Ceetar

seawolf17 wrote: If the Marlins really are having a fire sale, and you're Fred Wilpon... Jason Bay and his contract for Jose Reyes and his contract. You'd have to throw in Ruben Tejada. and I would.

Ashie62 wrote: Pandu.. as in the starting NL All star. Maybe Jason Bay can channel Zito's comebac. Well, Jason Bay did have a couple of good games too.

Jose Conseco wrote: I can make the marlins into a contender. #noplacelikehome - Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco)

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Tracky with the exclusive on Angel Pagan crapping his pants in the outfield last year, leading to his trade. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/mets-angel-wings-article-1.1190760 Geeze, good way to shit on a player a year later.

Frayed Knot wrote: Ceetar wrote: I'm looking forward to the frequent Brett Favreian updates about whether or not Pettitte is playing or retiring. Maybe Suzyn Waldman can play the role of ESPN's Rachael Nichols and camp out with a YES camera crew on Andy's front lawn waiting for a decision. "There's white smoke coming from Andy's chimney! Of all the dramatic .... " I wouldn't put it past YES.

I'm looking forward to the frequent Brett Favreian updates about whether or not Pettitte is playing or retiring.

Nymr83 wrote: Keith Law puts it best: the Marlins were lucky to unload Bell and nobody will remember it when some dumb GM gives Valverde 3 years 36 million this offseason. Unless that's the Marlins.

I've got Duda Bides and Woman's Darth Dickey. Met him a couple of times, most recently at the defunct Strawberry's. He can drink with the best of them.

Gwreck wrote: Ceetar wrote: Look, Erin Andrews is a reallllly bad baseball sideline reporter. It's probably just because she hasn't watched a game or been part of a broadcast until the postseason, but either way she adds nothing to the broadcast if you're going to talk to her without putting her on the screen. Nothing to say about what Ken Rosenthal looks like? I'm convinced Rosenthal is just a more human looking version of that robot Fox uses for the NFL. His gimmick is different bow ties. hat tip to the programmers.

Frayed Knot wrote: Bochy's got to be kidding me with these pitching changes!! Are the Cards really coming up with 9 runs before the next out because the Giants had the wrong pitcher out there? Might've been a "well, we're breaking for mound repair anyway change' but probably not. John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Grand slam single weather Never rained this hard that I remember. steady wet drizzle for most of extra innings though.

Frayed Knot wrote: Would it be wrong for FOX to put her inside a keyhole-shaped border superimposed around her each time they put her on screen? It would, wouldn't it? It would be wrong, but it's not something I think FOX would shy away from doing if they wanted to.

Look, Erin Andrews is a reallllly bad baseball sideline reporter. It's probably just because she hasn't watched a game or been part of a broadcast until the postseason, but either way she adds nothing to the broadcast if you're going to talk to her without putting her on the screen.

Ashie62 wrote: Its over They should probably stop wasting pitchers and get off the field then.

The younger Mets, guys like Harvey and den Dekker and the like, are different than say Santana or Dickey. Those guys signed up as part of their baseball player image. The younger ones in some cases signed up just like any other college kid would and therefore use it differently. Interesting.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Yeah, Twitter's really an idiot's delight. Isn't it more likely that there are a lot of stupid people who used to be appropriately marginalized but have become empowered to spread their idiocy through things like Twitter? Twitter has a very handy "block" function. People just need to learn how to use it. Oh, I agree with that. My Twitter experience got better when I unfollowed the Met hash tag guy and several other Met twitterers who are very popular but also kind-of-to-very stupid. I feel bad unfollowing some people. Especially since I still want them to follow me and click my links. It's hard during the offsaeson too, because people feel empowered not to talk about baseball which is fine I guess, but some of the non-baseball stuff bores the hell out of me.

