willpie

OldMole, I've proposed a trade to you. If you don't want to do it, please reject it; I've had some inquiries on some of the players involved, but I'd prefer not to back out of a deal that I proposed. If you're still thinking it over, please let me know.

Thanks everyone. I appreciate that neither Willets nor smg was trying to do anything shady, but I can't really approve of such an unbalanced trade. I'll be voting against this one.

Before I go all 'trade police' and vote against it, I guess I'll poll public opinion: Is it me, or is the trade that smg58 and Willet's have pending right now (A-Rod for Youkilis & Ray) too ridiculous to let slide, or did I just wake up on the wrong side of the bed today?

Martinez: 5 Sanchez: 3 Wagner: 1 Valentin: .333 Castro: .333 Chavez: .334

Headline: Prominent Statistician in Arrogance Shocker!

Kaboom! Castro!

Am I missing something about the trades? It seems like it's been more than 3 days since I accepted smg's trade offer and yet the trade still doesn't go through until wednesday? How does that work?

Gonzales - 2.5 Lo Duca - 3.5 Wagner - 1 Beltran - 1 Valentin - 1.5 Heilman - 0.5

I just figured out how to check where you're getting your points and it seems I need some runs. not sure that I'm in a position to spare much else, but I'll consider trade requests that will boost my runs.

If Jeter gets in the Hall and Trammell doesn't, I will officially be done with the Hall of Fame. Because that, my friends, would be bullshit.

I wouldn't mind if Bret Boone returned to his 2001 form. Hell, for that matter, I'd take his 2002 form.

I got sucked into the Aubrey/Maturin series a couple months ago. I've completely lost track of voume numbers.

I'm much bigger than a bug, and if you think you're even approaching 80 mph, you have another thing coming; in fact, you don't know a god-damned thing about me, but I read your invective every day. Arguing until people get sick of listening to you is not the same as being right, and it's damn sure not the same as winning. Your posts here are such a massive hairball of internet troll cliches--and little else--that I'm astonished you haven't offered to come over to my house and fight me yet. Furthermore, aren't you a little old for the sticks-and-stones routine? In short: you're an ass. An insufferable, unspeakable, braying ass. What's more, everyone here thinks so (caveats about what a charmer you allegedly are in person aside). And sometimes consensus really means something. The sense of relief around this board when you offered to fuck off and follow the Red Sox instead was palpable. And it has taken me to the limits of my--not inconsiderable--patience to refrain as long as I have from telling you so, quite in spite of the fact that I am not what you'd call regular poster around here. It is more significant than you imagine that your incessant douche-baggetry has lured me out of lurkerdom. None of which is to say that Val isn't a smidge self-absorbed or that Edgy doesn't tend toward the pedantic in a way that--at its worst--can be nearly as frustrating as your daily antics; but if you want to skewer teenagers and call the freshly-polished kettle black, kindly do it on MySpace like everyone else. You know, not to be rude or anything.

That's right, it's really all about everyone else. Why, it's probably Valadius' fault that you're a shithead, too.

That's actually pretty fucking unkind, Bret. Actually, you're unkind a lot. Not to be all truthful or anything. For that matter, does anyone give a rat's ass about a single god-damned word you've said on this board in the past 2 years? Aside from the baiting, namecalling, and general woe-is-me fucktardery, I mean. Please go fuck yourself with something sharp.

Oh, I'm in.

Can I be an alternate? I've never done the fantasy thing before, so you might benefit from having me in the league. I'm just sayin'.

Yeas: Alan Trammell Bert Blyleven Andre Dawson Rich Gossage Especially Trammell and Dawson; short memories abound, evidently. When I was a kid, everyone knew those guys were going to the HoF when they retired. Sucks to see them languishing like this. Maybes: Steve Garvey Jack Morris Lee Smith Bruce Sutter Don Mattingly The rest: Nay

What'd Trammell do wrong? He took a really shitty team and turned it into a darn mediocre team. Sounds like progress to me.

I just keep hearing that he's kind of an asshole (i.e. not AJ Pierzynski level asshole, but not a fun guy to be around). I feel like this team is in a pretty good place, chemistry-wise, and I'm disinclined to eff that up, especially for someone with a history of living up to his potential only sporadically.

Edgy DC wrote:But no, it starts ramming itself down our throats in late July and by September, it's jumped offsides and into the valuable media space that should by rights be maintained 24/7/365 by baseball. Well, the "365" is kind of a contradiction.But Go, Greg, Go. I hate the NFL 24/7/365. Well, I guess I liked it when that Jets receiver decided to use his visiibility to call attention to molested children, but I hate so very much about the NFL, the list would just go on.I've always found 24/7/365 (i.e. hours a day/days a week/days a year) to be on awkward construction anyway. I mean, 24/7/52 (i.e. hours a day/days a week/weeks a year) seems more consistent to me. And anyway, doesn't 24/7 already mean "all the time"?

sharpie wrote: A back-to-form Carlos Beltran would go a long way to making our offense better. I'm beginning to suspect that we'll get a back-to-form Carlos Beltran as soon as the Mets start playing their home games at Kauffman Stadium and/or Minute Maid Park.

KC wrote: Obviously, Willpie isn't an enophile. Indeed, though I quite like Roxy Music.

Edgy DC wrote: I'm not impressed by Randolph either, but, if these games truly don't mean anything, it only makes sense to throw some usefull innings to players you have to spit or swallow on during the off-season. And the award for ickiest metaphor of the season goes to. . .

IIRC, they all end up at the same place in Times Square. Look for the one with the 7 in a purple diamond, instead of a pruple circle. If you're still unsure, go to one of the windows where the transit guys stick their heads out and ask one of them.