A Boy Named Seo

How bout Fenway?

Yeah I always thought it was the barrel crossing the opposite base line, but I guess that's not right. Per the Athletic, there hasn't been a definition of a swing (and subsequently a check swing) on the rules until now. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/354170/2018/05/15/whats-the-rulebook-definition-of-a-swing-in-baseball-there-isnt-one-but-there-should-be/ https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5873851/2024/10/26/check-swing-challenge-system-explained/

Check swing review is apparently being tested in the minors this year (and has been used in the AFL for a couple years). I like this in theory, but the application feels a little strange to me, so I'm trying to warm up to it. The threshold for a swing is 45 degrees, or parallel to the opposite base line, but the base line itself is not a determining factor. So, if the swing is greater than 45 degrees, the call should be a strike. If the swing is less than 45 degrees, the call should be a ball. The interesting part to me (if I've got a grasp on it) is that it doesn't seem to matter if the bat crosses the baseline at all, which is where I always thought we needed to be looking from, but that's not the case. Apparently our own former farmhand Drew Gilbert was the first to challenge a check swing call in 2024: Hyeseong Kim challenged one Sunday and where the plane is drawn is a bit perplexing to me. Is that based on where he's standing? What do you make of all this shit?

Gun to my head, I guess I'd say "floor" in this binary scenario but that's just cause I've got a gun to my head. Nothing about a cap will improve my experience as a fan. Billionaires would be relieved of spending more money to compete and that wouldn't assure any club of a title or make things cheaper for the John Q. Lunchbuckets amongst us. But I'm pretty damn confident the "poor" MLB billionaires would use a salary floor as a means to justify price increases for the fans so we'd likely be getting the shaft either way.

I shall.

I love that guy behind the dugout that Gelbs has become best homies with, but it's a sad state of affairs when that's the most endearing and engaging part of the game. Let's go Mets. Please. Do fucking something.

I don’t deserve this anxiety. You don’t deserve this anxiety. I’m gonna check out Rooster on HBO. God speed, Mets.

That was fantastic. If Wright doesn’t get the manager job, I hope he and Gelbs play buddy cops in a season of True Detective.

2-run homer for the Angels in the first. I’d rather be at the pub watching fman and wolfie.

It’s crazy to think the Angels had Trout and Ohtani for years and won jack.

The Mets killed the flowers, didn't they.

Since this is the In-Gig-Thread, I can confirm that seawolf has jumped on stage and joined fman. Song TBD.

I thought for a second his shirt said "BONER" and that woulda been soooooo Fman.

Polanco is running but no timeline. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://sny.tv/articles/mets-luis-robert-jr-lower-back-tightness-jorge-polanco-progress

Dr. Google is not terribly optimistic for a speedy return: