Ceetar

Fman99 wrote: Johan vs. Erik Bedard. I like our chances. David Wright owns these guys. "these guys" roughly defined as everybody that puts on a non-Mets uniform lately.

another one on Howard and how the cortisone shot he got in September last year may have ultimately caused the final rupture. Ample medical evidence suggests cortisone can damage surrounding tissue, fray the Achilles, even trigger a rupture. Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/phillies/20120520_Easing_the_pain__or_worsening_it.html?viewAll=y#ixzz1vSI9nMAc

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: World's Fair and Scarlett Johansson notwithstanding, Iron Man 2 might just be in the 5-10th percentile of movies featuring a sarcastic Robert Downey. It's, like, 80 minutes of really expensive expository for ANOTHER movie, with, like, one REALLY good action sequence and about 20-30 percent of the funny of the original. yeah. and that's still better than Captain America.

but not having real evidence is not the same as evidence for the opposite. (provided of course, that the opposite of clutch hitting is no clutch hitting. Leaving aside the idea that perhaps it's not possible to elevate your game, but maybe it's possible to psych yourself out and play worse) At one point we didn't possess the tools and understanding to know that dinosaurs walked the earth, that reservoirs of certain rocks deep in caves could be an energy source, or that there was another continent way across the sea from Europe (well, from a Eurocentric view anyway). Perhaps clutch hitting is like the idea that thunder is the anger of the gods and it's a story made up to explain something we don't quite understand yet. But perhaps there is a nugget of truth to at as well. Just because some extrapolate that nugget into a ridiculous narrative about some players raising their game doesn't mean the whole concept is complete bull. It's easy to come to a conclusion based on facts and think there's nothing else to learn, but that's not always true either. There's certainly evidence that the narrative is wrong. But does it disprove the entire concept of clutch? I don't think so. I'm not quite sure how to measure or define it, but that's not to say it's not possible either. What if it's simply subtle? What if 'clutch' ends up being worth say the total of one more hit over a season full of AB? What if the whole difference is players that are calm and collected in the clutch simply sleep better at night and are therefore more rested and alert than the average player? What if it's not a lifetime trait? Maybe there's a time in your life where everything's pretty harmonious. you're happily in love, your kids are safe and doing well, you feel good and happy and cheerful. Prehaps that's calming in a way that exhibits itself in performance, or perhaps it doesn't last long enough to outdo luck and all the 'extra' hits you get are hard hit linedrives into gloves. But these things don't go into box scores. What would Dwight Gooden's splits look like in games he was out partying the night before versus games he wasn't?

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Essentially, there'd be a boatload of players with lifetime .325 BA's in the clutch and higher RBi/PA rates in the clutch than in the non-clutch, who were overall .250, .260 lifetime hitters. They don't exist. Aha, but you can only measure specific cases. What's 'clutch'? Even if we're pretending that there is some mental switch a player can actively flick and not just some unknowing change or adjustment he makes without an active decision to do so it's impossible to know what a given player determines is an important situation. (After all, don't they say players are really processing all these things subconsciously anyway, because to actively think "hmm, looks like a curveball on the inside corner, I should swing" would never be fast enough to actually swing.) So how can you measure what's important? Even the player may not know what's clutch. I know I personally (assuming there is any correlation to "real life" pressure and baseball pressure) have thought I felt calm at moments when I might have cause to be nervous. And exhibiting signs of nervousness despite outwardly thinking i'm fine. (say not sleeping before a big test or presentation) So to think to measure something where we don't even know the qualifications is silly. And the out and out obvious clutch situations are so few and far between that no player truly gets a meaningful sample size of them. Game sevens? do or die elimination games? And then you can be locked in and still subject to the whims of luck. You can hit a blast to the outfield only to have the outfielder there to make the play..but then a fan can grab teh ball over the fence and the umpire can not tell and rule it a home run. Clutch for hitting it that far? unclutch for being likely an out? clutch for it being ruled a home run anyway? or is that not a clutch situation because it was only game on of the ALDS and it was only the 8th inning and the deficit was only one run? Or is it clutch because it's a rookie player on a big market team? How do you measure that? I don't think you can. Doesn't mean clutch doesn't exist.

Edgy DC wrote: Phillies trying to dig their way out of last with a shovel-full of paranoia. lol. I can just imagine the next course of action is to have him wear a jersey with no name on the back and sneak him from minor league field to minor league field to get his work in.

clearly they never had these meetings at Shea, due to the porn room.

and freaking Dan Warthen is still here.

