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Edgy MD wrote: Of course. That's why, among other things, the lowest ERAs belong to relief pitchers, pitching fewer innings. Dennis Eckersley put up a 0.61 ERA in 1990 and came in fifth in Cy Young voting. While I could quibble with that vote, I certainly don't think any voters seriouosly believed that his miniscule ERA was harder because he threw only 73 innings. I know. The point is so obvious, you could argue the point with any record, hitting or pitching. It was easier for Roger Maris to average 61 HR's over just one season instead of over his entire career. See?

Edgy MD wrote: And really, if the object of the game was anything besides scoring more runs than the other team, surely it should be to make Pete Rose explode, right? I was going to write: especially with what we know now, but then I remembered the Rosebud affair, and that was always enough for me.

OK. deGrom was also on pace to strike out more than 400 batters this season until he was IL'ed. And speaking of deGrom's paces, the booth mentioned today that deGrom is gonna have a tougher time surpassing Gibson's 1968 ERA because deGrom won't get to pitch nearly as many innings as Gibson did in '68. I'm pretty certain that the booth was mimicking, without attributing, the exact same point Joe Posnanski made in The Athletic a few days ago. I disagree totally. I think that's crazy talk. It's easier to maintain a historic ERA pace like Gibson did in '68 or like deGrom's doing this season over less innings, not more innings. More innings only increases the pitcher's chances of having just one or two bad outings, which could kill the pace because at this level of microscopic ERA, there's zero margin for error.

Edgy MD wrote: Suddenly on a pace to win a career-high 16 games. More. On pace to win 16 games only if he misses a good chunk of starts every other month like he already did in the April/May stretch.

That 1-5-4 game was really wild. That was also the game where Davey sorta' ran out of pitchers and so kept both McDowell and Orosco in at the end at the same time, with one of the relievers pitching and the other one going out to right field depending on whether Davey wanted a lefty or righty pitcher. I think Pete Rose went ballistic when Davey first switched those pitchers, arguing either that the incoming pitcher shouldn't be awarded warm-up pitches or arguing about how a Mets mound visit should require one of the Mets relievers to be removed from the game.

Lefty Specialist wrote: Kinda glad I went outside to enjoy a nice warm late spring day, rather than obsess over what was written on a fan forum 10 years ago. Did some yard work and got a bit of a sunburn. Had Dairy Queen Blizzards for lunch. Discovered that a Christmas tree I planted 20 years ago is producing pine cones for the first time. Didn't think about 2011 once. And not worried that this might be used against me in 2031. No one's using anything against anybody. It's no big deal to me. The double play video at the top of this thread merely triggered that memory. I spent the most time in that thread posting about that DP, which was probably the biggest play of that wild game, and so that's how it reminded me of that Reds thread. I wasn't angry when the brouhaha first happened in 2011. I was mainly amused and thought it was kinda' funny that someone would get so worked up over posts about an '86 game in his '61 Reds thread. I even remember how he phrased his complaint. It went something like about waking up that morning to read the new posts in his '61 Reds thread only to see Gary Carter's ass on third base. (That was a reference to a shot from left field looking in at Carter from his backside. You really did see Carter's ass. Carter was playing third because the Mets were suddenly strapped personnel-wise due to ejections and players already used up). This is no big deal. And if MFS62 is so bothered by this rehash, I'll even apologize. I thought this was more funny than anything else. It turns out that he doesn't even remember. I'll probably associate that tremendous 1-5-4 double play with that Reds thread from 10 years ago for the rest of my life.

Lefty Specialist wrote: Kinda glad I went outside to enjoy a nice warm late spring day, rather than obsess over what was written on a fan forum 10 years ago. Did some yard work and got a bit of a sunburn. Had Dairy Queen Blizzards for lunch. Discovered that a Christmas tree I planted 20 years ago is producing pine cones for the first time. Didn't think about 2011 once. And not worried that this might be used against me in 2031. No one's using anything against anybody. It's no big deal to me. The double play video at the top of this thread merely triggered that memory. I spent the most time in that thread posting about that DP, which was probably the biggest play of that wild game, and so that's how it reminded me of that Reds thread. I wasn't angry when the brouhaha first happened in 2011. I was mainly amused and thought it was kinda' funny that someone would get so worked up over posts about an '86 game in his '61 Reds thread. I even remember how he phrased his complaint. It went something like about waking up that morning to read the new posts in his '61 Reds thread only to see Gary Carter's ass on third base. (That was a reference to a shot from left field looking in at Carter from his backside. You really did see Carter's ass. Carter was playing third because the Mets were suddenly strapped personnel-wise due to ejections and players already used up). This is no big deal. And if MFS62 is so bothered by this rehash, I'll even apologize. I thought this was more funny than anything else. It turns out that he doesn't even remember.

http://phpbb3.leaptoad.com/mets/archives/16600/f1_t16600.shtmlhttp://phpbb3.leaptoad.com/mets/archives/16600/f1_t16600.shtml Thank you for finding that, Kase. Looks like I not only didn't start the thread, but didn't even post in it. Oh yes you did. You started a thread about the '61 Reds, whom you said you loved and rooted for, probably because there was no NY NL team then, if I remember. That thread went Reds. Then Mets v Reds '86 classic. Then you went nuts. Edgy finally hadda come in and play peacemaker and split out the original thread to placate you. Read the first post in the archived thread linked by KC, where FAFIF talks about being inspired by my picture show. That's a reference to your original thread. My picture show was many stills of that '86 game along with commentary, some of it from a Faith and Flushing piece about that game, , which FAFIF had written around the same time of that thread.

