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  • #631
    Originally posted by whalewang View Post
    Why does Callaway keep sending Diaz out in meaningful late inning games?
    There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's managerial job in the face of Mets' upper management chaos, which was real and immediate, was the process of a rational mind.

    Callaway was crazy and could quit.

    All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to continue managing the Mets.

    Callaway would be crazy to continue managing them and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to continue.

    If he continued, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

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    • #632
      Originally posted by Ken View Post
      There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's managerial job in the face of Mets' upper management chaos, which was real and immediate, was the process of a rational mind.

      Callaway was crazy and could quit.

      All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to continue managing the Mets.

      Callaway would be crazy to continue managing them and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to continue.

      If he continued, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
      Whaaaaat?

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      • #633
        This reminds me of why I hated that book so much.

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        • #634
          I applaud the effort of typing that up. Never read that one, but would take it over “As I Lay Dying”. Faulkner was just mean.
          Last edited by Sharky; 09-17-2019, 01:47 PM.

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          • #635
            Originally posted by Sharky View Post
            I applaud the effort of typing that up. Never rad that one, but would take it over “As I Lay Dying”. Faulkner was just mean.
            I too applaud the effort.

            I had a couple of buddies thought Catch 22 was the funniest thing on the planet when it came out. For me not so much.

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            • #636
              I liked the Catch-22 movie but never read the book.

              It's not really relevant tot he Mets in any event. They are not that far from going back to the WS. Why are treating the job as managing the funny farm?

              J
              Ad Astra per Aspera

              Oh. In that case, never mind. - Wonderboy

              GITH fails logic 101. - bryanbutler

              Bah...OJH caught me. - Pogues

              I don't know if you guys are being willfully ignorant, but... - Judge Jude

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              • #637
                Originally posted by onejayhawk View Post
                Why are treating the job as managing the funny farm?
                Not sure if serious.

                1962 New York Mets season - Wikipedia
                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_New_York_Mets_season


                The Mets and Bernie Madoff: A primer
                https://www.amazinavenue.com/2015/3/30/8288295/new-york-mets-wilpon-madoff
                A quick overview of where things stand between Bernie Madoff and the Wilpons.


                10 Degrees: Everything with the dysfunctional Mets leads back to an ownership group that fails again and again
                https://sports.yahoo.com/10-degrees-everything-dysfunctional-mets-leads-back-ownership-group-fails-150426129.html
                The New York Mets are a waterfall of mismanagement, one that drains from the top to poison the well underneath.


                Analysis | The Mets still lead the majors in dysfunction
                https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/06/25/mets-still-lead-majors-dysfunction/
                Even by the Mets’ lofty standards, the events of Monday set some new standard of organizational dysfunction that might have once been considered unachievable.


                Mets Dysfunction Adds Another Chapter - Funny If It Wasn't So Sad
                https://reflectionsonbaseball.com/mets-dysfunction-adds-another-chapter/
                Dysfunction has long been a word synonymous with the New York Mets organization. It would be funny if it weren't so sad...


                This is Mets dysfunction at its worst
                https://nypost.com/2019/06/24/this-is-mets-dysfunction-at-its-worst/
                CHICAGO — The wheels came off for Mickey Callaway and the Mets Sunday at Wrigley Field in so many ways. First, the beleaguered manager stuck with reliever Seth Lugo for much too long. Lugo’s 42nd p…


                I could go on...

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                • #638
                  the Mets won the NL pennant in 2015.
                  they reached the wild-card game in 2016.
                  they haven't won fewer than 70 games since 2003 - which I suspect not so many teams can claim.

                  Alfonso and McNeil are the first pair of first-year batters ever to make the All-Star Game together.
                  and their SPs are... pretty good.

                  the owners are morons, and the current GM and MGR are worthy of scrutiny.

                  but anyone who thinks this is a bottom 10 franchise at this stage - if there are any - would be a fool.
                  finished 10th in this 37th yr in 11-team-only NL 5x5
                  own picks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 in April 2022 1st-rd farmhand draft
                  won in 2017 15 07 05 04 02 93 90 84

                  SP SGray 16, TWalker 10, AWood 10, Price 3, KH Kim 2, Corbin 10
                  RP Bednar 10, Bender 10, Graterol 2
                  C Stallings 2, Casali 1
                  1B Votto 10, 3B ERios 2, 1B Zimmerman 2, 2S Chisholm 5, 2B Hoerner 5, 2B Solano 2, 2B LGarcia 10, SS Gregorius 17
                  OF Cain 14, Bader 1, Daza 1

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                  • #639
                    Originally posted by Judge Jude View Post

                    the owners are morons, and the current GM and MGR are worthy of scrutiny.
                    This was literally the entire topic, so ... yes.

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                    • #640
                      Originally posted by Ken View Post
                      This was literally the entire topic, so ... yes.
                      That is very different from what you said earlier. The GM is obviously a mixed bag, because the team is stacked with talent. If he has trouble living with his manager, I'm not sure where that falls.

                      J
                      Ad Astra per Aspera

                      Oh. In that case, never mind. - Wonderboy

                      GITH fails logic 101. - bryanbutler

                      Bah...OJH caught me. - Pogues

                      I don't know if you guys are being willfully ignorant, but... - Judge Jude

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                      • #641
                        Originally posted by onejayhawk View Post
                        That is very different from what you said earlier.
                        *sigh* nevermind you whiffed on the joke, move on.

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                        • #642
                          Originally posted by Ken View Post
                          *sigh* nevermind you whiffed on the joke, move on.
                          [Commander_Data] Perhaps the joke was not funny. [/Commander-Data]

                          J
                          Ad Astra per Aspera

                          Oh. In that case, never mind. - Wonderboy

                          GITH fails logic 101. - bryanbutler

                          Bah...OJH caught me. - Pogues

                          I don't know if you guys are being willfully ignorant, but... - Judge Jude

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                          • #643
                            Originally posted by onejayhawk View Post
                            [Commander_Data] Perhaps the joke was not funny. [/Commander-Data]

                            J
                            Based on your comment, you missed the content, regardless of the humor, but whatever, move on!

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                            • #644
                              In the best of times, our days are numbered, anyway. And it would be a crime against Nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were presumably designed in the first place, and which the gravest statesmen and the hoarsest politicians hope to make available to all men in the end: I mean the opportunity to do good work, to fall in love, to enjoy friends, to sit under trees, to read, to hit a ball and bounce the baby.

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                              • #645
                                Originally posted by revo View Post
                                Pete Alonso sets the Mets rookie record for HRs after blasting his 27th today.
                                And Alonso breaks Judge's MLB rookie HR record with #53 on Saturday.
                                “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

                                ― Albert Einstein

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