Blind Squirrel Applesauce - Murphy flashes leather, Delgado returning to Mets, Bankrupt Dykstra
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then. Last night was just one game and the Mets needed every break to come out with a 5-4 victory over the NL's best. How much different could last night have been if Gary Sheffield were tagged out without sliding? Or if the umpire had called Mark Loretta safe on Daniel Murphy's amazing play? Don't get me wrong, I'll take a win and be happy, but to an extent. Greg Prince puts it well, as usual.
Meet the Mets
Confucius Elias say man who walks 7 in 5 inning shouldn't win.
Maybe my suggested route of trading Met veterans won't be so easy.
Brad Holt is still winless in double-A, but he did strike out 10 in 5 innings. Ike Davis homered for the 3rd time in 4 days.
Carlos Delgado is ahead of schedule and may return to the lineup August 1.
Daniel Murphy means business.
Lance Broadway threw a complete game yesterday, allowing only 7 hits.
The Philadelphia Inquirer prints a plea for peace in the Met-Phillie rivalry.
Beyond the Box Score ranks the Mets 22nd in their latest power rankings.
Around the NL East
Philadelphia is very interested in Pedro Martinez. Good luck with that. In worse news, MLBtraderumors lists the Phillies as the favorites to land Halladay. FanGraphs explains why any team would be happy to get the ace.
On the field, Shane Victorino helped his all-star case with a walk-off single against the Reds. All was not well, however, as Met killer Rodrigo Lopez left the game after five innings with shoulder inflammation.
Chris Volstad threw his first career shutout in yesterday's Marlin victory over the Giants.
Marlin utility player Alfred Amezaga is out for the season.
The Rockies continued their winning ways in beating the Nationals, sweeping the series. Adam Dunn committed two errors.
The Braves took 2 of 3 from the Cubs at Wrigley.
Around MLB
Lenny Dykstra filed for bankruptcy yesterday. The AP has identified Dykstra as a former Met star.
Twin prospect Deolis Guerra has been promoted to the double-A New Britain Rockcats.
Ken Griffey Jr. gave his own tribute to the King of Pop.
The Blue Jays have released former closer BJ Ryan with $15 million remaining on his enormous contract.
Royals Review finds there's not that much of a difference between the maligned David Dejesus and the glorified Jason Bay.
The Red Sox and Rockies are talking trade.
Brewer bench coach Willie Randolph got ejected and suspended for arguing with an umpire. Happy now Met fans?
Beyond the Boxscore argues for human umpires.
Andruw Jones, yes that Andruw, hit 3 homers last night. The Rangers are now in first place.
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from Faith and Fear:
[The Mets] beat the best team in baseball Wednesday night.
Does anyone really believe the Dodgers are the best team in baseball because they have a couple more wins than the Red Sox and the Yankees?
Dodgers are Best
I put the Dodgers above the Yankees and slightly ahead of the Sox. But, who cares. The best team doesn’t always win it all anyway…so, their point is valid.
The 2009 Mets: Rollins hits a la-a-a-azy fly ball to left field. Murphy ready to put this one in the books as he ma-...HE DROPS THE BALL!! Ruiz rounds second, Murphy throws in to the backup shortstop Cora WHO LETS IT GET BY HIM. To third goes Ruiz! Reed, who took Tatis' spot for defensive reasons fires to thi-...THERE'S NOBODY THERE! Putz is running over to the ball. Picks it up and whirls to home, THROWS IT AWAY! PHLLIES WIN! Putz appears hurt and we're getting word Reyes was involved in another car accident.
When he was a financial guru
Dykstra was an “ex-MLB player.” Now that he’s a bankrupt joke, he’s an “ex-Met.” Seems appropriate.
Lenny Dykstra
Career WAR with Mets: 16.4 WAR
Career WAR with Phillies: 25 WAR
“Former MET star, Former MET star…”
"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw
It's all about the RING. duh.
We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!
by kingcritical on Jul 9, 2009 11:35 AM EDT up reply actions
that phillies sympthay article isnt bad actually
but the thought of accepting pity from rival fans is distasteful.
Lets hope that when gut check time comes again the Mets will pass it with flying colors.
My favorite part of the Murphy play
is that the umpire almost punches Loretta when making the out call. I have nothing against Loretta or anything but I just thought that was funny.
DELGADO DELGADO DELGADO DELGADO DELGADO DELGADO
Great news!! Hope it’s true! I’m headed to see the Mets in a couple games in September when they come to Colorado. It’s amazing to think I may very well see Reyes, Beltran, and Delgado there.
The 2009 Mets: Rollins hits a la-a-a-azy fly ball to left field. Murphy ready to put this one in the books as he ma-...HE DROPS THE BALL!! Ruiz rounds second, Murphy throws in to the backup shortstop Cora WHO LETS IT GET BY HIM. To third goes Ruiz! Reed, who took Tatis' spot for defensive reasons fires to thi-...THERE'S NOBODY THERE! Putz is running over to the ball. Picks it up and whirls to home, THROWS IT AWAY! PHLLIES WIN! Putz appears hurt and we're getting word Reyes was involved in another car accident.
Link is wrong on Murph.
