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  1. Centerfield
    Fucking JD.
  2. Centerfield
    Losing home openers suck. Getting shut out is the worst. Come one guys. Who needs exit velocity?
  3. Centerfield
    Omg. Noah's going to throw a no-hitter and we're going to lose.
  4. Centerfield
    Jesus. Just hand them their first run Noah.
  5. Centerfield
    Nervous about this one. Not that the game means a heck of a lot in the grand scheme of things, but man, would it be nice to win in front of a packed house, beat Strassberg twice, and drop them to 2-4.
  6. Centerfield
    Howie was questioning the decision to stay with Avilan for two. I guess he doesn't really do that. It shows. More importantly it burns him for tomorrow. Which was my issue. Why is Tim Peterson even on this team if he can't pitch in 6-0 games.
  7. Centerfield
    What I'm learning is that there is about a 15 year period in my life where I paid attention to sports magazine covers.
  8. Centerfield
    Didn't watch. Why was Vargas pulled so early? Were they hitting him hard and it was time to get him out?
  9. Centerfield
    Ya know, maybe most of this stuff was better left unsaid. I'm guessing Ronnie's violating some serious clubhouse protocol here.
  10. Centerfield
    Those charts are not good right?
  11. Centerfield
    Benjamin Grimm wrote: I was kind of annoyed that Darling wrote a book about how much he regrets his performance in Game Seven of the 1986 World Series, which the Mets won, and didn't express any regret about his performance in Game Seven of the 1988 NLCS, which was much more damaging to his team. I don't think they win in 1988 even if Ron is on.
  12. Centerfield
    If I had to guess, I'd say yes, this definitely happened, but that this type of thing was a lot more common than Ron would have you believe, but maybe Lenny took it a step further because he's Lenny. I used to hear stupid shit from opposing players all the time and this was during middle school and HS.
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    Edgy MD wrote: I think after he got tagged twice for not getting out of the way of a pitch, he lost the benefit of the doubt from the umps. Sub-concsciously knowing that this guy likes to play them, they stopped giving him borderline calls. Which means he's got to flip the script, and put thwacking the ball ahead of being the cagey on-base guy for a bit. The calls are one thing. I feel like he stopped attacking the ball in the second half. He hit only 4 HR's after 13 in the first half. He hit 4 in limited AB's in 2017. And it's not like he's been timid, he's just missing a lot of hittable pitches. I don't know. Not worried yet, but you know, worried that I'm going to be worried soon.
  14. Centerfield
    Fair point about Lagares bunting. IMO, I've never considered him a good bunter. But he does have 15 for his career so there is that. But that being said, he didn't look at all comfortable on his first few bunt attempts, and no position player should ever be bunting with 2 strikes in that situation. That's as dumb a move as I can remember. I'm surprised it's not being criticized more than it is today. And the bullpen usage is just idiotic. It's not just four games. It was his MO last season and he's demonstrating he's learned nothing from his mistakes. It's early, and these decisions have only resulted in 1 loss, but he's gotta get his shit together fast or I'll be calling for his head sooner rather than later. I don't buy the "let's do crazy shit" in the early season argument. For every reason given as to why Alonso should be here the first two weeks, you should play the highest odds in every game.
  15. Centerfield
    1 for 13 with 9 strikeouts. Small sample but that's pretty shitty. Is this just a slow start or a continuation of a down pattern for Nimmo? Only 4 HR's in the second half last year, though the OPS stayed high. He's gonna be fine right?
  16. Centerfield
    Went with Murph. But that HoJo follow through is awesome. If not for the busy headlines I might have gone with HoJo. WTF with that first cover.
  17. Centerfield
    Edgy MD wrote: But wait ... there's more. Two years ago in Mets' camp, Luis Guillorme caught my bat. That fat gummy bear made his whole rep on that. Well, this camp, I'm catching his AT-bats. I'm catching his opportunity, too. SNEAKY. Did not realize that. That's pretty cool.
  18. Centerfield
    Meanwhile, Straw refutes the story. Says he roomed with Lenny in the minors and Lenny "doesn't have a racist bone in his body." Who was it that made the racist femur joke a while ago? Per John Harper on twitter.
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    A manager's job is to maximize a team's chances at winning. Bunting with Lagares there doesn't do that. A sac bunt will marginally increase a team's chances at scoring 1 run. Assuming the bunt is successful. Nothing I've seen from Lagares suggests he is a good bunter. Certainly not that AB. And bunting with 2 strikes? Jesus. If he really did that once on his own, he should have pulled him out by his ear and said "Don't ever fucking do that again" And NOT bunting Nimmo the very next AB. The one place where a bunt really helps you is to get that runner to 3B with less than 2 outs. It's not even that he's bad. It's that he's doing the opposite of what he should be doing. Keep this in mind. The season is 4 games old. In a tie game against a division rival, he left his best pitcher in the pen. With a 4 run lead against the worst team in the division, he used his closer. Last year during the 11-1 run we talked about how it was not sustainable because of the use of the pen. He's making that same mistake again.
  20. Centerfield
    I had no idea. I was 11 in '86 (I don't remember him doing much in '85). And generally even immature as far as 11 year olds go. Lenny was a little guy like me. He was a fast leadoff guy, played centerfield and even hit left-handed. I even tried out his stance for a while until my coach made me stop. I had no clue. I couldn't tell who was a jerk and who was nice. If you told me Tim Teufel was out womanizing and getting into fights I would have believed that. But they were Mets, so that meant they were all awesome to me. I think Jeff Kent was the first Met that made me think this guy might be kind of a dick. I would have been in HS by then.
  21. Centerfield
    Also, McNeil still good. A little worried about Nimmo.
  22. Centerfield
    Mickey just said trying to bunt with two strikes was not a bad play and he didn't mind it.
  23. Centerfield
    Alonso is a monster. Davis not a good fielder. Diaz fought when he didn't have his control. Mickey remains an idiot.
  24. Centerfield
    Jeezus. Mickey sucks at bullpen.
  25. Centerfield
    Diaz here makes perfect sense.
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