Willets Point

I'd rather watch kids play video games.

ESPN and Fox Sports are going to have show kids playing sports games on PlayStation soon.

Opposing pitchers? So he was trying to help the Angels' lose?

Didn't Donnie Hart have some R&B hits back in the 70s?

Bartolo Colon, picked up mid-season from Acereros de Monclova, has an excellent set of starts when the Mets need an extra pitcher for a stretch of rescheduled games. Picks up his 250th MLB win and also drives in the runs that put the Mets ahead in a crucial game.

World Series champions typically don't visit the White House until the following spring, no? The Nationals are exception but that may be due to the fact the White House is in their home town.

I read the book ages ago and can't imagine it as a movie. And if it's a different story, apparently the filmmakers couldn't imagine it as a movie either.

Maybe it's the same person who didn't give Jeter a HOF vote.

'Getting it Right' is like trying to measure all the fractals of a coastline. All those extensive reviews of the base runner's foot ultimately end up being judgement calls and they are going to vary depending on who is watching the video and how much sleep they got the night before. It's time to just shut the door and admit that it's a fool errand to try to get things that happen in the blink of an eye "right."

=Ceetar post_id=31644 time=1581609668 user_id=102] I would like a 'ping them!' button that an umpire can press immediately so that the replay guys can load up all the videos already and perhaps start looking depending on work load, for those 20 seconds while we wait for the challenge. Especially in the playoffs where they should be reviewing every play.

I like replay but I think there should be a 30 second time limit on the time the official takes to review the video. We all know the that would be immediately overturned if replay existed in the past, and I think it's important to make sure those blown calls don't stand. What we don't need is 5-10 of crime scene investigation to determine if the baserunner's foot was a millimeter off the bag. If the official can see nothing obvious enough to overturn a call in 30 seconds or less, then the call on the field stands.

Mets President Julia Stiles greets the media on the first day of Spring Training. https://66.media.tumblr.com/310aef5402d5bed61383c8abe8dc4637/tumblr_mti0nxEOQu1sf0am7o1_500.gif>

Wifey Watch-- as presently constructed-- would be, like, a TERRIBLE thing to put out on blast for outside consumption. Hell, it straddles the appropriateness line of how relatives of a noted person should be treated on an obscure message board! There could be a whole series that follows up on each of the women in that http://archives.thecranepool.net/6400/f2_t6464.shtmlbridesmaids photo from several years back.

I was attempting to be funny, but I guess I whiffed. It's basically the same thing as Pele being in the US soccer hall of fame.

I didn't know he was Canadian.

Heartbreaking. Mookie Betts is one of my all time favorite players going to one of my all-time most-despised teams.

In an alternate universe, where Seaver is not claimed in the free-agent compensation draft, that's a photo of two members of the Mets rotation in 1984-1985.

Although few remember Tom Seaver's attempted comeback with the Mets in 1987. Never on the roster, but I remember him in uniform in the dugout.

Don't have an memories of Gavin but I was present at the game in 2014 when Garin got his first MLB hit, which ended up being 0.125 of his career output.

Chase Utley still sucks.

I started in the middle, jumped around, and then went back to watch the early ones for completions sake. If I had watched them in order I probably would've given up because the movies of the first five or six years aren't very good for the most part. I've found that watching more of the movies enriched the overall universe storyline but most of the movies are good enough as standalones that viewing order isn't essential and you won't miss anything by skipping the bad ones. I'd consider the following to be the ones most worth watching: Captain America: The First Avenger Guardians of the Galaxy (if you like this one, then also watch the sequel) Ant-Man (if you like this one, watch Ant-Man and Wasp too) Spider-Man: Homecoming (if you like this one, watch Far From Home too) Thor: Ragnarok Black Panther Captain Marvel And the four Avengers movies and Captain America: Civil War, which are the big crossover movies. You should probably also watch Captain America: The Winter Soldier because most people love it and I seem to be the only one who thinks it "meh."

=TransMonk post_id=30633 time=1580224183 user_id=71] Universal DH coming...I'm surprised it took so long. I'd like it more if it was part of radical change to the game. Geographically realign, get rid of the NL/AL, unbalance the schedules to reduce travel by playing bulk of games in division, shorten the season to 156 games with regularly scheduled off days and double headers. I think someone here (FK?) linked to an article last year that talked about blowing up the league in order to start fresh now that everyone would be playing by the same rules, but I can't find it now.

Frayed Knot wrote: Not being a Catholic I'm not always up on the history of the church ... but I would have thought there were way more than just two popes. But two popes alive at the same time is much more rare, about a 600 year gap.

I really want this to be a mistaken identity comedy.

Coming this summer to Cooperstown, NY: WOODSTOCK FOR DOUCHEBAGS!!!