16
2011
Izzy Rocking His Mercury Mets Jersey
An article by Hojo's Mojo
As we reported last night, and as you can read below, the Mets signed reliever Jason Isringhausen to a minor league deal after an impressing Assistant GM J.P. Ricciardi during a workout at Mets camp yesterday.
Today, I take you back to the summer of 1999 for one of the more memorable baseball promotions, yes that’s right, “Turn Ahead The Clock.”
While doing a little research, I stumbled upon this vintage image of Isringhausen rocking his Mercury Mets jersey during a FOX Mets game broadcast.
According to Uni Watch, Jason Isringhausen’s name was so long to it wouldn’t fit on his Mercury Mets jersey, so instead they went with his nickname, Izzy. In doing so, Isringhausen become one of the very few major league baseball players ever to wear their nicknames on their jerseys.
For even more on the “glorious disaster” that was the Mercury Mets, I encourage you to read this well documented post from Mets Guy In Michigan, who does an excellent job of rehashing the splendid horror of it all.
Incidentally, is it me or does the planet look more like our moon than it does the planet Mercury? Wasn’t the Hubble Space Telescope around back then?
Original Post 2/15 9:00 PM
The Mets have signed RHP Jason Isringhausen to a minor league contract, with an invitation to Spring Training.
The 38 year old Isringhausen tried out for the Mets at Digital Domain Park this morning and had a bullpen session in front of J.P. Ricciardi, who said Isringhausen “threw the ball well”.
Memories of Generation K were resurrected today as Jason Isringhausen auditioned for New York Mets assistant general manager J.P. Ricciardi at the team’s Florida complex this morning.
Adam Rubin of ESPN New York reported that Izzy called Ricciardi who was in Oakland’s front office when Isringhausen was the A’s closer from 1999 to 2001.
He has an “open invitation” to sign a minor-league deal with the Reds, but “wanted to go somewhere and see if I could make a team.” Last month Jason Isringhausen opted not to sign with the Reds after a brief tryout.
Isringhausen hasn’t pitched in the majors since undergoing Tommy John elbow surgery in 2009. He was originally drafted by the Mets in 1991 and made his debut as a starter in 1995.
However, he went on to have a solid career as a reliever and closer with the Oakland A’s and St. Louis Cardinals, collecting 293 saves in his 14-year career.
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Great draft choice by Gary Hunnsiker (44th Round) Shame no one here thought to put him in the pen. When you think of ALL the big pressure spots Benitz, Looper, Franco and Heilman blew up in it really could have changed things dramatically.
And the trade for Billy Taylor? Just Ughhhhh!
That Billy Taylor trade was AWFUL! Thanks for reminding me!
They did put him in bullpen, right before that hideous trade for Taylor. Should have had a chance in bullpen. Great trade by Steve Phillips, NOT.
But Steve Phillips made some of the better trades in Mets history…nice of you to pick one in order to make your cheap shot – why? I have no idea. His time as Mets GM resulted in a great ride w/2 playoff appearances and one world series, and he built a team that was fun to root for with likeable players…don’t know why people continually take shots at this guy.
Anyway, as for Izzy, i don’t think it’s that bad a move.
How is that a cheap shot?
Are you implying that wasn’t a bad trade?
‘Cause if you are, you’re in the minority. Doesn’t matter what one’s opinion is of Phillips legacy as GM as a whole. It still was a bad trade.
“nice of you to pick one in order to make your cheap shot”
was supposed to read – nice of you to pick one BAD TRADE in order to make your cheap shot.
You’re commenting on a typo
I’ll spell it out for you, yes not every move he made was great, there were a few bad ones, especially a couple of signing that didn’t work out at the end. I remember at the time not liking him taking the signings route. But most were not only good but very good – the guy was great at making trades and acted FAST – getting this team into the playoffs within his 2nd year. Don’t see that happening this time.
I actually enjoyed rooting for Phillip’s teams more than the 80s teams, to me it was just a very likeable team. Steve Phillips was AWESOME.
Not really a cheap shot. One can hardly re reminded of Izzy without thinking what if we had thought to make him the closer?
Piazza, Leiter, Wendell, Cook, Ventura, Valentine. Plenty to like. Vaughn, Alomar, Burnitz I put that on the Wilpon’s as well as their failure to sign guys Mcillvaine, Harazin and Hunnsiker had drafted. A real shame. If we had signed Erstadt in 1992 and Dejesus in 1997 things might have been different in 2000. A lot different.
