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This is only going to make other players not test. A guy feels a little tired, so figuring he should protect his young daughter and teammates ,tests. Feels no other symptoms, gets told by..someone..that sometimes you could test positive for up to a month, and comes away thinking he just wasted his time and risked missing a month of time. We've given up as a country, and the people being careful end up being the ones that miss out. While it's great when we all do our part and look out for others, it's not Bassitt's job to look out for Howie, or other employees of the Mets. It's the Mets job. THEY are the ones that failed to mandate vaccines, masks indoors, testing.......anything. The union didn't push for it either, tacitly implying that it's NOT Bassitt's job to care about spreading infection. It's just failure all around. No one should go to do the right thing and come out feeling duped.

I blocked buster for a reason. just flat out clickbait trash.

=Fman99 post_id=98042 time=1656806557 user_id=86] I was listening and drinking beer in my pool. The pool and beer was clearly the highlight of this portion of the day.

Lefty Specialist wrote: Any chance Medina could be a starter instead of Williams? He's certainly got the stuff, and Trevor fails more than he succeeds. Williams doesn't throw hard but he's been surprisingly effective. 4pm starts are weird. either play a day game or wait until night so I"m not as busy.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Neglected to promptly update this week's edition of the Luis Castillo Watch but on Wednesday he whiffed 11 in 6 Innings in a win over the Cubs. Mets "looking" at him, says Jon Heyman. Thanks Jon they should probably know what he looks like by now. Was a lot of coveting of Castillo on the recent episode of Mets On Tap, fwiw.

Edgy MD wrote: Is G-Fafif in the house? I think I spotted him in the field-level seats. If I had to guess, 76% probability he's at some Long Island diner.

I don't hate the apple broadcast, they're fine for national announcers I guess, though I'm barely listening at the moment. Some of thje graphics are neat. The stupid AI probability that makes no sense not withstanding. but Apple TV-/+ is garbage, that the game is on it is dumb, and Rob Manfred hates baseball.

has he been in Quebec City recently or somethign?

=Fman99 post_id=97871 time=1656688816 user_id=86] How does banning the shift speed up the game? I read it. Well, some of it. The lesson I learned is that he's a twat.

I thought Mets fans generally disliked talking about mutually financially beneficial decisions the Wilpons made? Besides Rovell and Mike Mayer who are content trolls anyway.

he just got a RAISE. they love him. I don't think anything in there violated their trust. We knew that part. (they don't deserve that layer, btw, and it's the media's job to shred it, but that's probably a different point) It's not like they got into the stuff about giving awards to the team that saved the most in arbitration. He didn't talk about teams tanking despite making bank. In fact, the quote you just had was right on point, infers that the owners are hugely invested. They mention the raising of the luxury tax threshold like it's a huge concession, and the minimum wage thing, and it strongly infers that the CBA was a good deal. It doesn't mention minor league pay AND lavishes him with praise for gutting the minor leagues. They love him.

in regex, ? means the previous character is optional. So that means it's either 173 or 17 IP, clearly.

I get where it's coming from. He's not hiding it. He says it multiple times in the article "Baseball is wrong right now, we gotta make it more like it was years ago" And in doing so, he completely miffs on understanding _baseball_. Yes, I am an old white man. Manfred claims some of these changes are data-driven, but of all the tweaks and nonsense I haven't seen scores of teens suddenly watching games. I'm not aware of any real evidence that if we make the games 2:30 and ban shifts that suddenly 20 million more people are going to start watching baseball. And that article, and discourse in general, rarely talk about how the game is being presented to us. Manfred talks about how a pitch is not supposed to be a 30 second event, but maybe if those 30 seconds were filled with actual talk on the changing dynamics between the pitcher and the batter, and what's going on, it wouldn't be. Maybe the problem is those 30 seconds, especially nationally, are filled with nonsense like Joe Buck talking about a new Fox show. Manfred wants baseball to be a quick concise event that they can reliably market and roughly predict it's length. He wants to remove as many variables as possible, and make the financial projections as obvious and clear as possible, so he can sell that too.

classic "Rob Manfred Hates Baseball" stuff. A zillion ways to deal with, or accept, sign stealing, go with the clunky one that fails.

