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    SteveJRogers wrote: Ceetar wrote: metirish wrote: Do I need to wear shades? It'd be funny if the Mets embraced this in that kooky way that seems like it gets them criticized and they try to avoid as a result. They have with their 7Line-esque T-Shirt giveaways. Stuff like this is always doomed to fail, which is why its probably better that the unlicensed companies like 7Line does it. They can handle the shirt slogans that end up getting mocked within a month, or getting behind players that end up not working out for whatever reason. But the teams themselves doing it opens them up to complete ridicule. That's true. And Darren's not limited by things like sponsors and red tape and giant corporations. He COULD have sunglasses available for d'Arnaud's debut and be ready to deploy the fanbase much easier than the Mets could, I should've tweeted at him instead.
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    Zvon wrote: You're becoming useless Q. Oh, and nice try. Can't risk losing him to waivers. It'd be...devastating.
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    Centerfield wrote: As an editor, you must see stuff like this all the time no? "For all intensive purposes..." "He is a real pre-Madonna." My favorite one was a young associate years back who wrote that our adversary had been guilty of a "premature evacuation". I suggested that he find different wording. I'm sure we're all guilty of one or two here and there. You hear a phrase (and who speaks clearly? I know I mumble with the best of them) and you like it and you reuse it. Suddenly you have to write it (And you write more in the Internet age) and I find myself a lot of times googling words and phrases for things like this, but some probably sneak through. Wrote 'for granted' yesterday and couldn't decide if it should've been one word or not.
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    So far in August Zack Wheeler has provided the 5th most fWAR with the bat.
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    Edgy MD wrote: Don't worry. He was riding the same wagon for Jordany at shortstop eight weeks ago. More importantly, did our house counsel just use "For all intensive purposes..."? no "intensive porpoises"
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    metsmarathon wrote: it could be that they don't want to upset the mix while they try to work out a trade for one of their surplus corner outfielders or first basemen. that too. Where are our #waiverwire leaks? get on that Rubin, what else are you good for?
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    metirish wrote: Right , speculating no doubt. Duda fits the mould but young seems to have opened eyes here.Obviously different types of players. I guess I think the Mets need the patient-SLG of Duda more than the speedy type of Young. maybe that's where this organizational philosophy shift plays in.
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    metirish wrote: Interesting last night when Gary mentioned Duda getting optioned to LV he and Keith then talked about the organization changing philosophy, or at least in their opinions that might well be the case. Just talking I think, not inside knowledge. Duda seems to fit the organizational mold to me.. I'm not really sure why they sent him down, if they do it for more than a week or two seems a dumb way to burn his last option. I think all it is is they seem committed to this Young/Lagares/Byrd outfield. I personally don't think that's worth keeping Kirk down or burning Duda's option, but then I'm not real sold on Young or Byrd being part of the future. I'd rather bet on Kirk or Duda, but I guess it's not my call? I haven't heard from Sandy in ages on the topic.
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    Well Duda did hit well when he was here and Davis has been hitting for a month now. Duda's only problem is a defensive one and really based on how much defense is really worth as compared to offense. And if having a guy like Lagares in CF mitigates that. Even if Davis hits like this the rest of the year, like he did last year, I'm not really sure what sort of confidence you go into next year with. It's a tricky situation, and if Flores AND Satin both seem viable at the major league level the rest of the way I'd bet pretty hard on probably at least one, if not two, of Flores,Satin,Davis and Duda getting traded in the offseason.
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    metirish wrote: Do I need to wear shades? It'd be funny if the Mets embraced this in that kooky way that seems like it gets them criticized and they try to avoid as a result. Mid-September Wheeler start, or d'Arnaud's debut, give out free Mets sunglasses as a "Future is Bright" promotion.
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    dinosaur jesus wrote: I was there! My first time at Citi Field, and I got Harvey's first shutout. I'm going to have to start coming to New York more often. Damn, he's good. Total control, beginning to end. admit it, you came for Dinger.
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    Edgy MD wrote: It's almost like he was told he was going to be on a short list in the second half and has deliberately altered his style to conserve pitches. . This is sarcasm right? Because Dan Warthen said exactly that.
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    Edgy MD wrote: I have to say, I kind of like that (at least, so far), neither the content (beyond the swastika) nor photos have been released. I always roll my eyes at that sort of censoring, especially when they'll surface, since I'm sure people took pictures. But, there's someone to punch. That deadspin guy gets a pass today.
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    Edgy MD wrote: If you�re unfamiliar with the story, it will take about two seconds to catch you up: the Mets were playing the Royals over the weekend, so the camera guy needed to find something interesting to film. When will internet technology be developed that allows me to punch people like this? I think the Internet was designed specifically so we're not next to these people when they say stupid things. Saves on assault charges.
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    That's a good first start. The passed balls and wild pitches are a sign you're doing something right as a Knuckleballer. Now, if we're talking about first starts CATCHING a knucklerball? well, that's a different story..
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    John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: That article was supposed to be a joke, I think. He updated the deadspin article saying he'd heard the same but that it certainly didn't read like it. I get the Onion and the WSJ mixed up all the time though, certainly.
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    Not that Ripken doesn't deserve some flak too, but he did eventually move. Jeter's a freaking laughing stock by anyone that understands baseball/fielding and yet still there's no inkling he's planning on moving. His injury in the playoffs was not going to make his range better and it was the perfect opportunity to broach the subject for this season, but of course that didn't happen.
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    My baseball jibber-jabber thread vanished, so I'm gonna link this here. I was working on transferring files over 4g to a crappy laptop for work and got into a discussion about Jeff Francoeur's 100th HR and how irate Mike Sielski was over him getting benched by the Mets with just one to go. This deadspin article breaks it down, with a healthy dose of WTF Jerry Manuel?. good reading, even features this comment: Francis EnglertUblogsarefun1L @blogsarefun: Quick digression: Why aren't more people talking about how terrible Jerry Manuel is? Because, at this point, it makes our heads hurt, noses bleed, and our hands yearn to taste slappable fellow-human flesh. 9/22/10 3:29pm
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    Vic Sage wrote: dinosaur jesus wrote: I think the thing to keep in mind here is that Jeter doesn't know he's a bad shortstop--he probably thought he was just as good a fielder as ARod. And that being the case, obviously it was the new guy who had to change positions. And who won the Gold Glove that year? Derek! This was kind of my point; he no doubt thought he was acting in the best interest of the team. I don't see it as an act of "selfishness", at least not knowingly. And A-Rod wasn't being "magnanimous" ... he was a free-agent coming to NY on a mega-deal, so just wanted to cause as little backlash as possible. He wasn't going to be making position demands to displace the Yankee captain upon showing up. It was as much in his own interest as Jeter's actions seem. Except he was traded there, not a free agent. They sought HIM not the other way around.
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    Edgy MD wrote: Wilmer Four-es. Four Eyes (Four Es? no, only if he's a butcher) can be his nickname.
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    I'd go with #1, but he was 4 in Vegas. edit: see?
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    Centerfield wrote: I think you have this backwards. It was Beltran who remained in CF, and Cameron who volunteered to move. I was talking about later on when there was a clearly better fielder available. (and not even a star-studded one) in 2004 Beltran was worth .9 rWAR defensively, while Cameron was worth -.6. Playing Beltran in center was the right move. (Also, Cameron on last year of his deal and would be gone anyway)
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    Sure, it wasn't Jeter's call to make, but look at what a classy, yet still extremely proud, player does in Carlos Beltran? And Beltran was not the captain of the team and was so much better as a defender in CF (and probably still would've been) than Jeter it's laughable.
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