Edgy MD

If a guy gets a walkoff base hit with a runner on third, it goes down as a single, under the understanding that the game is over as soon as the winning run scores, and any extra bases the batter-runner takes are merely an after-the-fact burning of energy. An exception to that rule is when the ball leaves the park, with the new understanding that, the winning run doesn't officially score until the umpire twirls his or her finger, indicating a homerun, implicitly granting the full four bases to the hitter. Over the wall is an automatic homer, assuming the batter can legally circle the bases. So, under the thinking of that exception, does that mean that a once-bounce-over-the-wall game-winner with a runner on third counts as a double? Clearly, the runner scores from third with the winning run before the batter-runner reaches second, but does the one-bounce-over-the-wall automatic-two-bases-ness of the hit similarly grant him the right to take that second base, even after the winning run has been plated?

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This is going to be good. Ewoks, Just One of the Guys, Legend ... you're in for some treats!

The less expensive route isn't necessarily the wrong route to my thinking. And the more expensive route isn't necessarily the right one.

Heartbroken mope meets a new potential love interest at a crappy London art opening. A day of adventure filled with odd, awkward interactions follows. [FIMG=440]https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/29riN9wnDhKcKcBkl2dg4xF0hcs.jpg[/FIMG]

The best part of it all is how we try to and fold the "he said he wants to be here!" factor into the equation. How often has a guy said, "As I enter free agency, I'd like to pre-emptively exclude my current employer from consideration; yeah, I know they said they intend to make an offer but **** 'em — they may have the richest owner, but how many chances does a guy get to move to Cincinnati?"?

Mauricio has some experience at third. Acuña hasn't yet played there. Of course, neither of them have to play there. They can help at third by playing second and bouncing McNeil over there. There's a lot to be said for replacing somebody with nobody. There are hundreds of guys in your system angling for opportunities. Sometimes, you have to juggle or cycle through multiple options, but if everybody's been doing their job, quality can emerge.

What is the defining Linda Fiorentino film? It likely isn't this. It might be Gotcha! or Dogma but neither feels quite right. Men in Black was huge but she was sort of just there. It was, like, every time her career was getting any traction, she'd do another piece-of-crap movie with David Caruso and/or Joe Eszterhas and end up back where she started.

I never saw this film. Part of it may have been there seemed to be two different marketing campaigns, playing up the two different angles of the film. One was the romantic fantasy — "She's the girl of his dreams, and she lives ... in his house!" The other was the heroic underdog sports movie — "He needs to see what he's got ... inside." You'd figure that the promise of sweaty young men in tights would have triggered a rental some evening from a girl I was with, but no dice. I had to get my Matthew Modine fix from Birdy.

"A.J. Minter" and "not as sexy" in the same sentence? I'm shocked! Stunned even! [FIMG=339]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GRDZvvEXgAAetZH?format=jpg&name=large[/FIMG] [FIMG=361]https://i.pinimg.com/736x/58/de/d3/58ded3325a8af240aaab7321d16ea284.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=308]https://i0.wp.com/www.sportstalkatl.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/dkb240427070-cle-vs-atl.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&quality=89&ssl=1&is-pending-load=1[/FIMG] [FIMG=181]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/AJ_Minter_%28cropped%29.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=208]https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS6x5jzAK5TeNf8wCnV4esYyDpbN9mPvcogMA&s[/FIMG] [FIMG=706]https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Atlanta-makes-concerning-AJ-Minter-move.jpg[/FIMG] I need to go lie down.

Modine must've been about 25-26 when shooting this. Zuniga not much younger.

Two guys I would have bet my whole stake on no longer being among us: Chuck Cottier and the other Joe Morgan.

