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https://www.sicovers.com/fantasy-baseball-degrom-2019-february-28https://www.sicovers.com/fantasy-baseball-degrom-2019-february-28 Wow! Jake deGrom made the cover of SI this year and I just found out. That's how much interest I've lost in that mag. I'd swear that when I was a little boy, my life revolved around SI. I was hoping Alonso's piece was the cover story but I knew otherwise right away because FAFIF would've said so if Pete made the cover. He'd deserve it, too.

Alonso is on pace to lead, not only the NL in home runs, but all of baseball. No Met has ever led the MLB in single-season home runs. Jose Canseco (OAK), thwarted a Met twice for the honors, edging out both Strawberry ('88) and Hojo ('91) for the Major League lead.

=G-Fafif post_id=20917 time=1567623703 user_id=55] I'm gonna guess Howie's heard of that game.

Frayed Knot wrote: Howie brought up the 'Jordan Game' (as he called it) earlier in the game today when asked by Wayne about comparisons to last night. Because he read FAFIF or independently?

I think I'm still in shock. I wasn't even that mad. Just numb. Staring at the TV. Same, basically. I was legit mad Sunday night (when Familia sucked at CBP) for the first time all season. Earlier losses, given their hopeless context, didn't rile me up in earnest. The losing streak at home last week was more absorbing than angering. This one took me back to a void I last truly experienced 18 Septembers ago. http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2019/09/04/jordan-vu-all-over-again/http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2019/09/04/jordan-vu-all-over-again/ Remember that like it was yesterday. Thanks for bringing all of that pain back Greg. That was. a great read, as always. All those connections and associations. The gears were really turning. Hey, a loss is. a loss. Just pretend the Mets lost 3-2, deGrom kept 'em in there for the. bullpen to blow it. Which is what happened, but on a humongouser scale.* * 166 keystrokes to type this post on my smartphone. I fucking kept track!

Frayed Knot wrote: And consider that the pen -- three guys combined -- got only ONE out in that 9th inning. You get the impression that, had they been given an 11 run lead, they still would have found a way to blow it. Excellent point, overlooked in the grand disaster of it all. Although,. having lost that game in walk off fashion, the Mets could have only gotten one more out. Excellent point, still ....

Frayed Knot wrote: And consider that the pen -- three guys combined -- got only ONE out in that 9th inning. You get the impression that, had they been given an 11 run lead, they still would have found a way to blow it. Excellent point, overlooked in the grand disaster of it all.

Tonight, September 3. Fuck you Sewald and you too Diaz Are you fucking kidding me? I switched channels after Alonso's ninth inning homer. I just found out when I checked in here just now and read your post. And I still wasnt sure what you meant so I checked the ESPN website. Holy mother! What happened? Never mind. I don't even wanna know. The Mets win probability was 99.7% after Alonso's homer. I was wrong. It was 99.9%.(See link below). Meaning that a team in that situation wins that game 999 out of 1,000 times. Maybe more often than that, maybe a lot more often, even by orders of magnitude, depending on how many digits after the decimal you calculate for and what those digits are. I mean, it could be 999 million out of 999 million plus one, theoretically.. But let's stick with 999 out of 1,000, because that's what we know. So how often is a team up by six runs heading into the bottom of the ninth? A coupl'a times a season? Meaning a team will lose that game once every coupl'a hundred years. Meaning that the odds are that you won't ever get to see that kind of a loss in your lifetime. https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEEa3IxyWzn35crTLx9_hKBwqGAgEKg8IACoHCAowhK-LAjD4ySww-9S0BQ?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aenhttps://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEEa3IxyWzn35crTLx9_hKBwqGAgEKg8IACoHCAowhK-LAjD4ySww-9S0BQ?hl=en-US≷=US&ceid=US%3Aen

=kcmets post_id=20815 time=1567566466 user_id=53] Historically worst blown game in franchise history.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=20813 time=1567566042 user_id=68] =HahnSolo post_id=20797 time=1567563902 user_id=63] Tonight, September 3. Fuck you Sewald and you too Diaz

=HahnSolo post_id=20797 time=1567563902 user_id=63] Tonight, September 3. Fuck you Sewald and you too Diaz

Panik, and now McNeil go yard. Maybe Nats Park really is a terrific HR park.

