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Good stop gap move. I hope more is coming. Megill says "we don't need no stinkin pitching help!"

Edgy MD wrote: Hello, my name is Bryce. Yeah!! I don't like Bryce and he is probably my modern day choice, but man he is no Larry Wayne Jones

Yankees/Red Sox postponed so as to avoid the diseased Yankee organization from spreading germs

=Fman99 post_id=71397 time=1626374754 user_id=86] I'm good with it. I immediately think of Piazza, Fonzie, Ventura, the GS single, and all those great late 90's/early 00's moments.

Edgy MD wrote: So, the guy you want to lock up, suddenly, isn't Syndergaard, and it's not Conforto. It's ... Stroman! More seriously, the 2021–2022 free agent class, at this moment, looks pretty incredible. I would be careful with Stroman. Small sample size but he is on the list of pitchers not pitching as well since the crackdown on sticky stuff

=G-Fafif post_id=71251 time=1626195223 user_id=55] Anthony DiComo reports Thomas Szapucki needs season-ending ulnar nerve transposition surgery.

Edgy MD wrote: 8) If you're going to play the "Freddie Coupon" card, I'm not sure what else to say. my meaning there was that there is only a 1:1 link in spending if the cheap owner creates one. The Mets, by the way, drafted only 4th year college players in rounds 3-10, presumably to lowball them and pay Rocker

Edgy MD wrote: No, they don't. Not really. Beyond that, there are other interests that matter, that count, and that have legal representation. Yes, they do. Even if its not dollar for dollar, which unless your owner is Freddie Coupon it probably isn't, money spent on amateurs is less money spent on union members. Unions in all walks of life negotiate the benefits of future members, but in most of these cases those future members become members on Day 1 of employment. Not so in baseball, where 75%+ of draftees never do and so are beholden to an agreement between management and a union they'll never be a part of. This is in contrast to say an auto-workers union that negotiates lower benefits for future workers - but those workers immediately gain a vote when they are hired and could look to overturn union management. The union has a clear conflict of interest. What other interests are you referring to that "have legal representation"? what recourse do you suggest high school kids being drafted have against a league with anti trust exemption?

Edgy MD wrote: It's far more interesting to me what message we send by allowing the league to get away with having a bonus pool limit at all. It's utter garbage. management and the labor union have the same interests here so it will likely never change.

Not that I'm complaining about how things worked out for the Mets, but what message are teams sending to their fans if they're too cheap to draft the best player available? "that guy wanted too much money above slot and we'd rather have a different guy plus a better second, third, and fourth rounder rather than pay that guy and then have to make 'senior signs'" is pretty much the message.

Willets Point wrote: No relation to John, I hope? This is the hilarious part of the MLB draft process. Unlike the NFL and NBA where guys like Trevor Lawrence and Zion Williamson were household names a year before they were pro players, nobody knows any of these guys. Kumar is not invited to John Rocker's white hooded family reunions.

2 runs? deGrom sucks!

Why are news outlets obscuring the name of the accuser when HER OWN ATTORNEY is publicly using her name?

Frayed Knot wrote: Who DIDN'T see that one coming? boo.

=ashie62 post_id=69377 time=1624821064 user_id=90] I am fine going contrarian to say that the Mets should pursue a good bat.

I was rolling my eyes hard after the first five 'complaints' but you're right, then the serious shit starts. is that Glavine? like, did they really find a picture of Glavine and just say "eh lets use this"

Edgy MD wrote: https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi?id=f70af637Big Sexy going 4-1 / 3.82 for Acereros de Monclava. at 48 years old, he lead the Mexican league in batters faced this season (2nd in innings pitched). Amazing.

David Schoenfield from espn: Jacob deGrom became the first pitcher checked under the illegal grip substance guidelines as he left the mound after the top of the first. The umpire checked his hat, glove and belt and he and catcher Tomas Nido walked off with big smiles after getting cleared.

