Edgy MD

No! It's Torrens!

Bunting would have gotten it done. Anyhow, is Baty now the firstbaseman?

Ohtani is going to end up on the mound in this game.

Anthony Banda was an unproductive Met in 2021.

Jose Azocar in for Alonso as McEwing makes a futile first out.

Our new potentially game-winning magic runner = Pete Alonso.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Your call: 463 or 643? Strange days when Soto only making one out on a grounder feels like a win.

Holy crap! Everybody untangle jewelry NOW!!!!

I spent most of the game untangling my wife's jewelry. I just undid the last knot in the last chain. I want to call that a good omen, but Alonso successfully throwing home for the out is a much better one.

Fun Fact: Luisangel Aku-Aku may have just struck out with the winning run on third, but he gets to be the magic runner next inning.

Yes, Mr. President, Taylor is still totally hot.

Kinda want Torrens up here.

Late rally has the tying runnage on thirdage with one outage!

Nine soldiers in a row have gone down.

The running boxscore lists Muncy as having an error in the game for throwing. Does he not get an error on the interference call? Or is that the "throwing" error actually referring to that?

Mets get a surprise run!

Anybody else following the acción? Bunting is the answer.

Well, Baty is out of The Sub-.700 Club with alacrity.

The point was that it is that rehab assignments have a limit.

Well that shows you what just a little porousness on the left side of the infield can do.

We are back, but with Nimmles out of the lineup and McNiggins in, and Max Kranick is your new lanzador.

I imagine it is some sort of regional accent/drawl, but on that challenged call, the umpie sounded kind of drunkie.

Heartbreaker. But a lot of AAA vets have been shuffled off lately, and hopefully that means young talent is coming on.

Transactions, 5/21/2025 [table][tr][th]Direction[/th][td90]COMING[/td90][/tr][tr][th]Transaction [/th][td90]Transferred from Binghamton to Syracuse on Rehab Assignment[/td90][/tr][tr][th]Position Group [/th][th]Starting Pitchers[/th][/tr][tr][th][/th][td90][fimg=90]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/d_people:generic:headshot:67:current.png/w_213,q_auto:best/v1/people/621112/headshot/67/current[/fimg][/td90][/tr][tr][th]Name [/th][td90]Paul Blackburn [fimg=50]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/usa_m.png[/fimg][/td90][/tr][tr][th]DoB[/th][td90]1993-12-04[/td90][/tr][tr][th]B/T[/th][td90]R/R[/td90][/tr][tr][th]High Level[/th][td90]MLB (2024)[/td90][/tr][/table] To sum up, The Rehabilitation Tour of Paul Blackburn has taken our bearded protagonist from Brooklyn to Syracuse to Binghamton back to Syracuse. There also may have been a pause in there as well, because his assignment began on April 19, and these things are supposed to have a 30-day limit. Also worth noting is that hedge he has across his face is not just something he showed up to spring training with and then quickly lost like Sean Manaea 2024. Last we checked, he is still rocking it. The whole magilla.

I was just sorting the Team RISP for a minute, I know that can be scary, and the Mets have the 7th worst OPS in the NL. The Dodgers are best and their OPS is a whopping .272 points higher. Can one say that considering the two teams have the 'same' record that the Mets are pretty damn lucky so far? I gave Pythagoras a call, and he says that the 30–20 (.600) Mets' expected win percentage, based on runs scored and runs against, should be .644. The 31–19 (.620) Dodgers have an expected win percentage of .621. Put another way, he says that the Mets have been unlucky, winning about 2.21 fewer games than they should have (or two games if you are not into hundredths of wins). The Dodgers have broken almost exactly even, luckwise, winning about 0.04 fewer games than their runs ratio would suggest, which rounds, of course, to zero. There are, of course, different ways to frame the question of luck — both the Dodgers and Mets have been hit hard by the injury bug in the starting pitching category — but Pythagoras is a smart guy. He asked if Norrin Raad was the one asking. He likes to call him "No-Win Raad," which is odd when you think that the pun shouldn't work once you translate to ancient Greek, but I said, no, it was you, and that Norrin hasn't posted in quite a while, and went by "Vic Sage" most recently. He said that time flies and to tell you he said hello.