Frayed Knot

Mets down to their final [CROSSOUT]out[/CROSSOUT] three pitches of the game.

Frayed Knot wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Anyone remember the last time the Mets got a ball out of the infield? Does anyone remember laughter? Robert Plant can't hit either. One of these days the levee's gonna break on this offense.

One run on 9 hits in 17 innings. This is like thay Braves DH the other day only longer.

Frayed Knot wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Anyone remember the last time Lindor got a ball out of the infield? Anyone remember the last time the Mets got a ball out of the infield? Does anyone remember laughter?

Frayed Knot wrote: Anyone remember the last time Lindor got a ball out of the infield? Anyone remember the last time the Mets got a ball out of the infield?

Anyone remember the last time Lindor got a ball out of the infield? I don't.

It's ridiculous that, for all the potential of this offense at the start of the year, you have ZERO cahnfidence in them scoring even one run over the next four innings, much less two or more.

Nats up six-nuthin', Braves up six-nuthin', Yanx up six-nuthin' T'would be nice if we not end this game with nuthin'

=bmfc1 post_id=62403 time=1619653434 user_id=73] A robot ump wouldn't be causing a delay now.

Infield shifts have served us well so far tonight

Lot of hard contact in top of 2

Well, runners are in scoring position ... time for operation shutdown 0/1 (K), 0/2 (F-7), Yhatzee!!! (6-4)

=kcmets post_id=62367 time=1619636171 user_id=53] =bmfc1 post_id=62353 time=1619629783 user_id=73] The game is starting early because of the State of the Union address.

=G-Fafif post_id=62350 time=1619628803 user_id=55] What a shame for the sake of the song that John Boccabella didn't quite overlap with Biff Pocoroba.

The names of Barry Bonnell and Charlie Moore were paired in the song and also were the only two unfamiliar to me from the update even though they had 10 & 14 year careers, Bonnell with the Braves and Jays, Moore almost entirely with Milwaukee (when they were AL). Not sure if I never knew them or have simply forgotten since, but neither rang a bell upon hearing them in the song or even after looking them up.

I've forgotten how, but at some point Van Lingle Mungo's came up during one of the games last week which led Gary to bring up the song of the same name. Keith seemed ignorant of it although I assume most here are at least somewhat familiar. If not, Van Lingle Mungo (and, yes, that's his real name) pitched for the Brooklyn Dodgers and later the NY Giants throughout the 1930s and into the ‘40s. Then, in 1968, musician/composer/baseball fan Dave Frishberg was thumbing through his then first-ever copy of the door stop-sized Macmillan Baseball Encyclopedia (my father also jumped on that early edition) when he came across VLM's name. He liked the lyrical quality of the name and thought it would fit in well to a jazz tune he had already written but one that was still short of lyrics. The result was a tune filled with nothing but a recitation of the names of major leaguers from around the time of Mungo's era / Frishberg's childhood. Eddie Basinski, a little used infielder for the Dodgers in the 40's and the final player name-checked in the song, is the sole one still living (98) although Frishberg himself is also still kicking at 93. [media=youtube]CX5OH6Khyds&list=RDGMEMTmC-2iNKH_l8gQ1LHo9FeQVMCX5OH6Khyds&start_radio=1 [/media] So why am I bringing this up now?!? Because, by total coincidence, I had learned just a few days earlier that there was a 2018 re-writing of that song. Musician Daniel Butterfield realized that the challenge of updating the song was not just finding a name as musical as Van Lingle Mungo but also one with the same number of syllables so it would fit in with the tune. Enter https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pocorbi01.shtml Biff Pocoroba Butterfield further challenged himself to filling out the song using only players whose careers overlapped with the former Atlanta Braves part-time catcher who played from 1975 through 1984, aka: the sweet spot of MLB knowledge for a lot of you here. And the result, was this: [media=youtube]Q-2IFMVoIuw[/media] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-2IFMVoIuwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-2IFMVoIuw Pocoroba died right around this time last year at the age of 66 * I don't seem to be able to get the YOUTUBE links to work properly

But the greatest testament to deGrom's success is the fact that he's now considered a legitimate Hall of Fame candidate. Even though he is, at this moment, still two seasons short of even being eligible for the Hall of Fame.

Well that was a fairly revolting performance.

Lindor's night: weak grounder, weak grounder, even weaker grounder (single), weak grounder

Lindor's glove keeps the ball in the infield ... just like his bat does.

We gifted the pitcher a scoreless inning despite retiring ONE batter in the frame ... Peterson

Now I just have to find where my icon went

So he went from retiring a bunch of lefties to being a lefty retiring

Hatt Marvey against the Yankees, 6.0 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 5 SO, and the win. Stealing this from the other thread so as to kick off a fresh week of TWiB: The Harvey performance wasn't even the best part from that Yanx/O's game. The best came when the Yanx, down by a couple runs, got a bases loaded hit but scored just one run out of it when Aaron Judge made the 3rd out of the inning while trying to go 1st to 3rd just a split second prior to LeMahieu scoring from 2nd. They never got close again. BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE Boone & company wanted to challenge that call but the umps actually enforced the time limit rule and denied their request on the basis of it coming too late. Boone got a bit hot at that decision (how dare one go against us Savages!!!) and got his ass tossed from the game. It's unclear if a review would have changed anything.

[espn]But Home Run Derby is the highlight of the entire baseball season!![/espn]