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dinosaur jesus wrote: I understand selling high, but isn't a guy who's earning a third of what he's worth exactly who you want on a team that's low on cash? Not if you can leverage him into quite a bit more than that. Only if though. If you can get a real good outfielder? a prospect starter than will likely pitch way more than the 60 innings Parnell is giving you? I don't trade him just because he's valuable and you can get something back. Even if it's partially luck based (And he's had his share of bad luck last year too, BABIP be damned. At a certain point (not yet) the low FB/HR rate stabilizes and becomes real, not luck. Besides, there's almost no scenario where Parnell isn't helping the Mets in the next couple of years. Even if he's not as good. The point about the good arms that might not become starters is valid too.

Swan Swan H wrote: Swan Swan H wrote: Anthony Recker on my teevee during cocktail hour? I'll take mine shaken, not stirred. A dry martini in a deep champagne goblet. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel. Got it? A Ceetartini. Sounds delicious! Can't take credit. That's a Vesper, and those are Ian Fleming's words.

Swan Swan H wrote: Anthony Recker on my teevee during cocktail hour? I'll take mine shaken, not stirred. A dry martini in a deep champagne goblet. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel. Got it?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: My approach to trading Bobby Parnell would be: 1) Ask for the moon and stars 2) Extend a fat middle finger to those who won't pay up. That's pretty much been Sandy's M.O. I disagree about how much luck Parnell's super success has been, but I agree with the premise overall. If you can sell a reliever high, you're almost never going to regret it.

Edgy MD wrote: That's what I go to Faith and Fear for. well duh, that's the mecca for beautiful Mets prose, but I was getting at something a little different. Hell, maybe I should just do it myself and see how it feels. John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Not for nothing but that cannot be everyone's job. I'd agree the papers aren't doing a real good job at providing beautiful writing but do employ columnists whose job it is to provide those backstories. And guys like Rubin do an incredible volume of work that includes a fair amount of analysis-type stories. Their jobs are generally considered a real grind (travel, print/twitter/web deadlines, dealing with jocks and Wilpons), 98% of the blogosphere lives off them yet much of the twittering pretend baseball journalist society casually disrespect their work and many feel entitled to be openly hostile toward them. I don't mean everyone's job, just one guy doing something different with the grueling stuff. I don't know how much of the blogosphere lives off the beat guys. Maybe as a whole, in the sense that if they weren't there the Mets might not have Terry Collins answer all the pertinent questions after or before the game. The routine "How's Niese feeling?" "Are you going to use Brown more?" questions. The problem many of have with the beat guys, especially Rubin the Troll, is that they bombard us with that filler stuff that they think, and the newspapers think, is still their job. lineup tweets, injury updates, especially things that they're just rephrasing what the Mets are saying publicly, sometimes on Twitter at the same time. So in essence, the beat writers are the 20 guys that come in the morning and say to the security guard who's drenched in sweet and sitting in front of the fan "Man, it's HOT out there today!" Part of it's that they aren't changing fast enough, if at all, with their jobs. It's becoming less analytic and more fact-gathering. They can find out injuries, philosophies, things people are working on, etc. But we don't need them to say 'Hey, Gee's velocity is going up, that's a good thing, look at these breakdowns.." because guess what? half a dozen bloggers already wrote about that, noted it, graphed it, tracked it, compared it to last year ,etc, all without any input or information from anyone but publicly available information. And some of them seem to actually dislike their job and some of the facets that come with it, but that comes across like griping with your customers about your boss. But like Greg said, Jared Diamond, Andrew Keh, Jorge Castillo and Marc Carig all seem to be doing a pretty good job from my end. I enjoy following what they have to do and the interactions they have on Twitter. Between them and Kevin and Howie/Josh etc I'm covered with the Mets info I want. I wouldn't even notice much if the other guys vanished. (and I have plenty of gripes about other bloggers too. Take yesterday's Metsblog post about Collins saying Niese won't need surgery. Well duh, that's what the story was last week. Joe and Evan obviously asked about him in the weekly spot, their first of the year, and there is no new information. So why is that a story? You see that all the time, the trickling and retweeting and reblogging of stuff so that it somehow becomes new again. )

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: So this is the opposite of the Yahoo Contributor Network thread? I think it may be simultaneously the best of times and the worst of times. That's what I'd argue. The whole democratization of the publishing process afforded by the Internet set everyone free and that's great but also it's interesting to see that many of the emerging "winners" aren't good writers at all. Not to pick on 'em but there's Metsblog and its staff; guys like Healey aping the all the worst of the old guard; snotty new-media guys like Law; SEO driven content like Yahoo and Bleacher Report; lazy niche-based blogger frauds like MBTN.net, etc. Oh, I think the lazy niche-based blogger frauds are the best though! But it's not about writing, it's about information and/or analysis. Things like uniform numbers, or Franco giving out ice cream, were 2 sentence blurbs that you had to keep an eye out for or you missed. I'd love to see one of the beat guys, instead of regurgitating the game story that we can get from everywhere else, write intricate flowing prose and really stylize the game.

I suspect Alderson was a little blindsided by just how bad the situation became. I don't think the lawsuit had even been filed when he took the job, and the revenue was still a little higher in that he probably though as long as he was smart with his moves, he could still leverage the team into a winner. And then they continued to lose, get hurt, and hemorrhage fans and revenue, as did the Wilpons, and he realized he wasn't going to be really do anything unless he fixed the revenue/payroll ratios of the team itself. And yes, we're now at that point where there is Mets-specific revenue that can be spent, with Johan, Bay, etc off the books and more licensing money and all that. I could certainly see Alderson walking away if he's not allowed to spend _that_ I mean, who wouldn't?

