Real Men of Genius
(Note: Two pieces for you today, the first by Sippy Momo, the second by A Friend of Mr. Glass'. Enjoy.)
On a day where Mike Pelfrey was optioned to Norfolk and Billy Wagner narrowly avoided blowing a second straight save to the youthful Marlins, it was a simple post on our quaint website and some more shitty analysis from the good people at espn.com that has Sip’s juices flowing.
Moving down Pelfrey was the right move. Let him work on his pitches. We only brought him up because we had basically no one else. That was a month ago. Now John Maine has emerged and Brian Bannister is getting ready to rejoin the big club.
It was great that Pelfrey had his cup in the show. He’ll have some great stories to tell the Jorge Toca’s of the world down in Norfolk. But for now, let's get this kid throwing more strikes, honing his secondary pitches and maybe even hitting the weight room.
As for Wagner, there is one thing I keep seeing. When his fastball hits 97-98, he is invincible against righties and lefties.
When it hits 95-96, righties can catch up. Whether he needs more work or less, that I don’t know.
What I do know is that the guy is capable of turning it up when he needs to. He threw Miguel Cabrera some heavy 98mph cheese to close out last night’s game. You could see in his face and eyes how much he wanted that.
But today is not about the Mets. These are somewhat boring times in Mets baseball. There isn’t a lot they can do (or not do for that matter) to effect this season.
The Yankees on the other hand have a lot to play for. Caught in the midst of yet another Yankees-Red Sox late season clash, the Yankees do not necessarily have the luxury to take it easy and coast into the playoffs via the wild card.
With the White Sox and Twins right on their tail, the Yankees need to win their division to secure an 12th straight trip to October.
Two things have happened of late that have absolutely killed me. The Bobby Abreu trade and yesterday’s post on our comment board, by “My Yanks.”
First, the Abreu trade.
Now it doesn’t bother me that they made the trade. They’re in the middle of a huge race and they are a couple of bats light from their 200 million dollar payroll.
What kills me is that Yankee brass is actually get praised, and I mean these guys are getting their members sucked, for pulling off this miraculous deal in which they sent 4 decent prospects to the Phils for Abreu and Corey Lidle.
To all you Yankee fans out there and all you moron reporters, all you have to realize is that this deal was strictly about money.
Bobby Abreu is owed roughly $21,000,000 for the remainder of ’06 and ’07. That’s 21 mil for a guy that had 8 HR playing on a little league field in Philadelphia.
No other team in baseball would be crazy enough to pay Abreu that much, nor could they actually afford to from a business standpoint.
Instead, what all the other GM’s interested did was offer better prospects and demanded that the Phillies eat a chunk of Abreu’s salary.
The Phillies had a decision. Do we eat $6,000,000 and get an Humberto Sanchez from Detroit, or do we let the Yankees eat the whole thing and let 'em cough up a few B-level prospects in exchange?
The answer was obvious. In this day in baseball where the Dodgers refused to pay Luke Hochevar his $4,000,000 demand to sign with them, only to see him then go #1 in the 2006 amatuer draft to the Royals, a top prospect isn’t worth $6,000,000. Too many teams have been burned by the Josh Hamilton’s of the world,
You know –- the can’t miss guys who end up missing badly.
So instead the Phils did what a smart team would do. They gave away their terrible contract. Now they have $15 mil to throw at a real free agent in the winter.
So you see, friends, this isn’t the Yankees being smart. Instead, this is the Yankees really being financially irresponsible, not netting sufficient utility from their investment, but being so rich that it just didn’t really matter for them.
We all knew two things about the Yankees. One, that they were rich. The second was that their fans are the worst.
Yesterday, a Yankee fan wrote on our site:
“Thanks for keeping the 'best team in NYC' seat warm for us fellas, but we'll take it from here... ”
Great pal. It’s August, a little early actually for you guys to be watching. But now that you're here, let me commend you for your timing. For the first time all season, the Yankees look better than the Sox. For the first time all season, the Yankees are playing like a team with a $200,000,000 payroll, and all of a sudden Yankee fans are running their mouths.
All year I have heard the same things:
“I don’t hate the Mets. I actually like them.”
“I’m happy for you guys, it’s good for New York.”
