Johnny Lunchbucket

And both guys walk to threaten here with 1 out in the 5th

Also excellent relay from McNutty, he was out by 8 feet

Quick cut off of a ball druven deep in the gap, kept the damage to 1 run

Zimmo made a nice play to start the tag out at the plate

I like our lineup. I don;t mean this one any more than others, but the fact that we have a good solid major leaguer in every slot, even at C, sorta

I Liked Locke St. John when he impregnated the oldest daughter on Downton Abbey

I should say if they don't take you into the clubhouse or dugout or bullpens or inside the scoreboard, that's a lot of please pay us to so we can sell you something on the stadium tour. Other than the auditorium and pressbox, thery're just seats inside rooms and much o the stuff you can do for free depending on where you're tickets are

Flushing Meadow park is fun-- Unisphere but also all the people, Museum of the City of New York right there. Not much to do at the Marina, but peaceful waterfront, great view of LaGuardia, good place to just take a walk. downtown Flushing -- just walk over the bridge-- is very vibrant and has lots of authentic Korean and Chinese food. City unto itself. Sketchier hood but also very authentic-- could explore Corona-area restaurants (Columbian food, Ecuadorian etc)

It's interesting that this thread is sorta pursuing two questions that are related but very different: To what extent is going for the no-hitter responsible for an injury? To what extent was going for the no-hitter influenced by the fact the Mets never had one?

I like that you can see Rosario and Gimenez among the revelers

Naylor is like a Canadian sasquash

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: The greatest victory in the short history of the Guardians. Down 8-2 after 8 at White Sox, 6 run 9th, 1-run 10th, 3-run 11th, 12-9 win. Josh Naylor 8 RBIs... all 8th inning on He was kind of excited

I actually did an interesting story about international soccer marketing for work. The nature of the sport concentrating its best athletes in foreign superleagues with big TV deals has meant the US (with its own pro league but vastly inferior play) generally has fans who say "I'm a soccer fan" and have 4 or 5 favorite teams vs. people in the countries with the top leagues (the like the UK, where a fan is more likely to say "I'm a West Ham fan."

The greatest victory in the short history of the Guardians. Down 8-2 after 8 at White Sox, 6 run 9th, 1-run 10th, 3-run 11th, 12-9 win. Josh Naylor 8 RBIs... all 8th inning on

Escobar was oh for the Phillies and 2 for his last 23. JDD in the meantime is smashing it into hard luck.

PS that is a great thread! (thanx for the correction, I don't why 157 stuck in my mind, probably b/c he wore No. 57)

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: One of the reasons I disliked the Santana hitter was how the spectre of the Mets history as having never had one was interpreted as a black eye for the Mets when it needn't have ever been, and really imo spoke to the paranoia and low self esteem that marked the Wilpon Era. No hitters should be random and earned, not forced into existence to slay some imaginary dragon, willfully pretending that Beltrans hit was foul. I disagree. The Santana no-hitter was a pure moment of joy in what was run of really bad years. I mean, take a look at the IGT that night. Was there as fun a game in 6 seasons between 2009 and 2014? http://phpbb3.leaptoad.com/mets/archives/17900/f14_t17982.shtmlhttp://phpbb3.leaptoad.com/mets/archives/17900/f14_t17982.shtml I guess we can worry about a missed call (and there unquestionably have been other missed calls in other no-hitters) but I have a really tough time accepting that it was “forced into existence.” Maybe that's easier to say now that there was a second one this year, but I don't buy that narrative. It was a tremendous achievement and a great moment for the franchise. I'll admit my own part in being extremely fed up with the Mets and ownership and lots of various missteps that were made in this time period. But not everything has to be forced into a “LOLMets” or even a “it's just not quite right” narrative. I should be clear. I didn't dislike Santana's no hitter; I disliked it as no-hitters by my favorite team goes-- how brazenly the club went about it. I would argue that had Jimmy Qualls' hit been caught, for example, there wouldn't have been nearly as much pressure to have Santana throw 157 pitches that night. And I truly feel the Mets were wrongly embarrassed by having not had a non-hitter when they could just have easily used that peculiarity of their history to highlight how proud the club and its fans ought to be of its pitching history, had the Wilpons been the least bit creative or capable of properly understanding the team they owned.

ALERT: MFYs Nestor Cortes just lost a no-hitter with one out in the 8th. MFYs-Texas tied 0-0 in a makeup game

Little concerned about Escobar

"Gives new meaning to the term "E-4" https://paullukas.bulletin.com/mets-seaver-statue-has-wrong-uni-number-fonthttps://paullukas.bulletin.com/mets-seaver-statue-has-wrong-uni-number-font

One of the reasons I disliked the Santana hitter was how the spectre of the Mets history as having never had one was interpreted as a black eye for the Mets when it needn't have ever been, and really imo spoke to the paranoia and low self esteem that marked the Wilpon Era. No hitters should be random and earned, not forced into existence to slay some imaginary dragon, willfully pretending that Beltrans hit was foul. I'm not going to blame the arm trouble on that single event--pitchers get hurt allatime--just saying, Collins going for it that way introduced subtext to the event that in my opinion interfered with its purity. All to break some meaningless streak of bad luck that didn't make an iota of difference in the big picture and could be debated a decade later. For what?

I've been working in the yard and listening to Howie and Wayne. Hilarious discussion about Howies college DJ career. Go Drew Smith

I don't worry about this at all. I kinda feel like Anything that happens to a team over the course of a year-' good or bad-- only reinforces what it is capable of. Things like beating the other teams' closer, or a winning streak, or being 10 games over 500 after 28 games-- that's all in the bank. So too is the experience of other team running up 7 run leads, or having a dead game, like last Monday vs. Braves. All good

Geez, sorry to hear John Stearns is ill. I've told you this story before but one of my friends from high-school years (the singer whose band won 2 weeks on 'Star Search'!) was a wonderful musician who today does a piano-bar act in Florida. Through these he befriended John Stearns. He told me all this when I was in Florida and popped into one of his shows-- first time we'd seen one another in decades. He pulls out his phone and goes "John Stearns loves to talk to fans!" and scrolls through his contacts and find the one that reads: "John Stearns, NY Mets Catcher." It's like 11 o'clock at night in a crowded noisy bar, but he calls him on the spot, and hands the phone to me. I was completely unprepared to discuss anything substantial but he was totally friendly-- funny story, and so can confirm he like hearing from fans.

Wilmer Flores hit a grand slam off Steven Matz yesterday (drove in 6 overall). That's x-mets doing it right