Multi-tasking Applesauce - Met front office in disarray, Figgy throws three hitter, Valentine works with Stamford FD
by Joe Budd on Feb 5, 2010 10:37 AM EST
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Meet the Mets
Once again, it's a pretty slow day for Met news. The most interesting story out there is Murray Chass's post on Omar's inability to multi-task this offseason. While I really despise anonymous sources, this does sound so stupid that it's probably true.
Nelson Figueroa threw a complete game three-hitter in the Dominican Republic.
Ted Berg has some great Val Pascucci video.
For those Mets fans with more high brow tastes, be sure to check out the Met poetry reading on Feb. 16.
Bobby Valentine will serve on a commission to improve Stamford's fire department. I hope for Stamford's sake that the solution will not involve Armando Benitez.
Teddy Dziuba sat down with Met prospect Shawn Bowman who was recently added to the Met 40 man roster.
Around the NL East
There is a really great Philadelphia joke in here somewhere, but I'm both too politically correct and not a good enough joke writer to make it.
Washington has signed Adam Kennedy, right after the O-Dog signed with Minnesota. That means, once again, the Mets are stuck with Luis Castillo.
Around MLB
Steve Phillips will sit down with Matt Lauer to talk about all that stuff.
Jarrod Washburn may not even play this year. Or ever again.
Think you'd do well on a baseball category in Jeopardy? Let's put that to a test.
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I cannot wait for that Steve Philips interview
“My mistress had everything that Carlos Beltran does not, and that’s why I was interested in her. Did you hear he had knee surgery by the way? Who’s on top now, Carlos?”
Travis Hafner is made of gold
Wait...what?
I looked at that story and the picture but it didnt make any sense. Phillips has his arm around some dude and they say he had sex with a woman…what is going on? Is he gay? The new Ted Haggard?
"Wait till Biggus Dickus hears about this!"
by scott from peekskill on Feb 5, 2010 10:41 PM EST up reply actions
Love it!
“I hope for Stamford’s sake that the solution will not involve Armando Benitez.”
yes that was quality late night material
especially in the early 2000s
I.M. Forme
"When you get yourself into trouble is when you feel you have to do something, and then you get yourself in trouble." --Omar Minaya
by itsmetsforme on Feb 5, 2010 12:36 PM EST up reply actions
Well the Chass article
Scared that crap out of me. It was also pretty clear Joel Pineiro’s agent was the guy that told Chass his player wanted to go to NY, but did not want to wait. Funny thing is, he actually went on record a few weeks ago saying essentially the same thing.
Pineiro on a 2 year $18M deal would have been helpful, but whatever.
by Coolpapabell on Feb 5, 2010 11:27 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Actually I'd have guessed that player was Jason Marquis.
It seems like he was really wanting to come to NY, which I don’t know was the case with Piniero. He also kind of sucks, so he really wouldn’t be a high priority for any decent team.
"We're just as bad as the old Mets, but this time nobody's laughing"
-Dallas Green
by Stephen Schmidt on Feb 5, 2010 12:38 PM EST up reply actions
i couldn't be more behind
the chanting/singing/horn music that is so integral to japanese baseball catching on over here…
Mets fans+the Village+Poetry= ?
I have got to go, just to see what that recipe will produce. Don’t know what to expect. Will there be brooding post 2004 New England poetry, light hearted baseball rhapsodies or will the clever/trite limerick stumble out with Pasbt all over its breath? It should be interesting.
For anyone who wants to stop by and say hello, I will be the guy with the Mets hat on.
Go early
I’ve been to many a Cornelia St. Café reading (read at a few, in fact) and the space is great but small.
phliadelphoe ite domum!
by Doc Manhattan on Feb 5, 2010 2:48 PM EST up reply actions
Did the Jeopardy questions and went 8 for 10.
The first question I had no chance on, and the third one there is no way I would’ve gotten that with the stress one would be under realistically.
The rest were by and large really easy.
by Jamesir Bensonmum on Feb 5, 2010 12:19 PM EST reply actions
9 for 10
Under stress, I might have been at 8 for 10 as well. I chose not to be honest with myself on that one. The first one was impossible.
by Coolpapabell on Feb 5, 2010 12:22 PM EST up reply actions
9/10
I may have not have gotten #3 in the 30-second time period.
Now if you really wanna have fun with quizzes, gotta go with Sporcle. Good Lord is that a time wasting black hole. But I love it.
I missed on #2, and #3 might have taken some time on TV.
"We're just as bad as the old Mets, but this time nobody's laughing"
-Dallas Green
by Stephen Schmidt on Feb 5, 2010 12:43 PM EST up reply actions
9 of 10.
The f*cking Catalina Mind Mixer!
by LeiterMilnerFasterStronger on Feb 5, 2010 1:29 PM EST up reply actions
Actually I take that back
I had no idea the Pirates were the Alleghenies. So 7 out of 10 for me.
