Chan Ho Park Applesauce
by Joe Budd on May 1, 2009 10:06 AM EDT
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PrintThat is right, it's Chan Ho Park day! The Mets get their first crack at their former emergency starter tonight in the opening game of the first Philly series of the season. Mike Pelfrey looks to maintain his adequateness from his last start. At least we have Ollie going this weekend...
Meet the Mets
Not too much on the field news to report. It looks like Omir Santos is going to stick around for a little longer, as Brian Schneider has somehow injured his calf while sitting on his butt for the last two weeks.
Does Jerry Manuel = Willie Randolph? Manuel > Randolph in press conferences though. That is something.
Metstradamus comes up with the perfect solution for getting the Mets out of their RISP slump. In an attempt to reduce the stress related to those RISP, the Met management has prohibited any newspapers from the clubhouse. No joke.
Met bard Greg Prince jumps the shark.
Jay Sorgen makes his predictions about what the Mets are going to look like in 100 days. 11-2 record for Pedro. Really?
This really made me laugh. Well done. My personal favorite: Castrated! John Sterling as a Met broadcaster would be fun for about 30 minutes, then I'd spend the rest of my days listening to the Met games on mute or stabbing my ear drums with a screwdriver.
The Kranepool Society had a different reaction to Adam Rubin's blog post from the other day.
Not a whole lot of great news in the high minor leagues. Baseball Prospectus doesn't like Fernando Martinez. Buffalo is 2-16.
Around the NL East
The Marlins are not happy with Jerry's decision to bring in Omir Santos. The paper is calling it bush league. It is now unanimous. Even the team that won, in part due to the move, is complaining. Do they want to replay the inning? I'd be perfectly happy with that.
Hanley Ramirez is likely back in the lineup tonight. Meanwhile, the Marlins came up with six runs in the eighth to beat the Cubs.
The Nationals blow another one. With the game tied at 4-4 in the ninth, the National bullpen gave up 5 runs to the Cardinals to lose 9-4. Daniel Cabrera gave a wild, yet not awful start. The Nats are not good, but Joe Beimel will make them less bad. Not having Jim Bowden spilling company secrets will also make them less bad. This one, though, is not that big of a secret.
Derek Lowe works hard to be ready for his starts. Oliver Perez is out of shape.
Jimmy Rollins is obsessed with the Mets. A Philadelphia newspaper is telling us not to worry. John Gonzalez rubs it in. Phillie Nation judges the Ibanez for Burrell switch an upgrade.
Around MLB
The Yanks overcame AJ Burnett's mediocre outing to beat the Angels 7-4. Who really cares what goes on on the field, however, since A-Rod is coming back soon. We can expect more stories like this as the return gets closer. Former high school teammate Doug Mientkiewicz says he never saw A-Rod doing steroids, saying "it would be 99.9% impossible for us not to know." I'm glad that he can say statistically, without a doubt, that Selena Roberts is lying.
Rays pitcher Matt Garza was perfect going into the seventh, as Tampa beat the Red Sox 13-0.
Twins catcher Joe Mauer is ready to return.
Jeff Weaver is back with the Dodgers.
And, finally, Beyond the Box Score gives an excellent primer on understanding pitch f/x.
Here we are, the Philly series. The good news is that it's not April anymore. I'm a firm believer in the team changing when the calendar changes...
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That is to say,
except for the Ted Berg column Catsmeat just posted in a Fanshot, which is excellent.
ted berg:mets columnist::professor murder:fake rappers from mr show
ie educated
HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.
“did you just call me professor pickles?” -Professor Murder
by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on May 1, 2009 10:32 AM EDT up reply actions
My man Pooley T is from the street, he's got to be able to cross the street
Ain’t got no flyin’ shoes.
by Mark Himmelstein on May 1, 2009 1:46 PM EDT up reply actions
Thanks, guys
For opening up your hearts and letting the rap shine in. And reminding me how awesome Mr. Show is. The Joke, the musical = my favorite half hour of television ever. These holes three are not for thee.
+1
The Joke was awesome, I think my favorite sketch was Titannica though. I laugh so hard I cry almost every time I see that. “He looks like a wet cigar!” One of two David Cross shows that got ripped away from us after just four seasons. Four hilarious seasons.
by Mark Himmelstein on May 1, 2009 2:26 PM EDT up reply actions
titannica is classic
and for some reason, it reminds me of Little Donnie sketch from the upright citizens brigrade, another classic.
i also liked wicked sceptre
’Gettin the daft again! Gettin it in the end!!"
