Jump to content
Grand Central Mets
  • Create Account

IGT, 9/12, ARI@NYM, Launching the Stoins Era!

Edgy MD

By Edgy MD
in Archived Game Threads

 Share

Recommended Posts

Edgy MD FCL Mets

Edgy MD

Site Manager
Posted
Posted


I want active participation tonight. No more messing about with "family" and "career advancement" and "#lifegoals." José Butto is pitching well but still looking for his first career win.



The reason for that? It's in the mirror, Buddy.




[TABLE][TR][/TR][TR][/TR][TR][/TR][TR][/TR][TR][/TR][TR][/TR][TR][/TR][TR][/TR][TR][/TR][TR][/TR][TR][/TR][TR][/TR]
[TR][/TR][/TABLE]
[TH][/TH][TH][FIMG=250]https://cdn.freebiesupply.com/images/large/2x/arizona-diamondbacks-logo-transparent.png[/FIMG]




[/TH]		[TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][FIMG=250]https://cdn.freebiesupply.com/images/large/2x/new-york-mets-logo-transparent.png[/FIMG][/TH][TH][/TH]
[TH]#[/TH][TH]Player[/TH][TH]Pos.[/TH][TH]#[/TH][TH]Player[/TH][TH]Pos.[/TH]
[TD]=#E3D4AD]1[/TD][TD]=#A71930]Corbin Carroll (L)[/TD][TD]=#E3D4AD]rf[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]1[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Brandon Nimmo (L) CF (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]cf[/TD]
[TD]=#E3D4AD]2[/TD][TD]=#A71930]Ketel Marte (S)[/TD][TD]=#E3D4AD]2b[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]2[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Francisco Lindor (S) SS (S)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]ss[/TD]
[TD]=#E3D4AD]3[/TD][TD]=#A71930]Tommy Pham (R)[/TD][TD]=#E3D4AD]dh[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]3[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Jeff McNeil (L) LF (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]lf[/TD]
[TD]=#E3D4AD]4[/TD][TD]=#A71930]Christian Walker (R)[/TD][TD]=#E3D4AD]1b[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]4[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Pete Alonso (R) 1B (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]1b[/TD]
[TD]=#E3D4AD]5[/TD][TD]=#A71930]Alek Thomas (L)[/TD][TD]=#E3D4AD]cf[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]5[/TD][TD]=#002D72]DJ Stewart (L) RF (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]rf[/TD]
[TD]=#E3D4AD]6[/TD][TD]=#A71930]Lourdes Gurriel, Jr. (R)[/TD][TD]=#E3D4AD]lf[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]6[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Ronny Mauricio (S) 2B (S)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]2b[/TD]
[TD]=#E3D4AD]7[/TD][TD]=#A71930]Jace Peterson (L)[/TD][TD]=#E3D4AD]3b[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]7[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Mark Vientos (R) DH (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]dh[/TD]
[TD]=#E3D4AD]8[/TD][TD]=#A71930]Jose Herrera (S)[/TD][TD]=#E3D4AD]c[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]8[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Brett Baty (L) 3B (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]3b[/TD]
[TD]=#E3D4AD]9[/TD][TD]=#A71930]Geraldo Perdomo (S)[/TD][TD]=#E3D4AD]ss[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]9[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Francisco Alvarez (R) C (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]c[/TD]
[TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH]
[TD]=#E3D4AD][/TD][TD]=#A71930]Ryne Nelson (R)[/TD][TD]=#E3D4AD]sp[/TD][TD]=#FF5910][/TD][TD]=#002D72]José Butto (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]sp[/TD]


Edgy MD FCL Mets

Edgy MD

Site Manager
Posted
  • Author
Posted


It's too bad Ronnie isn't in the booth. He has a good account of being hazed by Hodges as a rookie, and time didn't seem to have softened the bitterness.


Edgy MD FCL Mets

Edgy MD

Site Manager
Posted
  • Author
Posted


D.J.'s breakthrough as a hitter has been a revelation, and he's clearly hustling to do his best on defense, but he should never be considered anything but an emergency option in the outfield.



It's September and the Mets dropped Pham and Canha at the deadline and parked Marte on the shelf, so an emergency is sort of where the team is, but it'd be hard for any serious team to open a season with both Stewart and Vogelbach on the roster while first base is blocked.


kcmets Draft Eligible

kcmets

Old-Timey Member
Posted
Posted


Edgy MD wrote:

It's too bad Ronnie isn't in the booth. He has a good account of being hazed by Hodges as a rookie, and time didn't seem to have softened the bitterness.


Tell us more!


Edgy MD FCL Mets

Edgy MD

Site Manager
Posted
  • Author
Posted



Edgy MD wrote:

It's too bad Ronnie isn't in the booth. He has a good account of being hazed by Hodges as a rookie, and time didn't seem to have softened the bitterness.


Tell us more!


I'll see if I can find the book.


kcmets Draft Eligible

kcmets

Old-Timey Member
Posted
Posted


The story sounds familiar, my recollections of all-stuff Mets

is not what it used to be.


Edgy MD FCL Mets

Edgy MD

Site Manager
Posted
  • Author
Posted


=kcmets post_id=137338 time=1694568316 user_id=53]
The story sounds familiar, my recollections of all-stuff Mets

is not what it used to be.

