Frayed Knot

The starting times bother me less than the streaming service exclusivity thing. And, yeah, I know it's MLB dipping their toes in the stream (pun intended) so as to not be caught unaware as cable subscriptions continue to plummet, but that doesn't mean I have to like the way they're implementing it.

1. Reach base safely -- Nimmo 2. Get a hit -- Lindor 3. Double -- Alonso 4. Triple -- Nimmo 5. HR -- Marte 6. Score a run -- Nimmo 7. draw a walk -- Nimmo 8. get hit by a pitch -- Davis 9. Hit a sacrifice fly -- McCann 10. Steal a base -- Marte 11. Get thrown out at home -- [CROSSOUT]Daniel Murphy[/CROSSOUT] McNeal (Murphy will be second) 12. Strike out as a hitter - Alonso 13. Drive in more than 1 run in a single turn at bat -- Marte 14. Appear as a pinch hitter -- Dom 15. Get a "walk-off" RBI -- Canha Pitching/fielding: Name the first Met to: 16. Get credit for a win -- Lugo 17. credit for a save -- Diaz 18. Make an appearance as a relief pitcher -- [CROSSOUT]I don't know any middle relievers on this team[/CROSSOUT] Drew Smith 19. Take a loss - Carrasco 20. Fielder to commit an error -- McNeal 21. Outfielder credited with an assist -- Marte Extra Credit/Tiebreakers: 22. Predict the date of Buck's first ejection -- None this year 23. Score the first play of the *top* of the first inning, first game -- Nimmo draws a walk 24. First Met to reach 2 home runs for the season: -- Marte

The Opening Day(s) [some of these games will be Friday including, due to weather, Yanx/Boston] starters for 2022. RED SOX Nathan Eovaldi YANX Gerritt Cole BREWERS Corbin Burnes CUBS Kyle Hendricks METS Tylor McGill NATIONALS Patrick Corbin GUARDIANS Shane Bieber ROYALS Zack Greinke MARINERS Robbie Ray TWINS Joe Ryan PIRATES JT Brubaker CARDINALS Adam Wainwright REDS Tyler Mahle BRAVES Max Fried ASTROS Framber Valdez ANGELS Shohei Ohtani PADRES Yu Darvish D'BACKS Madison Bumgarner WHITE SOX Lucas Giolito TIGERS Eduardo Rodriguez ATHLETICS Frankie Montas PHILLIES Aaron Nola ORIOLES John Means RAYS Shane McClanahan DODGERS Walker Buehler ROCKIES Kyle Freeland MARLINS Sandy Alcantara GIANTS Logan Webb RANGERS Jon Gray BLUE JAYS Jose Berrios

Lefty Specialist wrote: At least they'll be well fed. This is a great Brazilian barbecue place in DC. Eduardo Escobar took the Mets, including staffers, to dinner at Fogo De Chao last night. Around 70 people were said to have attended. As long as he didn't take them all out for a Brazilian Wax then I'm OK with it.

Yanx already called off their game vs BRS in Bronx for tomorrow. Forecast must really be bad since they usually only call off games that far in advance if they don't like the pitching match up.

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This all sounds to me like something Beltran was required to say as a condition for the evil empire rescuing him from exile and granting him employment. After all, they were the 'victims' of Astro cheating and one of those cheaters is just now 'voluntarily' admitting so. Cashman also was coincidentally talking about this subject in the past week, essentially declaring that their WS-less streak since 2009 doesn't count because they Yanx would have been the obvious champions in 2017 had the chicanery not occurred. And maybe he's right, maybe the NL team that year would have recognized the wisdom of that statement and wisely chosen to withdraw from the series rather than take the inevitable drubbing.

Dom sez: 'Yeah, I can turn that 2-0 7th inning deficit into a 3-2 lead with one swing'

So sometime around mid-morning today it suddenly occurred to me, 'Holy shit, OD is in three days!!' Like I said, I need the equivalent of baseball boot camp.

Frayed Knot wrote: Old games / Met games I recorded / Stacks of / VHS tapes hoarded ... You have some yourself? No. Your thread title merely triggered a memory of the Chicago tune 'Old Days' (from 'Chicago II' I believe ... one I haven't heard in years) which prompted a quickie re-writing of the opening stanza's lyrics to semi-match your little hobby there.

Old games / Met games I recorded / Stacks of / VHS tapes hoarded ...

Willets Point wrote: Joins Miguel Cairo in the "Players named Miguel Ca_ro Who Were On Both the Mets And Yankees Club." Cairo, Castro, and Cano ... but not yet Canha

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Excellent sock game. Made batters uncomfortable. Don't like that he's a yank His hair won't like that he's a Yank either.

