It's the Springtime of Our Lives 2023

[A Boy Named Seo]

We were in town for my mom's memorial service, which was Saturday evening. We flew in Friday and home Monday, so that left us with one day to have a bit of fun in Florida. My wife and daughter opted for shopping at a big outlet mall. My son and I opted for baseball, naturally. That's not a great capture, he had a big ol grin on his face for the majority of the game. This was my early birthday gift to him as he turns 18 on Friday. The guy to my son's left, and his wife, were some serious Jersey people. I told the guy he looked and sounded like he just rolled out of the Bada Bing club. He paused for a good 8-10 seconds and then went, "OK, enough of that." They were great.

Condolences, brudda. Glad you were able to crack a couple smiles over the weekend anyway.



The guy on your left looks like Danny McBride trying to enjoy a game as Kenny Powers.

[metirish]

Nice one Fman , enjoyed seeing the pictures

[Edgy MD]

The guy to my son's left, and his wife, were some serious Jersey people. I told the guy he looked and sounded like he just rolled out of the Bada Bing club. He paused for a good 8-10 seconds and then went, "OK, enough of that." They were great.

That guy had some good walrus features going on. I thought you were chatting up David Crosby.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Could pass for Rod Beck, too.

[MFS62]

Time for my second annual, prematurely bordering on maturely, panic stricken Spring Training post.

They still haven't fucking hit.



Later

[Edgy MD]

Sure they have.



It's just that a lot of players haven't been with them.

[Chad ochoseis]

Watching the Mets-Astros game from earlier this afternoon. Damn, Jerry Blevins is good in the booth.

[kcmets]

Today's game at Los Bravos is on MLB Channel at 1:00 for those so

inclined to watch or record. Pre-season winding down!

[metirish]

[G-Fafif]

https://twitter.com/AnthonyDiComo/status/1638954891749236742

Ruf adds, “My girlfriend in Canada is a total smoke show.”

[metirish]

Buck then brought up the price of gas , but no one wants to talk about that either

[kcmets]

Is the huge guy behind home plate Kevin James?

[kcmets]

Didn't realize the big guy had a Braves hat on and tee shirt. Everyone know

Doug Heffernan is true to the orange and blue.



2-2 is your final today, 2:07 quickie!!

[bmfc1]

When Kevin James and Adam Sandler were plugging a movie they took BP at CF (?) and YS. At each park, they were given a uniform of the home team. Kevin James refused to put on a Yankees uniform. Kevin's daughter's name is "Shea".

[kcmets]

Today's game at Tampon Bay is on MLB Channel at 1:00 for those so

inclined to watch or record. Pre-season winding down!



#lgm #ygb #ymdyf

[Fman99]

=kcmets post_id=120509 time=1679670009 user_id=53]
Today's game at Tampon Bay is on MLB Channel at 1:00 for those so

inclined to watch or record. Pre-season winding down!



#lgm #ygb #ymdyf

[Edgy MD]

Mets up 5-3 over the X-Ray Specs. Pete Alonso with two hits including a three-run homer, along with a double for Mr. Smile. Welcome home evahbody.

[Edgy MD]

Scherzer is working at 1000 miles per hour, calling his own pitches with the Pitch-Com on the back of his glove.

[Edgy MD]

Luis Guillorme leading off has reached three times in three trips, walking twice and singling, with two runs and two RBI.

[Fman99]

=Fman99 post_id=120510 time=1679670506 user_id=86]
=kcmets post_id=120509 time=1679670009 user_id=53]
Today's game at Tampon Bay is on MLB Channel at 1:00 for those so

inclined to watch or record. Pre-season winding down!



#lgm #ygb #ymdyf

[Edgy MD]

Has Scherzer really thrown 118 pitches or is the box score making that up?

[Edgy MD]

Your final is 11-2. Max Sherzer went seven innings, striking out 12. The last two innings of shutout ball came courtesy of

• Zach Muckenhirn, who hopes to catch on as the second lefty and designated "Zach," and


• Trey McLoughlin, who struck out two despite peaking at A+ (five innings last season) so far in his career, hailing from Bridgeport, and looking like Craig Swan (if you squint).

Omar Narvaez added his first homer in a Met uniform.

[Edgy MD]

Mets fielding an Opening Day-type lineup today with Nimmo-Marte-Lindor-Alonso-Ruf-McNiel-Canha-Escobar-Narvaez.

[G-Fafif]

Stop Gary Apple before he announces again.

[kcmets]

Thursday seems so far away. I was going to post this in the months-

old IGT (that I thought we had) but couldn't find it.



#lgm #ygb #ymdyf

[G-Fafif]

The Mets finish Spring with a 10-14 record plus however many ties. I looked up their Grapefruit League record for the first time just before the last out of the last game when it occurred to me I had no idea whether they'd been primarily losing or primarily winning or neither.



It'll be nice to care again.

[MFS62]

In other Grapefruit League action, Houston beat St. Louis 24-1.

Must be a lot of guys on Houston fighting for roster spots.



Later

[metirish]

Wow , quick hook

[nymr83]

Unless the catcher said something we don't know about that was absurd

[Frayed Knot]

So the background to this is that pitcher Kimbrel had been called for a pitch clock violation on the previous pitch resulting in ball four.

Probably mad at the call, he somewhat angrily threw the ball out of play (maybe it was the ball's fault?) then rejected the replacement

ball the HP ump tossed him also. Rather than throw out another ball to Kimbrel, the ump, probably thinking he was being punked at

this point, opted instead to drop the next offering into Realmuto's mitt. When JTR's glove suddenly disappeared the ump must have

assumed that the backstop was also party to the ongoing act and immediately tossed him.



But Realmuto wasn't looking back so it doesn't seem like he could have known when to pull the glove away if that was even his intention.

I think he just probably reflexively offered his glove then, when no ball was immediately placed there, assumed the ump was going to

throw it out himself as he had just done the previous time.

The ump is a minor league one with 30-some replacement appearances in the majors under his belt. Not sure if this incident sends

him back to the end of the line or not but it wasn't a good look for him.