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
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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.
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!
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
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
yea
the image of Stark getting the pencil trick done to him is highly amusing
"[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
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
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?!?!?
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
I'm still rooting for global thermonuclear war.
Oh, the butcher and the baker and the people on the street: wheredotheygo?!?!?
Let's Go North Korea!
clap clap, clapclapclap
"[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
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
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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!
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!
well,
back in the Schmidt and Carlton days I didn’t mind them.
the rest of the time, I pretty much ignored the team.
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!
we've had some crummy teams in the past, and also some horrible managers
so then we’ve been a disgrace to NY ?.
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!
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-
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.
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.
"[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
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”.
proper grammar is so 20th century
get with the twitter age, man.
"[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
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
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.
Jayson Stark must be next on the ESPN affair thing
"We're investigating the investigative procedure of the investigation of Tony Bernazard"---Omar Minaya (he really didn't say it but he would"
lol this season keeps getting better
Self-proclaimed president of the Pat White and Brian Hartline fan club.
No hating on Jay Fiedler, please.
Official Back-Up Phinsider LOL'er.
The one and only "ho-nerd"
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