Ceetar

Boom.

"I'm here with Tim.. Tim. Tim what's your last name?"

"and it's outta here! off the wall" heh. I don't get why you'd make this, but it's fun. the old clips are fun too. early theme seems to be him conflating names a lot. "Gary Cooper" but he usually corrects himself pretty fast.

Centerfield wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I don't root for payrolls anyway. Which is your's (and every fan's) prerogative. But the effect of payroll on a team's chances of success are real. If you spend, you can use this to your advantage. If you do not, you are at a disadvantage, and your road to the playoffs is harder. This is an overall trend type thing and not really super relevant year by year. If you get too granular with it you start falling into "This player's better because I spent more money on him". i.e. the money the Mets have spent in previous seasons is relevant to 2018 regardless of what 2018s payroll is exactly.

Edgy MD wrote: Ceetar wrote: .307! that's bad! So is cherrypicking. Not if you're trying to make a tasty pie. That's the important bit.

Edgy MD wrote: .271 / .307 / .488 // .795 Wilmer Flores. .307! that's bad! That's a 106 wRC+ or just barely above average. That's 21/38 3Bmen with at least 300 PA Flores is the guy you're happy to let fill in for a week or two here and there if your main guy is hurt, or against lefties occasionally.

Edgy MD wrote: Bobby Valentine endorses two candidates: Joe McEwing and Robin Ventura. Hasn't Bobby previously said that Ventura would have been the last player from his Mets teams that he considered future-manager material? yes. But people change too. Bobby wasn't speaking from current interactions with him.

I know we're not going to get it because the media doesn't bother to ask these questions and it's the offseason, but.. was this elective? How elective? Was this suggested because "This may alleviate some of your pain caused by the stinosis?" Is it preventing pain or avoiding pain? Was this undergone with the intention of being able to get back on the field, or was it forced by the condition he's in? (I suspect the first) But we've had very few real details about Wright's condition. Sure, that's his private medical information, but that's not usually the case in sports. I feel like if the Mets were actually counting on him as part of the team, we'd know more. We don't know if he's having leg pain, walking pain. if it's more back pain or not. We'll get the trickles of "unrelated doctors" over the next few weeks. my googling suggests that this might be a helpful thing for Wright for the next few years, as it'll relieve the pressure and pinching but it does nothing to actually address the stenosis and whatever caused that will continue to press in. If that was some sort of genetic/medical fluke perhaps he can keep it at bay for a while, but if it was daily grind of baseball, maybe not? Or it if it was because of specific trauma (that collision at third base) he's at risk every time he's out there for a similar thing?

Kaley Cuoco plays Penny on the Big Bang Theory.

was looking lite a rout but don't look now the Rockies are making a push.

Edgy MD wrote: That's great. Mets aside, they go from YSIII to MSG to the 42nd Street subway station, and it sort of leaves out the two Eastern boroughs. The montage changes every so often. This is the director's cut of the original, but it features neither stadium so there must be outtakes too. bmdmx-ZcVvE

d'Kong76 wrote: I'm on the Hudson Line, I can take a train there! No desire. I mean, it's still baseball. It's still a neat mall to walk around in. Not necessarily worth special effort though.

seawolf17 wrote: I haven't been to YS3 and have no intentions of doing so. I'll have to go at some point just to knock it off my list, but I'm not in any rush. I actually haven't been sine the first two years. Mostly it's just hard to get to. But like it's reasonable to head out to a mid-week april or may game if you can and wander around when it's mostly empty. or sept after they're eliminated.

d'Kong76 wrote: Never been there. Plus free beer would need to be pee'd and then I'd lose my spot. They have very little drinkable beer there anyway. Actually SRO usually get's first swipe at the bathroom since you don't have to get up at the end of the inning. And if you're really desperate (at least at Citi) the audio's piped in so if it's like 2 outs no one on and 0-2 on the batter you can hedge your bet that nothing happens and go. Anyway, did we post game stuff yet? It's Luis Severino against Ervin Santana on ESPN at 8pm. Yankee fans are sure Luis Severino is better than any Mets starter ever and will stay healthy for sure. Santana has had a strangely good season, outperforming a lot of FIP metrics. Maybe luck based, low BABIP and high LOB rate, but it's been all season so who knows.

d'Kong76 wrote: Standing around Yankee Stadium for four hours sounds quite unpleasant. I couldn't do that if they offered free beer delivered to my standing spot. I don't know the stadium well enough to say. I've always enjoyed SRO though, hell when I (used to) go to Citi alone I'd rarely sit even if the park was empty. I dunno how that translates to a playoff game though, where you don't actually want to miss action to wander into weird corners of the stadium.

metirish wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: You really are absurd. especially if you think BG would be going to McDonald's it's more his bragging about how little he pays attention to baseball. SRO tickets still available on Yankees.com I can't tell if they just keep adding more at higher prices or what. (they say it starts at $28 but listed at $71)

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Were it nothing they wouldn;t have removed him from a game after 5 pitches and never use him again he got an MRI after the season from a different angle (in Philly) that revealed a tear that they couldn't see. my point was they should've either not let him pitch, or let him pitch more than 5 pitches. THAT was the failure. They admitted that he was having issues in the bullpen before the game. But they let the player dictate his health "I feel fine coach" and then blamed him for not coming through. If he pulls himself from that game, and the Mets couldn't find anything wrong, the quote wouldn't have been about him being a gamer that always lies to get into the game, but a wuss that always pulls himself from them.

seawolf17 wrote: My team was all over the place this year, and I made bad lineup decisions because I wasn't on top of it every day. I left a ton of points on the table that could have put me into second place. I'm back in for next year, and I don't want to make a massive financial investment, but a fun $20 buy-in or something is doable. yeah. I don't want to get too heavily financially into fantasy. I'm already in Fman's league for like $100 or something. but I was thinking like $20, or even 10. at $20 we could do $120 to the winner and like $40 to the second half winner or like $5 for each category win.

woes that the Mets kept telling him were nothing, and were Manuel and Warthen's job to work with or overrule.

I hope he sticks around and teaches mechanics/sliders to the prospects and what not. Most of what I was skeptical of was in-game stuff and season prep, which he won't be affecting anymore. In retrospect I wonder of the Maine/habitual liar comment was a cover for Manuel being an idiot and starting a guy that was having pregame issues with no backup guy warming and then only giving him one batter to work it out and changing his mind.

latest word is Kevin Long is on the list of managerial candidates.

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d'Kong76 wrote: My guess the other day was it's probably fake. I found another one of her snuggling with Jeff Wilpon but decided it would be in poor taste to share. Well she was one of the ones (Like Justin Verlander) that had a bunch of private photos leaked/stolen.

d'Kong76 wrote: Shouldn't the new head of the training and conditioning staff be able to decide who stays and who goes? Probably a lot of them aren't contract employees and can be let go at will.

That photo is also probably illicit.