Hello fire island!
HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.
Titannica
Try Again (Adam’s Song) was pretty great.
'Oh yes, I know all about that duty-of-a-citizen stuff. It doesn't go. There are exceptions to every rule, and this was one of them. When a man risks his liberty to come and root at a ball-game, you've got to hand it to him. He isn't a crook. He's a fan.'
by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on May 1, 2009 2:30 PM EDT up reply actions
that skit totally blew my tiny little 14ish year old mind
first time i saw it. kids today with thier youtube and dicks in boxes have no idea how great it was seeing mr show when it first came out
HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.
We used to stay up all hours of the night
because HBO dicked around their timeslot all the time. I was about 15-16
by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on May 1, 2009 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions
but i like to masterbate in closets while pies are waiting to cool!
my friends and i used to yell that all the time in school. boy were we cool. when i got to college, one of my friends had the entire series plus bob and david’s preformances at the aspen comedy awards or something on vhs. this was well before the dvds and we pretty much wore out the tape heads on those puppies.
HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.
Have you ever, taken apart a train piece by piece an eaten it, after you've just derailed it with your penis?
I don’t care what they say though, the movie, Run Ronnie Run, is gold too. Back when no one cared that you could download shit illegally, I remember having the leaked, uncut copy of it (I’m pretty sure Bob and David intentionally leaked it knowing it was about to be distributed despite their objection and removing the “Mr. Show” name from it). The first time I saw that cute little asian kid in the wheelchair open his mouth and David Cross’s voice came out of it, I’m pretty sure I pissed my pants.
by Mark Himmelstein on May 1, 2009 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions
It was for charity!
I love shoes. (BUZZ!)
Sorry for straying so far off topic. Mr. Show > Omir Santos.
senetro tankerbell"
“oh well, now, david ah wish ah could be everywhar people was doin awt”
HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.
I'm the hated milk machine, everybody hates me now
“For doing what I’m told, He was trying to be bold
Why can’t people keep their willies out of holes?"
Brilliant
by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on May 1, 2009 3:41 PM EDT up reply actions
I only wish Berg's column were titled
Head Games
A Foreigner reference is always welcome in my household
by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on May 1, 2009 10:32 AM EDT up reply actions
whats the matter fryman
are you experiencing… ‘double vision’?
HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.
You're 'hot blooded'
go ahead and check it, and see.
'Oh yes, I know all about that duty-of-a-citizen stuff. It doesn't go. There are exceptions to every rule, and this was one of them. When a man risks his liberty to come and root at a ball-game, you've got to hand it to him. He isn't a crook. He's a fan.'
by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on May 1, 2009 10:40 AM EDT up reply actions
Hope they didn't ban the Racing Form
The Kentucky Derby is this weekend.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Willie bet on Eight Belles last year…
you could read about the Red Sox
Thumbing through the Sons of Sam Horn game thread from last night was priceless: all the posts about sticking a pitch in “Eva’s” ear, how much Beckett sucks, and how much Garza is in the Red Sox heads.
2009 Mets: maybe its the Phillies turn to have a terrible bullpen?
by Greenpoint Ian on May 1, 2009 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions
Beat me to it
'Oh yes, I know all about that duty-of-a-citizen stuff. It doesn't go. There are exceptions to every rule, and this was one of them. When a man risks his liberty to come and root at a ball-game, you've got to hand it to him. He isn't a crook. He's a fan.'
by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on May 1, 2009 10:33 AM EDT up reply actions
and since they is a dearth of postive mets news right now
check this out this t shirt. i think i saw some scotties wearing it while concocting a fanpost about grit, hustle and sliding into homebase (work warning: there is a small fonted curseword but you should be fine)
HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.
My main problem with Sterling
has never been his HR calls of even his homerism – sure they’re over the top, but I’m not a Yankee fan, so it’s not catered to me. What drives me crazy is that in between those calls he offers zero insight and just repeats the same things over and over. I can’t listen to Yankee games because having to hear him explain for ten minutes how a runner from third can score without a hit (“just a little old fly ball”) every time it happens makes me want to drive off the side of a road.
I never listened
but I imagine the old Sterling/Kay team might have driven me to suicide.
it's a little like choosing which body part you'd like to have amputated, but...
