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The STL ones aren't as bad as the Boston ones, but, yeah, I do agree, they're all pretty unnecessary. Fun to watch the offense, finally, pile on a bunch of runs and not leave the ducks on the pond as they did the previous two games.

This lineup is giving me an early summer boner

Edgy MD wrote: Or Dave Kingman. Or Carl Paranski. Ah, the cool Carl Paranski shift. That kid was stupefied.

Bring back Grimace !

No clue, I missed the question and the four I could have named (Bobby, Bobby, Randy, Cleon) all got snapped up

=roger_that post_id=191351 time=1746092578 user_id=128] I tried to avoid those innovations that are no longer in use, such as that one and the 7-inning games of doubleheaders, etc. Did I include any of those by mistake?

I had remembered Kevin Brown (the Mets pitcher) mostly for him not being the Kevin Brown (the Yankees/Rangers/Padres pitcher who won 200+ games and also imploded against Boston in the playoffs as a MFY) and for being the more 'brown' of the Kevin Browns. Andrew Brown? I got nothing

Email, er, I mean Emil

=MFS62 post_id=191247 time=1746025745 user_id=60] Yahoo sports is saying that Brazoban (1-0 1.56) will be sent out to slay the beast (0-1 4.05). Later

A 7:10 start on SNY, for those of us who like information about things.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: He was in LA rooting for the Dodgers against the Mets last October. So I think he was just a fan for the day, root-root-rooting for the home team. Gross

Tom Hanks showing up in the SNY Instagram feed validating Lindor's HR yesterday and wearing a Mets cap. I feel like this is new info to me - did we know he was a Mets fan before ?

RIP Seymour. God bless the legacy Mets fans from way back

The booth has noticed as well. Some days it all clicks. So far that is today.

That may be the best defensive 1-2-3 by a Mets team that I ever watched. All three of those plays were exceptional.

Ok that ground ball was also ridiculous !

And then Taylor ! Christ I think maybe this is not even real

That rib eye marks 33 runs in the last 21 innings. So that's pretty good

Two more hits for Acuna who's now hitting over .300 I am told. Looks like a damn hitter he does

Pile it on. All this with Soto yet to hit. It's like some kind of dream

Off to a good start tonight, anyway.

Lance who had exactly one stellar season as a Met in 1996. Hit .333 and had 227 hits that year (second all time is Jose Reyes with 204 hits in '08)

His numbers will be there at years' end but he's very spurty. He'll go two weeks looking lost and awful and then have a day like yesterday. I'd like to see him be more even keeled, production wise. I also think his overall game has suffered as he's tried to become a power hitter. Much like McNeil's did when he took the same approach a few years back.

=Cowtipper post_id=191065 time=1745878513 user_id=166] The ghost runner is the biggest insult to the game. But year-long interleague play really waters it down. Not letting the pitcher bat sucks because now we don't see the random, crazy stuff that enters baseball lore anymore. No more Rick Camps, no more Bartolo Colons, no more Tony Cloningers. It makes the game more formulaic. The overuse of random statistics throughout the game. Statcast is stupid. I just don't care. I just do not care how fast a ball comes off a bat. I do not care what angle this or that ball took. It's unnecessary and just adds clutter. The sport has become, whether consciously or unconsciously, something that exists more to cater to the whims of bettors and fantasy owners than the traditional fan. Speaking of betting, now they're allowing it. How stupid can they be? Has this game not been marred by multiple betting scandals in its history and now it's actively encouraging it? Are they retar--well I don't know if I can say that word here but I have faith you know where I was going. Getting too political. Whether we like or it not pride stuff if still very controversial for many people so dipping your toes into that arena is enough to ruffle a lot of feathers. I stopped watching football because it was getting too political. Sports were our refuge to get away from that stuff. I also stopped watching football because it was becoming more of spectacle and less of a sport. Baseball is, too. The hats after home runs, the stupid props, all that stuff. It's just so contrived and hard to watch. The bigger bases are dumb too, because they water things down. So does allowing the oven mitt. All the playoff spots re really bad. The Astros made the playoffs with a losing record in 2020. They should have at least put a clause in the rule that said if you have a losing record, you don't qualify, no matter what place you finish. Getting rid of collisions made the game a bit too tame and mild. Also disallowing wipeout slides eliminates even MORE excitement. And automatic four pitch walks. Yet another thing to make the game more formulaic. And the myriad tricks to try and shorten games. Instead of all these technicalities and shenanigans they could have done two things: Reduced roster sizes to 24 and put a cap of 10 pitchers on a team. That would have forced teams to be wiser in their pitcher utilization, whether they wanted to or not. So basically every major change since 2010 sucks. Manfred sucks. Bring back Selig and steroids.

A lead so big even Jose Urethra couldn't piss it away