Frayed Knot

Good thing Yan racked up a couple of Ks because he's a bit shy on F's

Considering how close the B and the M are on the keyboard, Mets365 is probably a bad idea. Unless our goal is to attract a lot of sloppy typers with a gambling jones.

Which team is Mark Vientos playing for?

Bread

Yeah, a good dude who always tried to find a way to contribute and seemed to be very popular with his teammates. But while his speed and athleticism held up despite his advancing years, his defense oddly didn't. That, as much as the injuries and reduced offense, contributed to him seeing less and less playing time as well as the obvious conclusion, long before it became a fact, that his NYM tenure was going to end when the '25 season did.

I only saw a tiny bit of the game - the 6th thru 9th but with dozing off time mixed in. Vientos had a hard opposite field RBI double (then got pulled for a pr) that was reminiscent of the type of hitting he was doing in the second half of the 2024 season. The bad news is that it was his first hit of the spring. otoh, Gelbs/Ronnie on the mics said it was the softest contact of his three ABs he had in the game which serves to remind us that this is all small sample stuff anyway.

And the Mets have an 8th inning rally going!!!!! The trio of Ji Hwan Bae (1B), Antonio Jimenez (1B), and Nick Morabito (2B) have a run in and 2nd & 3rd (2 outs) off the immortal Richard Lovelady ... but they strand runners on 2nd & 3rd so it goes to the 9th with the Nats up 3-2

I think as long as the new place provides a pool for the cranes to splash around in then everything should be OK. After all, a crane's gotta crane.

Third most games umped to be specific. Behind only Joe West and Bill Klem

And OD is four weeks from today (Woo-Hoo!!) so there's no need to rush a guy even if it's just a hangnail.

Scherzer to return to the Blue Jays ... sez some guy on ESPN

An article in today's Athletic talks about the aggressiveness of Salt Lake City on the topic of sports expansion. At first the NBA's Jazz was the only (pro) game in town but they've added hockey and are going after MLB's rumored expansion later this decade. SLC has already been named the site of the 2036 Winter Olympics. Athletic: Readiness has put Utah at an advantage. While other cities announced their entries into MLB expansion consideration with renderings and merch, Salt Lake City arrived with a 100-acre site, a coalition of prominent Utahns, broad bipartisan support, a plan for public funding and a reputable anchor investor. City and state officials are not subtle about their aspirations. They want Salt Lake City to be a larger dot on the map. Part of their plan is to continue building a robust sports scene. “We need baseball to kind of round it out,” says Stuart Adams, Utah’s Senate President. “Then we’ll go after something else later — that other sport.” (The NFL.) The market is already bigger than you’d think, yet not nearly as big as it could become. The population of the Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem corridor, now nearly 3 million, has roughly doubled since MLB last expanded in 1998. That surge is one of the forces driving the evolution of Utah sports, as are the state’s economic forecast and its pro-business, sports-friendly legislature.

I always treated the T as Thread. Doesn't matter. This is just a DMPJFL anyway.

Reminiscent (appropriately) of the moment during the E Street Band's induction into the R&R HoF when Nils said; 'I'm the new guy here, I've only been around for 30 years'

Well now if he makes it he's already got a nickname. And his entrance music can be 'The Lion Sheeps Tonight' OK that's not exactly up there with Timmy Trumpets but he's new.

His name makes him sound like an American Idol contestant. So if he can't pitch, maybe he can sing.

That's what I think too. The fear of us being swamped by "hundreds" of users doesn't seem realistic at all. Not realistic in the slightest, IMO, and certainly not in the short term. And if the room isn't growable then we're essentially talking to the same bunch of dopes under the guise of a different site. And if it does grow then we've got new participants with new strengths, weaknesses, and points of view. After all it would do us good to hump a non-cousin every now and then, just for variety at least. In short, I don't quite get what several here are so paranoid and/or afraid of. If we choose this route this forum will be moved, essentially intact, and attached to a site containing other NYM/baseball content which we can read, ignore, contribute to, or shield our eyes from. It'll be moderated by folks we don't know but unless they're going to censor FMan's sex jokes or my lame jokes then I don't think it's going to be a problem. Hell, the last time I remember us getting yelled at by the teacher was back when Weisman lectured us (several guilty parties are still present) that we had to stick with baseball talk after one of the threads veered off course into a lengthy discussion of FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE ... and that was back sometime during the ****in' Clinton administration!! And yet we survived, it's probably what led to the Non Baseball Forum being invented, and no one died in the process. Meanwhile it relieves anyone here of having to worry about registration issues, paying the bills, taking out the garbage, fixing the leaking roof, or dealing with any idiots in the room. All of which were issues that plagued this place from time to time and caused several moves over the years from old out-dated boards and software to slightly less out-dated boards and software. I don't know if I noticed that call for execution. Is it possible that it was roger_that? If so, you may have missed it, but he's been banned as well, after he accidentally revealed his true identity. Yeah, I have no idea what any of this is about either. I wasn't one of those (one of the few?) who blocked Mags but I had pretty much given up reading his stuff -- at most I'd quickly scan it ('PC' it for youse old-timers) -- because I pretty much heard every rant of his and didn't really need to know the he thought he was getting picked on again. So whatever it was I probably missed it more than dismissed it and likely wouldn't remember it even it told.

