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Swan Swan H wrote: What's this new guy's name? Foghorn Leghorn? It'd help if they'd put names on the back of their uniforms so I could tell which Yankee scrub was which.

Suzyn Waldman? No?

~$22 at the box office to get in tonight. I'm halfway tempted.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Don't make this too complicated. Ruben goes down to Vegas only until he proves he deserves to be back up. Yeah, it really is that simple. nothing is ever simple.

The friends and family of the players go in the entrance next to the player lot roughly where first base is if you're ever looking to stalk Actually, the players go in there too. Saw a Reds(or Cubs? who remembers) player go in there last year at like 3:30 pm. Whoever it was must've taken the 7 train in from Manhattan though.

The Duda bit was on the broadcast. I should just shell out the money for MLB.TV. that gives me access to the archives right? What's another..whatever it costs next to the nearly 400k I'm spending this month right?

Vic Sage wrote: first of all, Cedeno isn't "good", he's simply a more established major league hitter than Omar, but neither of them are "good" in any objective sense of the word. Omar, however, seems to me a much better glove at SS than Cedeno. But that's all irrelevant since Omar is here and Cedeno isn't. The question is who is best for the Mets to play at SS now? I have no faith in Tejada, and never have. And if he's not even a reliable glove anymore, he's pointless. Let him go to AAA and rediscover his stroke (such as it is) and show some hustle and passion for the game. In the meantime, i'm sure Omar can hit the same .210, but be more consistent with the glove and play with a little more fire. If Ruben earns a promotion, you can always cut omar without losing a night's sleep. well, Cedeno is good, Much much much better than Q but I was on a tangent. The question isn't could Omar have hit better than .210 so far, it's if he'll outhit Ruben going forward. Do you believe in Ruben Tejada as slumping (same goes for Ike probably although at least there are actual hitters you could play there) with likely to play better at any moment, or do you think any success he has was figured out and he's done now? As people so much like to say, 2013 is a lost cause right? So why would you ever play a journeyman/Quad-A player over a 23 year old that's had some success at the position before? There is roughly 0 chance Quintanilla or even Turner is the SS of the future, and however low you think Tejada's chances are, they're certainly not nil. He would be the 6th youngest player on the 51s. You just don't write off a player that young.

I figured that must've been pre bleacher-creature, the only ones that make noise in that mausoleum these days.

metirish wrote: You don't want Quintanilla but would take Cedeno? , for a short spell what's the difference? Cedeno's actually good, and seemed to perhaps take a step forward last year? Doing well with the Astros too.

Centerfield wrote: He doesn't get on base, he doesn't hit for power, he doesn't run fast (and therefore can't steal bases). He doesn't have a strong arm, and this year, he can't even catch the ball. I'm not sure what more we hope to get out of this guy. Valdespin? Turner? Quintanilla? Didn't Alderson draft a SS a few years ago? I can't believe this is the only option we have. Interesting how he's seemingly getting worse every year. the .280/.330/.350 version of Tejada isn't great, but it's average and that's something for a shortstop if he's playing the averagish defense he's capable of..but I dunno what to make of him. Of course, he's still the youngest player on the team (Only Familia younger this year). I don't want to see Quintanilla up here, but I wish we had a Ronny Cedeno type (or hell, play Turner occasionally) to spell him/sit him down.

Frayed Knot wrote: As somebody said on the broadcast last night (and you can do it now with these 'Pitch F/X' charts) if you were to see a graph of all the pitches Ike's seen lately and the results you'll probably see most of his swings-and-misses are at stuff out of the zone and many of the ones he takes wind up as called strikes. well, someone run one! (I don't have the time to figure it out at work. bleh, jobs.)

Edgy MD wrote: MFS62 wrote: Speaking of sloppy, this Sunday catcher the Yanks are running out there has had a lot of balls just go through his mitt. He should be on the next train to King of Prussia or wherever the Yankees send their AAA players. Just returned from a groin injury, probably still bothering him. Somehow the Yankees decided they didn't really need a catcher this year, sticking with Francisco Cervelli who got hurt. A guy they thought so much of LAST year they sent him to Triple-A to keep some scrub on the roster.

MFS62 wrote: I just KNOW the VYF in my office is going to blame it on the fact Rivera had to pitch twice tonight (once before the game). Y'know what? Fuck him. I got out of work, turned on the radio in my car just in time to hear Terry get tossed and the score 1-0 MFYs. Then I turned it off. Did Terry have a legit complaint? What was the play? Later no. and neither did Tejada who had to know he was out. Tried to slide back on the pick off and got blocked by so he never got his hand in. the umpire initially thought his hand was in there though, and started to signal safe before calling him out, and that's what set off Terry.

metirish wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Tejada can catch that flight to Vegas with Ike as far as I'm concerned. Yep, the booth talking big about Omar Quintanilla. Afraid Quintanilla would be worse.

G-Fafif wrote: But I'll take it over however much they're going to kiss The Captain's rings when his time comes. oh god please have the steroid tests come out before that.

That is a great pic. The image of fear on those fans faces..

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Twitter just said Ike is batting 8th. oh, I thought they were trying the players that couldn't hit leadoff.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Should raise prices tonight if truly dynamic. lower you mean, since it's raining.

seawolf17 wrote: Edgy MD wrote: But dang, give him the hat, David. Please. The Wilpons would have a canary if David started giving away limited-edition memorabilia. The Wilpons don't care, but he would be literally stealing from veterans.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Yeah right. Like they'll be able to get Stanton and get to keep Wheeler and d'Arnaud. They'll have to give up two Zack Wheelers to get Stanton. At least. I have no faith in this loser front office to do anything right. This is either more bullshit or eff Wilpon can't stay the course for a proper rebuild and the lack of incoming revenue will force him to give in and do a half assed rebuld where he thinks he can rebuild and compete at the same time. you can ignore the Stanton bit ,since that's basically Martino tooting his own horn from early in the Spring. I imagine all Alderson is saying is he knows he needs players, and if the players he needs become available midseason he's got no problem acquiring them then instead of trying to find them all in the offseason.

GM speak. he's said the same the past few years. it will be what it will be.

Today we find out if Matt Harvey is going to be the best pitcher in NY for the rest of the year or not.

got a lot of young uns floating around. let's make these Yanks look like grandpa at the family softball game.

Hay Horwitz wrote: Mets wives went shopping over the weekend and prepared supply bags to send to Moore,OK

Frankie and Wagner, more Wagner than K-Rod, were useful players. overpaid sure, but plenty of effect anyway. Of course Wagner sucked against St. Louis but that can happen to anyone in extremely small samples. Got us to the playoffs and was part of the reason they were competitive in 2007 and his injury killed them in 2008. Although looking at it now, Willie really should've leaned on Wags twice as hard down the stretch in 2007.