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Benjamin Grimm wrote: WTF is "Build Submarines"? Maybe the Mets are trying to coax Kent Tekulve out of retirement?

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I get that feeling that JDM doesn't really care who wins. Like it even matters? The Mets could lose every game left and probably still clinch a playoff spot. What a stupid shitshow. And now with more patches.

Frayed Knot wrote: 2nd & 3rd, no outs ... and then no ball leaves the infield for the rest of the inning. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. It's Ranger Suarez. According to script, the Mets'd need 100 innings to score five or six runs against this guy. Who's pitching tomorrow? Because Wheeler is Cy Young caliber this season and Nola is merely all-star caliber this year.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=158363 time=1717871355 user_id=68] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=158361 time=1717870925 user_id=68] Wow! There really isn't any more sleeve room thanks to the sponsor patch. To make room for the London Series patch, the Mets aren't wearing their skyline logo patch in the UK.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=158361 time=1717870925 user_id=68] Wow! There really isn't any more sleeve room thanks to the sponsor patch. To make room for the London Series patch, the Mets aren't wearing their skyline logo patch in the UK.

Wow! There really isn't any more sleeve room thanks to the sponsor patch. To make room for the London Series patch, the Mets aren't wearing their skyline logo patch in the UK.

Edgy MD wrote: I'd rather not think in terms of the blame, when this is not a fait accompli. How do you know? Maybe their mind's already made up.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=158297 time=1717854463 user_id=68] I'm blaming the sponsor patch. I'll bet that the deal with NY Presbyterian is that it has that sleeve exclusively all to itself. And there's no room on the other sleeve. As it is, the other sleeve looks ridiculous with the Harrelson patch sharing space with the logo patch. It's the logo patch that should have the exclusive on the sleeve. Looks like Steve Cohen needs more money.. I guess the Mets'd find space, though, if Mike Piazza or Dwight Gooden were to pass away this season. And speaking of non player Mets HOFers, George Weiss and Johnny Murphy also never got a memorial patch or armband.

I'm blaming the sponsor patch. I'll bet that the deal with NY Presbyterian is that it has that sleeve exclusively all to itself. And there's no room on the other sleeve. As it is, the other sleeve looks ridiculous with the Harrelson patch sharing space with the logo patch. It's the logo patch that should have the exclusive on the sleeve. Looks like Steve Cohen needs more money.. I guess the Mets'd find space, though, if Mike Piazza or Dwight Gooden were to pass away this season. And speaking of non player Mets HOFers, George Weiss and Johnny Murphy also never got a memorial patch or armband.

No. McNeil was a very productive player and now he's not as good as he used to be . And so your take is that his current diminished production is supposed to be proof that he was never any good in the first place. It's a tremendous leap of logic and an absurd take as well. And the numbers don't support your view unless you wanna go to ridiculous lengths to distort the numbers, make 2020 disappear because it was a short season, discount 2022 because it was the only season in which McNeil won a batting title. McNeil has already had a better career than the majority of players who ever played in the majors.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=158069 time=1717658900 user_id=68] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=151945 time=1713192288 user_id=68] Wondering where they're gonna put the Jerry Grote memorial patch? There's some space on the players' butts, last I looked.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I traveled through the cassava fields of Northwest Columbia in search of a hobby store that sold Typewriter Latin America Batman Cards You should've went to Mexico. Or Argentina, where Batman was huge. If you didn't go to Mexico, though, I don't blame you. I wouldn't go there even with a Secret Service detail guarding me.

