The Next 13 Games

[Lefty Specialist]

A tough 13 games coming up against the Dodgers, Padres, Angels and Brewers back at Citi. So how well will they do?

[roger_that]

I went for all 13. Never give up, never surrender!!

[Lefty Specialist]

Personally, I'd be happy with a 6-7 stretch. It puts them at 41-24. After that it's 7 with the Marlins and 4 with the Astros to close out the month. They survive June in good shape, watch out.

[roger_that]

ok, maybe 12-1.

[kcmets]

I forgot to vote yesterday and just did. Even with last nights loss I

took 8 because Let's Go Mets.



#lgm #ygb #ymdyf

[seawolf17]

I voted ten, because I'm weirdly confident like that.

[roger_that]

Ok, maybe 11-2.

[Lefty Specialist]

=roger_that post_id=94640 time=1654342219 user_id=128]
Ok, maybe 11-2.

[nymr83]

That split feels amazing after starting 0-2 in dodger land!

[Edgy MD]

This trip is looking like a West Coast tour of alternative uniforms. Angels to debut City Connect jerseys Saturday evening against the Mets.

[Willets Point]

This is the fourth team to debut their City Connect uniforms in games against the Mets. The Mets are 2-1 so far when their opponents trot out their fancy new duds.



Miami Marlins - May 21, 2021 (Mets 6, Marlins 5 - 12 innings)

Los Angeles Dodgers - Aug. 20, 2021 (Dodgers 3, Mets 2)

Washington Nationals - April 9, 2022 (Mets 5, Nationals 0)

Los Angeles Angels - June 11, 2022

[Lefty Specialist]

I'm sure that there was a conversation in MLB's executive offices that went something like this:



"How can we generate more interest in the game?"



"I know! Let's do really ugly alternate uniforms!"



"Make it so!"

[Edgy MD]

The odd thing to me is the tacit suggestion that ... the current uniforms don't connect these teams to their cities?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I like the look of that Angel's set--very much evocative of that 60s surf culture they are trying to emulate-- I just feel it's a stretch to suggest Anaheim is a surfing town

[Edgy MD]

It's not as much of a departure from the standard kit as the others have been.



Not saying that's a bad thing.

[Centerfield]

In their brutal 13 game stretch last year, the Mets went 2-11. With last nights win, the 2022 Mets have clinched a better record in brutal 13 game stretches than the 2021 Mets.

[Edgy MD]

It's silly, but I kind of hope the Angels get this monkey off their back before we face them.

[MFS62]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I like the look of that Angel's set--very much evocative of that 60s surf culture they are trying to emulate-- I just feel it's a stretch to suggest Anaheim is a surfing town

If that player hadn't been holding a surfboard, I wouldn't have looked at those unis and thought "surfing".

Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

If the Angels really wanted to "connect" with the city of Anaheim, the players would all be dressed like Mickey Mouse.



I wasn't aware until this morning that the Angels were riding a 12-game losing streak. In just two weeks time, they went from being ten games over .500 to two games under. A cautionary tale!



Is Syndergaard lined up to face the Mets this weekend?

[kcmets]

Noah is pitching today versus Boston, so maybe Sunday?

[Edgy MD]

The thin-then-thick solid racing stripes are a theme from mid-century style common to surfboards, leisure wear, cars and such — particularly popular in culture emanating from Southern California.



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[Edgy MD]

France and Italy too.



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[Willets Point]

When thinking of MLB cities with a surf culture I still would go with San Diego rather than the one that is distant from the coast at the edge of a desert.

[Willets Point]

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Noah is pitching today versus Boston, so maybe Sunday?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Willets Point wrote: When thinking of MLB cities with a surf culture I still would go with San Diego rather than the one that is distant from the coast at the edge of a desert.

Yeah, but the Angels pretend that they play in Los Angeles.

[Edgy MD]

Willets Point wrote: When thinking of MLB cities with a surf culture I still would go with San Diego rather than the one that is distant from the coast at the edge of a desert.

That's the problem, though, right? Culturally, Anaheim doesn't really resonate much. It's most famous building is a fake castle. It's cultural institutions are borrowed and faux. It was founded by German immigrants who wanted to get into the wine game and didn't know what to do and got wiped out by a grape blight. It's the childhood home (though not the birthplace) of Jackie and Mack Robinson, but was also a huge upwardly mobile Klan stronghold.



Even to the extent that Anaheim=Disney, it's not really the provocative, woke Disney that MAGA resents, but the awkward (and worse) white-hegemony Disney that MAGA misses.



So, with the options of culture being theme parks and convention centers, it isn't too suprising that they'd borrow from a more resonant neighbor.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Are there major cultural and ideological differences between the two American Disneys? If so, I didnt have the slightest clue about that.

[batmagadanleadoff]

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Are there major cultural and ideological differences between the two American Disneys? If so, I didnt have the slightest clue about that.

[kcmets]

Willets Point wrote: Syndergaard lost the duel of ex-Met pitchers to Michael Wacha last night.

Got some cheesy intel but it's my fault for where I went looking. So Fri or Sat,

I'd really like to light his whiskers up (nothing personal, strictly business).

[Willets Point]

Edgy MD wrote: Willets Point wrote: When thinking of MLB cities with a surf culture I still would go with San Diego rather than the one that is distant from the coast at the edge of a desert. That's the problem, though, right? Culturally, Anaheim doesn't really resonate much. It's most famous building is a fake castle. It's cultural institutions are borrowed and faux. It was founded by German immigrants who wanted to get into the wine game and didn't know what to do and got wiped out by a grape blight. It's the childhood home (though not the birthplace) of Jackie and Mack Robinson, but was also a huge upwardly mobile Klan stronghold. Even to the extent that Anaheim=Disney, it's not really the provocative, woke Disney that MAGA resents, but the awkward (and worse) white-hegemony Disney that MAGA misses. So, with the options of culture being theme parks and convention centers, it isn't too suprising that they'd borrow from a more resonant neighbor.

Other potential themes: orange groves, Joshua Tree National Park, or something that people who live there know about that we wouldn't that really, you know, connect to the city.