Good morning, boneheads!
There are TWO new articles by Carp, both posted this morning. Yup, I did say TWO
This one is an exercise they did at The Athletic about imaginary “contraction draft.
The second one is about Ben Prentiss, the guy responsible for keeping these lazy bums who play in NY in shape.
154 responses to “Shhh….Carp is working”
If you don’t hear from me for more than a week, I’ve been kidnapped by the rebel southerners claiming to be friends visiting. They keep singing ‘the South will rise again….’
BYE, Beezle! 👋🏻 Lol
Carp apparently couldn’t get a Tee time over the weekend.
His loss is our gain 🙂
At least the EPL started.
Morning ILB and all,
Question: I haven’t heard any talk about Jimmy Vesey or Alex Kerfoot or Will Butcher type college free agents who went to college and didn’t sign with the team that drafted them becoming available. We’re coming up on the anniversary of the Jimmy Vesey signing. Is that not a thing anymore or are there just no interesting candidates this summer?
Pretty sure I read Jimmy Fox would have become a free agent next summer if he returned to Harvard and we hadn’t traded and signed him.
Wicky,
My son visited England recently. Went to a Spurs game at Wembly Stadium ( new stadium was not finished yet). He has become a Spurs fan. We watched them play Saturday, and beat up on Aston Villa.
What’s a Spur? 🙂
Way back in the day, I was a Man City fan. Also rooted for Queens Park Rangers ( for obvious reasons). I don’t really have a rooting interest anymore.
Where did everybody go?
Love that Carp essay.
Agreed. The prentiss interview was long overdue
I’m worried Kreider is a gonner at deadline. Carp consistent with his message softening us for the blow for months now.
The Prentiss thing was great, but not an essay. I speak of his theoretical essay re: 12 team NHL.
The Kreider thing is a dollar issue. They’d love to keep him, but can they afford to?
Ah
I guess I forgot the definition of essay! Ha
Coos always on top of the language thing.
COOS = nhl of prose
Norm = ECHL
😉
Bdl
That’s awesome. I’ve been a gunners fan for a long time but follow Chelsea more now (mostly due to Giroud).
I think we are going to starting seeing less and less of players getting top dollar and long term 28, 29 and up as the league gets younger. Sure it will still happen, but teams like the Rangers with cap issues will be deadline dumping more often the not. Bye bye Kreider, Bettman’s NHL!
Hammers fan here. Hasn’t been so hot since they “won the World Cup” in 1966, other than a 3rd-place in ’86. Now you can’t win if you’re not one of the six big-money teams–Leicester being the miraculous exception–so it’s all about getting into minor European competition. As though rooting for the Rangers wasn’t tough enough!
Normally can’t stand Chelsea, but Pulisic will make me care more.
Hi Cregg. Not trying to be a smarty pants….:)
Stop talking synchronized swimming.
David Byrne message to US Mint: ‘Stop Making Cents.’
Go Tottenham Go! Jewish connection!
Cccp
Have you watched “the Red Sea diving company” yet?
I want to train under prentiss for a summer and then have him give me a year by year regiment for the rest of my life
(Not the first time I’ve thought I wish I could get with a professional training staff for a minute that will recorrect all the little kinks in your body mechanics that have developed over the years and give you the foundation these guys get)
Just another reason athletes have it so good. Got top tier body specialists for a general term that if the players want too, these guys can help these players head into their 30s and on in tremendous shape. I’m in this to be a functioning helpful human into my 100s. I’m gonna be here through the long of it, doing what the creation has us here to do, being a lantern bearer and ready to do what’s right in any and every situation. Certainly wouldn’t hurt if my body could keep up with my spirit.
No, Wicky. What’s that?
Spurs-Ajax: all-Jewish semi last season, terrific stuff all around.
Please somebody drop the puck?
I think it’s only barely possible that I could bear to come out of hibernation long enough to become a lantern bearer. Actually I’m the polar opposite and too grizzly.
Ever hear of something called a metaphor coos?
