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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: N4n, Piazza did look the part. And I think his being less than forthcoming in his own book almost counts against him doubly. I wonder if writing the book was detrimental. I definitely saw a few people reason "Well, let's see what he says in the book first" for not voting for him the first time. But not giving juicy tidbits, it's almost like they think it proves there are juicy tidbits.
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you can still get knishes usually. they're the same 'eh' as at Shea. never had Mamas. even at Shea seemed the most boring option.
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legit beer and quality food at stadiums. R.A. Dickey
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d'Kong76 wrote: Steroids I'd hardly call something that's been around for 30+ years 'newer'.
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Instant replay and umpire accountability. increasing athleticism so we see 100mph pitches more and more. sabermetrics and an increased understanding of how the game works. Statcast. video highlights from around the league, instantly. animated gifs.
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Baseball is in perhaps it's greatest state ever and most of what's gone away I don't want back. How about the team pennants on the walls/flags above the stadium.
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Nymr83 wrote: Ceetar wrote: There's a crappy Heyman ballot and 'justification' of you're into hate-reading. Heyman is the king of all d-bags. he will vote for Bonds even though he admits Bonds used roids AND is lying about it, but he wont vote for Piazza and even says it is because of groundless suspicions! Heyman should be fired. but but Bonds even cheated better than everyone else! He'd be in the Hall of Fame of cheaters too!
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I remember being enthused they left him off the postseason roster for better players.
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black uniforms.
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There's a crappy Heyman ballot and 'justification' of you're into hate-reading.
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I'll miss him. He'll be the enemy for a bit (presumably at least, unless the Nats go tailspin and he's just 'that guy on the non contender') for a guy I hope shows up again for alumni stuff down the road. He was here a while. Pretty good for most it, great team player. Favorite Murphy story is probably that he occasionally/frequently would sign for opposing fans' kids _if_ they surrendered their own caps. There are pictures of him with a traded phillies cap in his back pocket somewhere.
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bmfc1 wrote: There was way too much time spent on fans rather than on highlights. E.g., we didn't get to see Nieuwenhuis's HR in the 2d game of the sweep @WSH or anything from the 3d game but they showed Beltran's strikeout three times. I hope that we get a better record of a great season than this artsy-fartsy thing. I hear someone wrote a pretty good book.
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metsmarathon wrote: so... ownership straightened out yet...? i think so
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who? I just assumed this guy was a Lorem Ipsum.
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Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, I follow, thanks. de Aza's signing hasn't been de Announza'd yet, despite a handful of sources saying it's a done deal, for what must be like 24 hours now. If business shuts down on Christmas Eve, this one might drag out a bit, or perhaps even not go down at all. got the press release about 5 minutes ago. It's official.
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batmagadanleadoff wrote: And anyone who wants to pick nits here by reminding me that I don't know precisely how much money the Mets have or haven't because it's all so secret and private is just being contrary for the sake of being contrary. no, that's not true. We DO know how much money the Mets have. and how much they make. We DON'T know how much the Mets owners have. You're demanding the Wilpons spend their own money above and beyond what the Mets asset brings in. In some cases this is fair, after all the money they make from SNY and such is a direct result of the Mets and you could maintain that using that revenue is sustainable because you're investing in the main product that's making you that money. But it's still not the Mets money nor is it within MLB's legal right to demand that they invest it that way.
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Considering the Mets lost money for most of the last 6 years, it's actually hurt them.
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Ricco: It's Zobrist or dick for us this winter
Ceetar replied to Centerfield's topic in New York Mets Talk
Centerfield wrote: I'm measuring OPS. http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/team/_/stat/batting/league/nl/sort/OPS/order/true First in the NL Pre all star. Last post all-star. 9th overall. The all-star break as a delineation is admittedly not perfect, but you get the idea. straight OPS? you gotta park adjust at least.. It's harder to score in Citi Field. Mets were 4th in OPS+. -
Ricco: It's Zobrist or dick for us this winter
Ceetar replied to Centerfield's topic in New York Mets Talk
Centerfield wrote: Edgy MD wrote: It's probably best to not measure a team's offense against all of MLB, but only against the 15 teams in their league, as the DH advantage that the American League teams has leaves you, if not exactly comparing apples to oranges, perhaps comparing tangerines to clementines. Ok. Then it's still first and last, but then 9th out of 15 overall. wait, what are you measuring? The Met scored the 7th most runs in the NL and 4th in wRC+. They were first in both in the second half, which includes some non-Cespedes time and some bad-Cespedes time. -
Ricco: It's Zobrist or dick for us this winter
Ceetar replied to Centerfield's topic in New York Mets Talk
and it's not just a matter of replacing the lineup at the end of 2015, because who knows how that'd do over the long term. You just want to score as many runs as possible. But don't forget the pitching. Obviously that's the crux of the team. But there's reason to hope for improvement there as well and prevent more runs. Obviously all pitchers are babied, but there's not reason not to expect Harvey, deGrom, and Thor to throw 30 more innings each, on the conservative side. That's 100 innings from them and 100 less for Dillon Gee, Carlos Torres, Robles, etc. -
d'Kong76 wrote: Tying it to luckily getting back to the world series is borderline nuts. it wasn't luck. At least, getting to the playoffs wasn't. Mayberry working out would've made it easier. De Aza working out will make it easier.
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They go through this every offseason. (and otherwise) but this week is a week of filler posts and content and reduced readership and for all the posts to be going up now suggests to me that there's really nothing interesting to say.
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I honestly think this wasn't a great return, hell look at what Leake just got from the Cardinals. I know Niese seems to have been trending downward velocity-wise and might be a concern, but our pitching is pretty righty-heavy too and it might've been nice to keep the lefty. But I like Walker enough and he feels a nice need of depth and talent and probably will end up adding more to the Mets specifically than Niese would've. So tepid 'yay'?
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That article says none of those things. It's talking about personal and Sterling debt and revenues, not Mets revenues. The Mets revenues were down, they were losing money. He's talking about operating the team at a loss, and not being able to do that because of debt/Madoff, etc. The fan quote supports what I've been saying all along, that the Mets payroll was directly linked to Mets (not SNY,etc ) revenue. That's gone up, though no one's released the 2016 presale numbers that I've seen, but they're not obligated to immediately max out in December. Yes, we'd all like them to put the pedal down and nab the big guy, but there ARE legitimate baseball reasons to not sign Heyward or Cespedes and it's certainly not a situation where failing to sign them puts the Mets in a tight spot playoffs wise. The risk/reward balance there isn't that great.
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Transaction Poll: Colon for 1 year/$7.25 Million
Ceetar replied to Edgy MD's topic in New York Mets Talk
meh. Mostly a below average innings eater who could suddenly be his age at any moment. Fun to have around, intangibles and all that, but I'd have rather a guy like Fister or something for a little more money/commitment. It's not like accidentally having too many pitchers is ever a real problem.
