Ceetar

meh. also, home runs plummeted back to 'normal' in 1988.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Maybe it is the ball, but I have my doubts. Everyone was talking about a "juiced ball" in 1987 and we know, in retrospect, what was really happening. we do?

https://theringer.com/2017-mlb-home-run-spike-juiced-ball-testing-reveal-155cd21108bc

Nimmo is 24th worst of 101 qualifying batters in SLG. in the PCL.

G-Fafif wrote: climbing over us in Loge to lower themselves down in to Field Level. I'd forgotten about this 'secret' section upgrade.

Finally getting to a game. leveraging Father's Day and going Sunday. Just me and the very recently potty trained older one, so we'll see how this goes.

Lester finally picked off a guy the other day. it'd been years.

Edgy MD wrote: The Nats have shown heart, pulling ahead 9-8 in the ninth. heart don't mean nuttin' when you have a garbage bullpen.

Conforto has a stiff back. Flores scheduled day off.

Edgy MD wrote: I suspect it's in part Terry having cold feet about Conforto in center. so bench Bruce. he's garbage and Granderson has been our best hitter for a month.

Granderson CF Walker 2B Cespedes LF Bruce RF Duda 1B Cabrera SS d'Arnaud C Reyes 3B deGrom RHP

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Today is the first time I've checked this year, because I know the news isn't going to be particularly good, but Baseball Prospectus has the odds of the Mets making the postseason is 9.9%. 2.9% for a division title, 6.9% for a Wild Card. It's 6.3% to advance to the NLDS and 0.5% to win the World Series. If they push this winning streak to 11 expect that postseason chance to jump to 55 or so.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: What the hell is going on in this league? 3 weeks ago I was trying to start a Fire Sale (Ceetar never responded to a generous trade offer to kick it off) this morning I'm a half-point out of first place, which is as close as the Lunchladies have ever been this deep into a season (top 5 teams are very close right now) and I forgot to activate Matz yesterday. My thought was, "these other teams couldn't possibly suck as much as mine does" but I guess you do. All that said, open to offers on intriguing property in exchange for same and where I can I save a buck. In general I'd like an elite shortstop and have homer-hitting first basemen up the wazoo Sorry. I'm sorta fried and overwhelmed, I didn't even notice your offer until you canceled it. I'm actually thinking of giving up fantasy altogether after this season.

It's a pretty good movie all in all.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Worth noting (especially with the impending return of Yo): Granderson has been hitting lefties and everyone else much, MUCH better than Bruuuuuce since April's end. Like, nearly 200 points of OPS better. Hell, HR numbers be damned, he's even outslugging the guy. Also worth noting: a Cespedes-Granderson-Conforto OF is likely much better defensively than a Ces-Conforto-Bruce one. Trade them both! Yo-Juan-Mike

Edgy MD wrote: I don't get the idea that we've been bunting a great deal. 10th in baseball with 29 Bunt Attempts, which I think might not be measuring successful sacrifices? not sure. We're near the bottom in sacrifice bunts, but I don't know if that's because we suck at it or because our pitchers are getting bombed and lifted before they get to try to bunt or Rene Rivera is simply making out and leaving them with no one to bunt. but I was talking theoretically anyway about a future manager and his game philosophy.

d'Kong76 wrote: Ceetar wrote: Bruce is garbage and has always been garbage. I thought your response at the time was unnecessarily strong... he's been an all-star a couple of years. He's hit two garbage-y ding dongs this evening. I may have exaggerated for effect. TRADE HIM NOW WHILE HE LOOKS GOOD. His defense though, garbage.

DocTee wrote: Do you think they're watching the game on their phone, or using the device to video-record an historic moment? recording, tweeting, interacting with friends and fans and watching highlights and looking up stats and talking about the game. Some of them are probably doing other things, particularly in the rich seats.

MFS62 wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I disagree that "He has taken months to decide whether he can't play any more, and he still hasn't done it." He has decided, and continues to decide, that he can. Take that sentence out and my message still stands. He hasn't demonstrated his qualifications to be the next manager of the Mets. I don't think managing a major league team is a learn-on-the-job position. Later honestly I'll take anyone willing to learn, whether it's on the job or not, over someone who thinks we should do things like they were in 1960. (i.e. stop with all the bunting and IBB and stop giving free bases and outs)

d'Kong76 wrote: Building a mall there would have been financial disaster before the last slab of cement dried. Malls are almost as out of style as Jeff's hairdo (or whatever that thing is). I don't really get the whole thing, parking sucks as it is and they wanted to build a mall there? Apartments? A school? What's next, Madoff Amusement Park? Casino. Honestly I'd put 4:1 odds on Casino at this point.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: No the apps are amazing (if a bit evil). The truth is the market and huge growth is rewarding companies like MLB that have made big-ass innovative tech investments evil might be a stretch, I dunno. That we're going to be giving up a lot more personal data than ever before is inevitable, the question is going to be how do we protect and manage so that we can keep some modicum of privacy. like medical/genetic records to keep healthcare from dropping us based on our chromosomes? Though that's probably inevitable. If someone gets breast cancer, and has daughters insured with the same company, it's a pretty easy assumption of risk there, and they could drop you? Have companies done this yet? It's only a matter of time. I feel like we might need some sort of black box system. (In my imagination, we all have personal robotic "Alexa"s, and these robots can be authorized to temporarily communicate needed information to other companies, like MLB. But can also serve as a filter in return, so the Pirates might try to email you based on a vacation visit, but your own Alexa will know you have zero interest in seeing it and will block it)

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: MLB is all up my in my guts too. I hit a wrong button on my MLB phone app and so my phone thinks I'm an Indians fan. I foolishly "checked in" so Lunchpail could get a worthless orange dish towel the other night and my phone exploded. It's not exclusive to MLB, though they're definitely "cutting edge" with it. Most of it's garbage, but there is maybe interesting potential, especially to entice repeat visits to places like ballgames, breweries, etc.

Frayed Knot wrote: Well yeah, that too. But seriously, I'm watching the end of the Yanx/Red Sox last night and a crowd shot in the 9th inning shows the Boston fans behind the dugouts in YSIII all looking at the game through their phones. Now I know we live in a 'Pics or it didn't happen' society, but geez, you spend hundreds to get that seat so you can see a live baseball game and you're watching the crucial 2-out / one-run game Kimbrel vs Judge matchup through a screen approximately (quick guesstimation here) 1/150th the size of your home television. I don't get it. If the camera/broadcast is on those fans, you're not watching the game either are you? 95% of them looked up.

Frayed Knot wrote: If these batting gloves they wear are so tight that hitters have to pull them off one finger at a time and with great effort once they reach base, how come they need to be re-tightened after each pitch whether they swing at the pitch or not? And why would fans pay hundreds of dollars for a front row seat only to then watch the game through a 5 inch screen? and why won't they get off my lawn?

The Village Voice wrote: A 1961 law allowed that parkland to be used for stadium purposes, a cut-out that a mall would not have satisfied, the court found. I don't know why they didn't just call it the "Shea Stadium Mall at Citi Field" and include a covered walkway into Citi Field. suddenly it's part of the stadium. boom.