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Decent job, Aiden. A little bit too much dead air, but good show.

This poor kid in the TV booth is wearing his heart on his sleeve.

Frayed Knot wrote: Brandon hitting 'pre-leadoff' !! Nimmo 2018 has now started in every slot in the batting order except cleanup. Nimmo 2017 started in every slot in the batting order except ninth. Does that make him, Agbayani, Shinjo the only guys who've started in every slot?

Hey, Sebastian Maniscalco, MLBS.

I'm watching Ozzie Virgil, Sr., and Amed Rosario talking about transitioning from a Dominican background into professional baseball. Ozzie was supposedly the first ever. Sheesh, Ozzie was mentored by Willie Mays and Wes Westrum, and got both his first hit and first homer off of Robin Roberts, and he's still working in baseball.

Narrative-wise, it has a lot in common with a Bond film, mostly in the first half. [*:j5vag2bk]the "check out your new gadgets" scene, [/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]the operation in a foreign capital surrounded by wealthy and beautiful swells dressed fabulously, [/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]the casino, [/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]the breakdown of the operation setting up the rest of the plot, [/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]the super-professional female agent who is just so over the way you boys think you can charm and bullshit your way through everything, [/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]the car chase with really high-end brand cars from manufacturers that paid to be in the movie, [/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]the surprising tech unveiled during said car chase, [/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]the grudging alliance-of-convenience with a foreign operative/rival that ultimately proves fruitful and puts a crack in the ice of international distrust,[/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]the villain having a crude and sadistic heavy that's disfigured but has a signature way of killing people, [/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]weaponry that works like a video game, [/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]a last-act battle scene where everybody comes out of the woodwork in the name of patriotism, and [/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]the world is saved at the last possible moment.[/*:m:j5vag2bk][/list:o:j5vag2bk] It just doesn't have the whole swing-dick thing or an intrigue-filled Shirley Bassey song.

I like the thread title. It's like he's pulling a David Wright, returning from years of speechlessness.

Jock-in-the-Booth isn't an easy job, but it's a tough job to get and it's a lot easier to build a long tenure with than GM-ing a team

Two out in the eighth and the pitcher's spot comes up, and the Mets pinch-hit ... Plawecki! BOOOOOOO!!!!

Bashlor pitches, like, every day, doesn't he?

What a shart.

Pulling Syndergaard and eating shit. Not so brilliant!!

The second successful hit-n-run in a couple of days. Brilliant!!

I thought he was in there, but he slid like it was something somebody described to him once, years ago, but he had never seen in person.

Nimmo almost tweaked his leg running out a walk.

Jay Bruce slides like a sucker.

We tune in here in Baltimore. My wife's first question: "So what diseases has Keith Hernandez contracted lately?"

I agree that it's likely not that he'd be so out of his depth that it's unthinkable. It's more likely a terror of him getting incapacitated before his grand hurrah.

That lock-up-the-young-guys-early strategy was canned after they first canned the GM who instituted it, right?

If the Mets are going to hire an agent to run their organization, it sure as shit better be Bean Stringfellow.

He had an 0-5 a couple of days ago. If he had simply gone 1-4 instead, he'd be at .347. Qualifying or not, I'm rooting for him to out-average Jones '69 and Olerud '98.

The coolest thing he did, maybe a week or so ago, wasn't a hit at all. Far from it. He had two strikes on him, and was swinging at a slider and as he realized it was breaking inside toward his belt, it was too late to check his swing. So he sort of fell backwards out of the box, taking a hack and somehow barreled the bat up enough to ground out softly to first. The replay showed that him pushing back off the plate with his feet actually led to him having both feet off the ground at the time he made contact. Sure, it would have been more useful if he fouled the pitch off, but that's not what he does. He hits the ball.

Damn thing is over. 4:15

Ass saved by Conforto.

Gosh, this is a terrorizingly long game.