Ceetar

Edgy DC wrote: First start of Bay's career batting as low as eighth. Strange lineup. not as strange has having 10 players listed. STRANGE

Nymr83 wrote: wonder if they pay those guys anything approaching a reasonable wage. 4th string Fox announcers? who is it anyway? unpaid interns trying to break in? checks: it's Kenny Albert, Tom Verducci "Reasonable wage"? Whatever they negotiate is reasonable, if Kenny and Tom don't like it they can take their talents to ABC/ESPN/YES. Unlike, say, a drafted baseball prospect. don't start with me. I just wondered if they were grabbing the coffee guy out of Fox offices to call the games. But I imagine they're paying these guys the same salary anyway. So it's not like they're ramping up costs too much by having another game on the list.

wonder if they pay those guys anything approaching a reasonable wage. 4th string Fox announcers? who is it anyway? unpaid interns trying to break in? checks: it's Kenny Albert, Tom Verducci

G-Fafif wrote: Devoted Mets fans endanger opportunities for romance, health and security to go to Tuesday night game and then act awfully generic in their swell Citi Field seats. and come on, who's taking the Citi discount when you don't get the T-Shirt with it? I know I'm not.

metirish wrote: Starting to feel the butterflies in the belly about this game/series. Sure you don't have whatever Jason Bay has?

Frayed Knot wrote: Plus, I don't really see what FOX is gaining by having to do the production costs for yet another game and an extra announcing team only to turn around and show that game to such a small portion of the U.S. market. Probably 'artificially' inflates ratings. A lot of those people wouldn't watch Mets Yanks, but by forcing them to watch their teams, Fox gets to have a higher total number to tell national advertisers and what not. Maybe attracts a broader advertiser as well, rather than a regional one?

I think it's interesting that last year's first pick Nimmo is only 10 professional games ahead of Cecchini.

bmfc1 wrote: Ceetar: change noted and made. well I was just being silly. It's the only Sunday TBA on my entire schedule that I printed preseason though. Probably was all but officially an ESPN game.

bmfc1 wrote: If the Mets sucked, this wouldn't happen this often... now the July 1 game @ LA has been moved to 8:05. 'moved' is the wrong word since it's TBA on my schedule anyway. Luckily they have an off day the next day. In fairness, a 5:00 start (game is in Los Angeles) is actually a quite civilized time for a game on a Sunday. is it? I'd much rather an 8pm game. 5pm I might still be doing weekend things, by 8 it's much more likely I'm home and done with whatever I had planned and can sit and watch the game.

Maybe my Math is fuzzy.. Koosman '73 8/14 gives up homer, lifted. 8/19: 9 IP, 1 r, 0 earned. The run is a 2-out double in the top of the 5th. Pete Rose reached on an E3 leading off, scores. So that's 4.1 8/24 against Giants, 10IP, no runs. 14.1 8/29 against Padres. 6.2. no runs. 21. 9/3 against Philly. CG SHO. 9IP. 30. 9/7, Montreal. B. Bailey RBI single with 1 out in the third. 32.1? Doing the math another way, 9,10, 6.2,9 is 34.2 + the 2.1 in the last game, is 37? what am I missing? oh, i see it. the unclean innings are not counted, so he drops the .1 off the beginng, and off the end, and that's 31.2 . Clean innings, any runs, not just unearned. the unearned clean inning record would be 36.1 I guess.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: And I swear I thought you were making up the home run calls until I got to A-Rod. Then I thought you were making them up again when I got to Granderson. Then I laughed so hard I woke two napping people when I got to the pool picture. The power and the glory are yours. I can't believe I have to follow this. Brett Gardner is on the DL, so we won't have to worry about "Gardner plants one!"

Edgy DC wrote: Wait. First you don't remember what you said. And now you state that I wasn't getting your point back then. So you do remember. Only I didn't get your point then, because I'm dense, somehow. And I don't get your point now. Even though, both times --- and so frequently --- when challenged to back up your statements, you just say you don't really like to talk about what you were happy to talk about until challenged to back it up. I get your points, believe me. I sometimes challenge them. That doesn't mean I don't get them. no. you don't, or you wouldn't come back with this crazy stuff that I'm not saying. Like implying I think the Church is the Klan or whatever you're trying to say. I want no part of either in my life, but that's about the extent of it. There's a difference between remembering that you weren't getting what I was trying to say and remembering the exact back and forth. I'm not calling you dense, or me a fool for failing to articulate my point. it's more nuanced than that. I don't have a problem backing up my statements, we went on for quite a while on the contraception issue if I recall. But here you're asking me to back up an opinion on how the draft/baseball is run, and I don't feel like it. You're right, I should've just said my piece and ignored your reply that didn't have to with the Mets/teams specific usage of this system but with the politics of the system itself.

Edgy DC wrote: My "retort" wasn't off-topic. I have no recollection of even mentioning black people as a separate or specific entity. Ever? At all? Some of your statements, man. as a talking point or something to debate. what are you talking about? No, forget it. you weren't getting whatever point I was trying to make back then either, no reason to rehash it. seemed off topic to me. at least as it pertained to my post.

seawolf17 wrote: Thought Sunday was flexed to the night game, no? That was the series at Citi.

fine. strike it from the record. I shouldn't have responded to your offtopic retort. I have no recollection of even mentioning black people as a separate or specific entity. but whatever.

Edgy DC wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Ceeter, c'mon with your heartless "good." That's. Re. Diculous. Because it's immoral, exploitative, and un-American, that's why. I disagree on all three of those things. I know. It's amazing. The liberal firebrand who likens my Church to Klansmen plotting to kill black men stands for the rights of a multi-billion industry to act as a cartel in order to control labor costs and suppress competition, at a benefit to nobody but themselves. all incorrect. Don't put words in my mouth. I don't really feel like debating the politics of it. I was simply reflecting on it from the baseball standpoint and what the landscape of signing and rookie minor leaguers getting to play look like. Looks like the guy the Mets signed today is going to Kingsport.

Edgy DC wrote: Ceeter, c'mon with your heartless "good." That's. Re. Diculous. Because it's immoral, exploitative, and un-American, that's why. I disagree on all three of those things.

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Yup, the incentive has to be for guys to sign earlier now because they're competing against other picks for that money. Also should get some players into the system this year as opposed to them often only getting a cameo late in the season. I wonder if this will lead to a faster progression to the majors. (on the other hand, it activates the years of service time early and all that too right?)

bmfc1 wrote: I think Bob Raissman was stoned when he wrote this: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/imagine-flip-side-subway-ride-article-1.1091869 I concur. yikes.

Frayed Knot wrote: * Mariano just recovered from a blood clot that was only discovered following the knee injury - so he's yet to even have the required surgery for his knee although that'll occur sometime in the next week or so. What even caused the blood clot? quiet on that aren't they?

I think Igarashi got called up actually picture of Jeter(I think anyway, I get all those rockheads confuseD):

Wouldn't be surprised if the Mets saw the demand and figured why not make it legitimate. That's sorta the idea about dynamic pricing right? to try to cut out the middle man? but hey, it's a nicer stub than what most casual fans got, so why not? I might be tempted if I'd been there and had a dedicated Mets area.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Johan, set that shizz on fire. the Bronx is burning?