Edgy MD

I was thinking Seinfeld also. Also MIA is Davey Johnson, and maybe Doc and Darryl. Don Mattingly being in the house would be an appropriate inclusion also. How about Whitey Herzog? Ray Knight?

Where is Haji?!!

"I would be remiss to say ... ."

Cohen out there hatless in the sun.

Thundering ovation for Mookie. Wonderful.

Colin Cosell, take it away!

I don't think we know as much about stolen bases as we think we do. And I don't think 75% is the real break-even point. Indeed, I think that point shifts a lot over the course of a game. I think the accidental fallacy of Moneyball was convincing people that such understandings as the break-even point in stealing, the existence of clutch hitting, the value of defense were closed matters — something I don't think Michael Lewis or Billy Beane or Bill James would have endorsed. I think we opened up new and important questions, but some things we stopped refining, and so an old set of prejudices was largely displaced by a new set. The point was — or should have been — the ongoing rexamination of received wisdom, rather than the creation of a newer, equally closed category of received wisdom.

That's a scandalous but tempting thought, seeing as how the hoopster kind of looks biracial. But I think your second guess would have been the correct one — and that would be that Kenneth Lofton, Jr. isn't the son of the baseball player at all. The father of the basketballer was a soldier and a postal worker.

I'd like to take a moment to fondly recall the days when Jeff McNeil was deployed at third, in addition to second, left, and right. I'd like to see the answer to the question "Who sits today — Canha, Guillorme, or McNeil?" to occasionally be "Escobar." [TABLE][TR][TH][/TH][TH][FIMG=250]https://cdn.freebiesupply.com/images/large/2x/miami-marlins-logo-transparent.png[/FIMG][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][FIMG=250]https://cdn.freebiesupply.com/images/large/2x/new-york-mets-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]=#00A3E0]1[/TD][TD]=#EF3340]Jon Berti (R)[/TD][TD]=#00A3E0]2b[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]1[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Brandon Nimmo (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]cf[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]=#00A3E0]2[/TD][TD]=#EF3340]Garrett Cooper (R)[/TD][TD]=#00A3E0]1b[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]2[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Starling Marte (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]rf[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]=#00A3E0]3[/TD][TD]=#EF3340]Jesús Águilar (R)[/TD][TD]=#00A3E0]dh[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]3[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Francisco Lindor (S)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]ss[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]=#00A3E0]4[/TD][TD]=#EF3340]Jesús Sanchez (L)[/TD][TD]=#00A3E0]cf[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]4[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Pete Alonso (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]1b[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]=#00A3E0]5[/TD][TD]=#EF3340]Avisaíl García (R)[/TD][TD]=#00A3E0]rf[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]5[/TD][TD]=#002D72]J.D. Davis (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]dh[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]=#00A3E0]6[/TD][TD]=#EF3340]Brian Anderson (R)[/TD][TD]=#00A3E0]3b[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]6[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Mark Canha (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]lf[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]=#00A3E0]7[/TD][TD]=#EF3340]Bryan De La Cruz (R)[/TD][TD]=#00A3E0]lf[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]7[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Eduardo Escobar (S)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]3b[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]=#00A3E0]8[/TD][TD]=#EF3340]Miguel Rojas (R)[/TD][TD]=#00A3E0]ss[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]8[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Luis Guillorme (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]2b[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]=#00A3E0]9[/TD][TD]=#EF3340]Nick Fortes (R)[/TD][TD]=#00A3E0]c[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]9[/TD][TD]=#002D72]James McCann (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]c[/TD][/TR][TR][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][/TR][TR][TD]=#00A3E0][/TD][TD]=#EF3340]Pablo Lopez (L)[/TD][TD]=#00A3E0]sp[/TD][TD]=#FF5910][/TD][TD]=#002D72]Carlos Carrasco (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]sp[/TD][/TR][/TABLE]

I realize temporal parallels aren't really a thing with the Rock 'n' Roll set, but it's kind of weird seeing the B-52's Cosmic Thing-era lineup posing with the Bouncing off the Satellites-era Mets. Strange that I probably wouldn't have the same reaction seeing players in a card with musicians photos from decades before, but it's weirder seeing players with musicians photographed four or five years later. Cool card, though.

Edgy MD wrote: Good job calling balls and strikes tonight by home plate umpy. Seriously? He was handing out gifts like he had money on the game. He was looking good to me right up until about 10:17 PM. After that, not so much.

Well, they've made this guy work.

But he lays off the next four! Smarte is our potential tying run on deck.

Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I guess we open the ninth with Guillorme pinch-hitting for Nido. It'll be Lefty on Lefty, but, yeah, that's the call I think. Nido stays in, and inexplicably swings at a ball on his ankles on the first pitch.

The blown pickoff and the near-wild throw on the bunt really shows how tightly wrapped Pete Alonso is right now.

A weird game by Mattingly, but good call on the squeeze.

I guess we open the ninth with Guillorme pinch-hitting for Nido.

Fleagh.

Edgy MD wrote: Good job calling balls and strikes tonight by home plate umpy. Not that time.

Man, Mattingly has really left Okert hanging.

Good job calling balls and strikes tonight by home plate umpy.

Tying runny on basey for J.D. Davy.

Canhy up as the tying runny.

Three sliders, three swings, three misses. I think Alonso is about to go apeshit in the tunnel.

There's one from Lindy. Lonsy and Neilly to folly.