Elster88

Julio is showing that my sarcastic remark might not have been as sarcastic as I thought.

Gwreck wrote: I've tried the ESPN gamecast, but I still find it decidely inferior to the MLB gamecast. I used to like the ESPN gamecast of 4-5 years ago, but have stuck with MLB since. Still the superior interface. I agreed until this year. ESPN Gamecast has improved by leaps and bounds and is now WAAAAY better then MLB Gameday.

ScarletKnight41 wrote: Greg's analogy here is priceless - ]Jorge Julio, perhaps imbued by a stream of shots poured down his throat while laid out flat on a bartop the way a crumpled Popeye revived from the cans of spinach Olive Oyl forcefed him (or don't you read the gossip pages?), has been suddenly, shockingly lights-out the last few times he's pitched. I wouldn't have called Julio "lights-out" last night. EDIT: You know, I take it back. He was pretty darn good yesterday.

Martinez 5 Nady 1.5 Castro 1.5 Delgado 1 Wright 1

There are so many holes in this that I don't know where to begin.

I don't understand your point though. Wiggy's not even on the team. They traded him away, and got something more valuable in return. And they can't prove themselves to be an intelligent franchise by giving a shot to a guy that's not on the team anymore. I'd love to see a Wiggy for Julio deal, mostly because Julio is no good. But if you're hoping for that, then you're as foolish as I am in hoping they will drop Zamby.

Glavine has been better. Pedro has been about the same. Bannister has been about the same as Benson. Zambrano has been as awful as Ishii/Zambrano were last year. Trachsel has been worse than Seo. The bullpen has been better by leaps and bounds than last year's bullpen. That's where I put the credit for the dramatic improvement in RA over the first 15 games. Sure, some of the credit for the team improvement goes to LoDuca...for his hitting. I have not been impressed with his defense thus far. But if indeed LoDuca's defense has been better than Piazza's, then some of the credit for the lower RA goes there. But a helluva lot less than you are implying. I think you probably agree with me on all of these points, and are only implying that LoDuca's defense is such a dramatic improvement in order to sully Piazza's name.

Who would I drop from the rotation? I'd drop Zambrano. What about my post makes me a smartass? That I answered your questions in full and asked some questions that you refuse to answer? Yeah, sure a HR hitting second baseman would come in handy. But a starter would be more handy than such a second baseman right now. So, once again, Wiggy for Benson was a good deal. Benson for Julio was not.

Bret Sabermetric wrote: Well, okay, let's look at it like this: what's the difference betwen this year's defense and last year's? The Mets have given up 3.08 earned runs per 9 innings. That's nbetter, right? They've changed Minkiewicz for Delgado--that's a downgrade, right? They've changed Diaz for Nady--that's pretty mich a wash. They've changed Piazza for Lo Duca. That's clearly an improvement--except Lo Duca is throwing out runners worse than Piazza did. So where's the improvement coming from defensively? I would argue that Lo Duca's so much better at catching than Piazza that, even though he's throwing worse, he makes up for it with the rest of his game. If you've got a better theory, let's hear it. The obvious answer is, they're giving up less runs because of the pitching. If you think switching Piazza for LoDuca is the reason why they're giving up 3.08 runs per game, you are a silly, strange man. Or someone who hates Piazza with a passion that eliminates all rational thought.

Bret Sabermetric wrote: ="Elster88"]I'd rather have Benson.. Huh.You don't think this club need a powerhiitting 2b man more than they need a starting pitcher? Of course I don't. Who on earth thinks this team needs more hitting instead of more pitching? Shirley not the guy who bet the team would be above average in RS and RA this year. Bret Sabermetric wrote: ="Elster88"]They ain't trading Wiggy for Julio. They don't want Julio. Huh. Why not, do you suppose? Do you think somebody got rubed somewhere along the Wiggy-for-Benson-for-Julio road? Who, oh who, might that someone be, I wonder? All that remains, really, is to trade Julio for a bag of baseballs, and our work here will be done. This has been covered all ready. There was really nothing wrong with the Wiggy for Benson deal on our part. We don't need Wiggy's bat. The part where we got "rubed" was Julio for Benson, because Julio reeks...and because we could use a guy for the rotation so we could drop Zambrano in the scrap heap. I've believed this since the day the trade happened. Both of those points have been discussed in full.

I'd rather have Benson. They ain't trading Wiggy for Julio. They don't want Julio.

Looked out to me.

Edgardo had 109 in 2000...but I'm guessing you wanted to have three different peeps on the card. In which case you're fine. I'm just a nitpicking weasel. Don't mind me.

I think I understand now...

I don't think I have once seen Zvon get all three players correct on those cards he puts togeher.

If he did a shot for every shot that's been hit off him this year...

Nymr83 wrote: ]Just like you don't need to be Jewish to eat Levy's rye bread, and you don't have to be a Quaker to eat Quaker Oats, i don't have to be a Dominican to be offended by racial insensitivity performed publicly in the spirit of having a good time. and you don't have to be Mexican to eat a Taco, but thats not the argument here at all. you DO have to be jewish to say that a caricature of a big-nosed jew is offensive and you do have to be a quaker to find something about quakers offensive (sorry can't think of any quaker stereotypes that get made fun of at the moment.) for someone else to find something offensive when persons of the nationality/race/religion that they say is being offended don't find it offensive doesn't make it offensive, it might even mean that THEY, the over-eager defender of bullshit political correctness, are in fact the ones being offensive because they don't understand the culture that they think they are defending. Are you kidding me? If someone says "All n--- are poor and illiterate and stupid", I can't be offended because I'm not black? Seriously, THINK about what you are saying.

I showed him the love.

Here's a case where the guy I awarded the most points to in Schaefer did not get my PotG vote. Franco gets the nod over Traxxxx for a game winning pinch hit homer.

To top it off, they could've left him in New York to get an MRI, instead of now waiting another couple of days.

][Keppinger's] never struck out much, but he's also never walked much. If HIS eye is for real, it'll really help make up for his lack of power. It's well documented that I think Kaz is a better player. But this sounds like the ideal #2 hitter to me if that doesn't work out. High OBP. Can he run?

Saturday, May 6th against the Braves. 1:10 PM. I'm counting the hours.

When they "replace" balls after a curve in the dirt, I think they just put them back in their pouches, and don't really remove them from play. I could be wrong.

I agree. I don't think that they're reading this.

For the Giant series. As of the end of all games on 4/20/06, the Giants have scored 70 runs and have allowed 84. They are 9-6.