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This article essentially says that Jacobs is the best catching prospect in two farm systems. It does not say he is ] essentially be the second coming of Mike Piazza. A little early for that.

I think the argument was originally about Cowboy Bob Orton's performance on WWF Superstars last Saturday.

Carnac! Good to see you.

ABG wrote: Damn. I was hoping for a game at Camden. Maybe in 8 more years. Stupid MLB. Me too. Camden is next on my list of parks to visit. I also want to hit up PNC, I've heard it's very good.

ABG wrote: Damn. I was hoping for a game at Camden. Maybe in 8 more years. Stupid MLB. Me too. Camden is next on my list of parks to visit. I also want to hit up PNC, I've heard it's very good.

I'm still looking for the article. He only very briefly mentioned the '86 Mets when saying how a couple of the dominant teams in the 1980's did not have traditionally high powered offenses. This smelled fishy to me, and Simmons confirmed that it wasn't true: ]The Mets led the league in runs scored, scoring 15% more runs than the league average and 44 more runs than the next closest team. They led the league in batting, slugging and OBP (the latter by 13 points). They led the league in walks. They were 3d in the league in home runs and 4th in doubles. And they did this while playing in Shea Stadium, one of the league's best pitcher's parks (they scored 4.68 runs/game at home, 4.99 on the road). Their team OPS+ was 116, compared to 111 for the 1999 Indians and 114 for the 2004 Red Sox. It was 116 again in 1987. It was 117 in 1988. On the days when Howard Johnson or Kevin Mitchell played shortstop, the 1986 team could field a whole lineup (except pitchers) where the lowest OPS+ was 114, that being Wally Backman with a .320 average and a .376 OBP. The Mets, within the context they played in, beat the crap out of people."" Not sure what Gammons meant. Maybe they didn't have an unusually high number of homers as per 1990+ standards? Carter and Straw had what, 60 between them?

They're making a movie about Game Six.

Iubitul wrote: Great stat on ESPN this morning: Yankees 2005 payroll: $208 mil. Angels + White Sox payroll combined: $173 mil Astros + Cardinals payroll combined: $168 mil My team has the third highest total payroll in the majors, so it's hard for me to feel much glee from these numbers.

]The Yankees might end up with the MVP this season, Alex Rodriguez, the Cy Young Award for Mariano Rivera, have the Rookie of the Year in Robinson Cano and the Comeback Player of the Year in Jason Giambi, and still they can't make it out of the first round of the playoffs I love it. But still, their fans are giving this team a pounding they may not deserve. "They have no heart because they lost this series." Well, they came back after being however many games under .500 and however many games out of first, twice. They had two of their free agent starters suck all year and another lose his all-star form. They had to give prominent roles to at least three rookies. And they came back down 2-1 in the playoffs and won game four. As much as I hate to say it, this team showed some heart. You can show heart and still make a lot of money. Yet I'm sure for the next six months all I'll here is how they aren't a team and are just a collection of all-stars and blah, blah, blah. Give it up, shit happens in a playoff series (see: 1988 Mets and 1988 A's). That's why I'll say it again: I don't hate the Yankees. I hate Yankee fans.

I don't like Mike Scoisciasciaascisias.

I don't like Roger Clemens.

Hideki reaches into a crowd of about 15 to make a nice catch, as Bartman cries in agony. Nice play. McCarver tells us "When a player goes into the crowd the crowd can slap the ball out of his glove." Thanks for the info Timmy.

Molina is hitting .467 in the series. I see his great postseason leading to him getting overpaid and disappointing the team that signs him from a major market.

Ugh. I can't stand thunderstix. I wanted to commit acts of violence when they gave them out during a Met game I went to as part of a credit card promotion.

Al and Randy warming in the pen and it's only the third inning. Bad news for the Y's.

Sadly, the Yankees would've beaten the shit out of that Cub team. The reason they lost to the Marlins was named Josh Beckett.

Johnny Dickshot wrote: A guy could do worse than turn into Benny Agbayani, who reached base in the 370s and OPS+ed in the 125 range for a couple of years. And Shane Spencer probably threw away the makings of a better career with his drinking. The one thing you have to remember about Jacobs is that he ranked about as good or better than all of these Agbayanis, Phillipses and Maases but at a younger age in the minors, and is debuting 2 years younger than most of them too. He got probably 100 fewer ABs than we'd like for a real test of his abilities, and if he can hit LHP we don't know yet, but if the search for the next experienced and proven 1Bman (let's say, uh... Mo Vaughn...) becomes too expensive I wouldn't have any fear using Jacobs and a right-handed hitter (Diaz?) together as an economical first base platoon. I agree with all of this. My only point was that he shouldn't be penciled into the lineup for the next 15 years just yet.

DocTee wrote: I can almost see MFY fans having this discussion fifteen years ago-- but with Mike Pagliarullo, Dan Pasqua and a 1B HR machine named Kevin Mass leading the resurgence-- while Jacobs is a nice story, let's not get overly optimistic! I still want a legitimate major league tested bat at 1B 100% approval of this quote. As I'm sure everyone knows, the only three hitters in history to hit as many or more home runs in their first 90 at-bats as Jacobs are Shane Spencer, Kevin Maas, and Benny Agbayani.

Oh, and let me echo the sentiments that I like SwitchHitter. Shame on you, PiazzaFan. Anybody who can post intelligently should be welcome here. This, of course, rules out the majority of Yankee fans. Mikey would be ashamed of your comment.

SwitchHitter wrote: Now I discover that my team has a post-season history that prominently features the Braves. I still hate them. Considering the Braves' playoff performance, you should be liking them the way an older brother likes playing his little brother in sports.

I am all for keeping it at exactly 10 points per game. Who does more: a) the guy who goes 3-3 with 3 bloop singles in a game where four shitty Diamondback pitchers pitch and the Mets win 17-3 the guy who goes 1-4, his single coming in the inning where Reyes reaches on an error, goes to third on this single, and scores on a sac fly in a 2-hitter by Smoltz that the Mets lose 4-1. It's all about performance relative to the game. _____________________________ This post had the designation 140) David Weathers

This says it all about the Yankees for me: I hated their fans more than I disliked any individual player or manager or owner. I have only actively hated two Yankees in my lifetime: O'Neill and Clemens. I can't cry about Steinbrenner when the Mets have the third-highest payroll. But I hate the team because of the fans. (except silver, of course).

How do I find the 2000 write-up?

I don't like this poll. It makes me feel bad.

Nymr83 wrote: nope. quality > quantity doesn't mean quality + quantity = quality. I realize this, but the reasoning you were espousing before did not. Nymr83 wrote: jacobs cant get pts in games he didnt play Well, yeah, that's what I was saying. I can explain it in a different way: Matsui and Cairo get smaller increments for the games they played in over a longer period of time, and Jacobs gets larger increments over a much shorter period of time. Since Jacobs' period of time is much shorter, over the long haul Matsui and Cairo attain more points and thus are higher ranked from the prespective of who contributed the most over the year. I'm not sure how else to explain it. I wash my hands of this.