Elster88

You pretty much described how I feel to a T. What happened to Zabriske anyway? Did he disappear when they vaporized SportsChannel?

I only see one post where it was said "It has been shown..." and no one here got to see what was shown. The rest is mostly speculation, with the main theme making sense: If a guy does more in the offseason, he will not be able to perform as well once the season starts. Then it has to be decided exactly how much more work will he be doing, and is it the same as regular offseason workouts, and blah, blah, blah, about stuff no one can prove one way or the other. I stand by my position. Pitching in competitive games is going to require more work than whatever Pedro normally does from November through March. And he already said he was tired well before the season ended. I'd prefer he didn't pitch for another team. That's my tough luck. _____________________________ This post had the designation 137) Del Unser

Nymr83 wrote: ="Elster88"]Nymr83 wrote: ]Fear that the New York media's love affair with hand-picked manager Willie Randolph will sour if the big-budget Mets get off to a slow start in his second year, and those same "Willie's a Winner" pundits will be calling for a much-more qualified candidate in Backman to get Randolph's job? everyone knows i'm not a fan of wee willie small brain, but what exactly makes backman "much-more qualified" to manage in the majors? Oh, just maybe the fact that he had managed a game prior to 2005? Not hard to figure out. if that were true then a career .230 hitter who is 39 years old and can't play the field was "more qualified" than david wright at the point wright was brought up. I won't even try explaining why this is wrong. It should be obvious.

Rockin' Doc wrote: It seems that the media always declares a national apathy for the post season once the Yankees are eliminated. It's much like network televisions coverage of the PGA; they seem to assume the viewing public only wishes to watch and hear about Tiger Woods, no matter how far out of contention he may be. This has been an exciting post season thus far. The first two games of the World Series have been particularly enjoyable games to watch. Ratings are 30% down. It probably is in part due to the Red Sox and the Yanks not being in it, thought that's most likely because there are less people in New York and Boston watching, not because of a larger lack of interest at the national level.

]Jose Freakin' Vizcaino. As if I needed to be reminded of that. I still say Turk made a good pitch there... Elster88 too! Elster88 was surprised it took McCarver so long (about 30 seconds) to jam that one down his throat. _____________________________ This post had the designation 138) Rickey Henderson

Zvon wrote: ="Willets Point"]Awesome game, awesome series so far. I love baseball. ditto. Ditto.

Frayed Knot wrote: Y'know, for all of Pedro's supposed "fragility", he's missed significant time in only 1 of the last 11 seasons (2001) averaging 216 IP/per in the other 10 (217 this year) and always making between 29 & 33 starts (31). Pretty durable for a fragile guy. Good point.

Nymr83 wrote: ]Fear that the New York media's love affair with hand-picked manager Willie Randolph will sour if the big-budget Mets get off to a slow start in his second year, and those same "Willie's a Winner" pundits will be calling for a much-more qualified candidate in Backman to get Randolph's job? everyone knows i'm not a fan of wee willie small brain, but what exactly makes backman "much-more qualified" to manage in the majors? Oh, just maybe the fact that he had managed a game prior to 2005? Not hard to figure out.

Elster88 has to agree with Nymr here (and Elster88 rarely agrees with Nymr). Elster88 doesn't see how pitching in competitive games is the same as "normal offseason workouts". Pedro is a competitive person, which Elster88 thinks is an understatement, so Pedro will probably bust his ass for whatever team he pitches for. Elster88 is terrified that Pedro will hurt himself or not get the rest he claimed to need because he will be pitching this offseason. Elster88 is surprised that most other Met fans don't seem to be worried. At the core of it, we have a guy who is considered fragile. His endurance was questioned, as was his age, when he signed with the Mets. He pitched more innings this year than he has in a long time. He complained of being tired (in early September/late August?) and looking forward to resting during the offseason (maybe not strumming a guitar under a mango tree, but that image isn't far off from what Elster88 envisioned when Pedro said he was looking forward to resting). Elster88 thinks that competitive baseball is the last thing he should be doing. What are the contract ramifications is he hurts himself? Aaron Boone had his voided because he hurt himself playing basketball. Jeff Kent got reamed by the press when he hurt himself one offseason. Elster88 is tried of posting like Rickey. Only a few more to go. _____________________________ This post had the designation 138) Rickey Henderson

SwitchHitter wrote: I think folks should embrace former Yankees Why?

Elster88 is not nearly creative enough to participate in this contest. But he can't wait to read and vote. ____________________________ This post had the designation 138) Rickey Henderson

Thank you. Elster88 is enjoying himself immensly. He might be enjoying himself a little too much, and was wondering how other people would react. ____________________________ This post had the designation 138) Rickey Henderson

Elster88 remembers the Mets sweeping John Franco and the Astros in April and thinking "Damn, Houston sucks this year." ____________________________ This post had the designation 138) Rickey Henderson

Especially since he was all about wanting to go home and get some rest toward the end of the year. Elster88 guesses he meant he wanted to go home and pitch some more there. And then join his home country's team and pitch some more around the globe with them. _____________________________ This post had the designation 138) Rickey Henderson

Elster88 does not like this. Omar should've put a clause in his contract saying no pitching for any team but the Mets. _____________________________ This post had the designation 138) Rickey Henderson

Elster88 thinks that Bellhorn would only be a bench option, at best, and Elster88 likes all three of the backup middle infielders from '05 better. Plus, all we need to do is bring two of them back. Elster88 votes for Woodward and Marlon. _____________________________ This post had the designation 138) Rickey Henderson

That was a huge topic of discussion on the radio today. That stuff doesn't bother Elster88 so much. But when they flashed "Boston - World Champions" in Game Six...THAT would've bothered Elster88. _____________________________ This post had the designation 138) Rickey Henderson

MFS62 wrote: Willets Point wrote: One of the plot points of the original movie is that Rocky was getting too old for boxing. Its been so long since then, they think we forgot. Later It was one of the plot points in all of the other Rocky's except, oddly enough, Rocky V, where he quit because of brain damage, not age.

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I thought about posting a poll, but we already have a thread. Would you have walked Pujols yesterday? If you feel like playing along, please respond in bold. Yes - 0% No --------------------------------------------- 100 (8 votes)%

holychicken wrote: Does anyone know how far it travelled? Seriously he CRUSHED that thing and I can't find a "estimated distance." Not that it really matters. But I was curious . . . and now I can't find it. They said 412 on SportsCenter. Looked like longer than that to me.

="seawolf17"]Also lost in last night's broadcast was Tim McCarver's statement that "the largest state in the U.S. has never hosted a World Series game"! No shit, Tim. It's because they don't have a freaking major league baseball team, dick. I don't know what happened to Timmy, who I thought was so good when he was doing Mets games when I was a kid, but he's losing it. Well, Timmy is an idiot, but I think for a different reason than you are thinking. I'm pretty sure he was referring to Texas, not Alaska. So is he dumber if he says that Alaska has never hosted a game, or dumber if he doesn't know what the biggest state is?

The sad part is that I'll probably be there opening night.

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Valadius wrote: The article doesn't say it. I'm saying it. What do I mean? He'd be a power-hitting catcher with a below-average arm. Our tools at the position would remain the same. Oh. The way you wrote it, it seemed like you were drawing that conclusion from the article. I still say it's waaaaay too early to say he's the next Piazza.