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=batmagadanleadoff post_id=40687 time=1595002743 user_id=68] It'd be cool if some fan purchases a cut-out of Nelson Doubleday.

It'd be cool if some fan purchases a cut-out of Nelson Doubleday.

MLB's Newest Ballpark Is A Shift Away From Retro-Era Stadiums [FIMG=555]https://fivethirtyeight.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-1255300514-1-e1594837149499.jpg?w=575[/FIMG] Excerpt: The opening of Camden Yards in 1992 ushered in a retro era of MLB ballparks. The downtown Baltimore stadium was a game-changer in design, aesthetics and location. It sparked the greatest boom period in stadium construction since the openings of Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Sportsman's Park in St. Louis and Forbes Field in Pittsburgh marked the beginning of the concrete-and-steel stadium age more than 80 years earlier. But the retro era may be over. The architects of the Texas Rangers' new home say its structure is a step forward in ballpark design. Globe Life Field, they say, is something new. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mlbs-newest-ballpark-is-a-shift-away-from-retro-era-stadiums/https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mlbs-newest-ballpark-is-a-shift-away-from-retro-era-stadiums/

The Mets are using cardboard cutouts of fans to put in the seats at Citi Field during the 2020 season with no actual fans allowed in for games because of the coronavirus pandemic. They are free for season-ticket holders who re-up for 2021, but any fan also can purchase one for $86. [FIMG=555]https://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.46949097.1594934710!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/display_960/image.jpg[/FIMG] https://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/mets-cardboard-cutout-fans-1.46949094https://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/mets-cardboard-cutout-fans-1.46949094

Frayed Knot wrote: I know how ZOOM works and have been on it before ... just never from my home computer. And I suspect I'd have to speak REALLY LOUDLY into my microphone-less monitor for the others in the group to hear me ... which brings me right back to the ability to listen in on the meeting but not really participate in any meaningful way. Well, you didn't say that you also lacked a microphone until just now. So without video and audio, I guess you can't participate meaningfully. You can lurk, though, and watch everybody else.

Frayed Knot wrote: So while I couldn't participate, I could be creepy and lurking! No. You can participate even without a computer camera. You can hear and also speak. And you can see everyone who has their video on. You just can't be seen, is all. Here's what a zoom computer meeting would look like on your screen. Think of Hollywood Squares with every participant getting his or her own square. [FIMG=444]https://www.technology.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/blog-images/ZoomMeeting.png[/FIMG] [FIMG=444]https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/7f069ce/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2808x1607+0+0/resize/840x481!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F22%2F94%2Fdcba53814c47b09bc8d84b43cc0f%2Fartist-relief-fund.jpg[/FIMG] But anyone without a camera or with their video turned off would be represented by a black square with no image. But you'd still be on the meeting, for all other purposes.

Jacob deGrom undergoing MRI after leaving Mets start with back problem Excerpt: The Mets hope to get more answers on Jacob deGrom's status soon as the ace will undergo an MRI exam Wednesday, manager Luis Rojas said. DeGrom, the 32-year-old two-time Cy Young winner, exited Tuesday night's intrasquad game after just one inning with back tightness, clouding his status for Opening Day. The Mets are set to open the shortened 2020 MLB season on July 24 against the Atlanta Braves. https://nypost.com/2020/07/15/jacob-degrom-undergoing-mri-after-leaving-mets-start-with-back-problem/https://nypost.com/2020/07/15/jacob-degrom-undergoing-mri-after-leaving-mets-start-with-back-problem/ Jacob deGrom Headed For MRI Excerpt: The Mets have decided to send top starter Jacob deGrom in for an MRI on his ailing back, manager Luis Rojas told reporters including Newsday's Tim Britton (Twitter link). deGrom left his Summer Camp appearance yesterday after a single inning. There's still no reason for serious alarm, to be clear. But it's hardly the best news to follow up on yesterday's development. Sending deGrom in for imaging does indicate that the organization has concern beyond the level of regular maintenance. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/07/jacob-degrom-headed-for-mri.htmlhttps://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/07/jacob-degrom-headed-for-mri.html

=kcmets post_id=40499 time=1594835725 user_id=53] Right. I was on a baseball one a week or so ago and there were participants who either didn't have a camera or I think you can also choose not to broadcast from your camera.

