Ceetar

Edgy MD wrote: Eggs in multiple baskets is often a more secure position. A diversified portfolio. An example of such is trading Angel Pagan for pieces to fill two holes. Alternatively, they could've kept Pagan and picked from the very large pool of guys to fill the spot Ramirez did. Same with Dickey. You're likely talking about something like Chris Young/Mike Pelfrey to complement Myers. That's not better in 2013, Maybe Myers and Wheeler step up and are better than Dickey/signed OFer in 2014, but I wouldn't necessarily bet on that either.

Edgy MD wrote: But dollars count --- and we've been down this road --- as they can be turned into production elsewhere. so why bring it up? I disagree obviously. production is finite, money isn't. Losing Dickey lowers the ceiling of production by slotting in a almost definitely lesser product there. You have to try to maximize at a couple of positions or the aggregate will never be good enough. Especially given that Dickey is a good candidate to out-produce the money he's making the next couple of years which BOOSTS his trade value.

Edgy MD wrote: Depends on what the "next couple of years" means. But on a per-dollar basis, I wouldn't guess this comes to pass. I meant closer to a WAR basis. I don't really care about the dollars as much as the total production.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Ceetar wrote: smg58 wrote: The Royals are shopping OF Wil Myers (.314/.387/.600 with 37 HR and 109 RBI in AA and AAA last year, turns 22 on Dec. 10) for a front line starter. They've apparently inquired about Jon Lester and James Shields, neither of whom won a Cy Young last year. I'm not saying the Mets should necessarily trade Dickey for Myers, but it's imperative that they either re-sign Dickey or get at least as much value in return for him as Myers would provide. I'd want more than Myers. I don't think there's a chance you get more than Myers. Hell, I'm not sure you get Myers. Then no chance I'd make the deal. Unless Myers is bordering on Trout, and no one is, I'd wager on Dickey being more valuable the next couple of years.

metirish wrote: Edgy MD wrote: It's as comforting as ever to know Ashie agrees with Ashie. Meanwhups, Ken Rosenthal of Foxy Sports says an offer is on the table. Madgal on Twitter said it's an offer Wright can't accept. I'm pretty sure I could run his twitter account, with how predictable his tweets are.

smg58 wrote: The Royals are shopping OF Wil Myers (.314/.387/.600 with 37 HR and 109 RBI in AA and AAA last year, turns 22 on Dec. 10) for a front line starter. They've apparently inquired about Jon Lester and James Shields, neither of whom won a Cy Young last year. I'm not saying the Mets should necessarily trade Dickey for Myers, but it's imperative that they either re-sign Dickey or get at least as much value in return for him as Myers would provide. I'd want more than Myers.

did you wake up for Votto or did you manage to pick off a guy and get him to swing at intentional balls in your sleep?

Vic Sage wrote: Having given up on video games after PONG, i don't think i'll get any of the jokes or references. so i'll pass. There is a Pong reference too.

Video Game Nostalgia? What could be better? Takes place in an arcade. Arcades are awesome. John C. Reilly as Wreck-It Ralph, the villain of Fix-It Felix, Jr. Sarah Silverman as Vanellope von Schweetz, a 9-year-old racer and glitch in Sugar Rush. Jack McBrayer as Fix-It Felix, Jr., the hero of Fix-It Felix, Jr. Jane Lynch as Sergeant Tamora Jean Calhoun, the lead character of Hero's Duty. Alan Tudyk as King Candy Ralph is the bad guy from the game Fix-It Felix, Jr. and is feeling unloved. Felix wins the medal every day for being a hero and no one likes Ralph, the guy that wrecks everything. When he discovers the cast of the game celebrating 30 years without him, he sets out on a quest to win a medal in some other game to prove he can be a hero too. Hi-Jinx ensue, and most of the game takes place in Sugar Rush, a kart racing game. where he meets Vanellope von Schweetz, a glitch in the game that wants to become a 'real racer' and they clash and bond as they both chase their goals. It was a fun movie, with all sorts of old game nostalgia. Sure, most of the plot was what you'd expect in a PG movie, but it had plenty of touching moments as Vanellope tries to become a real part of the game and Ralph is torn between his quest to get his medal to prove he's a hero and doing what a real hero would do and help Vanellope. there are a billion video game references from old games. The bad guy enters the Konami Code on an NES controller at one point. Q*Bert features as a homeless hero, his game having been turned off. Pac-Man ghosts, Bowser, Doctor Eggman..etc. I enjoyed it. It wasn't deep or complicated or anything, but it doesn't have to be, it's an 8-bit adventure!

