Willets Point

metirish wrote: Willets for Commissioner No way. I saw what that job did to A. Bartlett Giamatti. You have to be incredibly stupid to keep that position for a long time.

metirish wrote: Why not just scrap the NL and AL , have divisions based on East, Central and West? I'd totally go for this but I'd make them three ten-team leagues with no "interleague play" whatsoever. Each team would play 18-games each against the other teams in their leagues. Every single game would be against a league rival playing for the same title. The familiarity would breed rivalries which would increase attendance and viewership. Since all the teams in a league would be in roughly the same region it would also encourage fans traveling to more away games, again increasing attendance. TV scheduling would be easier since there wouldn't be games in distant time zones and thus games would start at consistent times, increasing viewership. National networks could schedule a game of the week for each league starting at time suitable to that time zone. Travel costs would be reduced as would wear & tear on the players. In fact MLB could promote reduced travel as a "green initiative". Of course in my world there would be fewer rather than more postseason contenders. I would go with the the three league champions and then the second place teams would play a round-robin to determine the "wild card" team. The pennant winner with the best record would play the wild card and the other two pennant winners would face off in best-of-7 playoff series with the winners going to the World Series. But the alignment would allow for more postseason contenders as MLB would inevitably chose to do so.

They can just dissolve the no-longer meaningful National and American Leagues for all I care. Create a 16-team Eastern League and 14-team Western League. Or three 10-team leagues. Or four leagues of 8,8,8, & 6. Or set free all the minor league teams to become independent teams in a promotion/relegation system.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Valadius wrote: Bring back the Cosmos. Eric Cantona and several business partners are working on it. And now Cantona is going to coach the Cosmos in a testimonial game against Manchester United. Never mind that they don't actually have a team.

White Pine County, Nevada is unexpectedly Greek.

Valadius wrote: Bring back the Cosmos. Only if they can bring back a young Giorgio Chinaglia.

Edgy DC wrote: MFS62 wrote: (Remember the multi-purpose ovals of the 70's and 80's?) I was pretty crazy about Shea. Shea was a masterpiece of modernism from the 60s though.

Oh man, this has turned into a Steve Jeets thread. PS - Don't Trade Reyes.

Little Willets 6

It's Time Machine Tuesday at The Happiest Recap. 055: 1980 -- The Magic comes Back, per Steve Henderson 056: 1979 -- Ten Runs come home, per Doug Flynn 057: 1990 -- Wrigley barely stands, per Buddy Harrelson's blistering offense And these aren't too unhappy, either: 055: 1963 -- The Duke of Upper Manhattan reigns 056: 2011 -- Reversing a 7-0 deficit makes for a calm Collins 057: 1963 -- Mets try to give away a game; Cardinals regift it to Mets Wow, we talked about my first Mets game and my son's first Mets game in the IGT but it's pretty cool that they're almost the same game of the season.

^ | Awesome

Lou Gehrig. I can't really think of anything bad about Lou Gehrig.

I still think it would be fun if there were hipsters playing baseball. In fact, there could be a whole expansion team: The Brooklyn Hipsters.

Bruins.

TransMonk wrote: Hipsters play baseball now? Does he wear skinny uniform pants and ride a fixie in from the bullpen?

metsmarathon wrote: don't fucking trade reyes. don't fucking trade wright. build a fucking winner and rake in the fucking dough. This.

I'm just here to say Don't Trade Reyes. There's no way I'm going to read that article.

themetfairy wrote: Willets Point wrote: Edgy DC wrote: metirish wrote: metirish wrote: I think Willets is there today with his son, what do you tell the kid about this debacle of a squad? I knew reverse karma was in play here..... I don't know if this was Young Peter's first Met game, but WP's first game was the Steve Henderson Game. Good memory. Our family apparently makes interesting Met game debuts. My wife's first Met game was pretty good too. Plan your next child's first game for an opportune time Sadly it only works for one game as the number of miserable Mets losses I've attended can attest. So I can arrange to bring the next child to a big game but the Mets have to get to the point where they're playing in a big game first.

Edgy DC wrote: metirish wrote: metirish wrote: I think Willets is there today with his son, what do you tell the kid about this debacle of a squad? I knew reverse karma was in play here..... I don't know if this was Young Peter's first Met game, but WP's first game was the Steve Henderson Game. Good memory. Our family apparently makes interesting Met game debuts. My wife's first Met game was pretty good too.

Overrated douchebags.

The end is moving, inspiring, et al, but all the same I couldn't help thinking "�So, the king made a speech, big deal. There are people dying in Poland!� Edgy DC wrote: Helena Bonham-Carter is his kind wife, who I suddenly realized 3/4 of the way through the picture was the Queen Mum herself. Did you realize that Colin Firth's eldest daughter is now Queen Elizabeth II? I kind of wonder what it's like for that young English actress to portray the current Queen.

Wakefield would likely be in first place if not for that season when he was the Red Sox closer.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: D'oh, I just assumed this was a 3-gamer. Lucky us, huh Don't you hate when the schedulers throw a curveball like that at you? I similarly thought it was a three game series starting today and didn't realize there was a game last night until too late.

I still have one free ticket for Thursday's Gay Dame too.

Hey! Prirates starters have gone nine straight games allowing 2 earned runs or less. RHP Charlie Morton (5-2, 2.61) vs. Gee tonite RHP James McDonald (3-3, 5.23) v. Dickey Tuesday RHP Kevin Correia (7-4, 3.44) v. Capuano Wednesday That's a pretty formidable threesome: Morton and McDonald were big-time prospects once; Correia like last year was one of the league's best pitchers through the first handful of starts. Pirates pitchers as a staff have the fewest whiffs in the NL, however. JCL missed the probable starters for Thursday's game and since that is likely the only Mets game I'll be attending this season, I looked it up. LHP Paul Maholm (2-7, 3.18 ERA) vs. Mike Pelfrey Thursday