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  1. Frayed Knot
    This will drop them to 2-7 vs the Yanx this year (5-4 vs BOS). Ain't gonna win a division that way boys. Snell today: Single, Walk, 3R HR, Walk, FC, Walk, Walk ... pulled Now granted, the single was an infield dribbler and the homer a 310 ft YSIII special. Nor did it help that his replacement promptly went bases-loaded-HBP, Pop-out, 2R-1B, but there's no excuse for the walks Ladies and Gentlemen, YOUR 2018 CY award winner!!
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    Travis d'Arnaud currently employing his .267 OBA (.304 as a TBR) as Tampa's lead-off hitter. So far it's just last night and again this afternoon (DGANG no less) but it's an interesting choice regardless. And by 'interesting' I mean, WTF?!? 'twould be real nice if Tampa chose today as a good time not to SUCK again. They've scored just 3 runs combined in the first two games of this series which has dropped them 2.5 games out of 1st. Snell vs Sabathia oe: and three batters into the bottom of the 1st the Yanx are up 3-0 FU Blake Snell and TBR!!!
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    =Centerfield post_id=13509 time=1560957180 user_id=65] I guess a Bennett Lesion is some sort of bone spur?
  4. Frayed Knot
    Eight run lead, two outs to go ... I'd say we have at least a 60% chance to win this game.
  5. Frayed Knot
    Phils @ Nats rained out for the second night in a row. Wednesday is already sked as a DH to make up for Monday, but now they'll need good weather tomorrow AND an extra game down the line. The Nats still managed to lose anyway and Max Scherzer, screwing around during BP, bunted one off his own nose and came out with a broken schnozz. He was supposed to start one of the Wednesday games.
  6. Frayed Knot
    Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: The Atlanta Rhythm Section was what their name indicated they were, a studio band based in Atlanta that among other things backed Roy Orbison. They were Southern but not Southern Rock per se, nice mellow rockin groove with their best stuff. They are one of those workaday groups that put out 1 album a year for 10 straight years, 1972-1981. Consider this a prelude to their forthcoming Desert Island Mix Tape. ARS was one of those groups that got thoroughly squeezed out when radio stations started tightening their playlists. For a while there they were versatile enough to fit into several different formats but, because they weren't definitively representative of any one specific genre, they wound up getting dropped from all of them when stations chose to "focus" on their core sound. Not that they were ever superstars to begin with, but suddenly it was like they disappeared overnight. http://gloriousnoise.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/IMG_1886.jpg> I remember this image on more than few dorm walls
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    Oddest strategy of the day? - Mets pulling off a double steal with 2 out/2-strikes and the pitcher up - Freddie swinging 3-0 while leading off an inning (7th) down by eight
  8. Frayed Knot
    Alonso robbed of what would have been his third double/4th XBH of the game. Settles for a single instead.
  9. Frayed Knot
    So I did get around to seeing this one recently - and it's not bad as bio-pics go. Like 41F said, it's a different kind of bio-pic with fantasy-type versions of his songs, some sung/acted by two different child actors playing different aged young Eltons (actually young Reggies) -- with no attempt, even by adult EJ actor Taron Egerton, to create a literal impression of Elton. Kudos for that in my book. Both kids are actually quite good in what couldn't have been easy roles and the movie, as written anyway, doesn't work if they don't pull off those roles. All that aside, while there's no specific climax to build to, it is kind of a conventional bio in that it traces his route to fame from his roots, to his discovery, his pairing with Taupin, the success, then the crash and burn years, before ultimately to his redemption followed by the seemingly standard updates at the end of how everyone is now living happily ever after. =whippoorwill post_id=12478 time=1560120054 user_id=79] I want to see you in Cher's wardrobe
  10. Frayed Knot
    I was on the verge of borderline depression following the long(-ish) fly out by Acuna leading off the 1st then the Dansby Swanson double because, with Freddie & Donaldson coming up, I had visions of this game falling apart almost before it started. Fortunately, that descent into madness was forestalled.
  11. Frayed Knot
    Wasn't Nogosek the guy who once played with Cobain & Grohl?
  12. Frayed Knot
    Familia to the DL after being diagnosed with a sprain of his 'I've retired just 4 of the last 11 batters I've faced [7 ER, 3 walks, 1 single, 1 double, 2 HRs] during those 1-1/3 innings' joint.
