8 Run Applesauce - Mets set hit record, Manuel ticks off Church, Valdez back, Rizzo possibly out

Teams that signed all picks = 15
Teams that failed to sign 1 pick = 10
Teams that failed to sign 2 picks = 2 (Mets 7/9, White Sox 10/12 +1 for 2010)
Teams that failed to sign 3 picks= 2 (Rays 7/10 +2 for 2010, Blue Jays 9/12 +3 for 2010)
Teams that failed to sign 4 picks= 1 (Rangers 7/11 +2 for 2010)

that Ryan Church just isn’t gangsta enough for Jerry. Never was never will be.

it’s not really a big deal though or it shouldn’t be in a normal organization. Instead of paying Bonilla the remainder of his salary when they cut him, they’re paying him the time value equivalent amount for 25 years. It gave the Mets the liquid assets they needed at the time while giving Bonilla a retirement plan he couldn’t blow. Any normal company/organization probably accrued this expense at the time so there really shouldn’t be any financial impact, knowing the Mets though, they used cash basis accounting and that 1.2 million is coming out of the money available for draft signings.

Jim Duquette is your man. Strasburgh for Bronson Arroyo is just a phone call away.

The only acceptable context to reference Ryan Church here is to say, “We saw what happens when a guy comes back too soon from a concussion. We won’t make the same mistake with David Wright.” Jerry’s comments – whether intentionally offensive or merely accidental – are head-smackingly stupid.

The only way to fix this is to accuse Church of lobbying for something.

What’s the single-season record for press conference apologies by a franchise? We’ve got to be getting close. Let’s keep the bleach and fireworks away from this clubhouse for the remainder of the year.

but the guy from Scott Proctor’s Arm blog (lame) was on the Michael Kay show for his version of a Michael Kay Announcing drinking game. I feel the Gary, Keith and Ron drinking game is much better and Eric or James or whoever should be called upon to promote the blog.

“Enough, with the Mets! You don’t have to, anymore, get the point across. (…) The Mets are like, you tied them to a tree and you just keep pounding them with their hands and feet tied. And you just keep beating on them, and beating on them, and beating on them, okay? It doesn’t take any toughness now to beat on the Mets. They are like a dead carcass on the side of the road. We understand that. The year was a disaster, they’ve been terribly inept and terribly unlucky in the same year, enough! You gotta stop beating on the Mets … The Mets right now could get knocked for anything. The Mets could cure cancer tomorrow and get knocked for it. (…) It’s no fun picking on somebody when everyone’s beating on them. Enough already, move on. The season’s dead, it’s over. (…) Beating on the Mets cannot be something that you think is any more clever, or tough, or a real strong opinion, to me its just piling on now. Get off the Mets back already! I can’t take it anymore! (…) There’s nothing left, I mean how about just everyone just back off a little bit and move on, I mean enough’s enough, jeez. You can’t tell me you like it anymore, it’s gotten to be sickening.”

Wow.