Edgy MD

Cuddyer is beautiful and you will all see it before the end of things. I heard he never goes out without a splash of this.

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: Cuddy looks awful. Where's Conforto? The dugout, I imagine. Patience, paduan.

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: Lucas needs to snap out his funk and bounce one off the Shea Bridge. Or two. deGrom, sit down.

It's what we came for.

That's pretty much where I was at, though I was more charitable in my rating than you. Where was the wrestling with the loneliness, looking up at the Martian starscape? Why no depiction of the mood on earth until the very end when you see dancing in Times Square? A man is the only living thing on a planet. That's an incredible and profound and terrifying thing. And then he makes life by growing potatoes. That's really profound. A lot of the people in this world live almost entirely on a single subsistence crop: potatoes, rice, kasava. Whatev. Science! It's cool — but not as cool as it could be — as a science adventure. It hints at offering the punch back at our culture of dysfunction and showing how we can pull together as teams and solve problems when we have to, but with none of the satisfaction — or even the roadmap — that Apollo 13 offered. The latter was used for years at business retreats. I hesitate to praise Ron Howard to the skies, but I don't see this having that sort of long tail as a team-building exercise. It even has a built-in metaphor for faith-and-science, as Watney carves up a crucifix for kindling, but it becomes a grinning, wink of a moment. That the credits roll to the tune of "I Will Survive," pretty much sums up how deep it hits or how deep it really wants to hit. Where were the minions?

Missed the dispatch that L'Orange was on First Pitch duty last night. Great news.

And I've changed it on every subsequent post. I'd hate for the game to be jinxed by a boner like that.

And the Mets had Curtis batting first Centerfield said he was worst But he won Game Three with a loud outburst May Centerfield and his kind be cursed. David Wright he batted next The sweetest guy was mighty vext When he saw Tejada's leg convexed He told me all in a private text Batting third was Daniel M. With occasional blips in his brain stem He wants that ring and shiny gem 'Cuz it means more cash in his ATM Batting fourth is Cespedes He's frankly better than the rest o' dese Throw him curves or throw him cheese I just pray the Dodgers rest in peace Catcher? Man, his name's d'Arnaud! He hit one out of the whole chateau! When the winter ground is white with snow I'll recall with joy the Travis show I gotta catch a bus.

Well, they oiled their gloves and boned their bats So they could give their best to Steven Matz No word of Wilpon, or calls of "Katz!" Because the Mets had the Dodgers where they had the Nats

Zvon wrote: Ceetar wrote: you can search twitter for posts with images too. you could spring for mlb.tv and screencap stuff yourself too. There might be ways to get Getty Images accounts or the like as well. Actually it's Getty that does the quick watermarking. I'd prefer if they sucked meh balls. I have had MLB.TV for years now (many a card was taken from a screen shot), but I was so unaccustomed to postseason baseball I didn't know it was a separate deal to see postseason games. I found out late and so MLB.TV can also munch on my sac. I'm gonna pass on that for now. Might drop the 10 bucks for the WS if there is a good reason to. Gimme a good reason Mets! MLB.tv tells me I have free access to post-season games and post-season advertisements online as part of the purchase I made to watch regular-season games, but then they make me fill out a form telling them which TV provider I use. I don't use a TV provider, that's why I want to watch games online. And lies don't work!

There's this historical notion of the Dodgers fan base filled with detached, there-to-be-seen, gone-by-the-seventh types. But there's a new breed that has led the Giants/Dodgers to be the bloodiest and deadliest of fan rivalries, capable of making the Yankees/Red Sox fans blush. It's unsurprising to see the Tejada's injury rationalized away. OE: Oh and this. Be careful out there. Walk away from trouble if you can.

Another night off for Michael Cuddyer. More meaningfully, perhaps, another night out there for Juan Lagares.

Farmer Ted wrote: According to ESPN, MLB offered to downgrade to one game but Utley refused. Hearing now set after NLDS. Of course, he'll retire after the Mets plunk the shit out of him and send him home with a loss tonight. I started the beginning of that post, and expected it to read, "According to ESPN, yes, those are, in fact, two happy steaming piles of poo." Call me un-Metly, but I find it a little unsettling to see somebody encouraging their daughter to go a-trolling.

But how, you might ask, did the team make room for Reynolds on the 40-man roster? Well you might! TransactionDesignated For AssignmentPosition=#FF0000]Starting Pitcher[fimg=90]http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/images/players/head_shot/431162.jpg[/fimg]NameTim StaufferDoB6/19/1990 #35 I'm not sure what that DFA business is about. The guy is a free agent at the end of the World Series, so they're pretty much effectively releasing him outright. But I imagine they have their reasons. Perhaps this allows him to clear waivers and get stashed on a minor league roster and held in reserve in case five pitchers suddenly go down simultaneously during the post-season.

Jeff Burroughs managed in the Little League World Series!

Frank Violence.

The Nats have asked for and received permission to talk to the Diamondbacks' AAA manager Phil Nevin, also coming with no big league experience, if you value that sort of thing. And indeed, if you do, there is also talk of Don Wakamatsu and Dave Martinez. Nevin has also been interviewed for the Marlins job (last week) and the Astros job (last year, which went to A.J. Hinch). He gets around. Buzz nonetheless still hovers around Bud Black.

The dog works the boardwalk, relatively far from the stadium.

Where some people might prefer a bidet, Centerfield only uses Hall of Famers to do that sort of hygiene.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Updated through Game 3. My apologies to the late Darryl Hamilton; I inadvertently left him off the "Games Played" list in previous posts. My apologies to the late Darryl Hamilton. I inadvertently forgot he was late.

And similarly, if listening to the Dead makes you miserable... . I put "Met fans are formed in a cauldron of grief and low expectations" alongside "You don't want to go out like Willie Mays" as the most tiresome of empty, cliched Mets-related story lines.

I knew that. And yet I typed something else.

The Dodgers, back to the wall and on the road, go back to Clayton Kershaw on short rest. The Mets counter with a left-hander of their own � a rookie with [crossout]four[/crossout] six starts under his belt. His grandfather, presumably, will be in attendance.

Are those two happy steaming piles of poo?

Not unless they Mets get knocked out the next two nights. In other words, no huh-way.