Only getting 3 credible players from 6 drafts hurt the organization quite a bit though and then Duquette trading one of them for nothing was a real body blow to this franchise and really cost his successor big time. Duquette’s one and only draft turned out to be a complete waste too but that trade of Kazmir……What a jackass.
You’re the JACKASS,
The foundation of the Mets today – Reyes &: Wright…guess who’s regime they were signed under?
You KNOW Phillips was an excellent GM. You already know that.
But then again, you are now the KING OF SECOND GUESSING on MMO.
Now respond going in 57 thousand different directions, ok?
I know MNJ, and now every time you hear Phillips talk about Wright or Reyes your not sure if he just drafted or signed them, or gave birth to them. What a joke.
First of all JACKASS I was talking about Duquette who I mentioned TWICE. JACKASS. Get a pell grant to learn reading comprehension.
Second, it was under Phillips that our drafts went from being three credible major leaguers down to one every other year JACKASS.
Third, I highly doubt that Phillips had anything what so ever to do with scouting and signing Reyes. Reyes only got a 15K signing bonus, I would bet that was handled by an asst GM (probably Omar) and the scout.
Phillips has probably never even set foot in the DR.
Forth, I did credit Phillips with a fair amount of good moves, if you had taken a reading comprehension course you would have understood that, JACKASS.
Fifth, Do the names Jason Tyner, Neal Musser, Billy Traber, Aaron Heilman, Scott Kazmir (with Hamels and Cain on the board) and Lastings Milledge sound familiar to you? They should, they were the top picks Phillips made in six years of drafts. Oh yeah, he also got us Ty Wiggenton.
No wonder Omar ran out of players.
And that Izringhausen trade was a first class fleecing too. It is a damn shame that Phillips never thought of Izzy as a closer. Just think how different things might have been.
Bingo on Reyes signing T Agee.
“Minaya was an assistant general manager when he received a call from Eddy Toledo, a Mets scout in the Dominican Republic, who had just seen an athletic infielder from Villa Gonzalez. The only problem with Jos?eyes, Toledo said, was his outrageous contract demand.
”He wanted $15,000,” Minaya said on Thursday, laughing. ”I told Eddy to go ahead and give it to him.””
query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E4DD163FF931A25752C1A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
A damn shame that Omar got rid of Eddy Toledo too. By the way MNJ did you know that Toledo lived right next door to the Cano’s? You know Robinson Cano from the Yankees.
We could have signed him for 250,000. Instead we just keep shoveling wheelbarrows full of cash to guys on their last legs.
Hmmmm. Let me see here 3/21 for Matsui PLUS 4/24 for Castillo or maybe 5M for 20 high end prospects and let ‘em fight it out for the job. Tough decision.
agee,
Are you that stupid? You don’t think I knew Eddie Toledo was the guy who recommended signing Reyes. You just assumed that right?
That’s OLD news and has been dicussed here before ad nauseum.
People here have short memories, man and we now have NEW filth here that thinks the site never existed before they arrived.
It doesn’t matter what.
The GM was Phillips and the signing happened under his watch. Reyes & Wright. Period. He has the last word.
I don’t think a prospect is going to be signed without the GM’s consent, also do you know for a fact that Phillips didn’t already know about him? Can you prove that?
All kinds of wasted time dotting i’s and crossing t’s. That type of stuff is usually brought up by the less informed anyway.
Boring.
I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that Phillips put WAY MORE time, effort and thinking into the drafting of Tyner, Musser, Trabor, Heilman, Kazmir, and Milledge than he did into signing Reyes.
Signing Reyes probably only resulted in him being informed of a minor player transaction and a oh yeah, whatever response before he went back to disecting the up coming draft.
I’m still reasonably sure Phillips never set foot in the DR unless you know…, he was there on the sly.
You mean it’s your OPINON that Phillips put all that time into drafting Tyner, etc than Reyes. That is your opinion am I correct?
Seems to me Phillips not only put a lot of time into helping to develop, scout, & sign people like David Wright & Jose Reyes but he also made a lot of great trades to help the Mets into the Playoffs. Starting with his 2nd year on the job.
