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Recently passed former Cy Young winner Randy Jones?

Good one. Rick Reed was famously a replacement player before being a Met, but I think his regular season debut was with the Mets. So, Rick Reed. On edit: wow. Had no memory of him having had an established career before being a Met, but he did.

Interesting that there would be an extremely hard one. I'd figure that any ballplayer with 20+ WAR isn't going to be obscure, and we'd know if he started out as a Met. Mookie?

Jason Isringhausen

Tim Foli

Jeromy Burnitz

Pete Alonso.

Mora and Scutaro are on my All-Conflation team. Zack Wheeler.

Late to this party, but it looks like fun. Jeff Conine?

About five minutes in, at the end of the opening scene, you'll see a gray haired woman say "It was a wonderful affair, and I've never seen so many judges in all my life." In real life, she's the significant other of a Crane Pooler .

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/guardians-pitchers-emmanuel-clase-and-luis-ortiz-are-indicted-on-gambling-charges Closer Emmanuel Clase and meh starter Luis Ortiz indicted on gambling charges, including intentionally throwing out of the strike zone to fix the outcomes of proposition bets. Indictment is in federal court in New York. Don't know why there and not Ohio, but apparently the Eastern District of New York has been aggressive in pursuing illegal sports gambling.

Parts are in French and parts are in English, depending on who they're talking to, and Vladimir Guerrero speaks only Spanish (Pedro speaks in English in the film). It would have made sense if they just made one version that had subtitles in the opposite language regardless, but they didn't do that. I saw the version where subtitles were in English. Omar was brilliant at doing more with less. He just ran into problems when he had to do more with more.

Got to be Wall Street. Famous the world over, exciting to watch, the best at what it does, and most likable when watched from a distance. What is the Tom Seaver of Shakespeare's plays?

I saw this at a film festival in Montreal a couple of weeks ago and I believe it's coming out on Netflix in the US this week. A good documentary that asks a good question. A whole lot of love for Montreal from Pedro, as well as Larry Walker, Felipe Alou, and Vlad Guerrero. Jeffrey Loria and his stepson/henchman David Samson agree to appear, and it's puzzling as to why, because they come off as absolute douchebags and possibly the most likely answer to the titular question. It's clear that they went in knowing nothing at all about how to market baseball and, in particular, how to market it in Montreal. The consortium of Montreal businessmen who owned the club before Loria come in for some criticism as well, though some of the onus goes to MLB itself for not knowing how to deal with an ownership group without a designated leader. As usual, luck comes in for some blame as well, and in particular the absolute **** luck of the Expos being the best team in baseball during the one year of their existence when a strike cancelled the World Series. But in the end, it was probably economics that killed the Expos. Montreal can compete with the rest of North America because it's the only game in town if you're French speaking and want to live in a major city where your own cultural touchpoints are available. And it's a great place as far as food, culture, cleanliness, safety, green space, and all the other things that make a city worthwhile. But what it doesn't have is money. Mississippi is the poorest state in the US, and Quebec's per capita GDP is 12% below Mississippi's. It's a closed economy, and as major league salaries have gone from high to higher to astronomical, there's no way a local ownership group can keep up with the US or even the rest of Canada.

This time last year, we were talking about him as Manager of the Year. He didn't suddenly get stupid over the winter. There were some decisions I didn't agree with, but that's going to happen with any manager. The pitching choices would have looked a lot better if we'd had better pitchers. But I don't think firing Mendoza is going to help the team any more than firing Showalter, Rojas, Calloway, or Collins did. I think the managerial revolving door may be the problem. It's hard to make good decisions with an axe hanging over your head. But I agree this team is a lot dumber than last year's team was. Success aside, last year's team was fun to root for because it looked like the LOLMets era had ended. They got out-talented by the Dodgers, but they didn't get out-thought by anyone. This year, the entire club's baseball IQ seems to have dropped. I haven't had a chance to watch much. It's been a busy spring and summer. But I've been asking myself just how good of a pickup Soto was. He's put up offensive numbers exactly as expected, maybe even better. But he's awful in right field, and it hurt that when Taylor was hurt or benched we didn't have a great center fielder to pick him up. He doesn't say much to the press so it's hard to gauge his personality, but he got pouty when he got off to a slow start. And I don't recall Gary or Ron ever saying "Wow, what a smart move by Soto!" And, yeah, pitching. We didn't get hit too hard by injuries this year, but losing Senga (followed by watching him stink up the joint) was a tough blow.

