Your spectrum of adequacy, from regrettable to decent. Baseball writers, enjoy:
Regrettable
Who?
Participatory
Just a guy
Tolerable
Unobjectionable
Adequate
Passable
Sufficient
Mediocre
Ordinary
Average
Meh
Fine
Scratch
Okay
Good enough
Respectable
Nice (little)
Nifty (little)
Dandy (little)
Decent
Giancarlo Cruz-Michael Stanton will now be known by his legal first name instead of half of his middle name. That’s pronounced like “shoncarlo” in case you were wondering.
But this quote was more telling:
“Everything,’’ he said with a smile. “Cruz. Giancarlo, Mike, Mikey, Big Mike, Big Foot, Bam-bam. Man-Child. I respond to 25 different names.’’
It’s true, we’re often known by many names. Especially those of us with strange names.
Here are the names that I have been known by:
Well, it’s not that I don’t want this watch because I don’t like the watch itself. I’m just saying, I have a ‘dope interchangeable’ Modify Watch of my own, and I like it better:
Say what you want about the pitcher and his persona, but his man-merkin can adorn my wrist any day. And when I want to go orange, I can. Somedays I feel whiter than usual. Because the timepiece comes with many different looks, I’m good.
Something about the waterproof wristband and the sleek, iconic face works for me.
Perhaps you’d like one with pinstripes?
To win this watch (and two alternate bands), you must satisfy only two rules:
1) You must mention Derek Jeter.
2) You must amuse me.
Now, considering that I am not necessarily a fan of the Yankees, you’d be right to focus on the second requirement. But, oh, don’t forget the first. And denigrate the subject too much and I might find you undeserving.
Walk that tightrope! Walk it!
Young Mets left-hander Jon Niese had some work done.
As a before and after shot, this is pretty impressive. The Before has Niese growling at a celebrating foe or contemplating spoiled chicken, the After has (perhaps) a fawning female in the crop.
As a comment on society’s pressure to confirm, this might be less impressive. Niese, planning on the surgery for aesthetic reasons anyway, turned the story into a BSOHL story quickly. He told ESPN’s Adam Rubin that the rhinoplasty “helped a lot with [his] running” and “working out. As far as the mound, I’m not sure.”
And as some baseball fans roll their eyes, Mets fans might laugh at the next trick Niese played. When all else fails, #blamebeltran. What does Carlos Beltran have to do with his nose job?
“He wanted me to have a new nose,” Niese said about Beltran. “So he offered to pay for it. I was just like, ‘All right.’ Then it turned into seeing doctors and to getting it fixed.”
The forever smile went into the hereafter yesterday. Even with preparation, it was difficult. A picture and then some lamentations for our service today.
Winter’s end is closer. Bills pile but, oh, done with ’em. Bored? Spring! Birds all over! Got a glover, lover? A lent one. Jersey? Ball? Bats? Field? Games please. Eat on your, a, pork chop, Buddy. Not hard, fatty. Bad news? Dang. Snow’s fine. We’re ready.
A Boomer Whipple to Jeff Sullivan & Jon Bois, whose twitter game inspired this post.
We’ve seen how great access, paired with the newest analytics, can be the future of blogging. Ted Berg of SNY took the newest in catcher defense research to the park with him and talked it over with Mike Nickeas, the Mets’ backup catcher. David Laurila does this every day. The two pieces Ryan Campbell wrote about Brandon McCarthy and his pitching mix were also great examples of this.
But what happens when increased access leads to stories that are less favorable to the team in question? That describes the situation in New York right now, and it looks like the independent freelance blogger/journalist is the one that loses out when David meets Goliath.
A cursory look into Bob Anderson and his wikipedia page last week uncovered one of the wackiest plays in baseball history. Of course, it made sense to diagram it.
The original fearsome facial hair.
Yup, Sergio Romo will get a bobblehead this year.
The facebook page that announced the event got 200-plus comments. The following sampling represents the entirety of those comments. Even Romo himself agreed.
