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A Boy Named Seo wrote: Ceetar wrote: Should I point out that I helped with an e-book that's basically this? http://beergraphs.com/bg/995-the-baseball-lovers-guide-to-craft-beer/ Yes, you def should. Curious, does or will that e-book get updated? I'm sure lots o beers get added everywhere, every season. You'd have to ask Eno, but I'm unaware of any attempts to update it right now. I've only closely studied Citi/NYC but things have already significantly changed since then.

Should I point out that I helped with an e-book that's basically this? http://beergraphs.com/bg/995-the-baseball-lovers-guide-to-craft-beer/

Worst is when it's a sneaky music thread.

41Forever wrote: The foul ball to the face type of injuries and collisions are things that just happen. But it seems like we have an abnormal number of soft tissue injuries. I'm in no way an expert in these kinds of things. But it does seem like whatever they are doing now isn't working. I went to some spring games this year and was surprised by the size of the Barwis building that's attached to the stadium. I don't know if it was there before and re-purposed for Barwis or is a new build, but it seems like a pretty big operation. they did do recent renovations.

I feel about Ramirez much the same was as Terry. I think they're probably 'fine' and probably have benefits I don't know about. There are top-flight guys out there that would do a much better job but I don't have faith in the Mets finding/hiring them. I don't know about Barwis though. I know a lot of other people use him as well, and hell, a lot of Mets were using him already and would presumably continue to do so if the Mets removed him from PSL. The benefit of hiring him was having him in house and under the same roof so that your players are nearby and not in Michigan.

I think I'm gonna get facepaint and a basic coconut hat thing and just do that. Or I could go as Maui but apparently that's "cultural appropriation" or something.

Fman99 wrote: I think my first multi game IGT streak of 2017. deGrom vs. Ben Lively (I don't know who that is). Normal 7 PM ish start. Well, he's not dead.

I enjoyed this. was fun. Ceetarette was iffy about it at first but she happily rewatched it in one sitting so she must have liked it a bit at least. Which is good because we're going to a Moana themed twins 4th birthday party in a few weeks. Anyone know where I can get a coconut costume to dress up as a Kakamora?

roughly 6 months to Spring Training. I assume our hopes and prognosis for Conforto isn't going to change until(if?) he starts doing baseball activities then.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I was on Team Ordonez. My optimism got the better of me, but my thought was, he's got the ability to get better offensively and would remain good defensively. But neither thing happened. Plus A-Rod turned out to be a fraud and a burden on every team that had him. meh, I mean, there IS an argument that they should've have spent that type of money on one player, but they were coming off a WS and do probably at least make the playoffs with A-Rod in 2001. That income pays for A-Rod, especially if they could've maintained it into 2002-2003. And A-Rod was definitely worth it for the Yankees (And the Mariners) and wasn't really any more of a fraud than anyone else. Imagine a world where the A-Rod led Mets destroy the Yankees in the WS and the entire 2002 season is framed as a potential Subway Series rubber game? (on the other hand, there may have been an untold amount of violence at the interleague subway series in 2002 if that happened) Hell, imagine the sickening syrupy prose in which a 2001 Subway Series is "healing" New York. Join us as we rage against the idiot national media who suggest we don't care who wins.

Zvon wrote: Any stats on how many runs Rey-Rey saved with his slick fielding? Didn't get Defensive Runs Saved stats until 2002 and it lists 0 there, so I'm not sure how accurate that is. His Def score on Fangraphs had him at 18.4 that year for a total of fWAR of 0.8 accounting for offense (so net positive, but barely) The only year he was actually good was 1999 when it has him at 3 fWAR. That was good for the 9th highest among SS behind Mark Grudzielanek

Edgy MD wrote: No buzz on Shohei Otani, Jim? gimme gimme gimme. but do the Mets want him to pitch or hit?

Maybe the market wasn't there, but they DIDN'T trade deGrom. That's the surest sign that they intend to need top flight SP in the near future. If Amed Smith are real major leaguers, the Mets will be in a pretty good spot.

Rays and Duda aren't quite out of it, but I'm mostly for Beltran and the Astros, and hey, "our city is wrecked!" narrative. Not necessarily this weekend though.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I think I read that the only other outfielder on the 40-man roster is Wuilmer Becerra, and he's all the way down in Single A. So to get an outfielder onto the major league roster they'd have to tinker with the 40-man. Release Jose Reyes. done.

