Ceetar

Nymr83 wrote: I'm all for stretching your pitcher when it matters, but i dont see the need for 116 pitches in an 11-0 game. he should have gone 7 and called it a night. there's no evidence that throwing another 30 pitches is actually in any way detrimental. and hell, it may help. Now he's sorta stretched out a little further and if he needs to throw 110 against the Nats he won't be stretching his endurance as much.

Edgy MD wrote: Unless they work real hard to hammer out a meaningful joint statement up front, one thing they'd have to lose is credibility as an organization that won't tolerate domestic assault. yes, meaningful joint statements fix everything.

Zvon wrote: 4-0 Metropolitans. Mets have 6 hits after 4 full, the Buccos have one lone hit they managed in the first inning. leading off at that. 15 straight set down.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: He can't replace Conforto. Conforto has a bat that, when right, can carry a team during hot streaks. . and when AGAINST right.

Edgy MD wrote: Possible. We'll see which. He's not the sort of bad and hopelessly getting worse that you need to make up a false injury to hide him, though. At his age, you can just demote him for a week. Might be for his benefit? Give him a week off , a week of rehab games, and he's back. I find it interesting that everyone seems/seemed so ready to roll with him to begin with.

Edgy MD wrote: I tend to think that Michael Conforto being treated for tendonitis > Michael Conforto having lost his swing. I think one might be cover for the other.

Ted Berg wrote: Hyperlocal you-are-old tweet: Mets no. 1 pick Justin Dunn was born in Freeport, but after Nunley's closed.

Edgy MD wrote: Making enough contact to get those 13 hits was nice, but it was against a pitcher who was utterly under water. Leaving him out there that long, and erasing their own base runners... the Brewers gave the Mets that game in a silver beer stein. indeed. would've preferred a few more home runs and a little less contact, but Cespedes is still scuffling some and Duda's out so you got more contact guys in there.

d'Kong76 wrote: Ceetar wrote: they don't actually own Kona/Redhook/Widmer, those are part of the Craft Brewers Alliance (BEER in stock terms, which I own) which Budweiser does own part of. I was intrigued and looked up BEER, it's the ticker symbol for "Tsingyuan Brewery Ltd., formerly Sabre Industrial, Inc. is a manufacturer and distributor of brewer's malt and beer throughout northern and eastern China." oops. BREW. https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:BREW

they don't actually own Kona/Redhook/Widmer, those are part of the Craft Brewers Alliance (BEER in stock terms, which I own) which Budweiser does own part of. That's somewhat confusing business stuff, but worth a distinction I think. But part of that ownership means getting linked into the distribution network. There's a much longer answer there, but I won't get into it. But yeah, they get you either way. That's their game. It's a problem. There's benefits to being able to get Goose Island's Sofie and Lolita at roughly every major league park, etc, but there are a lot of local beers that would be better that just don't get the opportunity. I mean, Singlecut in Queens is one of the best breweries in the city and not avail at Citi.

don't hate ,love. Pirates play Atari/Pacman in clubhouse, get busted by manager.

d'Kong76 wrote: Getting back to plastic, my guess is that these are public service ads and not paid advertising? Do the Mets/SNY have trouble selling ad space? They're NL Champs! In New York! maybe they signed a three year contract? I mean, it's probably no surprise that so many Citi ads changed this year. Pepsi, Party City, Caesar's.. added the Budweiser landing, because Budweiser is always glad to throw more money at teams in exchange for banishing craft beer.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Kelly Johnson for Akeel Morris is the deal, Rubes says. That's not very excirting. not particularly. I mean, he's a legitimate major leaguer, but I'm not sure another player actively slumping is going to help all that much.

I'd like a second source before I believe it. I'd also like someone to confirm the Braves have anyone worth trading for. Kelly Johnson? Freddy Freeman? Chase d'Arnaud? .... Jeff Francoeur?

d'Kong76 wrote: Ceetar wrote: Long flight to New York to play the Braves tomorrow. I think they're going to Milwaukee, and they're not the Braves anymore. I looked at the wrong week on my calendar.

Ashie62 wrote: Lets get one and hop on an airplane. LGM Long flight to New York to play the Braves tomorrow.

Frayed Knot wrote: Well that essentially has to be the target date now that he's started a rehab assignment which has a 20 day limit. The test comes when he starts throwing again. in which case he can be shut down again making the 'target date' moot and pointless.