I have no idea what countries Steve Phillips has visited – ask Des, he’s the site Travel Agent.
You say Omar fired Toledo? Where is that? Did he fire him or reassign him? Also what made Toledo such a great scout? discovering Jose Reyes?
Discovering Jose Reyes did a hell of a lot more for this organization than using our top draft choice on Tyner, Musser, Trabor, Heilman, Kazmir, and Milledge.
I think you’re leaving out a lot of information. Everybody reading knows it. Very selective of you.
agee, you’re good at understanding the structure of things, more than I ever bother with but as for logic, sensibility, fairness, objective analysis – you strike out big time.
It’s like a book with a nice cover, nice table of contents, nice intor, lots of pages, nice fonts. But when you read it, you wonder what the hell is this guy talking about. That’s you.
“All kinds of wasted time dotting i’s and crossing t’s. That type of stuff is usually brought up by the less informed anyway.”
I can’t imagine who your referring to?
In any event i’m sure you was aware bayonne but since t agee said “I would bet that was handled by an asst GM (probably Omar) and the scout”
I figured i’d confirm his assumption since i happened to have the article already bookmarked.
why your bothered at me telling tagee what you admit to already knowing i just don’t get.
What’s a matter agee. You have been outed as an Alderson strooge. Oh, Sandy won’t bring in old has beens. Oh Sandy is different. Sandy is no different than any other GM. You are just to deluded to understand that. You b;last every GM the Mets ever had for trying to win while you kiss Sandy’s you know what while he sits on it doing nothing.
Bayonne has you pegged perfectly. You have a theory that is Wrong, it is biased and it is worn out. JASON ISRINGHAUSEN…..38 year old ha been signed by your lord and master and now all you can do is name call because you have been exposed!!!
Better to be an Alderson stooge than a Minaya stooge!
Bayonne,
It’s more like you look at the team the way most fans do. If we could get this guy, and if that other guy does what he did 2 years ago and if we could just spend a little more money and get this other guy….. It’s just fantasy baseball. That doesn’t translate to the real thing, just look at the results. Top payroll in the NL over 20 years and More losing seasons than winning ones. More losing seasons than all but Washington, Pittsburgh and Cincinnatti.
My interest evolved beyond the “if we could only get this guy” approach into WHY HAVE WE HAD MORE LOSING THAN WINNING SEASONS IN THE LAST 20 YEARS?
It could not be more clear that we de-emphasized the draft, first by not signing guys we drafted (Clemens, Palmeiro, Matt Williams, Erickson, Olerud, Grudzielanek, Erstadt, Rowand and DeJesus) for example. Think those guys wouldn’t have helped us? Think they wouldn’t have helped us a HELL OF A LOT MORE THAN Coleman, Murray, Bonilla et al?
Step 2 in the de-emphasation of the draft manifested itself by not even identifying, let alone drafting good players beginning in 1998. Of course if your purposely avoiding going over slot in order to comply with Bud’s guidelines that method of player procurement is going to lead to only other teams getting the best players.
That pisses me off. I want us to get the best players.
You say that the book is empty inside bayonne but I am examining the results and raising the questions, you just want to “spend a little more money.”
You say that Phillips made some good trades and in two years had us in the playoffs. That’s on the surface. Look behind the scenes you’ll realize that Phillips had things to work with. The Piazza and Leiter trades don’t get done without Burnett (8th round Mcillvaine) and (Sanchez IFA Hunnsiker) Wilson (1st round Hunnsiker) Geotz (1st round Mcillvaine) and Yarnel (3rd round Mcillvaine)
He also had 3 great everyday players already here Alfonzo (IFA Hunnsiker) Ordonez (IFA Harrazin) and Olerud (FA Mcillvaine)
Compare that to what Omar had to work with. Milledge, that’s it.
The Leiter and Johan trades are good comps. We gave Florida 3 guys prior GM’s brought here. We couldn’t do a deal like that until Omar was here for three years because there was no one in our system anyone wanted. Three of the four guys we traded for Johan Omar had to procure himself, the only exception was Humber (1st round Duquette)
The only conclusion that can be drawn from that is Phillips drafts sucked, and they did. Six years our top choices provided A NEGATIVE WAR (-2.2) other than Kazmir (17.7) who provided 100% of that for someone else because of Duquette’s delusion’s of grandeur.
