Edgy MD

It's a rare three-way.

Funny to hear both guys in the booth referring to "Billy DOR-an." Seemed in the Mets booth, his whole career, he was "Billy Dor-AN."

Most of the Mets were wearing Pony at the time, but I don't think he is. Hard to believe that Dwight Gooden's debut takes you 3/4 of the way to Aaron's record-breaking homer.

Yeah, I mentioned in the game thread. It was a high pitch that he kind of tomahawked, so it may have taken a topspin dive at the end.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm encouraged with the HRs though, and once/if d'Arnaud starts hitting them and C. Young comes back I think we'll be able to score some more regularly. Also, we should trade for Gregorius and make him the leadoff hitter Yeah, I don't mean to imply that the offense needs to be blown up or anything, only that they've been mostly a load thus far. Yes, April homers can be encouraging in Citi Field. I'd still like to to talk to some mathematicians and climatologists to find out what happened to dArnaud's shot yesterday. He absolutely punished that ball.

Mets offense after first week: 18th in runs scored with 21 30th in avg at .178 30th in OBP at .251 21st in SLG at .346 27th in OPS .597 No bullpen can get that sort of load over the hump.

Ceetar wrote: These things clearly didn't come out of nowhere. What did pitchers do 50 years ago? retire? suck? suck for a couple of years and then learn the knuckleball and win the Cy Young and get traded to Toronto? All of the above. There's a reason the record books are full of Ed Walshes and Addie Josses from 1890-1920 who threw a lot more innings but did damn-all after 30. Even from the mid-century. Koufax retired. Score sucked. Bouton sucked and then learned the knuckler. These were pretty close to the sum total of one's options.

I'm sure the team is trying and trying and trying to find a way to do things "different" that works. Just as, if there were a sacrifice that could have been made to keep Joel Zumaya out of the operating room, the Tigers would have made it. And the Nationals with Strasburg. Or Joba Chamberlain or Brian Wilson. The White Sox had eight pitchers in their organization undergo the process last year alone. Every team in beisbol would love to have the formula that protects their dearest assets. If any have found the answer, I sure haven't heard about it. More likely, it seems to me, is that the surgery is going to be looked at differently. While batmagadan may be correct in suggesting that neither Harvey nor Parnell ever throws as hard again, an increasing percentage (though certainly not yet the majority), of post-op pitchers come back stronger a season or so after they come back. I've discussed it before, but I'm wondering if one day, TJ surgery may not be looked at as a surgical repair, but a surgical enhancement. Centerfield is joking, but one day, it may indeed be seen as a beneficial thing to get out of the way early in one's career.

Yeah, sure. But I also hate posting to myself during Sunday games. Where were you all? Don't tell me about families. This is important!

Tuesday: Braves home opener, celebrating the 40th anniversary of Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth's homerun record. Bartolo Colon against Aaron Harang, a man vying to become the Bartolo Colon of 2014.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: PSST! IT'S BEEN A WEEK! Ashie has quit on people a lot faster than that. No time for whispering. STOP IT ASHCROFT! Zvon wrote: Edgy MD wrote: d'Arnaud slams one but park holds it and I feel sad. I thought, off the bat, that was 100% gone and 12 rows deep. WTF? Sure seemed to hit a wall of air or something, but it was a high pitch that he kind of tomahowked, so maybe it had just a little topspin bite.

Got to be looking at Jeurys in the longer term, right? Insofar as you can ever think long-term in an industry that destroys the elbows of young humans. I mean, they don't seem to be taking Walters seriously. Maybe it's just going to be who gets left out if and when the rotation rounds out --- deGrom or Cohoon or somebibby.

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Blub. Nice job, Parra. But blub. Alfredo Simon, my ass.

Do it again, Ike.

Man, you don't use Lucas as a leadoff pinch-hitter. You go with Satin or Brown or Q. Now they'll just go with the lefty.

OK, six outs to get one run. Can't be that hard.

d'Arnaud slams one but park holds it and I feel sad.

German ROOLZZ!!

Knees giving up a string of sixth-inning singles. Down 2-1 and German coming in to prove you're all wrong about the pen.

Come on, d'Arnaud-for-14. Get off the schneid.

And they strand two.

Not so sure I hold Nee-AY-say if I'm Teufel there.

It'd be amazing if this triggered federal legislation. Don't see it happening, but it certainly could be set up as a wedge issue.

That's "Jon Nee-AY-say."