Afternoon Applesauce - Lincecum-less, The Murphy Myth, Michael Vick To Philly

by James Kannengieser on Aug 14, 2009 1:34 PM EDT in Applesauce

With time to kill before heading out for weekend of gambling and paintball, I give you some afternoon links.

Meet the Mets

The pitching matchups are set for this weekend's 4 game set with the Giants. We won't get to see the most exciting pitcher in baseball, Tim Lincecum, make his Citi Field debut. Come on out to see Livan Hernandez face Joe Martinez on Monday night!

John Sickels at Minor League Ball reviews his pre-season top 20 Mets prospects.

Mike Newman of Mets Geek and Scouting The Sally presents a scouting report Eric Beaulac.

Mets Today explores the Dan Murphy Myth, concluding what I think we knew all along - Murph is not good enough to be an everyday major league first basemen. God forbid the Mets give him another shot at 2nd base, where his bat might actually play.

Craig Calcaterra thinks Adam Rubin shouldn't be too worried about a lack of storylines in next year's interleague schedule.

Metsblog takes an early look at the crop of free agent starting pitchers. Re: Jarrod Washburn - no thanks.

Go Mets Die Braves thinks we should be a little nicer to Jeff Wincoeur. The world is a better place when GMDB is posting again.

Around the NL East

Cliff Lee continued his National League domination, throwing 8 innings against the Cubs with 8 K's and 1 run allowed in a 6-1 Phillies win.

The Marlins knocked around Mike Hampton enroute to a 9-2 win over the Astros. Go Marlins.

Mets killer Bronson Arroyo shut-out the Nationals as the Reds won 7-0. Fun fact: Arroyo was named after the Death Wish man himself, Charles Bronson. Death Wish 3 is a highly recommended film. Possibly the greatest action film ever made.

Around MLB

Maybe Lastings Milledge isn't a clubhouse cancer after all.

One step closer to world domination, Fangraphs now lists tRA on its player pages.

Tango and Posnanski on PEDs and, yes, Viagra.

Michael Vick signed with the Eagles. Unrelated to baseball, except that Vick was once drafted by the Rockies.

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Michael Vick + Philadelphia

= stay classy, Philly!

by deadspy3 on Aug 14, 2009 1:44 PM EDT reply actions

Seriously, only Philadelphia would do that with a GOOD starting quarterback.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Aug 14, 2009 1:50 PM EDT reply actions

I think Posnanski misses on Cy Young

Baseball was integrated in its earliest days no? It was guys like Cobb and Hornsby who worked to segregate it in the early 1900s.

Nothing can get by him; especially in a small room: Mike Francessa

by GenJackRipper on Aug 14, 2009 2:02 PM EDT reply actions

not quite

in its very earliest days, it was semi-sorta unsegregated, but it was still very rare for blacks to play with whites. Even before the first professional league (the National Association, 1871-1875), all-black teams were denied admittance into the national amateur baseball association. A few blacks (less than 5, total) played in the early National League, but the last of them was out of the league by the time Cy Young came up in 1890. The biggest star who led to this was Cap Anson, but I don’t think it’s fair to lay the blame at one guy when the fact is that it was probably the vast majority of white players who didn’t want to play with blacks. By the time Hornsby came around in the late teens, blacks had been out of the Major Leagues for 30 years. True, he didn’t help them get back in any earlier, but again, nobody did.

by cjmulrain on Aug 14, 2009 2:41 PM EDT up reply actions

Big whoops on Hornsby

I forgot that he was still playing in 1930. I missed the cut by forty years.
Cap Anson was the guy I was thinking of. My mind basically went-star early baseball a++hole campaigns for segregation—probably Ty and Horns.

Nothing can get by him; especially in a small room: Mike Francessa

by GenJackRipper on Aug 14, 2009 2:49 PM EDT up reply actions