Johnny Lunchbucket

Edgy MD wrote: Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Amazingly, a presidency that began with demagoguery about not allowing foreigners across our southern border has led to the president's faithful not being allowed to cross Canada's southern border. That's two catchers and, like, five or more outfielders on that list. That's like, a good tweet Help yourself. If I actually get invested in Twitter, I'm doomed. DOOMED! Thanks, but I'm not sure that's ethical or cool enough to pass off legitimately in the Twitter medium. What I need is a "dummy" account to Tweet that, then I retweet it, is the play

lol. I guess you have to punch yourself in the face then.

Edgy MD wrote: Amazingly, a presidency that began with demagoguery about not allowing foreigners across our southern border has led to the president's faithful not being allowed to cross Canada's southern border. That's two catchers and, like, five or more outfielders on that list. That's like, a good tweet

=G-Fafif post_id=99845 time=1657898638 user_id=55] Rained out. D/N tomorrow.

I find myself always excited when the Mets possess a reliever with an unusual delivery. It's one thing I admired about Omar-- he seemed to like that too, and usually always wanted 1 on his staff--to a fault even, when he traded Joe Smith and seemed to think that getting the non-Putz back from Seattle... Sean (not Shawn) Green, was the same thing. Also, I want to put these guys into what I want to say is a tradition of unusual-delivery guys, acquired on the cheap, who actually become good Mets, like Terry Leach or Pedro Feliciano, even when the odds are long against them doing so. So I kind of thought, especially during his early appearances "Reed! He could be one of them!" at least till he got hurt. Then, he crossed categories in my mind from "Exciting Unusual Delivery Guy" to "One-Promising Stealth Guys Who Got Hurt And Now I'm Not Nearly As Sure Of Anymore." And those guys get claimed by other teams midseason.

I feel like I need to confess something here. I've been so busy at work, that all I really retained from the Mets immediate future when I passed out from exhaustion on Wednesday, was that the Mets had a day game with the Cubs on Friday that Stroman was pitching, and that, still very busy, I was blissfully unaware that the Mets even had a game with the Cubs last night, until I picked up my phone to charge it overnight and saw a game thread on page 3. I don't think that sorta thing has ever happened to me in years

A few reflections http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2022/07/11/new-york-retains-its-challenge/within. That is interesting! And leave it to you. The deepest thought I had on bauta was like, were he to exist today, he would probably not be known as "Ed."

This is actually an interesting kind of kwiz--and I'm, like done contributing answers -- because it reminds me of something I didn't know that I didn't know. I feel like, at least a little, I actually can detect small differences, if not really express them, between Venezuelan-born position-players and other Latin position players, but the same does not hold true for me for pitchers, so I need to know them more deeply. At this point in the quiz, my best strategy would be to think about Latin pitchers with about as many victories or careers like Santana, then just hope they're actually from Venezuela. Or like, get some clues

Oh saves. K Rod

Yeah, Luis Castillo had another good game 7 IP, 1 ER to help the heroic Reds hang on.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Big Game Gaydar activated. Often this year, the Mets have pleasantly surprised us even when they looked bad going in, like today does. What I'm saying is, today is the kind of situation the Mets biff seemingly 90% in any of the last six years, unless it's very early in the year (2020), or long after it matters anymore (2019). So not to put too much meaning on 1/162nds of a season, but this is why the Gaydar exists, and when we gotta believe yyybbb What this guy said. Down our 2 best players, playing like crap Braves have a ton of momentum, and this Mets team won twice convincingly, and lost once convincingly. What I don't get was the good feeling some folks had going in, unless it was that for this team, all surprises are positive ones

Drew Smith sure gives up them homers, doesn't he?

the other thing is, from apple's perspective, maybe there are fans for whom the addition of a few games a year is the thing that makes them pull the trigger and subscribe. And, Apple aligning with MLB is good for apple in similar ways (maybe some prestige... oldest and most established American sport, and probably, opportunity to do more). I don;t even know if its international but if so, there's a lot more reason for MLB to be there. You should see what NFL is doing to market itself overseas--mostly in Europe (UK and Germany, but also China). Baseball has big opportunities in Asia, maybe less in Europe but some, and in South America

My take was, Apple TV is what the people we want to watch baseball are watching, so to be considered to be watched, we have be there too. Also, its good for MLB to be a part of Apple, which is an exclusive and distinct brand that people love enough to pay to belong to

She was very sharp. And we got along well--many of these are done zoom, but this one I was actually in the MLB TV studio with her live, so the back and forth was better than most I've done and the sound was better since we had all their equipment. Interestingly, the Jacqueline Parkes who was baseball's last CMO is the daughter of longtime NY Mets Doctor Parkes (James Parkes?) you used to see his in the back pages of the yearbook, or I think sometime in team photos. A big Mets fan. Also the immediate predecessor also named was a Mets fan too.

