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seawolf17 wrote: During 2016 World Series parade: "Man, remember that Harvey thing right before Opening Day? Goodness, that was a whole lot of trouble over nothing." he should pee off the side of the parade float.

Lefty Specialist wrote: Something brightly lit surrounded by darkness can look a bit bluish. I'm guessing that that's a white LED light which can change to red and other colors. if the LED is 5000k it'd definitely appear blueish.

Zvon wrote: Ceetar wrote: blue would be a surprise for a red company who's chief rival that they just replaced color being blue right..? Not for this Mets fan. Everything should be orange and blue, or just blue. EVERYTHING! I kid (not really). No, being that the Mets primary color is blue I wouldn't be surprised at all. I would salute such a move. I've long felt that making all the ads some form of blue and orange should be mandatory.

I mean, could be anything from a wart to like, bubonic plague. Not likely a simple infection or he'd just take some antibiotics not getting a second opinion. But it's the last game of spring and he wasn't likely going to Las Vegas anyway, so really he's just missing tomorrow and everything after that is unclear. If you want to look on the bright side, if you really wanted Harvey to throw once more to build up arm strength, you could be thinking "let's get him in an extended spring game then and have deGrom hopefully get OD in before the baby and then Harvey after that.

blue would be a surprise for a red company who's chief rival that they just replaced color being blue right..?

I don't know that we were 'assured' it was nothing, if so, those people are idiots. seems like he 'might'? see a doctor in NY now. So second opinion? seems like a medical thing. Probably not an illegal (in the suspension manor) thing, but really could be anything. spinal stinosis?

Zvon wrote: I just read in an article that the new CocaCola sign display will "do stuff." Supposedly impressive stuff. So impressive the rep said he couldn't elaborate. No link, sorry. It was in an actual newspaper-one of the NYC rags. I assume it'll sparkle for home runs or cokes purchased or something.

All I want to know is "What's the guy's name playing second base?" Name the first Met of 2016 to: 1. Reach base safely - Granderson 2. Get a hit - Wright 3. Draw a walk - Granderson 4. Hit a double - Duda 5. Hit a triple - Lagares 6. Hit a home run - Walker 7. Steal second base - Lagares 8. Reach by error - Cabrera 9. Hit a grounds-rule double - Duda 10. Score a run - Granderson 11. Drive in a run - Duda 12. Get hit by a pitch - Cespedes 13. Drive in more than one run in a single plate appearance - Walker 14. Hit into a double play - d'Arnaud 15. Get caught stealing OR picked off base - Conforto 16. Strike out as a batter - Cespedes 17. Bunt for a base hit - Cabrera 18. Get tagged out at home - Cespedes 19. Pinch hit - Flores 20. Be pinch-hit for - Conforto 21. Commit an error - Cabrera 22. Play a batted ball by an opponent in fair territory - Granderson 23. Be called on to relieve - Robles 24. Strike out 6 or more batters in the same game - Harvey 25. Hit an opposing batter with a pitch - Syndergaard 26. Blow a save opportunity - Familia 27. Get credited with a hold - Robles 28. Strike out the side - Syndergaard 29. Get a save - Familia 30. Pitcher to get a base hit - deGrom Bonus tiebreaker: Name the date when Terry Collins gets ejected for the first time, closest to actual date wins - April 11th

Monell will be on the bench as the backup catcher, d'Arnaud will receive. Plawecki would be on the roster as a DH, not a catcher, for a few days.

so many off days they could leave Matz down for another bench guy to start. Or they could do the same with deGrom when he goes on paternity leave. I'd be surprised if Wright doesn't talk his way into the 3B position for the opening two games and in that case you could keep Monell and Plawecki and DH Kevin. You could read into Tejada's release as being partly motivated by the desire to keep Plawecki down and add Monell to the 40 man.

no, 'yawn meaningless' is exactly that. everybody has aches and pains when they work out. and that's all this is. It's the practice tee. It's the last practice run you do before a marathon. It's the PSATs. Especially for the Mets who are barely even pumping tangential meaning in via position races. Maybe a couple of relievers. but hell, pitchers barely are throwing what they'd throw in the regular season in spots, they're not really throwing to d'Arnaud, or with their normal defense behind them. It's day games when they usually play at night. The crowds are tepid and disinterested. For every guy that says you want to be putting good swings on balls going into the season you'll get a guy like Keith who likes to say you don't want to waste those quality hits in BP/Spring. And hell, these nicks and bruises are just the normal course of events. It's only troubling if they're keeping them in minor league games for DL reasons. So there was some slight concern with Asdrubal for instance but he's supposed to play in the main grapefruit game on Sunday so that means they're not really worried about DL time. He'll be the Opening Day starter otherwise they would've just let him get the reps the minors an backdated the DL so he'd only have to miss 2 or 3 games.