Frayed Knot wrote: Actually what prevents me from joining in is that my computer doesn't have a built in camera. You could still join in. You just won't have video - meaning you can't see or be seen. But you'll have audio. Actually, I take some of that back. Not having a camera on your PC, Mac, laptop or whatever means that you won't be able to be seen by others. But you'll still be able to see them (so long as their cameras are on).

Frayed Knot wrote: Actually what prevents me from joining in is that my computer doesn't have a built in camera. You could still join in. You just won't have video - meaning you can't see or be seen. But you'll have audio. Plus what ceets just said.

Frayed Knot wrote: Actually what prevents me from joining in is that my computer doesn't have a built in camera. You could still join in. You just won't have video - meaning you can't see or be seen. But you'll have audio.

Frayed Knot wrote: Ummm, no. Plus, their last names are heteronyms: words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently. Anyone here know how to pronounce "Rich Puig" (first and last name)? Time's up! Youse are probably mispronouncing Rich Puig as if the name rhymes with Bitch (Captain) Queeg. It doesn't. Rich Puig is pronounced Rick Pwig -- (rhymes with Lick Twig).

Frayed Knot wrote: Ummm, no. Plus, their last names are heteronyms: words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently. Anyone here know how to pronounce "Rich Puig" (first and last name)?

Edgy MD wrote: What's the dress code? Halloween masks.

Edgy MD wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Damn, I thought I played an ace with Pumicie Green, but Sabertoothen will be hard to beat. Plus, he one-upped you with Doug Flynnstone. Nah, he was late to the ball on Dougie. Well, he can't one-up you without coming in after you. I like your Pterry Collins. I tried working in a "Pterodactyl" gag myself but came up blank. It didn't occur to me to shorten it to "Pterry" Also, I'm changing Marble-ous Marb to Marble-ous Marv.

Are the Texas Rangers next? The Texas Rangers' team name must go Excerpt: As the Washington football team finally gives up its racist slur of a name, there is one major sports team that has avoided the spotlight and resisted meaningful engagement with the violent and racist implications of its name. To know the full history of the Texas Rangers is to understand that the team's name is not so far off from being called the Texas Klansmen. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/13/texas-rangers-team-name-must-go/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/13/texas-rangers-team-name-must-go/

Edgy MD wrote: Damn, I thought I played an ace with Pumicie Green, but Sabertoothen will be hard to beat. Plus, he one-upped you with Doug Flynnstone.

Quarry Oswalt or Mark Quarry or Joe Quarry (same gag, more or less - I prefer Oswalt)

The Great Dae-Sung Gazoo

Marble-ous Marb.

Anybody here actually see this marathon game live and in real time? I'd guess most of youse here that were old enough, this being a forum of hard-core Mets fans. I was over at my girlfriend's (parents) house for the 4th of July weekend that year. I caught maybe the first two or three innings of the game and then me and my girlfriend went out to catch a movie. I even remember what movie that was -- The Goonies. After the movie, we went out to eat or something. We got back home and it was after one in the morning. I put on the TV and began channel surfing and stumbled onto the Mets game without expecting to. I couldn't believe the game was still being played and was really overjoyed to be able to watch the Mets. I watched the rest of that game, all the way to its nutty end.

Keith's explanation of the "Gorfax" nickname makes much more sense than Sisk's.

