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By the way, after I asked this question, Lee said this on the line. "People ask me, 'How many times have you homered from both sides of the plate?' 'How many grand slams have you hit?' You know what I say? 'One more than YOU.'"" Classy, Lido.

Holy Moly Fresh Cannoli! Lindor blasts off!!!

Not Lefty.

Sorry yes. I was referring to him not putting anyone on base himself. It's still his first ding as a Met. And he wasn't given away. He was traded for a rookie catcher who has since hit .311 / .425 / .541 // .966. Somebody's got to pitch.

Well, homers to Stanton happen to a lot of guys. I'm just glad there was nobiddy on bez.

Yup, he's in the right ballpark.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Gonna be a long night. A good -located fastball is the best pitch in baseball, Lee Mazzilli says. Oh those leadoff walks He said it with such conviction, too. I think that just about everything he says is moronic. Is it me? I remember John Franco subbing on the radio, and thinking that he hadn't seen a game in five years. Mazzilli seems like he hasn't seen a non-Yankee game in five years. He just sounds like a guy with a comfortable life confused by contemporary culture, what with the Hello Kitties and the compact discs and the way the kids wear their jeans.

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=G-Fafif post_id=77501 time=1631501132 user_id=55]Mazz says sooner or later someone will have to step up in this bullpen and, frankly, he may be on to something.

Two bombs for Khalil Lee today. Man has had a flaming bat most of the second half. He cooled off the last two weeks, but now has his OPS up to .920.

Believe in McCann against the lefties. That's my motto.

Strange that they went to Heaney against McCannister.

No, but a purty good guess.

Man, Pillar has really been a pin cushion the last week.

Lee Mazzilli hit one grand salami among his 93 career homers. Who was the pitcher on the wrong side of that matchup?

Yeah, I guess that prediction that the Mets were going to get Adam Wainwright has been looking dumb for about six weeks now.

Those acting lessons for Lee Mazzilli may have paid off 30 years ago, but tonight, he sounds he's mumbling from the closet. I feel like I caught him in public and bothered him for a conversation, but he's really looking at his watch and trying to ditch me as politely as possible, hoping I'll get the hint.

Sorry. Didn't mean to hijack the thread. Before that was a crappy Tony Scott/Denzel Washington time travel/action film from 2006 called Deja Vu.

1974 version of Murder on the Orient Express. It wasn't my choice, but I guess Albert Finney was suitably weird.

Weird thing yesterday. I'm usually not particularly as engaged in following Saturday evening games this season, as throughout the pandemic, that's the evening I've been watching movies online with a group of friends who haven't been able to see each other. I can usually catch the first inning with youse, tune in to check the score once or twice during the film, and if the game goes long, rejoin in the eighth or ninth. So last night the game was running late, and even though my group meetup was also running late, there was no baseball before the Messenger call came in and we all joined each other online before the movie. One of our friends, Lovancy, is a lovely violinist. She wasn't able to join us for the film this evening (she didn't miss all that much), but she did chat with us beforehand to introduce us to this new dude she's been seeing — Chuckie. She's been telling us about him and so we know that he's an accomplished musician also. In fact, while she's a talented and accomplished amateur, he's a flat-out pro. We all say hi to Chuckie, and as we greet him through the screen, we can tell he's visually impaired. Not sure if he's fully blind, but from his indifferent focus on the screen, it's clear he's mostly blind. We're chatting along, but before they go, our violinist friend says, "Why don't you play them something?" He shifts over to the piano, and Lovancy says she'll be his camera operator. As he sits down, a very warm, slow "God Bless America" begins on the violin. We assume Lovancy must've pre-recorded it, as she's operating the camera, and he pauses a beat, and starts playing countermelodies and various chord colorations to accompany the violin. The song comes around for a second pass through and he starts singing "God bless America! Land that I love!" It wouldn't have been my first choice, but hey, it's September 11, and whatever, and he's just a terrific singer. An operatic tenor but without the distorted enunciations that make opera such a challenging taste to acquire for some. If he was singing in public, you'd say, "That's a terrific singer!" He finishes, and we clap our appreciation, and he thanks us and then says, "You're welcome, but who was playing the violin?" We thought, again, that it had been our friend, but it turns out that the Mets game that after twenty minutes of staring at an MLB.tv screen that said "You're event will start soon," I hadn't shut down the stream before taking the call, and the Mets broadcast had finally begun, opening with a solemn violin performance, and Chuckie's performance by pure coincidence started at the same time, and rather than complaining that some other musician is rudely playing over him, he found the key and dropped right in. Like a musical or something. Weird but cool.

I just figured neither was an optimal choice but you go with a righty against Chapman. But I guess there's enough to analyze among those things that did happen rather than what never got a chance to happen. Run, Pillar!

Gots to run, Pillar.

Looks like the fourth batter this inning is going to have to be Almora.

Time to pinch-run native New Yorker Marcus Stroman!

Gotta tie this up so McCann can get his cycle.