MFS62 First Round Pick

MFS62

Old-Timey Member
Posted
Posted


I hope Stoins isn't watching this game or he might reconsider taking the job.



Later


Frayed Knot FCL Mets

Frayed Knot

Old-Timey Member
Posted
Posted


Edgy MD wrote:

Looks like the Mets are starting to seriously regret the two ducks they left out there last inning.


Or any of the 8 LOBsters they've left out there so far tonight with their usual 1/10 w/RiSP


Edgy MD FCL Mets

Edgy MD

Site Manager
Posted
  • Author
Posted



The story sounds familiar, my recollections of all-stuff Mets

is not what it used to be.



It was September 1, 1983, but because the Tides were still making a run at the championship and because the Mets were so far out of contention that they didn't exactly need reinforcements at the big league level, not a lot of my other teammates had gotten the call along with me. In any case, no one else joined the big club on the same day. Clint Hurdle came the following week, along with Mike Fitzgerald, but for the time being, I didn't really know anybody. I kept to myself; I remember that. And I was careful not to say or do anything too stupid or rookie-like; I remember that most of all.



My keep-a-low-profile strategy didn't prevent me from standing out. On my very first day with the team, I put on my crisp, clean new uniform and made my way to the Mets dugout, about thirty minutes before anybody else. I wanted to soak it all in. It was a warm, sultry night. After a while, my new teammates started to trickle in. I'd been to spring training that year, so I knew some of the guys, but I wasn't about to say a word. I wanted to stay out of everybody's way, that's all. I sat by myself on the bench, but no one else was sitting. Guys were fooling around, roughhousing, talking about their post-season plans. I hardly noticed, to tell the truth. I was just so excited. I must have looked like such a rube, sitting there the end of the bench in my too-white uniform, too chickenshit to talk to anyone, but I didn't care. I was just happy to be there. Finally, Ron Hodges headed in my direction. He'd been a catcher for the Mets for years and years—since the team's “You Gotta Believe!” 1973 season, when they nearly won the World Series. He wasn't in the lineup, but he'd just finished warming up the pitcher and he'd come back to the dugout to stow some of his gear. He looked at me; for a beat or two I thought he might come over and introduce himself, maybe welcome me to the team.



Sure enough, he did walk over, but he didn't introduce himself. Or maybe he did, only not in the way I was expecting. He just gave me a sidelong look and spit a think wad of tobacco juice onto my clean white pant leg. He didn't say anything. He just spit, and the tobacco juice left a huge, ugly brown stain. Then he walked to the other end of the bench and continued to put his equipment away.



I wanted to crawl under the dugout bench and die.



Today's ballplayers are issued two or three sets of pants with each uniform, but I had only that one pair. I couldn't go back to my locker and change. I had to sit there, all through my first game as a professional baseball player, with my jacket draped over my pants to hide the stain. It would have been funny if there had been a couple other veterans around to take in the scene—a textbook example of rookie hazing. At least I would have had the chance to be a good sport about it. I might have even understood it if Ron had said something to me afterward. I could have shrugged it off, like it was nothing at all. But I don't think anyone else was even watching, and Ron didn't say anything either, so it was just a weirdly mortifying, humiliating moment. It put me in my place—to be taken down a couple of notches for no good reason but the perverse pleasure of it. It seemed so cruel, so arbitrary. But that's baseball, I guess. It builds you up like nothing else, and then it knocks you right back down again.


Ron Darling

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/36863/the-complete-game-by-ron-darling-with-daniel-paisner/The Complete Game

Pp. 27–28

Alfred A. Knopf (New York), 2009



https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/36863/the-complete-game-by-ron-darling-with-daniel-paisner/


Edgy MD FCL Mets

Edgy MD

Site Manager
Posted
  • Author
Posted


=MFS62 post_id=137342 time=1694569671 user_id=60]
I hope Stoins isn't watching this game or he might reconsider taking the job.



Later

MFS62 First Round Pick

MFS62

Old-Timey Member
Posted
Posted


Edgy MD wrote:

=MFS62 post_id=137342 time=1694569671 user_id=60]
I hope Stoins isn't watching this game or he might reconsider taking the job.



Later


If he's not going to take the job because because Sam Coonrod isn't pitching well, I'm not sure I want him.
Edgy MD FCL Mets

Edgy MD

Site Manager
Posted
  • Author
Posted


If the Mets don't score again, and they let Reed Garrett finish up, they could have their second first-career-win/first-career-save/first-career-homer game of the season.


Edgy MD FCL Mets

Edgy MD

Site Manager
Posted
  • Author
Posted


I keep getting mlb.tv adds asking me to vote for the Roberto Clemente Award.



I can't see where putting the award to a public vote adds to its credibility.


Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share
Go to topic listing
The Grand Central Mets Caretaker Fund
The Grand Central Mets Caretaker Fund

You all care about this site. The next step is caring for it. We’re asking you to caretake this site so it can remain the premier Mets community on the internet.

Become a Caretaker

  • Member Statistics

    209
    Total Members
    48,845
    Most Online
    Scott Cooper
    Newest Member
    Scott Cooper
    Joined
×
×
  • Create New...