A healthy total of https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/List_of_living_Milwaukee_Braves_players33 living Cream City Braves, including (unsurprisingly) a hardy number of them with Mets connections. List of Living Milwaukee Braves Players Sandy Alomar, born October 19, 1943 Felipe Alou, born May 12, 1935 Ken Aspromonte, born September 22, 1931 Howie Bedell, born September 29, 1935 Wade Blasingame, born November 22, 1943 Clay Carroll, born May 2, 1941 Ty Cline, born June 15, 1939 Chuck Cottier, born January 18, 1936 Billy Cowan, born August 28, 1938 Ray Crone, born August 7, 1931 Jack Curtis, born January 11, 1937 John DeMerit, born January 8, 1936 John Edelman, born July 27, 1935 Dave Eilers, born December 3, 1936 Hank Fischer, born January 11, 1940 Terry Fox, born July 31, 1935 Frank Funk, born August 30, 1935 Len Gabrielson, born February 14, 1940 Eddie Haas, born May 26, 1935 Bob Hendley, born April 30, 1939 Lou Klimchock, born October 15, 1939 Bobby Malkmus, born July 4, 1931 Joe Morgan, born November 19, 1930 Johnny O'Brien, born December 11, 1930 Taylor Phillips, born June 18, 1933 Claude Raymond, born May 7, 1937 Phil Roof, born March 5, 1941 Amado Samuel, born December 6, 1938 Dan Schneider, born August 29, 1942 Bill Southworth, born November 10, 1945 Al Spangler, born July 8, 1933 Joe Torre, born July 18, 1940 Woody Woodward, born September 23, 1942 Torre had a full career (five seasons) for them before they headed south.

And if HAIR FORCE ONE is the winner, we won't have a guy who is no longer a Met gracing the cover when it's installed at The Louvre.

Ueck in 1986 Johnny: Some really exciting playoff baseball this year. Ueck: Oh, yeah, that Mets/Astros game was terrific. You know, at the end of that game, Gary Carter, the catcher for the Mets, said he breaks about three cups a year, but he broke two in that game alone. Johnny: Amazing. Ueck: It really is, Johnny, because today the cups are made of metal. They didn't have those when I was playing. Johnny: Really? What were your cups made of? Ueck: Well, glass, mostly. He made his name with that sorta schtick, but he never let it keep him from being a consummate pro as an announcer.

Totally not expecting that. They were seeming a little short on lefthanded power, and now they are not.

I tend to associate the JH construction with Venezuelans, but apparently Dominicans (like Jhonny Peralta!) rock it too.

I lose another. Are those models twins?

Mets to Boras: "We can strategically leak information too."

There's a reasonably decent version available to stream for free on YouTube.

January 15 is the opening of the winter window. Some of these guys probably have had an agreement with the Mets going back a few months, but only today made it legal.

Also notable that, among today's international additions, the Mets signed a guy named "Roni" and a guy named "Darling."

Dunno if it closed any deals, but Juan Soto was at the Mets Dominican complex the last day or two meeting with some of the players they signed today.

It isn't that.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm eager to see how quickly he moves through the Mets system, and what position he'll settle in at. The Mets appear set at shortstop for the next seven years, but few things are set in stone. Yeah, apart from pitcher, the position amateurs sign as most frequently is shortstop. Almost nobody gets signed as a leftfielder. Just a bunch of shorties, catchers, and centerfielders, and from teen years onward, they drift rightward on the defensive spectrum. The current Met infield includes three guys who started their professional careers as shortstops and a firstbaseman who started his college career as a thirdbaseman. All-Time Team o' Mets Converted from Shortstop as Pros 　　 p: Mike Marshall (and of course Jacob deGrom and Ron Darling were collegiate shortstops before converting) 　　 c: Robinson Chirinos 　　1b: Wilmer Flores 　　2b: Jefe McNeil 　　3b: Edgardo Alfonzo 　　ss: José Reyes 　　lf: Hubie Brooks 　　cf: Juan Lagares 　　rf: umm ... Shawon Dunston It can be fun to see where the drift starts ... or doesn't. Wilmer Flores surprised everybody by making it all the way to the big leagues as a shortstop. It wasn't that he ever excelled there, but as he climbed the ladder, he never found himself on the field with a prospect with the juice to push him off the position. And then he made it to the bigs and there wasn't much competition there, either. The Mets somehow actually played an entire World Series with Wilmer Flores as their shortstop.