Benjamin Grimm

My best score was 97. My misses were 115, 135, and 206. I got seven of the top ten, missing 1, 3, and 8. I had number 3 in the on-deck circle when I struck out.

Thanks for sharing it! I enjoyed it and will continue to play each day.

I've learned to ignore the polls. Every time I vote, my vote is the first vote cast, even in polls that I've voted in before. It seems pointless.

I just saw the score. Reds with four in the bottom of the first. Another evening when I'm not going to bother with the Mets.

My first glance at the score and the Mets are down 9-0. They won't be part of my evening.

I don't remember their contract statuses, and I'm not going to look it up right now, but I hope we're free of both Polanco and Robert after this season.

Geez, I forgot all about Mauricio! I agree that I'd rather go with Baty/Vientos/Mauricio and save $40 million.

Wanting him to opt out would imply that they had a plan in mind for their 2027 third baseman. Maybe they do, but I'm not sure who that would have been. They hadn't traded Jett Williams yet, but they most likely had already decided that they were willing to do so. Maybe they were thinking Baty or Vientos? I'm dubious about that. But if not them, who else?

I agree with that, both for Bichette and Peralta. Of course, both may end up somehow being long-term Mets, but they both seemed like full-year rentals for the glory of 2026. Stearns appears to be a guy who likes to make substantial roster changes each season. That hasn't helped the Mets win, and it doesn't help with fan engagement. If this keeps up they may very well lose me.

It's nice to be rewarded for having vomited in the distant past!

I turned on the game just in time to see Soto bunt into a force at third with two runners on.

Maybe the Mets can hire Jeff Hostetler as their manager.

This is good news!

I thought this was going to be about Steve Cohen and how the Mets are running out of time this season.

I wonder how many people are still checking.

I don't mean to intrude on this quiz, but as far as I'm concerned, this is the gold standard of seating charts. (I'm not sure, though, why they made it look like a weird piano.)

The archives, I'm told, are still a work in progress.

I'm hopeful, but not optimistic.

I've often thought that, if I was a base umpire who had to make a call on a checked swing, I would find that I'd have to pretend that I had been paying attention.

So for a right-handed batter, we'd be talking about the first base line? Isn't that just another way of saying 45 degrees?

I think by "here" he meant that Bichette's move to third base by the Mets was questioned.

I was at the game. My first time in nearly two years. (My last visit was June 1, 2024.) And my first time sitting at field level since the 1980s at Shea! A few things that I noticed: 1. It's no longer possible to park for free under the Northern Boulevard overpass. They've installed barriers and from what I've discovered upon investigating, this is intended to be permanent. There was a small island of potholes that wasn't barricaded. It was at the far end of the row of auto shops, right where Northern Blvd. slightly curves to the north. We were able to park there, but we very lucky to have found that spot. 2. After looking around a bit, I finally found the 1969 and 1986 flags hanging high up near the right-field scoreboard. But the pennants for 1973, 2000, and 2015 were nowhere to be seen. And the other signs that commemorated the division titles and wild cards are gone. 3. I don't know if it was because of where we were seated, or if it's because of more noise in the stadium, but I didn't hear some of the in-game announcements that I would expect. For example, when Bichette and Soto were replaced late in the game, I noticed Brujan and Melendez taking the field, but no P.A. announcement. Nothing for pitching changes either. 4. The seventh-inning stretch was pretty lame. There used to be a fun sing-along to Take Me Out to the Ballgame, but now we just see the organist playing an instrumental version. Almost nobody was paying attention.

Yes. 2025 was the final year of Schaefer.

I assumed it meant that he wanted to see Gary Apple fake an orgasm.