Edgy MD

Time for Gray to surrender at Appomattox.

They kind of hit on something with Megill. He tends to get touched with two out, or give up hits when he's ahead 0-2 or 1-2. That may mean he loses focus, or it may not.

Two-out and a runner on first is a GREAT time to go deep, Nimmz.

It's suddenly time to put Rafael Ortega's face on the tickets.

"Vogelbach and Stewart have added a lot of heft to the Mets lineup." OK, now cut that out, Gar.

Funny, I recognize that guy on the bench next to the Texas manager.

It's baseball. It's all going nowhere. It's not about the destination but the stories we glean and tell along the way. If Syndergaard returns, he can crash at Mr. Met's pad for the rest of the season.

It's all about whether he comes with or without the salary obligations. OK, it's not all about that, because Cohen is Cohen, but that's a participating factor. I like the closer idea. I mean, it's an awesome turn in the narrative. I have little notion as to whether he could hack it.

Good one. And a stat line remarkably similar to Gray's real-life numbers.

Just throwing darts, but yeah, they totally retired his number. [FIMG=450]https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/yanksnumber3.jpg?quality=90&strip=all[/FIMG] Macabrely ("Macabrely"?) Funny Note: The Mets have hired seven managers this century, and for each, so far, it's been their last gig.

So, Mattingly, to the Bronx, Terry Francona to St. Louis, Joe McEwing to Colorado, and, um ... Bob Geren to San Diego.

Thanks for adding those transies. The coding monkeys have been hard at work adding new data fields to the MRC base, so there may not be any photo-llustrated updates until tomorrow, but the return of Palka is certainly a worthwhile curiosity.

Not a point to be lost there.

It strikes me as unusual that all 30 MLB managers who started the 2023 season are still at it. Not a single in-season lopping this year. I'm'a guess that's due in part to the expanded playoff picture making a meaningful late-season turnaround still conceivable for teams playing poorly. But the expanded playoff picture didn't keep teams from dealing off key parts at the trade deadline, so that's only getting you so far. I suppose this'll mean a handful of guys go immediately at the end of the season, but it's not clear who. The fact that both highly paid New York teams have had sloggy seasons has now qualified for the adverb "famously," but Buck Showalter's senior status has deflected at least some of the blame away from him in the popular mindset, and Aaron Boone's antics in the face of losing have kind of enhanced his brand, even as the losses have damaged it, so neither of those fates are clear. I'm guessing Ollie Marmol goes first. Bob Melvin probably re-retires, and maybe joins the Yankees a year or two down the road. He's only 61. The White Sox stunk, but Pedro Grifol (who?) probably gets a mulligan on his rookie year (The Luis Rojas Principle). Who else is on the block? Phil Nevin? A.J. Hinch (three straight losing seasons in Detroit)? Bud Black feels like he's spent his whole career there.

Among the 28 Mets in the Zero ERA Club, only eight have thrown more innings, rating him pretty highly on the Schatzeder/Nitkowski Scale. Adam Kolarek, also recently given a willy-nilly DFA, is only one inning short of Dan And C.J.'s record of 5 2/3 innings in an unblemished Mets career.

RETIRE ROGER_THAT'S NUMBER!

US West representatives El Segundo, CA win the whole enchilada over Caribbean champs Willemstad, Curaçao! They pulled it off the cool way! And yes, that kid is 6'1".

Retire HIS number!!

RETIRE HIS NUMBER!

After two innings as a Met, claimed off waivers by the Dodgers. [fimg=500]https://www.si.com/.image/ar_1:1%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1200/MjAwMzgxNTg1Mzc4MjU2MjQ4/usatsi_21203667_168396005_lowres.jpg[/fimg]

Cool that the guys who were first to greet Ortega were guys who played with him this season in Syracuse. And D.J. Stewart was the one to soak him.

G'over!!! Peacock Power!!

A squeeze could win this easily.

Bloated!!

Locastro holds again!