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46. Botty McBotface wrote: Don't worry Mets fans, your team's gonna clinch the East The Nationals are in a slump and the Braves are in a funk So sit back and enjoy the show As the Mets take first place!

cowards.

Something crazy would have to happen I think. 92% to win the division on Fangraphs, against the defending world champs. Of course, depends on the specific voters too.

The media loves him. Maybe if like, the Padres came back and won the division or something, but I can't think of any other good candidates.

I've used it as my "intro music" when starting my pub quiz nights this year too. Catchy AF. We need post reactions up in here so I can give this a 👍🏻 or a 🤘🏻 What do you think this is, 2022? just be thankful you can make those symbols at all! you can do gifs though, so you're one-up on facebook I guess. https://c.tenor.com/BCZb5mOO80QAAAAd/the-wolf-of-wall-street-clap.gif>

I'll posit when the lead in the loss column is equal to or above the number of games left with that team, plus the numbers of weeks remaining. Is 7 > 7+ 9? No, but after next week's games, it might be getting close. Mets have 7 left with the Atlanta club, if they gain 2 through that time span we're getting real close.

47, with 53 games to play, fwiw. 43 for the playoffs.

I want rally trumpets for the playoffs, not towels

=smg58 post_id=102906 time=1659968954 user_id=62] As for Dom Smith... I don't see how he avoids getting non-tendered at this point. I'd have thought, since he's re-habbing, that somebody might have been willing to take a stab at him for the remaining six weeks or so (assuming the Mets eat his contract for the remainder of this year) and see if he shows signs of life with full-time play (sort of a lease with an option to buy), but I guess nothing worked out.

sure, but it certainly hurts their trade value when they suck AND are injured.

I know he was on the injured list, but would've been interesting to see if the Mets tried to trade McCann. THAT would've been a bold commitment.

Because he's the wealthiest owner in baseball, for starters. Because this is just Cohen's second full season and you can't build Rome in a day. All I can reasonably hope for is that there's a contending team on the field. Post-season is mostly luck. And this year, we have more than a contending team. But much of the staff is the same. It's still Sandy making the same Sandy comments and moves. There may be overlap but I doubt that working under Cohen is anything like working under the Wilpons. Those fucking scumbags with their Walmart-like budget for the Rick Porcellos because why re-sign the way better Zack Wheeler? The Wilpons? Who, right after the last free agent was signed, would come out and claim that the budget was unlimited and that Alderson could've signed anybody he wanted to to as much money as he wanted to and all he had to do was ask? Jeff? Who probably micro-managed the number of cheeseburgers Sandy ate from the Citi Field Shake Shack? Apples and Oranges. Sure. But i'm not convinced by anything I've seen that Cohen isn't just as big a scumbag. The money is important, and so far he's done some moves the Wilpons probably wouldn't, especially coming off 2020/Covid. He had the benefit of not personally taking that "hit" because he didn't buy until after. But the actual nuts and bolts running of the team, particularly long-term and developmentally? I still have questions. Never mind the hiring scumbags, then hiring scumbags to see if you should fire the first scumbag, and then taking a year to quietly fire said scumbag.. And that's aside from the revolving door of GMs. We went real fast from "no one wants to work for the Mets" to them hiring Eppler and then no one seemingly questioning if those two things are related, Eppler's history, or if he even has autonomy. Eppler citing last year's thinking when he wasn't here as part of the decision making process this year kinda suggests he's at least heavily listening to someone else when making these calls.

New York City is home to the second-largest Taiwanese American population, after the Los Angeles metropolitan area, California, enumerating an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 individuals as of 2020. Disappointing, but not surprising really. Anything for a buck. see also: Chick Fil-A ads still there on Pride Night. I know some bristled at the Amway deal for grift/pyramid scheme reasons, though that was the last group. Similar grifty things with selling NFTs of Tom Seaver. The military has been using sports for the same reasons for decades. And these are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head and am aware of. I'm sure there are dozens more. But I guess they're also having a "Taiwan day" later on this month? (Which just suggests it's "anything for a buck" with these things more than a tacit approval of communism and China) A portion of each ticket sold through this special online offer will benefit Give2Asia, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, supporting Taiwan-based charities. Though the dropdown for Give2Asias lists it as "China - Taiwan" which doesn't seem to suggest this a particularly separate donation, but they seem like standard "people level" type support at least. I have no idea how reputable Give2Asia is or what portion of sales is actually going there though. That's often part of the "sportswashing" stuff, big publicity that doesn't match the amount actually donated.

