IGT - 8/31. Senga vs Alcantara

[Edgy MD]

Lindor is the tying run.

[Edgy MD]

There will be no tying run.

[ashie62]

The Mets lost three of four to Miami



The road trip begins in Detroit with a 1:10 gaydame



I fully believe this road trip will either make or break the season



LGM!

[metirish]

The Mets lost three of four to the Marlins this weekend. They are 6.5 games back of the Phillies with 25 to play. The NL East is effectively over.



The Mets have a .412 win percentage over their last 68 games. Only five teams have been worse. They're all in fourth or fifth place.



DiComo

[whippoorwill]

https://twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/1962208768344645674

I have a Perlman plays Dvorak CD; very very nice

[Gwreck]

Edgy MD wrote: I prefer they use Mauricio to pinch-hit against righthanders.

Rather than whom?



I'd use Mauricio against a righty ahead of Taylor and Torrens.



No chance though that I'd use him before Marte, who has significant better numbers (including against righties).

[Edgy MD]

Not necessarily recently. Not necessarily convincingly so.



Plus, you still have Marte for later.

[Edgy MD]

Even taking the whole of the season, the difference is certainly not stark. Mauricio is .811-ing this year with his OPS vs. righties, with Marte at .830.

[Lundy]

Take mass transit. Those words were reverberating through my head as I contemplated my plans for the day. I had secured two tickets for me and my girlfriend for this Sunday's game--a door prize from a golf outing for a church I'm involved with. Because of the US Open--and a sellout crowd at Citi--all of the advisories had suggested to take the train to the game. But after finding out it would cost $12 more for two LIRR tickets, plus the fact I was not interested in the bullshit of having to change at Jamaica AND Woodside, I decided to roll the dice and hop in the car and drive.



That turned out to be the correct answer, as there was NO traffic on a Sunday morning, and if there was any additional Open traffic, it was not visible on the route I took to Flushing. We got into the lot about an hour before game time, which I thought would give us plenty of time to find our seats and maybe even get a bite to eat before first pitch. Sounded like a good plan.



But God laughed at our plan. As we got close to the gate, I pulled up the Ballpark app and attempted to load our tickets. They wouldn't load. Fortunately the Mets got wind of a system-wide problem with the MLB app and sent a bunch of minion employees to help everyone navigate to our tickets. But I still couldn't load them, so I was directed to the ticket windows, where they would help. Problem was, those lines were already 12 deep at least. So the early arrival to the park didn't matter, I was caught in ticketing hell. After about 30 minutes to get to the head of the line, my tickets magically appeared on the app. I scurried back to where my girlfriend was by security. Finally our tickets scanned. We missed all of the pre-game stuff and most of the top of the first by the time we got to our seats. At that point it was 1-0, and I thought no big deal, since runs were coming in bunches this series.



Wrong again. This game was by far the flattest I had seen the Mets. Many balls were hit to the warning track but none went out. The pesky Marlins kept making solid contact. The Mets didn't reciprocate. Senga just wasn't the Senga from the first half of the season. I missed the skirmish on the field in the 7th as we were getting ice cream. I was hoping that would fire them up, but not this day.



We did stay till the end, but ended up going home in disappointment. At least the ride out of the stadium, and the ride back to Deer Park on the LIE was uneventful.



It certainly was a beautiful day for baseball. It just wasn't an enjoyable day by any means.

[whippoorwill]

Hi Lundy!



Was there a brawl?

[Edgy MD]

There was a dugout-emptying standoff. Mark Vientos got brushed somewhere between the belly and belt buckle, and the exchange was mostly a series of rhetorical questions.



　　"What are you trying to hit me for?"



　　　　"Why would I try to hit you?"



　　"That is what I am asking. Why are you trying to hit me?"



　　　　"I'm trying to hit you?"



　　"But why?"



　　　　"Why what?"



　　"Why are you trying to hit me?"



　　　　"Why would I try to hit you?"



So on and so forth. The dugouts and — ultimately — the bullpens emptied. In the end, it provided no more fireworks than the Mets offense. The players mostly just exchanged pleasantries and phone numbers, but for a moment, it looked like Alonso was going to try to go with somebody.

[whippoorwill]

Aha….



And, I am finally going to say this out loud.



Who the hell cuts Alonso's hair?

[Edgy MD]

Johnny Lunchbucket used to regularly call attention to this. Alonso clearly is unhappy with his hair and cannot find a thing to do with it. I suspect he has filled in some spots on the hairline here and there, but neither he nor his barbers have come up with a way to tied the whole thing together.



I would also offer that the looks of several heads of hair on the team — McNeil and Soto among them — are neither here nor there, and a collective visit to a barber might be a good bonding opportunity.



Pete, though, is definitely the most wanting in this department.

[Gwreck]

=Lundy post_id=202935 time=1756693877 user_id=101]As we got close to the gate, I pulled up the Ballpark app and attempted to load our tickets. They wouldn't load. Fortunately the Mets got wind of a system-wide problem with the MLB app and sent a bunch of minion employees to help everyone navigate to our tickets. But I still couldn't load them, so I was directed to the ticket windows, where they would help. Problem was, those lines were already 12 deep at least. So the early arrival to the park didn't matter, I was caught in ticketing hell.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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