😉
Cccp
Great movie based on actual events from late 70s early 80s and Mossad smuggling out African Jewish refugees through a cover of a dive resort in Sudan.
What’s a meta for? Metaring?
Carp assures me that Prentiss did not each Kreider how to jump out of a pool. Three weeks to Traverse City. Optomism abounds.
Good morning, boneheads!
ORF, and the training camp right after. Getting there.
I had frost on the windshield, so that’s a plus!
I got offered a new job and I think I’m going to take it. I feel a little bad for my current boss because my leaving now will really leave him in a lurch. That said, I’ve been underpaid and not been given things that were promised to me for the past three years. He’s going to be pissed, but I just have to do what’s best for me and my family, right?
Right
Doodie
Take the money and run 😎
Listened to a radio interview that Carp did with Jason Strudwick, who should not have a job in radio, he’s that bad. Carp is still banging the trade Kreider drum. His thoughts on Hanks future were interesting.
I thought this was your job 🙂
Don’t leave us hanging, what did Carp think about Hank’s future?
Don’t leave us hung.
basically he fells that the Rangers need to handle the Hank situation carefully, and respectfully. The day is coming very soon that Hank is no longer the number one. That Shestorkin is the future, and the future is not going to take two full seasons to get here. Mentioned a possible, eventual trade of Georgiev.
Gerund’s past participle is Clendung
1969 Mets World Series MVP?
Biggest questions seems to be whether Hank wants to keep playing after two years, and if he does whether he’s willing to be the number two guy
IF Hank can’t produce, he should be gone one way or the other. I give him another shot, and root for him, but when it’s time, it’s time no matter who you are.
Carp did not say this, but I get they impression that the Rangers would like to move on from Hank sooner, rather than later.
It is a very similar situation to Eli’s with the Giants. Minus the two championships. Hank needs to be great early this year, or the changing of the guard will come quickly.
Do what Richie Rich did. Take he money and Munn.
Peyton to Eli: “Develop some charisma and maybe you’ll get some TV commercials.”
Take the money and Munn.
Exists there a quarterback (or an athlete) that Munn hasn’t violated?
Doodie
Do what’s right for the fam!
Stay where you are. Serves your boss right.
Out with the old in with the new, that’s what my 1st wife said. 😉
My first wife drove me to drink. Never had the opportunity to thank her.
Epstein could have made money by making a deal with My Pillow to smother himself.
How long will the off-season last?
https://media1.giphy.com/media/hEwkspP1OllJK/source.gif
Kind of like the previous on-season.
Tanner Glass hired for ‘player development,’ based in Seattle. Riddle me that.
My first wife said I was driving her to her grave. I had the car out in two minutes…
BDL,
Got a link for the carp interview?
Buying Hank out after this coming season makse some sense, but, the cumulative dead cap space starts to get very large. A retirement with some position within the organization would be much better, but, not sure if Hank is ready to hang them up yet.
I love my wife.
Anything that keeps Glass out of the Rangers locker room is ok by me. Develop away!
Norm
Which one?
So Glass is working for the new Seattle team now? His tenure with the Rangers’ staff was brief and ineffective. If he was a relief pitcher I wouldn’t give him the win.
Were it not for Glass, some of our many young newbies would have been considerably ill-treated. Why do some of you hockey geniuses think that he was here and well-paid?
Who cares, Norm?
Doodie, if you were compensated fairly and treated well, then I’d say to go to your boss and tell him the situation that you were offered another job and ask to compensated near or at what you would be getting at the new job.
Given that he didn’t value your work and dedication, I say you have to do what’s right for your family. Maybe this will teach him to better value his employees in the future.
Glass was effective in his role and the team played better with him in lineup after his call back up from AHL
He could skate, forecheck and was intelligent enough not to take bad penalties. He was playable toughness to a T
Which Bonehead on this board is the Fredo of RR2?
Nailed it, cregg. That people don’t see that as fact boggles the noodle.
