A positive post

by Pedrito on May 8, 2009 9:01 AM EDT Comment 27 comments

I've heard some complaints that my posts have tended to be negative. Certainly, there's some truth to that. So, I decided to try my hand at a more positive post to show I'm not above some constructive criticism.

Admit it...I was right

I don't want to brag or anything BUT...I seem to remember my post on the Mets needing some fire, dare I say, some edge was met with much disdain and ridicule.

Obviously, Omar was listenting to me because, just a few more miserable games after my post, he called out the team for not playing with what exactly? Some "edge" I believe...how interesting! You guys recall him doing that right?

And suddenly, the Mets are on a little bit of a roll. Again...how interesting! 4 straight wins I believe.

So, I'm full of positivity as you can see. The team is playing well. Johan is ridonculous, my man Wright is leaving April behind, and K-Rod is doing what we brought him here to do. And clearly, it's thanks to my timely and spot on post.

OKAY! OKAY! CALM DOWN EVERYONE!

I'm just having some fun. I know it's not just because of my post...

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Right now

the Mets are performing like a team where every position is played by Derek Jeter.

by i gave chipper's wife a hot carlos on May 8, 2009 9:53 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

best new handle on AA

HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.

by kendynamo on May 8, 2009 11:24 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

So basically

whenever the Mets go on a cold streak and lose some games, it’s for lack of grit/edge/heart. But when they go on a hot streak and win a few games it’s because they’ve magically found grit/edge/heart. It has nothing to do with the fact that all players’ and teams’ performance varies throughout the ridiculously long 162 game season.

Gotcha.

by James Kannengieser on May 8, 2009 10:07 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

All I'm doing

is pointing to a factual correlation between my post → Omar’s comments in-line with my post → and the resulting positive play by the Mets.

It’s the Pedrito Post Corralary! Do not try to argue with science! There’s science behind the PPC!

by Pedrito on May 8, 2009 10:17 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Excatly

The Metsies must have had a little heart-to-heart and said to eachother…“Guys, we need to grab a hold of our heuvos rancheros, remember that they’re still there, and start swinging them around a little bit on the field. Like we did in 2006, when teams would challenge us and we’d swing our collective heuvos around and showed them who’s boss. We still got that boys, so let’s play like it!”

I mean…I don’t think there is any doubt that things went down exactly like that. By the way, little known fawct but swinging the heuvos around is where the term “swagger” comes from.

by Pedrito on May 8, 2009 10:29 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Precisely

Because it was the birth of grittiness and heart inside the players that allowed the Mets to perform better in this little mini-roll they have gone on. They all looked in the mirror and challenged themselves to play with fire and passion. Statistical mumbo-jumbo be damned!

by TBlz on May 8, 2009 10:19 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Grission, James

this team found its grission. Maybe also their grustle.

'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 8, 2009 10:21 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

The problem comes when you need to create a

portmanteau of heart and hustle….

hearstle?
hurt?

by deadspy3 on May 8, 2009 10:31 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hustart?

by Pedrito on May 8, 2009 10:41 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think "husart" works well. Rolls off the tongue.

by Lunkwill Fook on May 8, 2009 11:03 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Grission and Husart

That is either the non-union Mexican equivelant of “Starsky and Hutch” or the key to winning the World Series.

"The people of Houston are spending money like oil's selling at $40 a barrel."

by IanB in MD on May 8, 2009 2:04 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

This FanPost sucks

by Sokojoe on May 8, 2009 10:50 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Site Bot concurs

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on May 8, 2009 11:46 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was getting worried when Site Bot wasn't popping up.

If the perfectly tuned Bot doesn’t say a post is bad, then I know I’m wrong and should reread the post and then probably go commit Hara-kiri.

by Sokojoe on May 8, 2009 12:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Back in December

I saw that the economy was struggling b/c it had no passion or fire. I called it out to any friend who would listen, and they all laughed at me b/c they said the economy can’t have passion or fire, it’s just a monetary cycle that goes up or down over intervals of time. I argued vociferously that they were wrong: the economy just needed to find it’s edge.

Fast forward a few months, and the economy is showing some signs of recovery. Some “number crunchers” say that it’s an effect of the natural business cycle. Others credit the stimulus package. They are wrong. The economy is doing better because it heard me call it out, and it found its edge.

"This is the beauty of baseball. In basketball, at the end of the game, you want to put the ball in your best scorer's hands. But in baseball, it's up to a rookie like McGlinchy and a journeyman like Franco with the entire season on the line. Baseball history is dotted with names like Al Weis and Brian Doyle, men who have taken their name out of the agate type and placed it into the headlines, because it was simply their time."

by cjmulrain on May 8, 2009 11:14 AM EDT reply actions 4 recs

Rec'd

by Sokojoe on May 8, 2009 11:38 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Finally!

Someone who gets what I’m saying. I think we’ve got a full blown scientific breakthrough on our hands. Clearly…the Pedrito Post Corrolary applies across a wide spectrum of topics. From baseball to the economy, to the hopes that all A-Rod & Brett Favre stories just go away…the possibilities for application are endless!

I hope you all understand we’re on the edge of history here.

by Pedrito on May 8, 2009 12:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

moar like on the edge of BALEETED, amirite?

Can you explain how “busting Rawlings” is different from “trolling”?

Also, “corollary” is not spelled like you think it’s spelled.

by anonymous on May 8, 2009 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not according to dictionary.com

Just how is corollary spelled then?

by Pedrito on May 8, 2009 3:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

like that.

by anonymous on May 8, 2009 5:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah well

whatever…this site needs spell check

by Pedrito on May 8, 2009 6:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

DELTEATED

Del Taco?

by Joamiq on May 9, 2009 4:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

itsw too bad the team didnt go out for ice cream sundaes before the winning streak

then whenever things got bad they could just all go out for ice cream and start winning again. how great would that be? Ice cream AND victories!

HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.

by kendynamo on May 8, 2009 11:26 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

No, not the site bot

I’m so disappointed the site bot got this post. C’mon Simon, not cool!

In all seriousness though, it’s Friday…there was a modicum of sun this morning on the tail end of what feels like 10 days of English weather, and I felt like having some fun with this post.

If you guys can’t get that I was busting Rawlings, then you all need to get to happy hour a little early today.

by Pedrito on May 8, 2009 12:14 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs