Ceetar

They got hit from a wave? that's awesome! (I mean, horrible, poor Ryan, awww...)

you know he's looking at Molly.

metsmarathon wrote: jordanny? oh god no. rather play Baxter every day. or Turner.

themetfairy wrote: I love Tarantino - his sense of humor is amazingly warped. Looking forward to seeing this one. oh, very warped, and i love it.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'd love to know what those brutally honest questions were, as well as the answers. Probably "Are you fucking broke?" and variations. Jeff ordered the $125 burger and all was good.

I met with Jeff, Wilpon down in Miami the last series of the regular season. We were going to go out to a nice restaurant, have a nice dinner and just talk about what the negotiations would be like. Well the nice restaurants were closed so we went to this burger and beer joint down in Miami. We sat there and I was as brutally honest with him as I could be. He was honest with me which I really appreciated. I had some very difficult questions to ask him. He answered them to the best that he could and that kind of got the ball rolling Did Loria get to the nice restaurants too? I cannot picture Jeff Wilpon in a burger and beer joint. hell, it was probably THE burger and beer joint. What do you think they had? http://www.bnbjoint.com/menus/burgers

Nieuwenhuis is going to get at least some time. Duda probably as well. I think Baxter has earned at least one of the five spots. My preference would be for two 'regulars' among the other two spots, but I suspect it'll be more like one "big" guy and a Hairston type to split time with Kirk and Lucas depending on their splits.

The D is silent. Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago. Django and Schultz's search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), the proprietor of "Candyland," an infamous plantation. Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), Candie's trusted house slave. -- (C) Weinstein This movie was awesome, while being pretty predictable. I mean, Tarantino writes a western is pretty much exactly what you would expect. Bloodshed, ridiculous situations, fun cinematics, more bloodshed.. and well acted too. The main thing that drives the story is Django's quest to find his wife, who was sold to a different plantation than him. He hooks up with Schultz, the bounty hunter, and you get all sorts of hijinks as they collect on wanted posters and then it almost transitions to a James Bondesque mission to rescue Broomhilda, Django's wife. The only thing I'd say is that while DiCaprio and Jackson do a great job in their roles, both of them are really just incidentals in that except for one snag near the end, neither of their actions really drive the story and I think that takes away from their performance a bit. But the movie was great. really enjoyable. The soundtrack too, also typical Tarantino imo. Probably the best movie I've seen all year.

metsmarathon wrote: unless you don't expect to have it in the first place, of course. not that we should take much of anything GM/execs say as anything but words that form sentences, it doesn't jive with what they've hinted/said the payroll will be. They're only committed to about $75 mill or so at this point in 2013.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Well, the fact that we need outfielders pretty badly remains whether or not they can pay him. I'm convinced by now if it's not Dickey than it's Niese who gets shipped out, I'm not sure I'd be happy with that either. Harvey? How do you get an outfielder? buy one or two? trade for one or two with prospects? Both seem like possibilities and maybe better ones. Bah. They don't have the scratch to buy one, particularly if they keep Dickey around. I'm OK with the prospect trade but I don't think there's a Wil Myers type prospect in the system but for Wheeler. They've deferred a bunch of Bay and Wright's money. Seems silly to do that if you don't plan on spending it.

duan wrote: To some degree I think the mets are happy to wait him out a little bit and if it was my money I'd probably play the hand in the same way. Well, they're apparently looking for a steal of a deal, also gauging interest. They can get the money down a bit on an extension if they come back and say "look, these teams don't seem to value you _that_ much, and after another year older it's unlikely you'll get anything close to this. come down a bit."

metsmarathon wrote: smg58 wrote: The latest report is that Dickey would sign for 2 years and $26M. If that is indeed the price, there is no sensible reason to say no. if that's the price, and especially if he's still only going to cost $5M next year, i'd jump on that like a sugar-addled suburbanite kid on a backyard trampoline I'm not buying any rumors on amounts. this is the high-rumor season after all. We've heard 2/26, 3/39. we've heard they're not talking, and we've heard that they agree on years but not $/year. Perhaps the Mets want a 2/26 extension and Dickey wants a 3/39 offer to start this year.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Well, the fact that we need outfielders pretty badly remains whether or not they can pay him. I'm convinced by now if it's not Dickey than it's Niese who gets shipped out, I'm not sure I'd be happy with that either. Harvey? How do you get an outfielder? buy one or two? trade for one or two with prospects? Both seem like possibilities and maybe better ones.

G-Fafif wrote: R.A. worked "circuitous," "poetic" and "trajectory" into one answer on TDS. So he doesn't do that just to impress Guys! also "Jedi Council"

Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: So, I haven't read the morning papes... his bloodwork come back OK? Alcohol content was a bit high. Daniel Murphy throws one hell of a wedding after all.

The Devil & Angel on Sandy's Call R.A. Dickey weighs in on Faith and Fear's post discussing the possibility of his tarde. @RADickey43 wrote: @greg_prince @MetsGM @pdepo nice piece.... Very c. S. lewisish. Reminded me of the screwtape letters.

vtmet wrote: sharpie wrote: Angel Pagan re-upping with Giants. I can't believe that Pagan got 4 years and $40 Mil from the Giants...yes, he had a nice season, but this is a guy that has been extremely inconsistent so far in his career... guy's probably better than B.J. Upton who got 5/75. Pagan might be a bit old at the end of it, but that's a pretty good contract for a guy like Pagan.

vtmet wrote: right but...with or without Dickey, they are a few years away from being on the brink of success That remains to be seen.

vtmet wrote: If the Mets were on the brink of success, it would make sense to hold onto Dickey...but they aren't... Got it backwards actually. If the Mets don't hold on to Dickey, they're probably not on the brink of success.

Don't know about Texas but Wil Myers seems the dude everyone wants from KC. Don't know if he can be had, but he'd seem to fit our needs pretty well. KC also said to be 'interested' in James Shields and Jon Lester so they're lookin'. A quick search shows Lester gets mentioned too.....I doubt Dickey gets us Myers?, or I should say that Dickey would be third on that list if you're the Royals. Meanwhile an article on Myers and the science of predicting top prospects..... http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/cliff_corcoran/11/28/wil-myers-royals-top-10-prospects/index.html And yet Dickey's got a cheap price next year and was the best of those three over the last three years. If there's no insane demand for him, theoretically it drives the price of the extension down.

Ceetar wrote: more hip surgery for A-Rod. re-tear. likely missing the beginning of the season. A-Rod so much pain he spent the entire playoffs on pain meds, a night in the emergency room. This probably explains his benching and why he didn't take offense to it at all. What it doesn't explain is how that all went two months without being known. Are the beat guys with the Yankees reporters, or lackeys?

more hip surgery for A-Rod. re-tear. likely missing the beginning of the season.

#15 as well.

Gwreck wrote: Ceetar wrote: I suppose there's just no way to let this issue go, is there? The Mets seem to have functioned just fine without a "captain" for years and years. no, they've functioned just fine with Wright as the unofficial captain for years and years. It's not an "issue", it's a tribute and a PR move.

If you want to take shots at the Wright extension, I guess 3am Sunday Morning on some paper/site no one goes to for sports coverage, if they've even heard of it, is the place to do it. http://spectator.org/blog/2012/12/01/mets-make-wrong-move-with-wrig