Edgy MD

Has anybody come up with a definitive list of Mets who've appeared on Saturday Night Live. A quick brainstorm gave me Yogi Berra, David Cone, Cliff Floyd, Steve Henderson, Todd Hundley, Gregg Jefferies, Ed Kranepool, Graeme Lloyd, Tom Seaver, Gerald Williams, Todd Zeile. Most of those, sadly, dd not appear during their Mets careers. Willie Randolph and Jermaine Allensworth have been portrayed. Garret Morris portrayed fictional longtime Cub and shorter-time Mets Chico Escuela. I'm sure I'm missing several. Has Mike Piazza really never gotten this gig? Glavine?

Mmmm ... lunchwagon.

Nimmo, gets off the bench, Cahna makes his first base debut and the pitcher enters the batting order. Surprises abound in the ninth!

Getting his most over-worked players out of there when there's a big scoring differential doesn't seem to be a move in Showalter's playbook.

Dee Strange-Gordon stealthily having himself a heckuva night.

Sign him up! [media=youtube]DQpTl_BY_-w[/media]

Maybe tonight is the night we get to see Maikel Franco pitch. I realize the level of competition is utterly different, but this is the team's hottest tear since the 2015 post-season.

Five-shutout innings on 80 pitches for the in-house solution this evening. And he surely could have gone more if it had been deemed necessary.

Yeah, slow this game may be, but I imagine it's going even more slowly than that for Nats fans.

Everyone's in the hit column tonight [CROSSOUT]except Lindor and Nido[/CROSSOUT]. Holy smokes.

And a Cahna double allows them to reach their two-runs-every-other-inning quota.

Everyone's in the hit column tonight except Lindor [CROSSOUT]and Nido[/CROSSOUT]. Corbin finally mercifully lifted as Cahna approaches with the bags full.

Everyone's in the hit column tonight except Lindor and Nido. I'm blacked out in Baltimore. Has anybody spotted Steve J. Rogers on the screen?

Corbin grinding it out, still in the game after allowing 12 baserunners. Thirteen if you count Guillorme twice.

Frayed Knot wrote: So on that runner hit by the batted ball play, does the rule say, as Gary stated, that it's Not an out if the ball goes past an infielder or is it only if a ball.passes an infielder who has a chance to make a play on it? It clearly went past Pete before striking Franco but he just as clearly could not have fielded it. Rules 5.06(c)(6), 6.01(a)(11): The concept of the runner being in jeopardy after the ball goes past an infielder and strikes the runner in a situation where another infielder still has a chance to make a play on the ball applies ONLY when the ball PASSES the first infielder without being touched or deflected by him. This concept DOES NOT APPLY if the ball is touched or deflected by the first infielder, even though another infielder has a chance to make a play on the ball. In other words, after a ball has been touched (deflected) by any infielder (including the pitcher), if the ball then strikes a runner (unintentionally on the part of the runner), the ball is alive and in play even if another infielder may be in position to field the ball. See Official Baseball Rules 5.06(c)(6) and 6.01(a)(11). The reasoning for the above concept is that a runner cannot be expected to avoid a deflected ball while running and should not, therefore, be in jeopardy of being called out for being struck by such a deflected ball. Of course, a runner may still be guilty of intentional interference even after an infielder deflects the ball if the runner deliberately deflects the ball or allows it to strike him when he could have reasonably avoided it. The fact that the ball has been deflected by an infielder should not be taken as a license for a runner to interfere intentionally. See Official Baseball Rules 6.01(a)(6) and 6.01(a)(7). After a batted ball has been touched (deflected) by an infielder, if the ball then strikes a runner (unintentionally on the part of the runner), it is alive and in play despite the fact that another infielder may be in position to field the ball. This is not the case if a fielder is making a play on the ball. Specifically, if a batted ball is deflected by an infielder and another infielder has a play on the ball, the runner must avoid the fielder. If the runner interferes with the fielder making a play— even though the ball has been touched by another fielder—the runner is declared out. Under the rules, a fielder making a play on a batted ball takes priority. On the other hand, if a batted ball goes through or by an infielder (other than the pitcher) without touching the fielder and then strikes a runner immediately behind the infielder, the umpire must then determine if another infielder has a chance to make a play on the ball. If the umpire determines another infielder does have a chance, the runner is out. If the umpire determines another infielder does not have a chance, the ball is alive and in play. The interpretation to be made with regard to the phrase “a fair ball goes through, or by, an infielder, and touches a runner immediately back of him” (Official Baseball Rules 6.01(a)(11), 5.06(c)(6)), and 5.09(c)(7)) is that this refers to a ball that passes through the infielder's legs, or by his immediate vicinity, and strikes a runner directly behind the infielder. There's a lot of umpirial judgment in play here but the keys seem to be the word "through" (and not past) the initial fielder and the umpire's judgment of whether there's another fielder trying to make a play.

Or else? I'm not sure whether to wish you a happy birthday or call the FBI, ash.

But wait ... there's more?!!

Eduardo Escobar struck out after missing the squeeze sign I was flashing him from Baltimore, but a plunk on Guillorme, and the Mets plate a run.

This thread is disturbingly Kinkless, if I may say so. [media=youtube]S2Al7u0cKRk[/media] Three straight one-out singles load dem bases.

If Davis is going to play the field once a week, first is as good as anywhere. If our problem is defense from our backup firstbaseman, who hasn't actually had to play there since 2018 (though he did get three games there last year with Syracuse), life is going almost too well.

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Lunchbucket trade target Luis Castillo goes tonight at Fenway as the Sox counter with ex-Met (who has been surprisingly crushing it) Michael Wacha.

=roger_that post_id=94216 time=1654032472 user_id=128] =ashie62 post_id=94213 time=1654032187 user_id=90] I would dump Dom like a cheap suit. He just can't hit, period.

Possibly, certainly. But, also certainly, less likely than it is that they pull it off with both of those.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: If Fonzie was so cool, why did he spend all his time hanging out with Richie, Potsie, and Ralph Malph? This is canon, man. He ditched the street hoodlum scene because the rest of his friends were using him, acting tough by association but making him finish the fights they started against other gangs. Fonzie was looking to get out and the room over the Cunningham garage was the gateway. And come on, he certainly didn't spend all his time with those fools. https://d3m2ca683sarz5.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/30102512/kiss.jpg>