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This gets worse. Hopefully a Spanish-language interview gets some clarification.

That's some very serious shit. How awful.

I certainly figured that, but coincidence seems to be going very interestingly for the Mets of late.

Get yours https://mfbc.us/m/g5bj8b3here!! [fimg=700]https://metsrostercentral.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/screen-shot-2024-05-30-at-11.40.50-am.png[/fimg]

I thought this game would get the Lost in Space Robot banner.

That was pretty much how the paragraph concluded, that Lopez so clarified to a "Mets source" (Gelbs) that he meant both. Having watched the interview, it wasn't clear as such to me. Nobody really knows what the hell he meant, 'cept it was bad. It's weird. Puerto Rican-born Lopez has been in the league a long time, probably had spent a lot of time stateside before that, and his accent isn't very thick at all. He seems comfortable expressing himself in English, but his sentence construction is all over the place and nobody knows quite what he was saying, like he was high the whole time. It's also kinda funny. His nickname is "El Pichu" which translates more or less to "Cutie." And he is cute, despite his scraggly beard. He has good teeth, a sweet dimply smile, fun hair, engaging eyes, and he as he sits there talking barely-coherent-but-career-burning nonsense, I want to give him a hug. He may just be a journeyman reliever who was never going to be a big piece and who'll be forgotten soon enough, but in the moment, he seemed like the self-destructive hero in a CW young adult drama, whose earnest charm and talent has allowed him to get away with so much along the way that he's become tragically addicted to screwing up.

The New York Times has a great lede that really captured my confusion after first listening to the interview. A debate ensued shortly after the jarring words left Jorge López's mouth. Did the ​​now-former New York Mets reliever really say he had been playing with “the worst team in the whole f—ing MLB?” Or did he say he was “the worst teammate in the whole f—ing MLB”?

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: The place was loaded with Asian fans on Tuesday including a rowful right behind the Tuesday Night Mets Club that talked through the game. By the way I don't wanna revisit Tuesday night but if Ottavino leaves his feet and catches that popped-up bunt everything is different. Ugh. That play. Picking up Raley's option and letting Ottavino dangle around for a while before bringing him back on the cheap in January seemed like some good stealth moves for a bit but they're both blowing up in Stearns' face.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Of course the glove is caught by an Ohtani fan in a Yankees hat If that guy was an Ohtani fan, he couldn't have asked for a better souvenir for his afternoon. His hero torches the guy and his tenure and possibly career end shortly after, and you get to walk off with the trophy. X-Rays on Alonso have apparently come back negative, and I kind of hate that I sort of have mixed feelings about that. A broken finger or two would have really derailed his career.

I wonder if he might have saved a coach or two. Like they needed sacrificial lamb and just as they were lining someone up, he conveniently offered himself.

The more complete interview is here, after Mendoza's, and he clarifies later that, yeah, he's on the worst team. [media=youtube]TR4AooKfVd4[/media] Not anymore, it seems.

Interesting. Forsaking all protocol and giving him a memorial thread before his actual departure. BOLD! My key memory, before today anyhow, apart from that terrific bird's nest of a head of hair, was the https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL202404080.shtmlJulio Teheran Game. The Mets had a nice lead despite, you know, Julio Teheran, but the Braves kept chipping away at the Mets' pen. Lopez was the last guy we had left to throw at them, and the Mets barely held on. It doesn't look that bad in the box score (one run on two hits), but everything was thrown really straight (almost comically so), and hit really hard and really deep, and afterwards, Centerfield opined https://phpbb3.leaptoad.com/mets/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=33255&p=151261"Hey. Let's never pitch Lopez again." Not his worst notion, as it turned out.

Is not really clear what he means. He seems to be shitting on his team, but he also seems to be speaking in the past tense. Like the 2019 Royals or something. Like, "I can handle being awful, because I've been there." But he sure seems to be ready to get tossed over. [media=youtube]ovwBF6dbznY[/media]

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=157121 time=1717025168 user_id=68] Jeez, I think Ron Cey homered in that inning.

"You're a captain, Keith. What would you do?" "I. DON'T. KNOW."

Heyward? He hasn't hit in 10 years!

No matter how bad things get in the game, you want to stay until the end if you want to get a chance at a free baseball glove.

=Radar post_id=157098 time=1717023416 user_id=182] I feel bad for Mendoza bet he wishes he stayed with Yanks.

Well, so much for keeping the big guy in cheque.

Keeping Ohtani in check and still otherwise struggling to grab a win.

Rob McIlheny wants you to see the Mets in London, and his team totally doesn't sound anything like Rectum.

Frayed Knot wrote: We did a defense correctly!!!! Well, we got there in the end, but I'm not sure it was exactly textbook.

J.D. was safe, but I'm glad the Dodgers are challenging, as it'll give him a chance to get his wind back.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Because the surgery fixed his "hipness". I don't know. I heard he's still kinda ... you know. https://media.tenor.com/Bmd4bL8wqTkAAAAM/square-flintstones.gif>

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I suppose being forced out at second base can look a lot like a home run. I'm not sure, but I think Tomás Nido just got forced out at second base.