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=batmagadanleadoff post_id=77770 time=1631673683 user_id=68] I'll say this much: stuff's always happening with Baez. Its not always good stuff, but it's happening.

I'll say this much: stuff's always happening with Baez. Its not always good stuff, but it's happening.

I don't mind Baez. But if the Mets hitters were hitting to our expectations this season, Baez would be hitting about 7th in the lineup if that was up to me. If Baez played on a team like the '77 Mets, then I could see him in the cleanup slot, like Dave Kingman. But like Ceets said, those numbers don't lie, and we've got a huge sample size to work with, and Baez, who'll turn 30 on his next birthday, may have already peaked. Plus, defense goes before offense does, especially at the crucial and more demanding positions Baez plays.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Gary talking about the color of the outfield walls at Shea. Mentioned green and then blue, but not toothpaste. 😕 First thing I thought of when I heard him go on about the outfield walls. Also thought right along with him when he explained that the Shea seats were indeed dull by the mid-70s. They were not only weather-beaten, as Gary noted, but also very much neglected. But those seats had a brilliant shine to them when they were new.

Edgy MD wrote: Keith just cryptically said that Gary Carter told him he didn't like playing in Los Angeles, but he pointedly wouldn't say why. It's an open secret that all players hated Lasorda? He was getting diminishing playing time and didn't have any track record with the Dodgers to fall back on? He'd already had enough of Strawberry in New York? What truly made it cryptic was a knowing answer from Gary Cohen: "I bet I can guess why." Don't be like that, guys! It's totally rude! Carter hated LA because as a thoroughly faded baseball player at the end of the line, there was no way for him to manipulate the media and the rube portion of the fanbase into treating Carter like an indispensable star and a key cog of the Dodgers.

I set a bar?

Jesus, Mary and Giuseppe! It's the bar you set when you said after a three homer game that "This is now the first time all season long that I'm optimistic when Limdor comes up with men on base." Then you just waffled like a Clinton and tried to dumb it down to make sport of me. Again. I'm done. I still have no idea what you're talking about. And I'll bet that nobody else does, either.

=kcmets post_id=77585 time=1631556011 user_id=53] High optimism bar, not optimistic. Please don't misquote me. lol

It's a pretty short sentence, I'm sure you do. Does anyone have the means to post how many multi-rbi games Lindor has in 2021? I have no idea what that means. Do you? What in the hell is a "high optimistic bar"? Can you go drinking there? Are you saying that I'm now optimistic that Lindor's gonna have 3-HR games? 'Cause that's not even remotely what I was sayin' when I wrote that I'm now optimistic about Lindor.

=kcmets post_id=77580 time=1631554740 user_id=53] 3 HR's in a game is a pretty high optimism bar to set.

Finally. This is now the first time all season long that I'm optimistic when Limdor comes up with men on base.

=Marshmallowmilkshake post_id=77475 time=1631495788 user_id=119] Lindor!!! On one hand, it's nice to see ESPN has trouble with Zoom like everyone else. Would have liked to have heard more from Doc. Was nice to hear him giving Carter props for handling those arms.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Gonna be a long night. A good -located fastball is the best pitch in baseball, Lee Mazzilli says. Oh those leadoff walks He said it with such conviction, too. I think that just about everything he says is moronic. Is it me?

=G-Fafif post_id=77445 time=1631483710 user_id=55] Has anybody ever before apologized for steering a thread several lanes over?

What'd youse watch just before that?

So what movie did youse watch?

Dwight Bernard [FIMG=277]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Dwight_Bernard.jpg/220px-Dwight_Bernard.jpg[/FIMG]

Or, you know, maybe he just fucking knew that the ball would hit the top of the outfield wall because he's been playing baseball since he was a little kid.

The Mets provided some clarity on the condition of injured ace Jacob deGrom on Tuesday, when team president Sandy Alderson told reporters at loanDepot park that deGrom has been sidelined with a sprain of the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow, but that injury has healed and the ligament is "perfectly intact, based on the MRIs and our clinical evaluations through our doctors." Tuesday marked the first time deGrom's injury had been termed a "sprain"; the team had previously described him as battling "right elbow inflammation." But Alderson cautioned that the word sprain was a "technical term ... another term for a very mild ligament condition," and called deGrom's injury "a very low-grade thing that has resolved itself." https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiR2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm1sYi5jb20vbmV3cy9qYWNvYi1kZWdyb20tcy1yaWdodC1lbGJvdy1zcHJhaW4taGFzLXJlc29sdmVk0gFQaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWxiLmNvbS9hbXAvbmV3cy9qYWNvYi1kZWdyb20tcy1yaWdodC1lbGJvdy1zcHJhaW4taGFzLXJlc29sdmVkLmh0bWw?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aenhttps://news.google.com/articles/CBMiR2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm1sYi5jb20vbmV3cy9qYWNvYi1kZWdyb20tcy1yaWdodC1lbGJvdy1zcHJhaW4taGFzLXJlc29sdmVk0gFQaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWxiLmNvbS9hbXAvbmV3cy9qYWNvYi1kZWdyb20tcy1yaWdodC1lbGJvdy1zcHJhaW4taGFzLXJlc29sdmVkLmh0bWw?hl=en-US≷=US&ceid=US%3Aen

Other acceptable answers are LANY's "Made in Hollywood " and Kendrick Lamar's "The Art of Peer Pressure ". This quiz would have worked much better if some Met had the last name of "Bustle" and another had the last name of "Hedgerow ".

You're the best, Ashie!

Awesome post, Edgy!

Edgy MD wrote: I take exception. I was so good to you. What with the quizzing and everything. I took that all into account.

Worst. Quiz. Ever.

=nymr83 post_id=76693 time=1630906153 user_id=54] just checked out the upcoming schedule - the fucking yankees? aren't those games supposed to be in May? The Astros belong in the National League and interleague play should be restricted to May/June like it used to be.