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What was the question? WAS it a stupid question? like when the reporter asked a then underaged Bryce Harper if he was drinking. "Did you hear the boos when you struck out there?" "No man, i lost my hearing" "So you didn't hear them." "Come on man, that's a stupid question." "Why is it a stupid question?" Nick, to the other reporters "Can anyone else answer that for him? Anybody? Yeah man, it's a stupid question." "it's not a stupid question.' if it's a stupid question you should be equip to answer it"

I think the Mets have been hostile to the media for roughly 10 years, especially once Sandy left the first time, and mostly the media just seems to take it except every once in a while they get uppity about it, and it feels like they do it at all the wrong times. I didn't see the Buck thing so I don't want to try to assign a hostility ranking to that, but I DO wish the media would press him, hostile or not, on what exactly is McNeil's situation, because THAT is something that has value to readers/viewers, but it just doesn't happen.

the Mets have a 8.5 game lead over St Louis for the last playoff spot. Fangraphs has them at 99.7% to make the playoffs (and 63.8% for the division) I've seen nothing from this front office that suggests I think they're going to over-invest on turning at 63.8 into a 73.8, particularly with that safety net. They might not out and out state that the return on investment isn't worth it (though Cohen kinda did last year, and was probably wrong), but I suspect they're thinking it. I don't think we see Alvarez move for instance, nor get called up. They aren't willing to admit the sunk cost of James McCann yet, and he'll be back soonish.

=metsmarathon post_id=100995 time=1658855207 user_id=83] there's 66ish games left in the season, meaning the available innings left in the season are 69% as many as those already pitched.

do you have a link to the press conference out of curiosity? I find most of them pretty boring, so I don't regularly consume them.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Hostility and saying the reporter is stupid is what Nick Castellano did this weekend. I know that because he said "that's a stupid question" then proceeded to denigrate both the reporter and the question once there was pushback. nah asking a player "did you hear the boos?" is essentially saying "hey man, they think you sucked tonight, did you know that?" and then, after he responds sarcastically, which is still a valid response, you PRESS HIM FURTHER. like "no, fuck you, really tell me about how you sucked tonight" and then, after that, one of the other media members in the clubhouse insults and denigrates one of the female reporters there. and people wonder why players are hostile to the media. But Jim Salisbury got his sound byte and gets to be part of the story I guess, so good for him.

just fwiw, Jacob deGrom has the 14th most IP from 2015-2022 among 309 qualified pitchers.

I don't buy #5 as an excuse. If a trade was IMMINENT you keep him out the lineup that day, but this is still a pennant race and with the game on the line in the 9th inning if he is still on the roster, which he was, he is hitting there. Not buying #6 either. Nido's career is best defined as prolonged slump. a slumping McNeil still should hit there. it needs to be injury related. yeah. he'd have been traded by now if it was #5, or at least, we'd have news. 6 is the same argument as "clutch". Slumps only exist in the past, they don't come to the plate (unless you get in your own head, but that's a different argument) with you the same way 3 heads in a row on a coin don't mean you're likely to flip a head again. Your season/career numbers are more predictive of your next AB than your last 3 AB (don't tell Apple/nVenue). They've just been weird around his hamstring. He's been rested for "wear and tear" on his legs. for "a breather". They sat him for over a week due to hamstring tightness, something that doesn't really fully clear up in a week usually. He didn't play the 8th or the 9th in front of being placed on the Paternity list on the 11th (I know kids aren't a "break" but you'd think he could play and get the physical baseball break during paternity leave right?) And then he sat again yesterday in the second game back? Doesn't seem like his body responded well to that first game right?

no, i mean he's been banged up a lot and all we get from buck is stuff about "managing workload" non-answers. Is he hurt? is he not hurt? who knows! He's played some and been active for the ASG which means me think he's NOT hurt unless it's one of those things that flares up sometimes and not others? I think back to guys like Cespedes who the Mets were managing through a condition that they were aware of for years but we never knew about it. Good days/Bad days kind of thing.

McNeil has been Schrödinger's hurt for months. but you cant' let Nido bat there. Gary was opening questioning if he was even healthy enough to swing the bat (which he did) during AB. So a bad hitter with an injury is who we're giving those AB too.

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now _this_ one i'm confident they overpaid for. I don't particularly care that they overpaid ,because it's less money to him than I just spent on two fit bits, but he's really bad and the main benefit of this is he has probably the best first name there is.

will Davis shouldn't be platooned, so there's that. for instance, Davis should've been in there last night, not random minor leaguer.

more I think on this, the more I sour on it. It's spending a reliever on a recency bias bet, and I'm not sure I'd even confidently bet Vogelbach would be better than J.D. Davis the rest of the way.

it's just that with deGrom the "upside" is so great so it makes you want to not look too hard. Kind of like looking at the weather before a regular season softball game and looking at the weather before a week-long beach trip. One's gonna bum you out a little more if things don't go your way.

they catch the balls that don't go out. I can't recall who they are, family, local little league, etc. But it's not like they're bumbling toddlers and it's not like there's much risk of real injury 300+ feet from home plate. I could probably do the physics if I thought about it, but it's been going on for decades and it's not like we have injuries piling up out there. I wonder if he was anti expanded netting. I could see him being, and it'd be quite hypocritical.

Did he just discover that there are kids in the outfield? Does he understand physics at all? Did someone give him some prozac so he briefly came out of a blind rage enough to glimpse a moment of baseball of the last 40 years and kids in the outfield of the HRD is what he saw? It's absurd that anyone let that guy have more than a 15 second rant on the worst WFAN show.

true of literally every pitcher though.

=nymr83 post_id=100466 time=1658363569 user_id=54] =kcmets post_id=100392 time=1658329808 user_id=53] This is why no one will hire me to be their agent.

so is he. Edgy MD wrote: Well, I'm working for free here, Ceets. Hey, look! kcmets has 6666 posts! guess he has to stop..or make 3 more I guess.

some people enjoy the hustle bustle nonsense fantasy trade scenarios that this time of year brings, and this is all that is. Boring. Let me know when a new player is a Met and I'll watch them.

If he doesn't pitch at all again this year, he'd get a Thor deal - one year, $20M, and then see what happens. will the Mets GM get himself fired and the Mets will take the month off and he'll walk then or.. but he won't opt out if he doesn't pitch. also I'm not worried about "soreness" after dialing back up, but it's hard to know if that's the truth of it, because the Mets don't release information and we don't have any reporters that are more than aggregators. They could've just held the news and had him pitch on friday or whenever. And leaking it DURING the ASG is odd timing.

Wayne Kirby apparently had surgery today to remove some cancer.

That's fine. Gimme Lindor every time.