“You don’t have to hate the Yankees, just because you like the Mets.”
The second rate fuckos from the Bronx have been pouring compliments, waving the white flag to the fans of the Amazins all year. Everything was fine and good until the Yankees run off a good couple of weeks and steal the backpage at the trade deadline.
The fact is this: As I said earlier in the year and will say again now, the Yanks should make the playoffs every year. They are just too good. They trot out literally an All-Star lineup every single night.
But Mets fans realize this. Think about how amazingly fun this season has been for us. We’ve waited a couple of years and now October is finally in our grasps. Then think about not caring about 6 months of baseball.
Think about being a Yankee fan and knowing that you have to be here every year simply because your team can spend more.
They might win more.
But our wins mean a lot more.
Vaya con dios,
SM
On a day where Mike Pelfrey was optioned to Norfolk and Billy Wagner narrowly avoided blowing a second straight save to the youthful Marlins, it was a simple post on our quaint website and some more shitty analysis from the good people at espn.com that has Sip’s juices flowing.
Moving down Pelfrey was the right move. Let him work on his pitches. We only brought him up because we had basically no one else. That was a month ago. Now John Maine has emerged and Brian Bannister is getting ready to rejoin the big club.
It was great that Pelfrey had his cup in the show. He’ll have some great stories to tell the Jorge Toca’s of the world down in Norfolk. But for now, let's get this kid throwing more strikes, honing his secondary pitches and maybe even hitting the weight room.
As for Wagner, there is one thing I keep seeing. When his fastball hits 97-98, he is invincible against righties and lefties.
When it hits 95-96, righties can catch up. Whether he needs more work or less, that I don’t know.
What I do know is that the guy is capable of turning it up when he needs to. He threw Miguel Cabrera some heavy 98mph cheese to close out last night’s game. You could see in his face and eyes how much he wanted that.
But today is not about the Mets. These are somewhat boring times in Mets baseball. There isn’t a lot they can do (or not do for that matter) to effect this season.
The Yankees on the other hand have a lot to play for. Caught in the midst of yet another Yankees-Red Sox late season clash, the Yankees do not necessarily have the luxury to take it easy and coast into the playoffs via the wild card.
With the White Sox and Twins right on their tail, the Yankees need to win their division to secure an 12th straight trip to October.
Two things have happened of late that have absolutely killed me. The Bobby Abreu trade and yesterday’s post on our comment board, by “My Yanks.”
First, the Abreu trade.
Now it doesn’t bother me that they made the trade. They’re in the middle of a huge race and they are a couple of bats light from their 200 million dollar payroll.
What kills me is that Yankee brass is actually get praised, and I mean these guys are getting their members sucked, for pulling off this miraculous deal in which they sent 4 decent prospects to the Phils for Abreu and Corey Lidle.
To all you Yankee fans out there and all you moron reporters, all you have to realize is that this deal was strictly about money.
Bobby Abreu is owed roughly $21,000,000 for the remainder of ’06 and ’07. That’s 21 mil for a guy that had 8 HR playing on a little league field in Philadelphia.
No other team in baseball would be crazy enough to pay Abreu that much, nor could they actually afford to from a business standpoint.
Instead, what all the other GM’s interested did was offer better prospects and demanded that the Phillies eat a chunk of Abreu’s salary.
The Phillies had a decision. Do we eat $6,000,000 and get an Humberto Sanchez from Detroit, or do we let the Yankees eat the whole thing and let 'em cough up a few B-level prospects in exchange?
The answer was obvious. In this day in baseball where the Dodgers refused to pay Luke Hochevar his $4,000,000 demand to sign with them, only to see him then go #1 in the 2006 amatuer draft to the Royals, a top prospect isn’t worth $6,000,000. Too many teams have been burned by the Josh Hamilton’s of the world,
You know –- the can’t miss guys who end up missing badly.
So instead the Phils did what a smart team would do. They gave away their terrible contract. Now they have $15 mil to throw at a real free agent in the winter.
So you see, friends, this isn’t the Yankees being smart. Instead, this is the Yankees really being financially irresponsible, not netting sufficient utility from their investment, but being so rich that it just didn’t really matter for them.