Totally different situation.
My book has substance, your has all the value of a fantasy baseball primer.
Harry, I wasn’t even in favor of Alderson. My first choice would have been Gillick, then Ryan then Daniels. None of them were interested or available. Alderson wasn’t my 1st, 2nd or 3rd choice but I’m perfectly willing to give him every chance because I’m sick and F*****g tired of losing season after losing season.
Cashen was the best met GM in history. Just imagine how this organization would be looked upon if the Wilpon’s had signed some of the guys he drafted instead of all the guys that Harrizon brought in 1993, Phillips brought in in 2003 and Omar brought in over a seies of years for billions more than Cashen’s picks would have cost.
Devine/Murphy 67-70 How could you do any better?
You may bow at the knee of Mullah Omar but I don’t because unlike his 2 predoccessors, he knew better. He stated so even at his introductory press conferance. He was here before, under Phillips. He knew intimately how low a priority the IFA dept was. HE HAD BEEN IN CHARGE OF IT. He also knew he had nothing to work with but the owners check book.
I hold your guru, your swami to a higher standard because he knew better but tried to frame the house before the concrete cured anyway and while he’s still getting paid we have to start all over again and live off the slim pickings of the dumpster yet again when I thought those days were a distant memory.
I’ve been anything but a Wilpon shill. I have constantly brought their short sighted, limited vision, cheapness behind the scenes front and center. Guys like you Harry, too limited in vision to look beyond your lust for yet another Bobby Bo or Fat Mo never picked up on the root cause of our failure over more than two decades even though I have repeatedly brought attention to it.
I’ll spell it out again for you Harry. Neglect of the draft, disdain for the prospect, desire for the quick fix that despite failure after failure limited vision fans and the Wilpon continue to fall back on year after year.
Sorry Harry if your dreams of having Fat Mo under your tree in December every year have been dashed but as far as I’m concerned it’s been way too long since anyone tried to actually BUILD a team around here.
Vinny,
I have discussed the good things Omar has done. Building depth in the farm, getting some high ceiling amateurs into the system, how hamstrung he was in inherting a farm system with NOTHING in it. Bad luck with Sanchez, Beltran. How even Pedro despite anyone thinking he had enough in the tank wasn’t a bad move. How until he ran out of money had a decent bench, how he identified guys off the scrap heap who played really well.
I also pointed out his NUMEROUS mistakes that could have easily been forseen beforehand.
Pardon me if I’m not bowing at the alter of Mullah Omar.
Omar knew better but after his success in 2006 went right back to the same old failed plan everyone the Wilpon has ever hired has done. And again I state. He knew better, that’s what’s so sad about it.
It’s guys like you that only complain and whine about what YOU consider to be bad moves before guys have even thrown or seen a single pitch. How with once again the highest payroll in the league you just want to keep importing more and more guys in here rather than addressing the root cause of our failure of over two decades of Wilpon ownership.
Mullah Omar couldn’t get it done despite spending more money in 6 years than the Organization spent in two decades and your idea is to spend more and blame the guy who’s been here for 3 months before a single game has been played.
That plan will never work. I’m glad it’s changed and I hope it’s for good.
Three post season appearances in 20 years with your plan despite having the highest payroll over 20 years and you don’t see anything wrong with that?
Really?
“Three post season appearances in 20 years with your plan despite having the highest payroll over 20 years and you don’t see anything wrong with that?”
My plan? What the Mets GM’s did in the past 20 years was THEIR plan, not mine. I would have done things differently. At the time I didn’t like the K-rod, Bay, Castillo and Perez contarcts. So what Omar did wasn’t my plan, it was HIS plan, I didn’t approve of every move he made.
Yes, he made a lot bad moves, and he made a lot of good moves too. I think he was an average GM, and yes, I think he’s better GM than Sandy.
“It’s guys like you that only complain and whine about what YOU consider to be bad moves before guys have even thrown or seen a single pitch.”
Oh so now I can’t have an opinion? I think he did a bad job – That’s just my opinion.
I would have like to have seen them get Harang and Penny for the rotation. They are better, safer, have more upside, and don’t cost that much more than young and capuano.
For the rotation I would have liked to have seen Funetes or H Takahasi and Choate or somebody like Beimel. Then after that sign somebody for depth like Tankersly.
