Ceetar

Ashie62 wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: I think I'd hate to play for Terry Collins. He has this bird-like energy, and I'm getting the feeling that he expects that from his players too. That would wear on my pretty quickly. Positively, wired too tight for a long long season, for me. And he gets a whole extra month this year too!

It's crazy. Even for guys hoping to win a job. Those jobs will be won based on the next 6 weeks or so, not on who has the best workout early in Feb. Honestly, these guys are probably better off sneaking in tomorrow. While you can never avoid the firestorm, the other day roughly every beat writer had a handful of tweets and an article about Perez. Besides the "waah, why isn't he here" stuff about Castillo, once camp officially starts there will be less standing around talking about nothing. And none of it changes how anyone feels about the guy on 4/1. Doesn't stop people like Michael Kay from criticizing K-Rod for coming to camp in a "Yellow" (It's white, and he had it last camp too) lambourgini.

I remember the time he hit Chase Utley twice (and almost a third if I recall) in the same game. Stay off the plate!

Oooh, I'd mentally tuned this out because I thought we'd settled on the next weekend. I'll have to run it by the wife.

Jerry? Why is Koosman commenting on Tejada? So far he just doesn't seem to be very good, and at the very least needs some more work. There's a chance if Murphy absolutely tanks and he's lighting up Western New York, that he could take over in June but I think it's more likely he'll get no thing more than a cameo in late September.

Ashie62 wrote: It would appear to be an impulsive decision by Hojo and a less than amicable parting. see if he shows up at the 25 year reunion?

i'd buy some Citi Field bonds..60cents? gimme 100.

True, but i didn't follow the Shermans, Klapischs O'Connor's of the world off the bat. :-D Keeps my blood pressure down.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Well remember this was in a limited time chat. Tracky was obviously responding to the "question" of whether Muffy was all he was cracked up to be and not asked to make a comparison with Donny F. Baseball. First manager fired in 2011? Charlie Manuel.

Edgy DC wrote: Pretty crazy roller skate K-Rod is riding on. This was actually last Spring's story. He got it delivered there like a week before the season started, which just seemed silly to me. So that means it's probably a 2010.

Edgy DC wrote: Well, not that I'm riding that train, but Mattingly's 1983 line .283 / .333 / .409 // .742 // 107 OPS+ isn't so out of reach of Murphy's 2009. .266 / .313 / .427 // .741 // 96 Especially since Murphy played 75 more games. It was the next year Mattingly took off, a year Murphy was denied, but frankly, Mattingly ain't the standard for shit. I think that's what sparked the orginal comparison. Merely that Donny didn't burst onto the scene or anything.

Frayed Knot wrote: The Mattingly comments are no doubt a response to numerous Met fans who, in late-'08/early-'09, were flooding WFAN with "Murphy is the next Mattingly" calls. That may have been Martino's first impression of what NYM fans thought of Muffy. The front office was playing him up pretty big in those days too. It was a commenter that mentioned Mattingly actually.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Ceetar wrote: But I do think I'd prefer to read Amazin Avenue's evaluation of Daniel Murphy, even if I disagree, than Andy Martino's. AA is my first, second and third spot for incisive, fact-based Met-related analysis. It also makes me feel like Methusaleh-- the average age over there seems to be a superbright 20-22. I've met Eric Simon ..and I think James.. something or other. they're both older than me (which apparently isn't saying much for Mets bloggers) Don't know much about the commenters, but it does have that brainiac vibe.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Agreed with the above remark, Tracky is still new to the beat and has a ways to go. My main point was this idea that there are fans who feel the news would be somehow better if they got it from a "fan." And that twittering fans ought to speak for themselves. I'd rather the news news from a unbiased source like a beat writer. who's signing ,who's throwing, health updates, maybe even specific in-game questions of players. (I'm positive, presented with the opportunity, _I_ don't have a ton of interest in walking up to Carlos Beltran and asking him what his thought process was in a given at bat) But I do think I'd prefer to read Amazin Avenue's evaluation of Daniel Murphy, even if I disagree, than Andy Martino's. And while anyone can blog, and show up in a "Mets" search, you do build a repoire. I find some idiot blogger calling for Pujols, I don't read it and don't follow that person on Twitter and generally treat it the same way I do the paper copy of the newspaper. But if I read a well thought out argument from Faith and Fear in Flushing about the merits of Bobby Parnell, I usually find that more compelling than what's written by Adam Rubin.

btw, anyone going down to Florida this spring?

