1986 Applesauce

This is in the running for my comment signature:

Baseball games and seasons and careers have their inevitable ups and downs, and part of the beauty of the sport is that so many of them are uncontrollable. Teams must improve their odds by compiling the best possible rosters and fielding the best possible lineups, then cross their fingers and hope the ball bounces their way.

or this

I’m only saying that it’s silly to look at the 2009 Mets and wish they behaved more like the 1986 Mets. If Stanley made the pitch or Buckner made the play, the Mets of the late 80s would be remembered as a massive disappointment, not a gritty gang of mustachioed heroes.

Also I guess Peavy must understand park factors & defense on pitching… or he just really hates the AL.

And why did we wait over a week to get an MRI on our superstar?

Ted Berg can quote Stephen Jay Gould, but what does that guy know about baseball? He’s just some egghead! Steve Phillips spend 13 years working in a front office. He knows that a good leader makes the difference. That’s why Carlos Beltran is so terrible. Sure, he hit the crap out of the ball in the series against the Dodgers, but most of those balls were caught by fielders who made excellent plays. Derek Jeter would have willed those balls out of the fielders’ gloves.

Randomness. Ha! A great leader controls all of the events on the field. With his flawless leadership.

And Philthy fans are just phooling themselves. They really think they can phit together a trade that would phorce the Padres to trade him to them? That’s phucking unrealistic, and he’ll be a phree agent soon enough anyway. Honestly, I don’t think he’ll be a phront line starter outside of Caliphornia.

Yuniesky Betancourt? Really Cerrone? That guy is a tremendously awful hitter. (Career OBP .304 kind of awful.) AND he’s under contract until 2011. I think we’d be better off just sticking with Martinez, or Tatis, or even AReyes.

That pile of crap that the Phils fans are talking about is not landing Jake Peavy.

Shooty Babbit’s favorite Rickey moment is indeed boring. I thought scouts were supposed to be all about the beauty and poetry of the game or some bullshit like that.

Yeah, Ted Berg ran intellectual circles around Steve Phillips, but I think even Paperman could do that.

I like how that Newsday article about Jerry going with his gut gave a bunch of examples of how it backfired.

Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Correspondents dinner.

Jerry’s not a member of the “factanista”. He goes straight from the gut!

DO. NOT. WANT.

to the Yankees. I’m not one of those fans that walk out of the stadium chanting “Yankees suck!” after a nice win (anyone that has been to a few games probably knows what I’m talking about). However, I will be rooting hard for them to keep winning and sweep the Phillies.

Murphy, Church, Sheffield. Sigh.

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.

Magnificent.

Oh, and Jerry Manuel doesn’t look at stats? Knock me over with a feather!