I mean, yeah, that's what Soto does for a team. He's freaking Juan Soto. (and hey, the Dodgers supposedly tried for that too!) My point is the Mets _do_ have holes, and then did less to fill them than all their competition. Maybe they were good enough, it's certainly possible, but that doesn't mean it was a good trade deadline or that I'm wrong to be annoyed that they didn't do more to maximize their chances in 2022. This is after they made similar calculus last year, and that time it definitely didn't work. And I don't think it reflects well on their decision that part of the justification was them second-guessing the decisions they made just last year. Sure, that wasn't Eppler, but it WAS Sandy, and others are the same as well, who aren't as prominent.

I don't feel like rehashing the [CROSSOUT]deadline[/CROSSOUT]offseason, some non-moves worked out (like McNeil bouncing back, MeGill pitching amazing, etc. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/which-teams-improved-the-most-at-the-trade-deadline/https://blogs.fangraphs.com/which-teams-improved-the-most-at-the-trade-deadline/ Here's a link to ZiPS before/after the deadline. Mets went from 81.6% to win the division, to 79.4, 15.6% to win the World Series, to 14.9. This speaks not just to the relative quality of the moves they made, but in comparison what the teams they'll have to face were doing.

Already being a good team hides a lot of mistakes, but that doesn't mean they're not there, and that we shouldn't look for them to be corrected.

Canha is unequivocally the better player, i know you struggle with that concept re: trading nobodies for established major leaguers, but small sample results not withstanding, if you routinely play the lesser player, you end up with a lesser team. Naquin was a decent pickup around the edges, they should be careful not to over expose him, and it's surprising to see in perhaps the biggest game of the year so far that you don't play the better guy. I don't trust our useless beat guys to ask/press Buck on this though, so we'll probably never know if there was a baseball reason behind it, something about Atlanta's pitch profile matching Naquin's swing profile, etc, if they're even aware of that sorta thing.

the mets could have a 6-7 year window, or a 1-year window, depending on how hard they went at this trade deadline. i think they're looking at this team as capable of competing this year, but also being a juggernaut moving forward with the good prospects they have just about to ripen. alvarez, baty, vientos, and mauricio could all be playing in flushing next year, which frees up a fair bit of capital to throw at pitchers. i like what they're doing in this regard. penciling in those guys as replacements for our offense from this year is what cheap teams do. Even if it frees up the budget for "pitching" I don't know if there's that much pitching available compared to what they're going to potentially lose. At least in the sense that the Mets aren't going to be the only ones after them ,and letting them all happen in free agency means having to overpay for all of them and you STILL might not get them all. There's a lot of turnover coming, which is why fumbling the offseason AGAIN with the GM, and then doing nothing of significance, AGAIN, at the trade deadline is problematic. There's no redundancy or overlap and that's how one failed FA or a key injury at the wrong time derails your plans.

So just dumb then.

uh, Naquin? Is Canha hurt or are we just dumb?

why are you confident? Because he's the wealthiest owner in baseball, for starters. Because this is just Cohen's second full season and you can't build Rome in a day. All I can reasonably hope for is that there's a contending team on the field. Post-season is mostly luck. And this year, we have more than a contending team. But much of the staff is the same. It's still Sandy making the same Sandy comments and moves. They're on their...4th? GM and he's putting out lame excuses, even that article by DiComo seems negative, and quotes Andrew Friedman: "If you're always rational about every free agent, you will finish third on every free agent.” I trust Friedman's view of things above literally anyone in the Mets front office right now. And Eppler can talk about "future championship value" all he wants, The Mets have A LOT of expiring contracts that will be tough to fill, even if you were gonna spend another $100 million next year. That means they're tentatively banking on MeGill and Peterson to be key pieces.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=102270 time=1659639359 user_id=68] He's only been here for a short while. We won't become the Dodgers in a season or two. But I'm confident that we're on the way.

Sure, you can get food poisoning from the best chef in the world, but if my goal is a superlative meal, that chef has served 100s of them, and I've served a handful. I know which odds I'd like. I mean, the Mets could put ME up there in the bottom of the 9th to close out a 1 run game with 2 outs, bases loaded and the batter could hit my meatball 140mph and so straight that it literally hits Lindor's glove right in the pocket, and we win... ..but I'd still rather we upgrade that position.