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  1. Frayed Knot
    Soto HRs in the 3rd pitch of the game ... Quick, call time out!!!
  2. Frayed Knot
    The intent is to keep owners, who may have various incentives at a particular time to Not want to win, from being the one calling the shots on the field. Not that they can't do so remotely but at least there it's a level or two removed from the dugout rather than in it. Of course the number of teams in the NBA openly and purposely tanking may have been in double digits this season and few of their fans seem to mind. I mean, why there were more than 10 fans at any given Washington Wizards game over the last three seasons is a mystery to me, but I don't seem to get basketball culture in general.
  3. Frayed Knot
    Lorenzen skunked us on 1 run/7 hits over 7 innings two weeks ago in NY where the Mets scored their only run off him via a GiDP (cuz that's how we roll) in an eventual 4-3 Rox win. Time for some payback ... or at least maybe an XBH or three. Mets had 11 hits in that game: 10 singles and one double, plus zero walks and three GiDPs!!.
  4. Frayed Knot
    Just to keep everyone up to speed on first pitch times: - Monday was the day game which was supposed to be a night game - Tuesday was an off day which was also supposed to be a night game - Wednesday is a night game (9:20) which was originally supposed to be a day game - and Thursday will be a day game (3:10) in what was supposed to be an off/travel day And when you've digested all that we'll move along to differential calculus
  5. Frayed Knot
    The honor for best NYM hitter in April is roughly the equivalent of best ice hockey player in Peru.
  6. Frayed Knot
    Then there's only one solution. EXPAND THE PLAYOFFS!!!!
  7. Frayed Knot
    The rain-to-snow is expected to last until around noon (MDT) on Wednesday with temps right around freezing and a 12 mph north wind, hence the altered start time. By scheduled first pitch (6PM MDT) the temps will have rocketed into the 40s (OK, 40 even) with even a little sun and calmer winds. For the finale Thursday temps should be in the 60 - 65 range and partly cloudy.
  8. Frayed Knot
    I have no reason to be over optimistic / But sometimes when they win I can brave bad weather
  9. Frayed Knot
    3 - 1 in May, baby (against two bad franchises) no stopping us now!!
  10. Frayed Knot
    Oh that logic has been going on since the WBC was first concocted. Some guy would get injured in August and it would be accompanied by a statement that 'the WBC claims another victim'. Making connections is easy when you come up with the cause and effect ahead of time.
  11. Frayed Knot
    It's Carson Benge's world and the rest of us are just living in it. OK, that's way over the top, but this is starting to get the feel of something big coming on
  12. Frayed Knot
    But in-market streaming is a different situation. Here, both Edgy and Hot Corner are paying for NYM games via mlb.tv but are getting blacked out of more than 10% of them*: all 14 Nats games (used to be 18) plus three more vs the O's (was occasionally six). * with network and 'alternate' platform games included, it's around 11-12% (17 of 150?) or around one game in eight. And of course with no discount for the missed telecasts.
  13. Frayed Knot
    He's a Moniak, Moniak in the box / Was a bust in Philly but is raking for the Rox
  14. Frayed Knot
    Yeah, the real crime of his is the not-quite-in-market teams that wind up on the banned list. That Hot Corner, 230-some miles from D.C. and an additional 40 or so from Baltimore, has those teams blocked on the basis that he could potentially get the MASN network in his area (varying wildly on which cable/satellite packages he does or doesn't subscribe to) reeks of short-sightedness. 'Protecting' MASN in the DMV area is arguably one thing in the attempt to keep regional sports network partners viable. But then extending that umbrella all the way out to eastern N.C. and therefore placing him square in the Nats/Orioles 'fan base' because those are the closest teams to him goes way overboard in the idea to keep MASN from potentially losing some of 'their' customers.
  15. Frayed Knot
    Yes, he successfully hid his true age for many years but that eventually got tougher in the internet age. He became father to triplets at the age of 61, something that's capable of killing a 21 y/o!! Nets games and Braves games were mentioned above. He also did Atlanta Hawks basketball, Islanders hockey for a short time [Islander Goal! Islander Goal! had the same delivery and cadence as Yankees Win! Yankees Win!] and a bunch more as well. I was first aware when he did a sports talk show on WMCA in NYC (570) where he played the role of the acerbic host in the days prior to 24 hrs/day sports stations.
  16. Frayed Knot
    Denver actually has more hours/year of sunshine than any other big city in this country. It's just very ... changeable. It can be 70+ as it was yesterday, then be 70+ again as is forecast for Fri/Sat, but drop into the '30s w/snow in between as is almost certain for tomorrow. So it's often clement.
  17. Frayed Knot
    Now that we're down to one trip per year vs the Rox, it certainly seems like a while since we hit town in mid-summer.
  18. Frayed Knot
    The all-important probables for the series. No, not he pitchers but the weather in this first week of May. Monday: around 60 for first pitch (6:40 local time) but showers possible starting around 9 PM Tuesday: rain all day with temps plummeting to the upper 30s by first pitch (6:40) Wednesday: the good news? 1:10 local time first pitch. Bad news? snow, high of 39 degrees
  19. Frayed Knot
    I feel secure in saying that Soto wasn't going to catch that ball (2nd out of the 9th inning) nor was Nimmo. Benge starting to strut his stuff a bit more lately. So they win a series and have a winning record in May, so that's ... something.
  20. Frayed Knot
    Run with this opportunity while it exists, Vientos, you never know when that window is going to close. Prove to the world that the back half of 2024 wasn't a fluke.
  21. Frayed Knot
    If the channel carrying a particular team's games, usually meaning a regional cable outlet rather than just old fashioned over-the-air TV, is available, or potentially available, in a particular area then that area gets blacked via mlb.tv in that region. The idea is to 'protect' that channel (several of which have been on the brink of insolvency lately) by not giving potential subscribers a work-around to paying for the service. So, for example, a western Pennsylvanian fan can't get Pirates games via MLB.tv because he/she can get them through the Pirates channel. But if that same person is in an area that also has access to the Ohio sports channels then Reds & Guardians games might also be blocked.
  22. Frayed Knot
    Well he would have had the next six weeks or so of more or less everyday play, so that's out the window now. He wasn't going to 'win' the SS job no matter what he did, of course, but it would have been his steadiest playing time in the big leagues to date so it was important to him. Now I guess this means Bichette to SS, Baty is now back to being the more or less everyday 3B, while Vientos mans 1B most days. So now those two have a shot to prove they deserve more.
  23. Frayed Knot
    Dove head-first into 1st base and jammed it into the bag. Nornally not a good move, of course, but in this case it was both him and the 1B-man diving simultaneously so it wound up being (after a replay review) the only way he'd have been safe. It loaded the bases w/one out in the 7th. Unfortunately it was also the last hit they got for the night.
  24. Frayed Knot
    To the IL, obviously. Six weeks is the given time frame.
  25. Frayed Knot
    The Mets have now lost six of seven Nolan McLean starts this year despite him giving up 15 runs (13 earned) in 39.1 innings. This is a problem.
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