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Turns out though, that teams aren't bound to wear exactly the colors they scribbled down on a press release 60 years ago (which was almost pink btw) for all eternity. It's beyond stupid that teams (mostly certain other teams) think they have to wear something because it's the way baseball players looked 100 years ago. It's 2021, bend the mold a little.

Martino is not a doctor and is not bound by Hipaa. neither, btw, are the Mets, MLB, or any employer. (hence why they can tell us with reckless abandon that so and so has a stress fracture, a UCL tear, etc) the Yankees ARE at 85%, though the one symptomatic outbreak was not. I don't know if that's Judge or not, but ... https://twitter.com/MajorLeagueGIFs/status/1415100544255987717

AC who? where are the Mercury Mets? where are the all orange jerseys? Where are the blue and orange striped jerseys?!?! GET FUN. at least we haven't brought back to offensive camo.

The Mets ha ven't really been telling the press anything, certainly not starting pitchers. I'll reserve any judgement until Thursday's post-workout conference. Hopefully there's no rat/raccoon type incident to talk about instead.

It's the plummeting velocity that's concerning to me, but I guess he's always been a changeup guy. But obviously costs nothing to look. Also that career high BB/9 in 2019 is troubling too. Granted, we're desperate.

there seems little reason to believe he has anything left.

yeah, it's Rojas deflecting or being clueless (your choice!) they play five against the braves, he'll get one of them. You potentially want to make sure he pitches against bot hthe Phillies and the Nationals in early August, but it's ridiculous to try to project that now. The best way to make hey against the division is to have as many deGrom starts as he can handle.

Lindor. Diaz. Alonso. Stroman. All valid choices. It's not a stats thing, it's a meaningless exhibition. They're all stars/good players/etc.

I mean, the statcast broadcast did have them side by side, so that was nice. But at times they'd just be on him, or something else. There was this nice side view camera that was probably the best view, especially as like the 60% of a 60/40 two camera split, that I've ever seen of a home run. Because you could see the swing, AND the launch of the ball, something you almost never get except in person. So you don't have to try to pick up the ball on a moving camera image that you just cut to.

he made that take so that people would write articles about it. clearly he's winning.

well that's because he heard the players might be okay with them, so he's trying to leverage them in the CBA.

HRD Was fun. I don't know if I would've stayed watching if Pete was not a Met, but maybe. It was pretty decently compelling imo. I mean, it's not baseball, and still went on a little too long, but it was fun. I was on ESPN2 the whole time by design. That may play into why I had a good time. I don't know if any of the player interviews or whatever were compelling, but i imagine mostly not. Mike Trout calling Ohtani mid-round was pretty awesome. And I believe it was Griffey that gave Alonso the bling necklace right? my only complaint was they didn't track all the balls with the camera, but I think that was a factor of them changing the rules so you didn't have to wait until it landed. They did split-screen a lot, which was nice.

They're actually saying Carrasco might be back _next week_ so that'll help.

I like the idea of an ASB, of a few days just celebrating baseball, but the Thursday offday always struck me as a weird decision when they starting always doing that. I think it was player driven but I feel like it messes with rotations more than the three days does. I wish they'd do more with the break, and less of the game. Give out 'JUST' 30 nominations or whatever, and don't worry about fielding a roster. And then just play a few innings where you stack the deck to goose matchups. make sure Ohtani pitches, and then hits the next inning for instance. Do away with walks and strikeouts. No one cares about the score and the progression. Give Trout 5 pitches against deGrom and then move on to the next matchup. If you've got two teams tied for a division lead, make 'em play each other. Screw AL vs NL, have Kershaw pitch to Tatis Jr. The home run derby is fun, but it's too long with too many breaks. Show more highlights from the season. Do other types of skill competitions. Have 'em play some golf in the outfield. too small for drives, but I dunno, a couple of 4v4 golf tourneys might be fun. You could make teams that are fun. Like, what if it was a 3 hold challenge between Guerrero sr/jr and tatis sr/jr? Stuff like that. Cut to stuff like that inbetween Derby opponents instead of like bland interviews with Todd Helton.

Frustrated mostly. They've maintained a lead mostly due to the division. Even with most of the offense back, they haven't built that lead, and that's troubling. Only the Marlins, in the division, have played worse over the last 20, last 30, games. They desperately need more starting pitching. luckily the deadline is coming and more people will be willing to deal, but there's still 2 weeks before that. The Mets are the best team in the division, but without that cushion they could've built, if another team makes a good acquisition and the Mets don't, there are many avenues for them to squander this season. They could pull a 2015 Mets in which the right callups/trades play great and they dominate the head to head matchups and makeup those few games.

Did Yelich turn, turn, turn? https://www.mlb.com/gameday/reds-vs-brewers/2021/07/10/633313#game_state=final,game_tab=videos,game=633313https://www.mlb.com/gameday/reds-vs-brewers/2021/07/10/633313#game_state=final,game_tab=videos,game=633313 It looks like he did and if not then why did he literally put his head in his hands? Contrast this with McKinney who not long ago almost turned but did not. "cannot be put out if he IMMEDIATELY returns to first base" he was absolutely out, no question.

