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=Gwreck post_id=166233 time=1723580863 user_id=56] =stevejrogers post_id=166221 time=1723575122 user_id=57]The MFers?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: How about the Cardinals? Only 3: two for Bob Gibson, and one for Chris Carpenter. Also, it can't be the Cardinals because you wrote that there are five answers and five correct answers were already submitted. Unless you made a mistake and suddenly realized that it turns out that there are more than five correct answers. If that's the case, you should fess up and tell us that there are more than five answers.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: How about the Cardinals? I'm pretty certain that if he's looking for the top five teams, they were posted yesterday. All five. batmags 2 (NYM, Phil) Grimm 1 (Dodgers) Edgy 1 (Braves) Chad 1 (Red Sox) Looks like I won.

=stevejrogers post_id=166221 time=1723575122 user_id=57] The MFers? Also you didn't check the Mets off Speaking of MFers, the most recent “hated by all of baseball, except their own fanbase” franchise, Astros might have enough by now?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I don't see any vicious insult in the 2025 schedule thread. The only offensive thing I see in there is from the guy who posted, "Who gives a flying fuck?" It was the troll post. Also, I went through the entire FAQ and the only way I can see to block someone is through the friend/foe function.And that function always tells you when a foe has posted and gives you the option for every one of your foes' posts, to view the hidden post with one click. If there's another way to block someone, I didn't see it listed in the FAQ.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: What if someone posted "Bananas are tasty" and you responded with "Who the fuck cares about bananas! Why are you wasting my time talking about bananas! What the fuck does that have to do with what's going on today!" Don't you see that that's a bit extreme? And would feel like an attack? What if the roles were sort of reversed? What if instead, he started this thread by linking to next year's Mets schedule, informing everybody here that the new schedule was just released and then commenting that he couldn't give a flying fuck about next year's schedule? That the Mets are scheduled to play 162 games in 2025 just like they're scheduled to play 162 games every year -- against all of the same teams that they play this year, more or less the same number of times that they'll play those same teams this year? And then adding that what's the big deal if the Mets travel to San Fran in August next year even though they traveled to San Fran in June, this year? And then I responded by writing that I'm very much into schedules and care very much about when the Mets play their opponents. Then what? Do you think that this thread would evolve into a clusterfuck and he'd insult me personally? Or is this hypothetical version of posts more acceptable? Under this hypothetical sequence of posts, would FK chime in and post "Fail" at me? Would FK post "Fail" at the thread-starter?

I could run the table because I memorized every Cy Young winner.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=166154 time=1723513708 user_id=68]Mets.

Mets.

Oh. They all trend towards mediocrity. And that's why the Mets went 4-6 on this last road trip? Eventually, they'll all be dead, too.

Edgy MD wrote: Well, I think all competitors, when measured against the arc of time and history, will trend toward mediocrity. If the competition doesn't get you, time and rot and fatigue will. If you can't get the competition, eventually time and rot and fatigue will catch up with them for you. What makes it interesting is that everyday is a struggle against that trend, and so we revel in how long we and the heroes we allow to embody us can sustain that struggle. This series was a victory for Seattle. Maybe, at another time and place, it might be a victory for the Mets. But time and rot and fatigue were always going to win. Those black pants, tho'. All of them? They're all mediocre? Every last one of them?

=kcmets post_id=165965 time=1723414494 user_id=53] Right, things changed some... Francisco Lindor (S) SS Brandon Nimmo (L) CF J.D. Martinez ® DH Jesse Winker (L) LF Pete Alonso ® 1B Jeff McNeil (L) 2B Jose Iglesias ® 3B Ben Gamel (L) RF Luis Torrens ® C ...I hope the forum doesn't fall off it's axis because I'm reporting this lineup cnange.

