momadance wrote:rofl ... They're so #$!&@ beyond belief. They will end up declaring bankruptcy and MLB will take over the team.

smitty wrote:

Trent Steele wrote:Ike Davis apparently has Valley Fever.

Can't make this stuff up

That Valley Fever is some bad stuff. The first time I ever heard of it was when that basketball player -- Johnny Moore I think his name was -- had it and it nearly killed him.

Jackson did get it too -- missed a lot of time -- he hasn't really been the same since either.

BuddyGroom wrote:

smitty wrote:

Trent Steele wrote:Ike Davis apparently has Valley Fever.

Can't make this stuff up

That Valley Fever is some bad stuff. The first time I ever heard of it was when that basketball player -- Johnny Moore I think his name was -- had it and it nearly killed him.

Jackson did get it too -- missed a lot of time -- he hasn't really been the same since either.

I remember when Johnny Moore got sick. I could swear he had something called "desert fever." Maybe that's the same thing as valley fever, I don't know.

Phan In Phlorida wrote:Isn't valley fever what that teenage girl who wanted to hook up with House MD had?

At the moment, Johan Santana looks like little more than another iffy candidate. Tuesday in Port St. Lucie, Fla., he threw 29 pitches over two shutout innings against the St. Louis Cardinals in his first action against major-league hitters since Sept. 2, 2010. Less than two weeks after that start, Santana underwent surgery on his left shoulder for an anterior capsule tear. He tried returning in August 2011. After five Class A innings, his shoulder barked no.

That the New York Mets still have him penciled in for an opening-day start this season is either a reflexive response to the painful salaries they owe him for the next two years – $54.5 million, assuming they turn down a 2014 club option – or extreme faith in something with little history to warrant it. The list of pitchers who returned from capsule-tear surgery to anything near their previous level reads like this:

It killed Mark Prior’s career, slowed down Chien-Ming Wang’s, halted Pedro Feliciano’s and derailed dozens more before doctors could identify the exact problem. It’s why when pitchers go in for MRIs, they beg for the doctor to say: “Elbow.”

The court ruling yesterday that Mets ownership and its subsidiaries must pay as much as $83 million to the trustee in the Bernie Madoff clawback case did not offer closure nor did the setting of a March 19 court date for the trustee to pursue more substantial funds. The case — and the countersuits it almost certainly will spawn — promises to drag on. Thus, so does the financial gloom that looms over the organization.

This is why Alderson’s goodwill clock is ticking. Fans and media will not put off indefinitely how long he has to author a product that will defy that shrinking payroll. While the anger is raw against ownership, I sense fatigue setting in on this soap opera. Fans are trying to recondition muscles of optimism associated with this time of year.

Alderson needs progress. In wins. In growth of players. In unmistakable earmarks of a better tomorrow coming, well, a lot closer to tomorrow than a few years down the road.

When asked to define 2012 progress, Alderson says his goals are the playoffs...

lethal wrote:

FTN wrote:

momadance wrote:You would think that at some point the MLB will force them to sell. This is becoming an embarrassment to baseball as a whole. It's really gotta suck to be a Mets fan right now.

i couldnt be happier. their delusional nonsense pre-2007 collapse was amazing to see.

i need to re-register for 'gees. have to think of a good nickname that won't raise any red flags.

flushing chop shop

FTN wrote:and if you believe the reports, wilpon won't sell because he loves the team deeply, its not just an investment vehicle for him.

which means they are fucked unless MLB steps in or he goes completely bankrupt.

FTN wrote:and if you believe the reports, wilpon won't sell because he loves the team deeply, its not just an investment vehicle for him.

which means they are fucked unless MLB steps in or he goes completely bankrupt.

FTN wrote:and if you believe the reports, wilpon won't sell because he loves the team deeply, its not just an investment vehicle for him.

which means they are #$!&@ unless MLB steps in or he goes completely bankrupt.

drsmooth wrote:NYTimes' David Brooks doubles down on his Mets fandom

there are many things about this essay that I find fulfilling

Swiggers wrote:

drsmooth wrote:NYTimes' David Brooks doubles down on his Mets fandom

there are many things about this essay that I find fulfilling

That he reads Mets blogs? That he is biologically compelled to hate the Phillies?