Mauer Applesauce - Mets do not trade for AL MVP, Keith back with SNY, Shea in theaters

by Joe Budd on Nov 24, 2009 11:57 AM EST in Applesauce

Meet the Mets

We can all rest a little easier now: Keith Hernandez is remaining with SNY for next season.

Josh Thole hit his second home run of the short season while batting lead off. Speaking of catchers, Will Davidan is furious that the Mets missed out on bringing in a cheap major league catcher in George Kottaras. It's all related to Omar's handling of the 40 man roster, which has been questionable.

Like Jerry Seinfeld said, rooting for your favorite team rooting for a uniform.

Ted Berg thinks that Omar and Jim Hendry have a deal, they're just waiting for a sucker to take Milton Bradley.

Well, there's at least one reason to go and see the movie Old Dogs, Shea Stadium.

Around the NL East

Now it looks like the Marlins will keep Jorge Cantu around next season.

Joe Mauer News

Mauer wins the AL MVP vote, but the biggest news is that some dude voted for Miguel Cabrera.

Following the award, the Twins seem optimistic at their chances of signing Mauer to an extension, preferably by Christmas.

Twinkie Town got a hold of some private letters to some of the other MVP candidates.

Other Assorted Baseball Stuff

Mike Silva has decided to take on the whole state of Florida which clearly is simply another Carl Crawford reaction piece.

White Sox GM Kenny Williams calls out his closer for being overweight. I love the White Sox.

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I can't believe anyone saw Old Dogs to know that Shea was in there.

by Mr. Bananagrabber on Nov 24, 2009 12:08 PM EST reply actions

The Mets didn't trade for Mauer?

Damn, you got my hopes up.

by JoshNY on Nov 24, 2009 12:14 PM EST reply actions

It's kind of hard

To write headlines with so little ACTUAL news going on with the team right now. Just wanted to have some fun.

by Joe Budd on Nov 24, 2009 12:44 PM EST up reply actions

There really was NO reason to not pick up Kottaras. What, you really think he’s worse than Santos or Thole? What, you really think there’s someone better on the free agent market? What, you’re afraid to pick up his huge 400k contract?

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

by squid92 on Nov 24, 2009 12:24 PM EST reply actions

Cabrera's one 1st place vote

I’m rumormongering here….but that aside, isn’t it kind of a strange coincidence that Verlander got one 1st place vote for the AL Cy Young, too? Does this same guy vote for both awards? What are the chances that he just voted like a homer.

by JayWise on Nov 24, 2009 1:03 PM EST reply actions

It was different guys.

The one who voted for Verlander explained his vote in a column shortly after the results were announced. His rationale was something along the lines of “Verlander pitched meaningful games in September; Grienke didn’t.”

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

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Nov 24, 2009 1:16 PM EST up reply actions

I believe the guy who voted for Cabrera was from Seattle

And by the way the writer who voted for Verlander should be aware that Grienke pitched several games against the Tigers and the Twins in September .

by Endys Game on Nov 24, 2009 3:10 PM EST up reply actions

well, um

I guess that’s a reason. not a good reason, but a reason. Verlander did lead the league in Ks too, as well, if I’m not mistaken.

by JoshNY on Nov 24, 2009 3:15 PM EST up reply actions

Maybe the guy who voted for Cabrera

was out getting hammered drunk the night before the biggest vote of the season, thus leading to his sluggish performance. How many people does Jim Leyland have to bail out of jail this year?

by The Kernge on Nov 24, 2009 3:26 PM EST up reply actions

someone on Joe Pos's blog made a decent point

technically, they can submit their votes before the season ends. So the Seattle guy may have submitted his vote with the Tigers a few games up (maybe even before all the off-field stuff with Cabrera hit the news) and assumed the Tigers were making the playoffs and the Twins weren’t. Mauer still should have gotten it, but at least that’s somewhat defensible.

"[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 Nov 24, 2009 10:33 PM EST up reply actions

That sounds pretty reckless and irresponsible, IMO.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 25, 2009 7:46 AM EST up reply actions

I mean, yea it is

but I think him being irresponsible is better than him just plain being a moron, no?

by cjmulrain on Nov 25, 2009 9:34 AM EST up reply actions

I don't know. At least morons have an excuse- they're morons!

