A Boy Named Seo

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Nate was a complicated figure. He always seemed emotionally ill-equipped to join up with his brother David and run the family mortuary, Fisher and Sons, but run it he did. Family and relationship dynamics were never easy for him (Brenda could be a handful) and having day after day after day of death as your 9-to-5 is no way to turn off stress. I always felt for poor Nate. In a way, I hope the brain tumor that felled him provided some sort of relief from all the trauma he dealt with in life. RIP Nate Fisher https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/sixfeetunder/images/e/ec/Nate_Fisher.jpg> And he buried opposing batters Sixty Feet Six Inches Under. Straight heat from G-Fafif!

Nate was a complicated figure. He always seemed emotionally ill-equipped to join up with his brother David and run the family mortuary, Fisher and Sons, but run it he did. Family and relationship dynamics were never easy for him (Brenda could be a handful) and having day after day after day of death as your 9-to-5 is no way to turn off stress. I always felt for poor Nate. In a way, I hope the brain tumor that felled him provided some sort of relief from all the trauma he dealt with in life. RIP Nate Fisher https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/sixfeetunder/images/e/ec/Nate_Fisher.jpg>

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Voted Are you sure your vote registered? I didn't see a change in the count. If you submit a comment at the same time you submit the vote, the vote doesn't get saved. Have a bad feeling "Fall In!" might be posting about rigged elections on Truth Social in a week

Benjamin Grimm wrote: =Fman99 post_id=112323 time=1667476210 user_id=86] What is the context of crying Mr. Met? I don't remember what made them buffoons that week. It was a breakdown in the collective bargaining talks and it was looking like there might not be baseball for a long time.

Begrudgingly voting for the Back to the Future pun

=metsmarathon post_id=112082 time=1666971296 user_id=83] wonder if they'd take a master's degree in mechanical engineering, and a graduate certificate in ordinance engineering...? it's... applicable.

I'm a perfect fit if I took all those words and shook them up into other words

4/7. I booed myself.

except that every time a team sweeps their own series and loses the next, there's a fuck-ton of handwringing about them going cold from too many days off. it's actually among the reasons why they changed the schedule in 7 game serieses, aside from too many rest days not looking like real baseball. it was also stated as a concern going into this off season for the top seeds to be sitting around waiting for their games. you go from playing every day to sitting on your ass for a week. you lose the edge, or so the worry goes. i actually REALLY liked the old format, where the two wildcard winners would face off in a winner-take-all one game play-in. i thought it perfectly rewarded the best teams while punishing the lower seeds with the enhanced cruelties of fate. but, that still doesn't appear to sufficiently reward the top seeds, or so says the handwringing over the NL playoff results thus far. so if having too few of the top seeds make it past the first round is indeed a problem, this is one way to fix it. that i have already stated that i hate. so there. and finally, i should think that in my, what, twenty years of posting on mets boards, that any instruction on the proper spelling of a word, or correct grammatical semantical usage, is either unnecessary or completely wasted on me. i'm either irredeeemably illiterate, or just stubbornly make awful stylistic choices because i think it makes me look cool but mostly just makes me seem illiterate but honestly i don't give a shit because i'm stubborn and too heavily invested in my style to ever change and i'm going to go cry now because i'm a terrible person who thought it would be fun to write serieses instead of series because life it too painfully dull to not write deers and meese instead of deer and moose when tapping out uncapitalized musings over baseball errata and oh my god what am i even doing here when i could be curing cancer and pressing the shift key more regularly i'm sorry i'm so so sorry. mm's last paragraph is the best closing track since "Purple Rain".

A Boy Named Seo wrote: .... and a wild card needing to win 5 extra games under your plan for the title makes the road a little harder for them. I'm not following this. A little help? Where are you getting the "five extra wins" from? Thanks. Oops, my mistake. We know how many wins are needed for a wild card to win the title currently, but there's no way to know under CF's plan.

It's definitely better than the current thing, and a wild card needing to win 5 extra games under your plan for the title makes the road a little harder for them. I just don't like re-doing the season after the season just finished. That's the point of the season. But CF >>> Manfred by a thousand miles.

