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Better than even odds Lindor is clueless about those songs.

and now Fiddler 's If I Were a Rich Man mid at-bat.

Braves' organist plays Pink Floyd's Money for Lindor's walk-up.

Edgy MD wrote: I think his ERA may survive. Now let's selectively crush some baseballs. O.95

=bmfc1 post_id=69822 time=1625188964 user_id=73] Please let him bat. Please let him bat.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Dickey deserves a Mets hOf enshrinement Is there a minimum # of years as a Met to qualify? Because if three year Mets are eligible, then Dickey for sure, and also Olerud.

1.03

His ERA's now at 1.04.

Catching up with R.A. Dickey. R.A. Dickey on the joy of watching Jacob deGrom pitch, his 2012 Cy Young season & life after baseball Nine years ago, baseball's best pitcher was a 37-year-old throwing 75 mile per hour knuckleballs. Today, as he watches Jacob deGrom rain fire over the league with a totally different pitching style, R.A. Dickey can still relate to that feeling of Citi Field's mound transforming into a throne. “I can certainly understand the space he might be in where he feels like he can do anything on the mound,” Dickey says of deGrom, who he occasionally exchanges texts with. “You don't get that very often, if ever. Standing on the mound knowing the ball will do what you want it to do, that is such a rare thing. He's in a different league than me, man.” Calling from his forty acre farm in Franklin, Tenn., the 2012 Cy Young winner says he keeps a close eye on his former team. When he's not coaching his teenage son's travel ball team — a culture that by his own words can be “very toxic from a lot of different standpoints” — or tending to his pig Meatball, Dickey tunes in like the rest of us to marvel at the pitcher who he says might be the best he's ever seen. “I keep telling my son that he's watching a once-in-a-generation player,” Dickey tells the Daily News. “It almost becomes more flavorful when he struggles, right? If he were to give up six runs in two innings that would be on the front page. But if he's shutting people out it's ho-hum.” Along with farm and father duties, Dickey keeps busy by playing pickup basketball three times a week at a nearby high school and serving as a board member for a Nashville-based anti-human trafficking organization. Now nine years removed from his magic carpet ride season and the attention that came with it, baseball's last great knuckleballer lives a life full of whimsy. “The thing that's neat about a knuckleball guy is you're kind of this wizard or this weird thing that blew through the major leagues,” Dickey laughs. “Most people that throw the knuckleball have a humble spirit because you have to deal with failure so much when you're trying to learn it. You also have to deal with how ugly it looks when it's not going well. I mean, you're up there floating 70 miles per hour to major league hitters. That carries over real well; I don't want people to ever be intimidated by me.” Fame can be fleeting, or at least for Dickey, it can morph from 40,000 screaming fans at Citi Field to umpires at local parks asking to pose for a photo. One thing that fascinates him is the level of hyper fame that deGrom has evaded. “You look at what this cat's done, people ask me all the time why he's not more well-known,” Dickey says of the relatively anonymous megastar heading the Mets' rotation. “One reason is that he hasn't had a chance to pitch in the postseason for a while. The other one is that he's coming up in an era where there's still enough people who appreciated guys that threw 240 innings. When you're asking a guy as good as he is to only go through the lineup twice, sometimes three times, there's something more there. That's really the only knock.” Dickey understands that any criticism of deGrom involves splitting the thinnest of hairs. While he acknowledges that having a manager that allows him to go deeper would add to deGrom's Q score, Dickey is also awestruck by the best pitcher in the world having such an unassuming demeanor. “He's got a perfect temperament for New York. He suits that place well because he's the same as he'd be in Milwaukee. In that place, man, you need a short-term memory and a bulletproof confidence. That's what it takes to be good there.” In the summer of 2012, Dickey was as good as any pitcher had ever been in the Big Apple. He led the National League in strikeouts, complete games and shutouts that year, earning the Cy Young trophy that's tucked away in the corner of his office. He's the only knuckleball artist to win pitching's top honor, doing so by throwing back-to-back complete game one-hitters, logging double-digit strikeouts in seven starts, and setting a Mets record with 32.2 consecutive scoreless innings. Dickey admits that he was rooting for deGrom to break that record this year. When asked about the darker, behind the scenes moments that grounded him from the euphoria of a Cy Young season, though, he pulls a sympathetic card. “The hardest part is always watching friends not have the seasons they hoped for, and collectively, the team not doing well,” Dickey says somberly of a Mets team that won just 74 games and finished 24 games behind the NL East champion Nationals. “Those are tough times.” RELATED: Former Met R.A. Dickey talks baseball's ugly restart battle, fan backlash and the coronavirus curveball » Of course, there was also the trade that immediately followed the supernatural season. The Mets traded Dickey to Toronto just over a month after his name was engraved on the Cy Young trophy. In return, the Blue Jays sent a combination of players headlined by Noah Syndergaard and Travis d'Arnaud, who became integral parts of the 2015 team that won the NL pennant. It was a World Series Dickey thought he was destined to play in. “I didn't want to leave New York, that was kind of a dark moment. I felt like I really belonged to a place for a portion of my career,” Dickey reflects. “I was able to build something with the fanbase, then all of a sudden I had to go somewhere else. That was a tough moment.” Life on the hobby farm is satisfying a different part of his spirit now, and Dickey says it's brought a sense of fulfillment. Being away from the cameras and microphones has opened a new side to the Mets' cult hero's life. As far as his niche, celebrity status in Queens? Dickey still enjoys tapping into that when he can. “I can still go back to New York and maybe get a free sub if the guy recognizes me. It's fun to be on that side.” https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-ra-dickey-jacob-degrom-20210701-43p36tfd7be4vdycopnbc63pfe-story.htmlhttps://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-ra-dickey-jacob-degrom-20210701-43p36tfd7be4vdycopnbc63pfe-story.html