Every NL East team lost. free day. Every AL East team won, except the Yankees. oops. Red Sox are now only two behind them.

Frayed Knot wrote: 2nd base ump screws us out of the one tiny chance we did have all afternoon. Obviously we're a bad Canada/astro-turf team. last time we played on stupid fake grass was that ill-fated Puerto Rico trip right?

Iron Man two had Black Widow, the 1964 Worlds Fair Grounds, and Robert Downey Jr's sarcasm.

amended to back stiffness. Blame Canada. someone let the Blue Jays have two runs while I was cleaning.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Hefner in for Batista, who leaves with undisclosed injury. being told groin. i figure this is a lateral move anyway.

metirish wrote: Some news via twitter Jason Radowitz ?@NY_Sports_World Jordany Valdespin has been sent down to triple A to make room for Hefner. #Mets Jason Radowitz ?@NY_Sports_World Wright getting day off today. Turner at third. Baxter will DH and bat second. #Mets he's not actually 'news' is he? He's one of the aggregators i think. (not that I'm questioning the truth of this ,just that I worry about the 'telephone' aspect of it sometimes)

Frayed Knot wrote: Does anybody on this fucking team ever get old? - Jeter, 38 in a few weeks, is having his best season in about a decade while leading the ML in hits - Rivera is already 42 fer chrissakes and, in a position where no one dominates for more than a few seasons, was, prior to fucking up his knee, maintaining sub-1.00 WHiP and sub-2.00 ERAs throughout his late 30s and into his 40s - Raul Freakin' Ibanez turns 40 next week and, after signing for dirt cheap, is on pace for 30+ HRs (after hitting 36 over the last TWO seasons combined), has had half of his hits go for extra-bases, and is averaging nearly an RBI per hit - and now Pettitte, 40 next month, tosses a 4-hit (8 inning) shutout w/9 Ks in his 2nd start in 18 months. there's a pill for that.

stupid fake grass. astroturf? jayturf? *ayturf?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Preds. (Gifted by a friend, he said during yesterday's gamecast.) People between the ages of 25 and 30 seem to like the Mighty Ducks movies a LOT more than the rest of us. you guys don't like it?!?

predators, but i can't get the pic to load.

just Howie I think.

metirish wrote: Ashie62 wrote: Baxter..a rich man's Jason Pridie. Pridie, exactly the fella I'll conflate Baxter with. Baxter have a hot wife?

Edgy DC wrote: "This team features the illegitimate children of Ben Franklin!" if that was true Philly would promote the hell out of it. They'd probably bring back this logo. I kind of like it though.

Frayed Knot wrote: Vic Sage wrote: i'm sick of Ojeda and Darling, and many others in the media, bashing the team's selectivity as being "passive", calling for a more aggressive approach. Except that there's also such a thing as being too passive even as one is working the count. As long as the hitter has the discipline to limit himself to a particular pitch in a favorable count, plate discipline doesn't always mean seeing as many pitches as possible, sometimes it means jumping on a 2-0 or 3-0 pitch and smacking the snot out of it. Castillo would profile as too passive, although he probably wasn't always like that. But many of the same fans that criticized Castillo's selectiveness are now praising the Mets as a whole. I'm sick of Ojeda in general.

Edgy DC wrote: The News is wrong. I wouldn't handicap it that way at all. I'd have it like Valdespin 60% Davis 25% Nieuwenhuis 8% Baxter 5% Turner 2% Depends if Tejada beats Bay back I guess. Going to need to lose two of them if everyone stays healthy.

Frayed Knot wrote: That Brewer logo was the one where both Gary & Keith admitted a few days ago that it took them years to figure out that there was an 'M' and a 'B' in the design for Milwaukee and Brewers never noticed myself. It looks too much like a glove and the b is to the left of the m so it's not readily obvious to me.

Vic Sage wrote: Ceetar wrote: eh. it was okay. watched it just before I saw the Avengers last week. Just seemed flat and uncompelling. May have been my least favorite of the bunch. Congrats, Ceetar, you are now officially my own personal Rex Reed... a perfect reverse barometer for movies, sports, everything. You are my true north, and i can always gauge how straight my course is by how diametrically it opposes yours. Thank you. A guiding star is a valuable thing to have in one's life. well i went in assuming It wasn't very good because you seemed to think it was awesome.