This is super cool. How much labor is there for you to get all these images collected?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'll guess four years, $150 million from the Texas Rangers. I like that guess. It would be very Texas Rangery, too. Edit: I think JdG wants to get in the neighborhood or exceed Max's AAV of $43M, no?

we should crowdsource an expected degrom deal. see how it compares to what he actually eventually gets. me, i think he'll just opt out and take the QO. I think *gulp* 2 years/$90M gets it done. And it'll be the Mets doing the doing. deGrom's value in https://www.fangraphs.com/players/jacob-degrom/10954/stats?position=P#valuefWAR, for what it's worth: 2014 $27.0 2015 $38.9 2016 $23.4 2017 $33.2 2018 $72.3 2019 $55.5 2020 $20.8 2021 $38.9 2022 $17.5

I'll be back next season. Off to inflate some salaries now...

I feel like I'm the only one beating this drum, but MLB needs the equivalent of an MLS Supporters Shield now, a big shiny piece of metal given to the team with the best regular season record. At some point, maybe winning the regular season will hold more significance than the tournament at the end.

Cool find. Funny that the selling point to the Johnny Lunchbuckets of the world is that the average cost for an event would be a buck, but I can't imagine how shitty and far-removed from everything the cheapest seat in a 160,000 capacity stadium would be.

My October pony, the M's, jump out to a 6-3 lead in the 4th, treating Justin Verlander like the AL's Max Scherzer. Former Met starlet Jared Kelenic is batting 8th for the Mariners and has a hit and a run scored.

I was saying in the wrong thread how I hate both teams, but the chop made me hate the Braves more. Couldn't stomach to watch the whole thing but Phils win game one 7-6. Down with Braves, down with the chop!

And if there's ever any doubt on who I hate more, the fucking chop is the tie-breaker. edit: Indigenous Peoples day is erryday

Watching this game, I'm finding that I'm "rooting" for the Phillies to beat the Braves, when I thought it would be just a bunch of disgust towards both teams. Turns out I desire season death for the Braves much more than I knew.

A Boy Named Seo wrote: These brief playoffs were nerve-wracking, ultimately disappointing, but absolutely fun. I would take these playoffs over no playoffs 100 times out of 100 because baseball is fucking FUN. Nah, they weren't even good games. Well, Game 2 was a good game, NOT because the Mets won it but because it got nice and tense there in the 9th as the Padres loaded the bases down by four and with Diaz out of the game. THAT was good baseball and even though it was not a good spot for the Mets, I can see where you could describe it as fun. They didn't JUST lose. They got lit up, humiliated, totally outhit, outpitched, outfielded by a team that is, frankly, mediocre itself and missing a major player in its lineup besides. The Mets clearly showed their bona fide credentials as just another so-so team that let its opponents walk all over them in their home stadium. If these had been exciting, interesting nuanced games to watch but they happened to come out on the wrong end, I'd grant you room to spout this silly stuff about "fun" baseball. I had a GREAT time with my honey, dressing up in our jerseys to go to a party with friends and fam, but sneaking the game on our phone the whole time anyway because FUN. If you watch a drama play out live in front of you every single day, but you can only find joy if the outcome is a happy one, well that would be the silly thing, Rog.

Last night I said farewell to having another season of Mets baseball as a daily companion to a personal year that's alternated between wonderful, challenging and painful. Having a New York Mets baseball game on every day is a comfortable and nostalgic soundtrack to my life. And sometimes they're good. This year they were really damn good. These brief playoffs were nerve-wracking, ultimately disappointing, but absolutely fun. I would take these playoffs over no playoffs 100 times out of 100 because baseball is fucking FUN. And like kc said, most people have so many other stressors or worries in their lives that a baseball team losing has to compete really hard for those emotions. My $.02 - if they're causing you this much angst, then cheers, your life's pretty rad otherwise, enjoy it.

The Rays actually challenged the home run call, saying Amed missed second base as the ball Ramirez hit was leaving the park. Amed nicked second, though, and the Rays lost the challenge and the game.

Giménez had quite the season, didn't he? Where did all that pop come from?