Frayed Knot

Double Switch wrote: That's the thing. You can get all sorts of genuine performances by the artist. That last thing I want to see is someone pretending to be Freddie Mercury. Or Elton John. Well, I don't object to the concept of bio-pics in general (rock-star or otherwise) just the sort of paint-by-numbers kind. Is the movie telling a story or just trying to see if they can pull off a decent impression of the subject. If it's the former then the movie could be worth it. If it's the latter then, yeah, it's just somebody pretending to be someone famous. It's like SNL skits where they seem so pleased with themselves that they're pulling off a decent impression and totally unconcerned with whether or not an impression is part of anything worthwhile.

Our contact with runners on are going at 'em while their hits with runners on are going 'tween 'em.

That it's not a straight-forward bio-pic -- and seems to be getting better than average reviews -- means I might check this one out, maybe while it's still in Thee-Ay-Ters or down the road via DVD/cable. Still have yet to see 'Bo-Rhap' for essentially the opposite reasons. And if the highlight of the film is a remake of the LIVE-AID performance then I can just check-out a video of the actual LIVE-AID performance.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Mets take another Texas high school kid, RHP Josh Wolf with their 2nd pick/53 overall. Next year somebody will link the Mets to a player in the 2020 draft by saying: 'The Mets are known to favor prep players from Texas' -- as often these projections and 'mocks' are based on the idea that how the team trended in the previous draft is the equivalent of a set-in-stone philosophy.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=11977 time=1559676483 user_id=68] For my next thread: Why is J.D. Davis batting cleanup?

Glow Fireflies!!! btw, you've got the wrong pitching coach up there. Columbia is actually employing some red-hot Royce Ring action in charge of the hurlers.

Presumed NYM dreamboat -- U-Kentucky lefty Zack Thompson -- winds up going to the Cards at #19

=LWFS post_id=11907 time=1559609694 user_id=84] He's pushing 20, though. High-drafted overage HSers pretty notoriously don't have a great MLB history, do they?

I wonder what the story is with him already being 19-1/2 y/o? You hear stories of Texas kids being intentionally held back in school by their parents in order to stand out more in HS football. That doesn't seem like the type of things you'd intentionally rig for baseball ... but yaneverknow

We once picked a HS 3B-man that did a'right.

Frayed Knot wrote: At this point, the Mets are going to have to ride the rest of the game with Dom in LF as Lagares, Gomez (currently in CF), and Davis have all been used. They could use Altherr. Forgot about him. Meanwhile, Yougo Lugo!!

At this point, the Mets are going to have to ride the rest of the game with Dom in LF as Lagares, Gomez (currently in CF), and Davis have all been used.

=bmfc1 post_id=11736 time=1559362748 user_id=73] That absolutely should be a run for the Mets due to the interference of a home team employee.

The fair/foul call can't be reviewed. The placement of the runner can but I can't understand how the replay umps could decide on that.

And AGAIN Hecchavarria should be on 3rd!! This one will probably matter less as there are already two outs ... but yaneverknow.

What a depressing turn of events this game has turned into. This game had all the looks of a blowout following Hecchavarria's double, but we only scored in that one inning.

=smg58 post_id=11714 time=1559346978 user_id=62] A sub-.500 record in spite of a +42 run differential.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: What was the umpire delay about? HP ump Jim (brother of Randy) Wolf took a foul tip off the chin part of his mask and, after an examination, was removed from the game although not happily. One of the others suited up and so the remainder of the game will play with three.

And you'd have probably scored on the Lagares ground out if you were ... and/or the Wheeler one.

Nice shot Adeiny ... but you should have been on 3rd. oe: which kind of makes him a bit Cano-like.

