the shift.

McNeil should be playing 2b today. Hechhavaria has been good, but he's not as important to our lineup as McNeil.

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Here's the "Should we talk about Robinson Cano" trade thread, where the initial idea was so laughable that none of us took it seriously. It reads like a horror movie scene that you know is gonna end in a grisly murder, but the Mets foolishly walk into the pitch-black basement anyway. http://www.thecranepool.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27564&hilit=Robinson+Canohttp://www.thecranepool.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27564&hilit=Robinson+Cano Here was my post in that thread and i do believe i nailed it: i haven't said anything in this thread because i was hoping it was all just a horrible dream. But i just listened to parts of the press conference, so i guess it has happened. I hated Cano when he was a MFY. I hated him as a Mariner. I hate him now. He's a low-effort guy with a history of late nights. He's getting heavier and slower and, without the `roids, his late 30s won't be pretty. And we're now stuck holding the $100m bag for him. Sure, you can look at it as a Bruce+Swarzak/Cano+20m deal, and a Jelenic+Dunn+Bautista/Diaz deal, but both deals suck. I have no faith in Cano being significantly more useful than Bruce + Swarzak over the next 2 years, and then it seems likely he'll be a net negative in years 3-5, at $20m/year. Diaz is young and productive and will be relatively inexpensive overall (even including his arb years) but, as a RP, his production has a great degree of volatility. I am loathe to give up on a CF prospect with all-star potential (not to mention a promising pitching prospect to boot) for anybody except another everyday player that fills a need, much less a guy who is going to throw 60IP/year. Sure, prospects are prospects, not players, but he was a #6 overall pick just last year and every indicator is pointing up on this kid. Considering the number of decent BP arms on the market right now, this is a massive overpay, even to me, the former president of TITTS. BVW has pushed his chips in the middle of the table but he's still a few chips short, so lets see if Jeffie buys him another stack. ... and Jeffie did NOT buy him another stack.

i voted "wtf" then, and i stand by that.

interesting analysis: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonyblengino/2019/06/05/the-mets-defense-is-historically-bad/#3dd9e7703eadhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/tonyblengino/2019/06/05/the-mets-defense-is-historically-bad/#3dd9e7703ead

hopefully McNeil picks up where he left off.

fine, so we take his head off in the 4th.

They used my recommended strategy... get a motherfucker who can hit!

I stand behind my assessment.

D.Smith has the best stats to bat leadoff right now, and Cano is coming back tomorrow. also, speed is a lot less important than just being on base when hitting in front of Alonzo and Conforto. D.Smith/Lf* Cano/2b* Alonzo/1b Conforto/Rf* Frazier/3b Ramos/C Gomez/Cf P-- Rosario/Ss

i love mock drafts in basketball and football, but not so much in baseball. draft picks make an immediate impact in other sports. In baseball, it generally takes years before a prospect has any impact in MLB, if ever, and by that time his draft history is long forgotten. Still, even in baseball, the draft is all about the promise of tomorrow; it feeds the hope that springs eternal in the human breast. I get excited by that.

so i watch until its 8-3, then fall asleep. And i wake up and its this. So Thursday now officially sucks. I thought we gave up one of our top prospects so this WOULDN'T keep happening.

R. Davis wearing 18, and my first thought was neither Darryl Strawberry nor Travis d'Arnaud, but Art Howe. Must be the pollen or something. my first thought was "oh they gave him Youngblood's number. I hope it doesn't turn him into a bonehead."

yup. and please post the link:

it was turned into a great musical, SHE LOVES ME, with a lovely score by Bock & Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof)

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