What’s wrong with wanting them to do something like that, Agee?
“One can hardly re reminded of Izzy without thinking what if we had thought to make him the closer?”
What If Billy Beane didn’t trade away Carlos Gonzlaez? what their team would look like? imagine if he had kept him?
What If Theo Epstein didn’t trade away Hanley Ramirez? imagine how good their lineup would be? With Crawford, Adrian Gonazlez and Hanley Ramirez, they would be amazing.
Would you say they are bad GM’s too? Because if Phillips is a bad GM for trading Isringhausen, then Beane and Epstein are bad GM’s too, because they traded carlos Gonzalez and Hanley Ramirez. Right?
You know if blogging was around at the time Isringhausen was sent packing he would have been as much a pariah as Perz is right now.
At the time people couldn’t wait to get rid of him! They wanted to get rid of the memory of generationK almost as much as they now want to get rid of the memory of Minaya, Manueal Randolph and now the Wilpons too!
by the way,
Beane also traded Andre Either for Milton Bradley and Antonio Perez….and we complain about Omar’s moves as Mets GM? Beane traded two very good hitters away for a half year of Holliday and a year of Milton Bradley.
……But he did draft Mark Teahen and Joe Blanton. What a great GM.
I didn’t say Phillips was a bad GM. I said he made a bad trade but I also pointed out some very good trades he made. Izzy was brought up because he’s in camp. He filled for someone else a need that we failed miserably in during so many clutch situations over a ten year period. It’s only natural to rue the fact that he couldn’t have done that for us and wonder what might have been if he had.
Theo traded Muelens but got Beckett who absolutely was a HUGE factor in winning a World Championship.
Flags fly forever.
I don’t think any of those guys are bad GM’s. I’ve never said they were. I just don’t have blind devotion and throw hissey fits when one points out only one side of the equation.
I have pointed out too that many of Phillips trades were very good and I didn’t point out that most of them were because of the Marlins having fire sales and trading these good players within their own division. That was very good luck on Phillips part, to his credit he took advantage of the situation and did a very good job but nontheless how often does a team in your own division trade SO MANY very good or even great players to a division rival?
Phillips never really effectively filled out the out field but he did provide TWO front line aces and ultimately that is what made the biggest difference.
There. Another example of providing the good and the bad, not spun, twisted or 100% opinion and no substance.
OK Vinny now we’re going to discuss every bad move Beane ever made. I couldn’t give a fiddler’s f**k about Billy Beane. His style and options are dictated more by his budget than most especially us with the highest payroll over the last 20 years in our league.
Everyone knows he got Holliday so he could turn him into two high draft picks, hope that he drafts well and then will have TWO good players for 6 years before having to do the same again.
I’m not going to debate Beanne with you. I am not a Beannhead. I will discuss Theo because I love his strategy of getting good years out of guys and then collecting TWO high draft choices for them and then drafting well and going overslot because I am a firm believer in doing things this way. Pedro, Damon, Cabrera, V Martinez, Wagner, Bay, Beltre all played well and left behind TWO prospects. That’s 14 1st round prospects over the last 7 years plus they usually keep their own pick too.
When was the last time a Met left behind TWO prospects when he left? Glavine (Ike, Holt) Hampton (Heilman, Wright) Olerud (Bust, Bust)
See, it even works for us two times out of three.
They scout, draft, and develop their prospects well. They use their farm to trade for guys like A Gon. Their active AND successful in the IFA market (3 of their top 10)
They are a big market team with a big picture broad view of their organization and utilize their resources in the most efficient and effective manner possible. What’s wrong with that?
“OK Vinny now we’re going to discuss every bad move Beane ever made.”
Well, since you like to discuss every bad move Omar has made, and never talk about the good ones, I thought it would be only fair we looked at all the other GM’s the same way…….
Us not winning with the highest payorll in the last 20 years, just proves payroll doesn’t matter. So Beane having good teams (and recently below average teams)with a low payroll doesn’t mean anything, because payroll doesn’t matter. Other teams win with with small payrolls too. Like the Twins.
And There’s nothing wrong with the redsox, i don’t mind them.
Mr. Bayonne (sorry if I’m assuming you’re a Mr.),
Why is it, you are patting the backs of the likes of Phillips, Minaya et. al yet you are KILLING at every turn Alderson and he hasn’t even made it ST yet?
