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Zvon wrote: Yo DJ, this is magnificent. I'll go as far as to say I think you got them to pose for that! Why, thank you. I lucked out on Jeff's head, which was a nearly perfect match for the original (it's Johnny Depp!). Jay's was a bit more work. Here's a link to the original, if you're curious. (It's pretty big, so I don't want to clutter up this page with with it.) http://jerrygarrett.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/deppflathead.jpg

All right, he's a Romanized Ostrogoth.

Edgy MD wrote: Harvey is handsome? That's not really my area of expertise, but yeah, I think he's handsome, in a Renaissance prince sort of way. The kind who might talk about Aristotle with you or have you dismembered, depending how he felt that day.

If you're looking to trade that Harry Chiti card, I've got a Harry Chiti card I'm willing to part with.

The Motorcycle Diaries II: Looking for Che Stadium

Edgy MD wrote: I wonder who has the better success rate --- batters converting to pitchers or pitchers converting to batters. Going on a black/white binary basis --- did he succeed (become a big league starter) or not --- I wouldn't know which side to bet on. Going on a net-success basis, I think it would have have to be pitchers converting to hitters, just because Babe Ruth would swing the data on all on his own. My impression is that position players who become pitchers are more likely infielders, especially third basemen, than outfielders. I'm thinking of Bob Lemon and Skip Lockwood. But there are so few who've already been in the major leagues as position players that it's hard to generalize. Another consideration is that is that when someone goes from pitcher to position player, he's probably already shown that he can hit. But if it's the other way around, all anybody knows is that he's got a good arm. Whether he can learn to pitch is another matter. My favorite hitter-to-pitcher conversion is Jimmie Foxx, who decided at the very end of his career that he was a pitcher now. And he was pretty damn good, too: a 1.59 ERA in nine games, and won in his first start.

Maybe this thread is a dead horse by now, but at least it can be a winged horse. Here's Jeff Wilpon, freshly oiled and mulleted, off to the ends of the earth to find the Mets another washed-up outfielder.

Jesse Orosco.

I suppose it's only fair to give equal time to Keith's brother Also lefthanded. That's pretty uncommon. I can't find a picture of Gary Hernandez, but here's a link to a fun piece about him from 1975. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19750422&id=IRMwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QFgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6942,2017184 His manager at St. Petersburg thought he might be better than Phil Trombino!

I don't know, I don't mind the new alternate caps. They look kind of like the seventies Giants caps, which I always liked. It's time to have a more positive attitude around here. Look this way, Jeff.

Until the 1910's, the base coaches were usually players; the first full-time base coach was Arlie Latham in 1900. (I'm getting this from Peter Morris's A Game of Inches, a terrific book.) I'm sure there have been lots of occasions since then when players had to step in, especially before there were so many assistant coaches on a team. Managers used to coach third base too, and of course still do in the minors, which is how I got to see Jose Valentin close up without his mustache last year. If you think Keith Hernandez looks weird clean-shaven . . .

Zvon wrote: Where the fk did u get that Jeff face? Priceless! GJ. I saw the movie Creature From The Black Lagoon (again) a few weeks ago and its funny how the creature is scarier looking in still shots. The creature isn't menacing him, he's spotting him. Jeff tends to black out if he does more than two revolutions before he hits the water. The Jeff face is on the Getty Images site, originally from the Daily News. He's playing wiffleball on Family Day, and a five-year-old smacked a line drive right back at him when he wasn't expecting it. Thought he could sneak the changeup by him. Here's the link. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/jeff-wilpon-the-new-york-mets-chief-operating-officer-isnt-news-photo/97288281

Would he be willing to try pitching again? He'd probably be more help there.

Various questions: - Angel was the crew chief but also the 2nd base ump for the night and therefore the one who made the original call, correct? - Could he be sticking to his first call so as to not reverse himself as in some sort of childish attempt to not look wrong in the first place? - Would the other umps go along with such crockery? - a new kind of long blue line so to speak? - Can MLB itself get some of these answers even if the press and we can't? Group dynamics: Angel's convinced himself that it really is too inconclusive to tell--if you try hard enough and you really, really want to, you can sort of see it as a double, and Angel really, really wants to. One of the others thinks it's a home run but could see making a case that it isn't, and if Angel really feels that way, then okay. And the other two know it's a home run, but what the hell; they don't want to be Henry Fonda in Twelve Angry Men and take a stand for the truth, not when it means a stupid, lengthy argument with someone they have to work with every day. And besides, all the shit's going to come down on Angel, not them.

Maybe everyone's still stunned. Because that was, you know, stunning. He looked like Danny Almonte out there.

I'm not sure why I'm on Mountain Time when I log in. I've been on Eastern or Central all my life. Anyway:

Swan Swan H wrote: I'd like to thank Mother Nature for raining out Saturday's game and pushing my friend Harvey to a game we were attending. Lots of buzzing in the stairwells after the game. Do they still have those paper wasps in the stairwells? Those things are nasty.

Zvon wrote: Ohhh wowzers! Jeeze, what that poor lady do? She used the words "nepotism" and "Ponzi" one too many times in her column.

If you were looking for a ground ball to short, Tom Glavine was your man.

Had 'em all the way. Best win of the year?

You know, it's okay to go all LaRussa with your bullpen if you can trust everybody to do his job. But with these guys you're lucky if there's one guy who's got it going on a given night. Stick with that one guy, Terry.

I'm sorry, I'm lying about knowing David Wright. I meant to make it more obvious than that. But I hear he's a hell of a nice fellow. Marlon! Who doesn't love Marlon Byrd?

Zvon wrote: OO, Wrights pissed. Thought he'd get tossed there. If I know Dave (which I really dont) he was saying "You better call that pitch a strike for our pitcher too." I know Dave (his mom and my sister-in-law did some community service together, and they still keep in touch), and that's exactly what he said. Except for the fact that I'm pretty sure we're going to lose, this is kind of a good game.