Edgy MD

Congratulations to Manager Pedro Lopez, hitting coach Luis Rivera, pitching coach Glenn Abbott, and all the 2014 Binghamton Mets, winners of their first Eastern League championship in 20 years. The title comes despite the organization robbing them going into the playoffs of their best player, Dilson Herrera.

Assuming that first inning works out, of course.

I'd like to get re-Familiarized with the two-inning save, myself.

Gar, the Batting-Stance Guy wrote: CDavis becomes 2,581st consecutive player to have really organic altruistic excuse for why he got caught for PEDs.

Especially since Wally won't be joining the team for another week. I mean, have you noticed a bunch of Wally talk burning up the internet and dominating the conversation about the team and making the Wilpon story go away? And if the idea is really to generate a Wally-as-manager story, that's a really terrible job at spin control if they don't actually intend to appoint the guy. That just deliberately creates more disappointment.

I have no doubt that Terry stays up nights worrying about injured arms.

I'm pretty sure last year was just Pedro Lopez.

Wally Backman reportedly getting a September call up. It's 1980 all over again. He'll be joining the team on the 19th. I don't like to be drawn into seeing meaning where there is none, but I tend to see meaning in this. If I'm remembering correctly, he joined the team for September in 2010 or 2011. Teufel, I think, got called up for September of 2011 or 2012, before joining the staff permanently. Pedro Lopez got a trip to New York last year. So you'd figure Frank Viola or somebody would get the call this time if it was merely a courtesy call. When Terry Collins was the minor league field coordinator, he made a point of staying away from the major league part of the Mets spring training complex, knowing that Jerry Manuel was on the hot seat, and thinking that it would make the seat a lot hotter having an experienced big league manager and potential replacement hanging around and popping his head up. In the same sense, Terry and Sandy Alderson have GOT to know an invitation to New York for Backman is going to trigger a drumbeat for Wallyball in New York. But he's getting the call anyhow. So there you have it. I'm saying that Backman getting called up for the last nine games means that Terry intends to step aside at the end of the season, and the Mets intend to hire Wally Backman. (On the other hand, it's a hell of time to be turning to a guy with a less-than-clean (though ambiguously so) record of domestic relations.)

First post in seven months for Vladdy. Welcome back.

Orioles slugger Chris Davis tests positive for amps, and suspended for 25 games. Not sure how that translates to the post-season.

Hmmm... I like the idea of goals. Finding consensus would be murder, but... Need to do a vicious recruiting drive first.

No, because these guys is awesome.

What's clear is that if we want this to return, it has to be a year-round campaign --- with an association, a Facebook page, dancing girls, Victorian illustration memes, and a secret handshake and whatnot.

Fiers should have been pulled from the game. Most guys should in that situation, but you could tell that Fiers was too messed up to continue. McGehee seems like his blood is pure testosterone.

Strange that goofy and poorly designed patriotic hats didn't rule the day this time. Just a shmall flag patch on the side. So there was no solidarity with a league-wide effort the Mets needed to get with this year. They just... didn't do it.

Casey McGehee attending to Stanton but his mind on something else.

Gian Stanton carted off the field after taking a fastball to the face. Very next pitch hit Reed Johnson and a brawl ensued. Jeff Kellogg, strangely enough, called both pitches swinging strikes. Jeff, your body rotates when death is coming at your face. It's not a swing, it's terror.

Runs this inning. RUNS!

It's Bob Geren Time!!

Fuck this shit, Mets. This is your park and your commemoration. These guys don't own you. They don't own shit.

WOR just aired an add for Leeds Brown Law firm: "Have you been the victim of sexual harassment? ..."

Maybe not, but he's been very hot of late.

Two bills cashed in the first by the Nacionales.

Blacked out by MLB.tv. Gah.

The Mets wearing the First Responder hats for batting practice.