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  1. batmagadanleadoff
    It's only a few games into the new season, but ex-Met Wilmer Flores already has three HRs and is near the top of several league batting categories. Ex-Met Jacob deGrom was dominant in his comeback start: five scoreless innings, striking out six and allowing just two hits. His next scheduled start is this coming Saturday. Ex-Met Michael Conforto of the still undefeated 7-0 Dodgers leads the majors in doubles with four.
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    A ball now hit off the 'new' sweet spot isn't going to have anymore juice behind it than one previously hit off the traditional sweet spot since it's not a bigger barrel, it's just a slightly relocated barrel. In fact it might even have somewhat less oomph since the center of the bat is traveling more slowly than the end no matter how fat or thin it is. "He invented the “Torpedo” barrel. It brings more wood - and mass - to where you most often make contact as a hitter." https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6243085/2025/03/31/mlb-torpedo-bats-players-intrigued/ I think we're both right. "The bats — with their torpedo-like shape — are custom-made to player preferences and are designed so that the densest part of the bat is where that particular hitter most often makes contact with the baseball, said Leanhardt, who became a field coordinator with the Miami Marlins in the offseason." https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6241862/2025/03/30/yankees-bats-aaron-leanhardt-marlins/
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    Youse mean pitchers should avoid pitching to the sweet spot? That's what pitchers have been doing, or trying to do, since baseball was invented.
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    My understanding is that a "torpedo" bat has a weightier sweet spot. Some of the bat's mass has been transferred to the sweet spot, the area on the bat that batters desire to hit the ball with. Balls struck at the sweet spot will now carry faster and farther. This has nothing to do with batters hitting the ball better while jammed. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6243085/2025/03/31/mlb-torpedo-bats-players-intrigued/ https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6240911/2025/03/29/yankees-new-bats-torpedo-home-runs/ https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6241862/2025/03/30/yankees-bats-aaron-leanhardt-marlins/
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    I just caught up to this story. IF the new bats did indeed cause all of those HRs, you can expect the rest of the league to begin switching over. Like pronto.
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    Boy does this website continue to suck.
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    Good ol' Charley is suddenly a reservoir of Polo Grounds Casey references: The Secretary of Defense TEXTED Top-Secret War Plans to the Editor of ‘The Atlantic’?! The gob, it is smacked. By Charles P. Pierce Published: Mar 24, 2025 5:24 PM EDT https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64277263/atlantic-journalist-texts-trump-war-plans/
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    Finally something that might prevent Edgy from posting 50 times a day, every day. Go and watch a Twilight Zone rerun or something.
  9. batmagadanleadoff
    Good ol' Charley Pierce earns a spot in our Met Pop Culture thread by channeling the hapless original incarnation of Casey's Polo Grounds Mets.. And a damn good speech by Maine's Governor Mills. Personally, they should be doing much more than simply telling President Combover to essentially go **** himself, but it's a start: The Maine Governor Knew Exactly What to Say to Trump: "See You In Court" https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a63904944/trump-transgender-athletes-maine-governor/
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    It's been 20 years at least since George Steinbrenner ran the Yankees. Can't blame George for the fact that the team's conservative facial hair policy "finally" came to an end just now. And when it was first instituted some 50 years ago, the idea wasn't so outlandish or "square".
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    I felt the same way. I liked the show very much overall. I've watched it from start to finish at least twice. But my least favorite segments were the ones involved Draper's domestic life, at least with his first wife in (presumably) Westchester. I didn't think it was so bad when he moved into that swanky Park Avenue bachelor pad when he hooked up with his secretary.
  12. batmagadanleadoff
    On Where Have You Eaten, Joe DiMaggio?, (S23E11) the show that tracks the eating habits of famous baseball players, none other than Kevin Burkhardt follows the culinary adventures of one-time Met farmhand, Eddie Rosario. None other than Eddie Rosario! Segments include Eddie eating an avocado taco in some Washington Heights bodega and Russian food in a Brighton Beach dive. Sturgeon with Chechikhov and cocktails with Molotov!
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    Kevin Burkhardt covered last season's 49ers-Chiefs game. Also, one of last season's 49ers-Rams games.
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    I reacted the same way, even though I could care less other than if the money affects draft position. It's just that I was getting the impression that the Mets were micro-managing some financial line that they did not want to cross, presumably to manage the luxury tax penalties.
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    Wow. But will it cost the Mets draft position? I could care less about the money. First of all, it's not my money. And second of all, $30M to Steve Cohen is like a slice of pizza to a regular person.
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    Pete Alonso’s short-term deal with Mets showcases the need for a bounce-back 2025 season https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6118091/2025/02/06/pete-alonso-mets-contract-boras/
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    For the Kansas City Royals But that HR wouldn't count on Pete's Mets ledger.
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    Alonso will be one year older next year, so he'll lose some leverage and value on that front. OTOH, the Mets won't be allowed to offer him a qualifying offer and won't get a compensation draft pick if Alonso opts out and signs elsewhere after next season, so Alonso will pick up some leverage on that front.
  19. batmagadanleadoff
    Well. that's some top five of a lineup the Mets will present this season: Lindor, Nimmo, Vientos, Soto and Alonso. I think that Alonso's 2024 season of diminished production or so-called decline might be a little bit overblown. Yes, his numbers were down, but not by that much. And last season, offense was down all-around, league-wide. So we'll see, I suppose.
  20. batmagadanleadoff
    Boomer Esiason is reporting that Pete Alonso will sign with the Blue Jays tomorrow. Esiason is certain of this. Esiason was a quarterback.
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    That's all the Mets get? Just two years? And with a player opt-out after the first season? So if Alonso plays like the player the Mets are paying him to play like, he can renegotiate his contract or shop it around to any other team? He should have to pay the Mets back $10M or $15M if he sucks next year. $30M in the first year and an opt-out? What is this ****?
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    That, too. Yes!
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    Also it’s kind of crappy to associate Vincent with that quote in death when it wasn’t something he said. FK told it like it was. There was no bigotry in FKs retelling. Are we supposed to whitewash history because somebody died? Was the leading headline on the day Hitler died supposed to be about that day when Hitler rescued a dying puppy dog? Vincent was a famous figure. People are going to make crude, black humor jokes at his expense. It comes with the territory.
  24. batmagadanleadoff
    The click-bait sites are gong nuts today with Pete Alonso rumors, including that the Reds are suddenly a serious player for Alonso, that Alonso is close to firing Scott Boras and switching agents, and a totally unreadable and indecipherable piece from our old trusted friend, The Times of India, wherein the Mets are close to offering Alonso a $300M contract.
  25. batmagadanleadoff
    https://www.nj.com/mets/2025/01/ny-host-pete-alonsos-mets-friend-got-into-his-ear-triggered-his-free-agency-freeze.html Later That was just the headline to entice you to read the article. He's not really "blaming" Nimmo for the Alonso impasse. Here's the original piece: https://nypost.com/2025/01/29/sports/evan-roberts-blames-brandon-nimmo-for-mets-pete-alonso-fiasco/ BTW -- it looks like Nimmo (8/$160M) will have gotten a better deal than Alonso when this is all over. Do youse think Nimmo would've gotten that deal with Stearns calling the shots?
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