Whoa. Since the order of victories doesn't matter, there are effectively 64 possible outcomes. Each of the three teams has four possible outcomes - they win 0, 1, 2, or 3 games. 4³= 64. Of those, There are 16 combinations where the Mets win 3, and the Mets clinch in all There are 16 combinations where the Mets win 2. The only scenarios where the Mets don't clinch are the four where the Reds win 3 (and the DBacks win 0, 1, 2, or 3). That leaves 12 where the Mets clinch. 16 combinations where the Mets win 1. Of those, the Mets clinch where the Reds win 1 or 0 and the DBacks win 0, 1, or 2. That's 6 combinations. Where the Mets win 0, they only win the WC if the Reds also win 0 and the DBacks win 0 or 1. That's 2 combinations. So, out of 64, 16+12+6+2 = 36 where the Mets win the WC. So, if we assume 50-50 for each win, that's a 56.25% probability. If we assume that each team has a slightly higher probability of winning because they'll be more willing to use rather than rest better players, or simply that in the Mets' case, they're playing a weaker team, that favors the status quo and increases the probability that the Mets win the WC. Not showing work on that, but picture the extreme cases where the win probabilities were 0 or 100%. Those would guarantee the status quo.

Am I the only one on the planet who is on Team Karen here? Looking at the whole film, this wasn't a scrum. The ball landed in front of Karen. Nobody was anywhere near her, so she bent down to pick it up, and Dad darted from about 15 seats away to grab the ball from her. She overreacted a bit, but nothing is as simple as it seems. There isn't any more clear video available via a Google search because everyone loves a good hero/villain story, but this one isn't bad. https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/s/JPXJkEYa9Y

Bummer's done for the night. Next comes Ennui, Depression, Quiet Desperation, and Rock Bottom.

Cookie Carrasco is probably a stellar human being and has a great comeback story, but he's stunk up several stadiums over the past seven years and I puzzle over how he's still in organized baseball.

I get none of the clues. But Skip Lockwood saved some games. (OE - I see he was already guessed)

Guy makes how many million dollars per year and he's never been measured for a suit?

A bit of math geek-out follows. The Mets are batting .245 (639 for 2609) on the season, and .215 with RISP. I'd prefer to work with OBP and not BA, but I couldn't find their OBP with RISP. I also couldn't find the number of at-bats they've had with RISP, but on average, about 24% of ABs come with RISP. So, figure in rough terms that 626 at bats have been with RISP and the Mets have gotten 134 hits. On average, if the Mets' true overall BA is .245, you'd expect them to get 153 hits in 626 at-bats. Using some standard mathematical assumptions, this is distributed normally (i.e. according to a bell curve) with a standard deviation of 10.76. We're assuming 134 hits, or 19 fewer than expected, or about 1.77 standard deviations below average. There would be about a 4% chance of that happening by luck alone. 5% is about where statisticians start considering that something didn't occur by luck alone. I'm oversimplifying by avoiding issues like sampling error, but this is about where we'd conclude that it isn't just bad luck, and we have enough of a sample to say that yes, there's a real problem here. Not that I know what to do about it. Or that anything is certain. Things with 4% probabilities of occurring do happen by dumb luck sometimes.

And some of Fman's live guitar. I've been doing a lot of traveling and am just starting to watch the Mets again. Alvy has looked lost at the plate. I assume that, since he's still better than Senger, this is just a chance to get him to figure it out in Syracuse and he'll be back up in a month or two. Ike Davis was a completely different story. Valley fever affected him long term. If he'd stayed healthy, he probably wouldn't have been a superstar, but he had a good chance at a perfectly solid Adam LaRoche type career. But, yes, we have Torrens now, just like we had Duda then. And Pete when first baseman of the future Dom Smith turned out to be a flash in the pan. And DeGrom, when Rafael Montero did likewise. Etc. Etc. Etc. Quantity is better than perceived quality when you're counting on prospects to pan out (yeah, I know - Torrens wasn't exactly a prospect).

[bLOCKQUOTE]Jeff McNeil: McNeil (oblique) will start in center field during a rehab game with Single-A St. Lucie on Thursday, Tim Healey of Newsday reports. McNeil has limited experience in center field, having made three appearances there with the Mets in 2023 and another three in the minors. With Jose Siri (leg) sidelined, the club would like to have McNeil as an option to play center field. That said, most of McNeil's reps should still come at second base. The 33-year-old appears likely to be activated from the 10-day injured list early next week. Injury Oblique. Est. Return 4/25/2025[/bLOCKQUOTE] If it came to that, why not Nimmo in CF and McNeil in LF? There was a lot of talk about Nimmo being the second worst CF in the NL one year, but looking at the dWAR, I remember seeing that there were maybe three great center fielders and the differences among the rest of the pack weren't large. So a lot of that chatter was overblown. I never thought of Nimmo as a particularly poor center fielder.

Frank Lane : Rocky Colavito :: M. Donald Grant : Tom Seaver RIP