Shinjo Applesauce - Davis named AFL all-star, Francoeur surgery, Hamels fight, Phils' sign stealing

by Joe Budd on Nov 3, 2009 12:08 PM EST in Applesauce

Meet the Mets

Some minor league news to pass along to you all. Ike Davis has been named to the AFL Rising Stars Game (kind of like an All-Star team). Also, Reese Havens will give second base a try.

Thank you Ted Berg for posting about Tsuyoshi Shinjo. That made my day. I once had a Shinjo poster for my dorm room. Good times.

Jeff Francouer had surgery on his hand without anesthesia. That is what men do. Only half of that first sentence is true.

Congratulations to Wally Backman for having an awesome mustache.

Would the Mets consider trading John Maine and F! to get a big bat or another good starter?

Around the NL East

Apparently, Cole Hamels' Philly teammates didn't appreciate the starter's desire to have the season be over already. This is great. The one benefit to having the Series continue is that there's more of a chance that bad blood will boil over and more good controversy comes out. For example, Larry Bowa and Shane Victorino are in a spat over allegations of Philadelphia sign stealing.

Philadelphia turns to Pedro, once again.

Federal Baseball takes a look at the Nationals' in-house solutions for their atrocious starting pitching rotation.

Around MLB

The Fielding Bible announced their 2009 awards.

Think umpiring is bad now? Apparently it has only improved since the 1970s.

So what if baseball can't really honestly be called the national pastime anymore?

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The Shinjo video on Berg's blog post

might be the greatest thing I’ve seen, ever.

"[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 3, 2009 12:44 PM EST reply actions

At the very least since the centaur A-Rod news

Seriously: if I were Tsuyoshi Shinjo, I’d set up a flat screen in my foyer that played that video continuously on a loop, 24-7.

by Alex Nelson on Nov 3, 2009 2:50 PM EST up reply actions

i have a shinjo jersey i wear to every mets game with pride

pride, and a sense of humor… but mostly that second thing.

by KeithsMoustache on Nov 3, 2009 1:00 PM EST reply actions

Say what you want to about Wally Backman as a player or a coach

but you can never deny that he has an awesome mustache.

by JoshNY on Nov 3, 2009 1:06 PM EST reply actions

Hamels tellign Myers off makes him more appealing for some odd reason.

by lstorie1971 on Nov 3, 2009 1:48 PM EST reply actions

About bad blood and controversy...

…nice to see somebody else look bad for once.

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

by CharlieH on Nov 3, 2009 2:06 PM EST reply actions

with all that grit they have going on over there

its not surprising they would start to turn on each other.

by gbaked on Nov 3, 2009 2:14 PM EST up reply actions

in philly

they don’t do “applesauce.” they sit down to their daily grits.

by Pack Bringley on Nov 3, 2009 2:52 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs

Stuff

I love Japanese baseball. Shinjo was probably my first taste of it when he came over here. Everything is just more…Japanese (Duh)- the announcers, the players, the fans. It’s great stuff. Most interesting, I think, is to see all of the varied and sometimes odd pitching wind-ups that the various pitchers have there.

Jeff Francoeur has grit. Real men don’t need anesthesia. Grit is worth a big, multi-year contract. Having an OBP significantly higher than batting average is for sissies.

Lols at the Metsblog link, where a commenter is talking about how he/she finds other Mets fans ignorant. While it’s definitely true, that’s a huge case of the pot calling the kettle black, what with it being Metsblog and everything.

Cole Hamels being proverbially bitchslapped? Great. That it’s Bret Myers doing the proverbial bitchslapping? It’s only fitting…Classic case of a"blue collar", “beer drinking”, “cheesesteaking eating” “everyman” raging against the “he whiny voic[ed]”, “fashion-mag looks” “Southern California[n]” proletariat Cole Hamels.

And, baseball is the national pastime. Articles/people who say otherwise based on television ratings make me chuckle.

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

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 3, 2009 3:16 PM EST reply actions