We all knew two things about the Yankees. One, that they were rich. The second was that their fans are the worst.
Yesterday, a Yankee fan wrote on our site:
“Thanks for keeping the 'best team in NYC' seat warm for us fellas, but we'll take it from here... ”
Great pal. It’s August, a little early actually for you guys to be watching. But now that you're here, let me commend you for your timing. For the first time all season, the Yankees look better than the Sox. For the first time all season, the Yankees are playing like a team with a $200,000,000 payroll, and all of a sudden Yankee fans are running their mouths.
All year I have heard the same things:
“I don’t hate the Mets. I actually like them.”
“I’m happy for you guys, it’s good for New York.”
“You don’t have to hate the Yankees, just because you like the Mets.”
The second rate fuckos from the Bronx have been pouring compliments, waving the white flag to the fans of the Amazins all year. Everything was fine and good until the Yankees run off a good couple of weeks and steal the backpage at the trade deadline.
The fact is this: As I said earlier in the year and will say again now, the Yanks should make the playoffs every year. They are just too good. They trot out literally an All-Star lineup every single night.
But Mets fans realize this. Think about how amazingly fun this season has been for us. We’ve waited a couple of years and now October is finally in our grasps. Then think about not caring about 6 months of baseball.
Think about being a Yankee fan and knowing that you have to be here every year simply because your team can spend more.
They might win more.
But our wins mean a lot more.
Vaya con dios,
SM
posted by Sippy Momo at 1:25 PM
6 Comments:
newsflash:
reyes is locked up for 4 years with option for 5th averaging about 5.8 million per season
arbitration will be avoided
david, you're up next year, and get out of this slump it makes me a sad panda
LETS GO METS
You're an idiot.
Mets fans are the New Red Sox fans, aks the worst fans ever. Whine, whine, whine.
The poor Mets: so financially strapped, so unable to lure top free agents or throw money around on bad contracts. Oh, wait...
You're a hypocrite. Like all annoying fans.
Go boo A-Rod, your reigning DH-league MVP, you dickless beeyotch. Go back in time and boo Mantle.
Talk about whining - you're a vast plague of pastel wearing, baseball ignorant, self-styled Wall Street wannabe masters of the universe who, maybe 3 times a year, slum it up to the Bronx to have a few too many beers on the old firm's tab and start popping off shit like you have a clue about baseball. You don't - that's why you're a Yankee fan. It's convenient and doesn't conflict with your Tao reservation for 6 (all guys) at 9.
Eat a peepee.
Just my 2 cents, I could be wrong.
Anonymous --
First off, no Mets fan would ever argue that the team is strapped for cash. We're the third richest franchise in baseball and we have the fifth largest salary in the game. We're doing fine.
But to talk about the Mets and Yankees in the same breath when it comes to tossing money around at free agents simply isn't fair.
The Mets will spend about $107 million less than the Yankees on their roster this year. That's 4 A-Rods and a Jaret Wright for those keeping track. Or better yet, think of it this way: it's the same amount owed to Derek Jeter, Jason Giambi, Mike Mussina, Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui, Gary Sheffield, and Mariano Rivera.
Look at that list. That's the difference between the Mets and the Yankees financially. Don't sell the Yankees short -- you can still do a lot with an extra $100 million these days.
Amen, brother. Amen. I was just saying the other day that the Abreu move was one of desperation. On paper, sure, a potent line up. But as you say, now all the Skanks fans who were crying all year are ALL flapping their traps now. Whatever.
And ahem, Anonymous, let's talk "worst fans ever." Without looking up on the internet, can you name ALL 26 years the Yanks won the WS? (You know, the ONE STAT everyone throws out?)
Didn't think so.
Nice job on Reyes. And let's get David done, sooner rather than later.
And that Yankee fan is just so, uh, typical.
Quick anecdote: spoke to a boss of mine yesterday, big Yankee fan, real excited about the Abreu transaction, because "let's be honest, Posada is just not a #5 hitter". And thankfully, soon enough, the $12 million-making, 20-25-HR hitting, switch hitting catcher will be back in the 7 or 8 spot where he damn well belongs.
Oh, and I adore the 6 guys at Tao reference, though I think they're actually at Park Avenue Country Club.
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