IGT 5/25: House of Monk 2: Electric Boogaloo @ MIL 8:10pm ET

[nymr83]

I would have just left Gsellman in, don't want Ramos pitching at all and Blevins barely.

Swarzak where art thou?

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Wow, Ramos throws one strike in 9 pitches. They Brewers didn't beat the Mets in the 10th, the Mets simply surrendered by throwing themselves on their sword.

Mickey needs to learn that Lugo and Gsellman are his best bullpen options. Blevins appears lost and unreliable. Ramos is generally a lost cause.

[Frayed Knot]

bmfc1 wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Blevins fails to get the only guy he was required to retire Yeah, I was less than enamored of this Callaway move. I mean, yeah, he'd have to answer all kinds of questions about why he didn't bring in the lefty to face Yelich, but I have enough confidence in Gsellman there with two outs and the only runner not even in scoring position. Agreed, especially for Ramos. However, Mickey felt obligated to do something because so far, he appears to always want to do something.

Well at that point it wasn't even about Ramos, it was just a choice between Gsellman or Blevins. But once Blevins failed to retire Yelich, Callaway was forced to go one more link down the chain and that's where things went haywire. I wanted him to stick with Gsellman for that one more out and if he gave up an extra base to Yelich (the runner was only on 1st) then I could have lived with it and not second-guessed the decision.

I disagreed with those fans yapping about the Syndergaard/Reyes switch, but if they want to carp about this one I'll understand.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Never wanted Ramos. Certainly could do without him now.

[ashie62]

Missed game.

Noah pulled after 74 pitches?

I mean really?

Becoming a non-Callaway fan, and quickly.

[MFS62]

Nymr83 wrote: DFA Ramos.

DFA?
He's a waste of DNA.

Later

[Edgy MD]

To me, it's less Ramos (who, yes, was quite stinky) and more about pulling your starter early and using your two longest relievers early, and so sending yourself into extras with the least of you options available.

[bmfc1]

This note from Tim Britton in The Athletic didn't make me feel any better: Ramos is being paid more than Addison Reed. So Sandy traded away Reed and didn't resign him but then traded for Ramos who is much, much worse and makes more money. Sandy is an idiot.

That Reed ended up signing a deal for less annual money to be a setup man in Minnesota — and that he’s been very good in that role — does not make any of this easier to swallow.

https://theathletic.com/369143?shared_by=133087

BTW, Tim Britton does a great job covering The Mets in The Athletic. It's worth the money, especially in an age when The Times is often using AP stories for The Mets.

[TransMonk]

I've personally witnessed too many walk-offs at Miller Park. Friday night wasn't as bad as the Mother's Day game in 2006 (a day game after my bachelor party...my head still hurts) or Tom Glavine's first failed attempt at win #300 in 2007, but losing to a walk-off is no fun. For a casual fan, this game was a good one because it had a little of everything: home runs, decent pitching, some good defense (Nimmos catch was AMAZING!), baserunning blunders, a close score throughout and a thrilling finish. Unfortunately, I'm not a casual fan and was disappointed with the result.

The Mets fans in the crowd did get loud in the 9th and even I was dancing in the aisle after Bautista tied it up. The Brewers fans thinned when the game went to extras and I was able to huddle with some Mets fans. We all looked at each other blankly when Blevins then Ramos came in. I think we all knew without saying a word that the win probability was tiny at that point.

I had a seat near the Mets on deck circle. I sat next to a man and his two young kids, painfully listening to him give them confident but (in most cases) inaccurate tutelage on how baseball is played. This was my third year in a row seeing a game down near the on deck circle and, man, I feel for Wilmer. I don't know if it is just Milwaukee, but he gets a lot of mean jeering about the crying incident even though it was almost 3 years ago now.

Headed back Saturday and Sunday. I am worried about Callaway's bullpen usage with Vargas and Wheeler pitching the next two games and the DH on Monday. With both Hader and Knebel up over 30 pitches last night, my hope is we won't see them on Saturday giving the Mets a better chance against the Milwaukee bullpen.

[Guest d'Kong76]

TransMonk wrote: This was my third year in a row seeing a game down near the on deck circle and, man, I feel for Wilmer. I don't know if it is just Milwaukee, but he gets a lot of mean jeering about the crying incident even though it was almost 3 years ago now.

Funny, it wouldn't even occur to me that lunkheads would jeer that. That
was as manly a moment as they come.

[Benjamin Grimm]

There have been 12 games this year in which Jerry Blevins has faced one and only one batter.

He's gotten his batter out 7 times, once on a strikeout. In the other five games, the batter got a hit three times and twice the batter walked.

Those are pretty bad numbers, but I actually thought they'd be worse.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Cast your vote!

[Frayed Knot]

Noah pulled after 74 pitches? I mean really?

A bit of a difference between being "pulled" and being pinch-hit for in a one-run game with 2-outs and the tying run on in the 7th inning.
And the bullpen (meaning: Lugo) retired the next six straight so that wasn't a problem either.

[Chad ochoseis]

d'Kong76 wrote: TransMonk wrote: This was my third year in a row seeing a game down near the on deck circle and, man, I feel for Wilmer. I don't know if it is just Milwaukee, but he gets a lot of mean jeering about the crying incident even though it was almost 3 years ago now. Funny, it wouldn't even occur to me that lunkheads would jeer that. That was as manly a moment as they come.

I guess they take it as him crying because he was being sent to Milwaukee, as opposed to crying because he was some kid who barely spoke English and knew nothing about American culture except what he'd learned from being in the Mets system since he was 16, and he was being sent to some place he knew nothing about. Midwestern cities have serious inferiority complexes, unless they're Chicago, and they get tetchy when someone snubs them. Cleveland still hasn't let Jonathan Lucroy forget that he vetoed a trade to the Indians in 2016.

Wilmer, by the way, looks like he's really turned into a veteran as far as handling the media, based on a quick interview I saw on WPIX. MLB.tv cuts away from SNY the moment a game ends, but occasionally will stay with broadcast TV for five or ten minutes of post-game interviews.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It seems that they usually stick with the telecast until the first commercial break.

[Benjamin Grimm]