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  1. roger_that
    I'll never get over the irony of a column entitled "Young Ideas" being filled daily with some of the most objectionably reactionary ideas in the history of MLB.
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    Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I think it'd be more fun to have an array of skill competitions. Outfield arms. Race around the bases. 100 Grounders. Etc. MLB Field Day They did that one year and someone (Barry Larkin?) hurt his arm in the throwing comp and they never went back. With even hard core NBA fans now admitting that the dunk contest has been totally lame for more than a decade now, the NHL runs the best skills competition at their ASG Yeah!!! because outside of the ASG, Larkin never threw a single ball with his utmost effort.
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    I think they should have the two leagues play football against each other.
  4. roger_that
    This wouldn't be fun if it were held at the original Garden of Eden with the original cast.
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    Any ideas on why that Cards' series would rank that high? I'm trying to make this metric make some sense to me.
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    So let me get this straight: the Mets' cLI is going to rise as the season progresses against its NL East rivals, but drop vs. AL teams, and drop less vs. NL West and Central teams? Or is it going to rise but more slowly against the NL West and Central? Is it going to hit 2.0 against the Braves (assuming they're close behind) in August, and 3.0 in September? Looking backward, most of the Mets' high leverage games have been vs. the Braves and Phils, which only makes sense, except for the four games facing the Cards in mid-May, which rank #,4, 5, 9, and 10 on the cLI list. Did someone have a Whitey Herzog flashback?
  7. roger_that
    Is the cLI going to go up as the season progresses against NL East rivals and way down as we face interleague competition? How come it didn't dip below 1.0 when we faced the Angels? Seems to me that series didn't mean as much as facing an NL team, but yet...
  8. roger_that
    Is it clear to you when circumstances dictate "all our prospects" and when they dictate "all the money in creation" (in the form of taking on dead-weight contracts)? There's some sharp distinction that is drawn, I think, but I'm unclear if these are equally applied as strategies for robbing stars from weak teams and putting them on contenders or if one applies in certain circumstances and the other in other circumstances.
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    Maybe some of yuz have figured this one out? BBref has a category I just noticed (probably up there for ages) they call "cLI" which measures "the importance of a team's winning the World Series," 1.0 denoting "average" and above that "greater than average importance," etc. The Mets just went above 1.50 for the first time all year, in the Braves' series. and then went below 1.0 in the Cubs series also for the first time all season (except for one June game vs. the Astros, which came in at .98). Did you see it like that, subjectively, that the Braves series was the most important one by far and the Cubs series the least important? Not really sure what exactly cLI is measuring here.
  10. roger_that
    Still on pace for 101 wins out of 162.
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    Guillorme with a one-out single
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    and we're tied 2-2
  13. roger_that
    First and third, no outs. Does not look good.
  14. roger_that
    You've got to assume that, for Cohen, and perhaps for other smart, rich owners, turnng an annual profit on your MLB property may be secondary to building the value of that property long-term. In other words, if the Mets in ten years' time are worth three times what he paid for them, does he really care if the team runs at a relatively small loss each year he owns them?
  15. roger_that
    There was a young lady named Ransom Who was rogered three times in a hansom. When she cried out for more Said a voice from the floor, "My name, ma'am, is Sampson, not Samson." And now you know where "Roger That" comes from.
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    Well, yeah, that, too.
  17. roger_that
    Agreed. But this is a matter of philosophy. Are you more inclined to be comfortable in the role of the team trading all its prospects for some hot right-now expensive talent, or in the acquiring-prospects for world domination five years down the road role? To me, there's something exciting and arrogant about being that confident in the ability of your talent scouts to say "This package of talent, so far unrevealed to the wide world, has the potential to more than outstrip the more obvious talent we are trading off." But there is a time, and it is now, that the Mets are on the verge of a world's championship team, and strangely (for them) awash in capital, that I'm inclined to roll the dice and get my hands on any Trout, Ohtani, Soto I can beg, borrow, connive, bribe, or induce my way to.
  18. roger_that
    =ashie62 post_id=100081 time=1658056067 user_id=90] This team is that effin good.
  19. roger_that
    it is kinda nuts, the packaging of deals each team wants to dump, with one big contract one team wants to acquire mixed in. Hardly seems like a baseball trade at all. I'm still not used to it, may never be. This is literally what Passan's thread is talking about for the Mets: we take on Corbin's and Strasburg's contracts which wipe out Soto's value, and give them McCann's and Shreve's. Works out to about even. Strasburg you gotta figure as a dead loss, 35 mil per year for the next five years or so, and useless, though Corbin can't be any worse than the 13thman in our bullpen, so you can use him for mopup work and such. The real question, especially given Strasburg's contract as an object lesson, is whether paying anyone top dollar into 2037 makes sense given the vagaries of life, such as Tony Conigliaro, Tony Oliva, and other tony figures.
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    Edgy MD wrote: He doesn't do it for me, as I prefer men with more upper lip, but Cubans were a cool and swoony thing to be at the time. Combine the dark stare of an exile whose country has fallen to revolution with his ropy athletic musculature, I can imagine he knew how to work a Hollywood pool party. He probably knew how to make cigarette hang just so, and lit and smoked 'em like he had more important things on his mind. https://nymetshistorysite.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/ed-bauta.png> https://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/pics/ed_bauta_autograph.jpg> He always looked kinda simian to me. All that acreage between the upper lip and the nose. I don't see "exotic foreignness" there as much as I see "swinging from branch to branch in search of ripe bananas."
  21. roger_that
    More realistically, this Tweet discusses packaging Soto's positive value with Strasberg's negative value, and not trading for prospects at all, including some deals with the Mets
  22. roger_that
    Maybe. But some superstar is going to be on the market for a wealth of prospects and a shipload of money, probably both (plus signing him to a deal). The open question is whether your top prospects will be worth getting a superstar. Is the sky the limit for a Trout, an Ohtani, a Soto? Theoretically, I suppose, Steve Cohen can afford to pay all three, and the Mets' entire farm system, plus the change in Cohen's couch, might get you one, two, or three of them. Do you want to see that? I kinda do, because I like watching a team crush its opposition, even though I'm a big "grow 'em on the farm' kind of guy. I always wonder what would have happened if the Giants had signed Aaron and Mays, both, and eventually fielded a lineup with Aaron, Mays, McCovey, Cepeda and Jim Ray Hart. 120 wins? More? Less?
  23. roger_that
    https://theathletic.com/3427987/2022/07/16/juan-soto-nationals-contract-offer/https://theathletic.com/3427987/2022/07/16/juan-soto-nationals-contract-offer/ This morning's news includes the possibility that the Nationals are going to trade Juan Soto for parts because he just turned down a 15-year, 440 mil contract extension. Does this interest the Mets? Do they want to take on that sort of contract? Do they have the parts to take Soto off the Nats' hands? Does anyone?
  24. roger_that
    Can we run some facial photos on him and vote to see if he's very handsome or plug-ugly?
  25. roger_that
    You sure? How many of the Mets' top minor leaguers would you trade to get Trout? Is there a number you would draw the line at? Is there a point at which the Angels would say "Ok, that's enough, we don't want any more"?
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