Edgy MD

It's like a national holiday devoted to looking at strike three.

Bruce is having a very strandy day.

Rubbles returned from a rehab assignment on May 28.

He's been back for a while. Two-out rally brewin'.

Mets strand two beasts while looking at strike three twice.

Ronnie: "You never bunt with Conforto. He's your best hitter in the lineup right now." Edgy: "Have you seen this Nimmo guy?"

And then the Mets do their first hit-and-run in forever!

Gary Cohen making an Oyster Burns reference!

Jason Vargas has been tossed. We're shorthanded!

It wasn't conclusive to me, but I had enough that, at that time in the game, and with the stakes that high (a run vs. an out), that's the time to use your lifeline.

I hate myself for prematurely launching this thread.

I'd like to thank d'Kong and Cy Curnin for ending this losing streak, and hope they record a duet soon. Perhaps we were saved by zero.

The Brooklyn Cyclones are almost never bad. Whether by marketing strategy or just good work, the Mets’ New York-Penn League affiliate never finished with a losing record from 2001 to 2014, but have the last three seasons, bottoming out at 24-52 last season. While some factions were lobbying for Edgardo Alfonso to take over as Mets manager, he was spending his first year skippering in the low minors, his team limping home with a .315 winning percentage, easily their worst-ever. Whie certainly at least some of that can and shouldbe laid at Alfonso’s feet, the team also dealt with the three-pronged trident of injuries higher up in the system sucking talent away, injuries and absences to some of the best pitchers in the lower levels (Peterson, Kay, Szapucki), and some of the higher 2017 draft choices among the hitters (Matt Winaker, Quinn Brodey) landing with a thud. Riding smoothly through waves of instability is nonetheless the name of the game in the lower minors, and the Mets have sought to provide Alfonso more support this season, adding veteran major and minor league coach and manager Rich Donnelly as bench coach. Donnelly had previously served as Cyclones manager from 2011 to 2013 and returns as part of Alfonso’s staff after a second terrible tragedy struck his family. (Tim Kurkjian has the story here.) Marlon Anderson replaces Sean Ratliff as batting coach, having previously served in that role with the Nationals' South Atlantic League affiliate in Hagerstown, before spending the last five years in broadcasting with the Phillies. No fewer than six 2018 draftees have already joined Alfonso’s team, and more should cycle in as the season progresses. David Thompson, a AAA-quality player, is opening with the team on a rehab assignment, having been out since April with an injury. Reliever Seth Davis and indy league infield vet José Brizuela also seem to be playing in a league beneath their level. Athletic outfielder Kendall Coleman tries to reclaim his career after being traded from the Yankees for former Cyclone L.J. Mazzilli, who has had the good grace to not flourish after the trade. Speaking of the Yankees, the 'Clones opened the season on Friday losing to the Staten Island Yankees 3-1, mustering only three hits in the contest. Just as you're thinking “Same old shit,” though, they came back strong yesterday, soundly thrashing the Yankees 7-0 as Briam Campusano threw six no-hit innings, before being lifted after only 64 pitches, because we can’t have good things. Relievers Ezequiel Zabaleta and Mac Lozer got the job done however, giving up just one hit in three innings between them. Coleman, who shares none of Mazzilli’s coyness about making his old organization regret a trade, struck the big blow with a fifth-inning grand slam, thrilling the home crowd and breaking his old teammates’ hearts. With game three underway as I type, the Clones lead the Yankees in Staten Island 2-0 in the top of the second, with recent 26th-round draft choice out of Missouri Brian Sharp (3b) hitting his first career homer. So far, Cyclones starters have thrown 12 innings, allowing no runs on five hits, walking 3 and striking out 8. 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Those helmets make work as a symbol of a kid trying to steel himself against an abusive environment. Maybe. But they had the strange quality of actually making a blow to the head more painful.

My word! A Met win!!

Even Cabrera is hitting tonight.

And they barely sneak out of it, thanks to Cabrera showing range(?).

And we've got a bases-loaded dealio in the seventh.

All you sleepyheads missed Gary Cohen making a MISSING PERSONS reference.

Let's hope Conforto stays wherever he is.

I challenge that tag if I'm Mickey.

Mets get their first three-run homer in a month? Let's GO!

If you can't send the runner when Nimmo has a 3-2 count, will you ever send a guy on 3-2?

Rosario batting leadoff and chases the first pitch. Mercy.

I'd like to see Godley cremed.