Frayed Knot

Yes, that loss was the game that spawned the phrase.

And then the weird part is that the shot off Blevins looked fairly benign. I "knew" the shot d'Arnaud took was going to break something but then again I thought the same thing last week with Cuddyer.

A bit late with this, but was thinking recently about the remarkable NYM OD record, particularly after losing their first eight; 35-11 starting with 1970 It's tempting to call it a fluke but strong #1 starters certainly have an effect on an overall OD record so, even though I'm sure I'm not the first person to track down this info (I smell a FaFiF archive somewhere), I decided to check on who got assigned the win, losses, and saves in those 46 OD games. [u:4aif8w2k]Wins[/u:4aif8w2k] 6 Each for TOM SEAVER & DWIGHT GOODEN 3 each: TOM GLAVINE, JOHAN SANTANA 2: CRAIG SWAN 1 each: RON TAYLOR, JERRY KOOSMAN, PAT ZACHRY, RANDY JONES, DOUG SISK, TOM GORMAN, BOBBY OJEDA, JEFF INNIS, JERRY DIPOTO, TURK WENDELL, DENNIS COOK, AL LEITER, RAMON RAMIREZ, JONATHON NIESE, BARTOLO COLON [u:4aif8w2k]Saves[/u:4aif8w2k] 3 = TUG McGRAW, NEIL ALLEN, JOHN FRANCO 2 = SKIP LOCKWOOD 1 each for: JESSE OROSCO, RANDY MYERS, DON AASE, ARMANDO BENITEZ, BILLY WAGNER, AARON HEILMAN, FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ, FRNK FRANCISCO, BUDDY CARLYLE [u:4aif8w2k]Losses[/u:4aif8w2k] TUG McGRAW (walk-off); MIKE TORREZ, DWIGHT GOODEN, MIKE REMLINGER (walk-off), YORKIS PEREZ, AL LEITER, MIKE HAMPTON, TOM GLAVINE, BRADEN LOOPER, MIKE PELFREY, JEURYS FAMILIA I have no real point here, was just curious.

So is Jenrry Mejia playing the part of Thomas Eagleton in this little drama?

The difference here being that Blevins had yet to surrender a hit or even a baserunner whereas Schatzeder & Nitkowski were allowing >1 baserunner/inning and so must have spent all their time dancing around trouble during their (brief) NYM lives. This is now around 30% of the projected (or at least possible) opening day roster that's been DL'd: Wright, Wheeler, Edgin, d'Arnaud, Blevins, Mejia, Black [7 of 25 = 28%] and that doesn't even include Parnell. That's a lot for the 3rd week in April.

d'Kong76 wrote: I betcha Guillermo Broomo can tell some entertaining stories. There was that time in El Paso and the chica named Felina 7UVVS5-9HvA

WORST. SWEEP. EVER. We should just select the guys who are off to a hot start, line 'em up, then whack each upside the head in order to give them a three week break. That way would save a lot of time and energy.

How much fun is this? The Marlins are already calling players only meetings, they go out and get a bunch of breaks, a guy goes 5-5, and they're losers again. Oh and they get Mat Hovvey tomorrow. Good luck with that, Basement Berthas. And not just any guy, their speedy / leadoff / reigning base-stealing champion guy. The obvious key to this game was keeping a lid on Yelich & Stanton behind Gordon. He may have been on base all night long but he didn't score once. CY: K/DP -- K -- 1B -- K -- Game-ending K with tying run on base and youknowwho on deck GS: K -- short fly out -- K -- K

I almost went back to hat-ting baseball again, but if one of our Torreses doesn't get you we got another one waiting in the wings who will. And now I'm going to have a drink.

They could speed up games by 10 or 15 minutes simply by calling every Met player out at 1st and every opposing player safe since that's the way the calls wind up anyway.

Centerfield wrote: I heart baseball Considering how often we h[crossout]e[/crossout]a[crossout]r[/crossout]t-ted baseball over the last few seasons, it's a nice change ain't it.

I know we are going to the bullpen soon. Please pick the right guys Terry. There haven't been a lot of wrong picks to date, wouldn't you say? on edit: NYM bullpen numbers prior to this game: BAA .129; WHiP = 0.74; ERA = 2.12 Now those will take a bit of a jump with tonight's 8th inning run against, but that's a helluva job so far.

But now supposing Hechavarria had been a little closer to home ... would they still send him back? We're 0-fer-3 in challenges this series.

So now if this call gets reversed a run is going to score because d'Arnaud assumed the inning was over.

2nd Saturday night game in a row - not a good idea in the north east even if you get away with it weather-wise. Mets are scheduled for just [u:i6shfrio]One[/u:i6shfrio] of what used to be the default time for Saturday games: a 1 PM start; that one is vs the Yanx in September ... unless MLB and/or the networks order the starting time switched of course. All the others are a mixture of Four PMs, some sevens, some eights, plus some tens from the west coast.

Kind of indifferent to it myself. I objected to 'Sweet Caroline' simply on the blatant and unimaginative copy-cat nature of the whole move and I wonder now how much brain-storming went into the process before they came up with Piano Man ... "we've got to find us a song with a sing-along chorus and nobody leaves this room until we have one!!"

Gwreck wrote: Nice game. Colon is winning me back to his side. I'm not sure how I manage in yesrs when we don't have the best centerfielder in baseball. Also not sure how you'll manage the fact that Gary & Keith are loving the new PIANO MAN sing-along "tradition".

Today's standings are led by your 'Best Record in NL' New York Mets They're 1/2 game up on the Braves, Rockies, & Dodgers (in all three cases they have an extra win).

Colon - 4.0 Lagares - 1.4 Blevins - 0.5 Familia - 0.5 Cuddyer - 1.0 Campbell - 1.0 Murphy - 1.0 Duda - 0.5 Muno 0.1

Niese - 3.3 CTorres - 0.2 ATorres - 0.6 Duda - 1.7 d'Arnaud - 1.3 Lagares - 1.0 Cuddyer - 0.6 Campbell - 0.5 Tejada - 0.8

d'Kong76 wrote: Colon with a near six-pack of Schaefer suds!! If so it would certainly be the only six-pack that Colon has.

Frayed Knot wrote: Kris Bryant called up to the big club, will make ML debut this afternoon at Wrigley. Joe Madden had him batting cleanup in his debut but: 4 ABs, 0/4, 5 LOBs, 3 Ks Now we know why he spells his name with a K instead of the standard spelling.

Edgy MD wrote: Seems to me that, if a team gets both roster relief and salary relief when a player is suspended, it sort of absolves them form any responsibility to provide guidance or policing to players with regard to PED usage. In fact, it almost gives the Phils a professional motivation to surreptitiously dose Ryan Howard. Shhhhh, don't give the Yanx any ideas (even though ARod might be their best player so far this year). The thing is, Rodriguez could yell and scream about him being illegally dosed without his knowledge but, because of his previous behavior and his very loud (though later reversed) denials, there's no way anyone would EVER believed him even though he'd actually be telling the truth in this case. Ryan Howard, by contrast, might at least stand a chance in an appeal or in the court of public opinion.

Yes it's only ten games ... BUTTTTT 1) he's hitting LHPs better (4 for 8 so far) 2) he's using all parts of the field

Sir Albert of Pujolia, btw, bailed on the Cardinals 30 HRs short of Musial's mark of 475. Stan is well ahead in each of the other categories: [u:229733eg]725 Doubles[/u:229733eg] (Pujols = 455); 177 Triples (Hornsby = 143) which totals to 1,377 XBHs (3rd all time behind Aaron & Bonds). Then for good measure he threw in 2,253 Singles