>>>Opening Day IGT 3/29/18<<<

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Well we made it through another long offseason, including the astonishing Harvey Trade, and we officially welcome a bunch of new Mets and that new manager.

It's deGrom v. Carlos Martinez. It's 42 degrees, cloudy, damp and windy. Let's play ball!

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[bmfc1]

I like this Thursday opening day and can't wait to see the big free agent acquisitions in action.

[Guest cooby]

Heck no! It's 75 and sunny!! And we have ourselves a new stud starter that we never even heard of in 2017. And all new trainers! Guys who recognize baseball players as stringy instead of muscle bound!

[batmagadanleadoff]

Still with the ugly scoreboard, Fred. Who's your decorator?

[Fman99]

The important thing is that dick jokes have not gone out of vogue since last fall. Thank goodness!

[Guest cooby]

They will never go out of style

[MFS62]

Fman99 wrote: The important thing is that dick jokes have not gone out of vogue since last fall. Thank goodness!

We already have you penciled on for the MFY KTEs.

Later

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

I'm impressed that the season was able to start on time despite the Civil War. I hope that welcoming the Cardinals across the border from the Confederate States of Trumpandia will be a moment of peace & unity among our nations.

[seawolf17]

Mets Willets Point wrote: I'm impressed that the season was able to start on time despite the Civil War. I hope that welcoming the Cardinals across the border from the Confederate States of Trumpandia will be a moment of peace & unity among our nations.

This is going to be an eerily prescient post, methinks.

[Guest d'Kong76]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Well we made it through another long offseason, including the astonishing Harvey Trade

That was huge, huge I tell ya.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

seawolf17 wrote: Mets Willets Point wrote: I'm impressed that the season was able to start on time despite the Civil War. I hope that welcoming the Cardinals across the border from the Confederate States of Trumpandia will be a moment of peace & unity among our nations. This is going to be an eerily prescient post, methinks.

I'm hoping it will be seen as laughably paranoid.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Man, Mike Trout looks GREAT in blue and orange. I can't believe we got him in that big Harvey trade.

[G-Fafif]

Geez, it's like McEwing didn't have all winter to make out this lineup.

[MFS62]

It was nice that they showed us the singing of the National Anthem here at Ivanka Trump Stadium.

Later

[Guest d'Kong76]

Ivanka nonsense ruins good Super Joe post, details at 11.

[MFS62]

By whose standard? The thread already talks of a Civil War.
If any of us could predict the future, we wouldn't be posting here. We'd be in a casino winning a fortune.
So, absurd it has to be. Like a Harvey for Trout trade.


Later

[Guest d'Kong76]

No one's standard, if you don't get that Ivanka Stadium is a really weird,
notion, I can't help you here.

[MFS62]

d'Kong76 wrote: No one's standard, if you don't get that Ivanka Stadium is a really weird, notion, I can't help you here.

As weird as a Rotunda named for a person who never played for the Mets at the Mets stadium?
OK, My point was about the showing of the National Anthem and the stadium name was window dressing. I'll call it the Choo Choo Coleman Stadium.

Later

[Guest d'Kong76]

I apologize, just didn't get it. Still don't lol.
#cpf2018

[Centerfield]

G-Fafif wrote: Geez, it's like McEwing didn't have all winter to make out this lineup.

Why would Bobby Valentine's bench coach be making the lineup? You're so weird.

[Lefty Specialist]

Josh Donaldson batting cleanup. Kewl.

[seawolf17]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Josh Donaldson batting cleanup. Kewl.

I just wish it was the Josh Donaldson who hit a ton of homers for the Jays last year, but the Wilpons instead signed a different guy nobody'd ever heard of, also named Josh Donaldson, out of the Frontier League and just hoped for the best. #MetsGonnaMet

[Guest d'Kong76]

A CPF friend of ours just told me there are tickets available here:

Mets.com/Presale

Code is PRESALE

(didn't know if this was public knowledge so sharing)

[Ceetar]

d'Kong76 wrote: A CPF friend of ours just told me there are tickets available here: Mets.com/Presale Code is PRESALE (didn't know if this was public knowledge so sharing)

I haven't read my emails, I assume they there.


I'd advise against limited release presales myself.

[Edgy MD]

1. Wong, 2b
2. Carpenter, 1b
3. Ozuna, lf
4. Pham, cf
5. Fowler, rf
6. DeJong, ss
7. Gyorko, 3b
8. Molina, c
9. C. Martinez, sp

1. Nimmo, rf
2. Cabrera, 3b
3. Céspedes, lf
4. Smith, 1b
5. Flores, 2b
6. Lagares, cf
7. d'Arnaud, c
8. Rosario, ss
9. deGrom, sp

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[bmfc1]

If that's the Mets 4-5-6 on Opening Day, then we are f'd and being f'd.

[Ceetar]

I'd pencil in Conforto if I was making up a lineup right now.

[ashie62]

Could very well be. I believe I like it.

[ashie62]

Ceetar wrote: I'd pencil in Conforto if I was making up a lineup right now.

On opening day? That make a miracle recovery for him. No?

[Edgy MD]

With Conforto himself downplaying Opening Day hopes less than a week ago, I think it's a smarter assumption that he'll be out.

The lineup certainly matches up with the Cards a lot better with Conforto in the cleanup spot and Smitty knocked down to sixth.