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that got out of hand quickly.

we're all playing AL baseball now though, there may be no better chance to use Smith for Nido - particularly as they had just announced the righty pitcher and couldnt pull him

...or we could just end the inning by getting caught stealing against a pitcher who had yet to throw a ball in the strike zone. cool.

i would hit Smith for Nido here.

The boxing analogy is pretty apt, if you only buy his side of the story. Would it be fair if he never played again? Yes, as long as each team independently decided that they had no wish to employ a person who boxes with women's throats in the bedroom. MLB, though, shouldn't he suspending him if his version of events is true. I still think they likely know things we don't about the OTHER accusers.

Edgy MD wrote: Scheduling a doubleheader for Saturday leaves a Sunday doubleheader as a backup on the off chance that one but not both of the Saturday games is lost. Mets perhaps have flown non-roster personnel into town, but I suspect won't announce any transactions until the schedule clarifies what they need. It's all part of their new "Bassitt/Carrasco/Weather Fiasco" pitching rotation strategy. Yeah. A double-header at Citi Field with the Rockies as the 'home team' in August is absolutely awesome given the state of the Mets' pitching right now. postponing games to a time when we will hopefully have better pitchers available to pitch in them - through healing or player acquisition - only benefits us!

Edgy MD wrote: You've got hunnerts of players you've been developing for years according to an ongoing PLAN. You don't want want to throw the PLAN out the window willy-nilly because of an occurrence that was, frankly, expected to happen within the schemata of the PLAN sooner or later. A hasty radical departure from the PLAN shows that you never had faith in the PLAN in the first place, nor in the men and women who developed it. Know who has totally been a starting pitcher most of his career? Adonis Medina has. 1. Cohen's Mets have NOT spent years working on a 'plan' - because he hasn't been in charge that long. It would be quite reasonable for the to think that in the longer-term they want to have plans for these things but you can't draft and develop an army of starting pitching replacements overnight. the 'plan' may very well be that they have identified some combination of Mauricio/Baty/Vientos (hopefully not Alvarez) as being hte most expendable out that group and available when the need for pitching arose. trading one of them for pitching would have thus been their plan. ( and though Cohen hasn't been running the Mets for long, you could say that this is a perfectly viable long-term plan to - the idea that hitting prospects and less injury prone and you are best off developing them and trading them as opposed to drafting young pitchers and overseeing their tommy john recoveries.) 2. I didn't say give up the farm anyway. spending Steve's cash on contract dumps that could help the Mets doesnt hurt any long term plan.

The only way that Bauer's punishment makes sense is if MLB has damning non-public information from Bauer's OTHER accusers. Because remember, others have come out, they just haven't been as public (some might say, attention-seeking or media-whoring) as the one we all read about the most that at least to me seems more likely than not to have been a consensual encounter.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I was at that game too. It was one of those hot summer nights that was incredibly humid, but didn't rain. I thought I was there, but I think I might be conflating it with another game where Vaughn homered in the actual rain?

=metsmarathon post_id=92928 time=1653052167 user_id=83] i'm worried about the braves because they'll be the most likely team to catch us. but it will be the marlins that do it to us. it's always the fucking marlins.

Yeah, even with all of Cohen's money there just isn't likely to be a meaningful starting pitcher available for trade in mid-May. We'll need to wait for some teams like the Reds to decide "fuck it, we suck and its time to trade Castillo"

Lefty Specialist wrote: They need to get a starter, stat. JD or Dom are on the block. Good thing they didn't trade for Paddock from SD as he's going to get TJ surgery. Did the Mets ever get to the point where they saw his medicals? maybe the medical staff is smarter now. Maybe not signing Kumar Rocker will prove wise too.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=92810 time=1652985630 user_id=68] If the ol' double the prognosis formula works here, that means see ya next season.

Frayed Knot wrote: I thought this thread was going to be about ice cream. Right, KB's favorite is Turkey Hill Moose Tracks which has kinda disappeared from the supermarket freezers the past few months. Turkey Hill is underrated, a very good brand of ice cream! Buck sounded like fuck off about that injury shit today. i'm sure the walk off homer helped. next man up and the team will step up and get it done. Same from Bassitt in the post-game. this team feels like they will do it too and uncle stevie is going to open his wallet as soon as pitching becomes available. i would be so much more depressed right now if Freddie Coupon owned this team we'd be on our way to 75 wins with a boat load of excuses about the injuries coming.

Thinking I may unplug from social media this afternoon and watch the replay tonight instead. Too much going on at work and then after work today to give this game proper focus. Just saw the walk off. What a smash holy moly that thing was fucking GONE. I immediately thought of this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUA6HV3jX4ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUA6HV3jX4o

Only the Braves concern me.

Edgy MD wrote: As for the Smith-expendability, it strikes me that these Cards may be in the shortstop market and taking a look at Guillorme. Great, send Mikolas over! we'll throw in a slightly used Nick Plummer

He testified to this on the stand (for immunity) in the trial surrounding the death of teammate Tyler Skaggs. To be clear, it is much more likely that he was forced to testify about it because he was granted immunity (and therefore could not assert the 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination). It is misleading (and likely inaccurate) to suggest that he was willing to testify and/or did so in order to get a grant of immunity. we are both guessing at his motivations here. i'll stick with "sung like a canary in order to get immunity"

Edgy MD wrote: To be fair, I'm giving Katoh the skinny infielder benefit of the doubt, and I have no real idea how fast he is. I didn't even know who he was, but apparently neither does Buck? 90 career minor league steals, he can't be slower than Dom!

60 Games for distributing drugs (prescription pain killers). He testified to this on the stand (for immunity) in the trial surrounding the death of teammate Tyler Skaggs. He gets immunity from the Feds but not from MLB.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=92413 time=1652648884 user_id=68] =bmfc1 post_id=92381 time=1652646735 user_id=73] What a piece of garbage Sewald has become. He stunk as a Met and I can't remember him from any of the myriad of RPs that came and went. Now he's decent so good for him but it's not like we gave a crap about him then or give a crap about him now.

its harder to tell with Catchers than others what their contribution is - maybe he was calling a REALLY good game and the pitchers were REALLY comfortable with him? More likely, Nido can do at least what he was doing.

There is no Central New Jersey. There is also no North New Jersey or South New Jersey. There is just 'fucking Jersey' which ain't New York.

=Fman99 post_id=91846 time=1652208468 user_id=86] My brother got his PhD at Rutgers and every time I went to visit him in NJ I either got stuck eternally in traffic or I got a parking ticket. So, fuck New Jersey.

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