"Three home teams advance, and the fuckin' Jets" - Rex Ryan
7-10 here as well, got the Alleghenies one though
by KeithsMoustache on Feb 5, 2010 2:12 PM EST up reply actions
7/10
Missed the first two, and couldn’t figure out #6. Apparently you’re a total moron if you can’t get #6, so that sucks.
Ain't that the truth?
8 of 10, though I was thrown by the phrasing of the “first three letters…” question so wouldn’t have gotten it with a time limit under a minute.
Question 3
I had trouble with, only because of the phrase “one might catch the other”. I thought that meant one team might catch the other in the standings, and focused only on teams in the same division.
Of course, it’s actually a stupid wordplay clue.
That threw me a bit too.
Then I wasn’t sure if they meant the same letters sequentially or just containing the same three letters jumbled up which sent me further into a panic.
by Jamesir Bensonmum on Feb 5, 2010 2:53 PM EST up reply actions
I have similar problems on most standardized tests
where the writers are bright enough to eliminate unnecessary ambiguity from the questions.
It wasn't on Final Jeopardy
But it’s still worth talking about. This must have been late 80s or early 90s:
Category: Jews in Sports
This pitcher was the youngest player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Contestant 1: Who was Hank Aaron?
Alex Trebek: No, I’m sorry.
Contestant 2: Who was Sandy Koufax?
Alex: Correct. (To the first contestant) I’m sorry, but Hank Aaron was not a pitcher.
"I've been trying transcendental meditation, and that helps me be passive and wait on the curve. I've got to find something else to hit the slider." - George (The Stork) Theodore
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say he probably wasn't Jewish either
y’know, being black and from Alabama.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
A few months back, there was a category called "Baseball Pitchers", that none of the contestants got any correct. I was pissed. The questions were basically as follows
-This player with a “rocket” fastball spent time playing with the Yankees, Blue Jays, Astros, and Red Sox. (Roger Clemens)
-This Jewish Hall-of-Famer threw a perfect game against the Chicago Cubs in 1965. (Sandy Koufax)
-This man was the last MLB player to win 30 or more games in a season (Denny McLain)
-This Boston player was a record-setting pitcher before moving into the outfield, where he set even more records because of his hitting. (Babe Ruth)
"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 7, 2010 12:14 AM EST up reply actions
there's a philly joke in there some where
Phillies and sluts were a lot a like last october. Both got beat.
/1 way ticket to hell please
"The Mets are my favorite squadron." Apu
That's terrible AND it doesn't make sense on several levels.
Sluts were beaten up last October? And didn’t the Phillies lose the WS on November 4?
"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez
by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Feb 5, 2010 12:41 PM EST up reply actions
I'm not sure...
Whether I find that more comedically offensive or human-being offensive.
by LeiterMilnerFasterStronger on Feb 5, 2010 1:32 PM EST up reply actions
A slut is not a person who gets beaten,
it’s a person who gets laid a lot. I don’t see that the two have anything in common. Maybe you were going for a slangy connection, like “hit that.” But anyway, fail.
the caveman?
Are you sure you’re not the wolfman/navyman?
"We're investigating the investigative procedure of the investigation of Tony Bernazard"---Omar Minaya (he really didn't say it but he would"
There's an Old-Timey Philly Joke in There Somewhere?
“Your honor, the defendant was merely behaving like her beloved baseball club.
One of them took it in the rear, and the other failed to get World Series tickets."
/piano vamp
by LeiterMilnerFasterStronger on Feb 5, 2010 1:36 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
FO multi-tasking
Good news! Not only were the Mets able to make all those great off-season deals, they were able to get my son’s Mets Kid’s Club birthday card to him—only a day late.
Cici N'est Pas Une Pipe
by Pack Bringley on Feb 6, 2010 12:01 PM EST via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
It's "ceci".
Sorry for the pedantry, but I used to teach this stuff.
http://www.library.yale.edu/librarynews/ceci-n-est-pas-une-pipe.jpg
Bedard signs 1 yr 1.5 million deal with seattle
yea don’t take a flier on him and Cora is worth more than him…..Right!!!
that makes me feel sick
I’m gonna find Jeff/Omar and puke on their shoes.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
This is assuming, of course
that Bedard was willing to come to NY in the first place at such small dollars.
"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez
by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Feb 5, 2010 3:00 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah but it's not so much missing out on Bedard
it’s the amount of money we’re paying for the likes of Cora/Frenchy combined with the fact they apparently decided no one else was worth their asking price. We can pay a combined 7 million to those two but can’t fork up 5 million for Hudson, or 2/20 for Piniero, or even 10 million for Sheets, I mean it would take his arm falling off for him to be less valuable than those two.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
I know all that
I just can’t see the Erik Bedard signing really being any sort of catalyst for me to get upset about it. I can’t recall the Mets being linked to Bedard at all during this off-season so I’m not going to be too burned up about him staying with a team he wanted to stay with on a cheap “let’s see if your arm still works” deal.
