You might be surprised at how much this guy actually looks like me
And now the latest installment in our neat evening news summary of things related to the New York Mets that we didn’t get around to writing a post about today:
- Some former Mets have been removed from Hall of Fame consideration for receiving less than 5% of the vote, but hope is still alive for Roberto Alomar who received 73.7%. It will be up to the Veteran’s Committee to see that justice is served for Robin Ventura, Kevin Appier, David Segui and Todd Zeile. Speaking of Zeile, click through and enjoy this trailer for the movie he produced, Dirty Deeds.
Todd Zeile, right, as "Mullet" in "Dirty Deeds"
- For the college students in our vast audience, be reminded that you only have until March 19th to get in your applications for Buffalo Bisons internships. Positions in accounting, video production and many other fields (after last season’s poor showing by the club, perhaps even left, center and right fields) are available at no pay for you.
- Fans of future free agent starting pitcher Brandon Webb can have fun with geography and try to figure out whether he might be willing to sign with the Mets based on this statement in Jerry Crasnick’s recent article:Â “We’ve had a great time in Arizona, and if everything works out and we stay here, that would be good. But to get back close to home [in Kentucky] would be just as good. I’m definitely keeping it open. I’m not going to hold myself down to just Arizona.”
- This ESPN article suggests that despite having traded Casey “Hands Off My” Kotchman to the Seattle Mariners, the Boston Red Sox are still looking to move Mike Lowell, so don’t help Luis Castillo unpack his bags just yet.
- Matt Cerrone of Mets Blog is reporting that the Mets are interested in John Smoltz. I have linked to NBCSports.com’s report of that report, because NBCSports.com in giving him credit for breaking the news has misspelled his name as “Cerone.” Oh, irony’s a bitch sometimes.
- According to the Baltimore Sun, Johan Santana wants free agent Melvin Mora to play for the Mets and speaks with him regularly. Tip of the TRDMB cap to Ed Ryan of the fine blog Mets Fever for calling this to our attention.
26 comments
Mr North Jersey
1/7/2010-6:06pm at 6:06 pm (UTC -4)
lol cerone,
dirtysanchez
1/7/2010-6:10pm at 6:10 pm (UTC -4)
lmao….your a bad man herb lol
Mr North Jersey
1/7/2010-6:11pm at 6:11 pm (UTC -4)
Hey if you look over at MC’s blog he has an article discussing Minaya and Francesa. If you look at the clipart he used you will notice that is the antenna that the NLEC Banner uses.
Kingman 26
1/7/2010-6:14pm at 6:14 pm (UTC -4)
HAHA!!
That is indeed sweet.
And one voter actually did vote for David Segui.
oleosmirf
1/7/2010-6:17pm at 6:17 pm (UTC -4)
and that voter should now lose his vote…
wannybackstra
1/7/2010-7:46pm at 7:46 pm (UTC -4)
And maybe a testicle for good measure.
oleosmirf
1/7/2010-6:14pm at 6:14 pm (UTC -4)
in other news the Mets are still without a #2 SP and as the days go on Joel Piniero looks like hes coming here…
signings like those are why our payroll is so high yet we miss out on the playoffs…
hopefully Omar has something up his sleeve…
metsfan4decades
1/7/2010-7:35pm at 7:35 pm (UTC -4)
IMO, please – no Piniero.
wannybackstra
1/7/2010-7:45pm at 7:45 pm (UTC -4)
If Pineiro comes cheap on a one or two year deal then he is worth the risk because he is just as likely to be good as Maine, Pelfrey or Perez. Might as well throw a lot of eggs in the basket if there’s no other real solution.
Baseball Darwinism.
Of course, I’d prefer they find someone better. But I’d rather they bring in Jo-L than no one at all.
Please do not confuse this with me saying Pineiro is any good.
GravediggerHebner
1/7/2010-8:01pm at 8:01 pm (UTC -4)
Wait, the Mets might sign Superman’s father?
wannybackstra
1/7/2010-8:50pm at 8:50 pm (UTC -4)
And Luis Castillo will be his kryptonite each and every time Jor-El induces one of his famous groundballs.