Edgy MD wrote: Review some films we have seen, folks. Saw Wreck-It Ralph the other day.

Aliens and Avatar are the same thing anyway. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/aliens_avatar

Hunger Games is completely different. Movie missed the mark though. Twilight's one of those 'good ideas' (not original, but the beauty and the beast type concept is not a bad one) that was executed in the most watered-down way possible. The movie's best moment is when the super strong vampires play baseball (which they have to do during a Thunderstorm or it confuses people). It's like that Digital Domain commercial with the robot players.

Twilight made a whole boatload of money. you should see that too.

Frayed Knot wrote: Ceetar wrote: There's some sound theory there. I don't how common it actually is, but you hear more and more about people dumping their cable and just streaming/downloading/etc the content/shows they want. Most people don't do this for sports though. The few that do are doing so through MLB.TV or similar avenues. The problem with MLB.TV replacing cable/local stuff entirely is their arcane black-out policies which severely limit some options. I was reading an on-line note from one guy who said he lived in Iowa and was blacked out via MLB.TV of Cubs, White Sox, Cardinals, Indians, Royals, Tigers, Brewers, and Twins games (and maybe one or two others as well) even though he's several hundred miles from most or all of those cities. That Levine quote is priceless even though I'm sure Michael Kay would confess to being the love child of Bea Arthur impregnated by an alien before admitting that he's under any such restrictions from his YES overlords. yeah, i think Vegas is another of those 17 area type blackout places. Well, MLB would rather the cable companies do well in this regard. But they clearly have a fallback model if they wanted to. That's all out of market stuff anyway though.

metirish wrote: Massive risk reduction, should the RSN-value bubble get closer to bursting (this sort of sale kinda hints we're headed that way, no?). John Malone tends to see this happening. http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-73381727/ There's some sound theory there. I don't how common it actually is, but you hear more and more about people dumping their cable and just streaming/downloading/etc the content/shows they want. Most people don't do this for sports though, but perhaps more of the non-sports fans 'tricked' into having to pay for the sports programming stations will stop. But this is a tv-wide issue, and the cable and TV companies are not going to go down without a fight either. Think about how many court-hours have been spent fighting over the EVERY subscriber versus ADD ON channel for YES and the like. I don't pretend to know which way things are going, but certainly these cable companies could go more towards controlling the streaming towards subscriptions and video on demand and making it expensive to just have basic channels versus the add-ons. You'll have to buy their app for the playstation and the Android and your computer and the chip in your head. I could envision a system where you literally pay per show too though. I wonder if that would help cut the crap on TV though. It's on thing to flip on Honey Boo Boo and marvel at the idiocy in a train-wreck way, quite another to routinely spend a couple of bucks to do so.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I also don't see what the problem is with being in Ottawa. It's not as close as Binghamton, but it's still a lot closer than Las Vegas. I personally have no problem with this. I was never likely to go to Binghamton anyway. The only time I would ever see the B-Mets play was when they would come to Reading (and I rarely go to Reading) and the O-Mets will be in Reading as frequently as the B-Mets. Good way to help many New Yorkers in the extended Binghamton area be Mets fans instead of evil ones though.

