Honestly, Bob Raissman. Not to sound like an SNY homer, but does anyone expect Keith Hernandez to be less than ridiculously candid, ever?
Pat Andriola of the Hardball Times stops by Amazin’ Avenue to drop some Perpetual Pedro love. Feliciano’s long been one of my favorite Mets, and he’s pretty hilarious to cover. One time, after he got out the Phillies’ big lefties in order on six pitches or something, I asked him about it, and he was so remarkably matter-of-fact. I was trying to wean a decent quote out of him, and he was just all, “yeah, I get lefties out, that’s my job.”
I think it’s time we stopped calling futuristic things “space age.” We’ve been going to space for like 50 years, and now we can’t even get to the Moon, apparently. I don’t know what the next frontier is, but we clearly botched the whole space thing. Maybe it should be “deep-sea age.” I bet there’s some awesome stuff going on in the deep-sea that we have no idea about yet.
Frank Thomas retired. I saw him walking around the Hall of Fame in 1992 when I was there for Tom Seaver’s induction ceremony and the White Sox were playing the Mets in the Hall of Fame game. I didn’t consider then that he’d be enshrined himself one day.
Tedquarters 
I was actually watching a show on Science Channel last night about the new technology and rockets that NASA has.
People say how Mars should be the next step after the moon and while i agree, I never realized how F-in far away Mars is. The moon is something like 240,000 miles away, and it took a few days to get there, even using what is still the most powerful rocket built to date (Saturn V).
Mars in comparison is 35 million miles away. The journey itself would take months. This is much more complicated than I ever imagined.
Hey Ted, on a tangential note to that Bob Raissman piece, did you ever envision a scenario where Daniel Murphy, first baseman would become such a lightning rod topic for Mets fans on the interwebs? The discussions I have read are very weird because it’s not so much love or hate of Murphy but, rather, indifference or hate.
The two sides seems to be: “he’d probably be better as a utility man but maybe he can be above replacement level at first base until Ike Davis is ready in 2011” vs. “he’s terrible at everything he does and it doesn’t matter anyway because Ike Davis will be at first base in 2011.”
It’s true. It’s also interesting because it’s not really a stark divide in the type of fan arguing one side or the other. With Jeff Francoeur, to use his own term, “statistical people” are more likely to rail against the guy, but with Murphy, it’s just sort of a free-for-all.
I think one thing that gets lost with Murphy is that, should he prove worthwhile, he’ll be cheap and worthwhile, and whether we like it or not, the Mets clearly need to find a way to save cash.