I think I’d actually prefer Sterling calling games over Wayne Hagin. Neither of them can call a game worth a damn, as you say about Sterling — but at least Sterling has the shtick. Hagin just goes off on tangents about the Cardinals and misses the play.
A-Rod
I find most of it uninteresting, but you have to chuckle at his pickup line of choice:
Players who accompanied A-Rod to clubs said his favorite pickup line was “Who’s hotter, me or Derek Jeter?”
+1
Possibly the greatest pick-up line of all time.
'Oh yes, I know all about that duty-of-a-citizen stuff. It doesn't go. There are exceptions to every rule, and this was one of them. When a man risks his liberty to come and root at a ball-game, you've got to hand it to him. He isn't a crook. He's a fan.'
by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on May 1, 2009 11:09 AM EDT up reply actions
F-Mart
Another flaw Omar and his minor-league people have is this incessant need to rush our position players through the system. Would it have killed us to allow him to dominate the lower levels?
I was about ready
to come here and say that I think I hate the Marlins even more than the Phillies, and then I read that “open letter to Mets fans” and it confirmed that people from Philly fall somewhere just below members of Al Qaeda on the list of people I don’t like. What a hack…I can’t believe that guy actually gets write drivel like that for a newspaper. And people wonder why they’re going out of business.
although
one of the commenters on that article makes a fantastic point:
“Do you think that the NY media in the year 2030 will talk about how they booed their All-star third basemen, over and over again?”
That "article"
is effin retarded. What an inferiority complex.
I don't
I was mostly using hyperbole. Most of my friends from college are from Philadelphia or the surrounding areas, so I joke about hating you people, but in reality I just hate your teams. Plus I really respect your analysis at the Good Phight – I try not to read it too much b/c it’s too well reasoned and ruins my conception of the typical Philly fan. It’s like a Christian fundamentalist finding out that he really gets along with gay people.
same here
I’m a PA transplant in northern NJ so it’s impossible to blindly objectify the NY fanbase. And my best friend and former roommate from college is a Mets fan, although there wasn’t much give-and-take because the late 1990s was pretty solidly Advantage: Mets. Hell, it was pretty much Advantage: Everybody versus the Phillies back then.
http://www.thegoodphight.com
Selena Roberts messing up a story?
She’s never done that before, has she? I mean, she was 100% correct with the Duke lacrosse stuff, right?
by gogomets on May 1, 2009 11:26 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Selena Roberts sucks at life
Here is a good look at her work.
by James Kannengieser on May 1, 2009 11:29 AM EDT up reply actions
That was a fantastic article
Wow, that woman is awful.
Agreed
“Don’t mess with Duke, though. To shine a light on its integrity has been treated by the irrational mighty as a threat to white privilege.
“Feel free to excoriate the African-American basketball stars and football behemoths for the misdeeds of all athletes, but lay off the lacrosse pipeline to Wall Street, excuse the khaki-pants crowd of SAT wonder kids.
“No one would want an innocent Duke player wronged or ruined by false charges — and that may have occurred on Nifong’s watch — but the alleged crime and the culture are mutually exclusive.”
Considering the return they got for Johan Santana...
who knows what they’re thinking.
they were thinking Delmon Young was worth something
Wheras the Rays knew they had the baseball equivalent of a CDO loaded with mortgages from condos in Riverside, CA. Best to sell off that asset in 2007 when it was horrendously overvalued.
2009 Mets: maybe its the Phillies turn to have a terrible bullpen?
by Greenpoint Ian on May 1, 2009 12:46 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
See I can totally understand them being fooled into thinking he was worth something
But considering they had just broked Liriano, they knew they had to trade Santana…and they had a bunch of outfield prospects on the way… i don’t see how they would think he was worth more than Garza. Now they need to either move young, and who wants him at this point, or move one of the better prospects.
I had the pleasure of watching Delmon play a whole season in high A
I’ve never seen someone master a league like he did. It was like a video game in August. He just peppered balls all over the field.
by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on May 1, 2009 3:43 PM EDT up reply actions
His walk/k numbers were pretty suspect
There’s a reason the Rays were willing to trade him despite having near ml ready pitchers and a hole in rff/@ dh. And regardless the twins had outfielders on the way but were a lot more suspect in the rotation.
chan ho park
i’m assuming that since he pitched in one game for the mets in 2007, he’ll dominated us tonight like every other pitcher who’s left the team in the last two years
Faith and Fear
That Greg Prince post is a joke, right?
Right?
…no, really, you’re serious?
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