Darling: Everyone who was I'm sure feeling no pain, they were so excited and so emotional. There was cheering you wouldn't hear after a regular-season game because we'd all gone through this silly little game. Guys were coming up hugging and half-kissing you. It was like we had won the pennant. Hurdle: There's relief and just some silly joy that you were in it for that long, that you fought through it. Six minutes after the game ended, at 4:01 a.m., there was one more surprise for the evening. Murphy: It was just kind of an odd relief and then wonder: How did all that happen? It was just kind of a weird questioning of just what went on over the last few hours. And then we started hearing the fireworks go off. McDowell: There were postgame fireworks at four in the morning. Murphy: I kind of forgot it was July 4 — because it was July 5! Sterling: The ballpark was really in a neighborhood. Imagine you're sleeping at 4:30 in the morning and the fireworks go off. Sisk: They let the fireworks off right after the game, and all hell broke loose. We had no idea that was going to happen. Hurdle: People reported it. They thought they were involved in some sort of bombing in the middle of Atlanta. The night wasn't quite over for the Mets. Hernandez: There was a Shriners Convention all weekend in the hotel, and the Shriners were staying up late and carousing and hooting and hollering. I remember Danny Heep said, “Let's go home and wake up the Shriners!” Nothing was open, but we went up and down our hallway screaming and yelling and waking everybody up. For the Mets, the night was a springboard. The win got them to 41-35 on the season. Starting that Thursday night, New York won 11 of its next 12 games and 28 of its next 35 to leap from third into first. The Mets won an even two-thirds of their games from that night forward the rest of the season to finish with 98 wins — still three shy of the Cardinals in the division. They won an even two-thirds of their games through 162 the next season for a franchise-best 108 wins and an eventual World Series title. Darling: That's when we started to feel special. It didn't matter. We're going to go nine, we're going to go 18, we're going to beat you. Howard Johnson: When you play those kinds of games and persevere that long and win, you feel like you've really conquered something. It reminds me of the playoffs in Houston (in 1986). You figure out how to win. Nobody gets it overnight. Our team was building in '85, and in '86 it just came to fruition. For the Braves, 1985 was the first of six straight seasons spent near the bottom of the NL West, before Bobby Cox led their revival in 1991. Camp retired in 1986, with just the one career home run. He passed away in 2013 at the age of 59. Thirty-five years later, that game remains one of the most compelling in either franchise's history. McDowell: Every July 4th, it's part of the lore of baseball, the history of baseball. There used to be a July 4th, 19th-inning club. I've still got the button somewhere. Sisk: I used to get buttons that the Braves used to send commemorating the game. Zuvella: Everything strange that can happen seemed to happen in that game. Sterling: You knew you were a part of something unbelievable. Murphy: Now I'm 64 years old and we're still talking about it. Sterling: You can't predict baseball. And that game proves it. https://theathletic.com/1915000/2020/07/09/the-greatest-game-ever-played-the-night-the-mets-and-braves-broke-baseball/https://theathletic.com/1915000/2020/07/09/the-greatest-game-ever-played-the-night-the-mets-and-braves-broke-baseball/

When Camp took the mound again in the 19th, the Mets pounced. New York scored five times in the inning, taking the lead on Ray Knight's double to the gap at 3:32 in the morning. Ron Darling, who was scheduled to start on Saturday, July 6, came in for the bottom of the 19th, the Mets leading 16-11. Darling: I'm so happy I got in that game. In the days when it was important to be in a box score, I'm happy I'm in that box score. Davey Johnson: I definitely didn't want to put somebody like a position player out there after that happened. I sent Darling in the game. I didn't want to take a chance on losing the game with a player after we'd been there all night long. Darling: I was extremely nervous. Even if it was four in the morning, there was a difference pitching that inning than pitching the 12th with the game tied. I was very nervous, and it resulted in a couple walks. Holland: We kept bringing the food out every inning anticipating the end of the game. And my assistant, Fred Stone, was bringing the food out (in the 19th inning). Davey looked at him and said, “If you bring that food back out here one more time, I'm gonna kick your ass.” Darling picked up two outs around a rare Hernandez error, then walked Murphy and Perry before Harper hit a two-run single. The tying run came to the plate with two outs again. It was Rick Camp. Murphy: Oh my gosh, seriously? Howard Johnson: You just can't write that stuff. It was crazy. Murphy: Well, the odds were astronomical for him to do it again. But then he hit that loud foul ball, and you're like, “You've got to be kidding me!” Zuvella: You get to a point where, what can possibly happen next? Darling: Luckily Camp was up. I figured I could handle him. Thank God I did. Darling struck out Camp at 3:55 a.m. — at that point, the latest local time a major-league game had ever finished. (It has since been surpassed by the second game of a July 2, 1993, Phillies-Padres doubleheader at Veterans Stadium. That game began at 1:28 a.m. and ended at 4:40 a.m.) The Mets entered a clubhouse that Darling called “a sea of Bud Lite cans and Chick-fil-A wrappers.” https://theathletic.com/1915000/2020/07/09/the-greatest-game-ever-played-the-night-the-mets-and-braves-broke-baseball/https://theathletic.com/1915000/2020/07/09/the-greatest-game-ever-played-the-night-the-mets-and-braves-broke-baseball/

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Tear down citifield, build a new park that resembles Shea in the parking lot [FIMG=666]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49173344498_a29e0877c7_c.jpg[/FIMG]