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=Centerfield post_id=193289 time=1747779951 user_id=65] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=193267 time=1747770673 user_id=68] =Centerfield post_id=193257 time=1747764653 user_id=65] The rest of the guys have been awful. None of these losers have an OPS above .700: Nimmo, Vientos, Taylor, Marte, Acuna, and Siri. And they all play fairly regularly. 741 plate appearances between the six of them.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: How close is this to being a series? Visiting that link, it looks like there's a screenplay, but no production deal. If so, that's a very significant next step that needs to be taken. And then casting. Who would play Casey? Kristi "Clayface" Noem, naturally. She could be anybody with the proper makeup. And filler. And Botox. In my favorite scene, Noem holds court over the press, speaking in Stengelese while strategically standing over a locker room floor vent that's blowing air conditioning up at her, causing the bottom of her Marilyn Monroe-style white sundress to billow out just like in the Seven Year Itch. After that, Noem disappears Elio' Chacon to an El Salvadoran gulag when she finds out that Chacon speaks Spanish and has no "pasaje".

=Centerfield post_id=193257 time=1747764653 user_id=65] The rest of the guys have been awful. None of these losers have an OPS above .700: Nimmo, Vientos, Taylor, Marte, Acuna, and Siri. And they all play fairly regularly. 741 plate appearances between the six of them.

Jim, Dave, Mike and Mike Marshall.

Edgy MD wrote: Well, serious-ness is a matter of judgment, but Rose will be facing a very different jury — with a different motivation, a different reading of the qualifications, and a different standard of serious-ness than Bonds et al. The nature or seriousness of Rose's transgressions will be the whole ball of wax on whether or not he's eventually inducted. There's no question but that solely on the merits of his on the field accomplishments, he's obviously a Hall-of-Famer.

Breaking News: Pete Alonso is no longer ON TRACK to hit 200 HR's this season. Math and footnotes explaining calculations to follow in long-winded endnote.

It's the Baby Mets of 2022 due up this last inning: Mark Vientos, Brett "Hank Sauer" Baty and Francisco "Not Johnny Bench" Alvarez.

Edgy MD wrote: Well, serious-ness is a matter of judgment .... Yes. That's why I qualified my post by writing "as I see it". My bet is that the voters cave in to President Hitler. If he can cow a news organization as established and as influential as CBS News to fork over $20M to "settle" a lawsuit so meritless and frivolous that is should've gotten laughed out of court; if he can do the same to some of the most powerful law firms in this country, and by extension, the whole wide world; if he can get Jeff Bezos to kill a Kamala endorsement and to kill a feature that would link price increases on Amazon.com to the madman's insane and corrupt tariffs, then getting Rose inducted is like a fart in the wind. Johnny Bench or Mike Schmidt or whoever is gonna be on that voting committee are like wet twigs compared to Amazon and CBS News and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind.

Rape. Fucking rape. 14 year old girls. That's the line in the sand. What the fuck is wrong with everyone. If Rose never gambled on baseball, he would've been a first ballot inductee. The "rape" or "pedophilia" would've then occurred while Rose was already in the Hall. Then what? Then nothing. The crime was discovered after the induction. It sucks that there's a rapist in the HOF, but you can't really undo something that was already been done. That's a completely different story than honoring a guy after you're aware of the crime. Kevin Spacey has an Academy Award. You can't take away the award, even though we found out later he's a pedophile. But you don't learn that he preyed on minor boys, then advocate that he should be further honored. And I don't understand "rape" and "pedophilia" being in quotes. Having sex with 14 year old girls is rape. In fact, statutory rape. And if your only defense is "I thought she was 16", then that's about as clear cut as it gets. You think Rose will get inducted? The voters have still kept Bonds and Clemens out of the Hall. And, as I see it, both Bonds and Clemens had better careers than Rose. And their "transgressions" were not as serious as Rose's.

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The Mets could fall to second place by the end of play, tomorrow (today, really -- Monday).

And Alvarez grounds out meekly to end the game. Johnny Bench? He's more like the prime of Johnny Monell.

Still talking about Judge, even when it was Bellinger that grand-slammed.

When are they gonna ask Nimmo what he thinks of Aaron Judge? Ask now, while he's batting.

We could use some mic'd Brandon Nimmo right now. Ask Nimmo what he thinks of Alonso's girly throw home.

Why'd the announcer say "no chance"? I thought that an accurate throw woulda had the runner easily. Maybe he meant "no chance" for Not Johnny Bench to catch the ball.

Centerfield needs to start an "Alvarez Sucks" thread tomorrow morning. Yeah. I'm losing my patience with this guy. I thought he was supposed to hit like the prime of Johnny Bench.

Why'd the announcer say "no chance"? I thought that an accurate throw woulda had the runner easily.

