Thursday Applesauce

by Eric Simon on Oct 16, 2008 9:21 AM EDT in Applesauce

I'm in a meeting all day, but here are some quick hits:

Derek Lowe doesn't want to play in New York.
The Mets probably won't buy an MLS team until 2012. Woe.
MetsGeek analyzes Johan Santana's season and the strength of the Mets' core.
Eddie Kunz reports from the AFL, needs an editor.

Arizona Fall League

Peoria Saguaros 3, Phoenix Desert Dogs 2

Shawn Bowman went 1-for-4.
Josh Thole went 0-for-2 with a sac fly.
Tobi Stoner pitched a scoreless inning of relief for the win, striking out one.
Eddie Kunz pitched a scoreless ninth for the save.

Hawaiian Winter Baseball

West Oahu CaneFires 7, Honolulu Sharks 2

Ruben Tejada went 0-for-3 with an RBI.
Greg Veloz went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts.
Josh Stinson started and was knocked around for five runs on seven hits in 2.1 innings. He walked one and struck out none.
Junior Guerra pitched a third of an inning, allowing a hit.

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Kunz excerpt on Murphy at 2B

“Now with the question of what do I think of Murphy at 2B? I like him there he has great arm and reacts really well! I have confidence in him all the way. As do I in all my infielders and outfielders on my team, You have to have confidence in yourself and your teammates to be a good pitcher.”

Hey, he may need an editor, but he tells the people what they want to know!

by JoshNY on Oct 16, 2008 11:43 AM EDT reply actions

what they want to know?

or what they want to hear…

by cjmulrain on Oct 16, 2008 12:05 PM EDT up reply actions

hmm

I see your point

by JoshNY on Oct 16, 2008 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions

A budding journalist he is not

But unfortunately, that might not be the case for me either. As for his remarks, I wasn’t expecting to hear anything like “Murphy at second base is going to be a disaster. I mean, a real fucking train wreck. He has no arm and he fields like a Little Leaguer. Think Chuck Knoblauch in 2000.”

by Prince on Oct 17, 2008 12:43 AM EDT up reply actions

Spin

I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. If he were a disaster, Kunz probably would have used some cliched statement like “He’s a work in progress” or “It’s always tough to learn a new position, but he’s a good athlete and he’ll get better”.
Plus, as a ground ball pitcher, Kunz’s success is heavily linked to his infield defense. It wouldn’t make sense for him to be cheerleading for someone who would make his numbers look worse.

by Reg Dunlop on Oct 17, 2008 9:05 AM EDT up reply actions

I can't tell you how crushed I was about the MLS team

Now we won’t have quality baseball or soccer. I wanna spend $400 million for the 5,000 people who’ll go to those games!

by Prince on Oct 17, 2008 12:50 AM EDT reply actions

soccer

Red Bull Arena should be done next fall sometime, and taking the PATH to Harrison is probably quicker than taking the 7 to Flushing.

I’m just saying.

by JoshNY on Oct 17, 2008 12:09 PM EDT up reply actions

not another stadium

citifield, new yankee stadium, new devils arena, new jets/giants stadium…i didn’t even know the red bulls were building a stadium too. i think the last thing the tristate area needs is another new stadium.

by englishgrey on Oct 17, 2008 2:00 PM EDT up reply actions

too late now

since it’s already under construction, and Red Bull is probably in as good a financial position as anyone to be able to actually afford it. putting aside the issue of the drawing power of soccer relative to those of the major north american sports, there are a pretty fair number of reasons why the Red Bulls needed a new stadium more than the other teams did.

the field at Giants Stadium is unsuitable for soccer. (the playing space is physically too narrow; the field has permanent football lines; the playing surface is fieldturf rather than natural grass) the stadium is far too large and looks cavernously empty when the Red Bulls play there. the fan base RBNY needs to cultivate is less affluent than those of the Giants or Jets (e.g., the huge Latino and Portuguese population of Newark), so the poor accessibility of the Meadowlands by mass transit is more of an issue.

by JoshNY on Oct 17, 2008 5:10 PM EDT up reply actions

i was talking about the mets building a new stadium for their own soccer team

i’m not really against stadiums (as long as they’re mostly privately financed), but it’s just weird so many are being built at the same time around here.

i’m just surprised MLS is doing well enough to be expanding…i know they’ve been around for a while, but i still don’t know anyone who follows the league.

by englishgrey on Oct 18, 2008 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions