All is well again, folks. The Mets are done for the season.. Thank you, Dan Uggla. Thank you.


I know it's a little old...so what.

Will Fred Wilpon sell the team?

"Life's throwing you a curve, and your a fastball hitter!"

Thanks Razor???

Will the Mets ever win a game?

"HEY! Pay attention, followed by a series of signs"

Apparently Razor Shines is the new Doc Louis.

oh, I'm taking too long to ask a question, he just asked me if I've been hit by a wild pitch.

Ok, I just asked Razor if the sky was blue

After a different set of signs he said "all signs point to no"

This team is so screwed.

Grass isn't green either.

You are having waaaay too much fun with asking Razor questions.

Are the Mets Amazing

"That Answer waits for you at MLB.com"

Will the Mets Win the World Series

"If I knew the answer to that I'd be the third base coach of the universe"

OK, Andromeda, round third! Wait, no, a black hole! NOOOOOOOOOOOO

I inquired as to whether the Phillies were spawn of the devil and Razor refused to answer on the grounds that they don't stock aquafina. Maybe I should have asked if Coke was spawn of the devil.

This is real? Please tell me this isn't real.

Do you believe everything you read on a Phillies website? (Why are you reading a Phillies website, anyway?)

But yes, that is David Wright's new bubble boy helmet. I agree that his health is more important than how he looks up at bat, but he does look pretty stupid.

phillies website? I was at the OnA board I moderate and someone posted the pic.


edit: my dad is now telling me Keith Hernandez was making fun of Wright and the helmet last night. Can anyone find audio/video of this?

Hey, as long as he doesn't get those concussions anymore, I'm cool with the Helmet.

It's my understanding they all will be wearing those awful things within the next few days.

Good. Haven't we learned now that concussions are ummm bad. Any measure preventing is good imo.

Can someone stamp an NY in there for me?



edited for smaller pic

The picture that you posted is linked from a Phillies website.

The New York Hydrocephalics.

ah hahahaha ah ahahahahahahaha haahahahahahaa.

It's a big helmet! ahahahahahaahahahahaha

now that the sports media has reverted back to a 3rd grade level, can we move on?

Lighten up.

This one gives a little extra protection.

The guy had a concussion. He's protecting himself and apparently the baseball world and media is no different than an elementary school playground. Thats an excellent message for the youth of America. "Don't protect yourself kids. It's better to look cool than safe."

and not for nothing, if I remember correctly, weren't you the one who went after Kusand and Mike B for being non-Yankee fans discussing Mariano and the Cy Young in the Yankee thread?

Aparrently Yankee fans coming in and laughing at a helmet and putting pictures up in the Met thread is cool with you, but those non Yankee fans better not weigh in on a Cy Young discussion...

If I remember correctly, they went after you for daring to talk about the Mets in the non-NY MLB thread yet did the same thing about Grienke and the Cy Young award in the Yankees thread.

Not everything is a Yankees-Mets thing Badseed.

SATS came in and argued with no one in that thread; it wasn't like someone in there said anything about what he was talking about. Whereas Leeds brought up in the Yankees thread that Mariano should win the Cy Young.

But it is for SATS I guess.
It's Funny. It would be funny if it was Melvin Mora or Scott Rolen. SATS....At what point do you throw up your hands and say "fuck it...it's only baseball"?

Did you hear about the Mets fans who showed up to one of their road games in slings and bandages? They make me proud to be a NY fan.

This is also funny:

I should have known better than to post my second comment. I KNEW you would respond to that one instead of the more serious point being made, which was the message it sends to children, to laugh at a guy PROTECTING himself.

Coolness over safety.

I should leave it at that but I can't help myself. "not everything is a Met-Yankee thing" yeah, you're probably right, but look at the thread. How many fans of teams aren't called the Yankees put pictures up in this thread, or made a comment making fun of the helmet? How many Yankee fans did?