GravediggerHebner
1/7/2010-8:55pm at 8:55 pm (UTC -4)
If only we could trick Mr. Castillo into saying his own name backwards, then he’d be banished to the 5th dimension.
Mr North Jersey
1/7/2010-7:09pm at 7:09 pm (UTC -4)
You know I have had some time the last day or so to read a lot of articles on Mets blogs and I have come to one conclusion.
I don’t know what a blog is.
I mean really what is a blog? Is it a place you share your thoughts with others about whatever your blogging is about? Is it a place you go to find news about what your particular blog is about? Or is it a bit of both or even more than that?
If it is both how do you a distinguish a blog from just a news site? I mean don’t most news sites allow you to post comments and suggestion? Don’t most Sports teams allow fans to chime in with questions and opinions?
Take for example T.R.D.M.B. it says “By The Fans For The Fans” pretty self explanatory right?
I mean can’t get much simpler than that. So what about MetsBlog.com? Is it by the fan/fans for the fans also?
What about Surfing The Mets blog by Adam Rubin? Is that a blog even though he is basically writing an article for the NY Daily News?
When are you a news site like ESPN and no longer a Blog? Is it when you get paid for your posts?
How if at all is Adam Rubin different from Matt Cerrone?
Am I the only one that has had these thoughts?
metsfan4decades
1/7/2010-7:35pm at 7:35 pm (UTC -4)
LOL – well now I have these thoughts since you put them in my head….
I spend an incredible amount of time reading all sorts of things online. I think the term ‘blog’ is pretty broad right now. I’ve seen everything from a regular/unknown type person creating their ‘blog’ just as a place to publish online what I would consider to be their personal, daily diary (and as to why, I have no idea), to ‘blogs’ such as Adam Rubin’s, who also actually gets paid to write daily articles on all things Mets. In his posts, sometimes he alludes to an article he wrote for the paper, but says ‘here’s some tidbits on the subject that didn’t make it in my article. Thought I would share those here’ – on his blog.
Then you have this site, which is clearly a blog and it is definitely ‘By The Fans For The Fans’. There are no control freaks running this blog and just about the only thing that will get you bounced is purely abusive type behavior.
MCs ‘blog’? I really don’t know what you would call that. It’s not ‘By The Fan For The Fans’, that’s for sure. Not when you have to ‘audition’, wait days to see if you’ve ‘passed’, and by his own explanation on his site for being banned, can be bounced simply because you bore him….
Mr North Jersey
1/7/2010-7:38pm at 7:38 pm (UTC -4)
GravediggerHebner
1/7/2010-7:48pm at 7:48 pm (UTC -4)
According to the Encyclopedia Britanica, online edition:
blog
online journal where an individual, group, or corporation presents a record of activities, thoughts, or beliefs. Some blogs operate mainly as news filters, collecting various online sources and adding short comments and Internet links. Other blogs concentrate on presenting original material. In addition, many blogs provide a forum to allow visitors to leave comments and interact with the publisher. “To blog” is the act of composing material for a blog. Materials are largely written, but pictures, audio, and videos are important elements of many blogs. The “blogosphere” is the online universe of blogs.
Mr North Jersey
1/7/2010-7:51pm at 7:51 pm (UTC -4)
So ESPN.com can be considered a blog under that definition right?
GravediggerHebner
1/7/2010-7:55pm at 7:55 pm (UTC -4)
Perhaps, although I bet they would prefer to be thought of as a “website” that “keeps blogs” among other things. So since I already know what the next question will be:
website
A set of interconnected webpages, usually including a homepage, generally located on the same server, and prepared and maintained as a collection of information by a person, group, or organization.
Mr North Jersey
1/7/2010-8:04pm at 8:04 pm (UTC -4)
lol Grave, I appreciate the intel. I just find a hard to distinguish what makes us different from blogs like Adam Rubin’s.
I mean just look at Encyclopedia Britanica’s definition of a blog and tell me what of these ESPN doesn’t do.
1.Online journal where an individual, group, or corporation presents a record of activities, thoughts, or beliefs.
2.Some blogs operate mainly as news filters, collecting various online sources and adding short comments and Internet links.
3.Other blogs concentrate on presenting original material.
4.Many blogs provide a forum to allow visitors to leave comments and interact with the publisher.