Please explain how shaving :30 seconds/half-inning won't help solve the problem. Even it's "not really the problem" and the problem(s) "obviously lie elsewhere", it can and should be part of the solution. We don't even have a real solid definition for 'the problem' or what solution we're even looking for. I'll take fewer commercial breaks in everything, for sure, but no one really cares if the games 3:03 instead of 3:10.

I was gonna make a joke about old fogey announcers not knowing what 'AR' is, but I'm older than Anthony Recker.

Re: FK's #2... no adjustment period is needed between the BP mound and the game mound because each is pristine. This is a leftover from the olden days when the RP's warmed up on a mound in a cow pasture, or something akin to it. A pitching change is an excuse for a full TV TO but it should be 3 or 4 pitches, let's go, keep it moving. They're not though. Zero chance they put as much effort into the bullpen mound as the real mound, especially to the exact radians and like, moisture content. They certainly don't have the (both, all) starting pitcher trek out there and make the same divot/landing holes and all the other stuff they kick around. They could certainly half the pitches, or time it. and shorten that time. Some of these would be resolved perhaps with headsets and instant pitching changes, eliminating mound visits. a minute break would not be onerous, especially if you didn't cut to commercial, you advertised in-stream. But a lot of the time is spent between the last play and the decision to pull the pitcher. That's the 90 seconds you could cut. But I suspect it's not breaks so much as action that's the issue we need to address. time between pitches, between batters. Most fans are used to commercial breaks, they're in everything. You break, you tweet some inane LolMets joke, you get another beer, and then the game's back. Is ending too late a thing? we could be better about starting at 6:40 instead of 7:10. I never understood this. I get that the ratings are better in "prime time" but presumably people would rather miss the beginning than the end, and this makes the prime hours higher leverage too.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: A dodged bullet. https://scontent-atl3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/213016437_10159520651781392_5192349566484049369_n.png?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=jzO_iXtyftcAX9DkIUG&tn=bJnU5x_xk9x80QdP&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-2.xx&oh=add71fd897e0597ee0b0704915b0a30d&oe=60ED76DA> accidentally. Despite a large portion of people pointing out that someone was standing there pointing the gun and Cohen and Alderson were just like 'oooh, shiny'

3 balls is less baseball. We don't need less baseball we need faster paced baseball. This is why the 7 inning rule and the zombie runner are so dumb. They're just giving us less baseball, but they're not making the baseball any faster. It's the same amount of baseball, but happening over a longer stretch. But Manfred has been focusing on the baseball part, and not that longer stretch part. He's seemingly targeting a segment of sports fandom that's about quick hits, constant drama, etc. more playoffs, more high leverage stuff. If it wasn't so specifically tied to revenue, they'd absolutely try to cut the season shorter.

That's the one argument I don't really buy. You're not paying per inning. You're paying for the successful completion of a competition between two ball clubs. That happens whether it's 5innings of a rain shortened game, 7 inning DH, or 20 marathon. (so no ties!) There used to be more marbles in hungry hungry hippos too, but someone still wins every time.

7 inning games are bad. They just don't flow right. Eventually we'd get a little used to them, but not really. When a game is in the 5th and you're muff a chance and go to the 6th down 2-1, normally you're like "Okay, we're figuring this out, all out players get another shot at least it's just 1 run, we've got 12 outs to play with. But if it's 7 innings, now you've got 6 outs to play with and it might be the back end of your lineup. It's just too short. For a game with as much luck as baseball, it's just not a good look to take away that length. It's like if we went back to a 150 or so game season, or dilluted the playoffs. you're raising the chance a worse team sneaks in. And yes, it's competitively imbalanced. The shorter games are a different strategy, different pitcher usage, might require a 6th starter more often, and the teams that play them are random. The game DOESN'T need more randomness (cc: people looking to ban the shift). The zombie runner is dumb too, for reasons much akin to why people dislike the NHL shootout. It's different rules determining who wins the game, though not as drastically. At least the NHL is roughly putting a harder time limit on a game that's already timed, but the sudden urgency just doesn't fly in baseball. ESPECIALLY in the 10th (or 8th). Also, for a sport that flaps a lot about wanting more balls in play, zombie runners certainly incentive strikeout pitchers who can keep the runner at second. And they also incentive very uninteresting sac bunting and intentional walking. And don't get me started on the stupid 3-batter rule or designated a player a pitcher or a hitter. none of these are time of the game fixes, which baseball doesn't really care about, because their main customer is the TV networks that don't care because more commercials. And it's the networks that are slowing the game down. For a game that's so laden with strategy discussions, they sure do cut away from the game at the most strategic points. Instead of cutting away at key 7th inning pitching changes, sponsor a "strategy session brought to you by Geico" and have the announcers actually talk about the game, the pitcher coming in, the matchup, the reason it might happen.

it's Martino, citations needed.

The Mets are likely going to Let It Go to a doubleheader on Saturday or Sunday, given Elsa's arrival, and the swirling storm inside.