Edgy MD

Seems pretty dumb not to go to Cahna.

Frayed Knot wrote: Not THAT dumb apparently. Cahna would have hit three homers.

The slider away seems to kill these Braves. They hit everything else, though.

[bIGPURPLE]Everybody get Naquid![/bIGPURPLE]

The way to manage the bullpen is to get some runs.

We need some Ruf.

And Acuña really hits one hard.

Carrasco has been working with sliders away most of the game but has been leaving some inside and getting hit harder here in the fifth.

Fastest replay appeal ever? It's helpful when an ump more or less appeals himself.

I'm guessing that for the Saturday double-header, we get to see Vogelbach break out his glove.

[bIGPURPLE]VOGELSHOCK!!![/bIGPURPLE]

Edgy MD wrote: Wright is beating himself right now. If the Mets can chase him early here, there could be repercussions the rest of the weekend. And Alonso is helping.

Wright is beating himself right now. If the Mets can chase him early here, there could be repercussions the rest of the weekend.

I think in relation to Contreras there's a clear “We're not sure he's that much of an improvement… maybe we can bring up Alvarez on Sept 1 and if he hits the ball leave McCann or Nido off the playoff roster … “ I would guess that there's some truth in this, or at least "We're not sure he's that much of an improvement… considering the value we place in the players they are asking for."

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=102311 time=1659654846 user_id=68]You'd like for me to back up the value of making baseball trades?

Steve Rushin on how Vin Scully connected his dots in his final broadcast, October the second, 2016: His life changed forever when he was 8 years old, as he recounted on one Dodgers broadcast six years ago, while Matt Moore pitched for the Giants against the Dodgers. The Dodgers are trailing 5–1 in the top of the sixth. We'll let Vin tell the story: “On this day, October the second, 1936, a little redheaded kid was walking home from school, went by a Chinese laundry and—I'll tell ya the rest of the story, but let's get back to the game. ... We'll talk about the redheaded kid in a minute, but right now another redheaded kid is getting into the box: Justin Turner, followed by Seager and Puig. So you can see how the game is so constructed for you. I'm telling about a little redhead, and here's Turner. Remarkable production. And the first pitch to Justin way inside ball one. Yeah, the little kid, not quite 9—8 and three-quarters—leaving grammar school, on his way home, and I went by a Chinese laundry—that's way outside, two balls and no strikes—and the line score of a baseball game was pasted on the, on the window, and it showed Game 2 of the World Series, with the Yankees beating the Giants 18 to 4, as Turner fouls the ball back. There it was, Game 2, imagine, a reserved seat cost five bucks. Well anyway, that little redheaded kid looked and saw, oh, poor Giants. That was my reaction. And so I became not only a Giants fan, but a big fan of baseball. And I was able to exercise my instinct—the pitch to Turner is away, 2-and-1—because my school was less than 20 blocks to the old Polo Grounds, where the New York Giants played. And because I was a member of the Police Athletic League, Catholic Youth Organization, I could get in a game free from Monday to Friday. We'd get out of school at 2:30, Giants games were at 3:15, and so I could go to the ballgame. And so I just fell in love with baseball. Most of the time I was in center field. Now center field in the Polo Grounds was 483 feet away, as Turner strikes out one down. So I would sit in the bleachers and I would cheer and I would watch and I just loved the Giants. Well, the point of the whole story is this: My first love was October the second, 1936, second game of the World Series. Today is October the second, 2016. A lot of time has gone by, exactly 80 years to the minute from the day I looked at the line score of that World Series.” Here, the analog clock at AT&T Park in San Francisco confirmed it was 2:04 Pacific time. “So when I looked at the schedule and I knew I was going to retire, I thought: I have to do that game,” Vin said. “It was as if it was ordained that I would do this game.” https://www.si.com/mlb/2022/08/04/vin-scully-daily-coverhttps://www.si.com/mlb/2022/08/04/vin-scully-daily-cover This is great. Much is made of him being born in the Bronx, but whatever right of first refusal the Yankees may have had on his soul, he did most of his growing up in Washington Heights.

Really annoying. Youssa say, "And your untouchable future superstar could be Shawn Abner or Billy Beane. Which is much likelier." Then meesa say, "You're going to have to show me your work." And then youssa all, "What's the difference?" Real cool-like. And meesa all, "The difference is that a statement of fact has weight when backed by evidence." Just dorky as shit, but meesa am what meesa am! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Meesa think it's an easy enough narrative to follow. Or youssa can just write things about how intransigent meesa am. Or youssa can make it about Rey Ordóñez. That's fine. But it's just changing the subject to other things youssa won't back up. It's certainly not going to convince meesa that the value of deadline acquisitions are generally more likely (much more likely) to benefit the contending team making the acquisitions than the players they trade would have.

Tsuyoshi Shinjo's Fighters are in dead last in the NPB Pacific League.

If you say. It's not like Cahna hasn't been sitting against a lot of righties all year, except previously, he had sat mostly in favor of Guillorme. So this is either smarter or dumber than that. I don't know.

I think it's clear that they plan to start Naquin against a lot of righties.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=102279 time=1659641000 user_id=68] I don't believe I've mischaracterized your posts because I've been reading them for 15 years now.

Edgy MD wrote: =batmagadanleadoff post_id=102259 time=1659636932 user_id=68] And your untouchable future superstar could be Shawn Abner or Billy Beane. Which is much likelier. You're going to have to show me your work. What's the difference?

And your untouchable future superstar could be Shawn Abner or Billy Beane. Which is much likelier. You're going to have to show me your work. And please keep in mind that I didn't write anything about "untouchable" or "future superstar." I just don't equate trading with "going for it." I also support your notion that you should never go to a supermarket again. Line cutters are everywhere.

That may be so. Were they available at the trade deadline? For now, the Mets are third in the league in relief ERA. That's despite that number being skewed by the one reliever they picked up at the deadline, clocking in with a 67.50 mark after yesterday. Sometimes you buy a high end meal and it's awful. And you get food poisoning. And you realize that you had perfectly good food at home, but you ruined your relationship with your date going against your better judgment. To switch metaphors, birds in the bush are not necessarily better than birds in the hand, and I don't believe that bagging one no matter the price is the only way to go for it. And lastly, we don't know what was available at what price. And something something Rey Ordóñez.

This is what Francisco Álvarez did last night. What did you do? What even happened to that ball? Does it even technically exist anymore?