Frayed Knot

Please tell me that baseball is not going to take the NFL path where they judge catch vs no-catch based on whether the ball is 'jiggling in his hands'.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Isn't this something like what Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez wanted to do? I suspect that J-Rod's marketing schemes would have been with an eye towards selling themselves better.

Maybe the best line Uecker got off was one where he and McCarver (one time roommates in their StL days) were being interviewed by Jack Buck. And while one or the other is telling a story of late nights on the road back in the day, Buck, realizing that he's got a family audience for his show, chimes in with, 'but you guys weren't married back then, right?'. Uecker, without missing a beat says, 'No, we were still just dating'.

Willets Point wrote: Despite the sweep this weekend, the Red Sox won the season series vs. the Yankees 10-9. Which matters only in that it will make the Sox the home team in the one game play-in if they and the Yanx are tied for WC #1 & #2 (and not tied with anyone else). And we all know that home field is of extreme importance ... except when it's not. The upcoming sked is the more important factor going forward but the Yanx have recently been at their best facing good opponents while stumbling facing the dregs of the league ... so whothehellknows.

Tampa/St Pete doesn't deserve a new stadium, Tropicana is just fine and it's not like the citizens of the area actually go to a lot of games I think the Tampa/StP area can support a team and that the stadium is an issue. But it's also largely MLB's own fault there for being more concerned with getting the initiation fees from that expansion than they were in making sure the conditions were right in the places where they were expanding. The stadium suxx, the lighting suxx, the atmosphere suxx in a place where special ground rules are needed because batted balls frequently bounce off the walls and off the ceiling. Plus it's in the wrong part of the wrong town in that area. Tampa is the larger, younger, and more diverse of the two towns with a terrific tradition of youth baseball talent and a heavily Cuban section of the city with their ties to baseball. A better park in a better location coupled with the already existing well-run org could be a major success down there and not just with transplanted northerners rooting for the road team. Problem is, of course, who's going to pay for it? It's not a cash-rich organization and maybe cities are starting to get at least a teensy-bit wise about simply blindly forking over money to billionaires. It would benefit MLB to help pay the freight if the result is a strong franchise where an [off-field] weak one exists now but try to convince the other 29 owners of that. I agree that this two-city 'solution' -- especially ones 1,500 miles apart -- is no solution at all and I can't see how the players are going to go along with it. And while I'm not against expansion as a concept, I am cautious about what the side-effects might be -- Eight Four-Team Divisions!! -- and that they'll do it for the wrong reasons with the same lack of long-term planning as they did last time around.

MON[/TD][TD]TUE[/TD][TD]WED[/TD][TD]THU[/TD][TD]FRI[/TD][TD]SAT[/TD][TD]SUN[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]YANX[/TD][TD]+1.0[/TD][TD]OFF[/TD][TD]@ TOR[/TD][TD]@ TOR[/TD][TD]@TOR[/TD][TD]TBR[/TD][TD]TBR[/TD][TD]TBR[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]BOS[/TD][TD]----[/TD][TD]OFF[/TD][TD]@ BAL[/TD][TD]@BAL[/TD][TD]@ BAL[/TD][TD]@ WAS[/TD][TD]@ WAS[/TD][TD]@ WAS[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]TOR[/TD][TD]-1.0[/TD][TD]OFF[/TD][TD]NYY[/TD][TD]NYY[/TD][TD]NYY[/TD][TD]BAL[/TD][TD]BAL[/TD][TD]BAL[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]SEA[/TD][TD]-2.0[/TD][TD]OAK[/TD][TD]OAK[/TD][TD]OAK[/TD][TD]OFF[/TD][TD]LAA[/TD][TD]LAA[/TD][TD]LAA[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]OAK[/TD][TD]-3.0[/TD][TD]@ SEA[/TD][TD]@ SEA[/TD][TD]@ SEA[/TD][TD]OFF[/TD][TD]@ HOU[/TD][TD]@ HOU[/TD][TD]@ HOU[/TD][/TR] [/TABLE] Both the Yanx and Boston tried to lose last night's game by playing worse defense than Sunday's Mets did, but in the end only the Sox succeeded in failing which completed the MFY sweep. The schedule favors anyone but the Yanx -- in the old days this would have resulted in George filing complaints that the league and the schedule makers were "anti-Yankee" -- although the road for the A's doesn't look good either but that's their own fault for getting swept by the Mariners last week at home. The rest of the teams aren't probably saying "why can't we be facing the Mets this week, then we'd get in fer sure!!"

Ya gotta admit, bringing the IF in with one out and runners on 2nd & 3rd, then getting not only the grounder you wanted but an IF pop-up after that and then another grounder with the infield in ... and somehow turning all that into three runs allowed plus have the inning still going takes A LOT of creativity.

Yeah, let's score a run a game and see where that gets us.

'Front Row Amy' (I think that was her handle) doesn't appear to be in attendance.

Could anything more typify the 2021 Mets than Nimmo getting three hits only to see Lindor behind him K four times? And if that wasn't enough, the one time the guys behind Lindor got hits was the time Nimmo was caught stealing.

Aaron Loup tosses a scoreless 6th and drops his ERA to 0.98 Be nice to get him, or anyone, a W for his efforts but I'm afraid we've already scored our run for the night.

Back to the Cards, Gary just mentioned StL getting pitcher Dakota Hudson back from TJ surgery. He last pitched in MLB one year and one week ago. I wonder what color the sky is on the planet where pitchers don't require two (or two-plus) years to recover from TJS? Apparently, it's red.

I was just about to post that Hill can't live like this all night. And now the insurmountable lead has been achieved as I think we're more likely to get no-hit tonight than we are to actually score a run.

And, btw, fuck the BoSox With a 2-1 lead/2 outs in the 8th, Cora decides he needs a lefty to face Rizzo (who hits LHPs). LHP hits Rizzo on the knee to load the bases and of course has to stay in via the three batter rule and face Stanton. One pitch to Stanton and it's 5-2 Yanx Game ends 5-3. The two are now tied in the standings.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: That's all we had to do. Sure. But it's just unusual to see a franchise record breaking streak coming on the heels of a much longer sample size of mediocrity.

Consider that this 15-game streak came after five months of playing .500 ball. Today's win puts them 17 games over .500 for the season.

The very first batter of the game scored. No Met has come close to scoring since.

The Brewer pitcher who barely survived the 1st inning is now cruising thru the 6th

4 innings, 1:36 The 3:30+ streak ain't getting broken tonight cuz this one's going to eleven.

Hefner to Megill: 'Don't give up a 2R HR to Adames this time'

Blame that walk on Cain It's nobody's fault, but it just seems to be his turn.

Good thing we took advantage of all those baserunners in top one when their starter was on the ropes.

Yanx jumped all over (ex-Yank) Nathan Eovaldi for 7 in the first three innings and lead 7-0 Jays are losing

=kcmets post_id=78534 time=1632530799 user_id=53] First inning approaching the 45-minute mark.

25th error of the year for Baez