Ceetar

Ashie62 wrote: Pagan has been tagged by Rotoworld as day-to-day. Pass over him in the draft, I dare you.

TransMonk wrote: Per Metsblog, Angel Pagan left today's game with lower back pain. Jason Bay moved to centerfield. Jason. Bay. Centerfield. Yikes! Did play there some in 2005. Apparently Collins didn't want to give up the DH slot to move Harris there. Hopefully lower back tightness isn't anything to worry about. For completeness sake, Izzy had some tightness in his arm today. threw some curveballs today just fine and is expected to throw a bullpen tomorrow.

Robert (Queens): What are your thoughts on Wilmer Flores? Paul DePodesta: Two days ago during a minor league game played on Field 7 (a field that is built precisely to the dimensions of CitiField - walls and all), Flores went oppo to deep right center field. Oppo. Right-center. In CitiField. He's 19. Like him! Seriously, he can really hit.

The Second Spitter wrote: Well, it may actually be correct, since MGIM mentioned that Misch no longer tweets and Turner is listed with the minor leaguers. Misch was fake or something. Turner's fun. he drinks wine out at the bar in Port St Lucie. The list looks pretty good to me, that's a lot of noname minor leaguers that tweet. things are going to get interesting in a couple of years, probably a lot like how football players (presumably because the average age is younger) are all tweeting.

I get into the Rivera failures sometimes when I'm bored, but I think making excuses for them is actually detrimental to his entire career. We _know_ he's not an ultimate diety cut(tered) from the cloth of God into a reliever that can do no wrong, and acting like he is just makes him look fake and trumped up. if I recall he also had two chances to close out the Red Sox in 2004, which while probably not as big a failure as '01 was still a failure, and they'd likely have gone on to win that WS too. Or in an age where it's assumed that players playing into the 40s was almost exclusvely a result of steroids and HGH and all that but never to whisper or wonder if/what Rivera might be doing on the side?

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2011/3/22/2061828/mets-twitter-new-york-list-comprehensive

No. 9: Game Seven, 2001 World Series, Diamondbacks perform Heavenly Father's work (as they might say on Big Love) and snuff out the evil dynasty. Thought this one would have ranked in the top three or so given that it was the climax of an instantly legendary series; that it was settled in come-from-behind fashion in the bottom of the ninth; and that perhaps the greatest lefty starter of his generation, Randy Johnson, came out of the bullpen on no days' rest, to throw 1-1/3 scoreless innings of relief to get the win. But the MFYs lost, so I guess it had to be tamped down. Or so it felt listening to the special guests, Joe Torre and Tim McCarver who, with hosts Bob Costas and Tom Verducci, made the world champion Diamondbacks sound like special guests at their own victory. I guess it was impossible to find Arizona starter Curt Schilling and get him to talk. Don't forget who got the loss in that game. The so-called 'greatest closer ever' in pretty much the highest leverage situation you can possibly get or that he'd ever be in (is there anything as close as game seven bot 9 up by 1 run?) blew the save, and while the winning hit was a bloop, the blown save hit was a solid double, but unearned thanks to an error (but wait!, it was RIVERA's error)

YearAgeTmGPAABRH2B3BHRRBISBCSBBSOBAOBPSLGOPSTBGDPHBPSHSFIBB2010222 Teams12456651491141433187713741132.274.327.475.80224462453201022Binghamton944333948111435216601373093.289.337.510.84720151350201022Buffalo30133120102781217001139.225.295.358.6544311103 Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table Generated 3/21/2011. Update on Kirk. This is what he did last year. Didn't fare so well once promoted to Buffalo. Seeems to have made a bunch of errors. Seems likely that he'll start there this year, and he ate at Duffy's Thursday night after he got back from Fort Myers and the Red Sox.

If there was a "like" button next to the preceding picture, I would have clicked it. Nice job, Ceetar. :-) It's also cool being so close too, makes the pictures easier to get. I didn't know D.J. Carrasco occasionally threw sidearm either:

also on the minor league front, @insulinbombs is Cory Vaughn.

Fman99 wrote: The first thing I think of is him, standing on the mound, incredulous, in 2006 LCS game 7 as Endy Chavez bails him out with the greatest catch I ever saw happen in real time (on TV, but still). All those moments of him sucking three years of roster cock, I'll try not to think about.

metirish wrote: Tuesday night right? yeah, am I premature in reminding you? I just was making sort to exclude some of the yuckies in case I miss the beginning because I did something silly like go to the gym after work. of course, it's PDT not EDT so I'm really just silly.

ARE YOU READY?! I hope so, or you might get stuck with guys like Pat Misch or Oliver Perez.

I thought about yelling at Matt that it was his turn in Words with Friends when I saw him this weekend, but i didn't.

metirish wrote: metirish wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Pelfrey has said that he can't seem to get in a competitive frame of mind for exhibition games. He's tried pretending that the game matters, but it doesn't work for him. this form a guy that sees a sports psychiatrist. I hope he's not seeing that psychiatrist anymore, as he's dead. at the present time? just laughed out loud as the thought popped in to my head that Pelfrey killed him. Presumably he's dead both in the present, the future, and the recent past. (I think this happened a month ago)

metirish wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Pelfrey has said that he can't seem to get in a competitive frame of mind for exhibition games. He's tried pretending that the game matters, but it doesn't work for him. this form a guy that sees a sports psychiatrist. I hope he's not seeing that psychiatrist anymore, as he's dead.

metirish wrote: So Ceetar , how would you rate the trip overall?, I'd love to do it and hopefully will one day. Considering this weekend I was sitting out in the sun and watching baseball and drinking beer and now i'm at work and it's snowing and raining? It was a blast. I kinda of regret only going down for three games. Watching the pregame workouts was probably as much fun as the games too. Watching all these prospects running around, and everyone's doing drills. And there are so many guys there that it's almost a game of where's Waldo. "Hey, that's Reese Havens, I know him!" The game of Where's Waldo gets more difficult later, when all 300 or whatever players in the Mets system change into street clothes and are eating and drinking in the same restaurants and bars as you all over Port st Lucie.

I think someone lost their blue uniform.

Can you spot Chris Young?

Edgy DC wrote: Atlanta gets all three back. Bases loaded and still no outs. Error by Wright on what sounded like a DP.

Getting a couple of softer hits here, which has been Pelfrey's problem mainly, with the lack of Ks.

Pelfrey sounds a little off in the third, let's see if he can snap things back under control.

Edgy DC wrote: Pelfrey advances him over with a gounder to short (no bunt? have we escaped Planet Jerry?), and Reyes singles him home. Mets up, 1-0. failed to get the bunt down.