Try this: http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=5485207
The 2009 Mets: Rollins hits a la-a-a-azy fly ball to left field. Murphy ready to put this one in the books as he ma-...HE DROPS THE BALL!! Ruiz rounds second, Murphy throws in to the backup shortstop Cora WHO LETS IT GET BY HIM. To third goes Ruiz! Reed, who took Tatis' spot for defensive reasons fires to thi-...THERE'S NOBODY THERE! Putz is running over to the ball. Picks it up and whirls to home, THROWS IT AWAY! PHLLIES WIN! Putz appears hurt and we're getting word Reyes was involved in another car accident.
Here's a better view...
Tho I wouldn’t change the link:
http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=290708121
The 2009 Mets: Rollins hits a la-a-a-azy fly ball to left field. Murphy ready to put this one in the books as he ma-...HE DROPS THE BALL!! Ruiz rounds second, Murphy throws in to the backup shortstop Cora WHO LETS IT GET BY HIM. To third goes Ruiz! Reed, who took Tatis' spot for defensive reasons fires to thi-...THERE'S NOBODY THERE! Putz is running over to the ball. Picks it up and whirls to home, THROWS IT AWAY! PHLLIES WIN! Putz appears hurt and we're getting word Reyes was involved in another car accident.
Why is the Dykstra story so big?
Tons of ex-pro athletes go bankrupt. SI ran a big story on it a couple months ago.
A few reasons
1. Dykstra is a legendary ex-Met.
2. Irony, hypocrisy. Lenny Dykstra was touted by many as a financial genius, who actually wrote a financial advice column for The Street and created a magazine dedicated to the financial health of professional athletes.
2. His is a story of particularly compelling hubris and deception.
by TheBigStapler on Jul 9, 2009 1:07 PM EDT up reply actions
From Lenny's bankruptcy petition
Among his top 20 unsecured creditors:
Bank of America Credit Cards $190k
Countrywide Bank $4 million (unsecured somehow, maybe second mortgage)
Wamu $12.9 million.
No wonder the banks in this countty collapsed. It wasn’t liar loans, mortgage fraud, the community reinvestment act securitization, poor risk managmenet or wall street greed. It was Lenny Kyle Dykstra.
David and Teresa Litt, $2.5 million. Oh, Mrs. Litt is gonna give it to david tonight.
Some dude named Festus Dada for $500k. Festus? Wasn’t he on Gunsmoke?
Some securities firm, some printing and publishing cos (his Player mag stuff)
Constant Aviation $227k
Privileged Flight $190k
Global Aviation $550k. He travelled in style I guess.
Here’s a real tough one: california Labor Commission Divisison of Industrial Relations $512k. Hmm, I wonder if that is employee withhlding or sales tax, in which case he is f’ed.
All from the web site of the US Bankruptcy Court Central District of California.
Showing your age with the Gunsmoke reference.
Unless, of course, you’re like me and got into Gunsmoke the way I got into MASH re-runs: Watched the show during the writer’s strike because all of the new shows were garbage.
Gunsmoke
ran until 1975. I was 11.
Weird run, in that it was number 1 show from ‘56-’61, then it fell to middle of the pack by mid 60s, then it made a comeback. From ’70-73 it was from top 2 and always in top 10.
I wasn’t a big fan, but it was on tv. You had7 choices: WCBS 2 WNBC 4 WNEW 5 WABC 7 WOR 9 WPIX 11 and WNET13. Maybe WLIW 21 or WNJ 50 (Uncle Floyd Show).
zwill
beat me to this info. over on the dykstra thread.
No worries
Staring at his creditors has not gotten the least bit boring to me. I could read that list all day. It’s a perfect storm of irresponsibility. I too was puzzled about the Countrywide situation and how they could loan him $4MM w/o collateral. I guess it’s possible that this was just SOP for Countrywide, a predatory lender in every sense of the term.
As a bankruptcy attorney
I can hazard a guess that they are secured, but a second or third mortgage and the value of the collateral has deteriorated to the point they are underwater, but that’s just Lenny’s petition. Ultimately the court would decide. It would hardly seem predatory to lend Lenny a buncha money without collateral. Haha, gotcha Lenny, we fooled you, got you take out $4 million and we have no way of getting it back, mooowhahahahahahaha!
But in general, perhaps. :)
Just to add on to that
He loved bragging about himself. He would tell anyone who listened what a genius he was. He was such an asshole about it that his bankruptcy is kind of satisfying for some.
"I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually inverse in proportion to the price of the seats." - Bill Veeck
for dykstra back story
Also
Did any of you guys know that Ronnie was involved with his magazine? He’s mentioned at the bottom of this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/business/media/17athletes.html
Maybe that’s why, to the best of my knowledge, they didn’t mention Dykstra over the air?
"I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually inverse in proportion to the price of the seats." - Bill Veeck
Maybe we SHOULD have signed Andruw Jones after all
on an unrelated note, I just got an e-mail from “Phillies Nation” telling me to vote for Shane Victorino for the ASG. I had just eaten, and it almost all came right back up. I have never gotten an e-mail from them before and I have no idea how they could have gotten my address. I’m assuming for now one of my asshole friends from Philly put my e-mail address onto their mailing list. I hate that city, and I really, really hate Shane Victorino. I would rather sit naked on a block of ice than see him in the ASG.
But he'll make it. Watch.
Over Matt Kemp, who’s like 4th in WAR.
"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw
If Kemp's so good
why does he bat eighth?
He don’t have 1/100 the grit dictorino has
"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."

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