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Let the Kids Speak Cliches or Speak Their Minds?
Elster88 replied to Elster88's topic in New York Mets Talk
What words would work better for you? -
Let the Kids Speak Cliches or Speak Their Minds?
Elster88 replied to Elster88's topic in New York Mets Talk
Yancy Street Gang wrote: I don't buy his, "don't assume anything's off the record" excuse, by the way. The column had his name on it. He should have insisted that he have the right to review the column before publication. His name, his responsibility. I'm paraphrasing that a little bit by the way. I think the bottom line of what he said on M&MD was that he didn't think it would get into the paper. I can't remember exactly. -
Let the Kids Speak Cliches or Speak Their Minds?
Elster88 replied to Elster88's topic in New York Mets Talk
Coney was just on M&MD last week and this topic came up. He said it taught him a valuable lesson that nothing is really off the record. -
"Been there, my friend." Still am there.
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Let the Kids Speak Cliches or Speak Their Minds?
Elster88 replied to Elster88's topic in New York Mets Talk
Milledge is a good example of a practical application of this question, and Yancy mentioned David Cone, circa 1988. -
Two schools of thought here. Both make sense to me. 1) A young player should speak his mind. Say what comes from the heart, and don't worry about being politically correct. Leads to interesting interviews and lets the reader learn more about him, but at the same time a kid may say something dumb in the heat of an emotional moment and may offend people. 2) A player should go with the cliches until he learns how to give a good interview. The good part is that a kid learns his place and doesn't say anything dumb until he has more experience and seasoning in the bigs. The only bad part I see is that there is nothing good to read for a while. (and the media doesn't get to write easy articles). I was in Camp 1, as seen in other threads, but after reading both I realize there isn't much downside to Camp 2, except that I'd have to read about more interesting players than the "boring, cliche-spouting rookie". Of course it's not as black and white as that, but that's a good start on the subject.
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Really? You'd rather a player spout cliches than say "I'd rather stay in the bigs" (a perfectly normal comment that anyone in his position would say.)
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TransMonk wrote: I watched Bull Durham over the weekend and I would love Milledge to follow the advise and learn some cliches. "I'm just happy to be here," "Whatever is best for the team," "I'm just taking it one day at a time." When he opens his mouth he sounds like all 21 year olds who know they have talent and the reporters are running with it. A lot of the population kills players for only spouting cliches and not being interesting. The kids can't win.
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Before the Mets came to town, Arizona was 34-25 and leading second-place Los Angeles by 1.5 games. After the Mets left town, Arizona went 2-6, and sit tied for third at 36-35, one and half games behind San Diego. I'm curious to see how they do the rest of the way out, and if the Met series will be some kind of turning point for them.
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IGT 5/20/06, Mets (Pedro) vs. Yankees (Mussina)
Elster88 replied to Gwreck's topic in Archived Game Threads
I think this thread got misplaced here. I was looking for it in the Game Recounts section but only was able to find it with the search button. -
]BILF 'nuff said. I think you mean BIFL. Or were you going for MILF?
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]Following Monday�s game, Lo Duca explained that he chose to bunt and play for the single run because Bronson Arroyo has been such an effective pitcher this season and that runs could have been hard to come by� �fair enough�i actually agree with lo duca on the arroyo situation�to me, it�s far more important that he put his team in a position to end that inning up 1�0, as opposed to taking a chance at a rally�more than anything, it�s glad to hear that he and willie are communicating so well� I mentioned something like this in the IGT but I think it got buried. Considering both Arroyo and that Beltran drove him in from third with an out I thought it could've been a good decision to bunt there.
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Honestly I think this story is just some reporter leading him to get a quote and then running with it. Newsday is a rag. I posted it for the hell of it.
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Milledge would rather sit and stay then go to AAA.
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Oops. Here's the rest: ]After Kris Benson had hit his home run against the Mets on Saturday, Trachsel was told of Dwight Gooden's over-reaction to the second of his eight career home runs. Gooden had held the Cubs hitless for seven innings on June 5, 1988 when he made the mistake of taking Bill Landrum into the bleachers at Shea. His victory lap lasted more than 360 feet "I was flying when I got back to the bench," he said. "A home run and a no-hitter." The no-hitter disappeared quickly in the eighth. He allowed three hits and two runs and acknowledged he was surprised he hadn't allowed more. "I had no chance of getting one out," he said. Column
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Excellent analysis. I narrowed it down to those two almost exactly the same way you did, but from there pretty much just metaphorically flipped a metaphorical coin. I'm switching my vote from Chavez to Valentin.
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Omar Minaya said the chances are slim that Cliff Floyd would return on Thursday, the day the left fielder is supposed to come off the 15-day DL. "The chances are probably not good," said Minaya, who said he still needed to wait until after Tuesday when Floyd was to have done some extensive therapy work. Minaya mentioned that Floyd is still feeling some pain from a high ankle sprain suffered on June 6 against the Dodgers while running the bases. Floyd is able to run fine in a straight fashion, but still has difficulty moving laterally. Minaya also said Floyd is an important part to the Mets' success down the stretch. "He's the type of guy that can put us over the hump," said Minaya. "For example, in a game like [Monday] night, he's the type that can come up and hit a two-run home run in a big situation."
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"Jose's like a young buck, like one of those wild stallions that you want to let him run and be free but, at the same time, you want to harness him a little bit, but not too much," Randolph beamed as he discussed the 23-year-old shortstop. "I want to be able to give him so much of what I know, but I also know I have to hold back and let him play with his natural ability."
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]After Kris Benson had hit his home run against the Mets on Saturday, Trachsel was told of Dwight Gooden's over-reaction to the second of his eight career home runs. Gooden had held the Cubs hitless for seven innings on June 5, 1988 when he made the mistake of taking Bill Landrum into the bleachers at Shea. His victory lap lasted more than 360 feet. I didn't know this story. I knew Gooden got to the eighth with the no-no, but didn't know about the home run.
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Iubitul wrote: *twitch* *twitch* *twitch* I think that, while it's educational to post magic numbers for all the divisions to comapre leads, it's far too early to be posting magic numbers... There's a long discussion on posting magic numbers in this thread.
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The Marlins have won nine in a row.
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UMDB Suggestion: All-Time opponent Interactive Stats
Elster88 replied to a topic in New York Mets Talk
Do you still have a display of most popular over the last three weeks or whatever it was? And least popular? -
Delgado also became the fourth Met to reach 20 home runs in the team's first 70 games, matching Dave Kingman (game 52 in 1976), Darryl Strawberry (game 64 in 1987), and Mike Piazza (game 68 in 2000).
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It's nice to have a game that's a laugher at the end, but this one was a lot tighter then it looked. Please reward Sanchez with Schaefer.
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For those who missed yesterday's game, Duaner came in with bases loaded and no outs. He wasn't perfect, a fly ball to the first hitter drove in a run, but the next batter up hit a tailor made double play ball to Wright and that was all the scoring they got.
