I’d like you to join me in sticking up for Tom Seaver’s reputation (Deadspin LOLMETS)

Before you read any further I’d like you to watch this video first. Please stay with it through at least the two minute mark (after the commercial pre-roll)

Now let’s take a look at how Deadspin presented the discussion in an article they titled “Things Get Testy At Mets’ All-Time Team Presentation As Tom Seaver Asks Darryl Strawberry If He’s Wearing Handcuffs”

Any bold below is mine and did not appear in the Deadspin article.

Sunday night’s Mets All-Time Team gala turned awkward when Tom Seaver made reference to Darryl Strawberry’s criminal past by asking, “You don’t have any handcuffs on your wrists, do you?”

Deadspin also chose to print

Seaver, whose behavior one attendee described as “drunk and surly,” drew uncomfortable laughs from the crowd as Strawberry mostly ignored the blast.

via Things Get Testy At Mets’ All-Time Team Presentation As Tom Seaver Asks Darryl Strawberry If He’s Wearing Handcuffs.

If you just watched the video let me ask you – testy?  drunk?

Now Deadspin is very very good at what they do.  They didn’t say Tom was drunk, they said one attendee described Tom as drunk.  Deadspin isn’t suggesting anything about Tom.  Deadspin is just telling you what one person said.  If your mind connects some dots between testy and drunk and you want to accuse Tom of something that’s your own problem, not Deadspin’s.

Now I’m just a dumb blogger so I googled “testy” and found that one definition of testy is “marked by impatience or ill humor.”  I suppose some might find the humor not so good.

I was there.  I found nothing confrontational about it.

I personally have found Tom to be emotional in his public appearances these last few years.  One of the first things he said Sunday night was that Nancy told him not to cry, and he warned the crowd he would likely get emotional.  We saw Tom get emotional on the Costas special last year.  We saw Tom get emotional in 1977.

Deadspin could have asked me about the exchange and I would have described Tom as “funny” and the exchange as “funny” but I guess the headline “Things Get Funny At Mets’ All-Time Team Presentation As Darryl Strawberry talks about the idea of hitting off Tom Seaver” ironically doesn’t work with their LOLMETS section.

One person described Deadspin’s article as “a cheap shot” at a Hall of Famer and Marine.

No-Hitter for Sale – WSJ.com

The read of the day..definitely read the entire thing…and a quote from my buddy Dave.

“It is obviously a great business opportunity and it’s something you have to factor in and respond to quickly,” Howard said. “But you have to balance that. You don’t want to be viewed as being too much focused on exploiting it from a financial standpoint.”

The Mets drew some ridicule for selling reprinted tickets to the game for $50 each. But evidently, some fans are willing to pay for a ticket to a past event they did not attend. Howard said the Mets have sold around 3,000 of the tickets so far.

via No-Hitter for Sale – WSJ.com.