Vic Sage wrote: Jeffy, sit down and play with your blocks! If Cano shows he can still hit, hitting 3rd is a possibility. But at this point in his career, nothing should be guaranteed. Jeez, Vic -- I'd bat you third if you could hit like a three slot hitter.

=bmfc1 post_id=20661 time=1567526078 user_id=73] [Nats] fans are whining about the number of Mets fans who were [at Nats Park] yesterday. Too bad.

Yes. Nimmo before McNeli. I don't think this is even debatable, especially if Nimmo is back to form. You always want the walks before the hits. I mean, would you rather a single followed by a walk which'll always give you first and second, or a walk followed by a single, which'll get you, once in a while, first and third?

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Dear Typewriter Card Co., I am a Batman Card collector but have been disappointed in the lack of "league leader" cards which we called "rooks," Team cards and Checklist cards. Will these be produced? Thank you. Joe Fonebone Is that you, Fonebone? That's some Bat-coincidence because we ordinarily answer reader mail on Fonebone Friday, and today, as you know, is Tweaky Tuesday. But we'll make an exception for you and your exceptional questions, Fonebone. So first, what's with the league leader rooks? We've never heard of that. I suppose you call your rookie cards "league leader cards", Fonebone. This is so Bizarrro, we can't wrap our heads around the notion. Where did you grow up, with your Bizarro rooks for league leader cards, Metropolis? Perhaps, you'd be interested in our upcoming 2020 line of Superman Mets baseball cards? Anyways, to answer your question, yes, Typewriter Chewing Gum will release league leader cards in a future series. It's a project that's currently in development. And quite frankly, we're debating whether to produce league leaders from the 2018 season, in which case, youse'll get a whole lotta deGrom, or whether to produce league leader cards from this season, in the off-season traded/update set, in which case youse'll get a whole lotta Alonso, and probably a McNeil sighting and some deGrom. We can't decide. And we're gonna make checklists too. And we've got a diabolically fiendish plot to include some non-existing cards in our checklist so the kiddies, and the adults, like you, Fonebone, will continue to buy our Batman cards in order to obtain those impossibly elusive cards which don't exist so as to complete their sets. Haha hooohoooha. Oh boy, the Joker would love this idea. See what happens when you hang around Gotham City's super villains as much as we do? You can't go through life being a goody goody Batman all the time. Where's the fun in that. Jesus H. Christ, do you believe that Bat-lunkhead keeps on turning down the Julie Newmar Catwoman? Oh my, what I would do for that pussy .... cat! We got the fake checklist idea from the 1948-49 Leaf baseball cards, our all time favorite baseball card set. We love the imperfections of those cards, the off-register variations, the garish hand coloring of the black and white photos, all of which foreshadowed, probably unintentionally, the pop art movement that would explode onto the scene a few years later. Anyways, Leaf didn't put out a fake checklist. That would've been too brazen, though not brazen enough for us here at Typewriter Chewing Gum. No, what Leaf did was to simply not produce cards for some of the consecutive numbers assigned to the cards. So collectors kept on collecting in vain for that non-existing number nine, etc. Anyways, what say you, Fonebone? League leaders, or, excuse me while I vomit, "rooks" from the 2018 season or from this season? Team cards? We're thinking on this one. Anyways, again, thanks for your interest in Typewriter Chewing Gum, Batman and the New York Mets. And as an added bonus, we've included an All-Star card insert. They're not available here in the US of A. Maybe when the electorate comes to its senses and decides not to sit out this upcoming presidential election like they sat out the last one, the most important presidential election of their lives what with an open seat on the Supreme Court and about 100 lower court vacancies waiting to be filled -- all lifetime appointments, mind you -- and finally votes this disaster out of office, we'll make our All Star cards available here in the USA, at least in the blue states anyways. Thanks for your interest. The Bat-Staff https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48671426928_6d6e8ccd8f.jpg> https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48671725281_3b1d8b9142_c.jpg>

I missed Howie's interleague play rant but good for him. I get Mets v Yanks or Dodgers v Angels though I'd prefer none of that as well. But the destruction and loss of the old schedule where a team played its division plenty and the rest of the league -- all potential wild card rivals -- a lot, isnt worth it so that the Royals could play the Nats every three or four years, which is more typical of an interleague series. Jeez, it's 2019. You could watch games on your smartphone.