That people confuse fact with opinion does not boggle the mind 😗
Norm. I usually am just stating opinion.
But it seems to me most of what I said was indeed fact about glass
Unless you can point to him taking dumb penalties?
Also I remember clear as day that the team played better with his callup and it was mentioned multiple games in a row on MSG how much he meant to the team after the callup. I also saw him skating pretty well for a tough guy. I wish I had time to pull game highlights of his forecheck supporting the fact that he was not a poor skater and indeed had decent wheels. But I guess since he’s not McDavid fast that that fact is more opinion and debate-able. Which I guess you could say about every single scouting report by professional scouts. Though, fact would be proven if we had a stopwatch in a foot race and 100 comparables since his generation didn’t wear fancy gadgets graphing speed and quickness.
If he couldn’t skate I doubt he would’ve had a job when the league made the enforcers extinct post lockout
Well-stated opinion that I disagree with, nothing wrong with that. That Glass was a positive, though, is certainly debatable. I found his overall play to be cringe-worthy and assumed it must have been some sort of locker-room presence that kept him on the roster.
To each their own
Play On!
I always thought Tanner had pictures of coaches with farm animals.
I always thought too much was made of Tanner Glass. Who the 13th forward was had little to do with them not winning a cup when they wer contenders. His brief tenure with the Rnagers this Summer is a little mystifying to me. I guess they will willing to give him a paycheck until something else came along and then it did.
Rather signed Chris Stewart over Glass as he had both more offensive upside and better with the gloves off.
Glass fit AV’s turn the other cheek philosophy perfectly, too much for my taste, but rarely took stupid penalty, he was slighly overpaid with a $1.45M cap hit
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One of my fav Glass moments was when he scored a PO goal v Habs or Sens after replacing Butch or some other floater in lineup and the snowflakes were melting before and after…
SN – that goal by Glass was a surreal moment. It was probably one of AV’s proudest moments.
ORF – I like the Glass addition. Good locker room guy, good communicator…he’s a future coach, and a players coach at that. I want a guy who had to scrap and claw and work for every second of ice he got to work on some basic fitness/drills with the young pups. I’d have more of a problem with it if he were running Hartford’s powerplay or something like that, but he seems to be in an appropriate role. Honestly, if he didn’t retire – he probably would’ve been the perfect guy to sign a minor league deal and fill that “Mark Letestu” role that JD kept mentioning.
There was a discussion here the other day in which bdl said that the Mets may be better suited than the Yankees to make the World Series because of their starters. I tweeted similarly about a week or two ago that because of their balance of starting pitching and solid offense that they had a better chance to make the WS than the Yankees whose starters stink.
But I was corrected. The best way to determine a team’s chances to win in October is by the team’s overall run differential in the regular season. And the Yankees run differential is much better.
My take is that teams generally face better pitching in the playoffs than the regular season and what usually happens to the Yankees in the postseason is their offense dries up especially with RISP. Though they have a couple different hitters than usual this year like DJ and Urshela who put the ball in play and use all fields. But I think it’ll be almost impossible for the Yankees to get past the Astros because of the Astros elite pitching and offense.
Baseball,
You wanna talk about baseball.
You kidding me, baseball?
I just hope the next month flies by
Jim mora
Who dat say they gonna beat them Saints?
Lemieux update?
Still as whiny and pampered as ever wicky
Ooo your talking Pepe Jr
I thought you were asking about 66
Root 66
Any Ranger fan who hates/hated Glass is not a hockey fan at all, but rather a figure skating fan.
Tiki,
I understand everyone wants to hand the Mets the World Series this season due to their 2 winning streaks in the second half. That’s fine, but really whomever is the hottest team in the playoffs will win the World Series. Not necessarily the best, but the hottest.
2 years ago the Cleveland Indians won a major league record 22 straight games and were beaten by the Yankees, whom nearly also defeated the eventual World Champion Astros.
Baseball is a funny game. Let’s see what happens with McNeil hurt.
Mets have advanced despite their manager.
I wasn’t handing the Mets anything.
