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David Wright, superstar

Ted Berg — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:54:00 +0000

In typically classy fashion, Wright responds to Fred Wilpon’s claims that the Mets’ third baseman is not a superstar.

Well that’s kind of awesome

Ted Berg — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:28:00 +0000

Excellent. I mean, why not?

I find your lack of mustard disturbing

Ted Berg — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:21:00 +0000

Apparently Dickey dressed in a full Darth Vader suit in the Mets’ clubhouse on Friday and inquired about sandwiches.

A liability

Ted Berg — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 12:17:00 +0000

Awesome read from Slate on how the press treated the greatest baseball player of all time because of a 17 at-bat rough stretch.

Most triumphant

Ted Berg — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:15:00 +0000

Color me shocked that Bill and Ted will once again have to travel in time. Wonder how they’ll handle George Carlin’s death though. They can’t just pretend that Rufus died, because we’ve already seen Rufus alive in 2688 and 1988, and if the Wyld Stallyns needed his advice — as they probably should — they could always just travel to some point in the timeline when he was alive.

Whoa

Ted Berg — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:26:00 +0000

Extremely interesting read about the future of technology. Via Sam.

Exit Nick Evans?

Ted Berg — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:57:00 +0000

So there’s that. Sure sounds like Carlos Beltran and the Mets are pushing to have their right fielder in place on Opening Day, though.

The best baseball feature you will ever read

Ted Berg — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:19:00 +0000

Excellent read from the Wall Street Journal on Diamondbacks bullpen catcher Jeff Motuzas, who will eat anything for money.

We had a guy like that in high school, but he didn’t make nearly the type of cash Motuzas does. One time I gave him $8 to eat a piece of unidentifiable meat we found on a diner floor. Another time I offered him $15 to lick a particularly strange technology teacher from our school. I didn’t think he’d take me up on that one, but he just walked over and licked the dude’s arm. “Yo, he was mad salty,” he reported, sticking his hand out for my cash.

Roger Angell on Mets fans

Ted Berg — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:40:00 +0000

Via Nate.

Just different

Ted Berg — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:53:00 +0000

DePodesta’s entire chat with Baseball Prospectus is worth reading, but this quote caught my eye. I’ve noted numerous times that I struggle with xFIP. I have no trouble believing that most pitchers’ home runs per flyball rates will normalize over time, but I find it hard to assume that the same will be the case for all pitchers. In other words, I wonder if there are some guys, like Johan Santana over the past couple of seasons, that figure out a way to induce consistently weak fly-ball contact. Seems like DePodesta implies here that Young has.