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Jeff won't slam his helmet for that one.

The Emmy Awards are on. SNF is a good matchup (KC @ BAL). I'm doing standup at the Silver Branch Brewing Company in Downtown Silver Spring, MD... and the Mets are playing again. Because the schedule says that they have to. Rich Hill (LHP) against Kyle Gibson (RHP). Gibson pitched 6 innings and gave up one ER against the Mets on August 6 but who hasn't? Look at Conforto's numbers against Gibson: https://www.mlb.com/gameday/phillies-vs-mets/2021/09/19/632407#game_state=preview,lock_state=preview,game_tab=,game=632407https://www.mlb.com/gameday/phillies-vs-mets/2021/09/19/632407#game_state=preview,lock_state=preview,game_tab=,game=632407 I was talking to my friend Jesse who is a WSH fan and like all WSH fans he doesn't like PHI because of Harper. It's a WSH thing, they think that he should have taken less money and played out of the division but he didn't so they hate him. Really, that's their logic. And Jesse, who is having a heart procedure tomorrow at Hopkins (thoughts and prayers from the CPF) asked me to "bring home a win tonight" because of his dislike of PHI. I said, "I'm not a Met so I can't miss a 95 MPH fastball right down the middle. I'm not a Met so I can't waive at a down and away slider two feet out of the strike zone. Only they can do that." LINEUPS: Phillies: 1. Freddy Galvis (S) SS 2. Jean Segura ® 2B 3. Bryce Harper (L) RF 4. J.T. Realmuto ® 1B 5. Andrew McCutchen ® LF 6. Matt Vierling ® CF 7. Ronald Torreyes ® 3B 8. Andrew Knapp (S) C 9. Kyle Gibson ® P METS: 1. Brandon Nimmo (L) CF 2. Francisco Lindor (S) SS 3. Pete Alonso ® 1B 4. Michael Conforto (L) RF 5. Javier Baez ® 2B 6. J.D. Davis ® 3B 7. Jeff McNeil (L) LF 8. Tomas Nido ® C 9. Rich Hill (L) P

I looked up McCann and Nido on Fangraphs. As suggested elsewhere, McCann's D is decent, with 4.8 defensive WAR. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/james-mccann/12859/stats?position=Chttps://www.fangraphs.com/players/james-mccann/12859/stats?position=C The Mets snapped him up right quick so they wouldn't lose out on a FA C (perhaps they heard that Realmuto didn't want to be a Met or they wanted to save $ for Springer/Bauer or they wanted to make an early splash or they wanted to set the market or Sandy is bad at his job) and if they didn't get McCann they didn't want to be stuck with Nido. Except, per these numbers, they just paid much, much more for someone similar to Nido: https://www.fangraphs.com/players/tomas-nido/13755/stats?position=Chttps://www.fangraphs.com/players/tomas-nido/13755/stats?position=C McCann: Offense -12.1, Defense + 4.8, Overall +0.5 Nido: Offense -8, Defense +11.4, Overall +0.8

With the playoffs no longer a realistic possibility maybe they can start playing the guys they called up for the 40-man roster expansion...what? we have to watch these assholes for two more weeks!

On a team w/Bryce Harper it's hard to be the biggest asshole on the team but Alvarado has that honor.

I'm numb.

"C.B. Bucknor is the crew chief"... unbelievable.

The garbage umpire makes a flamboyant incorrect call b/c we're watching him and not the players.

2-0 count, tying run ON DECK, Pete should have been taking, right?

Even if the only move that Sandy makes this off-season is to excise Familia then the Mets will be better next year.

The non-reversal costs a run.

The shot of Mookie leaving the field after you know had never been seen before and was incredible.

Almora to Syracuse. He was the batter Luis put up with the game/season on the line and now he's in AAA.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Here's the Mets content you want. How do you get it to appear here? https://www.instagram.com/p/CT19FCilGUi/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_linkhttps://www.instagram.com/p/CT19FCilGUi/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link They should put you in the booth with Wayne while Howie is out.

Per Tim Healy, Sandy will "absolutely" return as team President in 2022... because 2021 worked out so damn well. [bLOCKQUOTE]One of the questions looming for the final weeks of the Mets' season has an answer: Sandy Alderson "absolutely" will stay on as team president for 2022, a source with knowledge of owner Steve Cohen's thinking said Tuesday. That means Alderson will get a second shot at shaping the baseball operations department, including running the search for a president of baseball operations, who then will decide what to do about the general manager job.[/bLOCKQUOTE] https://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/sandy-alderson-mets-1.50361859https://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/sandy-alderson-mets-1.50361859 Here's a live look at Sandy planning his next round of Front Office hires: https://youtu.be/fLpmswBKVN4https://youtu.be/fLpmswBKVN4

Edgy MD wrote: The heart of the story is pulling Fruit Loups after seven pitches. This, plus taking out Stro after 6, especially as he said that Lugo and Castro were n/a and he wouldn't use Diaz for a 2d inning.

Who would have thought that the player who was cheered for getting an IF single after about 20 ABs would start raking? If the Mets lose a few more games like last night perhaps they should stick him in LF to see if he hits as well as he is doing in SYR or if he reverts back to how he was as a Met.

What a dud, what an awful game. They had momentum and the fans on their side after Sunday but were terrible in every facet of the game.

Last night seems like a distant memory.

If I was a lesser person, I'd ask why couldn't that have been Angel Hernandez? but I won't stoop that low.

Lindor comes to the plate, the fans give him lots of cheers, how did Lindor react? We don't know because SNY was showing us replays of a single.

Frayed Knot wrote: What's Ken Tremendous's non-porn name? That's TV's Michael Schur (e.g., "Parks & Rec"; "The Good Place")

Yup, strike 3 but of course they got the call. https://twitter.com/KenTremendous/status/1437521087055630336

Same lineup, the new regular lineup. https://www.fangraphs.com/roster-resource/lineup-tracker/metshttps://www.fangraphs.com/roster-resource/lineup-tracker/mets

A big win against the MFYs will do that to you. I've noticed that the Mets release the lineup much later than other teams. If there's an injury and they are checking the player's status that's valid but it's the norm for this team.