Edgy MD

A second-inning Wisdom bomb is the keynote.

Gilbert grips the ball outside of his glove. You can pick up his pitches.

Gary and Murph doing the pre-game from The Pike Place Fish Market.

Marlins eked ahead of the Mets by a half game last night, and they're winning in the ninth tonight, but hey, they're beating the Nats, and the Mets have to catch both of them.

Looks like Operation Huascar is a go.

If you are looking for the Mets to try something/anything with the lineup to shake up Bo Bichette ... today isn't looking like your day. If you like waiting until game time to find out who your pitcher is, though, you're totally in luck. METS STARTING PITCHER: TBD Huascar Brazobán (RHP), 3-1, 1.86 ERA, 24 SO LINEUP: Carson Benge (L) RF Bo Bichette (R) SS Juan Soto (L) LF Jared Young (L) DH Mark Vientos (R) 1B Brett Baty (L) 3B Marcus Semien (R) 2B A.J. Ewing (L) CF Hayden Senger (R) C SEATTLE STARTING PITCHER: Logan Gilbert (RHP) 3-4, 3.69 ERA, 69 SO LINEUP: J.P. Crawford (L) SS Julio Rodríguez (R) CF Randy Arozarena (R) LF Luke Raley (L) RF Cole Young (L) 2B Dominic Canzone (L) DH Patrick Wisdom (R) 1B Jhonny Pereda (R) C Colt Emerson (L) 3B

"My little faccia bella."

Still no officially announced starter as far as I can see, so I imagine we are looking at Tong after an opener — which wasn't written to sound dirty, but now totally does.

What we have stinks.

It strikes me that the way to get filthy rich as a gambling dude is to tamper with the data the detection technology spits out.

It seems every ump working the third- and first-base lines has a different definition of what constitutes a swing based on divergent understandings of the rule book (which, as noted above, has been almost deliberately ambiguous on the matter), although generally, these divergent definitions tend to favor the pitchers, who tend to get strikes on motions that don't resemble an offer. It will be nice to see this standardized, but the system will clearly need some calibration and review of its own to work out. Umps seemingly try to read a feel for the batter's intent as much as a judgment of the batter's actions — which is a losing game, as the batter's intent is, by definition, conflicted. It will also create interruptions in game flow and cause more degeneration into the videogamification of baseball. It will also create a challenge for the batter, as starting and then stopping a swing — at a ridiculously fast pitch thrown by a ridiculously close pitcher — is a physically and mentally challenging act that you have to take a few beats to recover from, and having to make a high-stakes decision to pat your helmet while you are in the midst of that recovery seems like it could be tricky. I assume you get to challenge a swing ruling from the home plate umpire as well as the base umps, correct?

You're supposed to walk Young in that situation to set up the double-play. Seattle had a lefty on deck and just the backup catcher available on the bench.

I kind of want to see Waggy batting for Young, and save Vientos to hit for Melendez.

Baty is feeling himself after that play at third. I'm picking him for the game-winning hit.

Yeah, but that's just asking to be punched in the face by Young.

Hammer may not have been, you know, good, but he was mega-big. Multiple hits and some huge tours. MLB.tv just gave me an ad for Bluechew Gold — dick pills with oxycontin in them. Who approved that shit?

Ewing is the stuff. I don't think we're going to see him at second any time soon.

Melendez is supposed to take a few steps and fall down on that play.

And that derails pretty quickly.

Mets trying to ride the Raley-Weaver-Williams Train home.

Translation: Gary: "Keith said some dumb things about women in San Diego." Murf: "Well, I, for my part said ... um, Happy Pride Month everybody!"

And yet, somehow, we get Hancock out of the game, and Seattle replaces him with an Oscar-winner.

A model of contemporary baseball happening here. Each team has cycled through six innings and not a single player has reached on a ball in play. Only one walk between the two teams also.

Bichette showing a serious deficit of hustle.

The Ordóñez Line disappearing in the rearview mirror for Marcus Semien.