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 25, 2009 10:50 PM EST up reply actions

Ah, great Shawn Green memories...

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 24, 2009 1:08 PM EST reply actions

Ryan Howard finished 3rd in MVP vote.

So, uh, how’s everyone feel about that?

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

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Nov 24, 2009 2:51 PM EST reply actions

The right guy won, that's the most important thing

by JoshNY on Nov 24, 2009 3:16 PM EST up reply actions

True.

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

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Nov 24, 2009 3:21 PM EST up reply actions

What that says to me

is that the BBWAA is not really progressing as much as we all think. Yea, they got all the winners right this year, but that was only because Pujols and Mauer were blindingly obvious choices. The down ballot stuff says to me that they still don’t really get it.

The Lincecum win was the one that pointed most to a sea-change, but even there only 11 guys thought he was the best and it took Will Carroll and Keith Law to help the right guy win.

by dtro on Nov 24, 2009 4:01 PM EST up reply actions

Keeping Arturo Lopez over Bostick

Seems extremely dumb. How Bostick didn’t get a call up while Misch and Takahashi did is also a freaking mystery.

by Mackey Sasser on Nov 24, 2009 3:44 PM EST reply actions

random unrelated thoughts....

1, I guess it was “screw the second basemen” year in the MVP voting, because Utley finished 8th just like Zobrist, even though he is ridiculously more awesome than, say, Andre Ethier. It’s funny that only dumb Philly fans (the kind that hate Donovan McNabb) seem to appreciate Utley for how good he really is.

2, Why is Kenny Williams calling out his players? Doesn’t he know that Ozzie is much better at that role? I mean, Ozzie will insert about 10 R-rated words per minute into it.

3, Mike Silva continues to be an idiot, and I’m too tired to go piece-by-piece through his hackery, so I’ll just say that calling out the Rays for trading Kazmir is dumb. The Rays front office is really, really good, so I’m sure they know what they’re doing, especially in trading an injury-prone guy who walks too many people.

Somehow, a chain of events unfolded that put Steve Phillips in a professional broadcast booth Sunday night so he could rip Carlos Beltran. Try to explain that in any other terms.

by Greenpoint Ian on Nov 24, 2009 10:43 PM EST reply actions

sorry, spoke too soon...

Silva calls San Francisco a “small market”. Seriously. SAN FRANCISCO.

http://www.tvb.org/rcentral/markettrack/us_hh_by_dma.asp

Right above that tiny market that is Boston.

Somehow, a chain of events unfolded that put Steve Phillips in a professional broadcast booth Sunday night so he could rip Carlos Beltran. Try to explain that in any other terms.

by Greenpoint Ian on Nov 24, 2009 10:48 PM EST up reply actions

Silva=Douche

"We're investigating the investigative procedure of the investigation of Tony Bernazard"---Omar Minaya (he really didn't say it but he would"

by firejerrynow on Nov 25, 2009 6:58 AM EST up reply actions

I believe that it was a Silva piece that I was reading recently, where he called St. Louis a small market team. Seriously.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 25, 2009 7:48 AM EST up reply actions

He'll be here in a minute

fishing for traffic!

by deadspy3 on Nov 25, 2009 10:48 AM EST up reply actions

Well there's a pretty big difference between tv market and baseball market

Miami is a prime example of that. major city, tiny baseball market to tap into, same with Tampa.

by Gina on Nov 25, 2009 10:11 PM EST up reply actions

Markets are Determined by Revenue Not Size

The term small market for a team doesn’t always mean what the term states. It’s based on revenue. The Phils received revenue sharing in 2005 – yes 6 million bucks was given to them in 2005. They were a small market team that season. Not the case today.

I really only consider NY, Chi, LA, Anaheim, Boston as big market teams. The rest are either mid tier, or very small.

You are taking the term out of context in my opinion.

by MikeSilvaNYBD on Nov 25, 2009 9:59 PM EST reply actions