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Gotta love all these players playing out of position.
Gotta love it.
Everything rushed, he had all day.
Gotta love it.
Everything rushed, he had all day.
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Originally Posted by J Steezzz
Dodgers didn't win this game, we GAVE them it on a silver platter.
Yea seriously I was laughing when Reed threw it away.... you just had a feeling they would get the tailor made DP ball and mess it upsomehowOriginally Posted by Mez 0ne
Stokes and the rest of this pen is good money.
I still can't believe this played out this way, you just can't help but laugh.
Thanks, MetsOriginally Posted by J Steezzz
Dodgers didn't win this game, we GAVE them it on a silver platter.
Originally Posted by Mez 0ne
http://www.amazinavenue.com/2009/5/18/878410/an-open-letter-to-espn#comments
[h2]An Open Letter To ESPN[/h2]
by Sam Page on May 18, 2009 12:48 AM EDT24 comments
To whom it may concern:
Please remove Steve Phillips from all of your baseball broadcasts. During Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter, Phillips has been a relatively unspectacular commentator. Allowing Phillips to speak outside of these timed, mostly scripted intervals, however, has proven to be like a jailbreak, where the prisoners are all the stupidest thoughts about baseball.
After the Mets got off to a modest start this season, Steve Phillips used the late-innings of a Mets/Braves broadcast to hop on all the worst bandwagons of opinion about this team. He latched onto the most nebulous accusations against the Mets, many perpetrated by his successor as GM, Omar Minaya. Phillips accused the team of "lacking edge" a sentiment I've argued is a refuge for people who can't understand the real issues with a team. He cited Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran, and David Wright, in particular, as lacking this edge, and in turn, attributed the Mets inability to reach the playoffs on them. To the rational observer, this statement seemed pretty ironic, since Wright, Beltran, and Reyes have been shown to be more helpful in bringing their team to the postseason, than just one other player in the National League. Phillips also claimed the Mets lacked a player that "never made mistakes," truly a lofty goal in a sport where even the best players fail 60% of the time. Derek Jeter and Kevin Youkilis were then contrasted as two players who never make mistakes, a claim that probably didn't help your networks' perceived pandering to the biggest markets.
If Mr. Phillips thinks Derek Jeter is perfect, it probably explains much about why his time with the Mets came to a screeching halt in the early-2000s. Jeter represents some of the most overvalued qualities in baseball: hitting for average and fundamentally solid, no-range fielding. Thankfully the Wilpons canned Steve Phillips when they did, because I hate to imagine how he'd fare in a market that's increasingly focused on young talented players and advanced fielding metrics, neither of which Phillips seems to believe in.
Before ESPN's most recent broadcast of the Mets, however, the setting was different. Entering yesterday's game, the Mets were in first place in the East, and much of the stupid "edge" talk surrounding this team had died down. I think the accused, David Wright, said it best:
"The definition of edge is going out there and getting a few wins, and then all of a sudden you don't have to worry about anyone talking about edge anymore"