Vic Sage wrote: All I want from ST is to come into the season HEALTHY. Anecdotally, it appears to me that nothing else a team does in ST really correlates to a winning season. So the only things i'm concerned about now is Wright's back, which seems even worse than i feared, deGrom's aches and reduced velocity, and Cabrera's leg (though not too concerned about that, since i'd prefer Flores anyway). precisely. stay healthy, get your work in, show up in Kansas City. Though a little too much gets made of these types of things in Spring because A. nothing to write about. B. growing pains of ramping up workouts. These minor aches and pains just get treated in the trainers room and often go unmentioned in May. Wright talked about his prep work last year. He seems to view it as a condition more than an injury. The stretch run last season was a minor sample, but he was pretty good. I'd take that. There doesn't seem to be a lot of data out there to figure out if prolonged baseball stresses make the back worse, it seems like probably not. I think the main concern is other nagging baseball injuries preventing him from being able to do his stretches and limbering up and what not that get his back in shape. Cabrera is so much better than Flores, but it seems worse case now is like 2 days on the DL for him so it's not really a big deal.

yawn. it means nothing.

still annoyed I missed the ticket on-sale date and don't have OPening Day tickets and cheapest on stub hub is 100

seawolf17 wrote: If ARod ends 2017 within a handful of home runs from the all-time lead, SOMEONE is going to pay him to set that record in their uniform. I mean, Barry Bonds hit 28 home runs and lead the league in OBP in 2007,claimed he'd sign for the minimum, and NO ONE would sign him.

also 232, walks. very impressive.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I knew that Bonds had the all-time record, but I couldn't have told you that the number was 763. It doesn't even look familiar to me. It certainly doesn't have the magic that 714 and then 755 once had. give it thirty years. I mean, it has plenty of 'magic' for me. 762, 73.

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yeah, MLB is definitely aiming more towards the pillage the Cuban teams for players and bring them here rather than go there.

SI's on a winning streak though.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I thought that they had announced Syndergaard, but today I see that he'll be in the game, but perhaps in relief. seems like a good way to have both guys lined up for that day so that if deGrom isn't around Thor can go. Plus so many days off teh first week so get guys in there.

Frayed Knot wrote: deGrom tabbed for Game 2 depending how far apart the contractions are.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: In this case, though, it seems that Ochoa didn't stop at third but went home where he was initially called out but then the call was reversed, I suppose because Mueller somehow interfered with the play. What's weird is that Crawford has the RBI in his career stats, but not on the box score for this particular game. And I do think that he did once have that RBI, since I got that box score data from Retrosheet some time around 2002. I'll have to look for any online accounts of the game from 1996. yeah, an online account might work. I suspect the obstruction call ruled the play dead retroactively, as a result of the tag out. If he'd been safe the obstruction call wouldn't have happened. Ochoa was running on the pitch and was obstructed at third. If a play is made on the obstructed runner, ball is dead. He hasn't scored, nor is he out. Just the act of making a play on him makes the play dead. Runners are awarded the base in which they last reached, or where they would've reached. That's first and second for Jones and Everett, and third for Ochoa. But the rule states the obstructed runner gets an extra base, and thus Ochoa scores as a result of the call and the error, so no RBI.

10.04 (a) The official scorer shall credit the batter with a run batted in for every run that scores (1) unaided by an error and as part of a play begun by the batter’s safe hit (including the batter’s home run), sacrifice bunt, sacrifice fly, infield out or fielder’s choice, unless Rule 10.04( applies; ( The official scorer shall not credit a run batted in (1) when the batter grounds into a force double play or a reverse-force double play; or (2) when a fielder is charged with an error because the fielder muffs a throw at first base that would have completed a force double play. But this is really referring to an error that allows a runner to advance, not one that prevents it. 7.06 When obstruction occurs, the umpire shall call or signal “Obstruction.” (a) If a play is being made on the obstructed runner, or if the batter-runner is obstructed before he touches first base, the ball is dead and all runners shall advance, without liability to be put out, to the bases they would have reached, in the umpire’s judgment, if there had been no obstruction. The obstructed runner shall be awarded at least one base beyond the base he had last legally touched before the obstruction. Any preceding runners, forced to advance by the award of bases as the penalty for obstruction, shall advance without liability to be put out. I think this is key. The rule says he has to be awarded at least one base, which means scoring regardless of if he would've actually made it. So say the runner is 3 steps past third and decides to return to the base because the catcher has the ball. If the third baseman obstructs his return, he'd be awarded home and the run would score but logically he wasn't actually driven in.

Wednesday night. be prompt. I'll leave the auction 'active' all night even after people drop off, but will close it as soon as I get to a computer in the morning. I think, if you want, you can start tossing guys onto your watchlist for nomination purposes if you click into the draft room. I can't guarantee the software will save it between now and then if you logout of ottoneu, but maybe.