Ceetar

35 IP, 3.2 ERA, 8.2 K/9 3.0 BB/9 ERA+ 112

bmfc1 wrote: It's jarring to hear the station ID include a discussion of the Ukraine. The good news is that we'll undoubtedly see that $3M immediately poured into improving the team! The alternative was "Derek Jeter has two hits tonight placing him 15th on the all-time hits list!"

d'Kong76 wrote: My SNY signal has bitten the dust. People always praising the damn sun down in Florida, but from my experience it only causes problems like this.

The Mets are playing the Marlins. The Nationals are playing the Mets. I think there's a split squad thingy in there too. I'm listening to the WOR one w/ the Nats, I think SNY is playing the other one. Kirk Nieuwenhuis just got a hit.

Lefty Specialist wrote: Sterling's going to miss him. No A-bombs this year, either. Oh, he'll have fun with his McCannon. probably get a McDonalds sponsorship deal out of it.

Next time someone gets criticized (not on the Cardinals) for being showy I want them to claim they were doing it "The Cardinal Way" (Next time someone gets busted for PEDs, I want him to talk about how Jeter was always his idol)

seawolf17 wrote: Former Seawolf Nick Tropeano expected to pitch for Houston today. warming up now.

Lefty Specialist wrote: Wheeler's spring debut: 3 IP, 2 hits, 3 Ks, 0 walks, 0 runs Curious to know if he threw a lot of pitches. That's a part of the game he needs to work on. saw 40, not sure if true.

but you cheated him of an 'a'.

TransMonk wrote: On a side note, I also rank movies based on whether they are on commercial stations or commercial-free stations. I'll even veto some of the "anytime" movies if I have to sit through commercials and edits. yeah, if it's on a commercial station and I leave it on I'm gone by the first commercial or it's just background noise. My wife does this and it drives me crazy, especially when it's a movie we have on DVD somewhere.

metsguyinmichigan wrote: I think it's exciting to think about those three guys in the rotation! I also hope we can get them some offense. I wonder if Harvey had been healthy and this was THE YEAR, whether Thor would have come north or whether they still would have kept him down to delay arbitration. He's thrown 54 innings in AA and 0 in AAA so probably would be in the minors regardless.

2006 - "The Departed" 2005 - "Crash" 2003 - "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" 2001 - "A Beautiful Mind" 2000 - "Gladiator" 1997 - "Titanic" 1995 - "Braveheart" 1994 - "Forrest Gump" 1991 - "The Silence of the Lambs" 1976 - "Rocky" 1975 - "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" 1974 - "The Godfather Part II" 1972 - "The Godfather" 1939 - "Gone with the Wind" seen 13. Would definitely watch The Godfathers, Silence of the Lambs, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, LotR again. Would definitely avoid Gone With The Wind and Titanic.

I suspect Willie gets a job. Baseball-lifer type, has certainly been coaching and around since, his time here wasn't bad, made the playoffs, lots of it could be brushed off as rookie mistakes.

d'Kong76 wrote: Mets exploding in the top o' the ninth!! better than imploding. Braves about to go 0-6.

d'Kong76 wrote: I think Steve Philips is pretty good on the radio. Really? I've been already become frustrated with all the generic baseball cliches and the "when I was a GM.."

Vic Sage wrote: But underlying all these considerations is not public interest; it's private profit. You'll have to pay more than you want for your entertainment, because they know you will. It's our drug. I want my... i want my ... i want my MTV.... Pretty much. see also: Baseball ticket prices. It's definitely a transition period, I have no doubt they'll eventually be a simpler system than there is now, I'm just hoping there's something we can do as consumers to push them in a direction that's better for us in the long run. Because as much as "it's our drug" there are a lot of other drugs out there. HBO and Showtime are competing to some extent, but all of HBO's drug-takers are potential (or current) Showtime druggies as well, whereas the ones the competition drives to take a different drug, say Nintendo's, are less likely to come back and buy your drug.

See, I DO find everything I want in one place, I just don't pay for it. It's not that one over-arcing conglomerate is better, but that the idea that I would, or should, pay for one subscription to get Universal movies and one subscription to get Paramount and one..that's ridiculous. These companies ARE NOT competing with each other. They exist in a "rising tide raises all ships" environment. It's not like anyone chooses a movie based on the studio. That these companies in the middle of the artist and the consumer have all the power is the problem, and perhaps the solution is to throw it to Google/Apple/Amazon/NetFlix and let the films (and tv shows) go directly up on sites where you buy them directly. Get rid of this BS exclusivity stuff. When I say sell to Google, what I mean is I want the discussion about what to sell to be with the consumer, with me. I want NetFlix to base it on what I'm watching, what I want to watch. Right now it feels like the discussion is between NetFlix and the studios about what they think they can sell us. Because where we're going now is plenty scary. These film companies trying to keep control of the market and tell NetFlix how much it's going to cost, which then NetFlix adjusts the price to tell us what we can watch, while Comcast tells us to pony up more money if you actually want to have the internet connection to watch it while the cellphone companies strip data-allowances so that you have to give them more money if you want to watch it on a tablet or phone.

RealityChuck wrote: The problem with Netflix (and Amazon Prime and Hulu Plus and HBO Online and everything else) is the fragmentation of the market. Film producers sell streaming rights to the highest bidder (if they're willing to sell them at all) and the highest bidder also insists on exclusive rights. Thus streaming films don't come from multiple sources, and no one source has everything. Each service has plenty of good things to watch, but no one will have everything you want to see. Yeah, this is the main problem. Everyone wants a piece of the action. There are problems like this in a lot of industries. Perhaps it'll take something like NetFlix getting bought by Google and having the wealth to just buy enough that everyone else is forced to go through them. In the meantime, the consumer is stuck with struggling to figure out the best option, which is never good.

Last night's airing of The Graduate on TCM reminded me of this old thread about a month after Santana's no-hitter, when the Mets were battling the Nats for 1st place. http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/18200/f1_t18239.shtml They should've been GAMES in front at that point, they really let too many get away when they were doing so well in June. *mutters*

d'Kong76 wrote: TV people have a sick sense of humor making me watch the Knicks' game in lieu of no SUNDAY tv game? but for out of market mlb.tv fans it's on Cardinals radio. I'm listening while constructing a $10 do it yourself at home smartphone microscope.

that's amazing.

Edgy MD wrote: I'd say there's nobody who can get a perfect swing on every pitch. Let's try not to judge broadly by every pitch starting on day one of spring training. The overall outcome today was benevolent. I'd take it every day, of course, but that too would be over-projecting. I agree that his problem is more reading horizontal movement, and therefore isn't as much with curves, as with sliders. Really as long as he can lay-off or foul off enough pitches, in general, that make pitchers throw enough hittable pitches that he can smack out of the park/off the wall, that's fine.

Vic Sage wrote: i'm just glad it wasn't captain intangibles. He didn't even make the semis.

should download/record your clip when they archive the audio. Was just before Puello's ab I think.

seawolf17 wrote: seawolf17 wrote: I know you want money, MLB, but make the fucking spring training game audio free. Dbags. I thought they did? Not that I can find. $19.99 for the season. And the "listen now" link on the WOR page goes to their regular mid-day programming or whatever. You can download the app for free definitely.. it's the subscription afterwards that cost $19.99 but you should still be able to get the Springgames.