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It seems impossible that there would be more weather problems this week, but then again... National Weather Service Forecast wrote: Thunderstorms before 8pm, then showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 8pm. Low around 52. Breezy, with a south wind 15 to 20 mph becoming west after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.

Edgy MD wrote: Makes the reinforcing of the trade with the Buck/Thole swap even more fascinating. Wait, what made you think the inclusion of Buck was anything more than salary dump?

Byrd 2 Cowgill 1.5 Atchison 1.5 Turner 1 Duda 1 Valdespin 1 Parnell .5

Fuck

I'm feeling the game-ending wild pitch/passed ball/balk here.

Mets victory outlook not very good here.

Wright 3.5 Buck 1 Rice .5 Hawkins .5

RIP Second Spitter

Your chance at redemption, Ruben.

Edgin, you suck.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: "Those Latin catchers love to throw... show off their arms." Yikes, Keith. After the discussion earlier in the inning about Keith's Emmy, too.

Gee with the first successful sacrifice. Winner: nobody.

http://colorado.rockies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130415&content_id=44862150&vkey=pr_col&c_id=col DENVER - The Colorado Rockies vs. New York Mets game originally scheduled for today (April 15, 2013) at 6:40 p.m. MDT (Game #4) will now be played Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 1:10 p.m. as the first game of a split double header (separate tickets will be required for each game). Early gates will open at 11:30 a.m., parking lots open at 11:00 a.m. Tickets from the April 15, 2013 game are valid for the April 16, 2013, 1:10 p.m. game only. The second game of the split double header will be at its regularly scheduled time, 6:40 p.m. MDT on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. Only tickets printed with April 16, 2013, 6:40 p.m. will be valid for the second game. Gates for the second game will open at approximately 5:30 p.m. Jackie Robinson Day will be celebrated during the first game tomorrow, as both teams will wear the #42 jerseys during the 1:10 p.m. game as was originally planned for tonight's game.

Yes, I can believe that, because people on the internet (present company excluded) are idiots.

Ceetar wrote: These teams should probably make most early April games during the day just for that reason. Don't the Rangers play most of their Sunday games at night for opposite reasons? Yes, there is a special provision in the Basic Agreement to allow the Rangers to play Sunday night games in the summer. Day games make less money (and in particular, get lower TV ratings), so there is no incentive to make an exception the other way.

Wright 2.5 Murphy 2.5 Buck 2 Valdespin 2 Byrd 1

Harvey 5 Murphy 1.25 Byrd 1.25 Turner 1.5 Wright .5 Cowgill .5

The union could file an emergency grievance that work conditions were unacceptable. Yes, the Mets could forefeit the games but would run into some difficulty if they did so. They would certinaly be sanctioned by MLB if they did so, primarily due to lost revenue by the Rockies. The various legal agreements between member clubs and MLB aren't publicly available (as the basic agreement with the players union is) but there is likely a provision for MLB to also sanction the Mets on anticompetitive grounds. Finally, if the Mets' record due to the forfeits would result in a more advantageous draft pick, there would probably be litigation on that issue as well. In short, it would probably be easier to have a doctor diagnose "food poisoning" for the entire team which might result in a postponement rather than forefeit.

Wow

Duda 3 Buck 1 Baxter 1 Valdespin 1 Edgin 1 Tejada .5

Keith Law offers an evaluation that is very encouraging to my eyes: Harvey has room to improve Matt Harvey faced off against a desiccated facsimile of Roy Halladay -- the less said about him, the better -- on Monday night and put up an outstanding stat line, showing great stuff but struggling a lot with location, control and even consistency on his curve and slider. The good stuff first: That's ace stuff, a fastball mostly 93-97, a filthy slider at 87-91, a hard curveball at 78-83 and a riding change at 85-88. He punched out Ryan Howard by going up and in with heat three times in four pitches; Howard eventually caved and chased a pitch he couldn't sniff. Laynce Nix, not really a major league hitter anyway, couldn't touch Harvey's fastball and swung through three of them in his last at-bat, the final one perfectly placed up out of his reach but close enough to induce him to flail at it. Harvey threw some sliders that were unhittable, right off the outside corner to right-handed hitters, victimizing Michael Young more than once that way. The slider he threw to strike out Young in the fourth, 90 mph on the TV gun, broke down over the outside corner of the plate and made Young look feeble. He could have used the changeup more, preferring to go in with the curveball to left-handed hitters, even though his changeup is an above-average (or better) pitch. Philly's lineup just isn't very good anymore, which helped Harvey get away with a lot of pitches where he either didn't locate or didn't finish a breaking ball (mostly the curve). The sac fly Howard hit in the fourth came off a bad changeup that a decent left-handed hitter would have destroyed. Harvey hung several sliders and curveballs, including ones that Humberto Quintero and Young failed to capitalize on, with the curve the bigger problem on Monday. Harvey also missed up in or above the zone way too often for my tastes. He did blow it by a number of hitters, which is great when the location is planned, but when you miss, it's much better to miss down in the zone than it is to miss up. Quintero also got a fastball up in the first pitch of his second at-bat that might as well have been on a tee, a mistake Harvey will pay for if he does it against better hitters. He didn't get a ton of help from his defense. Ike Davis was an adventure at first base all night, and Kirk Nieuwenhuis struggled picking up some balls in center. It also seemed like John Buck struggled to catch Harvey's better velocity, jerking some borderline pitches away from the zone. Overall, I'm still as bullish on Harvey as I was when I scouted his major league debut in July, but there is a gap between that ace potential and what he showed Monday night in both command and in consistency on the two breaking balls.

Buck 2

batmagadanleadoff wrote: http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/16500/f15_t16592.shtml http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/16600/f1_t16600.shtml Any movement on sharing/copying/selling the video?

Harvey 3.25 Buck 2 Tejada 2 Murphy 1 Wright 1 Duda .75

Yeah. We have Kagan, though. And Madam Justice Ginsburg was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, so perhaps we can claim her too.