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The Yanquis have armed Nazis (OK they're not armed, and probably not all of them are certified Nazis either) who prevent any walking around during their (Daily!) 7th inning dog and pony show. Need to go to the bathroom? -- Tough, wait until next inning. No walking is allowed (or aloud) at this time! I can't believe there's all this insanity going on in baseball stadiums that I know nothing about. I also can't believe that in a city as scrutinized as New York, no one's challenged this Yankee no bathroom rule. What? There hasn't yet been a case of a spectator who peed (or worse) in their pants because the Yankees prevented him from using the rest rooms? supposedly this is 'better'? at the new stadium. this guy sued and won in 2008. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/07/god-bless-america-yankee_n_227173.html Good for him. Here's a disturbing quote from that article: In May 2007, Trost told The New York Times that the practice was inspired by complaints of fans who were upset that spectators were not respectful enough during the playing of "God Bless America." It's disturbing because, if true, it means that baseball teams, or at least the Yankees, are empowering those same fucking assholes who try to harangue strangers into removing their caps.

Frayed Knot wrote: The Yanquis have armed Nazis (OK they're not armed, and probably not all of them are certified Nazis either) who prevent any walking around during their (Daily!) 7th inning dog and pony show. Need to go to the bathroom? -- Tough, wait until next inning. No walking is allowed (or aloud) at this time! I can't believe there's all this insanity going on in baseball stadiums that I know nothing about. I also can't believe that in a city as scrutinized as New York, no one's challenged this Yankee no bathroom rule. What? There hasn't yet been a case of a spectator who peed (or worse) in their pants because the Yankees prevented him from using the rest rooms?

Ceetar wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: This might be one of the dumbest baseball related things I've ever read. I didn't even know this "standoff" was even a thing. What if oppoinsg players continue to "stand each other off" for 10 or 15 or 20 minutes? Then what? I also think that those spectators who go around policing the national anthem by demanding that total strangers in their vicinity remove their hats are some of the biggest fucking assholes on earth. agreed, except they're not as bad as those that police the 7th inning prayer like I'm supposed to remove my hat for that. What the hell is a seventh inning prayer? There's no praying in baseball.

Speaking of six-man rotations, pitching is this week's theme at Grantland's "The 30" baseball piece by Jonah Keri, and the Mets are one of the featured teams. 2. Pittsburgh Pirates (26-24, plus-34, LW: 12) 11. New York Mets (28-23, plus-6, LW: 10) 10. Chicago Cubs (26-22, minus-2, LW: 8) 9. Detroit Tigers (28-24, minus-1, LW: 6) 8. Los Angeles Angels (27-24, plus-8, LW: 9) 7. Minnesota Twins (30-19, plus-21, LW: 11) The Mets� 2015 season has doubled as a challenge to one of baseball�s eternal truths: You can never have too much starting pitching. With right-hander Dillon Gee scheduled to come off the disabled list to start Wednesday against the Padres, the Mets will go to a six-man rotation. And the thing is, six spots might not even be enough, as New York has seven starters who look ready for the majors. So let�s take stock of the Seven Samurai: � The six-man rotation�s main purpose is to protect Matt Harvey. With a strikeout-to-walk ratio greater than six-to-one, the Dark Knight has returned from Tommy John surgery without missing a beat. However, that dominance carries with it a weird curse: There�s no way the Mets can cap Harvey�s innings at around 180 (as the organization had hoped) if their ace keeps pitching seven innings or more per start while part of a five-man rotation. By going to six starters, they�re hoping Harvey can make it through the regular season and potentially into the playoffs (if the Mets make it that far) without hitting his innings cap. Oh, and in case you were wondering, Harvey�s agent, Scott Boras, emphatically approves of this plan. � Unlike Harvey, Jacob deGrom isn�t on a strict innings limit, but the defending rookie of the year topped his career high in pro ball by tossing 178.2 frames last year. He�s a pivotal part of the rotation, he�s averaging more than six innings a start, and he sports the lowest ERA among Mets starters who�ve been in the rotation since Opening Day. If the team makes it to October, deGrom would be badly needed, so the six-man rotation should help ease concerns of overworking the soon-to-be-27-year-old. � After a hot start to the season, Bartolo Colon has seen his ERA climb to 4.72. Even still, we�re talking about a pitcher with a 54-to-5 strikeout-to-walk ratio � elite command that drops Colon�s fielding-independent numbers about a run lower than his ERA. Add in his wildly entertaining at-bats, and Colon is a damn superhero. Nobody�s taking his job. � Noah Syndergaard�s first four starts in the majors have been as good as any Mets fan could�ve possibly hoped for. Through 24.2 innings, Syndergaard has fanned 22 batters, issued just five walks, allowed one homer, and delivered a 2.55 ERA and 2.57 FIP. His fastball averages nearly 98 mph, and he complements it with a virtually unhittable curve. If taking Colon�s job is tough, stealing Syndergaard�s away could be as challenging as lifting Thor�s hammer. � Saturday�s rough outing against the Marlins marked the fourth straight start in which Jon Niese has allowed four or more earned runs. He�d never done that at any previous point in his eight-year big league career. Hell, he�d never even done it in three straight starts. His curveball, an important part of Niese�s eclectic, six-pitch repertoire, has looked especially awful, as batters whacked it at a .385 clip in May. Niese hasn�t indicated that he�s hurt, and he allowed one earned run or fewer in five of the six starts before this current ugly stretch, so these struggles could soon pass. � When healthy and pitching well, Gee is a league-average starter. He�s a pitch-to-contact right-hander who might have unlocked some hidden ability in his first five starts this season, when he posted a career-best 59.2 percent ground-ball rate. That�s a great skill for any team to have in a fifth starter, let alone a sixth starter, but when it comes to the rotation, the Mets are clearly not any team. If Niese�s cold spell ends soon, Gee could find himself as the odd man out. � With Syndergaard now pitching in the Show, the undisputed best pitching prospect in New York�s system is Steven Matz � and boy is he killing it right now. Working in the pitchers� nightmare that is Triple-A Las Vegas, Matz has flashed a brilliant 1.98 ERA while striking out 70 batters, walking 23, and allowing just 49 hits and three home runs in 68.1 innings. Matz turned 24 on Friday, he�s put up impressive numbers throughout his minor league career, and he owns three potential major league-quality put-away pitches in his fastball, curve, and changeup. There�s no guarantee Matz will outperform Niese or Gee if the Mets call him up soon, but he�s certainly better than a less-than-100-percent Gee or the Niese we�ve seen over the past few weeks. As the New York Post�s Ken Davidoff recently wrote, the Mets are a sub-.500 team in games played against teams other than the Phillies, and the schedule will get tougher as the season goes along. Moreover, they�ve gone just 12-15 after a blistering start to the season. Lucas Duda�s emergence has been impressive, but more offensive help is needed, especially with David Wright�s health status still up in the air. An arm-for-bat trade would make tons of sense, even if it doesn�t bring a sought-after name like Troy Tulowitzki to Flushing. Whatever direction the Mets decide to go in, given the team�s weaknesses and this year�s deep class of NL contenders, sticking with what they currently have in the majors seems like it�d be the wrong call. http://grantland.com/the-triangle/mlb-the-30-phillies-orioles-mets-royals-starting-pitching/

