Break the Free Fall IGT - 8/17/20 Mets @ Marlins

[Edgy MD]

Pitchers are just all over the place.

[Edgy MD]

This Canó guy might have himself a career.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

back to back gigantic HRs for Cano and Alonso

[Frayed Knot]

(Justin) Shafer is the one pitcher to have

when you're hitting more than one

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: Just the fact that this game in still in play is ridiculous. And it's not just in play but I'd say it's in danger!

Starting to feel a bit better about this one.

[kcmets]

The Mets have the names and addresses of hundreds of thousands of fans.

Everytime a ball this season is retired in a game that would be chucked into

the stands they should randomly mail a game-used ball to someone.

[Edgy MD]

The Beta-Josh Smith guy looks like a righthanded Jon Niese.

[Edgy MD]

That Ozzie Smith stop by Rosario is going to light the fuse on his season

[Edgy MD]

=kcmets post_id=44039 time=1597715708 user_id=53]
The Mets have the names and addresses of hundreds of thousands of fans.

Everytime a ball this season is retired in a game that would be chucked into

the stands they should randomly mail a game-used ball to someone.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

You guys are dreaming. The Mets are in the business of charging their fans for nice experiences, and certainly don't always deliver them.

[kcmets]

The bean counter and the journalist do marketing, details at eleven.

[ashie62]

Nice to see the offense power up



Cardboard cutouts for everybody

[Edgy MD]

Tell me this guy doesn't look Niesey.



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[kcmets]

This game feels five hours old.

[nymr83]

=kcmets post_id=44048 time=1597718289 user_id=53]
This game feels five hours old.

[Edgy MD]

Poor Kilome. They send him out for one more inning, and you just know he's getting sent down 10 minutes after the game ends.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I just noticed that the Bosox are losing again to the mfys, they are 6-16 this year including the 2 gifts we gave them.

[nymr83]

Frayed Knot wrote: Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: That has to be one of the worst 3-run innings I've ever seen. They should scored about 10. The problem isn't that they scored only 3 times after bags-loaded/no outs (2.5 is about the norm) ... it's that they scored only one additional run after they cashed in two and still had 2nd & 3rd/no outs even though they tacked on another double. Yeah and add in the dumb baserunning, the stupid managerial challenges that are ineffective (I feel like you should win 90% of those you initiate) the hbps, the walks on both sides, the bad outfielding on both sides. Just awful baseball Here's my solution: Lose a challenge and you lose the right to challenge again for a week! THAT would stop those piddley-ass challenges.

The managerial challenges remain annoying. I don't want to find out if the string hanging off the second baseman's glove may have grazed a shoelace of the baserunner or f a ball down the line may have kicked up a microscopic amount of chalk. I want the baserunner in Galaragga's "perfect game" called out at first base because he was out by a foot.



I'm down with no challenges for a week if you lose one.



On the flip side, the humble umpires should be allowed to ask for one whenever they want. But demanding they do so without using your own challenge will be punished the same as arguing balls and strikes.

[Edgy MD]

Damn. Thing. Over.

[ashie62]

BOOKS!

[Frayed Knot]

And in (just barely) under four hours !!!!

[LWFS]

Edgy MD wrote: =kcmets post_id=44039 time=1597715708 user_id=53] The Mets have the names and addresses of hundreds of thousands of fans. Everytime a ball this season is retired in a game that would be chucked into the stands they should randomly mail a game-used ball to someone.

I was thinking something similar, only you get the ball if it hits the seat your plastic corrugated self is positioned in.

[Edgy MD]

I'm not known for my marketing acumen, but it seems to me that a lottery of free ballz are a low-cost value added to increase sales of $68 corrugated plastic photo cutouts.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

It'[s great marketing but the Mets can't or won't be bothered.



The Met thing to do would be to collect them in bunches and then have Paul Sewald and Nimmo do a camera-ready donation to a little league or something. Cheaper and from the Mets' POV the kind of wide-ranging PR pop they like. The one-to-one marketing with fans is all transactional in nature to them.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It would be really cool if a game-used baseball was won by a dog.



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http://potg.leaptoad.com/mets/index.phpCast your vote!

[Benjamin Grimm]

(If I'm ever going to retire one of the Schaefer graphics, I think it will be this one.)

[Edgy MD]

I fondly recall living in an America where finding a button was a cause for communal joy all day long.

[ashie62]

No. She could be tanked from the beer though.

[kcmets]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: (If I'm ever going to retire one of the Schaefer graphics, I think it will be this one.)

Those rosy cheeks? The red hair? Her kerchief matches her dress!

That's mad accessorizing! Polka dots!

[Benjamin Grimm]

I dunno. Sometimes she strikes me as perhaps being a bit deranged.