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=Cowtipper post_id=156226 time=1716415223 user_id=166] Garrett was bound to come down to earth eventually.

Frayed Knot wrote: =Centerfield post_id=156125 time=1716339822 user_id=65] Every day just enough to lose. Score nine, give up ten Hold 'em to three, score just one Score six, give up seven

Edgy MD wrote: While it is statistically untrue that all innings are equally important .... Well, yes. Obviously. If possible, I wouldn't waste Garrett, clearly the Mets best reliever this season based on statistics, with a 6th inning stint if the Mets are already trailing by seven runs by then. But if I did, still, getting outs in that 6th inning is just as hard as getting them in any other inning.

Edgy MD wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Why would you write that? The $20 million man is hitting .216 this year. I can read numbers. That's not what you wrote. What's so hard to understand? He wrote this: =Cowtipper post_id=155720 time=1716068782 user_id=166] Nimmo is playing like he signed a $160 million contract last year and now he doesn't have to care anymore.

=metirish post_id=155810 time=1716126724 user_id=72] I voted for Garrett , but we need Garrett to get to the closer, so likely not to happen

=kcmets post_id=155825 time=1716132819 user_id=53] I think it should be Hank ll instead of Hank², no? Hank squared = Hank. (1 X 1= !)

=Centerfield post_id=155644 time=1715971181 user_id=65] I know the Mets may well benefit from the third WC team, but I still think it was a stupid idea to add it. A .500 team should never make the playoffs.

=metirish post_id=155604 time=1715947218 user_id=72] Currently 4th place and 10 games back

Edgy MD wrote: Five runz is a ztep in the right direction. Forward. So is this shitshow run of baseball where the Mets are getting their asses handed to them on a daily basis. Think I was kidding a few days ago when I wrote that they were about one two game losing streak from clinching a playoff spot? (Right direction, he says). It's more like one step forward, four steps backwards .

Stupid shitshow update: The Mets are practically a playoff team. The Mets are only one game out of the money. If the season ended tomorrow, the Mets could still make the playoffs. This has been your stupid shitshow update. Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: They miss Alvarez a lot, and I think they miss Mauricio as well. and Yoenis Cespedes, too.

Edgy MD wrote: All statistics are man-made. Not really. A double, for example, is a double. To calculate how many doubles a player hits in a season, you simply have to count the doubles and add them up. The doubles total for any given player is indisputable, and 100% reliably accurate so long as the counting is accurate. There's nothing "man-made"abut a player's doubles totals, even though someone has to physically count them up or tabulate them. But how accurate or reliable is WAR? It's a calculation, an estimate -- derived from man-made formulas WAR is not a natural stat. The two most influential or widely-used formulations for WAR -- BRef's and Fangraph's, differ. I have no idea which of the two is most preferable, but that they're different is telling. It tells us that WAR is not entirely precise. So there's obviously a built-in margin of error in WAR. By comparison, there's no margin of error in a player's doubles totals, not even a microscopic one, so long as the counting is accurate. Pete Alonso hit precisely 21 doubles last year. That's not an estimate and there's no margin of error in that stat.

Diaz's 2022 season was one of the all-time best ever for a reliever. Of course it was an outlier. Expecting Diaz to repeat that season, even if he'd never had a season wipe-out injury last year would be like having expected Roger Maris to top 60 HR's several more times. I have no idea how effective Diaz'll be going forward, but I'm certainly not gonna hold him to the standard he set in 2022.

I also like the game a lot lot less than I used to. But I'm a baseball addict. Like most other fans, I suspect. It's an addiction.

Do you want runs or style points? Reminds me of Ty Cobb bemoaning the way Babe Ruth was revolutionizing the game with his brute power.

But analytics reveal that the best teams are the ones that maximize launch angle. Some conundrum, eh?

=metirish post_id=155013 time=1715478159 user_id=72] Mets haven't won a game wearing the City Connect

=metirish post_id=155006 time=1715473375 user_id=72] This Mets team is absolutely dire to watch

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Please do not take this quiz out to the back to shoot it in the head. U.L. Washington - 1.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I was wondering what was notable about Alabama, but it just clicked with me that it's the first state alphabetically. I assume this quiz was intended to keep going all the way through to Wyoming. Just shoot me, now.

Holy mother of mercy. From the get-go, this quiz should've been taken out the back to the ditch and shot in the head between the eyes .

Stone's version might be wacky, but no more wacky than the Warren Commission's official conclusion that Oswald, acting alone, killed JFK.

Edgy MD wrote: I think we allow players to spend all their offensive time on perfecting swings rather than actual execution. There's a difference?

=Centerfield post_id=154470 time=1715020573 user_id=65] At scoring runs? 17th in MLB in runs scored, 17th in MLB in OPS.