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I guess I didn't have the right angle.

I may be missing it, but it looked fair to me.

More importantly, that season, the Mets signed Venezuelan shortstop Kenny Hernandez for $1,000,000. He played four seasons and never made it above Kingsport. You can see him this season playing for Empire State in the Frontier League, where he is hitting .111. Other Mets signees from that class include catcher Juan Uriarte, infielder Edgardo Fermin ($250,000), thirdbaseman/outfielder Yoel Romero ($300,000), shortstop Hansel Moreno (only $50,000), and outfielder Wagner Lagrange (can't find the bonus). Obviously, the Yankees weren't the only ones who came up empty.

Acuña signed with the Braves in 2014 for $100,000. The same day, they signed outfielder Juan Yepez for $1,000,000. Yepez just deputed this year for St. Louis. Not doing badly. Not great. But very few others among the highest bonuses from that international class have broken through. Huascar Ynoa, still a not-yet-effective yo-yo with Atlanta, got $800,000 from Minnesota. The Yankees went VERY big that season signing not-so-householdy names like: Dermis Garcia, SS/3B, Dominican Republic: $3.2M Nelson Gomez, 3B, Dominican Republic: $2.25M Juan De Leon, OF, Dominican Republic: $2M Jonathan Amundaray, OF, Venezuela: $1.5M Wilkerman Garcia, SS, Venezuela: $1.35M Miguel Flames, C, Venezuela: $1.1M Hyo-Joon Park, SS, South Korea: $1.1M I won't waste your time summing up each career, but if you guessed it all added up to fuck-all for the Yankees, you would be right.

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I just think it's funny, because I've practically come to think of the UK as a by-definition matriarchal society. It's been a long time since that lyric has been sung in earnest.

Please try. Piddly-dicking is the worst. I hope P.J. Conlon comes out of retirement to pitch for Ireland. (OE: Looks like they've been eliminated.)

What is a "British male monarch"? I've never heard of such a thing.

Let's get his Old-Timer's Day invite in the mail!

https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/screen-shot-2022-08-17-at-10.25.34-pm.png> Its like they let the batboy hit.

Brrreathe.

Too bad. We might need him tonight.

Harris gets paid big time in the morning and then hurts the team showboating in the evening.

A 10% chance of rain and a 100% Halliday was serious business to a Bronx meteorologist.

Nok the tar out of Tarnok!

Grossman giveth and Grossman help Pete taketh away.

Big steal for Smiley.

Well, that was a pretty devastating show by Diaz. And YES, Gary, of COURSE you go to him in the ninth.

Surprised Swanson went for that last slider. I was rooting for a fastball up and in to set up the slider.

McCann gave the ball a pretty good ride, but I think I was mentally pinch-hitting Ruf for him there.

HUGE at-bat for Baty against the lefty here.

Ugh. That overturn burns. We've got a game.

Grissom has sweet young legs. Anybody else in the lineup besides him and Harris is out on that play. Acuña is out on that play. But overturning it was the right call.

I think Max is taxed.

Willets Point wrote: Willets Point wrote: Grimm, that is the song that pops into my head everytime I see the name "Baty." So his name is pronounced to rhyme with "Beatty." That's a bit disappointing but the homer more than makes up for that. Brett Baty's bat is weighty and he just hit one to Haiti His family's here from Texas but they do not come from Katy And you've got to root for Brett, be you a Finn or a Kuwaiti He cannot bat a thousand, but I bet he'll bat nine-eighty