Lawsuit Applesauce - Mets being sued over Madoff profit, Holliday's price might be affordable, Thole at Triple-A?

by Joe Budd on Oct 22, 2009 8:58 AM EDT in Applesauce Comment 44 comments

I don't really enjoy this Steve Phillips story. My schadenfreude doesn't really extend to innocent wives and children. I can at least be grateful in the fact that he will not be on television for a little while.

Meet the Mets

So, Steve Phillips had an affair. Again. Let's bring this back to him hating on Carlos Beltran. Howard Megdal joins the fun.

You remember that profit that the Mets might have earned from the Madoff deal? Well, that might be short-lived as the Mets are being sued for it.

Matt Holliday's contract will apparently max out at around $106 million over 6 years. I'm skeptical, especially if the Yankees are able to prove that you can in fact buy the World Series. This may be one of the reasons why Jason Fry is encouraging Met fans to root for the Phillies.

Matt Cerrone has a hunch that the Mets will start the season with Josh Thole at Triple-A and sign someone to platoon with Omir.

Matthew Artus has an admittedly irrational desire to see Vladimir Guerrero with the Mets next season.

Around the NL East

I guess I will take this one sentence and congratulate the Phillies for the pennant. I'll try and show some type of sportsmanship. I'm incredibly envious of this supposed golden age.

Joe Torre thinks that these Phillies are like his Yankee teams. Jim Thome sees more of the Indians in them.

Nationals' starter Livan Hernandez has tax problems.

Around MLB

The Cubs snagged Rudy Jaramillo for their hitting coach position.

Colorado is keeping general manager Dan O'Dowd for a while.

Stay tuned in the near future for a decision from Tony La Russa regarding the Cardinals.

Who has been the better player through his career? Bobby Abreu or Johnny Damon? I would have to vote for Abreu.

Remember Terrmel Sledge? Besides having a great name, he also apparently hits walk-off grand slams in Japan.

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Fry makes a compelling case

Then again, I offer a counter-argument:

Shane Victorino, Jimmy Rollins, and Jayson Stark.

As for the latter, here’s his column from last night’s game. If you have a spare 12 hours and a barf bucket at the ready, feel free to read it. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs/2009/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=4584341

I’ll summarize it thusly: “The marvelous and gritty Philadelphia Phillies are seven shades of gritty awesome. Their collective hearts are so big that they are visible from space. I love them. I love them so much I think I’m getting all tingly inside. Did I mention that they were gritty?”

Oh please let the Angels win three straight games.

by dcmetsfan on Oct 22, 2009 9:54 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Goddamnit, I thought we weren't gonna see another Stark piece again.

I hope he gets offed via the Magic Pencil Trick in “The Dark Knight.”

Beer is good! And stuff!

by R_Adragna on Oct 22, 2009 11:24 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

this actually made me laugh out loud

"[The Giants] beat us down. We were beat by a grown-man team, a team we want to be like one day. They came in here and took it to us. Out-manned us, out-gunned us. ... It wasn't even close." - Raheem Morris, 9/27/09

by cjmulrain on Oct 22, 2009 11:31 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Let's go live to Jayson Stark...

“You can count on two fingers the amount of times a baseball game has been won the way the Phillies did in Game 4. What am I doing with my other eight digits? Showering a little brotherly love on Chase Utley and Jimmy Rollins.”

by Bieser's Balk on Oct 22, 2009 2:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

My comment or the Stark piece?

Beer is good! And stuff!

by R_Adragna on Oct 22, 2009 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

yea

the image of Stark getting the pencil trick done to him is highly amusing

by cjmulrain on Oct 22, 2009 11:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Would like to make a gif of that, but I suck at Photoshop.

Beer is good! And stuff!

by R_Adragna on Oct 23, 2009 1:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think of it different

If the Yankees win, which I hope they do (in 4 games) wouldn’t they be more content with their roster. If they don’t win the World Series and its because they get shut out on offense.. You better bet your ass they go after Holliday.

by RIPShea on Oct 22, 2009 10:06 AM EDT via mobile reply actions 0 recs

The Yankees are NEVER content with their roster.

To whit, this exchange overheard on a golf course in May 1999 (bearing in mind that the Yankees had JUST come off a season in which they won 125 games in toto)…

Golfer #1: So I see the homo Mets won again yesterday.

Golfer #2: Yeah, good game.

#1: I hate ‘em but that Piazza is an offensive force, isn’t he?

#2: Yeah.

#1: BOY, I’d love to see him in Yankee stripes!

#2: He just signed a 3-year contract!

#1: Yeah, but that doesn’t mean anything. George can throw more money at him and to the Mets and he’ll come over…

And people wonder why we hate Yankee fans.

Oh, the butcher and the baker and the people on the street: wheredotheygo?!?!?

by CharlieH on Oct 22, 2009 10:13 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

+100000000000

Gangsta

by Jadden Hopkins on Oct 22, 2009 5:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Rooting for the Yankees goes against every fiber of my being

Rooting for the Phillies just makes me a little queasy.

I’d compare it to eating a bad oyster that keeps you up for 3 nights and turns your skin yellow for a week to eating a bad oyster that causes a few hours of minor GI upset.

by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on Oct 22, 2009 10:15 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I'm still rooting for global thermonuclear war.

Oh, the butcher and the baker and the people on the street: wheredotheygo?!?!?

by CharlieH on Oct 22, 2009 10:17 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Let's Go North Korea!

clap clap, clapclapclap

by cjmulrain on Oct 22, 2009 11:32 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hmm...

