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  1. Ceetar
    Zvon wrote: It being coooold outside I'll sandwich two together, both experiences involving cooooold. Jets game 1968. Sat in the mezz section and froze so bad I thought I would never feel my extremities again. Went with my buddy and his dad. We had blankets and hot cocoa and layers and layers of cloths. Still froze my ass off. Mets playoffs, 1988. Game 5. What was happening on the field was bad enough (freakin Gibson smacks a homer, makes a diving catch looking like a fish flopping out of water) but the cooooold: We sat in the last row of a mezz section out towards right. There was a, you couldn't simply call it a breeze, a cold rush of wind that would blow right up our backs and we were freezing and because of the overhang could only see a slice of the game. The cold bothered me much more than the view. I was in the last row of the Uppers for '06 NLCS game 1. same deal. Freaking cold wind on my back/neck/head the entire night.
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    good call, I'd apparently translated that game to 2007. it was actually a Wednesday. Luis Ayala came on as the "closer at home for tie game in the ninth"
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    Wanna say the worst 'game' was NLCS game 7, but it really wasn't because it was the ending and subsequent departure that sucked. that last Thursday of '07 is a candidate though, the "Wright couldn't drive in Murphy from third" game. That's the game that put the Mets actually out of controlling their own destiny for the playoffs and was a punch in the gut. (Of course, the Phillies didn't really want that ball, dropping it themselves the next day) Worst non game-related experience? Probably getting kicked out for sneaking down in the 9th inning towards the dugout during a Mets vs. Barry Bonds game. first time I ever left a game early. Waiting online in sub-zero january for tickets, and like, game 1 of the '06 NLCS were pretty miserable, but good-miserable.
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    metsguyinmichigan wrote: metsguyinmichigan wrote: Murray Chass just keeps getting kookier and kookier... http://www.murraychass.com/?p=7013 refusing to read random internet cranks. feel free to copy paste here. Having just come from the digital media, we always felt -- and were -- cheated when people cut and paste entire stories from the site. But I'll look for a couple representational paragraphs. I agree...when it's something worthy of clicks and links although I always favor excerpts so people can get an idea of what they're clicking to. But the only value here is point and laugh value.
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    metsguyinmichigan wrote: Murray Chass just keeps getting kookier and kookier... http://www.murraychass.com/?p=7013 refusing to read random internet cranks. feel free to copy paste here.
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    Edgy MD wrote: I was trying to speak to his general defensive aptitude. and I was just being a numbers nerd cause I was curious. I don't think I can filter b-r play index on UZR or anything. not that 110 innings are really meaningful. I'm sure there are a handful of other guys that played a dozen or so games at SS that were just as bad (perhaps one that's been playing there, in this city, with the same number, for years) in the field, but Turner is definitely near the bottom.
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    Edgy MD wrote: Turner was a terrible shortstop. He probably improved with is his reps in 2013, but he was like worst-in-the-league bad. He didn't help the team there. Actually, of all guys with 50AB at SS (how many Turner got) he was 49/59 in OPS. Q was 45 and Tejada as 57.
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    Centerfield wrote: It just boggles my mind that with SS up in the air like this that we would non-tender Justin Turner. Whatever. They have plenty of time. It's not like they're losing games while not carrying a barely acceptable SS backup guy with a penchant for whipped cream pies.
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    they'll clearly bring in something, since it's like Tejada, Tovar, and then whoever they draft this year on the depth chart.
  10. Ceetar
    Benjamin Grimm wrote: I voted "other". Do I really have to explain why I'd find someone other than Kranepool or Swoboda to be sexy? yes. with visual proof of said sexiness.
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    Edgy MD (supposedly) wrote: The quoting tree has been somehow incorrectly pruned, and Steve's words are now in my mouf. fixed. I never was a good tree pruner.
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    SteveJRogers wrote: But the point remains, how can you be so sure your eye test is correct with Piazza and Bagwell, but not with Thomas? Or Maddux, or Glavine, or Schilling, or Jeter, or Mariano, or Mattingly, or Robbie Alomar or Ricky Henderson, or..
  13. Ceetar
    still 2013, so Justin Turner still counts. Wright's wedding?