eff Wilpon went all in on the 2019 season, pushing every last one of his chips into the middle of the table, because he knew that his days as Mets owner were numbered. He didn't give a shit about Cano's age or the enormous back end of Cano's contract or that he'd likely suck two or three years later and he could care less about trading away Kelenic's vast future potential because he knew he wouldn't be here when those problems materialized. That would be the next owner's problems to deal with.t That's also why Alonso was on the opening day roster. Under normal circumstances, a million times out of a million, Alonso is held back for the requisite number of weeks and days so as to delay his free agency by a full calendar year. But Wilpon didn't give a flying fuck about the Mets future anymore. Epilogue: Robinson Cano is batting .431 this year. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5685121/2024/08/08/robinson-cano-yankees-mexican-league/https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5685121/2024/08/08/robinson-cano-yankees-mexican-league/

eff Wilpon went all in on the 2019 season, pushing every last one of his chips into the middle of the table, because he knew that his days as Mets owner were numbered. He didn't give a shit about Cano's age or the enormous back end of Cano's contract or that he'd likely suck two or three years later and he could care less about trading away Kelenic's vast future potential because he knew he wouldn't be here when those problems materialized. That would be the next owner's problems to deal with.t That's also why Alonso was on the opening day roster. Under normal circumstances, a million times out of a million, Alonso is held back for the requisite number of weeks and days so as to delay his free agency by a full calendar year. But Wilpon didn't give a flying fuck about the Mets future anymore.

They should tear down the Ebbets Field Housing project, and airlift Citi Field into the suddenly vacated space. Voila! The Brooklyn Dodger Classic. Hilda will be there. And the Sym-Phony will be performing at the Rotunda. Plus Steve Cohen gets to build a brand new stadium to replace this idiotic philistinian stadium of mismatched silly parts like a bridge that has nothing to do with nothing and a gerryrigged scoreboard crammed in like an overstuffed sausage that hadda replace the absolute without a doubt ugliest scoreboard ever imagined.

Looks like the Mets set their floor to only four or five wins for this road trip. Now they're eliminated. Didn't they know that they hadda set the floor to six wins? Me, I woulda set the floor to 10 if it was all the same.

So maybe next year, MLB could return the favor and have the Mets play in Madison Square Garden. Baseball stadiums go with pop music concerts just as well as they go with hot dogs and ice cream. They've been hosting music acts ever since The Beatles were still moptops. There's nothing wrong with it, but if they're gonna do a non-baseball venue, there are so, so many better options.

Maybe the year after that, MLB could play a game at Appomattox or inside the Grand Canyon or where Woodstock was held. That last one has so many possibilities. The surviving members of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, all none of them, could play the National Anthem and baseball could pass around bad LSD during the game. Watch the Astros play in their 1970s Tequila Sunrises on acid. Oh, the colors! WTF? This speedway has no connection to baseball and never hosted a baseball game of any kind.

=smg58 post_id=165759 time=1723214422 user_id=62] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=165756 time=1723212860 user_id=68] It's the stadium. Thr stadium that the Mets AAA team plays in is the most hitter friendly stadium in the IL.

It's the stadium. Thr stadium that the Mets AAA team plays in is the most hitter friendly stadium in the IL.

471 feet. That's Denver baseball.

=whippoorwill post_id=165598 time=1723116386 user_id=79] Glad you found it on tv!

=ashie62 post_id=165644 time=1723140052 user_id=90] =kcmets post_id=165631 time=1723132817 user_id=53] Is that 3:10 ET or Colorado time? I'm in Alaska on assignment. Please post the Dish Network channel number for Anchorage.

=kcmets post_id=165631 time=1723132817 user_id=53] Is that 3:10 ET or Colorado time? I'm in Alaska on assignment. Please post the Dish Network channel number for Anchorage.

Edgy MD wrote: TRIVIA QUESTION: Who was the first Mets position player to make the All-Star Team three times? I'm going with Stoins. It's Stearns. And if the question asked for the first Mets position player to make the All-Star Team four times, I think the answer would also be Stearns.