Edgy MD

Frayed Knot wrote: It's Roki. I won't always be here to correct your mistakes.

"Rori" or "Tori"? We need clarity on this guy's first name. If we figured out how to spell "Manaea" faster, the guy might have won 20.

Widowed nonagenarian gets taken by a phone scam, goes on a quixotic quest for full restitution from her scammers. No Louises were involved in the making of this film. [FIMG=500]https://preview.redd.it/official-poster-for-thelma-starring-june-squibb-v0-7bmzgtpijazc1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=7bef34a68c334bd14ab8ec2b37a333bd5335048c[/FIMG]

If that isn't an early favorite, then I don't know my business.

Yeah, once you add Earl Mack to the equation, it's no contest who the first family of MLB managers is. Measuring managers by wins, and using Bill James' technique of measuring family impact, by doubling the contribution of the second-most prolific guy (and tripling and quadrupling, etc., any subsequent guys), nobody is even breathing the same air as Mack Daddy and Son. In fact, 33 individual managers — as families of one — put more points on the board than the Boones. The Bells have the highest total reached by two figures in one family, for what that's worth. [th]First Guy[/th][th]Wins[/th][th]Second Guy[/th][th]Wins[/th][th]Total Points[/th] Connie Mack3,731Earl Mack453,821 Aaron Boone603Bob Boone3711,345 Buddy Bell519David Bell4091,337 Felipe Alou1,033Luis Rojas1031,239

No, he won't. On the other hand, there's a good chance he and Boras build in an opt-out for the back-half of that contract. And load a disproportionate bunch of the salary into the front half.

I guess Bob and Aaron are the most successful father and son managerial duo. The only alternatives that spring to mind are Buddy and David Bell and Felipe Alou and Luis Rojas. I think the Sandys Alomar, Sr. and Jr., may have each had interim stints.

That's some tasty tambourinin'.

=metirish post_id=178654 time=1731097299 user_id=72] My bad , sorry Jeff

=metirish post_id=178648 time=1731092155 user_id=72] Nimmo Taylor Winker Bader Marte Gamel Stewart

Cast your ballot NOW!!!! for the Crane Pool's 2024 Darryl Strawberry Award for Outstanding Mets Outfielder. While some of you may rail and gnash at the lack of burnin' competition in some other fields, this one promises to be red hot. Some guys were solid for one part of the year, some guys for another. Some were healthy for part of the year, but broken for another. Some had big moments, and some were mostly below the radar but rock steady, steady rockin' all night long. Competition!! Here's a blank ballot for you to copy and paste and type in your favorite Mets participant in outfield-related activities. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) Yes, that's the truth. Only eight slots are available, as the reality, for better or for worse, is that the Mets only used eight guys this season to staff left, center, and right. These are those brave players who responded to their nation's call: Harrison Bader Ben Gamel Brandon Nimmo Starling Marte Jeff McNeil DJ Stewart Tyrone Taylor Jesse Winker Please remember to honor these heroes for only their offensive and defensive contributions while serving as outfielders. Their performances as infielders, pitchers, petsitters, or clairvoyants are laudable, but irrelevant to this exercise. Voting will remain open for one calendar week, unless disaster strikes, and unpredictable events render these efforts in vain. But please try not to think about that, and make the effort anyhow. [FIMG=550]https://metsrostercentral.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/darryl-strawberry-award.png[/FIMG]

Julio Teheran still looking to get on the board.

Adames may have hit close to the number of homers Alonso did, but value-wise, I think he's more McNelvian. He's a good player, who benefited somewhat from being in a strong lineup, but at this point in his career, he's probably not going to be a big difference maker. If he's a replacement for Alonso, it would probably be a wash, and it probably means they upgraded aggressively in the outfield.

In an effort that's been a long time coming, the Women's Professional Baseball League is slated to begin play in 2026, featuring six teams. At least, https://www.womensprobaseballleague.com/that's what they claim. As they haven't secured owners, home cities, stadia, or players under contract, it's probably very much up in the air. It's also very much in the top-down way the US undertakes these efforts, though. With no state offering baseball as a high-school extramural sport, and nobody fielding official women's teams at the collegiate level (there are club teams), it's going to be hard to put together and sustain a league, much less to grow it, but I'm hoping for the best. Cito Gaston is an official advisor to the league.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Francisco Lindor Mark Vientos Pete Alonso José Iglesias Jeff McNeil Luisangel Acuña Brett Baty DJ Stewart Zack Short Eddy Alvarez Joey Wendle Good God, man! That's 11!

