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shouldn't this thread title be "Who's Randy feeling?"

so, during tomorrow night's broadcast, we can watch on FS1 with like, actual real analysis. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/discussing-the-nlcs-powered-by-jabo-with-rob-neyer/

I suspect the book is fictionalized, as that's sorta her style. A kind of millennial-satire filtered through Brooklyn hipster. I dunno. So yeah, perhaps it's simply a failed minor leaguer. Perhaps he was just a college pitcher but is always talking about it. who knows. You'd think it wouldn't be hard to find if it is a 'Randy' though. there are databases of doctors after all.

Hanley! dunno what type of contract he's looking for, and he's not gonna be great defensively, but better than Flores I would suspect, and he hits. plus, can slide him to DH once that's instituted.

G-Fafif wrote: You can give away goodies, but you can't manufacture passion. well, unless you're a Gatorade commercial.

the eponymous Matt den Dekker?

Zvon wrote: We need that shortstop and/or that outfielder. I don't know which will be resolved first, but it should effect the approach to the other. It could decide if the position can be carried (possibly as is) or really needs a big upgrade. So for now I'll just sit back and watch. Time to get to work Sandy. We want something nice for Christmas. nah, doesn't have to be for Christmas. we want something nice for my Birthday (3/25). Plenty of time.

metsmarathon wrote: projected 2015 WAR for available shortstops, per steamer, as shown by fangraphs... fwiw... hanley ramirez 2.9 WAR in 532 PA asdrubal cabrera 1.9 WAR in 639 PA steven drew 1.3 WAR in 558 PA jj hardy 2.7 WAR in 620 PA jimmy rollins 2.2 WAR in 629 PA predicted to not really play shortstop anymore in 2015 mike aviles 0 WAR in 1 PA alex gonzalez 0 WAR in 1 PA jed lowrie 0 WAR in 1 PA <---- regardless, he might be a decent buy low pick...? hiroyuki nakajima 0 WAR in 1 PA for comparison, wilmer flores 2.1 WAR in 551 PA Doesn't seem to be any reliability scores available yet. I suspect it's low for Flores, especially since all his value is predicated on him playing an above average SS which unfortunately is still up in the air. Actually has him playing a better SS than Tejada, which seems like a pipe dream to me. I guess Jed Lowrie's okay. Might be worth a bit as long as you don't have to over-commit to him. First professional HR in Citi Field after all.

Hanley.

Benitez

Sometimes, the car is just a lemon. Good luck Hefner.

Edgy MD wrote: Finding out for a fact Mike Piazza used illegal PEDs in the nineties and beyond < watching Mike Piazza openly defy Congress in a sad attempt to save his pathetic skin Mathematical fact. Fuck Congress. Stay out of baseball. I fully support lying to Congress to save your skin.

TransMonk wrote: Maybe. I just know that if it were Piazza (or any other Met) that avoided the questions from Congress in order to not call himself out as a liar, I would have been embarrassed. I like to think I would've just rolled my eyes even harder. Besides, the writers, collectively, are basically treating Piazza like he did.

sure, guy broke the home run record and entertained them for years. Granted, didn't win a WS but still, definitely in the good column.

http://mets.tumblr.com/post/99418904117/ben-affleck-sports-mets-hat-in-new-film-by-will Ben Affleck Sports Mets Hat in New Film by Will Carafello He�s not a Mets fan but he�ll play one on the big screen. Ben Affleck is a great actor but he just could not portray his character as a Yankees fan. In his new film, Gone Girl, in theaters now, director David Fincher asked Affleck to wear a Yankees cap for a scene in the movie. The Oscar-winning actor replied, no chance. "I said, �David, I love you, I would do anything for you,� " Affleck, told the New York Times. ��But I will not wear a Yankees hat. I just can�t. I can�t wear it because it�s going to become a thing, David. I will never hear the end of it. I can�t do it.� And I couldn�t put it on my head." For a scene in the film, Affleck�s character attempts to lay low in a New York airport and needs a local baseball cap as part of his disguise. The script called for a New York Yankees cap but the Boston native said he just would not do it. Affleck shared, �That was the only fight David and I had, and it was a legitimate fight.� The two decided to Affleck would wear a New York Mets hat instead. The compromise was �very Switzerland� in Affleck�s opinion. For the scene, Affleck wears the more subtle, all-black Mets cap. The traditional orange and blue cap was apparently too bold for the scene where Affleck is trying to blend in. Though never stated, one would also have to guess that the 1997 �snow-white� alternate cap was never an option for the role, either. We would be happy to see Mr. Affleck in orange and blue in any of his future films. Unrelated � the St. Lucie Mets are offer 30% off Mets hats right now. Channel your inner Ben Affleck and use code: HATS30 when checking out to save: http://bit.ly/Zc9uLT

he did 4 after the WC playin game. I almost want them to win now just to see if he can do 7.