Perhaps I need to be clearer. I would still think it WASN'T funny if it was Melvin More or Scott Rolen. I don't think watching a guy get hit in the head with a 94 MPH fastball and then coming back and protecting himself funny.

Well everyone is going to be wearing the helmets by the end of the month and I still think it would look funny. They're just awkward looking, I'm not making fun of them for being safe.

Other Mets fans expressed embarrassment though. Why? It's goofy looking.

Goofy is Funny. I like Wright. I'm glad he's OK. I think it's a pretty good idea to take extra precautions. But I also think a big ass helmet is goofy looking. Lighten up was a fair response.

Edit: Grammar

Kids are going to worry about fitting in and looking cool no matter what. David Wright wearing that helmet isn't going to change children and young adults attitudes towards being social and fitting into groups.

Obviously school uniforms would help, though. That's why I support making large helmets mandatory for grade school students.







Sorry, what thread is this again?

But then again, Wright could make it cool for kids to wear a helmet like that. "Hey, if David Wright does it, it must be O.K." And if other baseball players follow suit (and I have been led to believe they will), it'll make it cooler too.

Doubt it. If it looks weird(which it does since its not the norm for helmets) kids wont wear it since they will stand out as well. The only way this helmet becomes acceptable for kids is if MLB made it mandatory and every MLB player wore it. And even then it would probably take a few years for the jokes to subside for kids to think its okay to wear them.

So um, instead of adults setting an example for our youth, they should point and laugh anyway, because it's not gunna change?

Apparently you don't buy into the "it takes a village" mentality.

Apparently I dont think what athletes do while playing the game matters all that much. The impressionable age(till around 12) forget about that shit anyways. Adam Graves was my fucking idol growing up. Yet in high school and now I dont remember a single thing he did when he played during the age of 5-12.

I don't know...some Kids are wearing cage helmets in LL these days and it's basically driven by parents concern I would guess.

It will probably evolve like the mandatory helmet in the NHL. But you would think they could come up with something sleeker.

It's not so much the actions of the players, as it is the actions of grown adults, i.e. the media.

You think advertising doesn't have an effect on children from say 8-16? You think little girls looking at impossibly shaped models their whole life doesn't have an effect on them, and they don't remember those things on some levels.

Children WATCHING adults has an effect on the upbringing of a child, whether that child "remembers" it or not. If you think a child isn't influenced by a bunch of grown men, reporters and athletes they look up to laughing at someone because they look silly, you are mistaken.

ZOMG WE WON A GAME. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD.

An infographic on the Mets dying:

http://www.seanengelhardt.com/index.php?/i...sign/mets-2009/

Clumsy to look at, but good design.

Formet Met so I guess it belongs here no?

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball...on_tax_rap.html

I saw that article this morning. I didn't even know he was going to go to prison.
Koosman got the same type of cheers and applause as Nolan Ryan and Tom Seaver on 1969 Night, to give you an indication of how beloved he is.

To prove I do in fact have a sense of humor about the Mets and baseball

http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/document...ssy-Season.html

Holy Crap...I forgot about Bonilla's Deferred money!

Beginning in 2011- he gets $1.1mm ANNUALLY for TWENTY FIVE YEARS.

I wanna know who his agent was.

Woah. That's brilliant for Bonilla...

I made my first trip to CitiField last night, and that place is awesome. I may not be entirely objective here, but it blows the new Yankee Stadium away, with the minor exception that it is definitely easier to get in and out of YS. If the Mets make some alterations in the offseason, like, say, taking the New York Giants colors off the outfield wall, or, you know, putting some memorabilia of players that actually played for the Mets around the stadium (as opposed to naming the main entrance after Jackie Robinson), it would be even better.

The crowd was also really lively for a meaningless September game, though it was a really good one until the Mets blew it open late. Seriously, how anyone in their right minds could be a Yankee fan is beyond me.

Because being a baseball fan doesn't mean you have to be a masochist. The Rangers on the other hand...