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=G-Fafif post_id=22306 time=1568901912 user_id=55] The 1997 Mariners hit 264, the pre-2019 record until the MFYs of 2018 hit 267.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=22303 time=1568901403 user_id=68] =Centerfield post_id=22300 time=1568899884 user_id=65] Wait, am I reading that right? Did we have the lowest team record for HR's among all major league teams? Never realized we were that bad.

=Centerfield post_id=22300 time=1568899884 user_id=65] Wait, am I reading that right? Did we have the lowest team record for HR's among all major league teams? Never realized we were that bad.

About effin' time. Eight games without a homer? What kind of shit was that?

Frayed Knot wrote: I feel bad for Betances cuz he not only got screwed over via the arbitration process .... This is, perhaps, the biggest reason why MLB is still in this stupid state where the best relievers are reserved for the ninth inning "closer" role and why the stupid save stat still carries so much weight. Because closers and relievers with high save totals get disproportionately rewarded in the arbitration process. You'd think that the arbitration setting is a more intelligent process, where players are assessed objectively, removed from the emotional and psychic value of "the save". You'd think that arbitrators, by now, have been exposed to mountains of evidence on behalf of so called set-up relievers whose stats are just as impressive as those of the ninth inning guys, other than that they don't get to rack up the saves because they don't pitch the ninth inning. But no. So we're in this loop where the best relievers want to close because they want the saves, which will make them more money. Of the save guys get more money in arbitration, they'll also make more money in free agency. And so it goes.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=22155 time=1568749493 user_id=68] They should spend more money. They play in a tough division and yet their real payroll - the payroll that doesn't account for insurance covered payments to Wright and Cespedes -- is league average -- even though they play in New York City. This isn't rocket science. The Wilpons will half measure us to death next year, too, because it's what they've done practically every season. Jesus Christ. Too fucking cheap to get a third baseman befitting of a major market team so instead, they pay through the teeth for a second baseman whose inevitable decline is minutes away and move everybody else around the field like Alice in Wonderland chess pieces in the baseball equivalent of shifting your left tackle to the quarterback position.

They should spend more money. They play in a tough division and yet their real payroll - the payroll that doesn't account for insurance covered payments to Wright and Cespedes -- is league average -- even though they play in New York City. This isn't rocket science. The Wilpons will half measure us to death next year, too, because it's what they've done practically every season. Jesus Christ. Too fucking cheap to get a third baseman befitting of a major market team so instead, they pay through the teeth for a second baseman whose inevitable decline is minutes away and move everybody else around the field like Alice in Wonderland chess pieces in the baseball equivalent of shifting your left tackle to the quarterback position.

Joe Torre, traitor to NYC: https://www.sny.tv/mets/news/joe-torre-explains-why-mlb-wont-let-mets-wear-first-responder-hats-on-911/310758556https://www.sny.tv/mets/news/joe-torre-explains-why-mlb-wont-let-mets-wear-first-responder-hats-on-911/310758556 Everyone needs to make a huge deal out of this. As soon as you remember that the Yankees don't have to wear NOB's on the road even though every other team does, Torre's explanation is completely undermined.

Lefty Specialist wrote: While I like Rendon a lot, McNeil has to play every day somewhere. The only place that works is at 3rd base. Cano's not going anywhere, and with Nimmo, Davis, Conforto and possibly Cespedes in the outfield, there's no place for Squirrel out there. You left out Dom Smith.

Oh c'mon. They have a .513 winning percentage. They're the '75 Mets, who had their own Cy Young award winner and HR title contender. But they weren't a playoff team. It's incredible how the Wilpons have lowered everybody's expecitations through their perennial incompetence so that everyone's goal is the stupid wild card game which would be fine if this were Kansas City instead of New York Cty. Two first place finishes in thirty one seasons.

h How can it be that your eighth slot hitter was batting leadoff just a few days ago?

He doesn't want Mets tickets. He's still a Yankee fan. He sez he'll continue to watch on TV and maybe, catch 'em on the road. He can. boycott the owners and still go to home games by not. buying his tix directly from the team. That's what I do. I've never bought a Citi Field ticket directly from the Mets. Though they still get my yearbook and food .money, I suppose.

This is really no different than the way a drug dealer exploits a drug addict.

=kcmets post_id=21894 time=1568428444 user_id=53]Miserable game.

A coupl'a days ago, I thought Alonso was gassed. I thought he was really late on a few fastballs and I figured maybe he's wearing down as the season ends, never having played a season this long and maybe not knowing how to pace himself, him being a rookie, and on top of that, all gung ho with the season he's been having. Plus, he's. been so sensational that he's in the lineup every day. But then he hits two homers in one game against the DBacks and so I say to myself: "what the hell do I know"?

=Centerfield post_id=21795 time=1568383189 user_id=65] The Wilpons don't care. Or don't care to stand up to MLB. Which is why this goes no where.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I want a Eee-yow shirt Me too. And what a glorious game the Mets played today. I knew I was going to miss today's game so I taped it for later viewing. But I didn't watch my tape either because I didn't have the time so I settled for a coupl'a internet highlight packages. Great to see Lagares with the breakout offesnse. I've been down on him for a coupl'a years now. Understandably, right? We said we were gonna take a brief hiatus here at Typewriter, but we can't help ourselves. We stopped by the ol' Bat-offices just for some housecleaning but we decided to bring back the Batman Juan Lagares card in honor of today's hitting sensation. It's a Batgirl card and she's the star of the 3rd series so this all works out. Batgirl just might turn out to be the good luck charm the Mets need. Confy bashsed his 30th today, too, with a little help from Batgirl, I'd like to believe. Where does she come from and where does she go? We're all Batgirl this week. I'm still processing Edgy noticing that TV Batgirl's colors are also LA Lakers colors. Never thought of that one. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48599867106_5eb18c2dfb_c.jpg> https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48721717616_d707fbfc77_c.jpg>

Edgy MD wrote: I would imagine it's 2006, when two guys named Carlos hit 79. If that's the record, it appears to be on its' last legs.

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Pete Alonso's at-bat was so long ago, that for a second, I thought this was the second inning.

=kcmets post_id=21576 time=1568233500 user_id=53] I was taking you literally again. Thanks for not calling me the village idiot, oh wait that's ....

=G-Fafif post_id=21571 time=1568232183 user_id=55] You know whose rookie season never gets mentioned despite starting 35 games in a rotation that accomplished something people are still amazed by 50 years later? Gary Gentry. 13 wins in his first year when that was a stat people took seriously, yet not a single ROY vote or slot on Topps All-Rookie team. I guess the ring had to suffice.

So then why do they say "let's take two out of three"? It's dumb. I agree, that's not the part I'm disagreeing about haha... Oh I know. You're disagreeing with the part of my post that any other person would know by now is tongue in cheek.

This take two of three is moronic. What's a team that wins the first two games of a three game series supposed to do: lose the third game on purpose to fulfill the two out of three trope? Or not try as hard with two wins already in the back pocket? We're getting a little silly here. I can't imagine a team, a player or a fan no thinking of not sweeping. Bill's Brooms is not just a thing here, it's spread nationwide include clubhouses. So then why do they say "let's take two out of three"? It's dumb. Now winning two out of three is good because if you win at that rate all season long you've won 108 games and you're a goddamn juggernaut. Like the '86 Mets. But taking two out of three is backwards looking. A professional Major League baseball team that wins the first two games of the series and then loses the third should be fucking livid pissed in the hours immediately following that third game defeat rather than rationalizing and saying "oh, well, we won two out of three".