seawolf17

This obsession with pinch-hitting for Melendez needs to stop.

"Paging Eric Wagaman to the Ghost Mets... Eric Wagaman to the Ghost Mets."

I'm sure the Winnepesaukee Flying Corn Shuckers or whoever have cut a 36 year old middle infielder recently. Go get him, Stearns!

1303: Andy Ibanez

The worst outfield the Mets have ever put in a starting lineup? Perhaps.

I don't think it's as much a matter of "what" as "why." We have a perfectly good Christian Pache and Vidal Brujan and heck, even Jihwan Bae is hitting.

I agree.

It was "Dead Flowers", for what it's worth.

Let's do this. Guarantee we have more hits tonight than the Mets.

Go young. Let's go crazy: Melendez - Morabito - Benge across the outfield (Melendez is only 27 - let's ride this train) Bichette - Mauricio - Semien - Clifford across the infield (we know Semien isn't going anywhere) Alvarez/Torrens Soto DH (and LF when we feel like it) Bench: Pache, Brujan, Taylor, I guess? Rotation is Peralta, Holmes, McLean, Scott, Tong in some order. Bullpen is Williams, Myers, Brazoban, Weaver, Raley, Kimbrel, Pintaro, Minter. That's your 26. End the Baty and Vientos experiments. We tried, fellas. Trade them for spare parts and call up Pache and Brujan. If you can trade Peralta and Holmes for exciting young arms this summer, go for it. Eat the salaries of Manaea and Peterson and call up Pintaro and Minter, who appears to be ready. I'm excited about how AJ Ewing has started in Syracuse, and I could probably be convinced to swap him in for Semien and let Semien serve as a pinch-hitter. I don't know that Kimbrel needs to be here either at this point, so you could DFA him whenever the first bat comes back from the DL.

If we're going to suck, let the kids play. I'd rather get excited about a young Nick Morabito maybe hitting .180 then watching 34-year-old Austin Slater ground out weakly to second base in a big spot.

Ooh. Helping the kiddo move out of his apartment for the summer this afternoon but we'll have two cars. Maybe I'll swing by if we're done in time and sit in with the band for a song or two.

AHA! I knew it! 🤣

Legit. This is my screen right now. (Sorry not sorry. I love me some JCPenney. But this is ridiculous.)

My biggest problem with the site is that the team sucks now, and we *didn't* suck quite as bad before the move.