Frayed Knot

Drew Smith and his impressive flow make their season debut with a 1-2-3 9th

Nobody's perfect

Comic actor Joe E. Brown https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=brown-015---https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=brown-015--- He reportedly turned down an offer to sign with the Yanx in order to pursue his acting career, I guess preferring to make the world laugh instead of cry.

Peraza being the very ideal of the backup infielder on that play.

Willets Point wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Who had Pillar and Villar as the two 2021 Mets you'd most want to see at the plate in a big situation? The Mets need to seek out more players with "-illar" names Kevin Millar retired a dozen years ago and is now 49 years old. But he works for MLBN so is easy to contact if we want to go that route.

Alonso could have read that better and scored. Not a big crime, more like a misdemeanor. And now none of it matters.

Braves led the entire game until a three run 8th gives the Jays a 5-3 lead they'd hold onto. Robbie Ray, ex-DBack, started for the Jays and he seems to have somehow obtained ownership of Lee Mazzilli's pants from the late-'70s. I've seen yoga pants on fat women that aren't that tight. Phils on top of the Nats in the 9th in DC. Harper homered in his old digs. Marlins are out in Arizona after sweeping the DBacks at home just before we did the same. Yanx hold off the Rays 3-1

The Mazeika File (one of the lesser known titles from the Robert Ludlum collection) PA = 4 AB = 3 RBI = 3 GW-RBI = 2 Hits = 0 Balls out of the infield = 0

=bmfc1 post_id=63953 time=1620786495 user_id=73] ... And Villar's run home. Wow.

=nymr83 post_id=63941 time=1620786005 user_id=54] I wouldnt use Smith here. I'd rather Almora then Smith versus Smith then Mazeika

Magiczeika!!

Edgy MD wrote: The Mets aren't much for taking the extra base these days. Pillar was a dead man if he tried for 3rd. I was screaming NO!! the entire time.

Two on, no outs = We're fucked

Nope!

We're very good at GiDPs

Considering how loud that piped-in [CROSSOUT]music[/CROSSOUT] noise is just coming through on the television, it's gotta be really annoying in a 3/4 empty stadium.

Wasn't Plutko a bad guy from one of the Bond movies?

And he K's Lord Mountbatten

That was the most ridiculous challenge I've ever seen ... even more so because it came after a five minute delay.

Mets trying to find the ways to defeat the Means

It also passed the buck to a LHB vs a LHP ... although it turned out that McNeil and Conforto had the best contact in inning 1

DFA'd by the Pirates

Three off days in the next ten [Mon - Thurs - Thurs] makes this easier to endure.

Edgy MD wrote: And will that car be coming by Citi? If it does I highly doubt it will be with Willie in it.

I'd say that Washington fans can now have a smarter color announcer but it would be wasted on them: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/05/08/fp-santangelo-sexual-misconduct-allegation-nationals-broadcast/https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/05/08/fp-santangelo-sexual-misconduct-allegation-nationals-broadcast/ I was wondering what the deal was with that. Nats keep going through color guys: first that idiot Dibble yapped his way out the job, and now this. They somehow even managed to precede Dibble and FP with the bad, or at least unprepared, version of Ronnie. I'll also add that I don't think Santagelo is baseball-dumb, I actually thought he made some good points often. His problem is the same as (pbp man) Carpenter's so I'm figuring there has to be some direction of that booth from above: that they're too homer-ish and even that by itself wouldn't be so bad except it's a high-school-ish version of being homers. You could justify it to a certain degree when the team was brand new in town as DC had been without baseball for 1/3 of a century so not only did they have to sell the new team in town to the locals but they had to re-sell the sport to the area in a town where the football off-season meant that the Washington Post sports section cut back to only 85% Redskins coverage. Relentlessly positive was maybe the needed formula. But it's been nearly two decades now and the game plan still seems to be telling you that what's falling on your shoulders and soaking your hair is merely liquid sunshine for fear that you'll tune out if they say something even slightly negative. Their team, that market, and, yes, the guys in the booth should be above all that. I actually came over here to mention the Dodgers/Angels game late Saturday night. LAD took a 13-0 lead after 5 at which point the wholesale removal of players started (both sides as Trout was out too). But then LAA put up a 4 spot in the 6th then added 7 more in the 7th. Oooops! Dodgers hung on to win 14-11 (they win the Damn thing!) but that had to be nerve wracking. A more pedestrian 2-1 today last I checked.