Turning Heel

Last night’s loss was too much to take, so time to BASH THE FUCK out of the Mets.

Players:

1) Dave Wright – Dave, I’m glad you are the face of the franchise and will put up .300/30/100 easy, but can you not include 200 fucking strikeouts?  This is getting ridiculous

2) Jose Reyes – Jose Jose Jose.  Take off the fucking doo-rag and get a hit with RISP and 2 outs.   Every time I see you in that position, all I can think is Willie Mays Hayes in Major League II.    Stop trying to be a hero,  just get a fucking run in.

3) Ollie Perez – Dude, can you not get so butt hurt every time a call doesn’t go your way?  A runner gets on that should be out, and next thing you know you’ve given up 3 runs.  There’s tons of pitchers who have ‘great stuff’ but few have heart, fewer have balls and the rare pitcher has both.    However, we just signed you for $12 mm./yr. so time for the testes to drop buddy.

Management:

1) Wilpons – HOW ARE YOU TOO FUCKING CHEAP TO SIGN MANNY?   Ask any Mets fan and the #1 problem is that we shrivel like a dick in a cold pool when it’s late and close.  Manny would solve that, period.  We would have made up for his salary by the additional revenues from making the playoffs. 

2) Omar Minaya – I could write a book on this one, but long story short.  How could you not just give Derek Lowe (a proven winner) his money, and settle for Ollie Perez (a proven nutcase)?   How could you give Alex Cora $2 mm./yr. when Orlando Hudson signs for $4 mm./yr.?  How could you forget that we may need a catcher this year?    I mean you know nice job and everything signing the top free agents in the market (Pedro, Beltran) when you were the highest bidder, but a good GM builds a TEAM.    And for the record, while our bullpen may be sick now that doesn’t mean shit if we have no rotation.  

3) Jerry Manuel – Listen, I think the gangster is a great motivator and coach, which is why he was, and hopefully will be in the future, a great bench coach.  Unfortunately, while I’m not suggesting he needs to be Tony LaRussa tactically, one of the reasons he was run out of Chi-town was his lack of tactical skills.  It’s showing now.

Fans:

1) Any Mets fan who thinks they’ll win the World Series – Just shut the fuck up.  Get your head out of your ass. 

2) Any Mets fan who is like ‘blah blah blah we’re better than the Yankees.”  – Dickhead, we are in the National League.  I’m glad you and your moron Yankee fan friends want to play who’s is bigger, but our team sucks and probably won’t win the divison.   This is what you should be concerned about, period.

3) Matt Cerrone  -  Just to make it clear, I check Metsblog.com daily and have a lot of respect for the work you and the rest of your staff have done.    But can you have a fucking opinion for once?   Every post I have ever seen on that site is ‘while I can see how the Mets should have (insert smart move), I also see why Omar would have (insert idiotic move here).’ and so on.    Pick a side and stick to it, I know you don’t want to offend anyone but sometimes that’s how you earn respect.   It’s one thing when it is a tough decision, but when the Mets do something that is stupider than all hell, you don’t have to try to justify it every single time.  I know you got that SNY money coming in, but your readers aren’t stupid.  The straddling the fence shit is pissing me off more and more every day.  

It’s going to be a long season.

8-Bit Hip Hop Medley.  Sick.

Terrafugia.  A real flying car – unfortunately the website doesn’t mention anything about time travel.

Researchers have developed a robot capable of learning and interacting with the world using a biological brain. The beginning of the end? 

Sports Propaganda Posters.  Awesome – My birthday’s in three months in case you were wondering.

The Wright Stache.  Awesome blog devoted to getting David Wright to grow a mean ‘stache.

Article from Sports Illustrated about the Mets’ recent World Series win.  (Unfortunately, this is a 23 year old article.)

Uni Watch – Alternate MLB Uniform Ideas.  Some of these are pretty good, this is a good blog worth checking out. 

This is why you’re fat: Where Dreams become Heart Attacks.  Enough said.

Fender Custom Furniture.   I could use a new kitchen table too.

Offensive food item of the day: Obama-Fingers fried chicken.  This might not even be the most offensive one.  (Although, to be honest advertisers are like dogs – any attention is better than no attention.  I’m personally the most offended by:)

Karl Rove Says Barack Obama Has Moved Chicago Politics to the White House (WSJ).  There’s your Change, ha.

"Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother." That’s what President Barack Obama said to Rep. Peter DeFazio in a closed-door meeting of the House Democratic Caucus last week, according to the Associated Press.

A few weeks ago, Mr. DeFazio voted against the administration’s stimulus bill. The comment from Mr. Obama was a presidential rebuke and part of a new, hard-nosed push by the White House to pressure Congress to adopt the president’s budget. He has mobilized outside groups and enlisted forces still in place from the Obama campaign.

What they Used to Teach You at Stanford Business School (Portfolio.com) To be honest, I’m of the opinion that these types of things aren’t taught, they are either common sense to someone, or they aren’t.  But for all you assholes in business with no common sense, please read it.

Good video about the credit crisis in pretty basic terms:

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.