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Mark Vientos will probably hit 50 HRs this second half all because he too was snubbed from the All Star Game. He'll show them.

Yeah. Because Juan Soto can get a hit or hit a homer whenever he fucking feels like it. When Soto had his awful April last April, it was because he didn't fucking feel like getting any hits.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Heyden Senger does bring value to the plate-- his walk-up song is "Hold the Line" by Toto. Love isn't always on time, yknow Toto? WTF? I thought you were cool. I like "Hold the Line" .... It's got that plinky piano, the heavy-metal guitar chords a cool beat. Bobby Kimbal's vocals dial up the cheese factor. I'd like Toto if they were to appear at the Live Aid 2025 Festival and told Joni Ernst that if she's such a fucking leader, she should lead by example and kill herself first being that we're all gonna die. Then I'd like Toto a lot. Then scumbag Joni Ernst could explain to all the suckers and rubes that voted for her that she doesn't want to kill herself because she believes that she still has 10, 20, maybe 30 good years of life left that she'd prefer to live out and that there ain't no Heaven and if you believe in Heaven, you're another sucker to be had. And then all the people that are gonna lose their Medicaid could respond that they too have 20 or 30 years of life left that they'd like to live out and enjoy if only they could get the medicine that's reasonably available to them and that they're eligible to receive today because they're eligible Medicaid beneficiaries and not Medicaid scammers. Too bad that if they voted for Ernst in the first place, they're probably too fucking stupid to put those thoughts and ideas together in the first place. People needing Medicaid who vote for the scumbag Republicans. Imagine that. Cruelty and psychopathy masquerading as political ideology.

Frayed Knot wrote: A PHI loss would put us in a dead tie heading into the game preceding the ASB. Not too bad for a team that's now exactly .500 since the beginning of June and looks to be getting healthier in the pitching department. Phillies also .500 since June 1 coming into tonight's SNB game I've got the Mets in sole possession of first place in their division by a half a game heading into the last game before the all-star break. Mets 55-41 Phils 54-41 Even better.

The Hot Corner wrote: John Olerud's time in New York was short (only 3 years), but the production was wonderful. His offensive consistency, coupled with Gold Glove caliber defense and he definitely should be an honorable mention. Best three year Met, ever. (Second place - R.A. Dickey).

Dave Magadan makes the all time list! Gary Carter, deservedly, doesn't. Put this in your stupid, absurd idea to retire Carter's Met number. And enough with the mothballing of #8, already.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Heyden Senger does bring value to the plate-- his walk-up song is "Hold the Line" by Toto. Love isn't always on time, yknow Toto? WTF? I thought you were cool.

Nobody's saying that Alvarez won't ever live up to his promise. But I take your comments with a big grain of salt because there isn't a single Met in the history of mankind till the end of the world that you're not head over heels in love with. You'd be touting Alvarez even if he was oh for the season having struck out in every single one of his at bats. You'd probably be complimenting him instead, for not swinging at the first called strike or something.

Alvarez was so horrifically bad all season long, that nobody misses him in the least after his well earned demotion to Syracuse. Speaking for myself at least, I don't miss him and hardly even notice his disappearance from the roster.

Check out Dick Dietz. He was a catcher. And a base on balls machine, putting up OBPs in the neighborhood of .400 and once, as high as .474. Dietz career was cut short, believed to have been blackballed due to his fervent participation in the player's union and with the player' strike of 1972. Dietz played just two full seasons, ('70 and '71), producing all-star caliber seasons, especially for a catcher. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dietzdi01.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dietzdi01.shtml

I remember Berenguer's Mets debut. It was a big fucking deal that he could hit triple digits on the radar gun. Today, there are probably (there's that word, again) close to 30 major league pitchers that could throw 100 MPH.

The first Mets pitcher I remember who threw 100 MPH was Juan Berenguer, and he went on to have a 15 year major league career. Ya' never know. Later I'm pretty certain that Nolan Ryan threw 100 MPH, too. You/re probably right, but I remember they really made a big thing about it when they brought Juan up. "Probably"?

How the fuck are the Phillies supposed to come back from behind when their opponent "walks it off" on their last at-bat? No fucking fair. Or, no phucking phair.

=MFS62 post_id=197632 time=1752075196 user_id=60] The first Mets pitcher I remember who threw 100 MPH was Juan Berenguer, and he went on to have a 15 year major league career. Ya' never know. Later

Edgy MD wrote: =Cowtipper post_id=197622 time=1752066536 user_id=166] Akeel Morris == 67.50 ERA with the Mets. Alex Carrillo == 6.75 ERA with the Mets. Close enough. I would conclude next to nothing from such a sample.

=Cowtipper post_id=197622 time=1752066536 user_id=166] Akeel Morris == 67.50 ERA with the Mets. Alex Carrillo == 6.75 ERA with the Mets. Close enough.

=Centerfield post_id=197304 time=1751760995 user_id=65] Family obligations. So I didn't catch any of this game on TV. Results aside, how did Frankie look? Some chatter that he pitched better than his line.

I think it's because the Mets don't know how to come from behind.

Frayed Knot wrote: And suddenly the tying run is at the plate with one out. Well, here's hoping the Brewers tie it up and then tack on five more runs. Because any runs the Mets score while they're already ahead don't fucking count. We don't want no hitters that get hits with the Mets already leading. And what did the KC Chiefs do today?

Stupid, fucking Mets. They took a five run 5-0 lead. How the hell are they supposed to come from behind now? How? What a shitball of a team this is.

That's because the Mets can't hit when they're trailing. Probably on purpose. They give up when they're behind. As soon as they're down a run, they're making after-the-game dinner plans. When you make baseball player money and can afford to eat anywhere, there's so many great restaurants to choose from wherever they play, being that the cities that have major league baseball are major cities. Even Cincinnati, too, I suppose. They'll never ever come from behind to win a game for the rest of our lives till the end of the world. Oh, enough already.

Sure. There are, of course, clutch hits. What doesn't exist, however, is clutch hitting. All a team can do is stockpile as many good hitters as it possibly can and hope for the best. And besides pitching, the baby Mets of 2022 are also killing the Mets. Francisco Alvarez has been so bad that he's not even a major leaguer anymore. Other than a pretty good week and a half, two week stretch last month, Brett Baty's entire baseball career, all of it, has been vomit inducing. And Mark Vientos has been playing like the pre-breakout version of himself all season long.

I think that's mainly it. No coincidence that this brutal stretch began, more or less, with Senga's injury. Replacing innings from your best pitcher with innings from the worst pitcher in the rotation is never a recipe for success.

With today's game being the Mets last game of the month of June (off-day tomorrow) it looks like Juan Soto is on pace to win the NL's June player of the month award. For the month, Soto's leading the league in OPS, SLG, OBP, HR's, wRC+, wOBA, wRC, fWAR and probably some other stuff (like OPS+) which I can't verify because the Fangraphs site suddenly freezed up on me and maybe crashed. After a slow start, Soto now ranks in the NL overall top 10 in bWAR, offensive bWAR, OBP, OPS, Runs, HR's, OPS+, Runs Created, Adj. Batting Runs, Adj. Batting Wins, Times on Base, Int. BB and AB/HR.

=whippoorwill post_id=196642 time=1751205969 user_id=79] =Centerfield post_id=196627 time=1751160373 user_id=65] =whippoorwill post_id=196625 time=1751159636 user_id=79] The Pirates are NOT an awful team. Deal with it.