Edgy MD wrote: Aaron Barrett is more patriotic than you. Or at least more patriotic than any of the Phillies. On a beautiful spring night, a children�s choir sang the National anthem, a clear and smooth rendition. The crowd cheered their efforts, and the Phillies and Nationals headed to their dugouts. Barrett, a 27-year-old right-handed reliever, did not move. As is his post-anthem custom, Barrett scanned the opposing dugout, making sure the opponent�s line had dispersed. He held his hat over his heart and kept it there, standing a few feet from the fence in front of the Nationals dugout. What he saw changed the course of pregame history. �I don�t even know how it happened,� Barrett said. �Five of them were out there basically challenging me. I was like, �Great.� I didn�t want to do it. I thought they were going to give up way earlier than that. It turned out to be � well, obviously we are at home, so I thought, �I can�t lose this.� � [fimg=800]https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/nationals-journal/files/2015/05/Barrett.jpg&w=1484[/fimg] I'm a little confused as to what the point of doffing your hat is if you're going to wear a backwards batting helmet. This might be one of the dumbest baseball related things I've ever read. I didn't even know this "standoff" was even a thing. What if oppoinsg players continue to "stand each other off" for 10 or 15 or 20 minutes? Then what? I also think that those spectators who go around policing the national anthem by demanding that total strangers in their vicinity remove their hats are some of the biggest fucking assholes on earth.

There are no Topps cards of McReynolds as a Padre. I figured though, that by now, what with the make your own baseball card fad picking up more steam with each passing year, I'd be able to easily find DIY or custom Topps Padres cards of McReynolds. I couldn't. Not even one.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: That's some spooky shit right there. Dave Kingman's 1978 Hostess card.

seawolf17 wrote: Swisher coached in the mid-90s. We had this discussion in the Cubs thread. So it's Zinter and Wynne as the interlopers; Wynne was in the Mets system in the mid-80s. I didn't card Zinter. Unless I did unwittingly. Where do you see Zinter? Or perhaps, Alex Torres is subliminally reminding you of the original big hatted Met. Also, there are now four interlopers pictured. I added the other two when I edited the thread to include some Padres managers I had initially omitted.

seawolf17 wrote: In 1988, Topps thought Marvell Wynne, coming off a season where he was a pinch-hitter (only started 40 games) and hit .250, was worthy of a box bottom card? I have zero recollection of this. Also, Marvell Wynne was definitely never a Met. How could you tell Wynne's card is a box-bottom (it is!) just by looking at it?