Valadius wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I believe I read Izzy make some remark about Franco when he took that number. I'd argue 44 has more significance for Izzy than Bay, seeing that Izzy took 44 so as to remind him (others) of his lowly draft round and has worn it everywhere he played (he in fact was assigned 29 initially but switched before having made an appearance). The Mets rolled out 44 for Bay because he wore it in Boston but had no equity for him prior to that. In fact Bay wore 38 through all his years in Pittsburgh. 1999 was a fun year to be a Mets fan. The Billy Taylor trade, however, remains one of the all-time stinkers. Especially the way Billy Beane describes it in Moneyball from the other side. For some reason I always connected Izzy and Dotel, even to the point that I always think they were traded together for Hampton.

Edgy DC wrote: If Johan pitches for the Mets in May, I'll cover spring training in a Speedo. There, I said it. Better fully qualify that. I think there's a somewhat larger chance that Johan will in fact pitch for the (Binghamton or St. Lucie) Mets in May.

G-Fafif wrote: It wasn't so much about snark than incidental Twitter groupthink that my blog partner wrote about in one of his other gigs. Reporters racing to post the lineup first are wasting their time for a couple of reasons. Not so long ago, �first� meant your competitors had to endure an agonizing day in which you had an exclusive. But the window of exclusivity has gone from a day in print to minutes on the web and seconds on Twitter and Facebook. More fundamentally, reporters playing by these rules are behaving like we still live in what I call The Or World � the vanished era in which I�d pause at the newsstand, scrutinize two front pages and buy one paper or the other. Today we live in The And World, in which I inhale all the news that interests me from as many sources as I want. [...] When it comes to basic information everybody�s going to have, all I care about is that it gets to me. Which individual source put that information into the combined news flow? The question is so unimportant that I�m unlikely to remember the answer five minutes later. Maybe not even five seconds later. When I think of the beat writers and Twitter, I think of the Sunday in L.A. last July when Anson Williams sang the national anthem and every damn one of them Tweeted the same Potsie reference at the same time. That's when I most severely questioned the value of following more than one of them. But if I had to follow just one, it would be Rubin, probably. He's on top of everything and he doesn't annoy me in the process. Follow the one that realizes the Mets themselves have been tweeting the lineup for about 100 games so far, and stops doing it themselves.

Valadius wrote: Both Beltran and Perez come off the books at the end of the year. There's your $30 million. And Presumably Ike to RF to cover Pagan to CF and Beltran elsewhere. Perez unlikely to add any value that we'd need to replace. The added bonus of Pujols probably makes it even more okay to have a less than Utley type 2Bman in Murphy or Tejada or other prospect.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Really? Dude, they're all getting snarkier. Frankly, Rubin's the best, hardest-working reporter of the bunch, though. He went over the top to me. a couple of times. And it wasn't worth it for me, it was just angering me to read his tweets. Besides, people feel the need to retweet him for the really good stuff anyway. I'm better off this way, I read the stuff that people recommend, and I avoid his annoying baiting interviews where he tries to get David Wright to say he wishes he wasn't a Met.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Rubin? Whyever? Because his annoying habit to twist everything into a negative and sarcastic point of view, particularly on Twitter, overrided any value I got from him occasionally tweeting/writing interesting things that some of the others guys don't.

I asked him an Ollie question. haha! I don't have a problem with the guy. He at least seems somewhat flexible in that he's willing to accept things might be different than he writes or guesses. I have unfollowed a lot of the others, Rubin, Lennon, etc.

smg58 wrote: This comes up every time a team's fans (or manager, I guess) get mad when a player they felt they were entitled to keep ponders the open market. As if the thought of demanding a record-breaking contract never would have occurred to Pujols and his agent by themselves. It's far too simple and obvious to conclude that Pujols might be in the percentage of the population who, when given multiple offers to do the same job, would willingly take the most lucrative offer. Which is roughly all of them. I'm on board. bring him here. Get this done. It even probably makes financial sense. He probably draws 500k at least to Citi. Even a likely conservative $20 a ticket puts that at 20million a year.

Frayed Knot wrote: �We�re not selling controlling interest of the team,� [Jeff] Wilpon said Wednesday at the Mets� spring training complex. �It�s not on the table. ... There�s a lot of interest and good interest from real people that you haven�t read about,� Wilpon said. �Most of what you�ve read about is not real.� How many of the people in the interview scrum transcribed this and then went out and started writing a story on Trump or someone other big name 'linked' to the Mets? Sometimes I think these guys don't read their own writing.

metirish wrote: 12 starts , 8 wins against 1 loss for the lefty , sports a fine 2.85 ERA , 2 million in go away money paid to that woman. Why is he paying that woman? Last I heard that was over it except for the _counter_ suit.