This thing is endlessly long. Does he ever answer this? I asked Manfred to name the biggest mistake he's made -- one decision he'd like to have back. He laughed. "I have to narrow it down to one?" he said. "You know, I think people who can't admit they've made mistakes, particularly in a job like this, are a little dangerous." I'm like 5 pages down and he only sort of referenced calling the World Series trophy a hunk of metal as a mistake. Nothing else. So..Uh.. It's pretty clear he hates baseball, when his counter to that is to reference a memory from 60 years ago. He doesn't use the word hate ,but this article so far is FULL of him trashing the modern game. And the writer uncritically cites the PR of things like the physical baseball not being his fault or the zombie runner supposed to be to make games shorter. I get it's not a critical piece, but like, this: Can one of baseball's most hated men usher the game into a brighter future by returning it to its glorious past? is hogwash. Baseball was better 60 years ago or that it is in trouble now is nonsense. Something that's pointed out in the article from the quotes from Selig. Manfred was furious while working for the owners in 1990 that they'd agreed to establish a minimum salary. Yeah, there's the guy that loves baseball. Oh, here's another chance to admit mistak....oh, no, he claims the investigators into the biogenesis thing were unprofessional and he didn't condone that. Pass the buck i guess. And another one on the sign stealing stuff (After some lies about not knowing about it) his only admission is that maybe he was too deliberate, and that he expected his sternly worded letter to be enough. He doubles down on that being the right move though, claiming if the GMs were good people they would've listened. oh, back to the metal thing He%20now%20calls%20it%20one%20of%20his%20biggest%20mistakes.%20%22I%20regret%20it%20because%20it%27s%20disrespectful%20to%20the%20game,%22%20Manfred%20tells%20me.%20%22I%20also%20regret%20it%20because%20I%20was%20being%20defensive%20about%20something.%22He now calls it one of his biggest mistakes. "I regret it because it's disrespectful to the game," Manfred tells me. "I also regret it because I was being defensive about something." So his biggest mistake is 'being disrespectful' (any guesses how he feels about bat flips?) and because he was being defensive about his stance on the sign stealing choices? If you have any doubt about who "won" the labor negotiation: And the owners have rewarded Manfred with a $17.5 million annual contract -- plus performance bonuses, the pay package has exceeded $25 million -- that expires after the 2024 season. god this guy is a scumbag that hates baseball. It gets worse and worse. This is an aside from Manfred, though he clearly agrees: itch-clock games are like games from the '70s and '80s ... There's a great natural rhythm; it's the way the game is supposed to be." It's so insane to me that people can say "make the game like the 70s!" and "Why don't kids like baseball?" at the same time. I know this feels like a stretch, but maybe establishing the "ideal" as what a lot of 60+ year old, mostly white men, remember fondly from their early years isn't congruent with what would make a 14 year old black girl fall in love with baseball in 2022

Rob Manfred hates baseball. That's settled fact at this point.

then those people are working too much. I suspect they should unionize. Even the bare minimum, 5pm, gives you 100 minutes to get there. AND even if they're late, I'm sure more people appreciate getting home 30 minutes earlier than the ones that worry they might miss an inning.

=Gwreck post_id=97211 time=1656097968 user_id=56] You have to sign up but Peacock is free for the MLB games. 6:40 starts are not necessary on Friday nights. Why make it harder for people to attend? Afternoon games on the weekend, sure, those make sense.

=bmfc1 post_id=97048 time=1655926599 user_id=73] That's the 2d time that Gary mentioned J*ter in the last week which is two more times than he should. Please Gary, STFU about J*ter.

Friday Jul 15 7:00 PM Ticket Offer: Howie Rose Talking Alarm Clock This limited edition package has a chance...to be a HOME RUN! This special offer comes with a traditional alarm clock that plays a specially recorded sound from Howie Rose. Package is $30 and includes a field box ticket. A portion of every ticket purchase will also be donated to Mount Sinai Hospital per Howie's Request.

They've been walking a fine line with IL and McNeil for a month. Hope this doesn't ultimately end up costing them.

As I said on the https://www.barleyprose.com/beer/mets-on-tap-episode-51-the-all-star-voting-episode/Mets On Tap podcast. It's one thing to not put on the uniform with your teammates, it's another to ACTIVELY remove a patch. And Canha and Walker are the flip side. One thing to go along with MLB marketing, another great step to buy everyone in sight a Mets Pride shirt.

at about 7:46 of effectively wild they do a deep dive in the CarShield commercial universe, featuring Pete Alonso https://blogs.fangraphs.com/effectively-wild-episode-1864-one-giant-leap/https://blogs.fangraphs.com/effectively-wild-episode-1864-one-giant-leap/

and the Marlins are trash as always.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=96093 time=1655334737 user_id=68] Not me. The Mets won in spite of Randolph. If the Mets won x games with Randolph, they would've won more than x games with practically any other manager. He was the worst Mets manager ever. I loathed him. And I never tire of saying so.