Young & casual fans are more likely to become avid fans because they have interest in the celebrity, interests or backstories of individual players; for a lot of us, it was because of our interest in a team, and so, its important for baseball to amplify those aspects in how it positions itself to attract fans That approach was successfully used by Wild World of Sports, and got many fans interested in players, and sports, they hadn't thought much of before. Will it be successful with baseball? Will it turn viewers into statistics keeping, jersey wearing rabid fans? Who knows? But it is worth a shot. Later The flip side is, teams promote teamdom, MLB promotes "baseball" they meet somewhere in the middle

=Ceetar post_id=99538 time=1657718830 user_id=102] psst: _aaron_ judge not Mike Judge.

Some Guy On The Internet interviewed MLB's new chief marketing officer. I've been thinking a lot about how baseball is changing and why, so it was good timing. Important to note here that wrt MLB, marketing isn't focused specifically on "how things land" (that's really communications), or rules and onfield matters (that's like, Manfred and his advisors). So this interview is about how to grow what that game is, and less about "what the game is" Article is probably paywalled or registration-walled but you can find the podcast ("Marketers Brief" anywhere you find podcasts). here are a few things I heard on this podcast --Baseball's existing audience, even if cranky, is reliable and durable, but too old and not diverse --That's because baseball has encountered more trouble than a lot of competing entertainment properties in attracting young and diverse fans --Young fans are important, because without them, baseball dies when its fans do, and they're already old --turning casual fans into more avid ones is also a very big opportunity --old fans are focused on what's happening on the field. future fans aren't, at least at the moment they get hooked. We all start somewhere --Young & casual fans are more likely to become avid fans because they have interest in the celebrity, interests or backstories of individual players; for a lot of us, it was because of our interest in a team, and so, its important for baseball to amplify those aspects in how it positions itself to attract fans --Young people are also like a million percent influenced by what they see online, and they like the things they like to intersect with those other bigger cultural interests they also absorb online (music, fashion, food etc) --they really don't absorb anything like we did (their fandom isn't about clubs but players; they don't even have cable so the whole RSN thing may as well be irrelevant to them now) Lots of downstream effects from just those two things, if you think about it, and there are many more --they like presentations of things that are different than how they were presented to us (Internet, streaming channels, new angles, stats presentation etc. My 26-year-old nephew somehow overnight became a next-level Gen Whatever baseball fan and just yesterday presented me with Edwin Diaz stats I could barely understand in a text and remarked that he was "vindicated as a Diaz truther." I was impressed. Put all that together into a marketing plan, and what you get is: -- messages aimed at casual and young fans that we as avid fans, will probably notice anyway because we already like baseball--if we're hanging out in the online places they are because they're not really directed at us; --games on streaming TV with purposefully different presentation; --activations with celebrities and influencers who can help present baseball as part of their influence in culture the kids already care about (fashion, music etc) --messages that try and hook folks based on a combination of their interest in who the players are, ideally combined with the gameplay action that old farts like us like and that show how they fit together (two examples in the story) --Mixing old and new worlds together so like this All-Star Break we'll get stuff that matters to us and them (the Draft, the Futures Game, the All Star Game) + stuff that matters more to them (celebrity softball, Home Run Derby--this year with DJ's in the dugouts, a pro-Am style livestreamed Gamers/Social Media Influencers MLB The Show video-game tourney in front of a live audience, pop concerts etc Interesting stuff

Big Game Gaydar activated. Often this year, the Mets have pleasantly surprised us even when they looked bad going in, like today does. What I'm saying is, today is the kind of situation the Mets biff seemingly 90% in any of the last six years, unless it's very early in the year (2020), or long after it matters anymore (2019). So not to put too much meaning on 1/162nds of a season, but this is why the Gaydar exists, and when we gotta believe yyybbb

My WERRY about the suddenly sonambulent offense (granted, Marte and McNeil missing, but this dead-zone has stretched now beyond their respective disappearances), is making me rethink whether I actually want to "stand firm" on earlier pronouncements I wouldn't promote the sturdier looking of Vientos/Baty/Rodriguez, put at DH and bat em 9th for 1 week, and watch what happens.

Lookit Nido's neon green tape on his bat.

Things aren't looking groovy, like in a movie, here

Lugo. He's been... a little disappointing this year.

Edgy MD wrote: Or if they didn't have faith-a-faith-a-faith-faith in them and went and paid big for some name-brand veteran instead. Need I remind you, the Let's Get Luis Castillo NOW!!!! Fan Club, never once argued to pay "big" for Luis Castillo. Indeed, and, if I may presume to speak for our entire dues-paying membership, this Fan Club was founded on the very notion that, thanks to Steve Cohen's obscene wealth, and appealing to what we believe drives such a person to amass that wealth, then, set untold amounts on fire to feed that ravenous ego by buying a shitty baseball club that's rarely ever done anything right, and realizing that regular ejaculations of said riches have created real promise in that once-shitty team he bought, and now that we're halfway there already, for God's sake, and you can never have enough pitching, thatthere's this one guy, who, if you exploit this huge wad of cash just one more time, doing a favor for a deadbeat counterpart, itself owned by a cheap, poormouthing sucker whose club isn't even pretending to try, that only doing this creep the favor of using our fat wallet to make just one mistake away, would mean we never "pay big" for Luis Castillo. And that's what this Club is all about.

Suck some Francisco cock, you hipster. Uh.. I mean, nice hit, Lindor!