3 Days Applesauce - Hernandez's potential bias, first base platoon, Met brand still valuable

by Joe Budd on Feb 15, 2010 8:43 AM EST in Applesauce

Meet the Mets

Bob Raissman brings up the possibility of Keith Hernandez being biased in the booth about Daniel Murphy. Two things: First, this probably isn't going to happen as Hernandez has to be one of the most straight forward announcers in baseball. Second, who really cares even if he doesn't say anything.

Patrick Flood does several things well in this post about the Met first base platoon, including a wonderful Muppet picture.

The Mets are somehow the second most valuable brand in Major League Baseball.

Ted Berg plays around with the Met lineup and throws David Wright in the leadoff spot out as a debate topic.

Carlos Delgado will not respond to any offers at the moment and will probably sign mid-season with someone.

Peter Gammons presented a pretty fair and obvious defense of the Met farm system over the weekend.

Around the NL East

Otis Nixon is back with the Brave organization. Man, I dreaded seeing him come in as a pinch runner. It was so ridiculously annoying that the Braves could afford to have a designated base runner and still beat the Mets every year.

Chipper compares Jason Heyward to Fred McGriff.

The Marlins are forsaking Carlos Delgado and Russell Branyan in order to pursue Hank Blalock.

Around MLB

Tim Lincecum settled with the Giants on a two year contract extension avoiding a major arbitration showdown. The implications are mainly positive for the Giants. But why did the NL's best pitcher avoid the confrontation?

Some genius stuff from DRaysBay explaining why statistics complement our love of baseball so well.

As news of Frank Thomas' retirement settled over the blogosphere, there were some great looks back at his career. Rob Neyer here. Beyond the Box Score also. And South Side Sox.

And, finally, at least Pat Neshek has a great sense of humor.

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Nice to see that Otis Nixon has come back to reclaim his title of "ugliest man in pro sports."

He looks like the “bitter beer” guy from the old Keystone Light commercials:

"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Feb 15, 2010 9:09 AM EST reply actions 3 recs

Haha beat me to it

Even in his early 30’s he looked like he was about 75. One of the great baseball names ever though.

by James Kannengieser on Feb 15, 2010 9:29 AM EST up reply actions

Raissman On Hernandez's Bias Towards Murphy

How I see it is if Hernandez see Murphy make a mistake he will say so on the air and then, on another day, he’ll tell Murphy the same thing. He might not make any jokes about him or be cruel to Murphy but he can call it like he sees it because that’s what he’ll tell Murphy the next day.

This is not even a story.

"We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment." Friedrich Nietzsche, "Human,All Too Human" (1878)

by wgarrett on Feb 15, 2010 9:24 AM EST reply actions

Also

I love the poll question from the Raissman article. It seems to imply that the Mets are sacrificing infield defense to keep Murphy’s bat in the order.

"For $11.4 million you can actually get a good player. But of course this is one of the things foolish organizations do: They complain that they can't afford good players after spending millions of dollars on not-good players." --Rob Neyer

by boom_roasted on Feb 15, 2010 9:38 AM EST up reply actions

I noticed that, too.

The choices were, is Murphy a good fit, or should Delgado be resigned. And, somehow, Delgado had around 25% of the vote.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Feb 15, 2010 1:29 PM EST up reply actions

Hernandez already is biased about Murphy

Not in any untoward way, but I watch most games, and you can tell by the way he talks about him that he really likes him. He accentuates the positive, and doesn’t much mention negatives. He’s liked him a lot since he first came up.

Will he get frustrated if Murph doesn’t progress? Well, that would just be interesting.

by SuperT on Feb 15, 2010 10:29 AM EST reply actions

Bias

is inevitable.

It’s how you act on it, and I highly doubt Keith is going to gloss over any mistake and turn into a YES Network-style hack because he did some work with the kid.

Mainstream media trolling.

by Jamesir Bensonmum on Feb 15, 2010 11:10 AM EST reply actions