And coos is right, they have been disadvantaged this season due to their manager.
I agree that the hottest team will win.
Though I just saw on twitter that the first team to 80 regular season wins has won the WS for the past several seasons.
Here’s a thought – the Yankees have been disadvantaged by injuries this season, yet have a had the roster depth to overcome and actually persevere.
Pitching injuries to Severino (staff ace), and Dellin Betances (Ace set-up relief) have certainly taxed the remainder of the bullpen. Jordan Montgomery could have also been a key pitcher this season if not for injury.
And note I’m not even mentioning injuries to the non-pitchers. The rise of players like Gio Urshela, Mike Tauchman, et al have made the position player injuries almost a moot point.
The Mets are more disadvantaged by their ownership and management, not only their manager.
Cano ‘protecting’ Alonso, lol.
Yes, the Yankees I believe will have suffered the most injuries in terms of man games lost in baseball history by the end of the season.
And I also agree the Mets have terrible ownership/management/coaching.
Rarely have seen such a dispirited team as last night’s Mets when they should have been sky-high. Manager is no help.
Tanner Glass for SECDEF.
The Mets have to make the playoffs first, before their starting pitching advantage would come into play. The Yankees have the same problem they have had for quite a few seasons, a lack of frontline starting pitching. The Yankees are built for the grind of the regular season. Their offense just bludgeons you to death. When the playoffs hit, the old adage takes affect, good pitching beats good hitting. The Mets are not close to being as good as the Yankees. It’s really not all that close. 3 games over, vs 40 games over. But put them both in the playoffs, I like the Mets chances better because of the starting pitchers.
Assuming the Mets starting pitchers pitch like they have during this winning streak, they’re better than everyone.
And assuming the Yankees’ starting pitchers pitch as poorly as they have during the same stretch, they’re a beatable team.
Problem is, we are not factoring in the quality and depth of the Yankees’ bullpen. That is where they have a tremendous advantage over a weaker pen like the Mets’.
Also – the 2 wins against the “mighty” Nats (also only 5 or 6 games over .500) aside; the Mets’ starting pitching has flattened up against behemoths like Marlins, White Sox, etc.
One injury to DeGrom or Syndergaard, and the Mets are in deep trouble.
I think athletes like DJ, Gio, Tauchman, Torres, Gregorious, Gardner, and Hicks will be fine in the playoffs.
This is a different and better team than the one from last season.
I don’t think that always good pitching beats good hitting. Sometimes, it does. Other times it does not. The Red Sox won last year with the best offense in baseball, for example.
I, too, find the Sox offensive. 🙂
Last year’s Red Sox were just one of those seasons where absolutely everything went right, and multiple players had career years.
And their possible greatest obstacle, which would’ve been the Astros, had multiple injuries to contend with and therefore posed no threat.
We have multiple sports to spare us from the often sordid truths of existence. Sorry to be so blunt.
I do not WANT military aviator sunglasses, night-vision goggles, or a Special Forces flashlight, but thanks for asking.
Baseball belongs in the same category as watching paint dry!
You Glass fans are so damn manly it makes me swoon.
Liverpool down 1-0 at halftime. Just jumped on Liverpool to win at +425 to make an easy $425.
Woohoo Liverpool level it! It’s easy money!
Soccer…..
You ….
Sadio wins it! Cha ching!
A penalty!!!
That’s no penalty. For the moment, I’ve been scrooged.
Kick de ball, Barry!
Barry Beck is Dorian Gray When he was 19, he looked 45 and now when he’s 62, he looks 40.
Um, Liverpool is Boston-owned. Not sure how anyone can support that 😜
The Liverpool Red Sox? No thanks. I will pass.
No ilb today. I hope everything is ok with his work and family.
Last night’s Mets game was a microcosm of what Tiki, Coos, Bdl, and I discussed yesterday:
—The Mets displayed superior starting pitching.
—The Mets manager blew another game by over-managing.
—The Mets bullpen is not reliable.
