Ceetar

Fan caught a foulball in Jeter's 3k AB. it's now up for auction! http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/sports/21006095866971/ What's next? This is the patch of dirt Jeter stepped on first after hitting the ball? This is the used starbucks cup he drank before the game? Here's his urine sample from the second inning, here's the needle from the trainers room before the game, he's Suzyn Waldman's saliva from her analysis of the home run..

I'm gonna have to wait until I'm home to vote. Of the four songs posted the only one I actually know without listening is themetfairy's.

seawolf17 wrote: Nobody listens to me anymore. Please: NOBODY POST IN IRISH'S POST UNTIL LWFS IS IN THERE. Thanks. what?

bmfc1 wrote: Mets pass. I guess they were thinking of trying to take a reliever, but since they got all their FA targets (and had extra money to do so with) they figured it wasn't worth the roster spot?

Centerfield wrote: (14) CF John Christensen Todd Pratt Paul Wilson Jeff Reardon David Wright Wow, what a draw. Make sure you use whichever one you don't want me to have.

attgig wrote: grab a beer with a buddy, commiserate over the state of the mets, and keep on being your optimistic self. as annoying as it can be sometimes, othertimes, we do need that optimism... bah, buddy..I'm too anti-social for that. (okay, fine, I'm going to a beer bar fest in Manhattan on Saturday) Anyway. Buerhle has been a pretty good pitcher despite peripherals for a while, but I see him being one of those guys that gets his last payday and ages really quickly.

You have a bye. You're playing each other in the second round. I don't imagine anything's preventing you from starting it, but some of us still have the first round to take care of.

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Mets � Willets Point wrote: Ceetar often strikes me as someone awfully pessimistic for someone who has an Optimistic Mets Fan Blog. He seems less optimistic than me at least. My intention was never to be the 'spin guy' or whatever, but to sorta combat what seemed like popular sentiments of "They're cheap!" "If he comes here he'll just suck or get hurt!" "The Mets are cursed!" "The Wilpons only care about the Dodgers". I wanted to talk about the actual team and not conspiracy theories. Fair enough. That's kinda where I stand too. I just never thought of you as the Pollyanna type that others seem to think you are. I do have a tendency to exaggerate when pushed.

deadline/timeline for this?

Edgy DC wrote: No, they broke. Glad to see you're in one piece. Mean of me, but the Pujols news made me feel better. Misery loves company and all. Not sure what to do with my Pagan jersey though.

btw, is it just me or are all the profile-images breaking my threads?

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Ceetar often strikes me as someone awfully pessimistic for someone who has an Optimistic Mets Fan Blog. He seems less optimistic than me at least. My intention was never to be the 'spin guy' or whatever, but to sorta combat what seemed like popular sentiments of "They're cheap!" "If he comes here he'll just suck or get hurt!" "The Mets are cursed!" "The Wilpons only care about the Dodgers". I wanted to talk about the actual team and not conspiracy theories. Yeah, I'm not dead (getting better, I think I'll go for a walk..), just taking a step back emotionally from the team. I feel..betrayed. fairly or unfairly. He was exciting to watch. He was a staple of the team for pretty much my entire 'adult' life (I graduated college in May of 2003.) It's a big change and I need(ed) some time to wrap my head around it.

Edgy DC wrote: I'm saying what I'm saying. That what you say doesn't matter to you matters to the state and federal courts. we're so far beyond the courts. he's been tried and served. All I'm saying is I'm not passing further judgement on him, that I'd gladly give up a crappy backup catcher for a guy that could seriously help the bullpen, even if he has this incident in his past.

Edgy DC wrote: Well sheesh, it matters to courts. Evidence of consent also matters too. A lot. And you're saying what exactly, that he cheated the system? skated 'free' because he's an athlete? Or that he must be guilty despite there never having been a formal trial but the court agreed to a plea bargain and despite not actually being tried the evidence being presented is all the evidence there is, and is clearly enough to state he's a rapist and deserves more punishment than the justice system was willing to give out?

