Edgy MD

Well, the PBM's weren't just for locating subs, they were gunships. They sank those subs, taking out 10 enemy U-boats, among other enemy ships and aircraft. As pilot, Ralph was probably responsible for a crew of about eight. https://www.baseballinwartime.com/images/martin_pbm.jpg>

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: As usual they have like 3 MVP candidates and shitty starting pitching, though we draw their best in Wade Miley on Tuesday. Could be some guys will be blockbustered before the series is over so #Hugwatch will be on for Castellanos, Winkler, Naquin etc. Metsll need to hit with them as I Cough and a bullpen array greets them. Big little series here, guys. Two MVP candidates, but amazingly, neither of them is Joey Votto. Secondbaseman Jonathan India is additionally a leading RotY candidate. Thirdbaseman Eugenio Suarez is Mr. All-or Nothing this year, with 18 homers and 52 RBI despite hitting just .173.

Fun Ralph fact dropped by Gary Thorne today: Part of the reason Ralph frequently malapropped Gary Carter's name into "Gary Cooper" was because he was actually buddies with Gary Cooper. Because he was Ralph Kiner. It was institutional bits like this, among other fun digressions, that made me think he wasn't a hopeless cause despite his struggle to pick up the action off of the monitor.

There you go! Let's retroactively do that! Just like in Star Wars, we should do it for Luke! Edgy MD wrote: The best argument for a guy to be managing is managerial experience, but if you've been a bench coach for a while, doing most of what a manager does, but coming away with no explicit experience, that makes you a tougher sell on a job interview. But if you have 4-1 record or something when taking over after your boss gets ejected, hey, that's a sweet little cherry for a résumé. I dunno. "I see you put down four wins as fill-in as bench coach managing the remainder of a game. What did you do in those four games that stands out resume-wise?" "Yeah, I, uh... we won four of five." Hey, he's the one who sent up Travis Blankenhorn. If he's too stupid to remember doing that and why he did it, shame on him. He doesn't deserve to get hired. I figure, if it's a fiction that managers are actually removed from the game, and we're supposed to pretend that there's nobody behind the curtain, I say bullshit, play that fiction out. It's only when it becomes unsustainable that it'll fall. I think, in most Euro fooball leagues, a manager/head coach gets tossed from the game, he or she ends up sitting in the stands. Rube Walker went 2-2 down the stretch for the Mets in 1968 as Gil Hodges recovered from his first heart attack. I'd love to see that on his record. But even better is Don Zimmer. Zim officially won 885 games as an MLB manager. But those 21 games the Yankees won with him holding the lineup card would have put him over 900 wins. Maybe that's the difference-maker the next time he's considered for the Hall of Fame (which assumes there will be a next time, which itself assumes there ever was a first time, but work with me). Zim not only would get his win total boosted over 900, but he'd pass Cito Gaston on the All-Time List. Maybe this isn't about Zim at all. Maybe the next time somebody says, "You know, Cito Gaston won two World Series titles, and anybody with two trophies should get consideration for the Hall of Fame," somebody else comes back and says, "Good for him, but overall, he won fewer games games than Don Zimmer." And maybe the first guy says, "Yeah, let's not get crazy." Always working for more clarity in the record, and shaving away ambiguity, reveals new truths.

=TransMonk post_id=71730 time=1626628728 user_id=71] This series has been a punch in the crotch.

To a large extent, that is likely.

I've mentioned this before, but I'd like to see games decided after an ejection credited to who was in charge at the time the team went ahead for good. And thus, today's win would be credited to Dave Jauss in the great managerial scoresheet. That follows the standard of pitcher wins, and the standard of pitcher wins is more than a little bupkis, but at least getting up to that standard would be something. The best argument for a guy to be managing is managerial experience, but if you've been a bench coach for a while, doing most of what a manager does, but coming away with no explicit experience, that makes you a tougher sell on a job interview. But if you have 4-1 record or something when taking over after your boss gets ejected, hey, that's a sweet little cherry for a résumé.

Edgy MD wrote: "And that's ... in there." — Poor Gary Thorne calling that homer I know whatcha mean. I knew that was gone -crushed- the split instant it was hit. Thorne called it like it was gonna be a routine fly out. I thought the ball was so obviously crushed that even Thorne's bad call didn't throw me off the trail. As the ball was sailng outtathere, I'm thinking -- WTF are you looking at, Gary? His secondary narrative was suggesting a routine flyball. Initially he seemed to think it was a swing and a miss. He was missing balls all over the place — often stalling until the play was complete. He blew the final out too. I wonder if their monitors can put can put a glowing atmosphere around the ball (is that called a tracer?) for guys calling the games remotely. He seemed to occasionally have interesting thoughts to offer during the series — some hackneyed stuff, but not as much as some other baritone septuagenarians — but he really seemed to be out of his depth in figuring out what was going on on the field, all three games. Given enough time, he hopefully could adapt, but it's just a three-game junket.

POW! LIBROS! All you Kwitkowskis missed a heckuva game. That's OK.

Two.

Some lousy calls gets Civil War Ben Gamel a leadoff walk. Let's get a Nogowski double play NoGOW!!!! Nope, but a fly out is a start.

Nope, the Mets pull the Trevor Lever.

Paparazzi almost added to the lead with a jolt of his own.. Now we need Diaz to do ... better.

"And that's ... in there." — Poor Gary Thorne calling that homer

[bIGPURPLE]Ding-Dong! Ding-Dong![/bIGPURPLE]

Or strike out Davis with high cheese, which they totally expect.

A lot of missed opps this afternoon. Going to the eighth still needing one. Top of the order. McCann and Peraza available on the bench.

The Aaron Loup Game.

Not quite, ... but STAY TOONED!

KEWL. They pull Brubaker in the fourth to bring in a righty to face Davis. Davis walks and now that righy has to face Smitty and Conforto.

NO MATTER. FIRST CAREER HOMER BY BLANKENHORN CUTS IT TO 6-4.

Mets have it closed to 6-1 with two on and no out in the fourth. Villar would be home by now if he had hustled out of the box on his pop single.

Stick around, folks. The Jauss Effect is about to kick in.

Is this rock bottom? Is this David Cone Day?

The Gary Thorne factor is certainly a thing that passed through my head. Keith's favorite part of analysis is deep-diving explorations of official scorer's decisions.