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  1. batmagadanleadoff
    Edgy MD wrote: Lefty Specialist wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Well, knowing he's been seen, if he has indeed been seen, doesn't particularly cancel "he didn't show up" or "we can't get in touch with him." Perhaps he was seen dancing naked in the Centennial Olympic Park water fountain. And his cell phone got wet. I dunno. I just know that this'll be the biggest sports story in New York for the next 3 or 4 days. Whatever I had been up to, I would appreciate it if the club spoke with me before letting the world know. eh, fuck that. its game day and you aren't at the park, reporters and others will immediately be asking why. The Mets shouldn't need to lie or say 'no comment' because you didn't have the common decency to make a phone call. Don't like it? don't work in an industry where your job takes place on live television. How can you think that before at least knowing the reason for Cespedes's disappearance?
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    =batmagadanleadoff post_id=42618 time=1596400881 user_id=68] =bmfc1 post_id=42596 time=1596395740 user_id=73] I am so sick of Nido and Rivera. Russell Martin is unemployed but AA C's Nido and Rivera backup Ramos (0 HR, 0 RBI).
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    =bmfc1 post_id=42596 time=1596395740 user_id=73] I am so sick of Nido and Rivera. Russell Martin is unemployed but AA C's Nido and Rivera backup Ramos (0 HR, 0 RBI).
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    Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Pete Alonso is killing the Mets I was thinking yesterday that if the Mets don't want to rest Alonso, they should at least DH him for a game or two, and slide Dom onto the first base bag, meanwhile.
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    Anybody remember this? The Mets almost traded the Red Sox Jacob deGrom in 2012 Excerpt: In May, 2012, the Red Sox were working on a deal with the Mets for catcher Kelly Shoppach. Ben Cherington asked Sandy Alderson for a soon-to-be 24-year-old righthanded pitcher in the Florida State League who had missed the 2011 season after surgery. The name? Jacob deGrom. Alderson seemed comfortable with the original idea, but checking with his minor league people caused him to tell Cherington he had second thoughts. So, finally, Boston received Pedro Beato. https://www.overthemonster.com/2015/7/21/9010339/red-sox-mets-trade-rumors-jacob-degromhttps://www.overthemonster.com/2015/7/21/9010339/red-sox-mets-trade-rumors-jacob-degrom
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    Zack Wheeler is 3rd in ERA. Wheeler + Syndergaard > Porcello + Wacha
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    Frayed Knot wrote: =batmagadanleadoff post_id=42476 time=1596326567 user_id=68] When's deGrom's next start? Who cares, we have won a game when he starts in about a year and a half!
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    When's deGrom's next start?
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    Red Sox pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez is out for the season. Rodriguez has developed myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart, believed to have been caused by complications from his recent bout with covid-19. Rodriguez was slotted as his team's #1 or ace pitcher for this season.
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    Edgy MD wrote: The thirty-man roster! Brilliant! That and the DH.
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    This is exactly what I was thinking, especially the last sentence, when I saw no more than an inning and a half of a pre-season exhibition game between the DBacks and the Dodgers in which only one player wore a mask on the field: Yet, it didn't take training as a compliance officer to see high fives after homers, dogpiles after walk-offs, and spitting — lots of spitting. If players were having trouble following those rules while the cameras were on them in a ballpark, it doesn't exactly bolster confidence about adherence away from the cameras and away from the ballpark. https://theathletic.com/1951436/2020/07/31/big-week-for-baseball-30-teams-30-thoughts-and-the-ripple-effect-of-outbreaks/https://theathletic.com/1951436/2020/07/31/big-week-for-baseball-30-teams-30-thoughts-and-the-ripple-effect-of-outbreaks/ OTOH, this current outbreak could be a wake-up call for MLB to get its act together and flatten -- no, squash - its curve.
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    That doesn't look like Sag Harbor to me.
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    Keith. But still, No Darling! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [FIMG=777]https://acquatee.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Mets-shirt.jpg[/FIMG] And shouldn't Keith be barefoot?
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    Edgy MD wrote: The weird thing is to think we're kind of watching spring training play here, and if there is a season, the first place team might not be the best, but simply the one who got their rust off in eight games, rather than fifteen or sixteen. True. But so what, when more than half the teams will qualify for the playoffs.
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    Believe me when I tell you. Seaver and deGrom, but No Darling! Believe me when I tell you. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [FIMG=666]https://user-images.strikinglycdn.com/res/hrscywv4p/image/upload/c_limit,fl_lossy,h_9000,w_1200,f_auto,q_auto/2012176/557294_964770.jpeg[/FIMG]
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    Lefty Specialist wrote: I love when the Mets pick up somebody who's been great for years and he turns to shit in a Met uniform. The Carlos Baerga Syndrome. I see your Carlos Baerga and raise you by Jason Bay. Top that.