SteveJRogers wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: What's the deal with all these fake cards like this? I'd imagine they are created by users of Out of the Park Developments as images for players without cards. Someone on the web who goes by the name of "tibob" is creating cards from those toppsvault The Man From Topps photos in the style of that Swisher "card". In this thread, I used the Taylor and McAndrew Padres tibobs because no other Padres cards exist for those players. I also used a Gaspar tibob because the only other Gaspar Padres card I could find, actual or custom, was his '71 Topps, which is a capless head shot of Rod in his old Mets uniform -- not as much fun to look at as the tibob, sez me. And then, because I am so enamored of those toppsvault pics anyways, I used a coupl'a other Padres tibobs just because, even though other cards exist for those players.

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Zvon wrote: I will do that thing. It's gotta be a Padres card.

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Edgy MD wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Wait, what has been leaked? The existence of the policy itself has long been publicly known. Has it? Well, conspiracy theories are usually easy to debunk, anyways. Still, yesterday's news reads like the existence of Wright's insurance policy was made public for the first time. Respec-teufle-y, no way. It was discussed openly in light of the Yankees' situation with Alex Rodriguez's contract (also insured). No leak. No scoop. Here's a good primer on the contract insurance game � from 2+ years ago � referencing both Rodriguez and Wright. The newsworthy angle that isn't being discussed is that the Mets may not be able to collect on the policy at all � or there may be an embarrassing public scuffle over the matter � as the insurer can certainly view Wright's back condition as a pre-existing one. That article merely speculates or assumes that Wright's new contract will be insured. It doesn't report that the contract definitively is or will be insured. And none of yesterday's articles read like this is old news.

Ceetar wrote: Why would the policy be publicly disclosed? It's not a public policy. There are a couple mentions about insurance if you go back to 12/2012, but nothing concrete because it wasn't part of the press release. Rubin did mention in one of those that his previous contract was insured. I'm indifferent and made no comment on why an insurance policy would or wouldn't be disclosed. Edgy, and now you, both say that the existence of this policy was already known. I simply asked for a link, that's all.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Wait, what has been leaked? The existence of the policy itself has long been publicly known. Has it? Well, conspiracy theories are usually easy to debunk, anyways. Still, yesterday's news reads like the existence of Wright's insurance policy was made public for the first time. Rosenthal's tweet doesn't read like the policy was publicly disclosed prior to yesterday. Just sayin'. Of course, the tweet's vague enough to go either way. Got an old link referencing this policy? [fimg=544]https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8764/17614199193_af11135ba3_o.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=422]http://urbanomnibus.net/redux/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/8684611010_54c730fa53_b.jpg[/fimg]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Wait, what has been leaked? The existence of the policy itself has long been publicly known. Has it? Well, conspiracy theories are usually easy to debunk, anyways. Still, yesterday's news reads like the existence of Wright's insurance policy was made public for the first time.

Edgy MD wrote: Wait, what has been leaked? The existence of the policy itself has long been publicly known. Has it? Well, conspiracy theories are usually easy to debunk, anyways.

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TransMonk wrote: To me, the only potentially alarming thing about the article is the sentence that batmags bolded....specifically the "60 days" part. I can see conspiracy therorists raising a stink if David comes back shortly after June 15th, looks as good as new and has no other issues for the remainder of the year (not that I agree). Otherwise, like others have said, insurance is common for high dollar players these days. I agree with most of the earlier posts here, that the insurance policy itself isn't unusual, or any cause for alarm. But the leak might be another story. If you wanna play conspiracy theory, I've got two of them, and they depend on whether this info was leaked at the FO's request or against its wishes. (I assume it's a leak because the source is unnamed. But if the info wasn't leaked, then the info was disclosed with the FO's blessing, and you can skip one of my theories). If the FO orchestrated the leak, then the conspiracy theory is that it was done so as a preemptive strike against what the FO anticipates will be negative press about Madoff and the Mets limited budget and how though the team is broke, they blew a disproportionately high percentage of their allowance on an aging player that's now breaking down. If there's any truth to this theory, than the FO might already know that Wright's gonna be out for a long stretch. If the insurance info was leaked against the owners' wishes, then your idea makes sense as a conspiracy theory. It's kind of far-fetched and diabolical to believe, though, that Wright would be unnecessarily shelved for a long period of time to meet the 60 day period, but not so far-fetched to believe that the FO would pad a shorter amount of time to Wright's inactive status to trigger the insurance policy. In any case, my mind tends to run cynical and diabolical and given this FO and their economic status, I don't put anything past 'em.

dgwphotography wrote: I'm amazed that a week of being a Marlin rated not one, but two cards for Piazza. The "ratings" are based on my proprietary algorithm - a trade secret.

Edgy MD wrote: A natural plus fielder with a long way to go with the bat? From Cuba? Sign me up for some Rey-O II!! I'm already hating him.

This isn't a very scientific method, but it works pretty good all the same: check out how the 4th and 5th best starters are doing to get a rough idea of the whole rotation's performance. Up until about two weeks ago, the Mets staff was off the charts. Gee was rock solid and Niese was in the top 10 in NL ERA. The '86 Mets? 4th starter Sid was good enough to be the # 1 or #2 on a lot of other teams out there and Aguilera was very solid.

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