In a rare crosstown swap, the Mets deal Miguel Castro to the Yanx for 30 y/o LH Reliever Joely Rodriguez

Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: The Cardinals feed I'm watching here has the Bally B as a watermark in the corner of the screen. But that's for the network, not the team. Bally's (a division of somebody, I can't remember now) bought out the regional FOX sports network contracts two seasons back and so now have the local broadcasting rights to around half of all MLB teams. When FOX decided to get out of the regional cable sports business Disney was to be the original buyer. But that was negated when it was decided that all those regional channels plus the ESPN monster would represent too much of a monopoly. So when that divesture was ordered 'Sinclair Broadcast Group' and 'Entertainment Studios' became the co-owners of the regional chain of sports networks formerly known as FOX Sports [your area here]. Bally's, it turns out, jumped in as a naming rights partner, something the buyers needed to alleviate debt taken on with the purchase and I'm sure Bally's wanted it for the growing gambling/sports connections. 15 MLB teams (plus a similar percentage of NBA & NHL teams) are broadcast locally by stations* owned and operated by this network while others have outlets that are affiliates. * not SNY, or YES, or NESN. MSG+ & MASN are affiliates

=kcmets post_id=88171 time=1648901280 user_id=53] No baseball game today. On a Saturday. Really?

Edgy MD wrote: The Cardinals feed I'm watching here has the Bally B as a watermark in the corner of the screen. But that's for the network, not the team. Bally's (a division of somebody, I can't remember now) bought out the regional FOX sports network contracts two seasons back and so now have the local broadcasting rights to around half of all MLB teams.

Willets Point wrote: I thought Cespedes was still nominally active. He was only occasionally active when he was active.

Willets Point wrote: I wish I lived near Syracuse because a game with Fman & Seawolf sounds like a blast. As long as you remember to bring bail money I think it'll be worth a road trip.

No, I don't mean physically. I'm fine there. I'm talking about being in baseball shape. Between my disgust at the unwatchable pace of 2021's post-season games and the uncertain nature of the 2022 season that we all knew was hanging over our heads heading into this winter, it's like MLB got shoved to the back recesses of my brain where all the trivial stuff hangs out before it slowly leaks away for good. For instance, I had to remind myself on several occasions this past winter that we had signed Max Scherzer to a FA contract. I mean, I didn't miss it when it happened but then I'd intermittently forget it and so would need to have brief conversations with myself before settling on the fact that, yes, it was something that actually happened, not just a pre-lockout rumor. Marte was the same way but even more so. Only when I heard his named mentioned when ST started did I have an ‘Oh yeah, him!' moment. The perhaps too generic Spanish name of Miguel Castro wouldn't have rung a bell with me even a week ago and it was only after seeing that tall, wiry frame during a ST game last week did I recall who he was. And if I'm having this much trouble with NYM players I'm not going to have a clue to knowing who or where thine enemies are. As that font of all wisdom Rick Blaine might have put it: it's like last season seemed so long ago to me that I could no longer remember it, while the existence of this season was so tenuous that I wasn't about to make plans so far in advance. It wasn't just that I was mad that the two sides were locked in their protracted (and often inactive) battle over stuff it's that I found myself becoming indifferent to it all, a condition which MLB should view as even worse than mad. In the end I don't know if I ultimately would have followed through on my threat I made here (shortly before they finally settled) to boycott the season when it looked as though a chunk of the schedule was in danger of being canceled. But I was very serious about it when I said so. So with just a week to go before OD and all of two partial ST games on TV under my belt, I feel like I need to re-take Baseball 101 or something lest I risk being behind the rest of the children all semester. I'm sure the onset of games for real-sies will help to kick start things. But, man, I've never felt so out of touch.

And just to pile on, because Nimmo doesn't have an arm for RF

Willets Point wrote: Mike Francessa foresaw that Twitter would lead to the Trump administration and the January 6 Insurrection, apparently. An action he probably supported.

Edgy MD wrote: Marte sure looks like an athlete out there. I never thought so. [FIMG=300]https://i0.wp.com/i1.cdnds.net/12/28/618x886/showbiz_ernet_borgnine_life_in_pictures_1.jpg[/FIMG]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Is there an easy way to run a query over like the last five years to see how many games the Mets played in that went over 12 innings? I looked for games that went more than 12 innings, meaning 13 or more. None in 2020 or 2021. Four in 2018 and four in 2019. One in 2016 and one in 2017. The most 13-or-more-inning regular-seasons games in a year for the Mets is six, and it's happened four times: 1972, 1973, 2010, and 2014. Looking at this a little more fully: for the decade of the aughts [2010 - 2019, all full seasons] the Mets went past 12 innings 38 times, or 3.8 per/season If we assume the Mets results to be typical (but are NYM results ever typical?) that means, per season, around 57 MLB games go past 12 innings, or 2.3% That's one game out of every 42 or between one and two per week across the league. What initially spurred this rule was, of course, Covid, but now I think they're using it as a way to lighten workloads. Shortened spring training is the raison du jour for this year but I could see this catching on in front offices especially given the way teams churn through pitchers on a daily basis. In effect, they want a rule to protect themselves from themselves. As far as time of games go, the problem is less that extra inning games run too long it's that the games run too long before they ever get to extras. Fix the first problem and the second suddenly becomes less of an issue.