Upon Further Review: The Pelfrey Tumble

When they said they’re bringing back the old Mets to celebrate the opening of Citi Field, I didn’t realize they meant the blooper-reel spirit of Marvelous Marv Throneberry was invited too.

One particular event of last night’s game, however, stood out to me as more than a little Marv.

A lot of things can happen in baseball, but a guy who’s 6′7, with enough coordination to consistently whip a baseball over 95 mph into a 6-inch by 6-inch window that’s about 60 feet, 10 inches* from his release point, does not just…fall…down!

Something had to be underfoot.

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Don’t be Cold, David

Yahoo! Sports today had a little fantasy advice on the baseball front page.

No. 2 on the cold list?  Take a look for yourself:

I know what you’re thinking (aside from I think Lance Berkman is giving me the Hey-yo eyes)…

Yeah, I wish I could hit .316 for a week and be called cold too. But this is perennial MVP candidate David Wright we’re talking about; I think he can do better, and Yahoo! does too.

Until the spring chill gets replaced by the summer sun, those sweet swings are still gonna land inside the fences, and there’s nothing we can do about that. But see that thermometer beside D-Wright? That’s lip temperature right there. And we CAN do something about THAT!

-Misopogon

P.S. On the cold pitcher list:

Awwwwwwwwwwwww.

Stache-Off: 1984 Tigers vs. 1986 Mets

TWS Detroit Bureau Chief Misopogon is back with another dispatch from America’s burningest city.  This time around, he looks at the 1984 Detroit Tigers and their mustaches.  Can the kittens maul the Amazins?  Will the presence of HoJo on both rosters cause the space-time continuum to implode?  Is the devise of asking myself questions being overused?  Anyhoo, Misopogon gives us the longest and most meticulously cited in this blog’s short history.

So the ‘82 Brew Crew went down to the might of the Metstache, but if there’s one team that could compete with the ‘86 Amazins, it’s the stachiest of the stachiest, the team that put the zap in Zappa, the “Bless You Boys,” your 1984 Detroit Tigers.

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