Subtle Distinctions Bring Clean Work

[Edgy MD]

Now that we've had two+ times through the rotation as it was meant to be in spring, we can build our mnemonic to remember the rotation and figure out who is pitching tomorrow without having to call Buck Showalter at crazy hours.



Starting with Max Scherzer, who started the team's first game after the All-Star break, the rotation seems to be looping around as Scherzer-deGrom-Bassitt-Carrasco-Walker, or SDBCW.



So, just remember, "Subtle Distinctions Bring Clean Work!"



Unless you've got something better.



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[kcmets]

Max would do well in a pirate movie.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Stop Drinking Brown Cruddy Water.

[Fman99]

Sucking Dick Behooves Classy Women

[Lefty Specialist]

Sam Darnold Blows Chunks Weekly.

[G-Fafif]

METS ROTATION WORLD TOUR

San Diego

British Columbia

Washington

[Edgy MD]

With an occasional stopover in Portland for Game Two of a doubleheader.



Well done, each and all.

[Frayed Knot]

I was actually recently thinking about how we could use a rotation mnemonic for this crew.

Good that someone beat me to it as my procrastination would likely have delayed it until the season was over.



IIRC, our first one was: Let's Treat Edgy At Dinner (and several variations of that)

[Edgy MD]

You'd think I'd remember that.



I'm guessing that's Leiter/Trachsel/Estes/Astacio/D'Amico?

[Frayed Knot]

Yup.

I was drawing a blank on Astacio

[Edgy MD]

A solid rotation were they, for half a season.



Melted down like Chernobyl in the second half, if I correctly recall.

[Frayed Knot]

And didn't Astacio fall apart almost immediately after hitting some threshold that guaranteed his contract for the following season?

[Edgy MD]

No, he fell apart a few outings before that, but for some reason, Bobby Valentine kept starting him until he got over the finish line.