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Ha. Ronny says the game used to be played a certain way because it made sense. Tells you how he feels about the IF positioning this inning.

Nice! We benefit from misplaced infielders!

Damn. Ewing just missed that.

Where the fuck is our shortstop

Falling behind every batter.

Watching the post game interview it seems like Sean Manaea has no idea why he pitches well, and equally no idea why things go bad.

That was interesting

Can you explain the acronym in the title?

You guys lose me here. Moving up in the standings means our draft position falls 10 spots. I get that drafts are speculative but picking 10 spots higher is still highly preferable. And I’m all for rooting for the Mets to win. But where you lose me is rooting for our “competitors” to lose.

I feel like we are facing a lot of lefties lately. say what you want about Vientos. I think his spot in the lineup highlights how badly this team needs a RH power bat.

The defensive decline may be partially attributable to his hip injury. It seems like he’s been better since he came back from the IL. And he’s now a positive WAR player so some metrics must be backing it up. He also has a .658 OPS, which still sucks but at least sucks less than it did before.

Ball is flying out of the park the last two nights. Koss? Really?

I was at this game. It was a slog. McLean didn’t look sharp at all. What did it look like on TV? All I could tell was that umpire’s arm wasn’t moving.

Zac Thornton pitches for us. I’m sure SF will have a pitcher too.

That didn’t help either.

Carson Benge, 2026

This is kinda the point. The owners' position is basically that "there's no way for small market teams to compete without a salary cap". So they justify a work stoppage in the name of competitive balance, while throwing the blame on "greedy players". But that's not true. Revenue sharing in the manner I described can level the playing field, without salary suppression, without a work stoppage, and it will benefit competitive balance more than any proposal currently on the table. But the owners would never agree to that. As you correctly point out, it will never fly. My point here, is the players should be banging this drum nonstop. The players' position should be "don't lock us out. If you want competitive balance, share all of your revenue evenly among yourselves." If you do that, the onus would be on the owners to justify their behavior. Trying to get into whether there's more parity in the NFL vs. MLB is a losing battle. It requires data. It requires thinking. The public is too stupid and too distracted to be swayed by arguments like that. They need simple and direct. Owners: The league is unfair! We need a salary cap so the smaller markets can compete! Players: That's dumb. Just agree between yourselves to share your revenue evenly. Problem solved.

I'm sure I'm oversimplifying here, but I don't understand why every salary cap argument isn't countered with revenue sharing. If I understand the system correctly, the NFL pools all of its broadcast deals, league sponsorships, and merchandising, and distributes that revenue evenly to all 32 teams. Effectively, they eliminate most of the big market/small market gap by putting all teams on an equal floor. MLB revenue sharing is much different. I read that 48% of local revenue is contributed to revenue sharing, with 52% being kept by the local clubs. If the owners were really interested in competitive balance, they could increase the revenue sharing, adopt the NFL model (or something closer to it), And then much of the disparity would be eliminated. They wouldn't need a work stoppage for this, and I doubt the players would have much objection, if any. But they won't. They never even consider this. Because competitive balance isn't what owners want. They want salary suppression, disguised as competitive balance.

Wilkinson pitched in the 2015 LLWS. Always fun when one of the kids realizes his dream. His nickname is Tugboat. And his frame matches.

McLean for the good guys. Matt Wilkinson for the Giants.

An insult to Desi Relaford fans nationwide. Also. AL teams stink.

To clarify, I wasn’t necessarily blaming it on the coaches. My theory was that the faulty philosophy came from the top. There are obviously a number of reasons that the Mets became one of the worst offenses in baseball. They’d be well served to root out all of them.

IN THE NICK OF TIME

Terrible AB by Ewing.

BIFL.