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I want everyone to just get into a nice groove, sweep or not. I worry this could be like the Coors Field effect, where batters tee-off against garbage pitching (or altitude suppressed pitching) And then when they get to Atlanta and the pitches break more, their timing is off.

Miami. Make the Dominican fans happy, and it's not like the Marlins care about winning.

Chad ochoseis wrote: Largely because he seldom swings at first pitches, I'm guessing. cat and mouse game as always. Take our free-swinging friend Javy Báez. He's swung at 139 and took 217 (Nimmo swung at 139, took 264 35% ish?) Nimmo is actually 40th on the Statcast Swing/Take leaderboard (i.e. does he make good swing/take decisions), behind Marte at 25 and Alonso at 13. You won't be surprised to learn much of Nimmo's swing/take value comes in the 'Chase' zone, specifically 'taking' in the chase zone. (The chase zone being pitches out of the strike zone, but still near it) Nimmo jumps up to 34th when we're just looking at the 'Take' leaderboard. He's still behind Alonso, and Lindor is 16th. He's one spot ahead of Judge here. Judge is second on the swing leaderboard, exclusively in the heart of the plate. If you throw a pitch there, he crushes it. This is why good pitchers like Scherzer have his number. If you can hit the black consistently, you got him.

Edgy MD wrote: Brandon Nimmo swinging at the first pitch is almost never good Brandon Nimmo. This year Nimmo is 41% better than the league on the first pitch, and 81% better than his season line. In PA when he SWINGS at the first pitch, he's 10% better than average, when he doesn't, he's 7% worse than average. Nimmo is 65% better than his career line on the first pitch. The 'if he swung or if he took' splits are basically neutral over a career

except in deGrom's mind. *Shrug*

It's a mild diuretic, but doesn't contribute to dehydration. Too much liquid.

=kcmets post_id=101473 time=1659132729 user_id=53] Drink more water!

better than Jon Rauch dousing sleeping Matt Harvey and his phone in ice water at least.

MLB cries poor if you make 'em re-seed ,because they might potentially have to secure hotel/facilities in MORE cities.

sorta invalidates best record, as long as you're top-2.

okay Plawecki, but tell us about the dildo.

There' a fine line of course, between not giving up strategy and not giving the fans the nuggets they want. Not pinch-hitting McNeil was a recent one, and as much as it's a strategy thing, it is also entertainment. You don't gotta be "well, actually he could barely stand his hamstring hurt so much" you can just be "we were committed to giving him the full day off". I don't care if he dodges non-questions like "did you have momentum?" those are just questions for a sound byte, and you'll get that regardless of what he says.

not sure whether this was addressed or not...or where I should discuss the topic...but since this is a Mark Canha related thread, I figured why not here... Anyone here watch the ESPN telecast on Sunday followed by the ESPN telecast last night? It was driving me nuts on Sunday (I didn't hear the Can"YA" in-game interview, I joined in later in the broadcast apparently) hearing the ESPN dorks saying "Can-YA" repeatedly when they would talk about Mar-con-a (as Gary usually calls him)... Apparently, Mrs Mar-con-a addressed the issue since then, basically saying that ESPN was wrong...and last night ESPN admitted that Mark played them for fools (without admitting that they made fools of themselves...just stating that if he went to Lisbon, it would be Mark Can"Ya")... They asked him about the pronunciation, he gave them the the heritage/Portuguese pronunciation but said "we're 4th generation American, we don't say it like that" they said "okay, but can we use that pronunciation tonight?" and he's like "sure, but you gotta use only the last name like i'm a european soccer player. or like Bono. just "Canya"" as a goof. Even the PA announcer got in on it. It was a goof, that's it. That was pretty clear. of course, ESPN also borked Lindor's name, so..

Frayed Knot wrote: Immediately after the end of the game the Yanx dealt 'a coupla prospects' to KCR for Andrew Benintendi. During the GMSIII era it would be safe to assume that the deal was made because of the results of the prior two games but it's more likely now that this was in the works for a while and has more to do with the Stanton injury (and injury history) than just a knee-jerk reaction. meh, but it's fun to tease them about how they realized they're not even the best team in NY and had to panic-buy a guy that's a danger to his teammates.

the real deal is just working off the post rumor right? It's apparently based off a PR pitch from Melinda Katz. https://www.fieldofschemes.com/2022/07/28/19064/is-nycfc-building-a-stadium-in-queens-reply-hazy-try-again-later/https://www.fieldofschemes.com/2022/07/28/19064/is-nycfc-building-a-stadium-in-queens-reply-hazy-try-again-later/ here's a decent article that breaks down what this means. (spoiler, nothing, it's the post) so let's leave it at this: Where there's the vague hint of smoke, sometimes there's fire, and sometimes there's just the feeble remnants of responsible journalism being burned to the ground in search of clicks. It, btw, links to this https://gothamist.com/news/how-a-mythical-soccer-stadium-became-queens-biggest-political-futbolgothamist post with a lot more "facts" about the situation, which at this point is 3.5 years old but has a nice breakdown of all the underhanded nonsense real estate/political channel/etc stuff going on. A lot has changed, Covid, etc, but nothing substantial. tl:dr is basically the people that want the stadium, the money, the go ahead to build, (Wilpon et al) are using the Post to push their agenda.

in their capacity as police officers? yes. we had a whole worldwide summer of protest about this.

then you've got blinders on.

apparently we're watching Incredibles on the main TV anyway, so yeah, Howie and Wayne rock.

the revenue from parking pales compared to the casino revenue. Probably build a few parking garages too I'd imagine. And valet.

the scumbag of a former cop, who's solution to fake crime statistics is to harass homeless people, was relevant to the conversation, as he's got sway in what happens here. Just the "he approves of the stadium" is relevant because there are only so many things you can put there, and mentioning one without talking about the affordable housing (you know, to put the homeless people you're trying to kill in) or the school, is relevant. This is NYC real estate, they're going to be fighting to maximize revenue/profit/riches/power and schools and affordable housing are roadblocks to them that they'd like to avoid, the only thing standing in the way is government regulations that are supposed to help protect citizens, but as we've seen from our favorite ex-cop asshole who lives in NJ, he doesn't care about them.

he's a cop. cops are pigs. and that's the nice word.

=Marshmallowmilkshake post_id=101197 time=1658945716 user_id=119] I saw big stretches of the iron triangle cleared when I was there this month. Is that the spot where this is all going?

A Boy Named Seo wrote: I really dig this guy. He was mic'd up the other night and said his last name is Portuguese and the "nh" is actually pronounced Caña. He said it should be pronounced like the Brazilian footballers (think Ronaldihno), and he even told the booth to drop his first name and simply refer to him as CANHA. I love it. Marysol Castro goofed on this later on in the game and announced him with that pronunciation in the stadium for his next AB.

and Cohen wants to build a casino (and probably will, since he's bribing the right people) you're not gonna recognize the place in 10 years.

There's close to zero chance he's gonna get shutdown if his arm didn't literally fall off in that start.