Good morning, boneheads!
Tiki, my family and I are just fine. Very busy at work. Also, I have nothing to add when it comes to baseball. The only thing I know about baseball is the story about Babe Ruth. When asked if he deserved to make more money than President, he answered: “’Why not? I had a better year than he did.”
I had a drone fly through my property one day very low and very slow.
So I mooned it. Never saw the drone again.
I did the same with low flying like trainer planes that used to use my property’s airspace as a point on its routine or routes they would take the people training to get their license through.
They stopped flying over my house too.
If all else fails show your azz. It works 😉
AA,
In our discussion, we did not mention the toll it must take on starting pitchers running the bases. Ugh! 79 pitches, 14 in a row, and he pulls him because he ran the bases.
Mets had a hot streak, but, will regress to their actual talent level for the rest of the season. Their farm system is also weak and they gave away the few prospects they had for Cano, Diaz and Stroman. The future is no brighter than the present.
Boggles the mind that Callaway was a pitcher.
Kick some aasen philly PD!
Can’t find any pictures of Jeffrey Epstein anywhere.
So I’m answering my own question. Today is college free agent day. It’s three years since we got Jimmy Vesey.
https://www.prohockeyrumors.com/2019/08/2019-list-of-college-players-set-to-become-free-agents.html
Chase Priskie, a right-handed defenseman out of Quinnipiac, drafted by the Caps is the most notable player out there, but it doesn’t sound like he’s on the level of a guy like Kerfoot. He might never be an every day NHL player.
https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/capitals/coveted-capitals-prospect-chase-priskie-still-pondering-his-nhl-future-im-kind-dark-well
Drury still taking credit for the Vesey time-waster?
. . . which of course is why there hasn’t been a lot of chatter about him or any of the other guys listed.
Drury evaluating Ann Chovie and Pepper Oni from Sicilian National Women’s Team.
Poll:
What will be the order of finish of the 3 Metro teams in the coming season?
Not place within Metro but on a points basis:
My Guess:
1. Azzlanders
2. Derbils
3. Rangers
VERY boring crowd today.
Coos
Thank you, thank you very much!
Coos-“I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous – everyone hasn’t met me yet.”-Rodney Dangerfield
My head doc said I have to find myself and where and was I last when I felt in touch with my real self. I told him it was in a bar in Brooklyn, around 1985. He said go back and re-connect. I said, are you kidding me? My real self probably has a $40,000 bar bill.
https://sports.yahoo.com/report-kevin-hayes-only-signed-with-philadelphia-flyers-because-they-overpaid-him-122754707.html
Report: Kevin Hayes only signed with Flyers because they overpaid him
No kidding?
Report: Barista only smiles at you because she is paid to
‘Players only love you when they’re playing…’
Politicians only live you when you’re voting
😉
Goddamnit…love
The mind is funny. I read the original Post and saw nothing wrong in it.
That idiot on Guam…lmao
Coos
Yeah, I even looked at it before I hit post for once and it looked right too….
Ugh
Wife only loves you on a payday…
Privet from Odessa!
Love means nothing to tennis players
‘Do you love me? (I can really move)
Do you love me? (I’m in the groove)
Do you love me? (Do you love me)
Now that I’m in Gdansk?’
Good to hear, ilb. You know I just worry a lot.
Yep, Callaway blew yesterday’s game. But I saw they were up 6-0 earlier tonight. Hopefully they can get back on track.
Seems like much longer than 3 years on vesey. Surprised it’s not 5
Maybe he hasn’t peaked in development only being in pro league 3 years. Some spend longer in AHL. Not to mention, these 3 years being suboptimal team effectiveness. Am ineffective AV coach
A new quinn
Vesey seems like a good kid. No I’ll will. I wish him well. Hope he is a late bloomer. Will always remember him playing after the kick to the face. Tough cookie to play through that
ill not I’ll
Vesey will score 70+ points next season.
Book it.
Ha! Almost 5 AM in AmeriKa! You punks are still asleep!
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