Ceetar

Is that the consensus? Seems bold. You'd have to be crazy to bank on turning one of the top 15 or so pitchers in the game into one of the top 5 or so. At some point you have to stop reading into initial scouting reports and prospect status and just look at what he is. Sure, maybe you can get a season 10% better or so based on some minor tweaks and mixing up the scouting reports a little, but can just as easily go the other way too. I think you're getting what you've seen with the Mets the last two years. I hope it's with the Mets, I like Wheeler and it's extremely unlikely you're replacing that value in one player.

=41Forever post_id=27497 time=1575468288 user_id=69] Pete Alonso would be brutally bad on defense.

Different time in my life I'd be all over that pass. Actually, even if I was still at my previous job, which was right next to a theater. I'd go see half the movie for lunch, and time it so I could see the second half the next day. Any blackouts on that though? nights/first 5nights/imax? etc Now I'm more likely to see Frozen 2 than Star Wars. (I'll bootleg that and watch it on my own at home)

Frozen 2 was lots of fun.

especially the white. get out of here with the white jerseys.

Black is fine. want to see it some.

=LWFS post_id=27061 time=1574470956 user_id=84] Last year's offense could be a mirage; he's never shown that level of slugginess at any level, and it's tough to see any evidence of change-in-approach from the batted-ball data. That said, even if his power blacked out, he'd still be a positive glove-side addition.

I mean, Walker WAS better than Jeter, so.. Anthony Rieber joined the 'only vote for Jeter' fray, taking guys OFF his ballot from last year. I assume this is his last ballot and year writing about sports, since he's clearly unqualified.

What's Shreve and why are we Chasen him/it?

Baseball's not in trouble and arguably they should just make all the minor leagues they want to cut major leagues. super expansion. But no, this isn't a serious expansion, this is a "Michael Bloomberg wants to be president" Look at me I'm rich thing. It's so stupid and bland that it's barely worth talking about the specifics of this guy/team/location.

ignoring, not providing, and being vague and unhelpful about injuries and injury updates has been the norm for a while now. Your bit about them wanting to cover themselves in case they need to prove themselves may be why they took the video down, though again it's still dumb because it's not like they can deny it exists. It continuing to exist on Endy's insta doesn't really matter. Of course, the simplest answer may be the correct one. They don't want to provide medical/injury updates. They want to discourage people asking for this stuff. And a video just prompts phone calls and texts. This could be from the Mets, or hell, it could be from Cespedes who also doesn't seem to want to answer said questions. There's no way the correct answer is that it's a subtle dig at the media's narrative that Yo is MIA and lazy. Here's video of him clearly working out, at the Mets complex, but we're taking it down and pretending it didn't happen. You all know it happened so you continuing to write about how the Mets have no idea what he's doing continues to be nonsense, but we're going to still ignore you when you ask for updates. Of course, if anyone on the MetsBeat really cared enough, it can't be hard to get a quote from someone with Barwis' group. That's probably where the paper headline quote comes from.

gotta love that quote though "and industry source" says he intends to play. That could literally be anyone. The groundscrew at PSL is in the 'industry'. and also, duh? That's what BP is. an intention to play baseball.

it's weird that they repurposed the cover from 10/15/2020 when he hit two home runs in the clincher against pirates.

Weird and dumb that he took it down. makes no sense, even from a 'whoops' standpoint, it's not like people are going to forget it's there. It's the internet. This is literally what I assumed Cespedes was doing anyway, so all this does is tell the public that he's not having setbacks I guess. I'm sure all the insiders know, it's not like Barwis is a Mets exclusive. I don't think it's strange that there hasn't been updates on his status in the offseason. It's his own business, the Mets have no incentive to put out that information, and the media is disinterested in really digging for it. Not to mention that the media hasn't really been gracious with Cespedes as a whole in a way that would make him super into updating them.

Lefty Specialist wrote: Eh, it's gonna be Jeter, Jeter, Jeter nonstop until next July. Hope it rains at his induction. Maybe we should just let schilling in with him so he can ramble off some racist hateful nonsense and overshadow the lovefest.

Ryu's a guy to keep an eye on. It's not a one-one replacement from 2018-2019 anyway. Thor could be better, or worse. Matz too. I mean, we do already have Stroman over Vargas.

https://twitter.com/No_Little_Plans/status/1195364987549704192

I mean, come on. Buzz a watch that they're wearing under their clothes. No one is the wiser. or is that just what the other 29 teams are doing?

That video. Am I supposed to be pissed at the Astros for doing something that a pitcher and catcher turned around on them mid-AB and got an out? Maybe BECAUSE of the sign stealing? Did the hitter know to not expect a bang after the mound meeting? Or was he expecting fastball there and got a change-up and flailed and struck out as a result? Especially since it sounds like a "pine tar" open secret thing that everyone is doing.

Edgy MD wrote: Chris Fetter is a computer-generated character, right? yes. on a PC. it's right there in the tweet.

[bLOCKQUOTE]Alonso has already started working out again. He is also on the hunt for a wedding venue. No date has been set, but his mother said he had declared next October off limits. “It can't be,” he told her. “I'll be playing baseball.”[/bLOCKQUOTE] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/sports/baseball/pete-alonso-rookie-of-the-year.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/sports/baseball/pete-alonso-rookie-of-the-year.html Ceremony ON the parade float?

Mookie Betts on the other hand, loves turkeys [YOUTUBE]cwHRegcjasg[/YOUTUBE]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Joel Sherman's assessment of Mickey as a "poor actor who could not remember his lines and stumbled through ad-libs" rung true with me, and I think he gets to the Mets motives in this column pretty skillfully: https://nypost.com/2019/11/03/mets-risky-media-obsession-put-carlos-beltran-over-the-top/https://nypost.com/2019/11/03/mets-risky-media-obsession-put-carlos-beltran-over-the-top/ (speaking of media Ceetar probably doesn't respect) Not to delve to deeply, because of the quotes obviously, but I did read that one. It's weird, I interpreted that as "I don't give a crap about you, the media" and wasn't so much that he didn't know his lines, it's that no one had bothered to care about how they'd be interpreted.

well, you're wrong on Brodie and Beltran was a good hire. Maybe he'll be bad, hell, anything can happen. I've said this elsewhere but if we're going to have a separate thread about a worthless podcast and three people who's opinions I don't respect, i'll say it again. #1 qualification for a manager is to get along, work well, and be in sync with the front office. Given that, it's almost impossible to hire a bad manager. and Willie Randolph was not that. Mickey wasn't really _terrible_ either, he's certainly not why lost, though he actually seemed to get worse rather than better. He gave up some of his good convictions. Jerry Manuel wasn't hired, though he's probably the worst manager the Mets have ever had. But either way, it's super subjective and there's a ton of information we don't have. Just because the Wilpons are bottom tier doesn't mean random pot shots by hacks like Law are accurate.