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The Braves are repellent, but blandly so when detached from their NL East context.

Thumbs to the Big Four. Kudos to BG.

Brandon Crawford did a nice Bud Harrelson with the leap and grab last night.

Giants-Red Sox would be the most picturesque ballpark matchup in modern times, maybe anytime.

Those Braves are sneaky bastards.

Astros-White Sox postponed by rain. 2:07 PM ET Tuesday for Game Four.

White Sox pen went into full shutdown mode after the slugging of the game's first half. It was stimulating to watch in its own way.

White Sox blackout Astros. We get another four-game day later today.

Rays were robbed at least a little.

That felt like the baseball equivalent of the Holy Roller.

The Brewers since coming to the NL have played a role in fouling up several late-seasons for us, most notably in 07 or 08 when they couldn't TCB at home vs. Philly while we we struggled down the line. In September 2008, the Brewers pulled off the unlikely trick of losing four straight to the Phillies to tilt the NL East away from the Mets, then, after firing their manager, getting hot enough to nose the Mets out of the Wild Card. Like a double-agent reverse-spoiler on their own behalf and against ours. That said, they don't bother me in a vacuum.

Balls flying out of Fenway early, 2-1 Rays after one.

Meanwhile, Braves maintain a 3-0 lead in their Game Two at Stiller (Still Miller) Park as they and those who Brew head for the eighth.

Game 2 lineups in San Fran: Betts RF Seager SS T. Turner 2B J. Turner 3B Smith C Taylor CF Bellinger 1B Pollock LF Urías P Darin Ruf – LF Kris Bryant – CF Austin Slater – RF Buster Posey – C Wilmer Flores – 1B Brandon Crawford – SS Evan Longoria – 3B Donovan Solano – 2B Kevin Gausman – RHP

Logan Webb > Hank Webb

Mets went 5-22 vs. eventual playoff teams over their final 48 games. Hard to believe we had to wonder when to give up on them.

Chuck Hartenstein, personification of the journeyman reliever, 79. After major league tenures with the Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox from 1965 to 1970, Hartenstein spent six seasons in the minors, the last two with the Pacific Coast League champion Hawaii Islanders, managed by new Blue Jays skipper Roy Hartsfield. It was Hartsfield who brought Hartenstein into the Blue Jays' fold. “Roy called me on November 4, 1976 and he said, ‘Charlie, we just bought your contract from Hawaii. You're going to be a Toronto Blue Jay.' Well, you want to talk about one of the happiest days of my life. That was one of them,” shared Hartenstein in a 2015 phone interview. At the time, players needed four years of big league service to qualify for a major league pension and Hartenstein was a few days short. “Roy said to me, ‘You're going to get those days. You earned it,'” remembered Hartenstein. “Well, that was one of his favorite sayings and it really motivated people. He said, ‘You earned it.' I carried that over in all my time coaching. I learned a lot from that man. He was like a second father to me.” https://cooperstownersincanada.com/2021/10/06/original-blue-jay-chuck-hartenstein-passes-away-at-79/https://cooperstownersincanada.com/2021/10/06/original-blue-jay-chuck-hartenstein-passes-away-at-79/

With all the work you put into creating these custom jobs, it was a nice break you were able to simply use Rich Hill's rookie card.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: =G-Fafif post_id=79461 time=1633621845 user_id=55] Your League Championship Series (serieses?) begin at 4:07 PM EDT today... You confused me there for a minute. It's the Division Series (dumb name), not the LCS.

The Mets are booking most of their 2021 coaching staff for travel far from Citi Field, per a tweeting Martino. Sources: Mets coaches Dave Jauss, Ricky Bones, Gary DiSarcina, Jeremy Accardo, Tony Tarasco and Brian Schneider free to seek other jobs. Hitting coaches reassigned to minors. Pitching coach Jeremy Hefner expected to remain in the organization. Mets hold a contract option on him. Hefner role and exact future still being discussed.

Your League Division Series (serieses?) begin at 4:07 PM EDT today with the White Sox visiting the Astros. The Rays will host the Red Sox in prime time, plenty of good seats chronically available. Tomorrow the NL gets underway as the AL continues, giving us that guaranteed One Crazy Day of four playoff games, topped off late by the Giants and Dodgers — which is gonna be lit! (Also Atlanta bores the nation by visiting Milwaukee.)

I'll always remember where I was when I woke up to check the score.

Jayce Tingler's Padre sense is no longer tingling. He's been officially Rojased.

Eddie Robinson's less heartwarming legacy (from Joe Posnanski in 2016). There is a famous story -- two famous ones, actually -- that have been told about Eddie Robinson when he was a member of the 1947 Cleveland team. The first was told by Boudreau and confirmed by various others. On July 5, 1947, Larry Doby showed up in Chicago to join Cleveland and become just the second African-American to play in the Majors in the 20th Century and, more to the point, the first in the American League. Boudreau, as manager, met with Doby and then took him around the clubhouse to meet the guys. Two players, Boudreau said, refused to shake Larry Doby's hand. They were both Texans. One was Les Fleming. The other, alas, was Eddie Robinson. Of course, you could say, Robinson was just a man of his time. True, he was one of only two to refuse, but his opinion was hardly uncommon in America in 1947. To quote Boudreau: “Later, Robinson told me that he lived in Baltimore during the off-season and his neighbors would not appreciate him being on the same team as a Negro, but that he himself had nothing against Doby.” Of course, there is also the glove incident, again told by Boudreau and again confirmed by others. Boudreau was not there when it happened but he said that he heard the story from the team's traveling secretary, Spud Goldstein. Boudreau wanted Doby to get some work at first base -- not many people remember this but Doby was a natural second baseman. The Tribe already had Joe Gordon at second. So Boudreau was looking for a good spot for Doby and asked him to take some grounders as a first baseman. Doby did not have a first baseman's glove. He asked to borrow Robinson's. Robinson's response has been told in different ways through the years. According to the most exhaustive book, “Pride Against Prejudice: The Biography of Larry Doby,” the alleged response was: “No, I won't lend my glove to no n----.” Boudreau would only write that Robinson refused to lend his glove to Doby though, bizarrely, he did agree to lend it to Spud Goldstein who then lent it to Doby. Robinson, years later, would say it had nothing to do with race; he was just upset that Doby, a not-natural first baseman, was being set up to take his job. “I had no animosity toward Larry Doby,” he would say. But to complete the circle, we should mention one more story from 1946, when Eddie Robinson was playing for Baltimore in the minor leagues. That, of course, was the same year that Jackie Robinson was playing minor league baseball for Montreal. And Jackie would claim that during a game, Eddie Robinson kicked him in the back on a play at second base. “If I did,” Eddie Robinson would tell Joseph Moore, the author of Pride Against Prejudice, “it was an accident.” https://joeposnanski.substack.com/p/give-that-man-his-roseshttps://joeposnanski.substack.com/p/give-that-man-his-roses

Dear Mr. Alderson, Theo regrets he can't be your POBO because the Mets and Theo are not a good fit. Signed, Epstein's judgment https://www.mlb.com/news/theo-epstein-not-a-candidate-for-mets-jobhttps://www.mlb.com/news/theo-epstein-not-a-candidate-for-mets-job