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Benjamin Grimm wrote: I remember thinking about creating a medieval Mets baseball card for Schaefer years ago. It was going to be an R.A. Dickey card (which shows how long ago it was) but I never got around to it. I tried to do this for you in Dall-E, but it objected to..something. DICKey probably. changed it to "of knuckleball pitcher #43" Dunno why it insists on only drawing 90% of the card. [FIMG=300]http://www.ceetar.com/optimisticmetsfan/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/DALL·E-2022-09-01-13.39.21-Medieval-New-York-Mets-Baseball-card-of-knuckleball-pitcher-43-from-the-middle-ages.png[/FIMG]

Willets Point wrote: Willets Point wrote: Going to my first Mets game since 2019 on Sunday, September 4. So with the US Open going on next door, just how early should I be aiming to arrive at Citi Field? Looks like game is 1:40, US Open has rounds at 11, and 7pm. Depends on how early you'd like to be there. The traffic from the US Open should be minimal. The US Open site says they won't be parking people in the Citi Field lot that day, but that's only for people that listen to the people directing traffic, which has always been the WRONG thing to do in the 25 years I've been driving to Mets games. But, that should mean minimal people parking in the Citi lots, so it should be somewhat normal, if you can, enter/exit on the Shea Rd site, not the Roosevelt Av side, and know where you need to go to get away from the stadium when you leave, because the people directing you are idiots and you can easily end up literally just circling Citi Field.

http://www.ceetar.com/optimisticmetsfan/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/DALL·E-2022-09-01-10.01.03-New-York-Mets-World-Series-Baseball-Card-from-the-year-1517.png> Today's card. A World Series card from 1517 since Frayed Knot likes those designs better.

via CBS: "Homeless? Have you tried THINKING?"

[attachment=0]MetsCard.jpg[/attachment] You can draw 'em too. This is from the 1980s of Mr. Met.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: What was the prompt that you gave to DALL-E for these? It's inthe url, but New York Mets MLB baseball card from the year 1516 Had to replace New York with "A futuristic Mercury" to get ones from 2499. [FIMG=400]http://www.ceetar.com/optimisticmetsfan/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/DALL·E-2022-08-29-23.02.23-A-futuristic-Mercury-Mets-MLB-baseball-card-from-the-year-2499.png[/FIMG] Inspired by this thread from Randall Munroe doing Pokémon cards.

http://www.ceetar.com/optimisticmetsfan/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/DALL·E-2022-08-29-23.03.10-A-New-York-Mets-MLB-baseball-card-from-the-year-1516.png> Another Mets card from 1516

it's a Mets baseball card from 1516.

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My point was he should've been a regular. And yes, they should've played him as the DH more often than not. He was league average for the Mets this year, though there were some stretches where he was hitting it real hard and not getting good results. Again, not surprised that that bad luck turned around. Hell, Davis' .364 OBP since 2019 is tied for 7th with McNeil, only .001 behind Conforto and Guillorme. Baez's small sample was an outlier, and Canha and Nimmo are good. Vogelbach's .388 won't hold up either. He's been right there. Davis was solid and reliable in a way that guys like Vogelbach and Ruf and Naquin just haven't shown they can be. I worry those guys are going to get exploited and exposed by better teams with deep playoff bullpens that make it harder to force the platoon advantage all game.

=Gwreck post_id=105836 time=1661913131 user_id=56] =bmfc1 post_id=105825 time=1661911552 user_id=73] (seriously, why did they think he was better than JD?).

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that's exactly what's going to happen, regardless. The hope would be that once they're "signed up" in whatever form, they'd then be able to bargain for real minor league protections. But does that mean mostly status quo until the next CBA? There's a lot of legal/labor nuance here. I can't help but think MLBPA is just thinking the minor leaguers unionizing separately from them is not a good thing for them, so they're trying to take control. If I had to take a guess at how this shakes out, it's probably as all the minor leaguers represented as an internal group with their own leadership that essentially functions as one unit/vote. There was a group, "Advocates for Minor leaguers" doing some of this sort of labor work, and they've all resigned to officially take real positions with the union. Reads to me like they're going to be the umbrella under which the minor league players fall. But having that group/block and all these people as "preliminary" members or whatever it ends up being, ultimately forces the union to actually care about the issues there. Now I'd say also invite all the indie leagues in on a similar preliminary type deal. Cut off the owners from trying to steal players from the indie leagues instead of paying minor leaguers. You want a baseball player for your team? You gotta go through the union.

as I understand it, they're not offering them membership so much as asking them to designate the MLBPA their collective bargaining agency. I don't know specifically what the plan is, but it doesn't sound like "equal membership" It's a good play, and hopefully they can get it done right. Owners in all industries across the country have been engaging in all sorts of union busting wage-suppressing nonsense, and I can absolutely see MLB hinting to high schoolers that won't get drafted if they talk to the union.

school doesn't start in NY for a week and a half. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FbXlWZ7WYAAFKsp?format=png&name=large> I'm ready! Let's do this!

=kcmets post_id=104594 time=1660938717 user_id=53] Magic Eight Ball, how many Kabooms will the Mets hit tonight? Seven, of course! It has spoken.

please don't ask what area Alan Butts is supervising.

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I assume they're just better at evading PED testing. I mean, what other explanation is there? I mean, their media guide has three guys employed as "Urine Sample Providers" so..

Lindor's 2019 was his career average wRC+ of 118. His 2019-through to 6/1 when the article was written, he had a 106 wRC+. .328 OBP. (career .343) 12 fWAR in those three years btw. Yes, that's a little down? But those are arbitrary end points. So in the first two months of his Mets career, Lindor had a .212 BABIP with a 89.8 average EV. (his career BABIP is just below .300 and his EV is 89.9. So he's still hitting the ball hard, but it's not finding dirt. His BB% for his career, 8.6% and it was 11.5% in the first two months of 2021. K% career average. It's really just the power. His HardHit% was 41.4% in those months, compared to 38.6% career. His Barrel percentage was down, and his LA down about a degree and a half, but I can't see how to look at these numbers and think Lindor is done. My first thought is new team, new coaching, maybe there was something he was trying to work on with the Mets that wasn't working for him. Anyway, after those first two bad months, Francisco Lindor has hit .278/.347/.475 for a wRC+ of 135. He's 6th. 6th!!!! in fWAR this season. in the Majors. I saw some chatter about Alonso not getting enough MVP discussion, it's LINDOR who should be getting the MVP discussion, but I know voters don't like to factor in defense. We do not appreciate Francisco Lindor enough. As for Díaz? Well, we know the 2019 ball was a gopher ball, and he's hardly alone in struggling with it. After that he mostly returned to form, being a high-K, high-BB guy that was really good. It wasn't until this year when he was able to keep the slider closer to the zone, and down, to stop walking guys. There could be ball-changes there too, I haven't actually looked into if there's been more break or anything like that, or what it is that is keeping the walks away.

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=batmagadanleadoff post_id=104348 time=1660784756 user_id=68] =seawolf17 post_id=104345 time=1660784309 user_id=91] Hey, I think I rooted for Italy last time. Who gives a crap?

We'll see the rosters, might be rooting against him, but still fun.

next year's.