Edgy MD

Nice cut, Nimmo. But you shouldn't be swinging.

We are Sac Fly Kingz. KINGS, I tell ya!

This has been a very warning-tracky series so far.

Why are fans donning Santa Claus hats? It's 98 in the shade out there.

"In hindsight, maybe the two fringe prospects and trying to figure out where to re-allocate the money might have been a better return (for Walker)," Huntington told 93.7 The Fan's morning show. "That's where the results take us." A lot of good pitchers were to there win Niese's salary range. But who's to say you wouldn't have dropped the money on Chris Young or somebody? I mean, the same scouts that put you on to Niese would have been scouting your re-allocation targets. Look forward, man, not back.

It's always possible that he's trying to light a fire under Niese's ass. He looked good in the World Series.

Kristie Ackert @Ackert_NYDN 4m4 minutes ago #Mets waiting for Cespedes to test quad before putting out lineup.

G-Fafif wrote: ...remains a good idea in 2016. Yes, sorry. Certainly didn't intend to put a trademark on your idea. So whose ear do I need to put a bug in?

Zvon wrote: WTF? I can't even take a leak? You might want talk to your doctor.

I hope we get our swag back!

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Then the poor guy got brain cancer and they subsequently got scared of how it would look, especially since they'd conspicuously withheld it all those years. I just got done arguing it would be appropriate to re-introduce 8 with dArnaud but they didn't go for it. Now I want them to give 8 to Conforto (it's in his twitter handle!) This is the problem with making decisions that are sentimentally defensible but logically poorly considered. They become institutionalized, and once the sentiment is past, you're stuck with them. Literally 86.41% of all people could do without hearing "God Bless America" at a ball game again. An additional 9.22% just mutely shrug their shoulders at the question, half-drunk and floating through life. The remaining 4.37 aren't patriotic so much as the Patriotism Police, and will rip the Mets publicly if the song ceases appearing. And their brethren-in-arms in parts of the country that will never have access to the Mets will echo the cry in poorly written all-caps protest, so the Mets are stuck with it. I know a way out of the Carter Conundrum, though. Re-issue the number to a good player (d'Arnaud comes to mind), but solicit the buy-in from the family beforehand so they don't get sucked into a populist campaign, and at the same time, let them know you are re-naming Tradition Field as Gary Carter Field, to there will be no ambiguity about the team's continued and ongoing respect for Carter.

Old Reyes would have scored on that double. Of course, had that been caught, Old Reyes might have gotten doubled off. Anyhow ... we hit doubles?

Reyes got a shout of "Wife beater!" just before that RBI grounder.

Good job, De Aza.

I think he made the right move.

I have no idea what the fuck the Mets are doing, or even thinking with 8. Me neither. Gary Carter last wore the number in 1989. It went unused through the 1990 and 1991 seasons, but then was pretty much in constant use for the next eleven seasons. I don't recall what might have happened after 2002 to make number 8 suddenly become more sacred. http://leaptoad.com/mets/uninumbers.php Well, among other things, the team changed owners. Carter, interestingly, is credited in the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary with the first usage in print of of the term, "f-bomb."

Although... now the tying run is on.

I approve of Terry holding Col�n out of the All Star Game.

Add in card flipping and he'd have decades.

Thanks for that call, Mr. Ump. Thanks for the assist, Mr. d'Arnaud.

Loney runs like a tight end. The tight end you use on running downs, not the receiving guy.

I missed you, baseball. Did you miss me?

Absolutely not. I LOVED Doug Flynn. I'm referring most directly to the MoFo poster "Doug Flynn," who was as affectionate as you and myself toward Torre-era Mets, but would be the first to viciously rip contemporary reserve infielders like Melvin Mora and Joe McEwing to Norfolk and back. He probably coined the name "Bore-DICK."

Oh, oh yeah. Good job, Steve!

Yeah, Rogers is winning this thread, but he slowed down at the end there. Is Rizzutto the only questionable retirement by the Yankees? Not Roger Maris/9? Not Guidry/49?