  14. Ceetar
    Edgy MD wrote: The main result of the ballyhooed 48 fps technology was --- from my seat --- to make the sets look so vivid... that they look like sets, and the CGI looks like CGI. was having this discussion the other day. I suspect it's just the newness of it. Once you get used to it you'll be immersed in the story the same way you always are. Also as filmmakers get better at using it as a companion tool and not a "Hey, let's see what we can do!" bit. Splitting the Hobbit into three parts for me took away all urgency to actually see them. Two parters don't both me quite as much, but usually only if a story has a good middle where you can cut it, and a lot of 'final' book adaptations have a lot of that going on do to the conclusive nature of them, but I'm not sure the Hobbit really has three distinct enough stories worth telling. Seems like I'm not the only one. I suspect I'll watch them on Netflix or something on successive days after the third one's out.
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    obvious or immediate? Well, Lucas Duda's OPS+ isn't that far off, and the Duda actually has the higher more valuable OBP. (and yes, is cheaper) And who really knows about Davis? His 170 OPS+ in the second half last year is as good or better than any of Morales months and Kendrys had his sucker months too. (.235/.265/.306 .571 in June and his August was poor too) Granted, Ike struggled worse and for longer and Kendrys was more balanced in 2011 but still only finished .016 better in OPS than Ike. Is that really an obvious replacement? It seems like more of a steadier replacement, but unless money is absolutely no object, which isn't not for any team, I'm not sure it's a clear-cut expenditure unless he's just asking like 1-2 years for 4-5 per.
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    I think the value we got from Lagares throwing out runners is highly likely to regress, as it's a contribution that's both situation-dependent and choice-dependent. Young, meanwhile, may be a paragon of a new market inefficiency. So hard to measure. Does reputation alone now (damn that no gold glove thing) make runners think twice about rounding second? How to you determine if they stayed because they wouldn't have made it, or they stayed because they thought they only wouldn't make it against Juan? Tricky bit of defensive value there. Interesting post though. If Sandy is thinking along those lines, it might help explain his willingness to let Turner go and his dissatisfaction with Tejada (well, his seeming disinclination to think Tejada can be valuable again). Granderson has a 2:1 FB/LD:GB ratio as well. (and 63 bunts)
  17. Ceetar
    white socks on day three? who knows.. Feel like I'm remember a David Wright pinch hit homer last year. most recent? edit: suspense got me. Wright's actually never had a HR as anything other than 3B. no DH, no PH, no SS.
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    Nymr83 wrote: Drew isn't even close to being a good enough hitter for an AL team to consider him as even a part-time DH though, his value comes from being an average bat at a position devoid of bats. if you just wanted DH production, trade for Lucas Duda. Do the Yankees have anything worthwhile to trade? Beltran and half his salary maybe?
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    There is really no harm whatsoever in bidding for him now. Maybe he's in your price range, or maybe just adding another team that's "interested" in him raises his demands and makes others have to shell out a little more, which while not worth a ton, is certainly worth simply saying "Sure, I'll talk to you."
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    Ceetar wrote: 1. Hmm. First I can remember is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (We sat in the front row) but I'm not positive that was the first. I doubt it, since I was 8. I just texted my mom to ask. Made this a topic all holiday. We eventually looked through movie releases from the mid-80s and settled on it probably being Flight of the Navigator.
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    batmagadanleadoff wrote: 1. What's the first movie you ever saw in a movie theater? 2. What's the worst movie theater experience you ever had as a youngster/toddler/elementary school aged kid? 1. Hmm. First I can remember is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (We sat in the front row) but I'm not positive that was the first. I doubt it, since I was 8. I just texted my mom to ask. 2. I don't recall having any bad movie theater experiences though. We went to ..I think it was American Pie 2, on opening night in Westbury and the film failed and we ended up watching Osmosis Jones instead (not bad) but that's the worst I can think of. *crossing my fingers here*
  22. Ceetar
    that's the Treblemakers. And don't forget about The High Notes. (it's a very punny movie) It's charming in it's own ridiculous way. Best scene might be Anna Kendrick and Brittney Snow singing Titanium in the shower.
  23. Ceetar
    Angel Pagan?
  24. Ceetar
    how about Edgardo Alfonzo? and trick question, you're not wearing socks today.
  25. Ceetar
    Ramon Castro?
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