  13. Frayed Knot
    I'd be fine asking the manager but he's not answering my calls right now. Not sure what in that situation made Flexen "set up to fail" or who the wiser bets were. Gsellman? 6+ ERA, 15.75 ERA in June; had been used two days in a row Lugo? wisely or not, they're not using him consecutive days and he had pitched the previous day and two of the previous three to the tune of 47 pitches Diaz? Also two of the previous three, 51 pitches including 4 RA in his previous 3 games/4 innings Familia? a 1 IP/4 ER previous outing. 13.50 June ERA Gagnon? and his 6.75 ERA Flexen was brought in to pitch an inning (or maybe more) but you're going to need to lean on less than ideal options when you have to lean on the pen after starters go out earlier than expected in consecutive games and when your offense is managing just three runs off of 13 baserunners
  14. Frayed Knot
    Yadier seems like an odd choice to have been deemed worthy of the jump logo. That Jeter was 'blessed' by 'His Airness' to be worthy of it seems almost too simple. I think his use of it was confined to his wristbands. Probably his underwear too. Would have fetched a higher price that way at the season-long auction he and Steiner were conducting on his way out the door. Game-used y'know!
  15. Frayed Knot
    You can't NOT pinch-hit for Font there. And then the question becomes: if not Flexen, then who? Several of the usual suspects weren't available on Sunday. Plus the usual suspects have tended to be the prime suspects in recent pen meltdowns so it's not like other options (even the ones which were still in play at that point) were sure bets to be improvements.
  16. Frayed Knot
    Kenley Jansen just missed blowing his second consecutive save opp; only a (close call) out at the plate for out #2 and then a diving catch in CF for #3 saved his butt. Saturday night he gave up a game-losing, 9th inning, 2R HR to Rizzo Dodgers wound up taking 3 of 4 from the Cubs.
  17. Frayed Knot
    Give the guy a chance, he has just 33 career games at the park. Everyone ahead of him, I'm sure, has significantly more. As it is he's got slightly more than half his HRs at home (12 of 23) despite playing not quite half his games there (33 of 70)
  18. Frayed Knot
    And this was two days (Friday) after the Rox pen coughed up six in the 9th to allow the Padres to tie the game, and then five more in the top of the 12th. Today game completed a split in what was a very Coors-ian four-game series where the two teams combined for a record 92 runs Thursday: Rox 9 - Padres 6 [Game time = 3:26] Friday: Padres 16 - Rox 12 [5:04 - 12 innings] Saturday: Rox 14 - Padres 8 [3:39] Sunday: Padres 14 - Rox 13 [3:31 + 1:07 delay] And there were several delays during the games including two for weather and another for a broken water main which flooded the RF corner. Charlie Blackmon, until recently in a season-long slump, had 15 hits in the series including back-to-back-to-back four-hit games (4, 4, 4, & 3) Hunter Renfroe hit five HRs in the series incl. three in one game.
  19. Frayed Knot
    That GiDP seemed almost preordained. It was the third one of the game -- plus Lagares was thrown at trying (probably unnecessarily) to advance to 2nd -- meaning StL pitchers needed to retire just 23 NYM batters instead of 27. And the reversed call on Lagares's SB is the only thing that kept it from being 22. Mets, meanwhile, set up a run for the Cards by failing to turn a GiDP (E-6) and followed that by maybe turning the wrong GiDP as Frazier opted to go 2nd-to-1st instead of home-then-1st w/Molina running. Plays. Not. Made.
  20. Frayed Knot
    Listed at 6' 5" / 265 Former 2nd round draft pick out of HS by the Pirates in 2009 Turns 29 at the end of the season. Where he's pitching by that time of the year is still to be determined.
  21. Frayed Knot
    Except that Cano isn't all that active even when he's active.
  22. Frayed Knot
    =smg58 post_id=13121 time=1560655205 user_id=62] Conforto should have waved off McNeil. Of course, if he did that and still didn't catch the ball, the game is tied. The third base coach gambled on McNeil not anticipating the runner might try to score from first. Given that there were two outs and McNeil was running the opposite direction and could only guess at what was going on behind him, it was a better gamble than it wound up looking. But I'm all for heads-up defense making the other team look bad.
  23. Frayed Knot
    Funny that if Molina is left in the run for himself he likely doesn't even try to score and the Cards get at least one more crack at it. Actually a pretty good outing by Diaz. Two of the three runners were an infield single and a piece o' shit bloop that fell in in front of a deep OF. Had Roasrio picked up the relay throw cleanly Thursday night, the Mets could have (should have!) won two games in this series via the tying run getting thrown out at home.
  24. Frayed Knot
    And the Cards don't have a hard hit ball in this inning either. oe: But Lugo gets out of it anyway!!! Keith was talking in Carpenter's last AB how you don't speed up his bat with off-speed shit. So Seth blows him away w/heat.
  25. Frayed Knot
    Edgy MD wrote: Hate to go to a commercial during a Jim Beauchamp discussion. And just as Keith -- minor league roommates -- was laying a nickname on us. It was something like 'Shoe-fire'. There's gotta be a story behind that one.
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