A Boy Named Seo wrote: There's at least one other category - minorities and immigrants who have a DEEP distrust of the federal government, especially under it's most recent steward. I have a couple people in my circle who are Mexican immigrants and they feel like the last prez did everything in his power to erase them from America so they're not rushing to get stuck with his emergency vaccine. I wish they'd get jabbed, but, shit, I kinda get it, too. My city has a large non-citizen Ecuadorian population. I've read on fb community pages that many are reluctant to get shot for fear of the gubment. The fears are generally unfounded because we are a sanctuary city but I get it. I also don't know what's required ID-wise at say a CVS versus a health-care provider when getting a shot. I had to give a social security number and photo ID. Kinda hard to do when you have neither so not sure how that all works here. Trump had nothing to do with the Tuskegee experiments, the distrust of government amongst blacks in particular on the issue of vaccination/medical treatment is not Trump related, but i'm sure it makes you feel good to blame him for everything.

Lefty Specialist wrote: Nope. No excuses. No justification. If you haven't gotten a vaccine yet, you're ignorant, or stupid, or you're under age 12, or you're age 12-17 and your parents fall into categories 1-2. Or you have serious medical conditions and your doctor has recommended against it? And that's MORE reason to boo people like Sam Darnold, because they put those people at risk. I'm all for booing Darnold. I wonder if states could start fucking with opposing sports teams by requiring vaccination. For example if New Jersey said "nobody can be in a sports stadium with more than 1,000 people unless they are vaccinated. period. no exceptions for players" - the league may not be able to make this rule but why couldnt the state?

=Fman99 post_id=68335 time=1623979361 user_id=86] Nope. No excuses. No justification. If you haven't gotten a vaccine yet, you're ignorant, or stupid, or you're under age 12, or you're age 12-17 and your parents fall into categories 1-2.

Lefty Specialist wrote: Shoulder soreness. Pretty vague. We're fucked

Important questions as deGrom remains on track for his third Cy Young award: Is he the MVP? Will he end the year hitting .300?

I just read that too, I definitely would not put that past the owners. A consistent ball - with good grip - is important

Frayed Knot wrote: Are pitchers allowed to use sticky substances manufactured domestically? The best one apparently is, behold SPIDER TACK! https://theathletic.com/2631711/2021/06/07/spider-tack-is-the-stickiest-stuff-in-baseballs-foreign-substance-controversy-its-inventor-had-no-idea/https://theathletic.com/2631711/2021/06/07/spider-tack-is-the-stickiest-stuff-in-baseballs-foreign-substance-controversy-its-inventor-had-no-idea/ While most major league pitchers use some sort of grip enhancer to improve spin rates, there's one sticky substance many of them feel is a step too far. “Get Spider Tack out of the game and I don't care about anything else,” an MLB pitcher said, singling out a substance so spectacularly tacky that it suddenly has expanded beyond its initial market (strongmen lifting Atlas Stones) to a much larger one (pitchers hurling five-ounce baseballs). “What was it even created for?” a third pitcher asked. “It wasn't baseball.” I already had the short answer, but it took falling through an internet mineshaft to learn more about Spider Tack. It's easier to get your hands on the stuff — $35.99 plus shipping for a nine-ounce container on Amazon — than it is to get ahold of the people behind it. Their website is bare-bones, their social media accounts dormant. The parent company, Spider Strength LLC, has no office. A little amateur sleuthing leads to a LinkedIn profile, then another, then an address, then a phone number, and then I'm cold-calling a pharmaceuticals lab on the outskirts of Denver. The woman who answers the phone patches me through to the lab's president and CEO, Mike Caruso. He is willing to talk. He is a retired strongman, once one of the strongest men in America. At 40, he's still so muscular he looks like he could crush a baseball with his hands. This is the man who invented Spider Tack. And he is confused about why I'm calling. When I ask Caruso what he thinks about his tacky — that's the term among strongmen and strongwomen — becoming the talk of baseball, he answers cautiously. “This is news to me,” he says. “I had no idea it was popular in baseball.”