ST-IGT's - The Whole Shabang in One Thread!?!

[kcmets]

[Fman99]

I will once again be ignoring the real time updates in favor of a fresh 8 PM replay on SNY tonight.

[Edgy MD]

https://twitter.com/Mets/status/1234860026193416195

I guess the first eight here is as good a peek as any at what Luis Rojas' opening day lineup is going to look like — at least, what it's going to look like if Céspedes isn't ready..

[Lefty Specialist]

I think it's a pretty good bet that neither he or Lowrie will be ready. It's looking like they'll be Extended Spring Training roomies.

[Fman99]

Edgy MD wrote: I guess the first eight here is as good a peek as any at what Luis Rojas' opening day lineup is going to look like — at least, what it's going to look like if Céspedes isn't ready..

I said that to my son - thinking that aside from maybe seeing J.D. Davis in left in lieu of Dom Smith, depending on how his shoulder heals.

[MFS62]

As heard on WFAN: Whether he is ready or not, he will say that he is because of a $5 million bonus payment if he is on the opening day roster. They went on to say that if he says he is ready and the Mets keep him off the fans will say "The Wilpons are trying to save money again". Of course, the ones who said it were the new team of "Moose and Maggie" and Mark Malusis has yet to say anything complimentary about the Mets, back to the days when I saw him on SNY.

Later

Edited March 4, 2020 by Guest

[Frayed Knot]

Lefty Specialist wrote: I think it's a pretty good bet that neither he or Lowrie will be ready. It's looking like they'll be Extended Spring Training roomies.

Or extended Spring Training lifers! (amirite folks?)





DVR alert: ESPN is taking some time away from NFL draft talk this week (hey, it's only seven weeks away and those fake lists aren't going to create themselves) to show a string of MLB exhibition over

the last/next few days. Today the Mets & Cards are featured (1 PM EST) and what the four-letter network has been doing with these games is mic-ing up selected players for in-game comments. But

we're not just talking about dugout yapping, they're eavesdropping on in-AB chatter ('I think I going to get a fastball here') going out live as the game is happening. This, depending on your P.O.V., is

either a great innovation which should immediately be used in all games going forward so as to 'liven-up' the tired old game of baseball, or it's a ridiculous intrusion and a coming sign of the apocalypse.

[Edgy MD]

It's also kind of paradoxical considering the shame and stigma on the whole league because a champion tried to use electronic communications to gain an edge.

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: It's also kind of paradoxical considering the shame and stigma on the whole league because a champion tried to use electronic communications to gain an edge.

I'm sure that's what gave them the idea. Capitalize on the buzz. ESPN is a network about athletes, not sport, after all.



I'm generally pro that I think, though not by ESPN who will focus the whole broadcast around it and miss fly balls to left field and runners tagging up to talk about it.



Personally I'd also like access to pick my camera feed. I want to decode the signs too

[kcmets]

(and not for nothing, this year's Twitter lineup artwork if kinda fugly)

[Fman99]

No replay on ESPN games, but I was happy to remember to set my YoutubeTV DVR to record this game, so that I can watch it tonight.

[Ceetar]

this is actually kinda fun.

[kcmets]

I too was just going to say how much fun it is listening to all this stuff. It's

clearly something for exhibition games only, but it's well done and interesting.

For some reason I was expecting the Cards broadcast and some mics slapped

on all sloppy but they put some thought into it for a change.

[Frayed Knot]

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I too was just going to say how much fun it is listening to all this stuff. It's

clearly something for exhibition games only ...

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Looks like a nice solid win today with Str0man throwing 00s and Eduardo Nunez making a case for a job.

[Edgy MD]

Nice inside-out base hit by 'Lo.

[Fman99]

I enjoyed the chatter as well. The guys they miked up (Davis, McNeil, Alonso, Smith, Cano) all seemed to have fun with it and to be enjoying their spring. Nice change of pace.

[MFS62]

=Fman99 post_id=32825 time=1583410362 user_id=86]
I enjoyed the chatter as well. The guys they miked up (Davis, McNeil, Alonso, Smith, Cano) all seemed to have fun with it and to be enjoying their spring. Nice change of pace.

[Fman99]

Pete dropped at least one F-bomb that I heard, so, apparently, they just weren't that quick with the dump button.



The best part was Dom Smith saying in his last miked at bat that the pitcher had not yet this spring thrown him a first pitch fastball. And so he did, and Dom was sitting on it and just missed an opposite field home run.

[kcmets]

Mets visit the split-squad Cards this afternoon, no media coverage unless they

run some Gamedayesque thing or something...



Porcello kicks things off and your starters are:

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Rosario SS

Canó 2B

Alonso DH

Smith 1B

Cordell RF

Nido C

Guillorme 3B

Parker LF

Fargas CF

[Ceetar]

cards radio if you've got the app.

[kcmets]

True, and I think https://tunein.com/radio/New-York-Mets-at-St-Louis-Cardinals-Mar-5-2020-p1294041/this will work too.

[Edgy MD]

Three shutout innings from that Porcello fellow look good until Tyler "The Burly" Bashlor gets lit up for six runs in the the fifth without retiring three batters.



We go to the ninth locked at seven. Mets mainstays Jarrett "Bird" Parker, Patrick Mazeika, and Johneshwy "Huggy Bear" Fargas have all gone deep.

[Edgy MD]

And the Cards get the winning run to second, but Stephen Gonsalves strikes out his man, and it looks like the Mets and Cards are going to call it an afternoon.



Gonso having himself a tight spring.

[Benjamin Grimm]

He's now officially my favorite "Johneshwy".

[Edgy MD]

If you ever get around to putting pronunciation guides in the UMDB, it's jə-NESH-wee.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Did you get that from Gary Cohen?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Johneshwy hit for the cycle I hear. Gonzo is now my official Dark Horse Met.

[Edgy MD]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Did you get that from Gary Cohen?

Cohen and Howie and the Cards guy today seem to agree.

[kcmets]

6:05 start today versus the Canbangers - KBME 790 AM

Wachawachawacha gets the first few...



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Nimmo CF

Alonso 1B

Confortboom DH

Ramos C

Rosario SS

Nuñez 2B

Parker LF

Cordell RF

Guillorme 3B