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    =LWFS post_id=42241 time=1596157009 user_id=84] They REALLY don't. I'm a bit more concerned with the hitting us out of big innings. I mean, if we can't smack around Martin F-ing Perez and Eovaldi, what the hell do we expect to do with Cole and Scherzer, exactly?
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    Frayed Knot wrote: Yes folks, TWiB Notes is back this year despite no popular demand whatsoever. - Mike Foltynewicz somehow cleared waivers and has been sent to the Braves' 'Alternate Site' (sounds like the place where Black Ops squads take people who are then never heard from again) Considering the teams that are in desperate need of pitching (starting w/Boston) or just plain healthy bodies (Miami) I'm surprised he slid right through. - Talk about your slow starts, how's this for a line?: .037/.071/.148 in 28 PA And the weird part? ... it's Christian Yelich. 6 for 27 (5 singles, 1 HR) w/1 BB and 12 Ks Ugh! Just eyeballing this real quick --- but 6 for 27 is a .200+ batting average. And five singles and a homer is a .333 slugging percentage. 6 for 27 is 2 for 9 is .222.
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    Frayed Knot wrote: Yes folks, TWiB Notes is back this year despite no popular demand whatsoever. - Mike Foltynewicz somehow cleared waivers and has been sent to the Braves' 'Alternate Site' (sounds like the place where Black Ops squads take people who are then never heard from again) Considering the teams that are in desperate need of pitching (starting w/Boston) or just plain healthy bodies (Miami) I'm surprised he slid right through. - Talk about your slow starts, how's this for a line?: .037/.071/.148 in 28 PA And the weird part? ... it's Christian Yelich. 6 for 27 (5 singles, 1 HR) w/1 BB and 12 Ks Ugh! Just eyeballing this real quick --- but 6 for 27 is a .200+ batting average. And five singles and a homer is a .333 slugging percentage.
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    After two starts, Jake deGrom is leading all NL pitchers in bWAR at 0.6.
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    I don't see how it's supposed to make a logical difference whether deGrom is pitching the first five or six innings of a game or the last five or six innings of a game. Unless the Mets open with a lefty on deGrom's day and the opposing team sets a lineup geared towards a lefty pitcher. Then there might be an advantage to bringing deGrom in midway. But If deGrom is pitching the same five or six innings, then he'd be on regular rest and a regular schedule and the opposing manager should know with great precision, which game deGrom will enter midway. The Mets inability to capitalize on deGrom's brilliance is nothing more than a bizarre and tremendous statistical fluke that should eventually disappear so long as deGrom continues to pitch like he has been pitching. Having him finish rather than start games shouldn't change anything. This shit can happen from time to time. Like going 50 years without a no-hitter, especially despite having had a stable of pitchers likely to have thrown one. Or never having had an MVP winner.
  22. batmagadanleadoff
    =LWFS post_id=42027 time=1595988073 user_id=84] Thanks to some first-pitch aggression from Smiley and the Squirrel. A little weird how prolific our lefty swingers have been in Fenway, innit?
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    Inside the Phillies' evolving response to the Marlins outbreak Excerpt: In the minutes preceding Sunday's game at Citizens Bank Park, a few people in the Phillies dugout glanced across the field and had a sobering thought. It became a conversation, albeit a cursory one in the moment because there was baseball to play. Should we even be here? They wondered about it. They knew something was wrong, just from the information relayed by the Marlins that morning. But some perceptive Phillies had been alarmed all weekend by how the Marlins had appeared to not stagger their arrivals and workouts and how few people in the Marlins dugout were wearing masks. https://theathletic.com/1955394/2020/07/27/inside-the-phillies-evolving-response-after-the-marlins-outbreak/https://theathletic.com/1955394/2020/07/27/inside-the-phillies-evolving-response-after-the-marlins-outbreak/
  24. batmagadanleadoff
    Oh, the fucking hypocrisy. The Yankees paint a BLM logo on their mound --likely against their will as that was an MLB thing-- but then invite Donald "KKK" Trump to throw out a ceremonial first pitch. It's the crazy world of President Trump. Combined sources are claiming that Trump invited himself.to throw a first pitch at Yankee Stadium out of jealousy and resentment at all the attention Dr. Fauci was receiving from throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at the Nats opener. Never a dull moment. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/509291-yankees-surprised-by-trump-announcing-plans-to-throw-first-pitchhttps://thehill.com/homenews/administration/509291-yankees-surprised-by-trump-announcing-plans-to-throw-first-pitch
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    Benjamin Grimm wrote: I doubt that the disease is spreading on the field, although it might be. It's more likely happening in airports and restaurants and night clubs and other places. It's probably a combination of both. Young, socially popular athletes, single and with lotsa money going out and getting infected. Then bringing the virus back to their teammates and opponents, spreading it on the field, in the clubhouse, on the plane/bus and at the hotel.
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