Edgy MD

Into the eighth with only 67 pitches. All but 13 have been strikes. But here he goes, giving up two straight singles.

Marlins booth just made a Jay Horwitz butt-dial joke.

Seven-pitch inning.

Piazza looks grumpy.

Thinking back to last night, maybe Terry needs to re-consider the strategy he suggested back during the spring that he might use: start Tejada when Niese is throwing.

The Braves and the Yankees have old broken down catchers, but we bunt against a team with an all-American quarterback behind the plate?

cooby wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Fans? While there's a lot like us who'd prefer more bench manuevering in a matter of taste, I'd guess we're badly outnumbered by dumber fans who only like offense and find the pitcher-hitting thing tedious. . Dumb? Humph! Anyway, yeah I do find pitcher hitting tedious, but mostly because they are so damn pathetic at it. Well there's a broad array of skill levels, I think. But the lower standard means the greater the thrill when a player does succeed. In general, though, specialization in all sports is a bad thing. Generalization is always more interesting. Because if giving a player a chance to flourish at what he does best means sometimes risking him in situations that he does not much better than the rest of us, that humanizes him. And that's real and engaging. Protecting people from their weaknesses takes them out of the human struggle. That's why Colon is so fascinating � the grace with which he struggles against the seemingly obvious limits of his human frailty. Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: And, as I try to discuss every time this issue comes around, is there really strong evidence that the DH works better for the players' interests? I think it works well for a small cadre of high profile players [Papi, Pujols, Fielder, etc. - either permanently or in their near future] and the union tends to hear their voices louder than others and often to the exclusion of others as we saw with the steroid issue which was ignored for years for fear of offending the upper crust. The union's quite silent also on tobacco use even on the heels of Tony Gwynn's death. But in the larger sense you're right. Even if the benefit thing ins't totally false argument it's at least one with a bunch of holes. The narrative usually goes that if there were no DH then baseball would have never known the likes of Edgar Martinez & David Ortiz. Sure we would have, they'd have been 1st basement; bad ones maybe, but of course they never had incentive to even try to get better so maybe not. And if their bad fielding DID diminish their overall careers then by definition it would have been to the benefit of the guy with the lesser offense but the more complete and balanced game. The DH does not now and never did CREATE a job, it merely alters the criteria for one of them. I was thinking more about how National League teams have to have deeper and more experienced benches and bullpens, and therefore deliver more modestly decent-paying jobs in exchange for the one high-paying job the American League teams have.

Piazza in the house.

I think it was that plus something more. There was also a problem with Rick Peterson, I think. Something about how he never went without a jacket, and there was a kit or two that didn't have a coordinated jacket.

Gathering mold in the basement the last week, the Marlins have inherited from the Mets the mantle of "National League's Streakingest Team," currently riding a five-game winning roll. Shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria is your National League Player of the Week, having gone 12-for-24, with 10 RBIs and eight runs. Giancarlo hitting the ball HARD. Ichiro recently scored his 1,968th run, combining his NPB and MLB careers, putting him past Saduharu Oh in runs scored among Japanese-born players. Oh never had a 162 game season to work with, and he was frequently treated as not really Japanese in his time, but milestones matter to Ichiro. Christian Yelich: disabled list. He had a terrible series against the Mets back at Citi Field. Henderson Alvarez remains unavailable also. Dee Gordon is hotter than July, and leads the league with 32 hits. 'Spected Starters: Monday: RHP Dillon Gee (0-1, 5.60) vs. RHP Jarred Cosart (1-1, 3.63), 7:10 p.m. ET Tuesday: RHP Rafael Montero (0-1, 4.15) vs. RHP David Phelps (1-0, 3.55), 7:10 p.m. ET Montero has put in just 7 2/3 innings in his two minor league tuneups, so don't look for him to go too deep. Wednesday: RHP Bartolo Colon (4-0, 2.77) vs. RHP Mat Latos (0-3, 7.31), 7:10 p.m. ET [*]Ex-Mets you might meet include Lenny Harris, Marlins assistant hitting coach, and Reid Cornelius, Marlins bullpen coach. Pre- and post-game analysis comes from Jeff Conine and Preston Wilson.

The Rain keeps falling in Bingo, leading the staff with a 2-0 record and a 2.04 ERA through three starts. A 0.91 WHIP (seventh in the Eastern League) goes a long way. He gave the team their first win back on April 10 when he combined with two relievers for a two-hitter over the Akron Rubber Duckies. He opens a series against Portland today, locking up with Mike Aguilera who previously starred for Binghamton... SUNY Binghamton, that is.

Remind me: What was the reason they nearly invariably wore black with Glavine on the mound?

Surely. Well, surely-minus-Bowa, perhaps.

dgwphotography wrote: Unfortunately, true or not, that is the perception. I tend to hope that perceptions have the potential to change following investigations into the facts, followed by cold and dispassionate revelation of the findings. The MLBPA, if no one else, has an abiding interest in being informed by data and not perception.

Not until Donald Grant gets in first. #priorities

And, as I try to discuss every time this issue comes around, is there really strong evidence that the DH works better for the players' interests?

Come on! I haven't touched a drink in six months! You need to keep bringing up the wedding?! And I don't really want to say it, Leiter, because your mother's a great gal, but she's being a little paranoid. I SLIPPED, MAN!!

Call me paranoid, but there seems to be a coordinated stealth campaign to soften the blow in preparation for a planned switch to DH-Ball. Craig Calcaterra just wrote an advocacy piece that amounted to "This isn't about Wainwright, but seriously, check out what happened to Wainwright." Wainwright, of course, didn't hurt himself hitting, but jogging. Be a BASEBALL player, man! Do you not get paid enough to hit? This isn't a bad rallying point for a counter-campaign. You're a ballplayer. Show some professional pride. Bartolo Colon is a disaster up there and you don't hear him whining.

The time jumps weren't bothersome, so much as the attempt to redeem Turing not just as a persecuted homosexual, but as a misunderstood and misjudged autistic savant, somehow justifying him being a brutally smug and superior asshole. And of course, that's the label over Cumberbatch's head. That's what you're buying when you hire him. (I imagine he was first and last on a list of one when it came to Marvel hiring a cinematic Dr. Strange.) But does it really serve Turing to play him as such a caricature? He didn't make it where he did by being the clueless outsider/victim to predators/humourless jerk he's played as. It seems to me that it just gives justification to ambitious and hatefully smug crazy makers creating dysfunctional workplaces everywhere. I'm a misunderstood genius! Kneightly's characters seems drawn from a stencil of Helena Bonham-Carter's in The King's Speech (the trailer of which was surprisingly included on the DVD here.) She's provides the humanity that leavens Turing and allows him to interact with the rest of us mortals. But again, is it fair to him and all his achievements to have made him dependent on his not-wife to conduct a coherent conversation with other smart professionals working for for such a noble purpose?

Nonetheless, it's kind of whetting my whistle for a Willie Mays Night at Citi Field.

Nah, I meant Campbell. I'm not posting well.

Extra inning thriller in Baltimore ends with the police commissioner asking fans not to leave the park, due to concerns about civil unrest in the area.

Mets and Yankees Twitter feeds get all meow! with each other. Mets win this round. [fimg=750]https://metsinpeace.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/screen-shot-2015-04-26-at-10-59-30-pm.png[/fimg]

Next time you get a DH, don't pick Muno. I mean, I get that you want to get everybody a chance and all, but... let's keep the heat on.

Be OK, Wilmer.