Right, "oh, and before I choke you to near death and hammer you like chop meat can you sign this unscrupulous scammer disclaimer form because - ya know - I am somewhat of a celebrity sports star with no track record of being an asshole?" "Yes, there, and initial here and there." "You're a peach!" Whaddya mean by your post? Is that sarcasm aimed at me and my posts? Do you deny that there are people out there who enjoy engaging in extremely violent sex? Because if you do, what do you think S&M is? Bump. So what's the deal? Because I didn't read anything about Bauer being accused of hitting her with a hammer. So what's all the sarcasm about? Do you think that nobody has anal sex, or plays sex choking games. You're gonna be 59 years old very soon and you don't know this?

He's just fucked a zillion ways over. In a worst case scenario where he's found guilty of criminal conduct, not only will he face likely incarceration, but I'm wondering if there's a morals clause in his contract that would allow the Dodgers to void the rest of Bauer's record-setting contract. Proving that the incident was consensual will keep Bauer out of jail, but that's just the tip of the iceberg of problems that he's brought on himself.

Edgy MD wrote: If you can cover all your bases and prove to the last degree that this was totally consensual, do you really want to be the guy who stands in a courtroom with pictures of a brutalized woman in front of the judge and say, "She totally consented to that — in fact, she was really into it"? I totally agree with you. I even suggested that this incident, even if totally consensual, could show that Bauer's a psychopath. Yup. And I know it's very dangerous to start suggesting that every douchebag out there is a rapist, but damn, if he didn't give off some pretty clear warning signs. And even more to the point, I don't see how Bauer could possibly come out of this unscathed, even if the incident was entirely consensual. He's never gonna live this down because thiis just gruesome. He's gonna have to go beyond proving consent. He's gonna have to convince the authorities and the public that he wasn't responsible for her injuries -- but that they were either self-inflicted or inflicted by somebody else. And he may be already locked into statements that rule this out.

Edgy MD wrote: If you can cover all your bases and prove to the last degree that this was totally consensual, do you really want to be the guy who stands in a courtroom with pictures of a brutalized woman in front of the judge and say, "She totally consented to that — in fact, she was really into it"? I totally agree with you. I even suggested that this incident, even if totally consensual, could show that Bauer's a psychopath.

Right, "oh, and before I choke you to near death and hammer you like chop meat can you sign this unscrupulous scammer disclaimer form because - ya know - I am somewhat of a celebrity sports star with no track record of being an asshole?" "Yes, there, and initial here and there." "You're a peach!" Whaddya mean by your post? Is that sarcasm aimed at me and my posts? Do you deny that there are people out there who enjoy engaging in extremely violent sex? Because if you do, what do you think S&M is?

