in which my mets are doomed before opening day
George Vescey in the NYT:
It is growing late. Too much cable money is being squandered. Jerry Manuel’s laughter has run out its novelty. He is probably set up to fail, waiting for the next era, whatever that will be. In theory, it’s always nice to have a new baseball season, but at Dante Alighieri Stadium, abandon hope.
Unfortunately, I think Vescey’s nailed it. Even with all the cable money the Mets have, they aren’t doing anything intelligent with it. Somehow the obvious opportunities are missed by ownership and GM Omar Minaya. There are players we could have signed, and deals we could have made. Only one team can be the Yankees, but the Mets have the money to compete for players with all the other teams, and they don’t. In addition to that, the Mets coaching staff has just recently started telling their pitchers that they need to throw more strikes! Why should they have to point this out?? How insane is that?
At what point do we determine that GM Omar Minaya has failed and that the Wilpons must replace him? Who knows.
Hope everyone else enjoys Opening Day. Me, I’ll just be praying for miraculous wisdom to suddenly fall on the front office, and for an overachieving pitching staff for my Mets this year. More wins? Let’s not get crazy.
the state of the middle ground
America was not designed to be run by elitists – nor was it designed for pure mob rule. What we need to find here is some middle ground – a government that will be responsive to the needs of the people without being subject to the whims of daily polling and public opinion that is [...]
somebody’s not reading from the script
Watch Al Sharpton say something interesting on Fox News: In case you didn’t catch it, Al said that the American public overwhelmingly voted for socialism when they elected President Obama. But that’s not possible. How could such a committed capitalist free-marketeer as President Obama have any intention of implementing anything close to a socialist agenda? [...]
more depressing news
Female Alias fans – join me in a moment of silence as we mourn the recent passage of our own Vaughn from the single life. Michael Vartan’s getting hitched, and in an interesting Alias-related side note — to a woman named Lauren. Guess it had to happen eventually. In all seriousness, I wish the guy [...]
dirty tricks
This is wrong, unethical – and somewhat boneheaded. But enough about what I think about the Dems’ new (old) trick to pass the health care bill. Let’s read what the Washington Post had to say about it (bold text my addition). Pelosi (D-Calif.) would rely on a procedural sleight of hand: The House would vote [...]
too much awesome
(h/t Hot Air) Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, ladies and gentlemen (on the must-pass health care bill): You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care [...]
fratricide
While we can all agree Rahm Emanuel is not the most warm and cuddly guy in politics, this Eric Massa sounds like a real jerk, and it doesn’t surprise me that these two hate each other’s guts. It seems that the Democrats just can’t help themselves when it comes to the fratricide now in progress [...]
heading toward the cliff
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is willing to sacrifice the political futures of her fellow House Democrats in order to get the health care bill passed. That’s generous of her, and the Republicans will absolutely accept that result. I just wonder how many left-leaning true believers are left in the Democratic Congress. The answer [...]
choosing sides
There is nothing guaranteed about a possible Republican recovery in 2010. In case fellow Republicans get too overconfident about our chances due to some current Democrat chaos over health care, let me remind them that voters hate us too. Perhaps that is a slight overstatement of our position, since there are many contributors on both [...]
isn’t that special
The geniuses employed by the New York Mets have decided to make throwing more strikes a priority of their pitching staff this spring training. What a brilliant idea. Too bad we didn’t think of this last year. I love this line from MLB.com: In the case of the 2010 Mets, the notion is that each [...]
