Edgy MD

Man, the Showcase Showdown in Game 3 is gonna be awesome.

Ought to pinch-hit Nido before Davis, not after.

Dom, the guy isn't throwing strikes, and you're down 4-1. Take a strike.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Or if they didn't have faith-a-faith-a-faith-faith in them and went and paid big for some name-brand veteran instead. Need I remind you, the Let's Get Luis Castillo NOW!!!! Fan Club, never once argued to pay "big" for Luis Castillo. No, I'm more referring to some hypothetical guy they may or may not have gotten at the top of the season.

Here's hoping that good Mr. McHugh can be as helpful to his old team as Darren O'Day was.

And Olson does it anyhow to center. Peterson was suddenly out of pitches during that whole plate appearance.

Olson playing a dangerous game with young Mr. Peterson.

Or if they didn't have faith-a-faith-a-faith-faith in them and went and paid big for some name-brand veteran instead.

Anybody who werries about your team's rotation, Peterson's numbers are kinda All-Starry.

Aragorn gets out of it, but he's thrown 81 pitches through four.

Two out, two on, and our lefties are getting around on this guy.

Guillorme seems to have a nice pattern of not hitting for two weeks, and then hitting like a demon for four.

Nimmo looking better'n' good in center these days.

Edgy MD wrote: Spencer Strider: a) narcs on, like, everybody, somehow got into a really good school and none of his professors can figure out how, c) maintains his relationship with his girlfriend by sucking up to her parents so they pressure her into keeping him around and even invite him on family vacations without asking her first. [FIMG=500]https://tomahawktake.com/wp-content/uploads/getty-images/2017/07/1398412733.jpeg[/FIMG] This guy looks even creepier in action. Asshole gym teacher. Coke-dealing porn photographer. Pervy scoutmaster. A lot of bad vibes coming off as I watch him.

If the Mets take the series, they get one of those big, ugly rings.

"Keith Law is late to the party," says, Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com. "I had Jung and Susac mocked to the Mets way back at the beginning of July, but I had Susac going 11th and Jung 14th. He's switched them up and acted like he did an original take!" But Carlos "Stop Calling Me Willie" Collazo over at Baseball America thinks they're both nuts. He has the Mets going for two high-schoolers, infielder Jett Williams (Heath, TX), who is 5'8" and committed to Mississippi State, and righthanded pitcher Brock Porter (Orchard Lake Village, MI). Jett, who thought the major was a lady suffragette, is a quick twitchy guy, strong for his size, who has also been scouted as a pitcher. He's a great example of what a Heath baseball player should look like. [media=youtube]KU8bCrCSWe0[/media] Porter is a prepster who has been dominating so effectively since his 9-2 / 1.20 freshman year that he's already got his own https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brock_PorterWikipedia page, which informs me that he pitch a (presumably 7-inning) no hitter this year, striking out 11 and (I think) throwing only 47 pitches. He's Michigan's two-time Gatorade Player of the Year, and if anybody knows their Michigan schoolboy baseball players, it's Gatorade. He's a Clemson commit, but "commit" is a pretty plastic word in the high-flying world of the MLB draft. [media=youtube]5akbKOcNbJs[/media]

Spencer Strider: a) narcs on, like, everybody, somehow got into a really good school and none of his professors can figure out how, c) maintains his relationship with his girlfriend by sucking up to her parents so they pressure her into keeping him around and even invite him on family vacations without asking her first. [FIMG=500]https://tomahawktake.com/wp-content/uploads/getty-images/2017/07/1398412733.jpeg[/FIMG]

And Luis Guillorme was so impressive with his power yesterday that he gets bumped up to fifth in the lineup. [TABLE][TR][TH][/TH][TH][FIMG=250]https://cdn.freebiesupply.com/images/large/2x/new-york-mets-logo-transparent.png[/FIMG][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][FIMG=250]https://cdn.freebiesupply.com/images/large/2x/atlanta-braves-logo-transparent.png[/FIMG] [/TH][TH][/TH][/TR][TR][TH]#[/TH][TH]Player[/TH][TH]Pos.[/TH][TH]#[/TH][TH]Player[/TH][TH]Pos.[/TH][/TR][TR][TD]=#FF5910]1[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Brandon Nimmo (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]cf[/TD][TD]=#13274F]1[/TD][TD]=#CE1141]Ronald Acuña, Jr. (R)[/TD][TD]=#13274F]rf[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]=#FF5910]2[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Mark Cahna (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]lf[/TD][TD]=#13274F]2[/TD][TD]=#CE1141]Dansby Swanson (R)[/TD][TD]=#13274F]ss[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]=#FF5910]3[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Francisco Lindor (S)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]ss[/TD][TD]=#13274F]3[/TD][TD]=#CE1141]Matt Olson (L)[/TD][TD]=#13274F]1b[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]=#FF5910]4[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Pete Alonso (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]dh[/TD][TD]=#13274F]4[/TD][TD]=#CE1141]Austin Riley (R)[/TD][TD]=#13274F]3b[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]=#FF5910]5[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Luis Guillorme (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]2b[/TD][TD]=#13274F]5[/TD][TD]=#CE1141]Marcell Ozuna (R)[/TD][TD]=#13274F]dh[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]=#FF5910]6[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Dominic Smith (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]1b[/TD][TD]=#13274F]6[/TD][TD]=#CE1141]Travis d'Arnaud (R)[/TD][TD]=#13274F]c[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]=#FF5910]7[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Eduardo Escobar (S)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]3b[/TD][TD]=#13274F]7[/TD][TD]=#CE1141]Adam Duvall (R)[/TD][TD]=#13274F]lf[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]=#FF5910]8[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Travis Jankowski (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]rf[/TD][TD]=#13274F]8[/TD][TD]=#CE1141]Orlando Arcia (R)[/TD][TD]=#13274F]2b[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FF5910]9[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Patrick Mazeika (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]c[/TD][TD]=#13274F]9[/TD][TD]=#CE1141]Michael Harris II (L)[/TD][TD]=#13274F]cf[/TD][/TR][TR][TH][/TH][TH]Pitcher[/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH]Pitcher[/TH][TH][/TH][/TR][TR][TD]=#FF5910][/TD][TD]=#002D72]David Peterson (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]sp[/TD][TD]=#13274F][/TD][TD]=#CE1141]Spencer Strider (R)[/TD][TD]=#13274F]sp[/TD][/TR][/TABLE]

