Edgy MD

It's a little more than that. It's not merely that the less you pitch, the less opportunity you have to hurt yourself, it's also that the less you pitch, the less compound damage you accumulate, thanks to your one extra day of rest and healing between starts.

Well, crumbs. This might take a little longer.

Fwait a minute, how do I have them eight below at Citi Field, and you have them 10 below? HOW COME?!

As delightful as a .769 winning percentage at home is, it's way too premature to be thinking about records. So of course, I'm thinking about records. According to Elias, the 1932 Yankees (62-15, .805) are the best home team since 1900 and the 1961 Yankees (65-16, .802) are second.

The Mets, for one of the rare times in their history, have announced their plan to effect a six-man pitching rotation. Factors: The idea supposedly is to limit the workload of their young starters. The focus is on Harvey, but Syndergaard hasn't pitched a full season yet, and deGrom is a surgery case, and it's not like anybody thinks of Niese as the picture of health. How long it lasts is an open question. As much as the motive can be considered valid, one must also credit the means: the Mets have a glut of starters. Six will be in action once Gee is activated. Even if the Mets deal from their excess, the glut could remain, with Matz pushing hard from below and Montero coming off the DL. Also yet to be seen is whether Terry Collins would be willing to use his starters out of the pen in the middle of their rest cycle, as some managers have done while using a six-man rotation. How long before a pitcher has a bad turn and the columnists blame the 6MR? And how about that dope Joel Sherman, preemptively criticizing the Mets for seeking to protect Matt Harvey, when "... The chances Harvey is pitching for the Mets in 2019 is what? Five percent?"

A game up in the Wild Card is something to walk out of that sweep with.

My only problem was that they battered O'Sullivan too hard. Not so brutal, guys. They might replace him with somebody better.

Amazing to hear Ronnie state right out that Syndergaard is good enough to consider the Mets' bench one player deeper. That's a big declaration (it would be the first time in team history) based on such a short ML track record for the guy.

That's some bad journalism right there.

Just a theory, but maybe clout-or-whiff guys who either hit it hard or flail-and-fail perhaps make bad bench players Maybe the reason they were going so bad at the time of the Father's Day MiracleTM was that somebody was sending them the wrong color orange. Look at those guys celebrating. They look like the Cubs. ZvHQiLLn1rc

Backing up Mike Trout has to be one of the cushiest jobs in sports.

Mets eight games short of evening the ledger at home. YearWinsLossesPCTPCT to Date20094140.506.50620104734.580.543 20113447.420.50220123643.456.49120133348.407.47420144041.494.4772015206.769.492Total251259.492.492

Well, Miami, losers of 13 of their last 16, have displaced Philadelphia at the bottom of the division. Mets are 5-2 against them. On top of all that, they're in open rebellion against their management. I'll take a visit from such a team any time.

Ashie62 wrote: No natural ability. That's why he ended up in broadcasting.

Mets get a day off at home, the sickies get 48 hours to heal, Matt Harvey takes the bump, and the opposition is the a team in dysfunctional disarray. Friday night baseball.

A fine tribute to Kirk Nieuwenhuis, this was.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Why even let him come out for the eighth if you're going to pull him after an out anyway? Was that done for him to get an ovation or something? Certain number of pitches they wanted to allow him? Thought he was losing a little after watching him get pulled twice?

That play won Muno at least another start.

Do it again, Lukey.

I like Synderbooms! (Shot of the dugout shows deG with some dip under his lip. First time I've spotted that noise.)

Against which pitcher did Keith Hernandez have the most hits? I'll go with Dick Ruthven.

What a tasty-lookin' Irish meatball that was.

"Heavyweight champion of 1888 Sean O'Sullivan." Nice one, Ronnie. He looks like a classic publican to me.

VOTE DUDA!

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: The father's day home run was one of the best gifts I ever got. BOOM! ZvHQiLLn1rc And real pie. fujIM40twwk That's the way you rock a walk off post game interview, Guys.