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I never like bringing long men in in the middle of the inning.



Throw Joe Sambito or some other traditional-but-expendable guy out there to stop the bleeding or die trying, and then let the long man start fresh the next inning.



This goes double if your long man is a minor league starter not used to coming in in the middle of an inning.



And triple if it's his first time out there.


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Not a fan of Alonso laughing and chuckling it up with Freeman down by four.


I would. It's freakin' baseball and barring a horrible injury, Alonso's gonna be as "rich as Rockefeller" in a coupl'a years while he's still in his freakin' 20s. Not that Alonso's hurtin' for dough right now.


Said nothing about money. If you're ok with him yucking it up the enemy, then

we now know one more thing about your dollars and sense of things.


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Not a fan of Alonso laughing and chuckling it up with Freeman down by four.


I would. It's freakin' baseball and barring a horrible injury, Alonso's gonna be as "rich as Rockefeller" in a coupl'a years while he's still in his freakin' 20s. Not that Alonso's hurtin' for dough right now.


Said nothing about money. If you're ok with him yucking it up the enemy, then

we now know one more thing about your dollars and sense of things.

I know you didn't say anything about money. So what? What does that have to do with anything? I'm the one who introduced money into the discussion. My post wasn't about money either, even though I did mention money. What I'm saying is that the guy's on top of the world.



Your post resonated with me because I saw the movie Moneyball last week on cable TV. I'd seen it before. Maybe twice. And last week, the scene that stuck out for me was when an A's player was acting ubpeat and happy in the locker room following an A's loss. The Billy Beane character (Brad Pitt) walks by and has a fit when he sees this. He throws stuff all over the place and browbeats the player. "Is losing fun? No? Then why are you having fun?"



And I couldn't relate to Beane. Maybe it's my age. But Beane's reaction made no sense to me. I don't see how one thing neessarily has anything to do with the other. I don't see how listening and grooving to your music means you don't care about the loss. At that moment, Beane's reaction felt idiotic to me.



Your post triggered that reaction.



I used money as a substitute for "two superstars on top of the world". I'm sure they'll both lose this night's sleep over the fact that you're not happy with their socializing. Call Bob Gibson. Now you know one more thing about me, whatever that is. Write it down in the psycho book that you keep that's all about me.


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I saw the movie Moneyball last week on cable TV. I'd seen it before. Maybe twice. And last week, the scene that stuck out for me was when an A's player was acting ubpeat and happy in the locker room following an A's loss. The Billy Beane character (Brad Pitt) walks by and has a fit when he sees this. He throws stuff all over the place and browbeats the player. "Is losing fun? No? Then why are you having fun?"



And I couldn't relate to Beane. Maybe it's my age. But Beane's reaction made no sense to me. I don't see how one thing neessarily has anything to do with the other. I don't see how listening and grooving to your music means you don't care about the loss. At that moment, Beane's reaction felt idiotic to me.


The other night, Conforto (I believe) talked about what a good sign it was that the Mets never get down, that even when they lose, they still have the music on in the clubhouse. Made me wonder if that's a specific reaction to the Billy Beane/Jeremy Giambi scene.


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=batmagadanleadoff post_id=69665 time=1625103959 user_id=68]What I'm saying is that the guy's on top of the world.

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=kcmets post_id=69667 time=1625104607 user_id=53]
=batmagadanleadoff post_id=69665 time=1625103959 user_id=68]What I'm saying is that the guy's on top of the world.

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Well, that's what I get wishing for a blowout win.

Sometimes you almost get what you wish for.

My bad.



Later


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So Szapucki goes back to SYR after the game? They can't use him for two days now so they might as well get another body in the bullpen.


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Not a fan of Alonso laughing and chuckling it up with Freeman down by four.


I've been thinking about this when I've watched Mets-Braves games this season. When Albies got his RBI single back in the first, he and Pete were yucking it up at 1B. A couple of weeks ago when Nido got hit, Freeman went down the line to check on him, and when Nido took his base, it looked to me like Freeman said something like "tough break, I've been there". The rivalry seems friendlier than it was in the days of Larry Jones.



Nothing wrong with that. It's not like the Mets were going to start scoring runs if Szapucki threw a fast one at Freeman's head.



On the other hand, the Mets and Phillies always seem to be on the verge of beating the crap out of each other as soon as they take the field.


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Guillorme to the mound.



He went into the dugout for another glove, but his new glove seems to have an open webbing too.


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