Believe me, there have been plenty of head-slapping opportunities this off-season and more than a few times where I’ve thought about the inability of the Mets FO to value anything properly. Frankly, though, I’ve had more than enough time to dwell on it and move past it because it’s just how the MO will be in Flushing for the foreseeable future. In sum, the 2009-2010 off-season has caused me to be completely apathetic about the Mets for the time being.
"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez
by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Feb 5, 2010 3:53 PM EST up reply actions
Or for Damon who's likely going to have to take an Abreu like contract at this point
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
I would like to
throw up on Damon. He deserves every bit of what he is getting. But seriously, we really don’t have a spot for him, and don’t want him in my OF. Bay is a way better option. I guess with Damon in LF you could afford Lackey. Then you bring up Fernandito next year to replace Damon. That is a solid plan.
I am happy with Bay though, provided that we some how get a pitcher next year.
Well my thought was more Damon replacing Frenchy
Though I’m kind of up and down on Bay, I would have been happy with Bay if we had made a big push to fill other wholes and really be competitive this year, with how the team looks now I think, unless they plan on making a major push in the FA market next year, by the time we’re actually good enough to be a legit 90+ win team Bay’s contract will be more of an albatross, because he’s on the wrong side of the aging curve.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
Damon
I think Benji Molina would even decide to take two or three bases on us with with Damon in RF.
I think Bay will gives us two, may be three good years. I think we are a front end starter away from taking the division.
7.75 million in incentives, and it sounds like those are based on 20 starts.
"We're just as bad as the old Mets, but this time nobody's laughing"
-Dallas Green
by Stephen Schmidt on Feb 5, 2010 5:32 PM EST up reply actions
yakov philly joke
in soviet russia, ticket to world series buys slut!
HELLO HELLO MR WILPON... BUY THAT MANSION. WE DONT NEED A CONDO.
by kendynamo on Feb 5, 2010 3:45 PM EST reply actions 3 recs
You might be a redneck if...
… you hear about a woman trading sex for a WS ticket on your television, which is sitting on top of another, non-working television.
by LeiterMilnerFasterStronger on Feb 5, 2010 4:17 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Applesauce
I thought that Shawn Bowman interview was done by “Ted DiBiase”. Having the Million Dollar Man involved with the Mets would be cool.
I guess Jarrod Washburn isn’t even considering the Mets- not that I want him, but still…
"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 5, 2010 8:29 PM EST reply actions
Some more good news!
SNY just reported:
1) The METS are 1 of 3 teams battling for the services of Todd Wellemeyer and
2) Yorvit Torrealba signed for 1.25 mill with the Padres and says he wishes the Mets had gone after him.
Best. offseason. everrrr
bleh
Wellemeyer is like the worst decision we could make. Just because he’s almost guaranteed to be less valuable than some combination of Niese and Figgy and Nieve but if they signed him I’m sure they’d keep running him out there over them.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
Wellenmeyer on a minor league deal would be fine.
I’d be ok with him as insurance in the pen in Buffalo. If nothing else he’d be a better option down the line than Pat Misch if we need a starter.
"We're just as bad as the old Mets, but this time nobody's laughing"
-Dallas Green
by Stephen Schmidt on Feb 6, 2010 10:26 AM EST up reply actions
Did you really want Torrealba?
"We're just as bad as the old Mets, but this time nobody's laughing"
-Dallas Green
by Stephen Schmidt on Feb 6, 2010 10:24 AM EST up reply actions
For $1.25 million dollars, I'd rather have an actual starting catcher than some combination of three back-up catchers.
Torrealba isn’t Piazza or anything, of course.
"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 6, 2010 3:22 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah but he's not really any better
than the 3 back up catchers.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
Actually, on second thought, he's not really all that much of an actual starting catcher.
The most games he’s caught in a season is 113 (2007). That’s just a little more than Omir caught last year. Looking at the two side-by-side, Omir might just be the better of the two, which is astounding when you think about it.
"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 6, 2010 4:46 PM EST up reply actions
We actually don't have a backup catcher.
Thole needs a year at AAA, Santos MLEs are ungodly bad, Coste just fell off a cliff and is ancient in catcher’s years. None of these guys are anyone a team with more than a $50m payroll want to go into the season guaranteeing a spot on the 25 man to.
Came up with a funny idea with a friend at the bar the other night
It would be awesome if Carlos Delgado and Johnny Damon and Pedro and the other unsigned free agents formed a barnstorming all-star team, Satchel Paige-style, to travel around and play baseball against all comers. So now we can add Felipe Lopez and Todd Wellemeyer to that team as well!
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