A Boy Named Seo

Does that beard make Guillorme look 40 pounds heavier or is it me...

Travvy with an end-of-the-bat double down the RF line off a long, loopy swing.

Yah, great recap. LOL'd at Nimmo's blasphemy after grounding out. And we now know who inspired Kevin's Police cover band Scrantonicity in "The Office".

Yeah, Gsellman is turning into the reliably mediocre dude I hoped he wouldn't be.

3-7 in early, meaningless spring training training games. But is there anything real we may have learned so far? Things in my head: -Harvey's velocity last game was up to mid-90's. That's real and very good news. Hopefully more of the same today. -Cecchini looks great (new swing?). Good, but who the hell knows if this hint at some new power is real or not. -Nimmo's had a real nice first week. Despite that shit throw home yesterday, he looks like he wants to be an everyday player. Nimmo 4 real? -Matz looks like complete dog shit. Probably real to a degree, but he can't be that bad, can he? Can he?? -Adrián González (to me) looks ooooold and hella slow. Probably real, I think. Get healthy and get your shit together, Dom. Quickly. -As long as deGrom is OK, I'm not too, too concerned (yet!) with any of these little injuries. Is there anything especially encouraging or concerning for you 10 games into this spring exhibition season?

Sadly, I am not adopting David Thompson to be a loving provider. My therapist says I am doing it to fulfill a selfish need in myself, to try to patch a pain in my heart that was created when David Wright's body betrayed him. My therapist told me not to do this, to work on me instead, and said this adoption is akin to someone who lost a pet going to the shelter to look for a pet just like the one that died to try to fill a void that will never, ever be filled. If this is a mistake, a rebound adoption, so be it. I can't be complacent any longer. My therapist is not going to be happy with me. So, hello, David Wri... Thompson. Pleased to meet you. I see you are a 6-foot tall, caucasian third baseman who both hits and throws from the right side. I like that. It comforts me. Tell me about your parents? Was your dad a cop? That's cool. I see the Yankees drafted you in 2012 but (I imagine) you said to them, "Go to Hell, I will never play for your bullshit organization!". I knew I liked you way back then, but when the Mets drafted you out of college in 2014 and (I imagine) you said to them, "I can't wait to wear the blue and orange and put together a long, storied career as a reliable professional who never once embarrasses the organization," well I knew you had the chance to be special. FanGraphs has twice labeled you one of baseball's most compelling fringe prospects. I guess that's good. In 2017, you hit .263/.325/.429(.754) at AA Binghamton, with 29 doubles, 16 homers, 69 RBI, and 8 steals for good measure. That's pretty similar to a line David Wright put up in St. Lucie way back when. But I shouldn't let myself think like that. I'm projecting again. I'm sorry. I'm curious what you look like. Are you clean-shaven? Do you have an earnest smile? I googled "David Thompson" and I'm not sure which one is you. Do you look like like an old-time Canadian trapper? I'm nearly certain the basketball player isn't you. Just the same, maybe it's better to not get too close to you too soon. You're definitely blocked by Todd Frazier. And Asdrubal Cabrera or Jose Reyes, if Frazier is hurt. And maybe Phillip Evans. And even Jhoan Urena? Are you even good? Should I open myself up to you? Will you ever even reach Queens? I'm scared, David Thompson, I'm scared. MLB.com lists you as the 24th best prospect in the organization. That seems... safe. I am choosing to adopt you. I am choosing to not compare you to any other similarly profiled Met third baseman named David. I am choosing to support you for you. David, welcome to the family.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Purke looking about 100 times better than Blevins, FWIW Blevins too busy planning his movie review/blog empire. Kinda funny, but why is it so goddamn hard for Frazier to learn the dudes' names? They have names on the back of their shirts and everything.

Let the record show that Adrian Gonzalez finally scorched a ball, but was robbed of a double when it hit the bag. Glad the Mets are giving him lots of ABs. Maybe Dom ramping up slowly is a good thing for the Gonzalez experiment.

Bautista is intriguing. If he figures out where the hell that fastball is going, he could be Janet Jackson-level nasty.

d’Arnaud isn’t doing that point thing anymore, but his bat looks super flat (parallel to the ground) in his stance. Am I trippin or is that how he was last season?

That baseball had to feel good about its chances of falling in with the trio of Cabrera, Gonzalez, and Bruce chasing after it. Hey, JCL, have a couple beers and enjoy the sunshine!

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Matz is a disgrace. We're here watching this bullshit Yah he looks like garbage. And what was with that terrible Zimmo throw?

Audio on the WPIX feed not working on my TV or phone. Imagine it's the same for everyone? Edit: got the sound now. Couple dudes on base, top of the 1st. WPIX in ST mode, too.

Our lovable LOOGY offers his 10 favorite baseball movies and gives Field of Dreams a beatdown on his way to some questionable inclusions and omissions, both. Whatever you think of FoD, it's way better than a couple of his toilet bowl choices, including Little Big League. I have to say, I've never seen his #1, but it scores some good rotten tomatoes so I'm gonna look for it tonight. https://www.si.com/mlb/2018/03/02/field-dreams-bad-film It’s not the best baseball movie. It’s not even Kevin Costner’s best baseball movie. Bull Durham and For Love of The Game are significantly better baseball movies. Heck, it’s not even James Earl Jones’s best baseball movie! The Sandlot and The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings are infinitely better than Field of Dreams. Jerry Blevins, yall!

This one looks to be on MLB.TV today, so yay. I know it's early, but I wouldn't mind seeing Frazier and Gonzalez each knock a couple balls hard, especially Gonzalez. Tebow certainly getting his opportunities.

Mets smartly not wasting all their offense in meaningless spring training games. Still 1-0 in the 7th as we have efficiently collected just 4 singles. With these quick games and short innings, we are gonna be so rested come opening day.

I believe the Lunchbuckets are in attendance, hope it's a good, sunshiny day. Noah got into a little trouble with Justin Bour in the 1st inning, 1-nil Fish.

Edgy MD wrote: Well, wait. Did it actually happen that way? The Gameday feed during Spring Training is only accurate in the outcome. It will always display the minimum number of pitches for the outcome. So all strikeouts will display as if they happened on three pitches, all walks will be on four pitches, and all balls in play or HbPs will be on the very first pitch, unless they need to stick another pitch in there to attach a stolen base or a wild pitch or something. That said, no baserunners for the Mets, counting non-football players and everything. Ah, I didn't notice that. Hopefully he fouled a couple off then.

Montero gave up a run on a walk and a couple doubles. Tebow went down looking on 3 straight called strikes. Still talking crap.

Jeez, no TV or radio?

Tebow hitting cleanup versus one Max Scherzer. Foul a ball off and I won't talk (too much) shit on you anymore, Timmy. Have fun in FLA, Lunchbuckets. Please do an in-depth scouting on the intriguing, generically-named David Thompson.

Fman99 wrote: Streaming SNY feed via Reddit. Can't really watch, but I can listen to the TV feed like it's a radio feed and hope they use lots of adjectives. Keith will keep you entertained regardless.

Even striking out a couple times, nice to see Cespedes out there. Old Adrian not showing very much so far...

Tough guy, but so limpy lately. .270/.335/.420, something like 12 bombs and 55 rib-eye steaks in about 475 ABs.

Fangraphs lists his average FB velocity at 94.3 last year. I'm hoping the ST gun isn't on the juice and he got a couple ticks back.