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yeah. obvious this is all bunk and nothing unfolds exactly the same anyway, but the Mets probably win the World Series in '06 with Kazmir instead, and probably at least make the playoffs in 2007, 2008. Of course, they might not have gone big for Santana without the '07 collapse, so maybe no no hitter? But Willie Randolph would be probably be heralded as the best Mets manager in decades, and would be managing somewhere else in baseball now.

where's Davis?

Melvin Mora perhaps.

Maybe no checked swing should ever be called a strike, either, because how the hell is a batter supposed to stop his swing halfway through when he's trying to mash the ball till its threads unravel like in "°!The Natural "? I agree. no checked swings. if you try to stop swinging in any way before the ball arrives, it's not a swing.

it's not really about the physics of if you can maintain contact, but the decisions of the runner to not slow down even a little, to slide headfirst, etc. They've been getting away with it for decades. how about we give runners a bracelet that glows red when you're not safe, but when you connect and close the circuit with the base, it glows green. Or, if we want to give a little leeway, we can make the bases bigger. Less collisions at first, more room to slide/grab/hold, slightly less distance (you could easily adjust this) means more successes, making SB a littlie more worthwhile than they are. You could also rule the play dead when a single runner tries to steal a base, once he touches the bag. "He got there first". Of course, that means he'll never advance on a bad throw. I like it how it is. black and white. you come off, you're out. Stay on the bases, 3 islands of safety in a sea of OUT. Wander off even a second and a shark can get ya.

I'm surprised the app is smart enough for that.

=Fman99 post_id=95657 time=1654998344 user_id=86] As bad as it was, it was still better than a GKR game on WPIX that I would have to go digging into the Internet's dingiest corners just to be able to watch live...

nah, Katie was fine. I like her. She's intelligent and competent. (speaking broadly as a person in sports, not specifically to her role on the apple broadcast) And broadly across both broadcasts I love the fresh voices that speak about baseball both differently than I'm used to, but more akin to how I consume the game on my own. I was listening for most of the middle innings, less so early on as I was doing stuff away from the TV and it's hard to stream, and I fell asleep late. I feel like i need to listen to a non-Mets game (especially one without Wayne) to really judge, but it's still light years better than any broadcast I've ever heard on ESPN or Fox. Those frequently take me out of the game, make me hyper aware of the broadcast itself (which, granted, is their goal). This was a little more seamless, though a little less interesting too. It doesn't feel like it has a full identity yet either, both from a booth standpoint and from a total 'What Apple wants to put out there' (mostly they just want you to sign up for Apple TV+, but secondary goals) this is aside from the machine learning WRONG probabilities nVenue is providing. But this is a trial run for you being able to click "Bet $5 that this guy reaches base" on the screen, so I guess we'll see. This speaks to Transmonk's comment about the vignette. It's likely with an eye towards wrapping the broadcast in other things, whether gambling, ads, etc. akin to how Youtube and Facebook were doing it.

I'll trade for less sprained/broken/jammed fingers for sure, as Hunter Pence noted last night. And as Katie Nolan noted...maybe you should make 'em the same color as the dirt so it's not as distinctly off the base.

I assume you mean after camo. Nothing's worse than camo.

Edgy MD wrote: Profar hit one so far. he's a pro.

J.D. Davis needs to play more. See also episode 49 of Mets On tap.

people gotta post stuff. *Shrug* Hey, at least SI isn't the NY Post. I automatically assume anything written in there is wrong. What's the status on McCann, he sucks, but I don't see the Mets grabbing another catcher with Nido kinda hitting.

manager firings are usually knee-jerk reactions after a stretch of bad luck and bad results, it's likely most of these teams would start playing better regardless. The trick is when you knee-jerk fire your manager early in a season after a collapse, that you don't keep the interim guy who also collapsed (twice) for years and years and years.

there's probably less science here than writing mock drafts. "say the names of good players this year" column.

THAT is inducing a mistake on the offense. There's no mistake involved with letting the infield fly drop without the rule, there's no good answer for the runner, which you might say isn't "good sport"

=roger_that post_id=95147 time=1654614782 user_id=128] Currently, it doesn't matter if the fielder drops it. Batter is still out. My way the ball would be in play, but instead of the runner being out if the bag is stepped on, he would have to be tagged out. So he could get into a pickle, and the fielder would need to decide whether to try to tag out himself, or to throw to another fielder, or what. The fielder would be creating problems for himself, IOW, by intentionally dropping the ball.

yes, because it's meant to be a battle of talent, not manipulating rules so you have an advantage. This isn't US Elections. There's plenty of deception. Every single pitch is a game of deception (which is part of the reason what the Astros, and literally everyone, did wasn't a big deal, they merely won that game of deception) If you got rid of the balk rule you'd almost never have stolen bases. You wouldn't be able to take off until you saw the ball in flight, and at that point even I could probably throw out runners at second. Stolen bases are already barely valuable in the aggregate sense.

Edgy MD wrote: Alfaro is one fast catcher. Scores from second for the first Padrun, but getting Profar was a worthy consolation prize for the Mets. Faster than literally everyone on the Mets right now.

Asked VQGAN+CLIP to try it's hand at it. This started as a picture of deGrom [attachment=0]neonMets.png[/attachment]

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=95034 time=1654544672 user_id=68] =roger_that post_id=95032 time=1654544141 user_id=128] You get a little boring sometimes. Anyone ever tell you that?

okay, real numbers. roughly 230 a year, give or take a dozen or two. So most days of the year have one. It's roughly one every 10 games of the season, most days having at least that many.

the balk is a good comp. It's core purpose is to eliminate the same thing the infield fly does.

10.4% of balls in play have been IFFB. not perfect, but there have been 15500 PA with less than two outs and runners on. About 10000 of those are balls in play, which means roughly 1000 are infield fly balls potentially eligible for the rule. about 675 games so far. So probably close to one a game?