Chad ochoseis

At the current pace, the Nationals will win 99 games and the Diamondbacks will win the second wild card spot with 100. Not that anyone believes the Rockies and Diamondbacks are quite that good, but 86 wins this year will be barely good enough for a participation trophy.

I'm thinking about going to sleep, too. And it's only 7:55 here.

I'm visiting my mom in AZ, so it's a 7:10 start for me. I may give it a look so the rest of you don't have to.

When 25 guys travel to California for a 10:10 ballgame, hijinks ensue. Wheeler going up against some dude named Clayton Kershaw. Statcast says his best pitch is a 93mph four-seamer. This one should be easy.

MFS62 wrote: Don't remember the date, but it was a double header against the Pirates on a Sunday. It was blistering hot, high 90's, and the only available seats were in the upper deck at Shea. The Mets lost the first game something like 10-9. So, MMYF said it was too hot to stay, I reluctantly agreed and we left. When we left the ballpark, we decided to get some pizza, so we went to a place on Northern Blvd. in Flushing. We had ordered, sat down and tried to relax. Then, we realized that the air conditioning was broken and we were too drained to leave. So we ate, sweated, and then went home. We later found out the Mets went on to win the second game with a similar high score. That might have been fun to watch. Sigh. Oh, we also were at another game at Shea that included the longest (at that time) rain delay in Mets history. Later UMDB has a doubleheader on July 3, 1966 that fits that description (Pirates win 8-7, Mets win what they used to call the nightcap 9-8). And WUnderground says that it got up to 102 that day.

http://ultimatemets.com/gamedetail.php?gameno=4182&tabno=D October 2, 1987, Busch Stadium. The opening game of the last series of the season. It wasn't necessarily such a bad game in and of itself. But I'd just started grad school at Wash U, and my roommate was from upstate NY and also a Mets fan. So we got advance tickets to the game - my first ever trip to Busch - figuring that series would decide the NL East. You all remember what happened. The Cardinals clinched the night before. Or maybe the night before that. So the game turned into a throwaway game a la that Braves game that Big Al writes about. Except there was no Weissman, no Stockard Channing chick, and certainly no Airstrip. Just me and a bunch of asshole Cardinals asshole fans, one of whom yelled "FUCK THE METS" in the middle of the national anthem, watching a dull, nondescript game that the Mets lost by doing something that I have absolutely no memory of. But I remember lots of "THE METS ARE POND SCUM" during the game (asshole Cardinals asshole fans really need to hire some writers). And it was windy. And freezing. And I was wearing a t-shirt. And, on the way out, while I was stuck in miserable pre-light rail downtown St. Louis traffic, a bunch of asshole Cardinals asshole fans saw my New York license plates and started chanting nasty stuff and making "flip the car over" motions. Also, it was Kol Nidre night. To this day, I'm convinced that the evening was God's punishment for putting the Mets ahead of my religion. Or possibly for every sin I'd ever committed during the 22 1/2 years that led up to that point of my life. Fuck you, St. Louis.

Leonard Cohen was from Montreal, but you know that if he followed baseball, he would have been a dark, brooding Mets fan. JdG vs Joe "The Weakest Link" Ross. First, we take Queens...

That was my first thought, too. But there really isn't any other position player to move, unless you feel ready to DFA Reyes. I'm not sure I'm there yet. The head scratcher to me was optioning Pill rather than Neil "The Human Torch" Ramirez.

Frayed Knot wrote: . Fortunately the Expos never saw fit to stitch 'Spos across their chest and even the ever-experimenting Astros never reverted to 'Stros. The Metropolitans, on the other hand...

Frayed Knot wrote: Run for Lucas? Terry says Yes! And I was going to say no. We might need a deep bench tonight. But it turned out to be the right move.

If you guys back east heard someone yelling "FUCK" just now, that was me. Et tu, Jerry?

Tyler Pill trying to repeat his success. Somebody who isn't Gerrit Cole going for the other guys.

For them: Tyler Glasnow, who we beat last week For us: Robert Gsellman, who has lately been almost competent 7:15 start My first IGT of the season...let's make it a good one!

Yeah, I agree with the decision to take Sewald out here.

Nobody else available? The last few days have been a blur, baseballwise.

Edgy MD wrote: First big league homer. Both for the pitcher and the hitter.

This could go either here or in political - Jim Bunning, 85

Ashie62 wrote: If this goes 11-1 with Plawecki pitching I have to believe some change will come. I wouldn't worry about that. Plawecki's in Vegas.

Vic Sage wrote: Eventually, they'll bring up Rosario (mid-June?) and he'll lead off, with Conforto batting 3rd. so they better start getting Confy comfy there. Even if they do bring up Rosario, I doubt he'll see a spot higher than sixth in the lineup before 2018.

Conforto has a .425 OBP to go with the home runs. Nobody else on the team comes close. I don't know what sabermetricians think of batting order (as far as I know, they don't know either), but it's not a slam dunk to me that we'd get more out of Conforto by putting him in the middle of the order and somebody with a .320 OBP in the leadoff spot.

41Forever wrote: Conforto's not on the All-Star Ballot? Aw, crap! He'll make the team. There's no other Metly possibility.

MFS62 wrote: Harvey, get the ball over the plate! They gave you a 7 run lead, and you're trying to give it back. I'm having a John Niese flashback. Later I'm having a last week in Milwaukee flashback.

Coca Cola points Short Center 3 Lunchpail 3 West Side Pitcher 2 9 Year Old Walking Kid 1 Lunchbucket's Ringer 1

Anyone want to take the Pirates Memorial Day extravaganza from me? I've got a client deadline coming up, a large number of papers to grade for my professional society, and a wedding in Jersey this weekend. Not much chance of me being able to tell you about how Gift Ngoepe is doing.

And the Mets win the damn thing!