Edgy MD

Well, please find another avocation.

Eight innings for Baby-Face Nelson.

I tend to think the particulars matter, even if it's hard to make 1 and 1 to add up to anything but 2. To come out of a team meeting and write Campbell's name on the lineup card is a bad particular.

What's your rule? Wait four posts before picking a fight?

A strategy to combat the shift. You're on the hook for that, too, Terry.

Eric Campbell's audition for the 2003 Tigers continues. A strikeout looking at the knees. That's getting a might bit old.

Tag him, Bartolo.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: As cool as Sinatra. (/raises one eyebrow) The things, the things, the things I hate about this cover. I don't have enough fingers to count.

Well, Granderson � who has GOT to be dropped into the middle of the lineup � ends that minimum bullshit. And speaking of KABOOMs... ah, I'm gonna leave it at that.

Well, somewhat limited damage there.

The early lead strategy hasn't worked much of late anyhow.

True-Yankee Rick Cerone, during his long slog in between being the sainted replacement of sainted Thurman Munson and becoming the official Yankee mouthpiece for the Tyrant in Winter, inexplicably lands on the 1991 Mets and leads them in games caught at age 37? Are you kidding me? Get the Hell outta here! Also holds the record for the most ridiculous application of the nickname "Italian Stallion," with his 6 career stolen bases in 1,329 games. INTERLOPER!!

The guy in the light blue golf shirt gives it the dynamic of a Mountain Dew commercial. White guy successfully executes something daring and reckless. Black guy goes, "I can't believe you pulled that sick shit off, white boy! You crazy!"

Josh Donaldson goes full layout and backhanded into row three to make the catch Derek Jeter thinks he made. http://m.mlb.com/news/article/132631170/josh-donaldson-goes-into-stands-to-make-catch [fimg=650]http://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/2015/06/24/images/mlbf_194239683_th_45.jpg[/fimg] That sick little snag occurred in the eighth inning of what was then a no-hitter, too. Don't think that's such a great play? Post competing claims of defensive excellence here as they occur.

You like a 2-3 for Smith? How about a 2-3 against Jose Fernandez? The former Rookie of the Year is tearing through his rehab starts like cheetah through the grass. A cheetah on 5-Hour Energy Drink. But Smitty is no blade of grass. He's batted .365 (57-for-156) since May 9, with 20 doubles and two home runs.

I'm not even sure what it's meant to accomplish. Ashie was big about moving on from d'Arnaud and buying in early on Plawecki � dealing d'Arnaud off as a lost cause � as he is regularly quick to move on and commit to the next thing. But as the last thing (d'Arnaud) has become pretty much as good a hitter as the Mets have, he's shifted his tack. But it still remains that the the new thing (Plawecki) has been as bad as d'Arnaud ever was his first two months. So unless and until that changes, even the best-case scenario here is a net negative for the Mets, that leaves the Mets replacing Daniel Murphy with Plawecki � a .750 OPS with a .600 one. And the team stands to lose on defense too. I completely encourage d'Arnaud to work out at other positions around the diamond, so he can stay in the lineup on his days off from catching. And one day, if he develops a familiarity at one of these positions (which would almost certainly be a corner spot), and a backup of his is coming on strong (Plawecki isn't), then great. We're many turns in the stream away from such a scenario.

I disagree that it's not going to get better. The nature of things suggests it has to. The question is whether it will be in time.

Strikeouts looking are dis-spiriting. Not even against breaking pitches. Shorten up and defend with two strikes, preaches Hernandez from the booth. But the congregation heeds not.

Not tonight.

Catcher isn't even setting up in the strike zone. Why should he?

Man, that low-assed strike.

Got K-Rod in the ninth. All the more sweet if we come back against him.

d'Kong76 wrote: Edgy MD wrote: We need a more demanding defensive standard. What made you post that, after watching the Cuddy play? That was the last in a series at the time, but yeah. Meanwhile, guys, the low strike is on tonight.

We need a more demanding defensive standard.

Still, that tying run indifferent-defensed it's way around the diamond.