That play was from the wild and unforgettable 1986 game when Dave Parker dropped a routine fly ball to give the Mets new life. Also, a vicious bench clearing brawl ensued when Ray Knight clocked Eric Davis right in the face. We had a whole thread about that game on or about its 25th anniversary. That would've been 2011. I think MFS62 started the thread. Then he threw a ninny-fit tantrum all because I dared to include stuff in his thread about this game.

Jacob deGrom - rate stat analysis and NL rank: 0.71 ERA (1st - nobody's close) 0.569 WHIP (1st) 3.9 H/9 (1st) 1.2 BB/9 (2nd) 14.5 K/9 (1st) 11.71 K/BB (1st) 0.5 HR/9 (3rd) 551 ERA+ (1st - by a landslide) 1.10 FIP (1st - half the FIP of the next guy)

Mets@Padres -- 10:10PM Eastern Time Zone Start -- California three hour difference. Jacob deGrom 4-2 0.71 v. Joe Musgrove 4-4 2.08

Joe Posnanski on the incomparable Jacob deGrom:

Edgy MD wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJZ_ViDADOEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJZ_ViDADOE During the freak-out psychedelic Sgt Pepper Jimi Hendrix Experience 1967 Summer of Love, this countrified song was, by far, the biggest hit of the Summer. And check this out.... https://youtu.be/hkVa_1RViVkhttps://youtu.be/hkVa_1RViVk That's a weird segue, Frank. But what a great time that was when Frank and Ella were still huge and at the same time ,you could stare at the cover of Disraeli Gears 'till you went blind. What a generation gap!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJZ_ViDADOEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJZ_ViDADOE During the freak-out psychedelic Sgt Pepper Jimi Hendrix Experience 1967 Summer of Love, this countrified song was, by far, the biggest hit of the Summer. And check this out.... https://youtu.be/hkVa_1RViVkhttps://youtu.be/hkVa_1RViVk

Ode to Billie Joe.

I'd like to buy another vowel.

Frayed Knot wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Another sleepy, dusty, delta day. Billy Landis McKinney threw the Padres off the Shea Bridge. The really sad part about this "joke" is that I've been waiting four seasons to use it. First conceived of back in 2018, y'know what keeps you from using the line on June 3rd? Having a near fatal heart attack on June 2nd, that's what! So you hold onto it until 2019 but the Mets were off that day. No worries, I'll just use it in 2020 ... until a fuckin global pandemic knocks out baseball for not just 6/3 but the entire month of June. It's a long time to hold on to an extremely mediocre reference, I know, but the longer it took the more determined I was to finally get a chance to cash it in. Totally clueless, here. I'd like to buy a vowel.

Was one of three Cy Young award winning Mets teammates on the '81 squad: Marshall ('74), Randy Jones ('76) and future Cy Young award winner Mike Scott ('86).

Wright.

Nohan Johan.

=bmfc1 post_id=66137 time=1622518487 user_id=73] That's it for Jake. I guess he's pitching too well to stay in the game.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=62152 time=1619491916 user_id=68] Pete Alonso is on pace to hit his 100th career HR this season in what would be Alosno's 318th game played. If Alonso stays on pace, he will set the all-time MLB record for least games to 100 HR's, breaking Ryan Howard's record of 325 games. Howard obliterated the previous record, then held by Ralph Kiner (376 games).

Benjamin Grimm wrote: . http://phpbb3.leaptoad.com/mets/archives/2300/f1_t2382.shtmlNickname Methodology! Wow! That Bret guy ( before my time) was pretty mean. OTOH, those nicknames really were lame.

Edgy MD wrote: A Boy Named Seo wrote: Huh, my friend had a different list that he pulled from Lahman. His had Randy Tate (1975, 41 ABs), Harry Parker (1974, 36 ABs), Ed Lynch (1982, 33 ABs) and Jeremy Heffner (2013, 32 ABs). I think his was likely seasonal and mine is for full careers. Ed Lynch was a decent hitter in non-1982 years. If you broke up this list into two lists -- one for hitters and one for pitchers -- a reasonable thing to do for this statistic-- Maybin is now tied for the top of the hitters list. Here come the Lineup breakers — all-time Met champs of position-player offensive futility. [th]Rank[/th][th]Name[/th][th]AB[/th][th]PA[/th][th]AVG[/th]1Cameron Maybin2322.0002Sandy Alomar2222.0003Bart Shirley1212.000T4Joe Nolan1011.000T4Rich Puig1011.0006Keith Hughes99.000T7Jed Lowrie78.000T7Tim Corcoran79.0009Al Pedrique67.000T10Joe Ginsberg55.000T10Lou Klimchock55.000T10Brian Ostrosser55.000 So Maybin was DFA'd as soon as the first injured Mets outfielder was activated off of the IL list (Pillar), but not before getting off the schnied in his last game as a Met, and coming off that list.