Edgy MD

Frayed Knot wrote: Met fielders have almost caught multiple hits tonight. Yeah, the clunk! sound effect has had to be employed a few times by the Mets' Foley artist this evening.

Walk more on offense. Walk fewer on defense. That'd be really cool.

The Mets need a Mookie Wilson/Mookie Betts/Mookie Blaylock/Spike Lee photo. Marte is probably getting more playing time than can be justified.

We'll have to do it in the ninth.

Get tossed, McNeil.

And handcuffed Canha leads to the first run.

Well, it should go without saying that the offense is only half the game, and so, "the offense" ≠ "the Mets." But now the bases have walked loaded for Mookie Betts.

Heyward is usually good for a few defensive thefts per series, isn't he? I disagree that playing in a 0-0 tie in which they have yet to yield a hit to a first-place team is forgetting baseball.

Baltimore might be the next-best team right now after Atlanta. Hard to believe Cincinnati is as good as they seem right now, but if you're the type to look at power rankings, they're probably top-five.

=kcmets post_id=131653 time=1689366788 user_id=53] Verlander needs to sHaM-a-lama-ding-dong if this team is going to rise back into wild-card hopefulness.

=nymr83 post_id=131596 time=1689290711 user_id=54] 1 and 1 is brutal travel. Why not do 2 at home and 0 on the road and then switch next season?

What an asshole.

It's certainly relevant. I'm pretty sure that historical data suggest that rates of alcoholism, spouse abuse, and related outward signs of dysfunction are higher among closers and placekickers than they are among their professional peers. It's a long time since I've heard that stated, so it may no longer be true, but my personal observation certainly seems to agree.

HOST: "Let's see our Red Blue Jay!" AUDIENCE: "EDWIN ENCARNACION! OHHHH!!"

Please stop. Forever.

Obviously, he gives a shit.

Name that Brewer so that I may boo him lustily.

I like having access to all cities also, but I lament the impact of interleague play on divisional matchups. When was the last time the Mets played the Marlins? How are we going to catch them if we dinna play them? I can't get rid of them (or the Nats) in Spring Training, but now it's suddenly hard to find them at all. For that reason I favor interleague play to the tune of two one-game stopovers (one home, one away) against each opposite-league team during the season. Two games against each of the 15 teams from the opposite league = 30 games. Six games against each of the 10 intra-league extra-divisional teams = 60 games. Eighteen games against each of the four intra-divisional teams = 72 games. 30 + 60 + 72 = 162. This way, the division is (again, and rightly so) mostly decided by intradivisional play, the league is more (and more rightly) decided by intraleague play (playing the Cardinals as frequently as the Rangers is just ass), but you still get a chance to catch Vladdy, Jr. coming to town once a year, or to travel to Seattle, if that's your bliss. Yeah, one-game stops are a bitch for teams, but they can handle that 10 or 11 times a year. Several times, it won't take any travel at all. An AL team can make their one-day visit to Citi Field when they are already in town having just wrapped a series with the Yankees. A National League team can tack on one game against the White Sox after three at Wrigley. Other visits won't be in the same town, but aren't particularly cumbersome. A swing from Atlanta to Tampa/St. Pete, for instance, or Chicago to Milwaukee. Also, the impact is lessened if you try to schedule the one-day visits adjacent to off days. The All-Star Game, as I've banged on about too much, needs to become part of Baseball Week. And it should be a three-game series. The Futures Game has long been added to the now-extended All-Star break, and they've now pushed the draft back by a month to align it with the ASB, so Baseball Week is kind of already happening whether they mean it to or not.

MLB would tell you that they polled the fans and this is what we wanted.

Ten new Metly figures from the last day of the draft!! 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Those thumbnails above don't really give us the full effect, especially in Kirtner's kase, where we are looking at an official college shot with his hair all sweetened up with product. But look at him in high school getting his freak on! [FIMG=575]https://d1vhqlrjc8h82r.cloudfront.net/07-21-2020/t_e87d89a6edc743a58a074e9999e8a73c_name_image.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=225]https://09d1d85a2275582e9dad-7b3e649a230e2ba2cff912d8af17e0b5.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/1630472.jpg[/FIMG] I don't want to put too much pressure on the guy, but we're clearly looking at the next Jacob deGrom here. Zitella, meanwhile, has himself a linebacker's upper body, to go along with his Sampsonian locks. His game also includes a little cutiepie pout when it's called for. He's got the lower lip of a young Angelina Jolie and he knows it. [FIMG=254]https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1604906917045960727/n9NMQeXl_400x400.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=246]https://www.dailyherald.com/storyimage/DA/20220614/SPORTS/220619645/AR/0/AR-220619645.jpg&updated=202206141549&MaxW=900&maxH=900&noborder&Q=80[/FIMG] [FIMG=254]https://pbr-affd.kxcdn.com/passets/photo/IL/8639074251-Polly.jpg[/FIMG] John Valle is the real sleeper here. Despite coming from the beisbol hotbed Tampa area, and despite having a Cuban pedigree, a pitcherly build (6'3", 196), and a 1.37 ERA in his senior year, there's very little on him coming from the national bureaus. He's sometimes listed as "John Valle-Vera" or "John Valle Vera" and that may have sprung some of the confusion. Maybe it's the falling-over violence in his pitching motion (see below) that has put watchers off. He strikes me as a candidate to head to college to improve his draft position, but we'll see if that is so soon enough. [FIMG=650]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0x1qCUWwAApxgm.jpg[/FIMG]

Whores.

I was hoping Escobar would win Bench Player of the Month so he could get a TRADED card.

But I didn't get through the end of the month, did I?

Shit. I feel like I screwed Tommy Pham by not getting all my votes in here.

When entering a 100-RBI guy for the Marlins, do I pick Giancarlo Stanton or Mike Stanton?