Ceetar

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Well, Flores can't hit in four consecutive games unless he plays in four consecutive games. Can we start with hitting in two maybe? I'm all on board with playing Flores a lot and seeing if he can be part of the future, but please, show me something to warrant playing time!

Edgy MD wrote: Ceetar wrote: well, in that case maybe the answer is just to play Flores. I kind of said as much. yeah. Then you started grasping for other ideas. Diluting the cause. None of those other things are going to happen for the same reason they're not playing Flores every day. They're still bridging that gap between best chance to win now, and best for the future growth. I don't think anyone thinks Tejada is the longterm answer anymore. I think they're desperately hoping Flores hits for 3-4 games in a row so they can just toss him out there and forget about Ruben, but they're not yet willing to just play the prospect guy and he hasn't even come close to hitting enough to pretend he's making progress.

Edgy MD wrote: Tejada isn't really the problem. But he's a problem. Right now, the problems run all over the diamond. Shortstop perhaps is a greater opportunity to find an answer that can impact the team's fate going forward. well, in that case maybe the answer is just to play Flores. Going forward anyway, which we're rapidly approaching as the number 1 priority. Problems are in flux. they change all the time. Perhaps SS is one with a greater opportunity for long term answers, but maybe not. There isn't exactly a glut of solid dependable long term answers around the league or in the minors. Flores? maybe. It's almost not Seratelli. Or Tovar. As for the immediate problem of scoring runs, at least Tejada is making out less frequently than the average NLer. Small potatoes and there are lot bigger immediate holes in the offense right now. Of SS with at least 150 PA, Tejada is literally 7th in baseball in not making an out. Not slugging to save his life, but maybe that's why he should be hitting first or second and letting someone else drive him in, rather than 7/8 where he's more likely to need to drive someone in than get driven in by the pitcher, the crappy catcher, or the sorry excuses for leadoff hitters we've used this season. (Eric Young doesn't drive anyone in either)

Edgy MD wrote: Anybody have any taste for seeing if that .418 ObP of Seratelli has any big league applicablity? I guess it's not particularly sensible to reach for him if they haven't really pumped Wilmer out there for a week or so. Seratelli's played the OF too, a little more versatile overall. He hasn't really played SS much (but Tejada really isn't the problem) though, he seems more like a Campbell replacement who hasn't really been bad or anything. Of course, desperate for offense we could probably use both somehow. maybe.

Ashie62 wrote: Nice and all but Sandy is pretty committed to Tejada at the moment.. Well, you do have to play SOMEONE there.

Going to this one. well *glances outside* MAYBE I'm going to this one.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: That is kinda whacko. What I don't get os why Terry simply cannot try and get C Young going anywhere but in the middle third. It may be too late for redemption but I'd have had him every day batting 7th until he got it or not. agreed. In general he sticks too much to a righty-lefty alternating plan and too little to making sure the best hitters are the ones getting the most AB.

Vic Sage wrote: They should give them ALL plaques; Tino, O'Neill, Oscar Gamble, all of them. every single guy who ever donned the pinstripes, no matter how unexceptional, should have a lasting tribute to their unspectacularity put up on a wall somewhere. So archeologists can have a good laugh some day. except A-Rod.

could we some runs? just 4 or 5?

come on, aren't we in the animated gif era?

MFS62 wrote: My main memory was how proud I was when my kid made it to the majors. I wish him the best of everything over there. Zach, don't forget to write. We still love you. This opens up a roster spot for the anticipated PTBNL from the Ike deal. Later Well, I doubt he'll need to be put on the 40 man since word seems to be he's a 2013 draftee. 40 man is at 39 guys now, but 4 catchers is probably more than they need. Teagarden might be looking at a catch and release program here once d'Arnaud gets it together a bit. As mentioned by Rob Castellano, good chance Lutz mashes over there and parlays it into a contract back here with someone.

They're up 402 people a game over last year so far.

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Edgy MD wrote: Ceetar wrote: where can I get that blanket to add to my registry? Your best maybe is just knocking on Mrs. Murphy's door and asking nicely, I would think, but good luck after that. That would be kinda awesome actually. Mets-baby handmedowns? Anyone got Murphy's address? Should I just send a SASE to him care of Citi Field asking for his babies blanket?

where can I get that blanket to add to my registry?

Murph was at the White House today in re: Paternity Leave stuff. (yes please..) Also his teammates were annoyed with him because he forgot A tradition that has been used in locker rooms across the country for years, anytime a player becomes a new father, they are to supply their teammates with cigars to �celebrate�

Just for fun I was googling what I guess might be the closest/only bar nearby Citi Field (La Picardia Poblana) and found this enlightening facebook review: Nasty place ,and a dude has a mini deli in the restroom

But again, for all our "good pitching and shitty hitting", we're essentially league average in both runs allowed [4.08 vs NL Avg of 4.02] and runs scored [NYM = 4.00 vs 4.02] One can't help but wonder how we'd be doing with a couple of line drives falling into gaps instead of at fielders. Sure, but every team can say that and the only "evidence" we have that this is happening more often than usual to the Mets is that we watch all the games while only occasionally seeing other games. Oh, there's evidence, but it's mostly evaporated over the last week or two. prior to that though, their Hard Hit to BAbip ratio was very suggestive of some bad luck. Duda in particular:

Edgy MD wrote: I'm not sure what difference that'd make, but that's why I'm calling for a steady diet of bunting against the shift until teams start playing at least a little bit more honestly on defense. yeah, like our guys can get down a bunt that consistently.

Frayed Knot wrote: But again, for all our "good pitching and shitty hitting", we're essentially league average in both runs allowed [4.08 vs NL Avg of 4.02] and runs scored [NYM = 4.00 vs 4.02] One can't help but wonder how we'd be doing with a couple of line drives falling into gaps instead of at fielders.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: The Mitchell Report had him so nailed. Not only that he was an idiot for paying by personal check, but that the Dodgers officials knew he used when he was successful, and also knew he'd go back to using if and when they traded him because he was a punk who needed the CAHNfidence the roids gave him. Sure enough he rebounded strongly following the trade and then disappeared again. He was a complete fraud. Knew he used? Why? Just because he had the steroid literally delivered to the stadium?

MFS62 wrote: MFS62 wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I left town Tuesday morning and returned late yesterday. Did I miss something? Here's how you can get back on track. Go into to your garage, pick up a hammer, and hit yourself over the head with it six times. Then you'll know what you missed. Later How about having a step break underneath you while walking into the basement and later forgetting said step is missing and tripping down the steps? does that work? Only if you trip down that same step six times. Later Too late, I fixed it. Hopefully the Mets did too.

d'Kong76 wrote: One of my first waking thoughts this morning was I needed to start a NGT. I need therapy. I'm doubling down by trying to figure out if I can make it to any games this homestand.

MFS62 wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I left town Tuesday morning and returned late yesterday. Did I miss something? Here's how you can get back on track. Go into to your garage, pick up a hammer, and hit yourself over the head with it six times. Then you'll know what you missed. Later How about having a step break underneath you while walking into the basement and later forgetting said step is missing and tripping down the steps? does that work?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I left town Tuesday morning and returned late yesterday. Did I miss something? not that I'm aware of.