he's collapsing! i predicted it long ago! players like him always collapse! cut him now! I agree. He's never been that great. The only season he played over 150 games, he hit .270. He was only ever a power hitter in 2019 when the ball was juiced and everyone was a power hitter. He's never been good at drawing walks. I don't think that's necessary. But he's never had great power or speed, his defense is solid but not stupendous, two of his .300 seasons were stunted (62 G in 2018, 60 G in 2020), and if you remove his 2022 campaign, his career average drops 10 points. He's just very Diaz-ian in that his one or two great seasons prop up the rest of his career. Give me a break already. This Typewriter All-Star card from 2019 (Latin American release only) reminded me that McNeil was an all-star in 2019. [FIMG=511]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53773816832_03039417b8_b.jpg[/FIMG] McNeil batted over .300 in each of his first three seasons, over more than 1,000 at bats. His lowest season BA over that span was .311. His lowest OPS+ - 130. After an off year in 2021, he came back to win the batting title in 2022. He batted well over .300 in four of his first five seasons. And he was a batting title champ and a two-time all-star. And while the ball was certainly juiced in 2019, it was juiced for everybody. But not every outfielder made the all-star team. After five seasons, McNeil was a star and anybody denying that just doesn't know shit. He's struggling now. And I could come up with many plausible explanations for his struggles. Maybe he's now in decline. Maybe he's hiding an injury, the kind of injury that isn't severe enough to sideline him, but enough to throw off his game. Maybe he's in a funk. I don't really know what's up with McNeil. But I can tell you what's not a convincing explanation for his current lower production: that he was always a bad player and that whenever McNeil ever did anything good, it was sheer luck. That makes no sense at all. Neither does diminishing McNeil's entire career and all of his considerable accomplishments because of his current struggles. A player can be both good and bad without having to simplify things. Everybody sucks at the end. Everybody declines. If McNeil is in his decline, so be it. It happened to everybody. Even Babe Ruth sucked at the end. Otherwise, Keith Hernandez would still be playing first base for the Mets and Mike Piazza would still be their catcher.

=kcmets post_id=158197 time=1717773094 user_id=53] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=158159 time=1717720702 user_id=68]Is there a date for this game? Or are they gonna play it whenever the fuck the players feel like playing it?=batmagadanleadoff post_id=158163 time=1717722616 user_id=68] Who the hell reads thread titles? Ya got a TV channel for this? That would be nice, too.

The date for the game is in the thread title. The time for the game is in the text. "Thu Jun 06, 2024 8:34 pm" Is the time I started the thread. Who the hell reads thread titles? Ya got a TV channel for this? That would be nice, too. [FIMG=777]https://ohcarol2.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/londonsessions4.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=555]https://www.jazzmessengers.com/62348-thickbox_default/the-london-howlin-wolf-sessions-gatefold.jpg[/FIMG]

Ranger Suarez 9-1 1.70 Sean Manaea 3-2 3.63 Game time 1:10 PM Later Is there a date for this game? Or are they gonna play it whenever the fuck the players feel like playing it? [FIMG=666]https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71GFVoIk-zL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg[/FIMG]

Edgy MD wrote: As bad as The Diamondbacks looked when the Mets played them, they are your defending National League champions. Because MLB is now a stupid shitshow.

=metirish post_id=158131 time=1717703071 user_id=72] Amazing that the Mets can be 16.5 games out in the NL East, but still have a playoff shot , games gone

Edgy MD wrote: Call your Congressman. Better yet, call your former New Jersey governor. If Gary Carter never had his initial Expos stint, if his 1985 Mets season was his rookie year and the rest of Carter's career proceeded as it actually did, there would never, ever, ever have been any of this crazy talk about retiring his number, it would've never been mothballed in the first place and right now, Luis Torrens would probably be wearing #8. And no death patch, either. But Carter was a superstar, a HOF bound superstar when the Mets got him, and so Mets nation made Carter out to be some kind of God before he even took a swing in an actual game. Last piece to the puzzle. Holy fucking moley!

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=158069 time=1717658900 user_id=68] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=151945 time=1713192288 user_id=68] Wondering where they're gonna put the Jerry Grote memorial patch? There's some space on the players' butts, last I looked.

A player doesn't have to be selected to the All-Star team to participate in the HR Derby.

Other options should include: a) he's in a permanent physical decline; the league figured him out; and c) he's developed some bad habits that are fixable.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=151945 time=1713192288 user_id=68] Wondering where they're gonna put the Jerry Grote memorial patch? There's some space on the players' butts, last I looked.

My guess is that the Mets won't trade Alonso if all they can get for him in return are "middling prospects ". I don't think that the Mets will trade Alonso simply for the sake of trading him.

Edgy MD wrote: So, you're not buying the population thesis? I generally don't go for lunatic talk.