=Centerfield post_id=69750 time=1625166271 user_id=65] It's one of those cases where even the best-case scenario isn't so great for Bauer.

I'll wait to hear Bauer's full side. Her side has some real inconsistencies. Worst case scenario for Bauer: he's a psychopath. Best case scenario: he's being set up by a gold-digger willing to have the living shit beaten out of her in hopes of wrangling a multi-million dollar legal settlement from the very deep-pocketed Bauer. Either way, though, he's got some, let's just say, unconventional sexual turn-ons. And he may be a psychopath even if it turns out that he is being set up. The media's gonna love this one. It's got everything.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=69607 time=1625081815 user_id=68] =Gwreck post_id=69604 time=1625081265 user_id=56] =bmfc1 post_id=69560 time=1625020778 user_id=73] It feels like they ended a long losing streak even though it's only been two games.

[FIMG=666]http://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2339442/venturafinal.0.jpg[/FIMG] Atl. Braves @ NYM - October 17, 1999 - Robin Ventura is mobbed at 2nd base by Mets teammates after hitting a game-winning walkoff "Grand Slam Single".

[FIMG=500]https://i1.wp.com/thisdayinbaseball.com/wp-content/uploads/1962/05/warren-spah-and-Hobie-Landrith.png?fit=541%2C667&ssl=1[/FIMG] May 12, 1962 - Hobie Landrith hits a walkoff HR against Mil. Braves ace Warren Spahn in the first game of a doublehader. Mets sweep both games. Craig Anderson wins both games of the DH. Anderson would go on to lose his next 19 decisions and never win another major league game.

[FIMG=666]https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/91ba7e6/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2048x1371+0+0/resize/1486x995!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F9b%2F2c%2F739cf57b92262889575096664da6%2Flat-la-me-frank-torre-wre0021988345-19770717[/FIMG] Brothers Joe and Frank Torre, 1977, Shea Stadium

[FIMG=555]https://i1.wp.com/neilleifer.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2165.jpg?fit=960%2C1473&ssl=1[/FIMG] April 21, 1963 - Mil. Braves & NYM

NYM @ Atl. Braves 7:20PM Jacob deGrom (7-2 0.69) v. Ian Anderson (5-4 3.42)

=kcmets post_id=69667 time=1625104607 user_id=53] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=69665 time=1625103959 user_id=68]What I'm saying is that the guy's on top of the world.

=kcmets post_id=69667 time=1625104607 user_id=53] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=69665 time=1625103959 user_id=68]What I'm saying is that the guy's on top of the world.

Not a fan of Alonso laughing and chuckling it up with Freeman down by four. I would. It's freakin' baseball and barring a horrible injury, Alonso's gonna be as "rich as Rockefeller" in a coupl'a years while he's still in his freakin' 20s. Not that Alonso's hurtin' for dough right now. Said nothing about money. If you're ok with him yucking it up the enemy, then we now know one more thing about your dollars and sense of things. I know you didn't say anything about money. So what? What does that have to do with anything? I'm the one who introduced money into the discussion. My post wasn't about money either, even though I did mention money. What I'm saying is that the guy's on top of the world. Your post resonated with me because I saw the movie Moneyball last week on cable TV. I'd seen it before. Maybe twice. And last week, the scene that stuck out for me was when an A's player was acting ubpeat and happy in the locker room following an A's loss. The Billy Beane character (Brad Pitt) walks by and has a fit when he sees this. He throws stuff all over the place and browbeats the player. "Is losing fun? No? Then why are you having fun?" And I couldn't relate to Beane. Maybe it's my age. But Beane's reaction made no sense to me. I don't see how one thing neessarily has anything to do with the other. I don't see how listening and grooving to your music means you don't care about the loss. At that moment, Beane's reaction felt idiotic to me. Your post triggered that reaction. I used money as a substitute for "two superstars on top of the world". I'm sure they'll both lose this night's sleep over the fact that you're not happy with their socializing. Call Bob Gibson. Now you know one more thing about me, whatever that is. Write it down in the psycho book that you keep that's all about me.