IGT 6/18 Mets to clean up Philthy 6:40 Manaea vs Nola

[Edgy MD]

CarBen now has an OPS over .700.

that's pretty impressive considering it was .504 on May 1.

[Edgy MD]

Bichette should've bunted.  His whole purpose should have been staying out of the double-play to get Soto up.

[Edgy MD]

Minter should still be out there.

[Edgy MD]

And yet, Weavy Wonder is unstoppable.

[Centerfield]

Luke Weaver is awesome. Love the swagger. 

[Centerfield]

Ok. Let’s score 8

[Frayed Knot]

I think I've forgotten what Devin Williams looks like.

[Edgy MD]

Realmuto can still get down the line a bit.

[Edgy MD]

Shmendrick.  Gotta get Crawford.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Welp

[Edgy MD]

I'll take it.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Yay. Pretty good game.

[Centerfield]

JFC

[Edgy MD]

Good to see Alvarez smile.  He's got his fertility on the line.

[Frayed Knot]

Good to have a laugher every once in a while ... wait, what?

[Frayed Knot]

2 minutes ago, Centerfield said:

JFC

Nah, Jersey Fried Chicken doesn't have the range of spices of KFC.

[Centerfield]

The only hard hit ball in the 9th was the last out. 

[Edgy MD]

Crawford did a heck of a job going down to get that changeup and depositing it in short center.

A stealth key play was the pinch-hit walk from Vientos after falling behind.  It's good to see him laying off pitches away.

[Edgy MD]

Hard to accept that it's two days until the next game, but hey, rest that bullpen.

[Centerfield]

Tough matchups the next two days. Find a way to get one. 

[Benjamin Grimm]

Why is there a Friday off day? 

[Edgy MD]

8 minutes ago, Benjamin Grimm said:

Why is there a Friday off day? 

Conflict with a World Cup match.

Major cities should be able to handle two big events at once (Madrid just had Pope Leo and Bad Bunny), but Philadelphia built a whole bunch of their sports facilities in a single complex, and so a baseball game and a World Cup match would put more tax on the mass-transit system and highway exit ramps than they were designed to handle.

[Frayed Knot]

Three words: Shared. Parking. Lots.

[Benjamin Grimm]

That's certainly true. The last time I went to a Phillies home game (in 2019) we ended up parking in the Eagles' lot. 

I haven't been paying attention to such things. I wonder if the Phillies' schedule is coordinated so they don't play home games when the Eagles do? I suppose that can be done for regular season games, but if the Phillies are playing in October there might be times when there's a conflict.

[Frayed Knot]

Recent tradition in the NFL has awarded the opening game of the season, a stand alone Thursday Night three days prior to opening Sunday, to the Super Bowl winner. So when the Baltimore Ravens won the SB in February 2013 the baseball schedule was already out and it so happened that Orioles had a scheduled home game on what would be the NFL opening Thursday to kick off the 2013-'14 season. And since Baltimore also has a shared parking baseball/football area, the Ravens had to ask the Orioles to change their schedule. The O's, god love 'em, refused sending the NFL and their paid spokesmen (media members) into a major hissy fit decrying that some minor sport like baseball wasn't getting out of their way on command and breaking their long-running 'tradition' (it was probably less than a decade at the time) of the SB champ getting to lead off their season at home. The Ravens still got that lead-off game but it was played 2,000 miles went in Denver.

 

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I haven't been paying attention to such things. I wonder if the Phillies' schedule is coordinated so they don't play home games when the Eagles do? 

I suspect it's the other way around since MLB's September sked would be out months prior to football's so the NFL would know ahead of time which two (,maybe three) September Sundays the Phils would be at home and could easily give the Eagles a road game those days, or a Sunday night start, or one of the Monday/Thursday games that week. October would be tougher since everything on the baseball end is a constantly moving target so then it's probably MLB's turn to at least tinker with start times of games.

[ashie62]

7 hours ago, Benjamin Grimm said:

Why is there a Friday off day? 

Full house at Lincoln Financial to tonight for soccer

 

 

[Gwreck]

5 hours ago, Frayed Knot said:

October would be tougher since everything on the baseball end is a constantly moving target so then it's probably MLB's turn to at least tinker with start times of games.

This article (from a while back) indicates that the NFL was moving game times to accommodate Phillies playoff games:  

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/eagles-play-three-straight-road-games-and-its-apparently-because-nfl-banked-on-phillies-making-playoffs/

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As for the shared parking lots: it’s only an issue if the baseball and football stadiums would be in use at the same time.  An event at the arena plus another stadium event still has sufficient space.