So this past weekend was a flurry of activity. The Mets apparently balked at a shoulder injury Torrealba sustained while lifting weights before last season (yeah, that's what it was) and withdrew their offer. You'd think they'd have worked out these kinds of defects at the lab, but I guess we'll have to wait for the '09 model of stout hispanic catcher.
In other news, the Mets were apparently in talks with Cardinal shortstop David Eckstein to play second base. I cannot express how furious I was at hearing this. To put this in context, here is a list of the top 5 things I would do with a time machine that I sent to my brother after the 2006 NLCS:
1) Take a dump in David Eckstein's 10th birthday cake
2) Drink champagne out of the 1994 Stanley Cup
3) Save Lincoln or kill Hitler or something.
4) Stop Biff from building a gambling empire
5) Write "Separate Ways", sell to Steve Perry, make millions and be a legend for the rest of my life.
The number one thing I would've done with a time machine was make a 10 year old David Eckstein (probably) cry and (hopefully) eat a mouthful of my feces. He's not even the kind of guy you hate until he's on your team. He's just the kind of guy you hate. Not in a T.O. "what a cocky bastard" way or in a Todd Bertuzzi "if it weren't for hockey he'd be mugging people behind a Sears" sort of way, but because he's the little guy you grew up with who never believed he was little. Some people might find that inspiring, I find it enraging. You're 5'4", know your place and stop being better than me at basketball. Luckily we didn't sign him, but instead used our interest as a bargaining chip to leverage a 32 year old Luis Castillo who couldn't walk at the end of last season into accepting a way-above-market-value 4 year deal at over 6 million per. Way to go Omar.
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Thank god the Mets have decided not to sign Eckstein. The only thing worse than watching the limping derby that is Castillo for 120 some odd games would have been watching Eckstein throw a baseball from second to first. If you were to show a video tape of Eckstein's "throw" to someone who has no prior knowlegde of baseball, that person would naturally assume that a baseball is about the equivalent weight to a shotput. I surely would have rather pulled my eyes out with a needle nosed pliers than had to watch that puny SOB use all the energy in his body to heave a ball 75 feet every day.
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