Monday, May 20, 2013
Sherman: Mets’ roster of rubbish makes it impossible to evaluate Collins
(www.nypost.com)
Roster of Rubbish? I know some people were down on who joined Armisen on stage…but this is ridiculous!
Read More...And Collins’ team isn’t winning. So you should understand why he might be losing it. He turns 64 later this month. He was run out of Houston and Anaheim. There is no next managing job. This is more than his last best chance. It is just plain his last chance to prove he is a good major league manager.
...For if you know whether Collins is a good manager or bad manager based on his Mets ...
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1. Lassus posted on February 21, 2013 at 01:50 PM # hit 0 | hit 0Unlike all journalism with the exception of Megdal, Buzzfeed actually covers the current sad state of the Mets.
They do publish one serious, much-longer article per week or so. And those tend to have some depth.
I know I'll forever be the lone voice in the wilderness, but I seriously liked them. Yeah, black uniforms are precisely as trendy in any given year as Nirvana, and as authentically gothic as Elvira. But they truly did look good on the Mets. This franchise sorely needed a more mature image than the garish orange and blue of its clownshoes past. We'll never be the Yankees, but the black got us to something like Steelers territory in looking sharp.
I still have my black nylon-mesh-mylar or whatever cap. Some Mets freak at MLB.com found that really impressive because it was only made for one year or something.
Count me in as liking the black uniforms.
I missed this. At least we're not the ones pretending Mark Ellis is the second coming. Does Mark Ellis have his own credit card? I DIDN'T THINK SO.
Grump (and Mets fan) here: I'm not sure Ben Smith would agree with that assessment.
I agree, I thought the black uniforms were kind of cool, and certainly not the offense that some thought they were. But I'm not a baseball purist.
While it often sucks being a Mets fan, I think the whole premise of the list is false. In my experience, Mets fans are typically irrationally optimistic heading into every season.
Besides, all the weird things that happen far more regularly during Mets games make them more entertaining and enjoyable.
Funny, they looked like thet were made for each other.
i got 99 problems, being a Met ain't one.
Yuniesky Betancourt is a better baseball player than my six year old daughter.
If the last part of the above paragraph is true, the Met situation isn't awful. It could be better but it isn't the end of the world either.
Funny, they looked like thet were made for each other.
They ended up butting heads.
I see what you did there, Sam. Too bad about Soledad. (sniff)
Oh, and do we have a bullpen yet?
Was it on this site that someone posted a link to an article describing the four increasingly awful Planet of the Apes sequels, and compared those to recent versions of the Mets? With Apes, the studio understood that it could cut $5m from the budget and not lose any ticket sales. It could also cut $20m from the budget and lose only $5m in ticket sales. Being in the business of making money, it chose the later course. The Wilpons seem to have embarked on a similar adventure.
Best of luck to you Mets fans btw!
I took a quick look into that and it seems to me that the reason O'Brien is leaving CNN is exactly because she's not interested in being a Today-show like pseudo-journalist.
I recall reading that he wanted to take a lump sum, but his wife made him take the other deal.
You're funny.
Oh so what, now people with baseballs for heads can only date each other? Racist.
The only other young people with that kind of money have daddy to bail them out.
Quite a high bar, that.
Odd that you would complain about Buzzfeed's "journalism" and then make fun of Soledad O'Brien. She's 1000x more of a journalist than Erin Burnett.
Yes. Sports is the one industry where tens of millions can go to a complete idiot. Any other way of making that kind of money means you had some serious knowhow in the first place.
There's also a selection bias created by selective media coverage. We hear about Lenny Dykstra or Curt Schilling going bust. We don't hear about it when somebody builds and sells a tech biz for ten million and then reinvests it into something that flops.
That's not really what you want from six to nine in the morning. (Sam and I were needling each other over a Breitbart piece commenting on Soledad's upcoming departure from CNN.)
Countless actors and pop musicians would like to disagree with you. Heck, Vanna White makes millions of dollars per year for smiling and pointing to the letters on "Wheel of Fortune".
Uhhhhhh, or it means your ancestors did.
Because you really want to go to the folks who pay Ben Shapiro's fact-checking team to see who is or is not a "journalist."
Talk about an understatement. It was a *fantastic* deal for him. I think the implied interest rate on that deal was 8% a year. Given what the market has done in the interim, and where yields are today, getting an 8% return for that length of time is pretty great (the downside being that he took Mets/Wilpon credit risk. It appears to have worked out so far, but I'm sure Bonilla was sweating a bit during the Madoff saga).
Maybe Macklemore & Ryan Lewis have no upside whatsoever.
#### that. Macklemore was awesome way before the Thrift Shop song.
Countless actors and pop musicians would like to disagree with you. Heck, Vanna White makes millions of dollars per year for smiling and pointing to the letters on "Wheel of Fortune".
Right, just look at folks like Wesley Snipes, Nick Cage, MC Hammer, etc.
Outside of the entertainment industry (including sports as part of that)--EDIT: and excluding inheritance--you generally need some business/financial acumen to make that kind of money, and so it's less likely that you'll lose it all so quickly. Still, it happens. Plenty of guys in the mortgage business went from being worth tens or hundreds of millions to being worth close to nothing because most of their wealth was tied up in companies that went under.
Writing like this really makes one appreciate the real Bill Simmons.
Also, I am ASSUMING that someone from Seattle who chose the name "Macklemore" in the year 2000 did it in honor of the legendary Mariners super-utility player, though it doesn't say anything about that in his Wikipedia entry.
As for idiots getting rich, I agree that it only happens in sports and entertainment. The problem is that people think that just because people who get rich are generally intelligent, it means they are being rewarded for their wise decisions. No, they are both intelligent and lucky. Plenty of people just as smart and judicious get nowhere.
True. So sports is a specific example of the entertainment field in general. That's where someone can make massive money with no business or financial knowledge. It comes from performance talent leveraged by technology across millions of customers.
As for inheritance, it's the uncommon exception for them to go broke. Having inherited massive money usually means you were raised by someone who understood and taught you about it. Paris Hilton is doing fine, for example.
What's so objectionable in the piece, Sam? Was it the snark at the end that made you tear up? Oh, and don't forget: The guy who called Soledad's blip of a viewing audience "too ethic" works at CNN, not Breitbart.
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