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Is Vargas hitting eighth so that they can pinch hit for him and get him out of the game a little earlier? Cool Vargas fact: The team nickname is the Dirtbags? What the hell?

Missed the first 5 due to well earned napping (I cleaned out my entire garage this morning). Caught innings 6-7 here at the house, including the two late dingers. Listened to innings 8-9 on my bikeride. Good win. Hoping Vargas can manage to not take a big shit on the mound tomorrow.

Missed all of this one while out at a party. Glad to see it ended well.

I wish we had a non-Ottoneu option for the CPF'ers to all play each other, maybe in 2019 we do a free Yahoo or ESPN league and give it a go. Ceetar does play in my long standing money/keeper league that I've run since 2002 (I'm in 12th out of 13 this year).

In the looks department, he's no Anthony Recker. This guy would have to sneak up on a glass of milk. I hope he hits for power.

This was the best that Familia has looked in 2018, if you ask me.

Two to go.

Well fudge.

I think the Wheeler start will be chalked up to the fact that he was doing all right (retiring 9 of the first 10), and then they had the delay, and he came out cold after a 30+ min wait, and throwing in the tunnel, and, based on that, he'll get another crack or two at starts before they bounce him down to Vegas (assuming he has options left?).

That's a good idea for tomorrow, though. Friday is the one weekday I wear a tee to work as opposed to a golf shirt. I'll be wearing my snazzy Mr. Met as logo shirt I picked up recently.

Cooby is jacked up. Good. I admire the enthusiasm.

Just as well that they're put a smack down on these guys on rain delay night. So I can go to bed with a minimal amount of wonder.

Yes, that was a nice change of pace from the usual shit-assery at the plate, of late.

Christ, 0 for their last 23 with RISP. SUCKY. OE: 0 for 24 after that last pop up.

Nice K there to get out of the jam.

I hope to make it 5 innings tonight. Tired, boss. Dog tired

A Boy Named Seo wrote: I am also conflicted as to whether my parenting is any good. My friends brought this gift for my pooch, Willie Nelson, but now I am a person who has put clothes on a dog. #conflicted Can he play SS?

On the road in MD to visit kin but heard the last 5 innings on XM with Josh & Howie. Great comeback win.

Love the late inning power!

My son is 13 too. He also loves the Mets. He elates when they win and curses (in a non profane, 13 year old adorable fashion) when they lose or when they suffer injuries. And he's taken some shit, in little league (when he was wearing a bright compression sleeve like Yo only to get ribbed for it), and probably at school. He wore his Cespedes shirt today. The Mets swag is in regular rotation, regardless of the team's record. He does it because it's part of who he is. He's a Mets fan. Having said that, it's easier, up in the 'Cuse, than I suspect it is in the boroughs. It's just less prevalent here. There are Mets and Yankee fans, his age and mine, but it all takes a backseat to other sports, Syracuse basketball, Bills football, local minor league hockey and baseball, etc. I'd say there are more MFY fans than Mets fans up here but we've closed the gap with the 2015-2016 successes, plus the impending arrival of the Syracuse Mets AAA ballclub. Here's the thing, though. It's not about how much more likely some other team's fans are to get to experience the joy of being champions. It's about the bond you forge with your child over baseball, rooting for the same team. Your son, I am sure, wants to be like you. If you're doing it right, or, really, even if you're not. That's how they do it. He'll live and die with the Mets, same as Fboy, and you and me. He won't abandon his fandom if you don't. And I'm not giving up mine. Because it's the bond I shared with my dad, as a kid. (My dad grew up a MFY fan, in the 1950s, but living in Flushing, he gravitated to the team after Shea opened (he was 19 in 1964) and gave up on the MFYs when the Steinbrenner era kicked in.) We drove to Shea to watch games, first as a four person family with Fbro and Fmom, and then, once I was older, just he and I (as my mom and brother were never huge baseball fans). And he's gone now, and I can't talk about the Mets with him, so that is just a thing that I have in my heart, that I still think about. We went to our last game together at Shea, in 2006-2007 sometime. And now my son and I go and repeat the process. We watch the games on TV. We drive 1-2 times per year to Flushing to see it live. Someday, Fboy will (Lord willing) be a father to Fgrandson and they will drive down to see the Dominic Smith Rotunda and count the rings on display, and he'll tell his son the stories about how his dad took him to Citi Field, and the time Mr. Met waved to him, and the time he got to try on a real deal World Series championship ring, and 30 other stories from his childhood, and the dream will perpetuate. And you know what? They'll be 38-51 that year and it won't matter one damn bit. Keep doing what you do.

Centerfield wrote: Is this for real? I don't even know where to start. For fuck's sake. Really glad I didn't wait to watch the SNY replay, knowing this was going to happen.

Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Did Conlon get much ink in Ireland? Don't think so. There wasn't a single visible tattoo on him from what I could see. Lol

Fuck Hansel Robles.

If Mesoraco has even a fragment of a pulse at the dish he'll be bringing more than Dr. Seuss' least favorite ballplayers, Stiff #1 and Stiff #2.

Vic Sage wrote: Some bad and unnecessary 21st century remakes of great movies: BEDAZZLED (00) SHAFT (00) PLANET OF THE APES (01) ROLLERBALL (02) MR. DEEDS (02) THE IN-LAWS (03) THE LADYKILLERS (04) MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (04) ALFIE (04) LONGEST YARD (05) BAD NEWS BEARS (05) CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (05) THE PRODUCERS (05) THE WICKER MAN (06) ALL THE KINGS MEN (06) THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (08) THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123 (09) FAME (09) THE KARATE KID (10) ARTHUR (11) CONAN (11) STRAW DOGS (11) THE LONE RANGER (13) SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (13) CARRIE (13) ROBOCOP (14) POLTERGEIST (15) BEN-HUR (16) MAGNIFICENT 7 (16) DEATH WISH (17) I'd add the rotten "Total Recall" reboot to this list. I loved the original AH-nold one. I hate all these reboots/remakes. I have only seen from the above list "Planet of the Apes" and "The Wicker Man" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and they were all garbage.