Edgy MD

You've harshed my mellow, Alex Young.

Frayed Knot wrote: C'mon Kody, your father threw broken bats harder than that!! Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: That's for Game 2 of the 2000 World Series, bitch That's some post-season form in your back-to-back posting, gentlemen.

How undignified for Roger Clemens' son to be tossing lollypops.

The yellow catcher's gear and the dark pants make it look like the Phils have a Pirate catching for them. "Lower back soreness" for Lindor. Yikes.

It's a weird thing how a reliever goes from irrelevant to indispensable to shut down in a matter of a few months. I feel like that has happened three times this season.

Holy crap! Lindor riding pine!!

That's some good stretching.

I'm not saying that drive by Lindor was a homer, but that ball deflected off of something — a think a camera apparatus mounted on the outside of the pole or the like.

What recourse is there? I don't see an effective MLB boycott about to happen, but it'll be a piece of cake to boycott Strauss.

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My theory is that J.D. Martinez picked up on Nola tipping his curve.

Greedy of me, but I want all the marbles here. All of them.

Frayed Knot wrote: The Mets have been no-hit in 12 of the last 13 innings. Five hits this inning, though. By pluck or by luck, they're sure figuring out how to cluster the hits they get.

Alvaroozie. If he can be this guy, the Mets can go far.

I've kind of been liking Iglesias in the two-hole. He's our closest thing to a hot hitter, and New York needs baserunners right now.

=kcmets post_id=169951 time=1726269483 user_id=53] The ugly uniform contest going on in MLB is really quite amusing.

Transactions, 9/13/2024 [th]Direction[/th][td90]GOING[/td90][th]Transaction [/th][td90]Cleared Waivers and Assigned to Syracuse[/td90][th]Position Group [/th][th]=#BF80FF] Infielder[/th][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/622569/headshot/67/current[/fimg][/td90][th]Name [/th][td90]Pablo Reyes [fimg=50]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dominican-republic-flag-small.png[/fimg][/td90][th]DoB[/th][td90]1999-09-05[/td90][th]B/T[/th][td90]R/R[/td90][th]High Level[/th][td90]MLB (2024)[/td90] Believe it or not, this isn't necessarily the last you'll see of Pablo Reyes. With the number of guys they have on the 60-Day Injured List, he is totes eligible to return for post-season action if needed.

Edgy MD wrote: Lefty Specialist wrote: No upside, all downside. REJECT Well, the possibility that posting it potentially offers a victim the first chance he or she has found to call out his or her victimizer is a potential upside. Giving a voice to folks who've been treated badly and can't find a platform to respond is one of the democratizing benefits of the Internet. Fair enough, but the fact that it is being written on a Fan Memories commenting forum about a specific noted person on an, no offense, obscure website dedicated to a sports ball team, as opposed to communities on platforms such as Reddit, Facebook, Discord, etc does suggest something else besides “I need to get this story out there.” I'm not sure there's any more mainstream site if you need to speak your truth about Charlie Samuels.

Lefty Specialist wrote: No upside, all downside. REJECT Well, the possibility that posting it potentially offers a victim the first chance he or she has found to call out his or her victimizer is a potential upside. Giving a voice to folks who've been treated badly and can't find a platform to respond is one of the democratizing benefits of the Internet.

I don't either. I've always understood second base to be to the right of third base on the defensive spectrum, and that's probably a big part of why this sticks in my craw, but the reality is that the defensive spectrum can shift over time. Also, if you're improving a lesser position, but subtracting from a more important position, maybe it's still worth it if you're gaining more points in the former than you're losing in the latter. But I'm finding compelling the notion Bucket posts above that, wherever the two positions lie on the defensive spectrum, late errors at third, which happen at the corner and therefore can result in multiple bases, are more devastating than late errors at second, which happen in the middle of the diamond and allow for more damage control.

Eddy Alvarez https://www.mlb.com/video/eddy-alvarez-makes-play-at-3rdplays third.

Well, it came up again, as I wrote above, because the manager is deploying the same strategy now with Eddy Alvarez.

I haven't voted. I'm not sure I know the answer.

On multiple occasions this year, Mets manager Carlos Mendoza has sought to strengthen his late-game defense by either (a) putting José Iglesias in for Mark Vientos at third, ( putting Jeff McNeil in at second and sliding Iglelsias to third; or © putting a quality outfielder in the outfield, bringing McNeil in to play second, and sliding Iglesias over to third. They made a similar move yesterday, only putting Eddy Alvarez at second, after he entered the game as a pinch-runner at third. I don't yet know Eddy Alvarez from Adam Ottavino, but I have much respect for McNeil's defense, and admire how he has kept his head in the game on defense during some extended slumps on offense, but isn't it a stronger alignment to just put McNeil (or Alvarez)at third and keep Iglesias at second? I know McNeil hasn't played there in a while, but refamiliarization shouldn't take all that much. (Alvarez has played 10 games there this season and 88 in his career.) Iglesias to my eyes is the best defensive second baseman the Mets have had in a long time, and probably as good a combination of hand skills and foot skills as they've ever had. He's pretty much what we were hoping to see from Roberto Alomar when he came over. While Alfonzo and Flynn remain the Mets best secondbasemen (to my mind) by virtue of making a science out of the position, the only Mets comps to Iglesias I can think of — as far as combining speed, coordination, and manual dexterity at the position goes — are maybe Felix Millan and Sandy Alomar, Sr. (the latter of whom nonetheless hit his way off the roster). So why not leave him right where he is late in games? [fimg=360]https://cdn.theathletic.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1200,height=1200,fit=cover/app/uploads/2024/06/20212048/GettyImages-2158190895-scaled.jpg[/fimg]

Well, either of the last two games of the 1973 World Series would guarantee a championship.