Frayed Knot wrote: I heard some guy on FAN the other day claiming he couldn't find some of the apples, that they weren't where they were supposed to be or something. Naturally he blamed the Wilpons. obviously. they're greedily keeping them. They've all been rolled out now I think. There were some delays with some of the outdoor ones (And the Tampa one had a last minute change in location) but as of this week they've all shown up.

The Royals apple is in front of Fox on the Avenue of the Americas. It's on a little patio two steps up from street level where they probably do outdoor shows or something. Both stairwells had a metal grate thingy blocking it, but hey, it's a street corner and I'm a New Yorker, so I didn't let that stop me from getting the picture up close. Sure did piss off some security guard though. I had my headphones in anyway, but I did hear him yelling and whistling. As I'm leaving he was quite annoyed. Dropping words like "private property" and "trespassing". I pointed out that there are 34 other apples right out in the public to be seen and he didn't seem to care. Stood in my way until I just said "Okay, I"m leaving" and walked past him. This guy really needs to get into the All-Star Spirit! must be a Yankees fan.

Speaking of which, does anyone want a ticket strip to the games? I originally only found two separately, but then found two together so bought those, so looking to offload my two unused strips (They're $650) I've got one up on Stubhub, but fees are even more ridiculous on prices this high so for me to get my money back is basically sending Stubhub's entire family to college. So reselling at face via word of mouth seems the way to go.

I thought it was the subtly emphasize the ASG part. but who knows. Halfway looking forward to this. And then I get a softball game right after? neat.

Centerfield wrote: And if it's only approaching league average? well, a lot of teams could use another one of those. Maybe, but apparently not us. See, we had Pelfrey, and let him go. Sure, we let him go, when got expensive and injured. Certainly used him plenty before that. We enjoyed those Aaron Laffey starts right? It's only a disappointment if you set those expectations, which given the nature of prospects, and pitchers, seems silly. This is baseball, there's a lot of failure built in. We beat the odds with Harvey, and certainly it seems like we might again with Wheeler, but having Harvey and a league average innings eater under control for the next bunch of years has more than met my expectations for two draft picks, even two first round picks. even if you throw in Meija and Familia.

Prospects are prospects for a reason. A lot of them don't make it. Simply adding a regular contributor to the mix is an enormous success. And if it's only approaching league average? well, a lot of teams could use another one of those.

Vic Sage wrote: if he can provide at least the averagish starts of Pelfrey, it's still something. yeah, it would be something alright... a huge disappointment, is what that would be. Clearly, if every highly rated prospect doesn't become Tom Seaver it's a huge disappointment. I mean, d'Arnaud better get with the Piazza comps soon once he gets called up, or who knows. #FireSandy maybe. If only the the Mets were better at development like all those other teams who never have high draft picks do less than dominate.

Harvey was such an exception, I don't even want to think about it. I think Wheeler's certainly still got some growing to do. I worry about the stuff Darling was saying about his game plan. (But then, I worry about most of what Warthen must be telling these guys as a general rule) Of course, as much as it would be awesome to have two Aces, if he can provide at least the averagish starts of Pelfrey, it's still something.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I don't get it. Is Cashman saying saying Arod was lying, or does he feel as though Arod's forthcomingness prevents the Yankees from lying? Saying the first, meaning the second.

New Met Kyle Johnson has a wifey (or gf? who knows) Susan Wilson(susanwilson01 on TwitteR) Sears Tower off-days The book she's reading, The Package Deal

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Exactly. Do they have us in chardonnay, Mr. Hops-and-Malt? In malbec? I don't have (or know of) an app that allows you to check in which wines you drink, so I have no idea. Citi Field has stepped up it's wine game though.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: They've got Sale and Rios and not much else but some vague future "promise." We've got Harv and Wright and the same remainder. We have met the enemy, and he is us, with worse ballpark food. New Holland Mad Hatter Bell's Oberon Great Lakes Half Acre Blitz-Weinhard Brewing Co. Rogue Dead Guy New Glarus and probably others. They've got us in beer.

Frayed Knot wrote: MFS62 wrote: Y'mean two different POTG threads? Among other things, yes. Between multiple threads on the same subject, threads in wrong sub-fora, multiple posts in wrong threads, missed KTEs, and poor PotG participation - we're definitely in a collective posting slump around here. Ceetar has volunteered to go to Vegas with hopes of straightening things out, but I'm not sure that's the best remedy. David Wright, captain that he is, has instructed me to 'put 5 on it'. You can find me at the Cosmopolitan roulette wheel.

Zvon wrote: What we are seeing from Young seems too good to be true, don't it? hopefully it holds up until we get Ike back and hitting, or Duda, or.. I dunno. someone.

Adam Dunn at first. .193/.293/.458 /.751 20 HR. 89 Ks. He's probably not going to make contact, but occasionally will blind squirrel one over the fence. the KTE from the visit to Citi http://www.cranepoolforum.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=19510

Carly Booth turned 21 last week. Apparently Google images started grouping common keywords together at the top of the page. top three: Boyfriend, hot, ballroom.