Edgy MD

So, shorthand ... can the Mets clinch a Wild Card berth tonight?

Amazin' Avenue time travels and reviews Tim Tebow's career from the future. The 51s are eliminated from the playoffs on September 10. On that day, Tim Tebow receives a call. It’s Sandy Alderson. Tim Tebow is being promoted to MLB as a September call-up. Tim Tebow was maybe the tenth-best player on the Las Vegas 51s. But in just two years as a professional baseball player, Tim Tebow has shot through the Mets’ farm system and made the major leagues. He isn’t even that good. The Mets, at this point, are sitting at 77-66, and are leading the NL East by 6 games over the 71-72 Phillies. They don’t need the distraction that Tebow provides. Why is this happening? But the Mets don’t care. Against all reason, the New York Mets have made Tim Tebow a Major League Baseball player. Tebow got the call while others more deserving in the organization didn’t. It’s obvious what has happened here. This video game knows what the Mets intentions really are here, and so it reacted accordingly. This game has pushed and promoted Tim Tebow to the major leagues way too quickly just for the publicity. This is what I am left to assume, at least. There is no reason for Tebow to be in the big leagues. But let’s see what he has to offer at the MLB level. Or maybe we won’t. Despite the headlines and fanfare that the former Florida Gator brings, it becomes clear early on that Terry Collins will not play Tim Tebow once—even as a pinch-runner. He may be the 40th man on the roster, but it’s unusual for September call-ups to be called up and fail to see even one garbage time appearance. Days and weeks go by, and Tebow can’t see the field at all. The Mets clinch the division, and Terry Collins won’t even let him play in the game after the division clincher. Fans are getting restless, and Collins has to field questions about it every night. Why can’t he just put Tebow in once? Skip Bayless is probably losing his mind somewhere. All of a sudden, this is starting to closely resemble Tebow’s previous tenure with a New York team. When he was with the Jets, Tebow was basically forced onto Jets coach Rex Ryan by management. Ryan did not have any plans for Tebow in any capacity, so Tebow could not get on the field at all. Even though the Jets were starting the terrible Mark Sanchez at QB and the fans were clamoring for Tebow, Ryan refused to put Tebow in a game.

Hey, look what Josh and Allyson Satin did: [fimg=450:10pxsgvk]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cted8D6VYAEZmyt.jpg:large[/fimg:10pxsgvk]

Good work. Sorry to take the BP report at face value.

RealityChuck wrote: Edgy MD wrote: A disadvantage except for pitchers of course. Not always. Certainly Cle was disadvantage, but overcame it. Of course nobody did that more with that dominance set than Rickey, but with his build and skills, had he thrown righthanded, rather than being the fifth or sixth best leftfielder ever, he possibly could have been by far the best second baseman.

NYM 85.9% SFG 69.4% STL 44.7%

What's the name of the teammate who grabbed him as he was going down face first? Because the only Mariah song coming to my mind is "Hero."

The Mets have seven pitchers (including inactive guys) who bat the opposite way from how they throw. [list:2wicam66]deGrom: L/R Edgin: R/L Henderson: L/R Matz: R/L Reed: L/R Syndergaard: L/R Wheeler: L/R[/list:u:2wicam66] Time was, of course, when this was discouraged — or in the case of Dwight Gooden, forbidden. Now it's a big chunk of the staff. Edgin and Matz even represent the rarest bird of them all—a righty batter/lefty thrower, at a disadvantage both on offense and defense. A disadvantage except for pitchers of course.

A glorious night. An enchanted evening.

Shmuckface that I am with my copypaste errors, I get the date correct and I futz the city.

The Mets get a day off to decompress and then head into Philadelphia with a darn good chance to tie something up. Robert Gsellman takes on Alec Asher. You may remember Asher from his last turn in the rotation, given a 10-0 lead over Sean Gilmartin, but leaving after giving up four unearned runs in the fifth, the start of what was almost an historic comeback. Yeah, those runs were unearned, but the Mets started hitting it hard all over the park. Fear not Asher. He's got no trophies on display. He signs them away. I mean, what the heck? Céspedes, meanwhile, just wants to get out on the floor and do the Cuban Slide.

I think Grandy went over there also.

Thus ends the Marlins' season.

Frenchy still a chaser.

Grandy hustling his butt of today.

Kelly Shoppach, suckas.

Trivia question answer: Kelly Johnson Ty Kelly Kelly Stinnett Umm..

Making the Mets post-season decisions hard. Impressive job by Loogie breaking those curves off to Stanton.

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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I also don;t think the Mets are making day-to-day lineup choices on season-to-date OPS, I think the "sample size" is actually much smaller -- How'd he look in BP? How was his last AB? -- and for bench guys especially their season OPS is a reflection of how judiously they've been used not the other way around. I think there's also macro-data that gets taken into account. Campbell has a track record as a big league performer (even if you have to go back to 2014 to find success), and Campbell outhit Reynolds in Las Vegas this season (and last season too). But yeah, I think it's more about not wanting to burn Reynolds' defensive utility on a pinch-hitting appearance if you don't have to. Same reason you are reluctant to burn your backup catchers in pinch-hitting assignments.

Young men are also very good at being vicariously stupid, climbing into the passenger seat of a car (or a boat) that they know their crazy friend is going to operate in a manner they perhaps never would themselves. If we survive, we can totally do the intellectual gymnastics to absolve ourselves of the stupidity.

I was afraid to type anything like that shortly after the accident, because I didn't want to come across as judgmental of a fallen hero. But the reality is that I did a lot of stupid dangerous shit while brimming with attitude when I was a young man. And I did it without drugs and alcohol. I survived by luck and grace and sometimes by having a saner second thought. But I would later go to work for an education magazine, and ended up getting to do a lot of reading on brain development, and realized that, by some evolutionary kink, the judgment center in a young man's brain isn't fully formed until 25 or 26. It doesn't mean teenage girls don't make stupid choices, but generally, you're a lot safer with a 16-year-old girl keeping track of the uranium than a 23-year-old young man. The research suggests that young men's brains can do pretty much anything at 23 that they'll ever be able to do, except make safe, smart decisions. In a prior age, these guys would be put under an authoritative thumb — conscripted into the army or working off their apprenticeship — holding the world together but protected from having to make any life-or-death calls, but now they are freely moving among us, throwing their splitters and driving their boats and staffing neighborhood watch patrols.

Strange that Dee Gordon, who was a blubbering mess before and after his leadoff homer the night before, actually seemed to be having a good time, especially on that weird 3-4-6 play. A lot of them did. I guess baseball does help you heal.

He is, but I fear he lines up behind Lagares on the bus to any potential playoff roster.