Ceetar

vtmet wrote: Is there a rule against Fox televising Blue Jays games? There is not a single Jays game listed...even every crappy team has at least one game, but no Toronto Blue Jays games... I didn't check Fox, but when I was looking at ESPN stuff I discovered they'd never been to PNC Park in Pittsburgh. They are extremely unfair in what games they choose, and I imagine Fox is the same way.

what's May 11th that they don't care about baseball that day? NFL draft or something?

A Baseball City to Be Divided on Opening Day By DAVID WALDSTEIN Published: February 10, 2013 Over in Queens, the Mets will host the San Diego Padres in what some will liken to a junior varsity event. Oh, fuck off already. I have no problem with this quote from Waldstein, above. I do have a problem with Strawberry, who seems to be hedging his loyalty to the Mets: For those who have experienced both opening days as a player, it is hard to say which would be better. Darryl Strawberry, one of the best position players to wear both uniforms, said that picking one would be too tough. �I wouldn�t be able to choose,� he said. �I think that�s a day for a fan to stay home and watch on TV and switch back and forth.� Do fans remember Straw as primarily a Yankee? Strawberry and Gooden know it's good business to play one off the other. The guy whose MFY association really kills me is Mazzilli: Spent about 2 months in the Bronx as a bench player and was traded away at the earliest opporunity. Yet today he's routinely believed to be a Yankee-Met and I think if you asked Joe Young Fan, he'd probably guess he was a MFY for longer. Yup. My 'first' memory of Mazzilli was arguing for an interference call against the Mets in a Subway Series game in 2000 and getting it. ('99?) Hated him ever since. Strawberry was my favorite player when I was younger so I have memories of him. I don't really have any Mets memories of Gooden. I don't particularly think of him as a Yankee, but I don't have the same type of possession of him that most Mets fans do.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Ceetar wrote: Vic Sage wrote: well, its not like they were going to retire 15 for either Grote or Beltran, so if its going to stay in circulation, i'm happy to see Grote's number go to their "next great catcher". I think Beltran goes into the Hall as a Met. Therefore I think it should be retired. It's not complicated. He won't and it won't. It's also not complicated. We'll see. He's also not done.

Vic Sage wrote: well, its not like they were going to retire 15 for either Grote or Beltran, so if its going to stay in circulation, i'm happy to see Grote's number go to their "next great catcher". I think Beltran goes into the Hall as a Met. Therefore I think it should be retired. It's not complicated.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I approve of the 15 for d'Arnaud. despise it with every fiber of my being.

metirish wrote: Santana will be ready? No reason he wouldn't be. Well, barring something happening.

A Baseball City to Be Divided on Opening Day By DAVID WALDSTEIN Published: February 10, 2013 Over in Queens, the Mets will host the San Diego Padres in what some will liken to a junior varsity event. Oh, fuck off already. I would've gone with "over in the Bronx, the Yankees will host the Boston Red Sox in what some will liken to an Old Timers Day event."

Edgy MD wrote: You didn't have much love for Ronny during the season though. Remember, they brought back Omar Quintanilla, who was pretty much as good as Cede�o in the modest amount of PT he got. I wasn't thrilled with him early, but then he played well and I like him. He had more than twice the PA as Omar though, and Omar himself seemed to be fading (although it's certainly worth noting that had Cedeno been healthy Omar wouldn't have been there. depth and all..) Ronny, although never good, has had a long history of regularly playing time. He also seemed better defensively, for whatever the handful of chances they both got were. I can agree about not investing too much in some of these veteran types, but on the other hand, when the money's so little sometimes you're best served just grabbing the best guy you can. Cedeno's making a wee bit more than 2x the minimum. That's nothing, even to the Mets.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Ceetar wrote: Freddy Sanchez is probably better than Brandon Hicks right..? Yes, but with shoulder-labrum and back-hernia surgery in 2011-12, he's maybe less healthy than Grady Sizemore (who's actually played more recently than has Freddy). If we got Carlos Lee, we could hollow him out, and smuggle drugs through JFK; that should bump the budget a few million, no? yeah, and then I looked and realized Sanchez hasn't played SS since like 2007. I still say they should've kept Cedeno.

Freddy Sanchez is probably better than Brandon Hicks right..?

TransMonk wrote: It's on my list to read this week, but my expectations aren't that high. I'm mostly interested in what he has to say about Valentine and to revisit some of the '99-2001 highlights. But, c'mon, it's Mike Piazza. He married a playmate and would feel more at home on That Metal Show than the NYT Book Review to promote his bio. I'm not saying I expect him to come off as a douche...but I wouldn't be surprised if he did. Well yeah, but it's a fine line (and presumably an editor/co-author's job?) between out of touch elitist jock and racist. On the other hand, some think this guy did everything he could to get better, every edge, including some that might be illegal but wouldn't learn a couple of spanish words to communicate with his pitchers better? This the first entry in the CPF book club right?

makes me not want to read it, quotes like that.

yeah, something like that. He really only applies in discussion about the future and 2014 and what not.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: The other options are named Abreu, Damon, Podsednik, and Sizemore. Provided each of them requires a guaranteed major-league contract, which one IS your backup plan? Honestly, I think I'd rather have The Outfield Of A Thousand Faces than guarantee any of those a starting spot. (Though I could go Sizemore, on a cheap enough pillow deal.) the only 'option' Sizemore provides is a on-field September trial to see if he's worth keeping in 2014.

Rey Ordonez has 64 intentional walks. 8 of them were to face Al Leiter. He was pinch hit for 170 times, and those batters batted .224/.294/.296.

Frayed Knot wrote: New York Mets 1B Ike Davis (ankle) confessed that his bout with valley fever last year left him very fatigued. So much for the "no symptoms" talk we kept hearing. Could be psychosomatic. Even the ankle bit. Sometimes simply thinking your ankle isn't 100% is enough to throw you off. Or he simply could not have said anything, figuring he knew what it was and complaining about being tired was lame and simply tried to adjust his work load to manage it.

March 7th at 8:41 maybe?

Frayed Knot wrote: I have a tough time whipping up much sympathy for (adult) autograph hounds because their ten hour wait for a 35th autograph by the same guy proves fruitless. you could argue that these hounds are part of the reason guys don't sign as much too. Harder to blame a guy for not signing when more often than not it's these guys he's not signing for.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/sports/baseball/jeter-fans-line-up-shut-up-and-wait.html?smid=tw-share Makes Jeter look like a primadonna. (well, he is) but that won't tarnish his image or anything.

Edgy MD wrote: Sheesh, ceetar, poke the bear, whydon'tcha? Haha. just grasping at straws really. I knew Ordonez had a ~4 dWAR in '99 and nearly 3 overall. Didn't know how well the other seasons stood out. Typically just being a SS lowers the bar for what you need to hit to be okay. I suspect it's one of the guys before my time.

Ordonez? He put up some nifty defensive WAR and was here a while.

The provocative answer; Kranepool.

Olerud.

Carlos Beltran.