Talk:R. A. Dickey

message: apparently he doesn't have a Ulnar collateral ligament (elbow).  wtf  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.162.177.37 (talk) 08:00, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  tommy john 

message: The SI article that came out on Dickey dated March 27,2012, that Dickey and his wife Anne have four children, not three. (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/magazine/03/27/ra.dickey/1.html)  Krejaton (talk) 03:04, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: So then go ahead and fix it please. Nothing to fear.--brewcrewer (yada, yada) 03:12, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal 

message: With increasing numbers of editors taking an interest due to Dickey's growing notoriety, the info detailing his current string of success is starting to get a little scrambled.  Clearly the book is not finished on his 2012 season and there will be many revisions to come but I think we should strive to keep the section readable and encyclopedic at all times.  Please if you make a change try to keep the references and citations attached to the facts they represent (I'm referring to a few edits made last week, not so much more recent ones).--Threephi (talk) 18:44, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  content for current year starting to get a little scrambled 

message: Completed as per above discussion.  I'm going to start in on cleaning up the page links now. --Threephi (talk) 15:02, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page move 

message: This really has little importance but it drives me crazy that the same picture for R.A. from his first Mets appearance is still up? Can anyone please update it to something a little current?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Metfan722 (talk • contribs) 18:54, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: I haven't been on this page in a while, but I can see that the section covering 2012 has ballooned out of proportion, even given the fact that he won the Cy Young for that season. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:26, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I would agree... at a quick glance the stuff about Adam Greenberg and Johan Santana should be taken out as they arent really about Dickey.. way too much game by game detail and the stuff about the Mets winning and losing streaks isnt relevant either. Spanneraol (talk) 21:37, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. The Greenberg and Santana sections are one sentence mentions, so that wouldn't reduce much, but it would take out tangential/coat-racking details. There's also the bit about his coaching an 18 year old knuckleballer. I think that would be more appropriate in a "Pitching style" or "Personal" section as it's not really pertinent to the 2012 season. Then there's the game by game detail and Mets' performance, as you said, which is the majority of the cruft here. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:03, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: As of the June 28th, 2013 I don't see a problem with it. If there are no inaccuracies I don'[t see the issue. It is a very special and rare moment and this is the way baseball is with the stats and streaks and such. It's a very baseball section IMO. Now if it was detailed like that for anything but a spectacular season I would see the issue. But this is about the a rarity that has not been seen in the MLB. The chronicle is a bit detailed but again so is baseball. Despyria (talk) 10:48, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It's still pretty wordy and could at least have the prose cut back into more efficient use of space. Could probably cut back 20% or more simply by reducing the amount of extra prose in there. And I don't think we need to include "he's expected to be ready for 2013 spring training" at this point.... Echoedmyron (talk) 14:19, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undue weight 

message: Why does someone keep on taking the Sporting News Pitcher of the Year award out of the list of accomplishments?
The SN Pitcher of the Year is a more prestigious award than the Cy Young?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.123.52.248 (talk) 17:01, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It is the consensus at WP:BASEBALL to only include MLB-sanctioned awards/honors in the infobox. The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year Award is not MLB-sanctioned, or anywhere near the Cy Young Award in terms of prestige. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:41, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sporting News Pitcher of the Year

message: "On November 16, 2012, it was reported that the Mets have agreed to trade Dickey to the Toronto Blue Jays in a seven player deal. The deal is contingent on Dickey and the Blue Jays agreeing on a contract extension before a 2 p.m. ET deadline on November 18."
That happened this month, not last. And they've agreed on the extension -> http://sports.yahoo.com/news/r-a--dickey--blue-jays-reach-deal-on-contract-175044742.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.160.130.14 (talk) 18:29, 17 December 2012‎
: Already done – Muboshgu (talk) 19:42, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't mean to come across as condescending. I simply meant that it was "already done" by the time I noticed your comment and looked to address it. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:41, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  December not November 

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