Frayed Knot

This game is like yesterday where the (non) calls on the corners aren't wrong necessarily but NYM pitchers seem to get NONE of them to go their way.

Bichette's pick-off tonight was him being caught stepping forward just as the pickoff move started.

Streaming tonight thru mlb.tv has also come back slightly late from breaks a few times, so maybe not all the issues tonight are with the SNY app

As the advertising slogan for southern fast food chain Bojangles puts it: It's Bo Time!

So at least in the two NL divisions where the 1st place team isn't lapping the field (Braves currently with an 8.5 G lead) there's an important series going on to start the week. - the Cubs, with a 1/5 G lead over Milwaukee, will host the Brewers for three starting Monday - and in the west the Dodgers, with a slim 0.5 G lead, will be in San Diego on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

Not sure where to put this so I'm sticking it here. Sometime during Sunday's game, not only did Cowtipper disappear but so did all of his posts!! And in some cases, like that Injury Updates thread where his posts represented the majority of the thread, the entire thread is gone. I have no idea if simply resigning (for lack of a better term) from GCM automatically takes all your posts with you (a very odd feature if that's the case), maybe GCM mgmt can shed light on this. But however if happened, this is the most spectacular exit since 'Avi' many, many years ago, both leaving and taking any trace that you were ever there with you. I suppose it was triggered by the back and forth he and I had in the Clay Holmes injury thread. It certainly wasn't my intention to drive him off, I just got sick of his constant, and wholly irrational IMO, complaints over Stearns's 'inability' to land better signings off the waiver wire or minor league/independent league FA cast-offs, and even more so by his silent act each time he was asked what kind of player he expects to get from those ranks. The last post shown in that thread is one of mine but he actually responded to that one sometime yesterday afternoon. I saw it but at that point the game was getting good so, after briefly scanning it, I put it aside with the idea of answering later on. But when later on came around, there it wasn't, and it didn't take long to realize that neither were any of his other posts. The only sign that he was ever here are quotes of his that captured by a responding post. Anyway, I wasn't sure if anyone else had yet noticed the exit so I thought I'd point it out considering it was both so abrupt and total.

The answer to 'Why Gerber?' was to be a place-holder, to fill Holmes's roster spot and pitch in relief if needed. As to why not bring up Duarte instead my guess is that maybe he was unable to pitch this weekend and therefore unable to fill the situation (which never came up as it turns out). All of which, yeah, kind of suxx for Gerber ... except to the extent that he was making a ML salary for his couple of days.

Zach Thornton: 6' 3" / 170 (I'm betting that's a pre - 'filled out' weight); L/L; b. Jan 17, 2002 Winona, Minnesota; 5th round draft pick in 2023 out of Grand Canyon University Phoenix, AZ Had some very nice numbers in 2025 though only across 14 starts for Brooklyn and Binghamton (not sure why so few) with less good but still good stats at the upper levels this year as Wolfie points out. His most recent outing was a six-inning, 9-K / 1 BB / 3 H game vs S-W-B on Friday.

Note the early starting time kids, you don't want to tune in at 7:10 only to discover it's already the bottom of the 2nd and you missed that seven run NYM outburst. Should be about 91 degrees 'round first pitch time and maybe a couple of ticks above that on Tuesday. We didn't see Nats starter Jake Irwin (or Steve or Bindi) in the earlier series. He's having a rough statistical season to date [1-4, 5.91, 1.45 in nine starts] but so were those Nats hurlers who skunked us back in the CitiField series at the end of April when we lost the last two games of that series 14-2 and 5-4

I see that none of the tabs went with my suggestion of Tie-Rone. But what can ya do ... haters gonna hate.

What even happened to the ball? Obviously no one got a throw off but did either of them glove iota was it left rolling around on the IF somewhere. Not that it matters, of course, I just saw only crashing bodies but not the ball. Also, one of the best things about this win was to remind Yanqui fans that these can can and do happen TO them even as they tend to think that comebacks like that are their exclusive property. Flashback to the summer of 2000. The Yanx were home to Oakland and trailing 3-2 in the 9th when Jason Isrighausen came on for the save. First pitch of the inning: Bernie Williams HR. Second pitch: David Justice HR ... Thanks for Coming, Please Arrive Home Safely! The next day, some hyped-up YLDB called FAN (Russo solo) to crow about the game. And part of his (high volume) spiel was, 'This is the kind of thing you only see at Yanqui Stadium ... This doesn't happen in Queens' Now this was just a few weeks after the famous Piazza 3R-HR capping the 10-run 8th inning comeback (9 of the runs coming after two outs I was just reminded by checking the box score) vs Atlanta, and Russo, God bless him, immediately called out the caller by saying 'Hey buddy, do you hear about the recent Met comeback at Shea?' Caller seemed a little hazy on it and though admitted to 'hearing something about it' didn't know what actually happened. The point is that Yanqui fans think these things DO only happen to them because they only follow Yanqui games while the goings-on in the rest of MLB is an abstraction to them. So, yeah, this afternoon served as a nice comeuppance.

That might have been the sloppiest great win ever. or certainly in a while

And THAT'S! what happens when you have too many infielders!!! Talk about strategy backfiring!!

I would have had Ewing swing away against anyone else but their funky lefty. He's got to be hard for a LHB to hit even if you've seen him in the past which I doubt Ewing ever had.

See above.

If nothing else, Vientos is slowly looking better and better at 1B. He's got a big opportunity to take this job and run with it. Let's see if he does so.

To get Taylor's offense we're just going to have to live with his sub-par defense. post true for today only

Tie-Rone Tie-Lor!!

In a game full of borderline B/S calls, the first challenge finally comes in the 7th inning on an obvious bad call.

Yanx in the game: 5 runs on 3 hits Yanx just in the 6th inning: 4 runs on 1 hit

Phils have taken the first two vs Pittsburgh, including scoring 3 in the 9th then 3 more in the 10th for a come-from-behind on Friday. Today's finale features Wheeler vs Skenes

Mets aren't in the Bronx Zero mercy, And to a war hero too!! I hope just they didn't make him spend a night in the box.

Reed-thin [6' 4" / 177] righty Elmer Rodriguez to play the party of the other part. This will be the third ML game/start for the 22 y/o from Puerto Rico who got some back half of top 100 lists prior to this season. So far his line is a combined: 8.2 innings, 5 earned/10 hits, 8 BBs, 5 Ks. iow, he's a promising but still raw hurler. Back to SNY/GKR for the only time this series.

This has nothing to do with defending David Stearns. I haven't said a word that defends anything about him and neither has anyone on this thread.. This has to do with you inventing a standard -- he isn't getting ML rotation quality pitchers on the waiver wire or via minor league free agents -- that is so ridiculously unrealistic that it calls into question whether you have any knowledge about how player procurement works. And, that rather than defend your position when asked about it, you clam up and hide only to pull the same bullshit again and again at each subsequent opportunity.

Let's not get crazy here.