Rape. Fucking rape. 14 year old girls. That's the line in the sand. What the fuck is wrong with everyone. If Rose never gambled on baseball, he would've been a first ballot inductee. The "rape" or "pedophilia" would've then occurred while Rose was already in the Hall. Then what? Then nothing. The crime was discovered after the induction. It sucks that there's a rapist in the HOF, but you can't really undo something that was already been done. That's a completely different story than honoring a guy after you're aware of the crime. Kevin Spacey has an Academy Award. You can't take away the award, even though we found out later he's a pedophile. But you don't learn that he preyed on minor boys, then advocate that he should be further honored. And I don't understand "rape" and "pedophilia" being in quotes. Having sex with 14 year old girls is rape. In fact, statutory rape. And if your only defense is "I thought she was 16", then that's about as clear cut as it gets. Rose isn't in the Hall of Fame. O.J. Simpson is. So is Ray Lewis. Personally, I think that the Commissioner's rationale for reinstating Rose is disingenuous bullshit to cover up what I think probably happened -- baseball caved in to the monster in the White House. If the eligibility ban ends upon the player's death, then Shoeless Joe and others would have been reinstated a very long time ago. And speaking about the monster in the White House, that most voters elected this thoroughly crooked narcissistic megalomaniac psychopath with a bottomless greed to the White House is far more troubling than Rose's reinstatement.

Still can't get over this thread. Fans might boo Soto? What a shocker. Baseball fans have been booing baseball players since the game was invented. Bob Alpacadaca wrote: I realize people who do stupid stuff like this are pretty much capable of anything. But I don't get the booing. Yes, capable of anything. Call Kristi Noem and tell her to bring her big, fat, fake lips to the investigation. Any fan who boos a baseball player might also steal our nuclear secrets and blow up half the world. They're capable of anything.

The Movie Nerd Making Mets Games Look Like De Palma Movies John DeMarsico on going viral for directing baseball broadcasts like they're classic films. Excerpt: Every night during the season, the person directing a Major League Baseball broadcast makes thousands of tiny cinematic decisions. With a panoptical array of cameras covering every square inch of the diamond, they soak up all of the details hiding in plain sight. You're already familiar with the touchstones: A tight zoom toward the sweaty brow of a beleaguered pitcher, a wide shot of a leadoff batter's coiled stance, or a sweep across the stands to capture the giddy-drunk fans during the seventh inning stretch. But John DeMarsico, who directs games for the New York Mets, takes it all much further. What if a baseball broadcast could look like Spielberg? Or Coppola? It's not as crazy as it sounds. Over the past few years, DeMarsico began mixing in homages to the Hollywood canon during those listless evenings battling the Phillies, in the same way Tarantino might weave in a not-so-subtle nod to John Ford during a bloody action sequence. You know it when you see it: Maybe DeMarsico will cut to an overhead shot of Citi Field from the crown of the Statue of Liberty, in a way that evokes Planet of the Apes. Another night, he frames Edwin Díaz's slow trot to the mound like Dorothy's first steps from black and white into the Technicolor world of Oz, or he squares up current Mets manager Carlos Mendoza like Zendaya, simmering from the grandstand in Challengers.* However, DeMarsico's most frequent inspiration might be Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns. When angled correctly, a showdown between a batter and a pitcher can look a whole lot like the quickdraw duels in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Read it all at: https://slate.com/culture/2025/05/new-york-mets-baseball-game-broadcast-director-movies.htmlhttps://slate.com/culture/2025/05/new-york-mets-baseball-game-broadcast-director-movies.html Youtube vid: [media=youtube]fYmzzxOG9bM[/media]

Probably because he didn't use enough smoke. And face makeup. He should do opera, next. Maybe La Traviata. Or classical. Lay down some heavy John Bonham-style drumming to Beethoven's Fifth. And of course, lotsa smoke and flames.

I can't believe that people even get worked up over this: not that the home fans will boo Soto, but the mere fact that they might boo Soto. This is big news? This is a big deal? If some maniac ran out of the stands with a knife to try and stab Soto, that'd be a big deal. But booing? Now what would really be horrible is if the home fans booed Soto while wearing garish fur coats. Get me my fainting couch. Oh my!

Edgy MD wrote: Was that supposed to have been some sort of semi-official thing or just something the National Leaguers cooked up during their workout? Nothing "official" about that contest. More like an ad hoc or spontaneous playground sort of thing.

Why are you such a cranky dickhead all of the time? Do you have a rashy bottom? I don't get it. You gotta admit he does use a lot of words to say very basic things. More like a lot of words to say absolutely nothing. He sets up a straw man argument that everyone here is misguided and wrongly convinced that the Mets will have five qualified pitchers at season's end --- so that he can then swoop in like the Einstein of baseball to explain to everyone how unlikely that is. It's a feat so rare that the Mets have only done it twice in franchise history and not in almost 40 years. And I can assure you that nobody here gave two shits about this in the first place. Nobody here was thinking that five Mets pitchers would qualify at season's end. Because it won't happen. Then he deigns to share with us -- more like lord it over us -- his absurd insights into why Brandon Nimmo was in the starting lineup on that particular day even though Nimmo's in the lineup practically every single day, barring health issues. Nimmo's an everyday player, as much of an everyday player as Alonso and Soto and Lindor -- and not one molecule less. Now he's laying down a marker, gloating and taking credit for "calling" Baty's I don't know what. He has no idea what Baty's future is but writes idiotic posts about there being no downside whatsoever to giving hundreds and hundreds of at-bats to a player who's been utter horseshit for four seasons now -- the entirety of Baty's career. Then he calls everybody else a Baty hater when the obvious truth of the matter is that everybody here wants very much for Baty to succeed. And that's just in one 24 hour period. He does this every day.