Yeah, get your Schaefer Schit together!

Too short coming out of high school, so he had to enroll in junior college until a big time school opened their damn eyes. Is your friend's kid named "Tom Seaver," by any chance? The other enemy is all the teams that have shed two or more of their minor league clubs, providing fewer opportunity for all those fourth-year juniors and fifth-year-seniors and third-year sophs to take a shot at the pros, incentivizing them to stay in college. So many things suck. I CAN'T KEEP UP!

Andruw was at last night's game. A little wide around the middle but still with his boyish face.

There's also a lot of speculation bouncing around about Cohen throwing his money and weight around to somehow maneuver into taking Druw Jones, the son of Andruw Jones widely perceived to be going first overall to the Orioles. Since there is no trading of picks (apart from competitive balance picks) in the MLB draft, nobody has really come up with a coherent scenario about how this this might take place, but I might as well put that out there with a shaker of salt.

Everything has gotten pushed back this year, but things are slowly catching up. The MLB draft is scheduled for July 17-19, and while that's a month late, it's only given the mockers another month to mock, and isn't it all about the mocking? The Mets have four of the top 100 picks because (1) they are awesome, (2) they banked their Kumar Rocker pick from last year, and (3) the Angels felt they needed Noah Syndergaard to help them to fourth place. The key picks of course, are #s 11 and 14. There have been a million mock drafts, and they're all certainly wrong, but sometimes right about individual details, even if they are right for the wrong reason. Keith Law mocks so prolifically and flamboyantly that his readers suffer from mockular degeneration. Oh, he mocks and mocks so much that he ought to be called (insert mock pun here). Key Flaw's most recent mockumentary has the Mets going for Texas Tech infielder Jace Jung and Arizona catcher Daniel Susac. As we know from Ike Davis and Michael Conforto, college bats can be among the fastest prospect to the show, but as we also know from Ike Davis and Michael Conforto, they can peak early once they get there. If Jung sounds familiar, you may remember his brother (and fellow Texas Tech Red Raider Josh Jung) going eighth overall to the hometown Rangers in 2019. Josh had a very similar profile and has hit at ever stop through the minors but looks like he'll miss of all of 2022 following torn labrum surgery. Jace is a second- and third-baseman with terrific on-base skills. Concerns include a poor showing in the Cape Cod League (waddayawant from 34 plate appearances) and a modest drop off in power between his sophomore and junior years. (Oh, his slugging dropped from .697 to .612! Cry me a river!!) Once you get past those negative nellies, though, you see an OBP figure of .481 this season and .468 over his three-year college career, and you cry, "Sign me up!" The name Jace Jung. He bats left and throws right, swings the bat and says goodnight. And if his nickname isn't "The Collective Unconscious," Imma be pissed. [media=youtube]Yl38AUpfOWs[/media] Daniel "Poison" Susac is also the younger brother of a former prospect, following Andrew Susac who went in the second round way back in 2011. Andrew made it to the bigs, but peaked as a backup. Nothing to be ashamed of there, and his experience can only enrich his brother's pathway. Little Poison was an NCAA all-freshman selection in 2021, and was Pac-12 freshman of the year. We're talking Pac-12, here, people. The poorly kept secret in college baseball is that there are really four divisions, with the difference in level of play between the top four conferences (Pac-12, Big 12, SEC, and ACC) and the rest of Division I being perhaps wider than the difference between Divisions I and II. I'm just telling it like it is. The Pac-12 is brutal, and Susac has personally brutalized it over his two seasons as a Wildcat catcher. Siouxsac has a .999 OPS over his two college seasons, and is as regarded for his defense as for his offense. And the first guy who says the Mets don't need a catcher because they have Franciso Álvarez is gonna get such a pinch. [media=youtube]ZeS53ZFwhTg[/media]

So, maybe that wasn't the biggest win of the season last night, but it was probably the biggest not-a-loss of the season.

I really am not trying to present propaganda. I'm just reporting what's been told to me. I've already happily yielded the point. My family has spent lifetimes in the hole. As passengers and employees — for whatever that's worth, but the impressions I'm reporting are purely anecdotal and and I acknowledge that any extraction from that is speculative. I'm happy to go to ballgames, and have said so above. The only thing that scares me about mass transit and ballgames is catching COVID from Chris Bassitt.