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PROBABLE PITCHERS Zack Wheeler NYM (1-1, 7.47) Jake Arrieta PHI (2-1, 2.25) 1:05 start today, kids. Get those ESPN GameCasts ready in your office.

Diaz. Wow.

I like how Hoskins just kind of... fell down on that play.

Lagares! HUSTLE!

Or not. Time to earn your Metliness, Robbie.

Guaranteed DP here since d'Arnaud couldn't get the bunt down.

Because Harper is up if the Phillies load the bases here, and then you've got him lefty-lefty. Savvy, Mickey. Savvy.

=HahnSolo post_id=7306 time=1555383761 user_id=63] Avilan? Should I just turn off the set now?

Good showing, Mets fans chanting at the ballpark. I hear you.

I mean, honestly, WHO THE HELL ARE YOU SAVING DIAZ FOR?!?! You've got the other team's best hitters coming up in a HUGE SPOT. Effin' hell.

I *hate* bringing guys in with the bases loaded, especially when those guys are Mets relievers, who can't throw strikes for shit. Get Diaz in there BEFORE the bases are loaded and give him some fucking breathing room, at least.

Familia's blowing this so he can vulture another W in the top of the ninth.

Jeebus. It's fricking April and I'm already in midseason late-inning panic mode.

Segura had time to dive, get the ball, stand up, double-clutch, brush his teeth, file his taxes, THEN throw to first and Ramos was out by three steps. Was he hit by a piano on his way down the baseline?

I always like this thread. Strikeouts 1. Tom Seaver 2541 2. Dwight Gooden 1875 3. Jerry Koosman 1799 4. Sid Fernandez 1449 5. David Cone 1172 6. Ron Darling 1148 7. Al Leiter 1106 8. Jacob deGrom 1036 9. Jon Matlack 1023 10. Jon Niese 838 11. Bobby Jones 714 12. Craig Swan 671 13. Tug McGraw 618 14. Matt Harvey 612 15. Johan Santana 607 16. Noah Syndergaard 593 Games Pitched 1. John Franco 695 2. Pedro Feliciano 484 3. Tom Seaver 401 4. Jerry Koosman 376 5. Jesse Orosco 372 6. Tug McGraw 361 7. Armando Benitez 333 8. Bobby Parnell 329 9. Jeurys Familia 321

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Nope. Saw that elsewhere - it's Sam Jethroe, apparently. So it wasn't a picture of Hank Aaron, and Aaron himself didn't realize it? https://sports.yahoo.com/espn-confused-hank-aaron-sam-145114079.htmlhttps://sports.yahoo.com/espn-confused-hank-aaron-sam-145114079.html

Nope. Saw that elsewhere - it's Sam Jethroe, apparently.

Plus those two games over the weekend sucked and I had nobody to bitch about it with.

Interesting story. (And I guess I can cross Liddell of the list of guys I'm going to be able to add to my autographed card collection.)

SERIOUSLY PEOPLE WHY ARE YOU TEMPTING THE IGT THREAD GODS?!?! Close this thread and let CF reboot it.

So this discussion came up in a baseball Facebook group I'm in: "What if every team was given 4,374 outs to spend in a season and at the beginning of every inning had to declare how many outs they would be using." I thought that idea was completely bananas, because that'd be horribly unwieldy over the course of a season. And someone raised the question of what would happen if both teams decided to just use a handful of outs on a getaway day and you paid full prince for a 30-minute game. But the more I thought about it, outs are really the defensive team's responsibility, right? And in order to keep the "sanctity" of nine innings... ...what if each team was given 27 outs to record over nine innings, but they had declare at the start of each inning how many they wanted to get that inning? You'd still have a full game every game, but you'd have to have a little foresight around lineups and matchups. Got the middle of the order coming up this inning? Well, we're only giving you two outs to play with; we'll get four next inning when we've got the pitcher in there. I don't know. Obviously, this whole idea is completely bananas, but I thought it was interesting to toss around.

MLB hasn't been the same since Emperor Trump II disbanded the Padres because the team name "sounded too Mexican."

Alonso is the only one who's definitely already A MET. If they released Davis or Broxton right now, I'd accuse Greg of making them up in two years, although I have very high expectations/hopes for Davis. I will continue to conflate Wilson Ramos with Jesus Flores for at least another couple of weeks. Cano is still inextricably MFY-linked. Maybe by summer. I honestly haven't actually seen Diaz pitch in a game yet, so the jury's still out on him for me.

Can't send Davis down, and unless you really think Dom needs everyday reps, he's not going anywhere either. Peterson's logical, but so is anyone else in the bullpen, who are all terrible. That said, Guillorme is the odd man out here.

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