Ceetar

Ashie62 wrote: Do you need to get Mets tickets early for Port St. Lucie or is walkoff safe?...Also, is there decent access to watch practice and snap photos on non game days?.. there are usually tickets, but if it's a weekend I'd probably buy in advance (or if they're home 3/17?) just to be safe. get better seats that way too. often get a row or two in front of the mets bullpen (along the LF line). yeah, it's got a nice complex in the back. I've never been there on non-game days, but it's the same process they just don't kick you out as fast as they do on game days. Don't remember what time they let you in, but you can get to all 7 or so fields in the back, And if you want and it's a little later in the season you can stay and watch one of the minor league inter-squad games they sometimes play (although it usually means you have to walk out a side street and all the way around the block to get back to the parking lot)

Vic Sage wrote: odds on winning NL pennant: NL EAST Nationals 4/1 Phils 7/1 Atl 8/1 Mets 50/1 Fla 50/1 odds on winning WS: Houston Astros 100/1 Minnesota Twins 100/1 San Diego Padres 100/1 Colorado Rockies 100/1 Miami Marlins 100/1 New York Mets 100/1 Don't tell Ceetar. Shit, I got in at like 70:1. leaving good money on the table. (not that odds have anything to do with the likelihood of a team winning anyway)

personally I feel like Upton was much more likely before Dickey was traded. Less pitching depth now, so can't afford to trade pitching as much.

two ways it goes I guess, he apologizes for his fellow teammates "everyone was doing it" but declares he wasn't which I don't think would go over well, or he notes it was all over, declares it evil, and lauds baseball for fixing it, which paints him as the hero in the writers eyes and they elect him next year. curious though, if he'll throw anyone under the bus.

I guess I could apply for the editorial producer (basically Ted Berg's job right?). Not really my traditional field, but it's not like I love it (can barely tolerate it honestly) here.

dinosaur jesus wrote: There's a fun idea--pick the the most appropriate app for each team. pick the android app that's most appropriate for each MLB team.* *The Yankees have iPhones.

dinosaur jesus wrote: You know, regular landline phones don't usually have cords these days. Even my grandmother figured that out fifteen years ago or so. For $29.95 at Target, you could replace the dugout and bullpen phones and get that mobility they're bragging about.. I'm not getting the necessity of it, but hey, cool phone. Of course, it's still a computer and computers crash and freeze. Signals drop no matter how much tech you dedicate to it. Just wondering if the Cardinals or Orioles or Blue Jays will install angry birds.

our announcer team count? Rachel Burkhardt

my wife wants to see this, so i'll probably suffer through it. Doubt I'll enjoy it, the only good musical I've ever seen was South Park.

metirish wrote: Would love to work for SNY, not sure I'm qualified though. And i'm not really a tv person. some Photoshop jobs in there TITLE: Freelance PhotoShop / Viz Artist yeah, true. Of course I know next to nothing about actual " Degree in communications or related field required"

Would love to work for SNY, not sure I'm qualified though. And i'm not really a tv person.

Kong76 wrote: Something will come out about Jeter one day. He flew above the radar, had the better chemists!! I live for that day. He's willing to fake being hit by a pitch to help his team but isn't willing to take what nearly all his teammates are taking to heal faster, workout harder? That's hard for me to believe.

not sure yet, maybe. Thinking about attending the National one in Philly as well this summer.

yes, no one is arguing that this isn't the system, that doesn't make it mind-numbingly stupid. The incompetence of the writers in either of said jobs is only fuel to the 'fix it' fire and supports the idea that the current system is screwed up. Without twists of logic there's no solid reason why some of these guys aren't Hall of Famers. They're supposed to be constructing a hall of players in the top echelon of the game. Where you draw the line is a worthy debate, i.e. why Jack Morris probably shouldn't get in, but no one's arguing that it show be as low as the top 20 players in history or anything like that, and even if they were they're still wrong this year to elect no one. If after all this time you still can't vote for a guy like Piazza or Bagwell because "you suspect" then the game is still beyond broken (if you consider PEDs broken anyway). But MLB has moved on. No one's erasing the years that comprise the "steroid era" if they could even nail down the start and end of it, and then there is the amphetamines issue, which are banned now but clearly weren't then. So what to do about that? This is their job as voters, and if they don't have an answer for it, I'm not sure what to tell them. Baseball marches on, and we can't just stick our heads in the sand and suspend the Hall until someone figures it out to the comfort of all.

SteveJRogers wrote: Ceetar wrote: The integrity clause is being used as an excuse for voters to play favorites and support their own personal biases. Just thought of something, there is more hard evidence that Mariano Rivera is guilty of negligent homicide/manslaughter than there is for Piazza as a PED user. Love to see if anyone uses THAT against Saint Mo when he comes up. There is precedence, people didn't vote for Alomar based on the spiting incident, I'm sure the Roseboro incident is why Juan Marichal isn't a first ballot HOFer and drug related issues apparently kept Fergie Jenkins and Orlando Cepeda on the ballot longer than they probably should have. I mean I'd be surprised if a guy like Rivera didn't use something else anyway, but yeah no one cares about the other integrity stuff. drunk drivers, etc.

It's not hypocrisy to say one year a guy should be in the hall of 'fame' and then not vote him in? But it's not the hypocrisy that's the real issue. No one's laid down exactly what the integrity clause means, but you have to be pretty damn dense to think it means to only elect 'good guys' into a baseball inner circle. And that's well beyond the crap arguments used to not vote for Piazza or Bagwell. The integrity clause is being used as an excuse for voters to play favorites and support their own personal biases.

should be interesting. I'm just waiting to see Terry Collins and Bobby Parnell do the 'tap to share' S-Beam thing.

Derek's acne would probably be as a result of something of something sexually transmitted, or basketly transmitted, not just because of steroids.

Fangraphs has Lofton 14th on the WAR/CF list, .9 ahead of Carlos Beltran. (Bernie 35)

metirish wrote: Exit polling http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/newsstand/discussion/the_2012_hall_of_fame_ballot_collecting_gizmo 70.1 - Biggio 60.3 - Piazza 59.8 - Raines 59.3 - J. Morris 59.3 - Bagwell 45.4 - Bonds 44.3 - Clemens Woah, someone voted for Bonds and not Clemens? how's that work?

Frayed Knot wrote: If you don't buy it, they won't keep coming out hardly true, perhaps because you're not buying it they keep re engineering them to try to find something you'll buy. I can imagine some of the random variations the last couple of years have been selling well.

Heyman wants to see what's in Piazza's book.

Would be surprised if many beyond Terry Collins are ever seen wearing it.

metirish wrote: Where do the FOX exit polls have Piazza? Last projection I heard (though granted I think these were only 20-25% released) was maybe Biggio and that's it.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: What, no Fu? (Fantastic stuff. Yours, Cee?) Yeah. photoshop is fun.