You must really know everything I am impressed.
Vinny, I think Omar had the potential to be a much much better than average GM, as it turned out I would rate him below average because of the way he ran amok over the last 4 years here.
Omar has had six baseball seasons with which to evaluate, Alderson, not even one. Omar had over 200 M to spend his first season, Alderson, probably only 10 M. Wright/Reyes vs. Davis/Thole Edge Omar. Farm Edge Alderson.
The book on Omar’s era won’t be closed for another five years. We’ll have to wait and see.
Alderson’s era is just beginning and let’s not blame him for the budget.
For the record I agree with your ideas on the bull pen. That would have been a great way to go but we don’t know what was attempted and what wasn’t. Takahashi could very likely have wanted 3/12 and quickly settled for 2/8. For reasons most likely outside of Alderson’s control he didn’t feel 4 M and this year AND next was a good utilization of what he did have to spend or maybe he would have but Takahashi wanted 3/12. Who knows.
Waiting to see who we can get every off season, rather than planning ahead of time is never the answer anyway.
Last year there was a perfect fit starting pitcher available who signed for 2/16. Maybe we would have had to go 2/18 but still the right guy was there to bump Perez and we didn’t do it. This year there wasn’t a really good fit free agent starting pitcher.
No GM should be judged solely based on one off season, especially his first and especially when he walks into a less than ideal situation from both a current roster, current payroll and current Ownership situation.
time for update Izzy signed to minor league deal.
twitter.com/DPLennon/statuses/37691116136570880
Bring ‘em on. Minor league deals for all!
assuming he needs some time in the minors to get back to full strength (if he can),it will give them a nice veteran presence down there. And with luck, a viable option to call up at some point.
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or just a “big name” for the bisons to advertise!
Best of luck to IZZY! I HOPE HE MAKES THE TEAM! WOULD BE AWESOME!
I hope he finishes 120 games.
Of course you do.,.. But it doesn’t take away from the fact that Alderson is no different than every other GM and you are too big a snot to admit you were 100% wrong. Wow! what a rebuilding effort by Sandy your lord and master Alderson to bing in thiose 38 year old kids along side all those cheap damaged arms and shoulders. DEFEND IT FRAUD agee!! DEFEND…
Wow a lot of posts from you today!
What happened did they write Oscar out of Sesame street this week?
“Wow! what a rebuilding effort by Sandy your lord and master Alderson to bing in thiose 38 year old kids along side all those cheap damaged arms and shoulders.”
You think this is the rebuild?
No wonder your so mad.
Well look at who it is coming from!
I mean a month ago he was complaining we weren’t signing any second rate FAs to 8 Mil contracts because he thought doing so would make us compete for something this year!
All this guy knows is that he hates the Mets, Hates the Wilpons, Hates Alderson and that no matter what they do it will be WRONG!
Even Omar who is possibly the only who got screwed doesn’t hold that much animosity.
He is either a Yankee fan trolling the Met Blogs for kicks or he’s a cadidate to be the next guy to go on a rampage and stab 7 people and think he was justified!
You know the official workouts haven’t even started, yet, right? And that Izzi was signed to a minor league deal?
what 38 year old kids? You talking about Izzy on a minor league deal. Oh. I was talking about Guys on expensive contracts we were counting heavily on and then when they went down, we wound up losing two pennants by a total of 3 games.
Guys like Alou, El-Duque, Valentin, Castillo, Even Pedro, after all if he hadn’t gotten hurt we wouldn’t have had so many starts by Dave Williams, Brian Lawrence, Pelfrey before he was ready, even Humber. Considering we missed out on TWO post seasons by a total of THREE games…….
Good try Harry, not really the same thing.
How long did it take Frank Cashen to turn around the team? Did you really call someone a big snot? WOW
No you are the JACKASS of the Blog Room!
Wow sounds like everyone had their fruity peebles pissed on today.
Quick somebody find Paul Wilson and Bill Pulsipher! It’s time to get the band back together
It’s a friggen minor league deal, an invite to ST. WOW – I can’t believe Harry C is not in FLA now with the nails for the cross.
DUDE FIND ANOTHER TEAM – you can’t find one redeeming thing about anything on this team, but here you are AGAIN.
GO away before you have a stroke.