Tuesday Morning Mets Newsstand

by Eric Simon on Feb 19, 2008 10:49 AM EST in Applesauce

I'm an idiot. It's quite possible that I am addicted to Resident Evil 4 on Wii. I was up until 3am playing last night, mostly because I'm an idiot with no self-control who refuses to recognize that he needs eight solid hours of sleep to avoid being a cranky little girl in the morning. The big losers here are you guys because my late night means you get a Mets hodgepodge this morning. Sorry!

The Associated Press (by way of Newsday) checks in on the youngsters the Twins netted in the Johan Santana deal.
The increasingly impressive Ken Davidoff of Newsday talks to Carlos Delgado about his down year in 2007 and what he hopes to be a big bounceback year in 2008. The Mets hold a $16 million option for 2009, but for all intents and purposes, this will be treated as a walk season for the big man. Davidoff even went to far as to check the research within Baseball Prospectus's Baseball Between the Numbers for this nugget:
"Players (1) perform better in their walk years, (2) do so at an age that doesn't lend itself to peaking, and (3) perform better in their walk years than they do in their pre- or post-walk seasons."
I actually sent Davidoff an e-mail letting him know how excited I was to see him utilizing the research of "smart people" (his words). More Davidoffs and fewer John Mazors.
Also at Newsday, Neil Best talks with Wayne Hagin, Howie Rose's new play-by-play partner on WFAN. Hagin mentions being pleasantly surprised when the Mets and WFAN indicated that they didn't want a "homer" in the radio booth.
In the Post, Mike Vaccaro breaks down Duaner Sanchez's lost season and the work Sanchez has done to get back into playing shape so he can help the Mets in 2008 and beyond.
In the New York Times, Murray Chass has a surprisingly even-handed look back at the Moneyball draft of 2002, now that Jeremy Brown has announced his retirement.

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Advance Wars: Days of Ruin

is currently keeping me up to the wee hours. productivity be damned, i've go to stop the New Rubinelle Army. those dicks.

by kendynamo on Feb 19, 2008 12:01 PM EST reply actions

Cranky Eric

Tsk tsk, Eric. I think we're gonna have to set a bedtime.

As for Davidoff, I find him to be one of the more saber-friendly columnists in the city.

by Alex Nelson on Feb 19, 2008 1:31 PM EST reply actions

LOL Eric!

I did the same thing with RE4! (Well, I did the same thing with RE4, Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3 and Super Mario Galaxy, but those others are besides the point.

So where are you in the game? Have you actually finished it yet or were you stuck somewhere? I've beated it about 6 or 7 times now but it gets easier if you use the advanced weaponry you pick up after beating it on the hardest mode. What really kicked my butt for the longest time was the mercenaries, many of which I've still only beaten once.

Watch me paste this pathetic palooka with a powerful paralyzing perfect pachyderms percussion pitch.

by Mr. Met on Feb 19, 2008 4:33 PM EST reply actions

RE4

I beat the game on Normal and I beat Separate Ways. Now I'm playing through the game for the second time and I just cashed in all of my weapons to buy the $1,000,000 Chicago Typewriter, which is just an awesome piece of weaponry.

This round is basically a joke, difficulty-wise, because of that gun and the fact that Ashley has a suit of armor that makes her impervious to attack and carry-away. Still, I can just sit there for hours on end blasting baddies. I even went home to play it at lunch.

I tried mercenaries really quickly, and it's definitely hard as all hell.

by Eric Simon on Feb 19, 2008 6:01 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah once you you get the Chi-Ty

it's pretty easy. After you get the Plasma gun (which is really fun especially if you tiptoe up and surprise a bunch of crows, like in the graveyard where Ashley was first kept), and the Magnum, and the infinite missle launcher, it gets to be more a question of which weapon you want to blow them away with. It took me hours to get past that one Sheriff guy who splits in half and drops his eyeball out the first time, but then I killed him in about 10 seconds with 2 shots with the plasma gun.

For the mercenaries, it took me forever to get 5 stars on each of those. I think that's what you need to do to get the magnum gun with the infinite ammo. I actually had to resort to checking out some YouTube vids to give me some hints on how to do it. Krauser is really fun to play with in there though. I managed to get over 120k with him in the castle part once.

Watch me paste this pathetic palooka with a powerful paralyzing perfect pachyderms percussion pitch.

by Mr. Met on Feb 19, 2008 6:40 PM EST up reply actions

Oh and if you're in the mode with Ashley

in the suit of armor, what's funny is watching the zombies try to carry her away. They can't do it, because she's too heavy. Alright it's only kinda funny.

Watch me paste this pathetic palooka with a powerful paralyzing perfect pachyderms percussion pitch.

by Mr. Met on Feb 19, 2008 7:28 PM EST up reply actions

Hey!

That was me last night, except with Call of Duty 4 for X-Box 360. Today sucked.

.318/.379/.591
.299/.362/.543
.304/.396/.474
.317/.363/.517
.289/.375/.478
.288/.387/.474
.305/.385/.479
.278/.339/.399
Pick your poison

by BlackOps on Feb 19, 2008 7:11 PM EST reply actions

baseball between the numbers

great book. i love pulling that out when somebody i know says something stupid. of course they're usually incapable of understanding what all those numbers mean. but it's the thought that counts, right?

by gogomets on Feb 19, 2008 10:55 PM EST reply actions