I know the Mets will someday win again. Probably not a game featuring Ryan Helsley, but they will win again, somehow. I know it. I just cannot feel it.
Edgy MD wrote: =ashie62 post_id=201380 time=1755305598 user_id=90] Use Stanek instead of Helsley, please I got the idea that they were intending to use both this evening. I was hoping Stanek would go after Rogers. Helsley was bad last night and could be given the night off not to happen
Rule V'd away from the Senators in 1965, and thus was forced to be carried by the Mets all through the 1966 season. He did modestly well for a 20-year-old who went from A-ball straight to the big leagues, but that first MLB season was his last. You get an idea of just what sort of manner the Mets used him in when you see that team had an amazing record of 4–33 (.108) in games in which he appeared. And he got the win in three of those four. The quintessential Bill Hepler game may be August 17, 1965. Jack Fisher put the Mets in an early 7-1 hole to the Pirates. The Mets saw the writing on the wall and sent Hepler out to eat up as many innings as he could, and then the team shocked everybody by showing enough heart to come back for an 8-7 win as Billy threw four shutout innings and former Pirate Bob Friend finished up the last three innings for the save.
Indeed so. I am impressed at how quickly he made it to the majors. He has had to shed a lot. He was a football star in high school, but gave up two-sport dreaming when he enrolled in college, and then he was a two-way star in college, but had to give up hitting when he joined the Mets. I hope he doesn't have to give up starting and become a reliever anytime soon. Also, I hope the Mets have put together a plan for how to develop a prospect as a two-way player. Shohei Ohtani has revealed decades upon decades of conventional wisdom to be misguided, and I hope our team is quicker and smarter than the others at adapting.
The Athletic takes a close look at the guy on the subway exit overpass to the ballpark who has seemingly forever been soliciting money from fans to pose with his dog, who never seems like the happiest of pooches to me. [FIMG=600]https://static01.nyt.com/athletic/uploads/wp/2025/08/13085742/IMG_7722-copy-1536x1377.jpg[/FIMG]
That "Hell's Bells" entrance really felt like they were overselling the dude. Just enter to "We've Got Tonight" or something, guys. Promise low, deliver big.