Wish there was a Mets game tonight so you don’t have to watch the Lebron James 1 hour special tonight? Well so do I but since there is no game tonight I have for your entertainment the following documentary film courtesy of HuLu.
The film is “Fantasyland” A documentary about Jed Latkin, an amateur fantasy baseball fan who earns the chance to compete in an expert league. It runs for 1 hour and 27 minutes so if you start to watch it at 8:33pm this evening by the time the film is over so will the special. It’s not much but I mean it can’t be as bad as having to sit through an hour of Lebronamania.
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Video: For Those Mets Fans That Refuse To Watch The Lebron James Special
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oleosmirf
7/8/2010-7:45pm at 7:45 pm (UTC -4)
Brooklyn cyclones game on SNY
they retired Pagan’s number and he’s in the booth with Burkhart…plus the African kid is on the State college team which is pretty cool too
metsfan4decades
7/8/2010-8:40pm at 8:40 pm (UTC -4)
Flipping back and forth between the Cyclone and Phils/Reds game.
These minor league guys looks so young….I guess because some are. Those helmets they make them wear don’t help the cause either.
Cyclones kicking ass. The Reds, not so much yet in the 6th…
stickguy
7/8/2010-9:01pm at 9:01 pm (UTC -4)
It’s not that they are so young MF….
and yeah, the Reds are letting me down here. Can’t hit Kendrick, in a bandbox?
metsfan4decades
7/8/2010-8:43pm at 8:43 pm (UTC -4)
Well dang….
http://www.metstoday.com/4825/mets-2010-games/more-on-francisco-rodriguezs-balky-ankle/
Article implying we got damaged goods when we signed KRod….
trs86
7/8/2010-8:52pm at 8:52 pm (UTC -4)
Nothing we did not already know. Krod altered his delivery a long time ago. Good news is his K/9 is back up this year.
metsfan4decades
7/8/2010-8:58pm at 8:58 pm (UTC -4)
Which kind of tells me, even if this ankle problem is true, he’s doing whatever he needs to, to keep his success rate….
trs86
7/8/2010-9:04pm at 9:04 pm (UTC -4)
Or the ankle is better this year.
trs86
7/8/2010-9:02pm at 9:02 pm (UTC -4)
His velocity is 2mph below his career average but his off-speed pitches are also lower. He is also throwing his FB more than he has since 2003.
Throwing more first pitch strikes than ever before, getting more swings and misses than he has since his rookie season. The odd part is that the contact percentage on pitches outside the zone is off the charts.
metsfan4decades
7/8/2010-8:56pm at 8:56 pm (UTC -4)
O.K., bored tonight even switching back and forth between Phils/Reds and Cyclones.
Just read this from MC on FWICG.com
The latest buzz from Houston suggests the Astros will now accept your team’s bad contract in return for you taking on Oswalt and all of the $32 million due to him the next two seasons, but you must also include your best pitching prospect and a young bat… which, to me, sounds like: Oliver Perez, and the one-year and $12 million left on his deal after this season, plus Fernando Martinez and, say, Jenrry Mejia… however, that reads like a deal that would go down in my fantasy league, which leads me to believe it will never happen…
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That makes absolutely no sense….unless it’s not about the money and everything about trying to get some team to give up their top pitching prospect. They’ll take someone like Ollie? Okay…..
trs86
7/8/2010-9:03pm at 9:03 pm (UTC -4)
So basically it is what we heard earlier. The Astros will eat some contract to get better prospects. Only this way they get the potential of a return for eating that 12M.
metsfan4decades
7/8/2010-9:10pm at 9:10 pm (UTC -4)
I guess you could interpret it like that. It’s almost like paying for some other team’s prospects.
stickguy
7/8/2010-9:03pm at 9:03 pm (UTC -4)
makes sense. The Astros are on the hook for his money anyway. So basically, taking on Ollie is the same as them eating all the salary to get back better prospects.
In a way, the question becomes, what is more important to the mets: unloading Ollies contract, or keeping Mejia and F Mart in the system?
trs86
7/8/2010-9:07pm at 9:07 pm (UTC -4)
Well thing is they most likely can’t just take on Oswalt’s salary and keep the prospects. I think if Houston is willing to eat the cash then some team will give prospects. Houston has no money crisis they just have a talent crisis.
stickguy
7/8/2010-9:11pm at 9:11 pm (UTC -4)
probably. Just commenting that taking back a bad contract is just a different way of eating the salary. But they do end up with Ollie at least, so potential for something out of him.
njstuckintx
7/9/2010-8:47am at 8:47 am (UTC -4)
Actually, they do have sort of a money crisis. That’s why their owner has looked into selling the team. Albeit has been for a crazy amount, but he’s been quoted as saying he has considered selling the team.
Their attendance is pitiful. I wouldn’t doubt that they were watching their pennies and looking to reduce payroll.
metsfan4decades
7/8/2010-9:08pm at 9:08 pm (UTC -4)
And this on Twitter:
Ledger_NYMets profile
Ledger_NYMets No doctor’s visit for Jose Reyes today, despite what he told reporters last night. Team will see how he feels swinging lefty tomorrow.
5 hours ago reply
stickguy
7/8/2010-9:10pm at 9:10 pm (UTC -4)
I don’t see why they don’t just send him anyway. Why not? Did their HMO refuse to authorize the visit?
metsfan4decades
7/8/2010-9:11pm at 9:11 pm (UTC -4)
LOL..
I have absolutely no idea. Does this imply they never did any tests to begin with when it first started bothering him?
stickguy
7/8/2010-9:15pm at 9:15 pm (UTC -4)
I think they did. or maybe it was just so simply and obvious the trainers and team doc just diagnosed it?
probably not much you can do anyway for a minor soreness. Could try an MRI I guess.
bottom line, it is something treated primarily with rest, and maybe an anti inflammatory, so just have to wait until it feels better (like Pagan did).
metsfan4decades
7/8/2010-9:31pm at 9:31 pm (UTC -4)
This Reds/Phills game has shown some really poor, wacky defense by both teams tonight.
The pitcher Cueto trying to catch a ball at first with no glove, then getting knee’d you-know-where so that by the time the first baseman picked the ball up and threw to home to get the base runner it was too late.
Werth safe at first, didn’t hear the call and walks off the bag only to be tagged out.
And my personal favorite so far….The Reds threatening down 2-1 with men on 1st and 2nd with two outs. Phillips strikes out on a ball in the dirt, Schneider can’t find it, Phillips, who had already took his helmet off, runs down to first to beat the throw b/c Madson ran off the mound to get the ball Schneider couldn’t find and they both forgot about the guy on second who ran all the way to home to tie the score.
Entertaining, that’s for sure….
ceetar
7/8/2010-9:34pm at 9:34 pm (UTC -4)
MLB Network is being pretty dismissive of Bronny, kinda funny.
But yeah, Madsen blows the save in his return to the mound. on a K. heh.
stickguy
7/8/2010-10:04pm at 10:04 pm (UTC -4)
nice. just read it to my son, and he laughed. We both agreed it sounded like a bad little league game. and we need to see the highlights!