Edgy MD wrote: Makes me want to create Mets money redeemable at CitiField and Mets Clubhouse-type retailers. Mets Money is no longer sold nor can it be used at Citi Field. Guests with Mets Money from previous seasons should be directed to the advance ticket window across from the Hyundai Club third base entrance so that the Mets Money can be converted to a Mets Gift Card.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Kershaw gets touched in an ill-timed bad way, for a three-run-go-ahead jobber from Matt Adams*. I don't know how to feel about this. *Lefty-lefty, no less! I believe I saw tweeted that this is the first Homer Kershaw has given up on a curveball to a lefty... ...ever.

I saw Adam Dunn hit the scoreboard once in BP. broke a light.

Not that I'm not guilty of it but the museum thing is different. They're easily googleable pictures that your photo adds nothing personal to, unless you're taking it with someone else in the picture. but then again, it take about half a second of energy or thought to snap a picture. That person is not not looking at the art because he took a picture of it. He's not looking at it AND he took a picture of it.

MFS62 wrote: Mets � Willets Point wrote: We're a heartbeat from an all-California series. As if they need more reason to be insufferable. Do what I do when those teams meet, root for the meteor strike. Later statistically speaking you probably want to root for the earthquake.

The obvious caveat is that the league OPS in 2014 was .700 whereas the league OPS from 1999-2002 was somewhere around .765. Nearly 4000 more runs were scored on average in those years than in 2014 and more than a 1000 home runs. Those definitely mess with the scoring numbers, particularly the 'more than 1' bits. (You'll notice it even makes sense to bunt with runner on first no outs in the 9th of a tie game at home) I don't know if Tangotiger re-ran those queries for 2012-2014 or any other time. (The site referenced doesn't exist for pbp data and i haven't found an adequate parser, nor had time to write one, for current data) I don't see it on Fangraphs anywhere but I sometimes can't find that stuff. Just because it's so amazing, i'll include this. Kershaw had a 1.77 ERA this season in this run environment, Pedro Martinez, in 1999 (which was higher than those averages I mention above) had a 2.07 ERA. 1.74 in 2000.

Zvon wrote: Zvon wrote: The commercial that has McCutchen making that great play at the wall-- I find it totally insane that fans right in front of the play were not looking at it with their own eyes, but through there devices--but this commercial thinks this is the proper way to experience life, so what do I know? hmm. maybe. But what is so special about 'actual eyes' versus super-HD camera? When people say they "saw it with their own eyes" aren't they often just meaning they saw it live? This is seeing it live, with all the same crowd-energy and what not. It's just also recorded. Anyway, I'm more concerned with how they got such crisp shots of a moving target from what appears to be angles they couldn't possible have been at. If you don't know the difference between watching something with your own eyes and watching something on a screen, I'm not going to explain it to you. But it seems, to the younger set, and like in the commercial, they are considered the same thing. I don't agree. Those people saw it live in the same sense that I saw it live on TV. Can't you take pics on those things w/o having to look thru them? I'd want to take pics but I would not want to take my eyes off that play. well yes, you can take a picture without looking. it's not really hard. I do that a lot myself actually, because I enjoy taking pictures and enjoy documenting where I've been and what I've done. I find looking back at those pictures enlightening, and I find myself scrambling for a picture to try to remember what happened somewhere/sometime that I didn't take a picture of. I don't think you CAN explain the difference, besides by definition, between seeing something through your own eyes and through the lens/screen of a camera. I suspect the differences are deeply sociological and personal. 'What does it mean to really 'see' something? Fodder for a rather intense philosophical debate. That said, it's important not to get distracted and so focused on taking the perfect picture that you don't actually absorb the moment.

d'Kong76 wrote: Who was the most hated Met guy? I'm confuzzeled. (which isn't hard to do these days) Castillo. Castillo! #2 hitter edition at least. btw, all-time leaders in IBB-HR? Barry Bonds obviously. 75 22 21 20 19 Bonds 04 Bonds 02 Gary Templeton 84 Bill Russell 74 Ichiro 2002

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