Edgy MD

I got the idea that he would have. Tarpley got picked for a quick-turnaround callup because he has options. If a longer-term opportunity had popped up, I was thinking Blevinstone would have gotten the call.

My interpretation has been similar but different. Both he and Collins came out of the development side of the game. So he builds his approach not around achievement but developmental progress. And so a guy whose timing has improved because he hit a couple of balls real hard, but right into the shift is looked upon a positive, moreso than the guy who tapped a ball against the shift for a double. Terry, of course, had his competitive side and rediscovered it from time to time. But progressing from two hits to four isn't really for me. I lie awake dreaming about ways to beat the shift.

Frayed Knot wrote: Now I just have to find where my icon went Avatars, including your'n, are reappearing one by one from where I'm sitting.

May 11 and 12 the Orioles are at Citi Field, and Matt Harvey should be getting one of those starts.

I could get behind the Mets getting ahead.

Well, that was a soggy offense, especially down the stretch.

(Insert "Piano Man" complaint here.)

Two outs and bases empty, I wouldn't burn Nimmo here.

Alonso's got a hat trick and he's still got plenty of ice time.

Mets make one out at the plate in that inning and two on the bases.

Booooo.

Everything about that opportunity said to go for second, except for the fact that McCann still has a catcher's wheels. Strong at-bat for Pillar.

Tap it against the shift until they cut that out. I'd tell my team to do that all day.

Darryl joining us on the phone next inning. I think we need his bat.

Bobby Dalbec looks about 17. Just as I'm thinking that, he knocks one out the other way.

I had a video of that catch, shared by Sham, that I tried to post at the time, but it wouldn't take. Glad to see the coverage.

Always glad to see Ted.

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Benjamin Grimm wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Do we have to update some embed code to make that vid work? Maybe... I did transfer all of the custom BBCodes (BIGPURPLE lives!) but we're on a different version of phpBB, 3.3.3 instead of 3.3.2. Maybe that requires some tweaks? Yeah, it may have something to do with one of the references in the code being Flash-based. I dunno.

The Diaz fanfare is the best thing to blast through the PA in a long time. Do we have to update some embed code to make that vid work?

So that's not "Brother Louie" but another record that samples "Brother Louie" that plays when Guillorme comes up, or has he switched it up?

Bonus points? Sheesh, the majority of the points I give him are for doing it against the Yankees.

Needs more Swing Out Sister.

Rockies GM and vice president Jeff Bridich is out in Denver, resigning in a mutual parting after a tenure that can best be described as "rocky." Bridich led the team to the post-season as recently as 2017 and 2018 (the only time in history they've had back-to-back appearances), and then signed Nolan Arenado to a superstar deal, promising to build the team around him, but things avalanched fast, with the team unable to finance the imports he wanted, the imports he settled for not prospering, and a very public falling out with Arenado before dealing him off this winter, selling low following a lousy 2020. The tenure was undermined by communication issues, with parties rankled by terse press statements, and sometimes a general absence from public view. He's been replaced on an interim bases by Rockies exec Greg Feasel, who despite putting me in mind of Fogle from Superbad, has no baseball operations experience, which seems oddly unprepared, seeing as this has been a long time brewing. In higher ed and other industries, there are a handful of experienced presidents who come in as interim presidents from the outside during turnover crises, have no intention of pursuing the job longterm, last a year, make a bunch of painful decisions that the successor doesn't want on his or ledger, and moves on. Baseball might need a couple of these folks. In fact, I initially kind of thought that Sandy Alderson was going to be one of those folks for the Mets, even though he was never an interim.

Hatt Marvey against the Yankees, 6.0 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 5 SO, and the win. Go, O's.