Centerfield wrote: How much of a downer is that? Han, after all the character growth he supposedly went through, is hanging on as a septuagenarian smuggler? And Chewie is happy to be along for the same going-nowhere ride decades in, still looking for that one big score that can really save their necks? Without even their cool ship to brag about. I don't think Han went back to being who he was in ANH (answering ESS, not Edgy). He originally smuggled to find fortune. He's now smuggling to escape pain. Like I said before, taking our proud hero who was a general at the end of Episode 6, and bringing him back not as a dignified leader, but as a septuagenarian smuggler was a risk. In my opinion. So let's see where they take the story from here. If the main plot of the second movie is repeated attempts to escape the FO with the Falcon's malfunctions being a plot tool, and then capped off by a big reveal of family ties, then I think more will start falling in line with Vic. Centerfield wrote: 3. Daisy Riddle is a star. Tough, vulnerable, funny, compelling. You can't take her eyes off of her whenever she is on the screen. And it's not just because she's easy on the eyes. Even the way she eats her green meal on Jakku is compelling. If you asked me before the movie, who is worthy of taking over the Falcon, I would have said no one. Never. Impossible. But when she did it, it was seamless. When she called that lightsaber, it made you want to stand up and cheer. I agree with much of this. (Yes yes, it's like 7 months later and I _just_ saw it) the 'reboot' was kind of a given. They want to make Star Wars eternal, and so they tied into the first movie and want to build from there. Sure, if they'd just called it Star Wars without Leia/Han (and Luke?) we all would've seen it, but by directly tying into our emotional investment in those characters allows them to tie us to the new characters that are going to take the story forward. Rey taking over the Falcon (and Chewie!) was perfect. Like you said, there was no way to do that and they did. Now Chewie and the Falcon can exist in the other movies without feeling like they're just shoving them at us for nostalgia's sake. They're free to evolve. Han didn't regress, he basically became Obi Wan. Him reverting to smuggling wasn't a reboot, it was him retreating after his son/Protégé turned and his friend fled. (all the Jedi went into hiding) It's not surprising that there were a lot of similarities and overlaps for a movie in the same universe picking up after 30 years or so. (And how much time has passed in-universe? was that clear?) And yeah, they over did it. Let's make another Death Star, only BIGGER. They did abandon the 'find Luke' plot halfway through, and I could've done with some Luke scenes, some preview of episode 8 about what he's up to. I'd like to see less looking back in episode 8, but they still have a lot of explaining to do on what happened between then and now and what the world is like. There was A Lot of predictability to this movie, I felt like I knew the next lines multiple times, and I'm not even a big Star Wars geek. And there are going to be a lot of similarities in the next movie too, almost inevitably. I hope they break from the mold, but I'd be surprised if we don't get a Rey training with Luke while the rest of the heroes are threatened by the new enemy of the film. If I had to guess, this ends with them realizing they're needed and Luke and Rey both departing to return to the main story, instead of Yoda trying to persuade Luke to stay and ignore it.

d'Kong76 wrote: I can mute SNY commercials, I can't stop ads intrusively sliding across a half frozen web page while I'm trying to cut and paste a silly lineup. The only reason I visit metsdotcom is for lineups and to order an occasional impulse-buy ticket. https://twitter.com/search?q=mets%20lineup&src=typd

d'Kong76 wrote: Oh, and fuck the intrusive we're-gonna-ram-this-Andy-Grammer ad- down-your-throat-for-another-ten-more-days thing going on at the Mets official site. Marketing in 2016! Not just the Mets site, SNY and what not too. Big nerdy Fangraphs/baseball meetup in Manhattan that night though, that's where I'll be.

Fman99 wrote: I'm going to be out of band for most of the evening -- so if the Mets win the first game, I may need someone to pick up the ball and start a game 2 IGT for me, thanks kids! You could start it and the admins could nuke it with extreme prejudice if the Mets happened to lose. Or is that bad luck?

Finally got to this. Enjoyed it quite a bit.

themetfairy wrote: What's wrong with getting married inside a dry house? Nothing, though I'm glad I didn't (get married inside, it wasn't raining). But presumably they went into it knowing it was a possibility. Fwiw I had to google to figure out which commercial it was, I couldn't remember the brand. I often conflate it with "Guy drives clumsy girl up into the mountains to propose." I think that one's Mazda though.

cooby wrote: Better and better! I want to see this ad! uEH1-byuOqw

matches my email so I'd go with it.