Under the Lights: I May Have Plans Thursday

Posted on February 2, 2009 by ombudswoman

underthelightsGood evening everybody. Today was a bit of a travel day here at MLJ. Hef, Rex, clown and Hef’s Gay Magician friend made their way home from Mexico and the rest of us made our way back to sobriety. As far as lazy, uninspired Mondays go, this may have been the most stupendous ever.  As I am trembling in the excitement that is the Oliver Perez resigning, a glimmer of hope seems to be shining. Word is maybe, possibly, sort of, it could happen that the Mets may or may not possibly talk to Scott Boras about Manny maybe thinking about playing for the Mets. I am excited.

Sometimes, Met ownership needs a little jolt to make the right decisions. Last week, 30 of my brethren made their way outside of SNY studios for the “Million Manny March”. It got some attention but was mocked in some quarters as lame. Well, it is fucking lame. As a Met fan, that we have to resort to a March to get ownership to get an all time great hitter who still performs at a top level on the relative cheap is just pathetic. But this is my team and well, I want results. Fortunately, said organizers are doing it again Thursday. 7PM outside SNY studios during the live Mets Hot Stove show. I looked at the old calendar and clown and I switched days due to his traveling back from his Gheycation. So Thursday, if Manny is still a free agent, I am going to go to this thing. I am going to step it up and be a member of the masses. That and I will bring a camera and get some material to write so you can mock me even more than you already do. While I make my oaktag poster for the march we can all watch some of the following:

Lakers/Knicks

Blazers/Hornets

Mavericks/Magic

Blues/Red Wings

Flames/Avs

Sabres/Ducks

UConn/Louisville

Kansas/Baylor

24 - Jack’s Back and driving around in the most inconspicuous bright blue van in history.

Not Jack's Van but as conspicuous.

Not Jack's Van but as conspicuous.

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18 Responses

  1. Tampa Bo, on February 2nd, 2009 at 7:52 pm Said:

    First!

    /Hef sucks.

  3. NickP, on February 2nd, 2009 at 9:54 pm Said:

    Roman: That Ollie Perez contract is arguably the worst contract of the offseason — even worse than Ibanez!

  4. romanwarhelmet, on February 2nd, 2009 at 10:28 pm Said:

    I disagree..it is bad but Ibanez is terrible..Perez is going to be 27 this year and will be 30 when it is over. He will be tradeable. Ibanez is an old man who will drop dead in the outfield

  5. NickP, on February 2nd, 2009 at 10:40 pm Said:

    The problem is that Oliver Perez is not a good pitcher.

    A young, $12 million per annum, shitty pitcher is not a valuable trade property.

  6. romanwarhelmet, on February 2nd, 2009 at 10:48 pm Said:

    Nick…a young Lefty pitcher who has the ability to be good (which he does show in rather decent spurts) can be unloaded in the last year of a deal if the Mets eat a piece of the contract. No on is eating Ibanez’s anything

  7. romanwarhelmet, on February 2nd, 2009 at 10:51 pm Said:

    He is extremely frustrating but look at some of these splits…which drive me up the wall…I could deal with consistent mediocrity..he is brilliant or garbage..

    http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/psplit.cgi?n1=perezol01&year=2008

    http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/psplit.cgi?n1=perezol01&year=2007

  9. romanwarhelmet, on February 2nd, 2009 at 10:53 pm Said:

    Now if you want to know what I would have done…signed Sheets to an incentive laden deal. Sign Wolf for Garland money Sign Manny and between Sheets/Wolf/Garcia/Redding/Niese you can get 60 starts

    Now it is Johan/Pelfrey/Perez/maine/Reeding/Garcia/Niese

    No Manny (maybe 1yr 25 mill come on Fred do this) and no Sheets..even with no Manny give Sheets a flier the upside is tremendous

  10. NickP, on February 2nd, 2009 at 10:54 pm Said:

    Look at his projection for this year…

    http://baseballprojection.com/perezol3386.htm

    Not very promising. They should have signed Sheets, IMO, for the same money.

  11. NickP, on February 2nd, 2009 at 10:55 pm Said:

    Same wavelength, and yes, Wolf is a better pitcher than Perez. That’s a no-brainer. He’ll get a cheap deal somewhere, and that team will benefit.

  12. NickP, on February 2nd, 2009 at 10:55 pm Said:

    Actually Wolf is a little worse, but the cheapness of the deal will more than make up for it.

  13. romanwarhelmet, on February 2nd, 2009 at 10:59 pm Said:

    Nick..I bet he signs for half the money…Sheets has the highest upside and with the Mets inventory they could have protected his arm…Ollie is a pea brain..if he had any sort of concentration he could harness the talent but he gets distracted by nats or birds or talking or his own thoughts

  14. romanwarhelmet, on February 2nd, 2009 at 11:00 pm Said:

    wow the Mets paid a $5 million premium according to that

  15. NickP, on February 2nd, 2009 at 11:06 pm Said:

    The Mets can afford to pay up the win curve since they’re closer to the playoffs…but man I’d have gone with Sheets!

    I’d like to know if there were any offers in the vicinity of that deal from other teams for Ollie.

  16. Tampa Bo, on February 2nd, 2009 at 11:06 pm Said:

    CBH- Dont you find it Ironic that Kobe scores 61 after he takes out Bynum?

  17. cbh49er, on February 2nd, 2009 at 11:08 pm Said:

    I do Tampa, 20-20 from the line is very impressive.

  18. Tampa Bo, on February 2nd, 2009 at 11:17 pm Said:

    You see now his mind is clear.

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