Chad Ochoseis wrote: And, as someone (Ceetar, I think) pointed out once, the better the team plays, the more value we can get for our guys in an offseason trade. So there's some marginal value to winning besides the intrinsic value that winning always has. It's just not very much. Well, we can rout for Flores to hit 15 more home runs and not care if it makes the Mets win or not. I know I've pondered if there is a marked difference in advertising and season ticket revenue for next season for say a 76 win second place finish versus a 71 win fourth place finish. I suspect .500 has sailed, but I feel like finishing as a 'winning season' gives more faith that next season will be better.

Almost no shot at the record, but would be one of the largest totals in a while, so that's cool. Love this crazy streak he's on.

Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, I'm talking about an interim appointment. And yeah again, I'm certainly not advocating that a strong performance by the team should lead to the organization rewarding the interim manager or staff with the job, a la Jerry Manuel. It's that worry that makes me hesitant though! Do you trust the Mets to not just take the interim? (And don't you risk losing the interim guy if you don't then give him the job?)

yeah, but you generally get more time to conduct an exhaustive search for a excellent guy in the offseason. Unless they want to give a guy a month just for that guy's sake (not for the job here, but elsewhere) But even if you did want to like, give Viola the pitching coach job, I think the adage about not trusting April/Sept stats is valid for coaches too.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I hate that he's gotta twist in the wind like this. Mets and he should get out in front and make it seem like it's his decision to spend more time with the grandkids and therefore is accepting a senior advisor role and a seat on the board of directors. It's possible they've talked to him. Maybe he's not twisting. Maybe they're waiting to see if he even wants to come back. But yeah, if they're going to move on (and I think if they move on it should mean ALL the coaches too) to hopefully someone better, certainly don't make him twist.

d'Kong76 wrote: What's the buzz on Conforto? dislocated shoulder.

Meh, Simpsons is basically acceptable lexicon now imo.

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Centerfield wrote: It's crazy. I feel like you go into a subject with a preconception, read whatever is presented to you, then come out with the same conclusion regardless of the news might say. I go into everything looking for facts. My spidey-sense goes up when I hear LOLMets style coverage that doesn't fit the facts or contradicts itself. It's pretty clear. Matz pitched through pain all year. It affected him during, and between starts, to varying degrees of severity. Instead of persisting until they found an answer, they told him to grit his teeth and fight through it. It's clear he pitched through pain, at various times. To varying degrees of success too. You can argue they should've shut him down and run every test imaginable until they got a conclusive answer, but you can't argue that that's the ONLY way to handle it, nor even that Matz would've consented to it. He didn't have the same symptoms as deGrom, so besides the idea that "hey, here is a thing that happens to a small subset of pitchers" there wasn't necessarily an obvious medical reason to go to the hospital to have an ultrasound-guided needle shoved into his arm to inject a numbing agent into a nerve. They DIDN'T tell him to grit his teeth and pitch through it. One singular person, somewhere in the organization, said that the topic of learning to pitch with pain could be something that Matz needs to figure out. There is no indication that they said this to Matz. That they said this to Warthen or Collins. That it's even someone with more authority than the intern getting the GM coffee. And in truth, it's a reasonable thought to a clean MRI post-surgery, if one that should ultimately be dismissed when the pain doesn't get better/change after a few starts. In the end, he was hurt. In the same exact way deGrom was hurt. It's foolish. Anyway, surgery was a success. Let's hope he has the same results as deGrom. I mean, clearly there should've just queried the diagnostic computer inside Matz's elbow and asked it what error it was showing. I'm not sure it's actually foolish to pitch a guy who DOESN'T have any elbow damage and is still throwing fine and is responding to pain meds and even had a stretch of success with that protocol.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Ceetar wrote: I want to sneak one more game in if only for the sake of picking up an Apple ice cream dish. But thinking 9/10 for fidget spinner might be my only chance. I got an apple ice cream dish last night. I just figured it was a different shape than the helmet cup but be warned there's like 4 pounds of soft serve in there, and on a warm night that shit will melt much faster than you can eat it, if you can eat it. I was intending to bring a 3 year old ice cream monster to help.