Then there's also the idea of what the family is going to do with some of that stuff. My father had a handful of awards from his career, awards that meant a lot to him but what am I/my siblings going to do with them? I didn't win any. In Tom's case one daughter (of two) is already deceased, Nancy is elderly, and eventually you start finding fewer reasons to hang on to those things. And, unlike in my father's case, Tom's awards and keepsakes (Ronnie has often told the story about Tom having the last out ball of every shutout he threw) carry actual market value with them (substantial value in some cases) which gives extra reasons to consider parting with them. I doubt the family is selling them because they need the money. At some point hanging on to those kind of physical objects can become more of a burden than they're worth.

Rhys Hoskins signs with Cleveland despite Bryce Harper's best efforts to convince Philly mgmt to 'get the band back together'. Hoskins' two seasons in Milwaukee were decidedly a cut below what he did with Philly prior to the ST injury which ended his tenure in Philly and cost him the entire 2023 season [129 OPS+ in six season with PHI vs 100 in two years @ MIL]

No, I'm not talking about fonts and such. How this place winds up looking is fairly irrelevant (aside from, y'know, a healthy smattering of blue and orange). I talking about the set-ups of the forum(s) itself. Obviously our current set-up -- with all our baseball stuff in one forum for instance rather than separate minor league, draft, other team discussions being forced elsewhere -- is the way we're used to things. Does that stay as it is or does a moderator decide how things are broken out? Our non-baseball section gets nearly as much action as the BB side but, aside from our movie sub-forum, the non-BB section is just a big catch-all for other stuff. We barely even touch on football, hoops or hockey around here and if we do a thread to two per year is sufficient to the point where a separate sub-forum for each is unnecessary. All of which isn't to say things have to stay exactly as they've been for ever and ever; we've certainly made changes over the years. But if the idea is that it's better to import a current and working forum than it would be starting from scratch then we'd rather it be imported more or less 'as is' as opposed to finding itself in a new home that doesn't feel like the old one because a top-down restructuring took place so that it most closely mimics all the other properties on the block.

I guess my main question is this: do you want THIS forum as a centerpiece for a planned NYM site for your growing collection, or merely A NYM forum that could then be morphed into a cookie cutter version of what you have on your other sites? If it winds up being (more or less) THIS forum, just under a new hosting site and overseen by different folks, then that's one thing. But if it winds up being altered into something with a different set-up with a different feel and different smells (oh yes, this place has unique scents) for the purpose of looking as close as possible to the collection of fora you already have then the CPF loses nearly a quarter century of what made it the CPF and you're likely to lose a number of those who made it what it currently is.

I suppose the cautionary tale is like the scene from LOCAL HERO where the Nigerian/Scottish minister asks Peter Riegert's 'Mac' character, there from the Houston office of a large oil company who has been sent to acquire land for an oil company, "So you want to buy my church?" Mac: "Well ... not as a going concern." So let's go back to the beginning for a minute: So the idea is that you acquire the CPF to become the forum in a larger more media intense NYM fan site. Now, does the forum retain its current format in the new location or is it restructured in the manner of the fora structure you have on your other baseball sites? For instance, in addition to the main team forum, the others all seem to have (in a kind of cookie cutter sameness) separate threads for minor league talk, draft talk, chat involving other teams, etc. We, as you can see, never did it that way. For the most part all talk about baseball lives in the baseball forum, not just about the focus club but it's also where we talk about the draft, about NYM minor league clubs, also our division rivals as well as in MLB in general, and, of course, our inevitable 'Yanquis Suck' thread. iow, who decides such stuff, the near 25-year long evolution of the CPF, or would these decisions be a top-down moderators' choice?

btw, B.B., how did you find us? I keep thinking we're so obscure that D.B. Cooper and the remains of Jimmy Hoffa would be easier to locate.

HoF'er Bill Mazeroski -- 89 He of the fine hands ... plus that other moment.

At this point I'm not even sure we're on a first date yet.