Maybe that’ll work better this way:

D-P-R-K! (clap clap clapclapclap)

"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Oct 22, 2009 11:45 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions 0 recs

Under no circumstances can I root for the Phillies

I don’t think I’d be able to leave my house for a month without going on a psychotic killing spree if they won again. The Phillies fans would be the single most obnoxious thing in the history of sports if they won 2 in a row.

PS I live in Philly.

by Balagast on Oct 22, 2009 10:18 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

totally justified then

if i were in the philly area i’d have to cheer against them too, but being in NY, my choice is clear. It sucks that we’re probably ending up with the worst case scenario world series.

by KeithsMoustache on Oct 22, 2009 11:34 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

no "probably" about it

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Oct 22, 2009 8:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

you gotta believe?

by KeithsMoustache on Oct 22, 2009 10:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Terrmel Sledge

Ah, that brings back memories of the Upper Deck at Shea at some Mets/Expos game, when some half-drunken heckler/wiseguy said, “Terrmel Sledge, what kind of name is that? It sounds like a disease.”

We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!

by kingcritical on Oct 22, 2009 10:24 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

ah, my friend the padres' fan favorite player

for pretty much exactly that reason alone.

Lets hope that when gut check time comes again the Mets will pass it with flying colors.

by kendynamo on Oct 22, 2009 11:26 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Steve has a big birthmark on his crotch right above his penis

Nasty.

I can’t help but think that this is the reason that he is always hating on Beltran. It has to do with his insecurities about his own birthmark and people with them don’t have the grission to win.

by Delgado on Oct 22, 2009 10:50 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Ted Berg beat me to the punch line

by Delgado on Oct 22, 2009 10:52 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I care not what anyone says.

The Phillies are a disgrace to baseball and to Philadelphia. I wish the Athletics were still in Philly.

Beer is good! And stuff!

by R_Adragna on Oct 22, 2009 11:26 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

why ?

by fxcarden on Oct 22, 2009 11:27 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Simple.

A’s are in AL. If Philly had the A’s, they’d deal with Yankees. Rather root for a Philly team if that were the case.

Beer is good! And stuff!

by R_Adragna on Oct 22, 2009 11:29 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I meant why are they a disgrace ?.

by fxcarden on Oct 22, 2009 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You haven't read about their history?

Beer is good! And stuff!

by R_Adragna on Oct 22, 2009 3:37 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

which part ?

by fxcarden on Oct 22, 2009 7:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Everything before the last 3 years.

Beer is good! And stuff!

by R_Adragna on Oct 22, 2009 7:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

well,

back in the Schmidt and Carlton days I didn’t mind them.

the rest of the time, I pretty much ignored the team.

by fxcarden on Oct 22, 2009 8:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Almost all of their teams were so horrible.

Plus they had crummy managment. That’s why they’ve been a disgrace.

Beer is good! And stuff!

by R_Adragna on Oct 22, 2009 9:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

we've had some crummy teams in the past, and also some horrible managers

so then we’ve been a disgrace to NY ?.

by fxcarden on Oct 23, 2009 10:48 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

We don't have that extra-long history that the Phils do.

With that kind of history, you’d think they’d have been dominant in some part of it instead of being the doormat.

Beer is good! And stuff!

by R_Adragna on Oct 23, 2009 10:50 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

fair enough

by fxcarden on Oct 23, 2009 11:09 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

If the As were there

No one would be a Phillies fan. The As were Philly’s team until they left.

"I got my pregnant wife (the Yankee fan) with me. Hoping my kid learns to kick her everytime the Mets score." -Schifftis-

by future on Oct 22, 2009 11:57 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

TedQuarters

awesome blog name. ted berg is the MF’ing S. thanks for linking – that is the first i saw of that. now to add to google reader.

Lets hope that when gut check time comes again the Mets will pass it with flying colors.

by kendynamo on Oct 22, 2009 11:27 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Hey guys

a better idea than watching the World Series, do what I’m gonna do: each night there’s a World Series game, watch a different “Greatest Games at Shea” DVD. So, for Game 1, you watch the 2006 Wright walkoff game. For Game 2, you watch Game 5 of the ’86 NLCS. For Game 3, you watch Game 5 of the ’99 NLCS. For Game 4 you watch Game 4 of the ’69 Series. And for Game 5 you watch the greatest game ever, Game 6, ’86. And if it goes 6 or 7 games, you blow your brains out.

by cjmulrain on Oct 22, 2009 11:36 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Holliday

Regardless of how impeccable Silva’s source is, I have a really hard time digesting news that’s been provided to me by someone who (in his headline, no less) can’t bother to properly choose between “than” and “then”.

by JoshNY on Oct 22, 2009 12:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

proper grammar is so 20th century

get with the twitter age, man.

by cjmulrain on Oct 22, 2009 12:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Just heard on Jim Rome

A clip from a Philly news report talking about the post-game celebrations in the city last night. He described how one guy was climbing up a tree trunk while another guy was shooting off a roman candle at him. Classy party there.

"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Oct 22, 2009 12:27 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

We need the Angels to pull off 3 in a row so we have a team to really root for in the Series.

I can’t stand to see the Phillies win two in a row, first NL team since the Big Red Machine. That’s history, written FOREVER. So if the Angels lose to the Yankees, I will utter the three words that may kill me, and three words I hoped to never utter: Let’s Go Yankees.

by Metzfan22 on Oct 22, 2009 1:53 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs