A Boy Named Seo

I'm in agreement. No shade intended to Howie on his swan song, but I grew kinda weary of the grumpy grandpa vibes. A remarkable career just the same. Forever in the books.

As if to say, "chill, my homies," Manaea went four perfect innings today with 4 Ks.

Hola, amigos. Change can be good. My mind is open.

I know for a baseball forum, I yap about soccer more than I should. That said, I love what LAFC did recently for a retired legend, Carlos Vela. They created something called the Ring of Honor and created a giant plaque in the stadium that looks like a 50-foot shirsey featuring his last name and #10, but they didn't formally retire the number. I like that. Honor the player, but keep the number in circulation.

Our professional soccer team here has played a few exhibitions with a pro team from Ciudad Juárez. Those teams often use three digits for their young or academy players. It's weird at first, but like a lot of things, you get used to it. That said, my enthusiasm for number retirements is pretty non-existent. I'm bummed the Mets are so into it recently.

Mendoza's gotta be feeling great when he looks over his right field options. It's a shame MJ Melendez went to the WBC to sit because he got off to a hot start here and can't be helping his cause too much at the moment. MJ - 1.364 OPS, 2 HR in 11 AB with the Mets (0-3 with 2 walks for Puerto Rico) Tauchman - 1.054 OPS, 1 HR in 16 AB Benge .918 OPS, 0 HR in 23 AB The Mets are definitely letting Benge play himself in or out of a job, and he doesn't seem at all interested in the latter proposition. Even the other guys who could play there are raking: Baty - 1.138 OPS, 1 HR in 15 AB Taylor 1.068 OPS, 2 HR in 20 AB Pache 1.261 OPS, 1 HR in 19 AB I'm sure this will all work itself out, but it's damn good place to be so far.

I went #2. I don't (and have never) lived in NY, and that's the sign I would blindly and confidently follow to get to Mets stuff.

I'm going way out there - Kevin Appier.

I'm guessing Johan

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What BG said. Sammon and Britton (The Athletic) reported that the Mets are simply being extra cautious with him and focusing on strength and conditioning. Glad it seems like he's on board. And Baty's nusing a hammy tweak. Not sure of his timeline.

I mean it's only fitting, considering the number he wears. The Vinegar Bend Mizell line is strong.

This is not on TV here so I'm looking at Pete Alonso in Baltimore orange instead. McLean through 3 scoreless with 4 Ks is a very promising start. His ceiling is so damn high, but I have no idea what to expect from him this year. I think I adopted him originally. Dad of the Year right here, folks.

After twenty-something years, I'm one of the Wordle-only people nowadays (and I think I had a hand in recruiting metirish back and then I bailed. Sorry, homie!). I got away because the toxicity here for a while was just unbearable. I didn't even realize there had been bans. If it were the same level of discourse and humor somewhere else (and with less headaches for the people who have kept it running for years), then I'd absolutely give the new place a go. And if it were run over with ads or bots or worse -- Facebook-level commentary, I'd bail again and come back here, or return to the solitude of reading articles about the Mets alone and then talking my poor wife's ear off about what I'd just read. You're the real hero, babe. There have been a few times over the years where I've clicked a bookmark to this place and it hasn't loaded for one reason or another. I'd always considered in those moments that the CPF may be dead for good. That feels like a very real possibility the next time that happens. I'm gonna try to hang out here a little more often and if a shingle get hung elsewhere, I'll test drive it.

Check out my sweet Gonzalez signs

*** spoiler stuff *** I just watched it, too. This feels decidedly cowardly to say, but I can see merits of both the glowing and damning reviews of this movie. It was visually cool to look at (maybe a little heavy-handed with the wide-angle and fisheye stuff). Emma Stone was incredible (and Ruffalo's English accent was incredibly hilarious). I think the messages of female empowerment and sexual autonomy and telling "polite society" to **** off all landed pretty well, but it was still also a movie about a literal woman with a baby brain created by a man with the intention of being the property of a man. Even Dafoe's character laments he can't **** her because he's a eunuch, and seemed bummed that he found his weird-ass paternal instinct, which resulted in predictably terrible "paternal" decisions. I kept wondering how many degrees removed from Weird Science this movie was and I'm still not sure I know. You have to trust a lot in the intent of the writer and the message of female sexual empowerment to be delivered. Cause without that, IMO it veers into Kelly LeBrock Frankenstein territory. Am I way off on that? But I still think it was very good art and it got people debating, so that's good?

Uni Watch has it. --> https://uni-watch.com/2024/03/12/keith-hernandez-forgets-key-element-of-mets-uniform-which-he-wore/ Yeah look at the Keith pics. In one shot, the number starts under the "e" in Mets, very centered, and in the next one it's under the "t". Nowadays it starts at the "s" and is way the hell over on the ribs. I wonder why it's pushed so far over?

I finally got a Google alert for my guy Kellum Clark and it was this hilarious moment with a foggy-brained Keith and our own pop star José Iglesias

Metirish mentioned this one in a separate thread. I watched it last night and ooh boy it was great. [YOUTUBE]kA244xewjcI[/YOUTUBE]

The Dream Team analogy is pretty good. I vote for Dan Aykroyd as the Cristian Laettner of the WATW Dream Team.

Watched it and absolutely loved it. Stevie's moments were my favorites. The one JCL mentioned with the hilariously out-of-place Dylan was incredible. I also loved when at about 6am and everyone is running on fumes, Stevie decides it would be a great idea if they re-wrote some lines in Swahili even though Ethiopians don't speak Swahili. They messed around with it for a bit to placate him, but Waylon was like '**** this I'm out'. I couldn't get over the fact that they got everyone to show up late at night after an awards ceremony and stay all night and into the morning, with Al Jarreau seemingly the only one who was really ****ed up. I'm sure ego played no small part in it, FOMO before FOMO was a thing, or just not wanting to be the star who wasn't there. That they got all the phone calls to everyone done, the demos adorably packaged and sent everywhere via FedEx so the performers knew the song, and the the damn thing recorded in less than 24 hours with all those people was insane.

This doc makes me want to buy netflix for a month

I can't say no to this shit ever, I'm in.

Thanks, was just curious. I know Slapdick Prospects IRL and he's not on this board. I think the poster formerly known as Ceetar (or the former poster known as Ceetar) was in the league, but I'm not sure if he still is.

So SMG is still running this show. Who else amongst us is still amongst us? The new folks are nice (and like to trade so I like them) but who else is still around?