What I like about this race is that Alonso can slot into a lot of places, and his future home may depend on where you slot him. DJ Stewart got his https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SLN/SLN202405060.shtmlone start at first on May 24, logging a two-out, first-inning RBI double among three trips to the plate against the Cards before moving to leftfield in the bottom of the sixth and ultimately lifted for defense in the bottom of the seventh. But in a one-run game, for a team that only made the post-season by a three-way tie-breaker, THAT'S NOT NOTHING!!!!

Cast your ballot NOW!!!! for the Crane Pool's 2024 Edgardo Alfonzo Award for Outstanding Mets Infielder. Those of you frustrated with your options for catcher selections have a larger field from which to select Met infielders to insert on your ballots. Here's a blank ballot for you to copy and paste and type in your favorite Met infield performers. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) Eligible Mets include: Luisangel Acuña Pete Alonso Eddy Alvarez Brett Baty José Iglesias Francisco Lindor Jeff McNeil Zack Short DJ Stewart Mark Vientos Joey Wendle Please honor their overall offensive and defensive contributions while penciled into the lineup AS infielders. Infielders who also outfielded, coached, fought fires, rescued kittens, and/or knocked on doors in Pennsylvania are still to be rated only on their performances while doing the infield thing. Voting will remain open for one calendar week, or more, or less, or until KC votes. We're not sure!!!! [FIMG=600]https://metsrostercentral.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/edgardo-alfonzo-award.png[/FIMG]

Starling Marte and José Quintana are the closest of Mets teammates, but something must've happened on their trip to Japan, as Starling has reverted to his old Pirates colors and Quintana has donned his former Cardinal red as the two of them square off in mortal kombat. [fimg=450]https://metsrostercentral.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/starling.jpg[/fimg] Starling's got the advantage of upper-body strength and ferocity, but if a cool headed Quintana can take Marte's frequently rebuilt legs out of the picture, it's over.

Indeed. As to people being blinded by an objective standard, and being challenged to be more subjective, I would disagree.

Lost headline opportunities. BYE, BYE, GLOVE JORGE THROWS AWAY GLOVE, METS THROW AWAY JORGE NO GLOVE, NO LOVE METS RELEASE EMBATTLED RELIEVER AFTER GLOVE-THROWING INCIDENT WHAT AN EXIT! LOPEZ LOSES GAME, GLOVE, JOB

It was pretty worth it, too. If the netting wasn't there, this would have just been a side-story — an offhand, somewhat petulant and wasteful gesture by a frustrated athlete reduced to a moment of childishness. But the effort and mindfulness it takes to toss it over a 20-foot barrier, with the half-smiling aplomb that suggested he was fully in control when he made that choice, kind of made this a heckuva story built around a pretty marginal figure. The only paper that went with a shot of him actually in the act opts not to come up with a clever summary headline, and instead uses his (disputed) quote, so that's disappointing. The quote would work better in a sub-head.

I'm having a lot of trouble mentally granting to them an exception to the rule that three-letter scoreboard abbreviations reference a team's official geographical home base.

As a longtime advocate for Newsday to outline their big white letters, I have to give a thumbs down to their blue-and-orange outline on BIG FLIES. I salute them for trying a flanking maneuver, and this may look great when they wrap Jets-based headlines in green and white or green and black, and Giants in blue and red, but ... I'm calling this a noble failure. It's sort of overbranded and underbranded at the same time, and feels like I'm pulling some cheap canned beans off the bottom shelf in the supermarket. I may feel a little different it didn't clash so harshly with the red Newsday banner up top and red Budweiser sign below.

Ouch, Narváez!

That might credit him with a catcher save, if he hadn't come on with a 10-run lead. But that game and that inning https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN202406210.shtmlfeatured two Drew Smith strikeouts, so he gets two putouts — one of which was the last out of the game.