Gwreck wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Yeah, Twitter's really an idiot's delight. Isn't it more likely that there are a lot of stupid people who used to be appropriately marginalized but have become empowered to spread their idiocy through things like Twitter? Twitter has a very handy "block" function. People just need to learn how to use it. That doesn't work as well when you're a public figure though.

well, I'm sure other idiots in other cities do similar things.

Edgy DC wrote: There are hundreds of guys that could manage a major league team. I think it's an open point how many or how few can do it successfully. Mike Matheny's in the playoffs and Robin Ventura almost was. Baseball is starting to open up to the idea that there isn't one way to develop a manager and that the pool isn't the same 35 or so guys. The Red Sox still seem closed to that idea, and I saw a tweet that Valentine told someone he was always a place holder until they could get Farrell and that's why he only got two years. That's probably not why he got two years, but it does speak to the Sox having already decided who they wanted if the rumor was out there. And it doesn't suggest (nor does the speed in which they traded for him) they put in a whole lot of thought and energy into making sure he was the best candidate.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Is it me, or did the Red Sox give up more-- to a better-equipped division rival, no less-- for a middle manager (actual, honest-to-goodness, league-average-y middle-infielder Aviles) than they received for a guy who ran the whole baseballing organization (two marginal minor-league relief arms)? Perhaps. I'm not sure what they see in this manager..it seems like a very 'inside the box' thinking. I believe there are probably hundreds of guys that could manage a major league team successfully in 2013 and to actually pay for one when there are so many you could get for free.. Does it say something that the GM thinks the Blue Jays manager is more valuable than himself?

Edgy DC wrote: What makes this especially wonderful to watch is that, despite ample personal evidence that coming from behind was possible, Yankee fans went into game three almost hopeless and game four utterly and completely hopeless. They lost before they lost, and then lost again, because they had lost themselves. They played that fourth game like the Marlins (and many other teams) play the last game of the year.

It's so MVP Delmon Young who killed them. He's a free agent, he plays the outfield. He's got some power and could easily smack 30 home runs (while walking fewer than that) in Yankee Stadium. I hope it's Young too, because he sucks.

Well, depends on where you are I guess. The Yankees are in for another 1000/game loss in attendance. I wonder if they'll be savvy enough to drop prices a bit to try to bring back in regular fans? They skated by by winning in the first year of the place, but just based on the stub hub volume it's pretty clear that there are a lot of scalpers with seats, and seeing the losses they were taking in the playoffs, I bet a ton of them don't renew.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: If I'd had my druthers, I would have rather they'd found a way to take Game 4, then lost it at home in front of a half-full, booing YSIII crowd. well, from people's recounts of 2004, game 7 was like attending a wake. And that was before they built the mausoleum.

Centerfield wrote: To me, unless the Mets someday beat the Yankees in the World Series, no Yankee loss will top Arizona's 2001 rally against Rivera. Never ever. Everyone (including me) was sure it was going to end the same way the prior three years had ended. It came out of nowhere and just STUNNED Yankee fans. I love responding to statements like "He may blow saves here and there, but in the biggest spots Mariano is money" with "Like game 7 of the World Series with a lead."

This is going to be a fascinating offseason. I hope it's also interesting on a Mets front and not just pointing and laughing at the Yankees, but they've got a whole slew of things to take care of or figure out. Mets � Willets Point wrote: seawolf17 wrote: I do like the story in the Daily News about how an "unnamed player" says the Yanks "never recovered" from the booing at YSIII. Gimme a break. I actually think fans booing the home team and other negativity against the players does effect outcomes more than most people realize. I'm fully convinced that if the fans at Shea and in the public sphere in September 2007 hadn't so viciously turned against the team they would have won one or two more games and advanced to the playoffs. 2007 was so precarious that a pretty barista smiling at one of the umpires while giving him his coffee in the morning might have put him in a better mood that ended with him not calling interference on Marlon Anderson or having a wee-bit friendlier strike zone that resulted in one more bullpen K instead of BS and gotten them in.