Frayed Knot

I think he's already tall enough.

This act of yours got old months ago.

It's a 'Let's pretend it's a rivalry and maybe no one will notice' kind of thing.

Eh, it's OK, it's not like he was our best pitcher this year, and there are plenty of obvious replacements is Jonah Tong who, in his last start, was dominant allowed seven runs in 1-1/3, plus Senga will be ready to return any day now in a few months and there's a good chance tiny long shot that he regains his All-Star form.

A very dull and slow-moving game.

This has been dubbed 'Rivalry Weekend' (is it Homecoming next week?) which includes ... Philly @ Pitt, O's/Nationals, Cincy/Cleveland, BoSox/Braves, Miami/Tampa, Cubs/Sos, Rangers/Astros, Angels/Dodgers, Royals/Cards, plus, and when these teams meet you can throw out the record book, DBacks @ Rockies

Hey Apple, get that fucking betting line off the screen!!!

Nice to see Dontrelle Willis set a new ML record for most cliches within a 3 minute open.

I thought FMan was going to do a KTE but maybe the censors deleted his submission. I think the key to holding the Yanx 4th best offense (5.07 RS/G) down may actually be to keep the lousy hitters off base. They've got a kind of A-Team/B-Team going on in their lineup so if you can keep the bases empty when the big boys are up it can at least limit the damage. Really good this year: Judge, Ben Rice (both over 1,000 OPS) and also Cody Bellinger. Rice has over half of his hits go for XB (22 of 40) and nearly 1/3 are HRs (13). But those are the only three active starters sporting an OPS+ over 100. [181, 197, 137] (also Amed Rosario and Paul Goldschmidt but they're part-timers). On the flip side of the coin is both catchers [Wells = 67 OPS+, Escarra = 47], 2B Jazz Chisholm [69], 3B Ryan McMahon [62], CF Trent Grisham [89] and now newly recalled SS Anthony Volpe, the 2023 RoY/GG who has fallen out of favor, seemingly with both mgmt and fans, and was injured/demoted until a recent injury to Jose Cabellaro. Ashie mentioned the recent debut of 25 y/o (yesterday) Spencer Jones who is promising and gives them a matching bookend to Judge (Jones is 6' 7"/245) but is just getting started at 1/12 w/6 Ks On the pitching side they're 3rd best in MLB [3.5 RA/G] led by Schlittler, and good seasons so far from Ryan Weathers, Will Warren, and the now IL'd Max Fried. In the pen their main set-up corps seem to be the strength rather than the two guys they dealt for at last year's trading deadline, David Bednar and Camilo Dovel closer(s)

For the team OPS? Yeah, there's an outside shot at it if everyone gets hot at the same time.

McLean was here last season. He's a toddler Met.

Gelbs forgot to ask Benge how long he intends to stick with that piss-poor excuse for a mustache. Second consecutive game > 3:00 although this would have been under if finished in regulation.

Bullpen: 5-1/3, one hit, three walks, five K

Baby Met drives in Baby Met for the winner!!!

Well, look at it this way. Ewing will be our ghost runner in bottom 10 ... so as long as we're not already down by three or more runs by the time we get there it might all work out. Three walks yesterday for Ewing to three backwards Ks today.

How many friggin' Star Wars movies are there? Don't bother because I really don't want an answer. But it seems like there's a new sequel/prequel/off-shoot/re-make or whatever every few weeks and there's one running now every half-inning or so when you're streaming games. It's either a commercial for the movie itself or for tie-ins for various merchandise and/or fast food items.

This will almost certainly mean it's another season where Alvarez will fail to play over 100 games. Only in 2023, his first full season, did he pass the century mark (123). 2024 saw him in exactly 100, and 2025 just 76. So that's three seasons with < 300 G played combined. Meanwhile I noticed that Drake Baldwin, the second year catcher for Atlanta, appeared in 126 during his rookie year and this year has started and finished all 42 Braves to date this season (11 as DH).

He's getting frisky is what he's doing. Didn't come to watch you, blue!

Vientos gets hit in the foot by a grounder and by a pitch in the same inning.

I was coaching him on that play.

Benge made all three puto ... oh wait, no he didn't. Suxx for Scott that those runs are earned.

Does the SS snag that liner if the infield isn't drawn in? Not for sure, but maybe.

In the series ending rubber game matinee the O's not only beat the Yanx but shut them out 7 - Zip on one hit. That drops the Bombers to 7-6 in the month of May which doesn't sound too bad until you consider that they started it 5-0 including a bludgeoning of these same Orioles when they swept a four-game set in the Bronx to start the month by a combined score of 39-10, so this series represents at least a partial payback for Baltimore. And the news didn't get much better when starter Max Fried left today's game after 3 innings (already down 3-0) with "elbow soreness" which is, of course, never a good thing. He is "scheduled for imaging" which sounds like something that both pitchers and actresses go through on a regular basis. Yanx will be off tomorrow in advance of the weekend set at CitiField

So the 2023 draft is working out pretty well so far for the Mets - 4th round: AJ Ewing - 3rd round: Nolan McLean 2nd round: Brandon Sproat And the one who is Not working out so well to date is 1st rounder (32nd overall) Colin Houck, a SS out of a Georgia HS. He's currently OPS'ing 639 in Brooklyn although is still just 21 y/o so certainly time to ripen. Ewing is the second 4th round pick from the 2023 draft to make his ML debut. Kristian Campbell, also listed as a 2B/OF, made the Red Sox roster on opening day but was a college pick and so is two+ years older than Ewing.

I didn't realize that while the Tigers were changing pitchers that Eric Gregg also came in as a replacement for the starting HP ump.