There were tons of options for closers out there ... Ottavino, Britton, Andrew Miller and Dave Robertson. In addition to Familia and Kimbrel Sure there were other options - I merely focused on the most popular one. But do realize that those all involved the buying of north-of-30-y/o closers -- and in some cases never-really-been closers (Ottavino, Miller) and/or no-longer closers (Britton, Robertson) -- on the open market. Certainly those were options but those are also the types of moves being linked to the Omar-type of strategy that's being dismissed in this thread as non-imaginative and as yesterday's news. I'm just saying that all alternatives need to be considered here including the downside of other moves as well. BVW could have just resigned Familia and called it a day but there are those on this forum who don't even like him as a set-up man right now, and of the others mentioned here, only Kimbrel (just turned 31 but also wanted six years) and Ottavino (32) are under age 34. There are all kinds of reasons to worry about the gap between that and a 25 y/o with, yes, one stellar season behind him but also two other good ones and who comes with four years of team control at pre-FA money. I also think you need to pump the brakes a bit on Kelenic. He's a potentially very good player (he wouldn't have been drafted top-10 if he wasn't) who had, at the time of the deal, a nice 200 ABs under his belt in two stops at the rookie ball level [.286/.371/.468]* which was enough to get him some back-half listings of the top-100 lists this past winter. That's a very nice start for a player out of HS but there's nothing to date that suggests he's a "once in a generation" kind of player for whom teams would trade current/in-their-prime MVP/CY winners to get (as suggested in another thread). I'm not necessarily defending the trade but I think it's defensible -- certainly in the face of standing pat while hoping someone worthy emerges out of the ether, and in some ways as compared to several of the other options -- and that doesn't change because the main cog in it (as much as this was labeled from the outset as 'The Cano Trade', it was really the Diaz deal) has, like, the worst night ever. Three-run/one-inning saves are blown at a rate of between 3 & 4 % of the time; doing so essentially without even getting an out (even though technically he got his first out seconds prior to the winning run scoring) is a very tough act to pull off and we're unlikely to see it again for a long time, whether from him or anyone else. Or maybe we'll see one again next Tuesday ... what do I know? * btw, Dom Smith, a #7 overall pick, during his first season in two stops at rookie ball w/200-odd ABs: .301/.398/.439

The problem is that there's currently one more AAA team 'out west' than there are ML teams so, at least as things stack up now, one eastern MLB city is going to get stuck with a long distance partner. For years that was the Mets who wound up dancing first with New Orleans and later with Vegas after Tidewater/Norfolk opted to cast their lot with the Orioles. Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: If Washington hadn't already pissed on it, they could have a team in Montreal Well, not really. They can't just dictate that some existing team move itself to Montreal, and the PCL certainly wouldn't sanction one of their teams so far from the others. They, like the Mets, could buy into an existing AAA outfit and apply to move it to Montreal (after securing a stadium, etc.), but it would have to be an IL team for regional reasons and if they were already linked to an IL team it probably wouldn't be worth their trouble to contemplate moving to Quebec. I'm sure they'd love to snag Norfolk or one of the squads from one of the Pennsylvania cities. But they'd have to convince the owners of those teams to break up with their current boyfriends first. Maybe spreading some nasty rumors during math class would get things started.

One of the things that needs to be considered here is who the alternatives were if it wasn't going to be Diaz & Familia on the back end. Nice to hope for the young gun out of nowhere but there aren't a lot of those around and you don't often know who that might be until you trip over him. Hansel Robles was busy blowing a 2-run save for the Angels a few hours prior to the Diaz mess just as an example. The biggest alternative out there was Kimbrel, a popular choice as he would 'only cost money' (plus a draft slot). But he's also 31 y/o and wanted a Six year deal. And while he may have backed off from that somewhat (hard to know at this point) he hasn't wound up anywhere else to date either. Look, we'll likely never see a worse closing job than the one last night -- not by Diaz, not by anyone -- but let's also not act like this was in any way predictable. You're still allowed to dislike the trade of course. The plan for this one was to upgrade for the short term so if it winds up not even doing that than it's going to really look bad. But let's also remember that the big 'prize' going the other way is, at the moment, in Low-A ball and there are likely at least three or more years and a lot of maybes in between there and him even reaching the majors much less starring there.

You're wrong, Gary, Urias just had his case adjudicated by Rosario on his first pitch. oe: and in case that wasn't enough ...

I'd like to give out a big 'Fuck You' to Chris Paddack. He's the Padres reliever who shut us down on about 2 hits after whining that he, not Alonso, should have been NL 'Rookie of the Month' back in April - as if that's some kind of monumental award. Well, this afternoon he served up HRs in the Bronx on the 3rd & 5th pitches he threw and wound up getting tagged with a couple more runs and the 'L' Guess what, ace? You ain't winning Rookie of the Month for May either.