Edgy MD

Guess who you just drew in the Know Thy Enemy pool.

I mean, they're in the orbit of St. Lucie, so we see them frequently enough in the spring time (this will be the second of seven matchups in Florida), but I feel like know Detroit better. And I feel like I know just almost every team better. Every good team even moreso.

2. Zach Lutz, you should've learned to play some outfield.

Strange how the Astros have become one of the most foreign teams from a Met fan perspective.

I false-started this thread. I've since deleted it, and hope I didn't jinx anything. As noted in that earlier thread, a real manager would've started Guillorme. [fimg=250]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ec/a5/0f/eca50f4863ac32704f7c13bc9c074dab.png[/fimg] Houston Astros[fimg=250]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/he/1/15/NLE-NYM-Logo.png[/fimg] =#0040FF]New York MetsAlex Bregman, 3bMarwin Gonzalez, 2bCarlos Correa, ssEvan Gattis, dhA.J. Reed, 1bTeoscar Hernandez, rfDerek Fisher, lfMax Stassi, cJake Marisnick, cf Charlie Morton, rhspJose Reyes, 3bAsdrubal Cabrera, ssYoenis Cespedes, lfNeil Walker, 2bJay Bruce, rf=#FF0000]Lucas Duda, 1bMichael Conforto, dhJuan Lagares, cfRene Rivera, c Noah Syndergaard, rhsp

"Bats? Dude, I'm from Florida. Is THAT all you've got?"

I don't know which position I'll be playin', but if I'm healthy, I'll be playin' it. But health, that's a bitch. But waddaya gonna do? You've got to be fast to stay ahead of the injury bug, and me, I've got heavy feet. But I got hands. I've got sure hands that turn on inside pitches, go down to drop the barrel on the low ones, and generally provide deft dexterity on dangerous darts demolished by Dodgers. That's if I don't trip over my feet. My feet. So what's it going to be? What defines my year? My unwieldy and burdensome feet or my nimble and skillful hands? My rotten and injury-prone fortune or my million dollar smile and Hollywood tears? Please let me know. [fimg=326:3934ywit]https://cdn1.lockerdome.com/uploads/23177d4d9c2e71b17969284a5acb7b8ae096544df590237d4925755b20a2fdf4_large[/fimg:3934ywit] [fimg=374:3934ywit]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2697990.1467595385!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/544411552.jpg[/fimg:3934ywit] [fimg=379:3934ywit]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6xEeBLV0Utw/maxresdefault.jpg[/fimg:3934ywit] [fimg=321:3934ywit]http://www.newsnish.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/wilmer.jpg[/fimg:3934ywit]

That's defintely Nimmo I'm looking at, trying to find cover and actually running right into the path of the bat. [tweet:17yquf25] [/tweet:17yquf25] That's about three WARs for Guillorme right there, considering the potential DL time he protected his teammates from.

Mets Prospect Makes Incredible Nonchalant Catch Of Flying Bat

Ceetar wrote: I guess it depends on your definition of palatable and honorable. Advertising versus trying to turn your dead alum's name into gold by selling it. Surely you'll please see that I was not suggesting the ballpark be named in Carter's honor because of potential income, but on the merits of the honor alone, and was only bringing up potential income to counter the notion of a financial challenge that a team faces in forgoing awarding naming rights to a corporate sponsor.

Nimmo now 3-3. It's going to be hard to send some of these JV guys down. Is the award for outstanding rookie in camp still called the John J. Murphy Award.

Notable that they didn't touch the September roster expansion rules.

Gorzelanny and Roseboom continuing to fall out of the picture today. And Gilmartin yesterday.

Yeah, in concept, it's alright. In execution, it stumbles a bit. It would also be more authentic to me if the orange sleeves were an undershirt rather than an attached part of the shirt.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I predict he makes a run at the AAA batting title and if can get to double-figures in homers, we got a prospect. You want power from the little tan man? HOW YOU LIKE HIM NOW?!

One more run home, lefty on the mound, and here again comes Cespedes. Poor baseballs.

Let's see what kind of bomb they can drop with the bags loaded. 2-0.

Walker follows suit. Kablammo.

That is cooler than a polar bear's toenails. Call him up NOW!!!! Is that Nimmo taking cover?

I bet there's a good story behind that one. There was a rule put in place back in my yoot stating the batter could only carry one extra pair of gloves, so he could presumably switch from batting gloves to sliding gloves if he wanted, once he reached base. It turned out there was one player (I forget who) in the league who thought it would be a cool way to troll the opposition by tucking half a dozen gloves in each back pocket, heels in, with the fingers hanging out, so he his ass could be symbolically waiving "bye-bye" to defenders as he rounded the bases after a homer. This guy was clearly working much harder on his showboating than his hitting, because he had, like, eight career homeruns, but he managed to get his own rule put on the books, and that's something.

This is about precedent. It is less about moving along the pace of play and more about pushing something unilaterally on the union that really the union has no big reason to object to, in order to establish primacy over the union with regard to playing rules, so they have the license to push further rules further on down the line. It stinks like hot steaming poo.

1. Tim Harkness. OE: Nope

Auto-fill foils the best of intentions.

I'm happy to, um, be here. I mean, I'm a control pitcher without exactly walk-free numbers who had a good, but not great, year in St. Lucie. I'm about 15th on the starting pitcher depth charts, but somehow, the Mets got the idea that somebody would steal me in the Rule 5 Draft and try to make big leaguer out of me. That something probably has something to do with my surgically repaired elbow. I was having a hit-and-miss minor league career until Tommy John came calling. And I returned with an extry four miles per hour on my fastball. Now it's a question of harnessing it. Maybe I'm due for a switch to the bullpen or maybe some jobs open up and I burst through as a starter. It's happened, you know. But what's going to happen with me? Help me out here. [fimg=350]http://metsmerizedonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Chris-Flexen.jpg?x22250[/fimg] [fimg=350]http://www.milb.com/assets/images/5/8/0/57683580/cuts/flexen_apckruwc_vtj7dmd9.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=380]https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/rrlxvsYBXrG2QmyonlU-xN66-dE=/0x140:4716x2793/1600x900/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/52041351/chris-flexen-2016-mcshane-1.0.0.jpeg[/fimg] [fimg=320]http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Chris+Flexen+Tf0CNoSsRY4m.jpg[/fimg] Bonus photo: Chris Flexen, Sr., Newark, NJ.

Notice how Joey takes his mother's last name rather than his father's. He knows the Newman brand is his meal ticket.