I distinctly remembering the Ottawa rumors coming up BEFORE the Mets signed this latest agreement. I also recall it being so 'almost official' that people writing posts about other possible locations for them to sign on with. In fact, the agreement was signed in late august for 4 years, and it seems like they DO have an out after 2014 if need be. Ottawa really isn't a horrible location, especially with them expecting they might lose Buffalo anyway, so AA-AAA proximity was a crapshoot. why not try out the new place which I think has new facilities or renovations? It's not like they're losing a location to someone else, the location is actually going away. It was clearly a gamble, still is I guess. They could've preemptively tried to cut ties with them and find a different city first, or they could simply hope they stayed or that the move was delayed/postponed/canceled. Really we're only talking about 1 year in Ottawa.

Edgy MD wrote: One wonders whether the Mets have an out in their agreement. they might. This was rumored a couple of years ago right? They had to know it was a possibility, or alternatively, they don't care about going to Canada.

Frayed Knot wrote: The main difference between Kuroda & Dickey is that RA isn't a FA giving the Mets no immediate competition and several other options, including: - extending him - trading him - hanging on to him for now with an eye towards a mid-2013 trade if condition dictate - hang onto to him for all 2013 and risking that an open market deal a year from now will be easier in the long run Cutting ties w/Stub Hub for something of their own making is simply a way to keep a piece of the second-hand ticket market. The Cubs set one of these up years ago that was somehow ruled legal by [corrupt and/or incompetent] Illinois courts. Essentially the club simply "sells" a chunk of the tickets to the ticket arm of their operation (i.e. transfers it to themselves) which turns around and sells them at above-face prices. i.e. what everyone accuses MLB teams of doing with Stub Hub, they'd actually be able to do. Does it work in Chicago? I could easily see that backfiring due to Stub Hub anyway. Yankees are bleeding attendance though, probably because of scalpers backing out. maybe the see a window to take over the scalping of those tickets, maybe they're full of hubris. What I meant with Dickey is what his presumed value might be a year from now, if he didn't extend and wanted to play out the market.

RSN-value? sorry, my acronym brain doesn't seem to work on Captain Morgan.

Frayed Knot wrote: IOW, name those movies where you're convinced that you are one of the handful of people on the planet who hasn't seen it without necessarily going back to the ones released before you were born. That's what i was interpreting it as. I mean, Titanic is a "mega hit" but do you ever hear anyone say "I can't believe you haven't seen Titanic, man what a great movie!"?

definitely interesting. What's the incentive for the Yankees here, besides the initial income?

Frayed Knot wrote: Kuroda re-ups with the Yanx on a one-year deal. They'll still need to add some pitching, but this reduces their panic a bit although they'll be counting on him to repeat his good season as he turns age 38 during ST Wonder if this plays in for Dickey at all, being of the same age and all. anyway, I read today that if/when Stub Hub and MLB renew their agreement, the Yankees are probably going to opt out, in favor of something of their own making. I'm not sure what it means, but it feels extremely short sighted and head in the sandish.

MFS62 wrote: The ONLY possible reason to add a 30 year old, cut many times, retread arm like Burke over younger players is that he has just learned the knuckleball. Otherwise, there is no reason to have done it. Those guys are a dime a dozen (the preferred Wilpon salary) throughout the year. Later depth. always depth. You gotta have relievers in the minors too. they're a dime a dozen, but that's why you stock them now, and promote the ones that do. But as JCL said, he changed arm motions last year (and I believe is a former Depodesta guy) for Baltimore and had good results in the minors, but Baltimore's bullpen was pretty good and he didn't get a shot.

smg58 wrote: Chone Figgins, whose performance post-signing made the Mariners wish they got Jason Bay instead, is DFA'd. Also DFA'd is Bryan LaHair, who was actually an All-Star for the Cubs last year. LaHair slumped after the midway point, but he was already getting pushed out of the way by Anthony Rizzo and then by Brett Jackson. He still finished with a .784 OPS last year, which makes it puzzling that he's apparently looking to latch on in Japan. I think it's because his first half was fueled by un-replicatable things and a lot of power by running into a couple. 14 HR in the first half, 2 in the second. .600 BABIP in April which was his real good month. Otherwise he's basically a 30 year old Quad-A player.