Edgy MD

I generally support going to the closer in a tie, but one notion is to save your strikeout specialist for the penalty kicks that begin in the 10th.

What'd I miss?

The last start was the third time. There have been three recent injuries. I support being cautious, but if you cannot detect what problem there is, the question must be asked: "What is the end game?" He has pain one day and none the next. He throws his bullpen session at 85-90%. Still no pain. You decide to be extra cautious and skip a start. Fine, but why not two? Why not four? What exactly are we looking for? All the news is good, and the only further way to get news is to go ahead. Sometimes, you've got to feel your way forward. It sucks, but that's part of the process too. Continuing on creates more danger, but nets more information too.

Guillorme still hoping to break the seal on his 2021 RBI and extra-base hit jars.

How about having one less reliever so decent players like Williams and Drury can stick around? Williams seems to be good, with some pop, speed, a good glove, and I'm not sure if Almora is that much better, although Almora is a righty bat which they need. Drury has 2 PH HRs and plays IF and OF so he'd be a nice "piece". The last relievers in the bullpen are interchangeable so I don't mind if they have to go through waivers. The Mets would lose Drury and Williams if they have to go through waivers. Sure. You've just got to decide which reliever you're sending down or, if he doesn't have options, waiving.

I don't get how can say there's no evidence after acknowledging there's evidence, but it's not so bad. Remember, I agree with you. And then you put a bunch of things in quotes that nobody has said.

There are plenty of scientifically documented cases of vaccines backfiring — particular when people are under enormous pressure, careless, and/or shortsighted by ambition. Plenty. Polio vaccines have saved millions of lives, but there are also polio vaccines that have given people polio, and killed them. There are dengue vaccines that have created a more dangerous, more resistant strain of dengue. I certainly don't watch Tucker Carlson, so I don't know if he's using these cases as propaganda, but I've worked long enough in the global health industry to know these cases are real and terrifying. A mistake that costs 15 lives is one or two small bad decisions (possibly made by good people) away from being a mistake that costs 150,000. I'm not suggesting to anybody not to get vaccinated. I'm vaccinated and I'm glad my wife is too, for our benefit and the benefit of those we will be coming into contact with. My godmother has been hospitalized for months fighting COVID. I lost two mothers last year and I don't want a third to die. I wish to God she had gotten vaccinated in time. I'm also butting heads with a social media crackpot claiming (and refusing to offer any supporting documentation) that the Gates foundation has been kicked out of India and many African nations over their (his) vaccination policies. I think people who have opted to not get vaccinated have made a bad decision. But no, I'm not going to belittle them. I wish all our decisions were a black-and-white thing. In a nation of hot takes, we're certainly asked to believe that, but the world is a complicated place.

A Boy Named Seo wrote: There's at least one other category - minorities and immigrants who have a DEEP distrust of the federal government, especially under it's most recent steward. I have a couple people in my circle who are Mexican immigrants and they feel like the last prez did everything in his power to erase them from America so they're not rushing to get stuck with his emergency vaccine. I wish they'd get jabbed, but, shit, I kinda get it, too. My city has a large non-citizen Ecuadorian population. I've read on fb community pages that many are reluctant to get shot for fear of the gubment. The fears are generally unfounded because we are a sanctuary city but I get it. I also don't know what's required ID-wise at say a CVS versus a health-care provider when getting a shot. I had to give a social security number and photo ID. Kinda hard to do when you have neither so not sure how that all works here. Trump had nothing to do with the Tuskegee experiments, the distrust of government amongst blacks in particular on the issue of vaccination/medical treatment is not Trump related, but i'm sure it makes you feel good to blame him for everything. I don't know how the Tuskegee experiments come into this, but that's hardly the last time black Americans were betrayed by the state. I really don't even know when this became about African Americans. Neither of the posts you quote refers to that population. I wish this wouldn't be personal. I think most or all of us want to do what's right here.

I'm not sure how to read it, but there's both an interesting narrative in that folder of yours, and perhaps an illuminating health history file.

Shmee. Two hits?

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Top of the order in the ninth. Let's.

They all seem to be guess hitters tonight, and they're guessing wrong over and over.

That barking fan that the mic is picking up is going to be sorry in the morning.

He's like Nick Nolte in Goose Gossage drag.

Maybe that stop by Alonso can be their turning point.

Also, speaking of not busting it, when Stroman grounded out for what looked like the third out, Baez held the ball for a beat or two to make him run hard, and instead, he more or less slowed to a stop.

Yeah, they're swinging at slop.

Well, I'm not seeing much from Hendricks here. It'd be nice to see them chase him sooner rather than later.

I got my vaccine. But I understand reticence. It's not like pharmaceutical giants have earned the benefit of the doubt. And they're working triple speed, with a huge financial incentive, under the supervision of the Trump administration. It's not stupidity to admit that we don't know what we don't know. Sometimes, it's just humility.

That's the way to lay off that shit, Dom.

That's the way to lay off that shit, Pete.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Gotta stop wasting doubles It kills me to see Pete chase those sliders off the plate.

Betances gave up 5 ER in 1/3 IP at low A St. Lucie in his first rehab appearance last night. Unless he can prove in a few more appearances that was just "getting the rust out", maybe early July is optimistic. And even if he does, his recent major league performance doesn't guarantee they'll bring him up. Later It's not like you can keep him on rehab assignments indefinitely. He's on the clock. Either he gets his game together or he doesn't and get waived or released.

This guy talking now doesn't have his late fifties Negro League data added yet. https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=sierra001pedhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=sierra001ped