Plus I agree that they would prefer to be a website that keeps blogs but that then begs the question are we not a website that keeps blogs (N.L.E.C. Community)?
GravediggerHebner
1/7/2010-8:19pm at 8:19 pm (UTC -4)
An outsider would probably be better equipped to answer that but my guess would be that NLEC would be the website and the various team pages would be the blogs, but could also just as easily be websites of their own I suppose. Soon my head will spin 360 degrees as I try to further differentiate between the two things.
My own personal definition is that a blog is more of an informal thing, less subject to rules, standards and editing. Adam Rubin is a reporter for the Daily News who covers people and events and writes stories about those things for the paper. At least in theory, those stories are subject to rules about such things as editorial content and basic grammar, as well as since they are published in newspapers, to the constraint of how many words fit in how many columns on how many pages.
His blog is at least in theory more informal, not subject to the same standards as his official column/stories for the paper are/should be. Whether it’s good or bad, I think over time the line between newspaper reporter’s blogs and actual stories for their paper has become blurred.
I haven’t seen examples of this recently but I recall in the not too distant past reading a newspaper reporter’s blog in which he would “tease” a story he had written for the paper and link to it in his blog, you would have to go to the story in the paper to get the full scoop. I’m not sure how much that matters anymore.
I also am not in NYC so I don’t get the city editions of the paper, so I can’t say for sure how what gets published in the physical paper I can buy at the newstand every day differs from what appears on their website. I’ve always assumed that Adam Rubin’s “Surfing the Mets” for example was just on the internet, not in the paper, and that he writes actual articles with headlines and his byline that appear in the physical newspaper, but I don’t know that.
Mr North Jersey
1/7/2010-8:35pm at 8:35 pm (UTC -4)
You know that leads me to this twitter phenomena lately where reporters are breakin news via twitter sometimes to just make people sign up to follow them via twitter imo.
GravediggerHebner
1/7/2010-8:48pm at 8:48 pm (UTC -4)
That makes less sense to me. At least with a newspaper reporter leaving info in his blog, you still have to go to the paper’s website to read it so they get the hits that way.
But when Jon Heyman says via twitter that Matt Holliday signs with the Cardinals, no one goes to Sports Illustrated to read that. He at least still gets credit for it because most outlets with any conscience say “Jon Heyman tweeted…” but I don’t understand how it relates to his working for SI, let alone SNY or MLB Network, and how he might be compensated for that.
Odd thing about Buster Olney’s Twitter account that I noticed yesterday: He has 18,858 followers, yet he follows exactly 1 person. One. So he dispenses info with lightning speed to 18,858 people, but only gets it that way from 1 person.
http://twitter.com/Buster_espn
GravediggerHebner
1/7/2010-7:52pm at 7:52 pm (UTC -4)
Oh and, it’s short for “weblog” of course because you keep it for all to see on the “world wide web.”
I used to keep a personal one, years ago, and it was very much a diary for anyone to read. Boring stuff like what I watched on TV that night, books I liked, movies or music that interested me. Basically it was the equivalent of a child saying “look what I can do” but on a computer screen, which is ultimately what I consider most blogs to be. No offense to myself or anyone else intended.
CaseStreet
1/7/2010-11:36pm at 11:36 pm (UTC -4)
A website is static. The front page doesn’t change. Usually something with a welcome page, and then there’s a page for something else. Most importantly, information is flowing one way.
For example:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx
http://www.subway.com/subwayroot/index.aspx
A blog on the other hand is always changing and being updated. Usually, the content is displayed in one column, with the most recent update on top. Blogs also have pages, like websites, but those are static too. MOST importantly, information flows in all directions with the use of comments.
wannybackstra
1/7/2010-7:42pm at 7:42 pm (UTC -4)
Big Stein wants his Ceronie?
CaseStreet
1/7/2010-11:58pm at 11:58 pm (UTC -4)
I was thinking about Mora yesterday in our depth discussion. He seems to be one of the few 3B backups that are available.
C – Blanco
1B – hopefully Garko, but maybe Murphy if Omar likes Delgado’s stick
2B – Cora
SS – Cora
3B – Mora
OF – Pagan, Garko or Murphy, Mora, Pagan