When Sheffield hit his 500th homer, I was shocked at the huge show of love he got from the dugout. Not surprised so much by the show, but surprised at the seeming sincerity of it. Is this another one of those things where Sheffield isn’t nice to the media douches but is a [...]
Remember a couple of years ago when everyone was ready to ship Mike Pelfrey to Siberia because he was off to a terrible start? Then everyone silently realized that the guy was learning on the job at the major league level? Then, as he figured it out he got a lot better and [...]
1) I am so happy they’ve continued to improve the subway service from Manhattan to the ballpark. The terrible, 6 turnstiles through a stupid iron tower choke-point is gone, replaced with a huge staircase leading up to something like 20 turnstiles. On top of that, they’ve kept the post-game “Super Express” service that [...]
1) Was there anyone in the fanbase who thought today was going to be anything other than an unmitigated disaster? I mean, we have Ollie who — on the best of days — has control problems making his first start after a worthless spring. On top of that, we’re in a minor [...]
1) I’m absurdly happy to see Daniel Murphy get the 2-hole over Luis Castillo. I totally agree that Castillo should be given the chance to earn his way up in the line-up but if you’re going to convince the world that Murphy is the answer to Manny Ramirez, put him up in the [...]
That Bootleg Guy and I shot a few e-mails back and forth this week talking about the MLB Over/Unders this week and it turned itself in to a blog post. In the interest of full disclosure, I did not actually lay money on any of these as I’m still actively preventing myself from the [...]
Gary Sheffield: 2008 - Detroit Tigers. 2009 - $400k: Take it away Mr. Hulse.
So let me get this straight….
If the Mets sign Sheffield for $400k and he sucks, they cut him and lose $400k.
If the Mets sign Sheffield for $400k and he finds the Wayback Machine (i.e: “flaxseed oil”) and hits like [...]
Johan Santana - 2008 salary - $19M. 2009 salary - $20M: There’s not much to say about Santana. There’s no bit of last year’s collapse on him short of the comic relief of giving up a grand slam to Felix Hernandez. Santana was a bad bullpen away from being 23-7 with [...]
K-Rod - 2008 - Los Angeles Angels. 2009 salary - $8.5M: The Mets are convinced the bullpen was the beginning and end of all last year’s problems. Never mind the fact that the team’s slugging percentage drops to .365 in innings 7-9 and that they couldn’t buy a run in the last three [...]
Fernando Tatis - 2008 salary - $560k. 2009 salary - $1.7M: Did you know that Fernando Tatis wanted to build a church for his home town in the Dominican Republic and the only way he could afford it was by returning to baseball? I do. In fact, I heard the inspiring, [...]
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