Edgy DC wrote: Ceetar wrote: And I've got no problem if others find they can't root for him, although I think Michael Vick (and plenty of other characters across sports history) is a fair example of how ultimately these types of things are off the field news bytes and when it's go time, it's mostly forgotten. Particularly when you're winning. (Nevermind that 99% of Rays fans will never know about it, since most sports fans aren't paying attention to the personal life stuff) But maybe I'm just a callous person that doesn't really care about other people i don't know and/or assume everyone else I'm rooting for has probably done similar stuff and just didn't get caught. Not ruling that out. It's not really much different than what Johan Santana did, although presumably they were both sober and the evidence that she was unwilling in that case is seemingly less substantial, not that those things matter. Of course they matter. What the heck? whether or not they've consumed alcohol doesn't really matter to me. It's not a crutch to excuse bad decision making.

And I've got no problem if others find they can't root for him, although I think Michael Vick (and plenty of other characters across sports history) is a fair example of how ultimately these types of things are off the field news bytes and when it's go time, it's mostly forgotten. Particularly when you're winning. (Nevermind that 99% of Rays fans will never know about it, since most sports fans aren't paying attention to the personal life stuff) But maybe I'm just a callous person that doesn't really care about other people i don't know and/or assume everyone else I'm rooting for has probably done similar stuff and just didn't get caught. Not ruling that out. It's not really much different than what Johan Santana did, although presumably they were both sober and the evidence that she was unwilling in that case is seemingly less substantial, not that those things matter.

metirish wrote: Interesting , at the least Beltran could expect two years $20 million?, too rich for the Mets? yeah. I think that's too rich for the Mets. I'd love to see it, I'd love to see them make it work somehow, but it just doesn't seem feasible. Maybe he was just citing Beltran as a guy that was good in that role? Not specifically Beltran but a mentor as good as Beltran?

A Boy Named Seo wrote: A few years ago the Clippers signed Ruben Patterson. Decent 3, good defender, whatever. He'd previously pled guilty to trying to rape a woman who was his children's nanny. Second chances and all that, but I was disgusted that asshole was on the team I supported, and I felt zero conflict in tuning the franchise out and changing my LA Clipper entertainment budget from 'a little once in a while' to 'jack shit'. Ceetar wrote: Probably isn't enough for me to demand he meet some sort of 'darker valley', and apparently it wasn't for the Rays either. Especially from one isolated event three years ago. If there were still rumors of him Ben Roethlisbergering his way around bars (and maybe the Rays did do a little background check), it'd be a different story. Not to pile on ya Ceets, but isn't 'one isolated event' one way too fucking many? Where do you draw the line? I don't know. But people change and grow up too. Michael Vick's making millions. People deserve a second chance. I'm perfectly capable of separating the personal life stuff and the entertainment him helping my team win brings. particularly when it's history and not something he's doing while I'm rooting for him, and when the crime is an unproven case of drunken he said, she said.

Edgy DC wrote: Maybe. They would have done even better if they kept Beltran. They were only two games behind the Wild Card winners when they traded Beltran. You just never know.

Frayed Knot wrote: Dierkes does some calls and reporting, as well as some half-decent market/roster analysis. Let's put it this way: if ESPN's other-peoples'-shoulders-standing reporters count as reputable press, so does Dierkes; at least he credits the original source without fail. Well, as much as I'm willing to blast the four-letter network and their penchant for breaking news that wasn't remotely their doing, Kurkjian, Starks, Olney, etc., are full-time and real reporters so it's not quite the same thing. Nothing wrong with what MLB-Rumors (or similar sites) does, it's just that the question about whether or not they're reliable depends on whose actual reporting they're quoting. they're reliably reporting the _rumors_.

Edgy DC wrote: Edgy DC wrote: I'm just surprised and delighted to see ceets suddenly pooping on the notion of the importance of a big shot closer. Nothing's changed in my evaluation. And a year ago I was operating under the assumption the payroll would be 120-130, which would basically fit K-Rod's option on top of what we're gonna end up having now. Oh, poop. btw, Sandy says he thinks they would've finished above .500 if they'd kept him.

are the Dodgers themselves under as much debt as the Mets? They might not be. Leaving the owners out of it.

Edgy DC wrote: I'm just surprised and delighted to see ceets suddenly pooping on the notion of the importance of a big shot closer. Nothing's changed in my evaluation. And a year ago I was operating under the assumption the payroll would be 120-130, which would basically fit K-Rod's option on top of what we're gonna end up having now.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The Marlins won the World Series in 2003 and still couldn't sell tickets. I don't know why they're so sure that the new stadium is going to be that much of a draw, especially once the novelty wears off. the location of it's much better supposedly.