Edgy MD wrote: New Nido is ++. Good work. Thanks. But I might hafta tweak Nido again. That new background is swallowing up Robin's cape.

It's not that much past midnight, but still, it's Tweaky Tuesday just the same. And right on schedule, we've got a Tweaky Tuesday Batman card just for youse loyal followers, which might actually be a makeover for Makeover Monday, in which case we'd be a day late. Or six days early. Which we can't figure out. Whether we're early or late or whether the new Tomas Nido is a tweak or a makeover. But who cares? We give up. We just wanted to change that Nido which was brutal on our eyes. What were we thinking? Who knows? We give up, again. Just like we gave up when ol' Roger Kaputnik pestered us until we fixed Mickey Callaway's Batman card. And just like we gave up the day before when that Riddler poster persisted in wanting to know why anything. We simply gave up on him. We sure do a lot of giving up in this thread that's all about the Batman Mets cards that we've been making this Summer. Why do we give up so much? Beats me. We give up! Why do we give up so much? https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48669401491_cd701ebccd_c.jpg> https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48359261541_8072dd137f_c.jpg>

Where are you reading that? since 2012 it's got a Park Factor of 97 on Fangraphs, (so slightly pitcher friend_ for HR, but was dead 100 for 2016-2018. http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/parkfactor/_/sort/HRFactorhttp://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/parkfactor/_/sort/HRFactor ESPN park factors. And as of today, Nats Park bas the highest HR factor for the 2019 season. Sez ESPN. Wanna know what's even odder? Yankee Stadium ranks 25th out of 30 teams in HR effect this season. Maybe I'm reading the chart upside down?

It's a Labor Day skeleton crew here at Typewriter Chewing Gum, but not even that is gonna stop us from fulfilling our Makeover Monday obligations because what we lack in numbers and manpower on this National holiday, we make up for in diabolical geniusness!. And this one was a long time coming. We hated this card from the get-go --- and so did Roger Kaputnik, who's been mailing us at least a letter a week imploring us to make-over Mickey Callaway. Roger finally wore us out. We gave up, Roger. Plus there's that bundle on postage we're saving on return letters to you, Roger. So here's your new Mickey Callaway. It's a win-win all around. We save on stamps. And the Mets save a few bucks by keeping this baseball walking dead man around till season's end. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48680626398_85500d1549_c.jpg>https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48353432492_5d710b545a_c.jpg>

I was looking up some stuff a few days ago and well, Nats Park has been a HR park for at least the last five or six seasons. This discovery was counter-intuitive to me because I always figured that Nats Park was a pitcher's park. And maybe it is. Maybe it's a pitchers' park overall that's still conducive to home runs if such a thing is possible or even likely. And over the last two seasons, Nats Park, overall, is one of baseball's best HR parks. This season, it's playing like the second best HR park in all of baseball. I never would've imagined any of this without looking it up.

=G-Fafif post_id=20603 time=1567450386 user_id=55] Gary keeps pushing Jake for another Cy, which I would of course welcome but am not in the least bit feeling. Maybe I'm comparing him more to Jake 2018 than his 2019 contemporaries.

You can look. But you can't touch. Test market All-Star cards for the Latin American market is what we've got for youse today. But if youse wanna lay your actual hands on one of these babies, youse are gonna hafta get your passports in order because these All-Star cards, starring MLB's All-Stars, aren't available at a store near you. Either that or check ebay. Whatever. Holy Caramba! https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48659522312_9ef39bc11d_c.jpg> Bat-Bump.

=MFS62 post_id=20526 time=1567358468 user_id=60] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=20520 time=1567353480 user_id=68] =MFS62 post_id=20519 time=1567351835 user_id=60] What do these cards have to do with a give up day?