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Oh sure, I mean, I wanted steak but it was going to take 20 minutes so I just ate out of the dumpster in the back. It's not like McCann was 1a or even b. He was such a step down that you had to squint to even find a way to justify it as a signing, never mind for four years. And they lost out on Springer too. And Bauer. Money could've gotten those done.

I talked myself into McCann a little bit looking at some of the metrics, but damn, it'd be nice if the Mets hadn't cheaped out on Realmuto.

juh-NESH-wee

It's the Marlins. how much lower can you go?

split squad game i see.

I accept beer to drown my sorrows at being right.

iconic is not necessarily better than 'good'. Watching Yankee games always feels like i'm watching a black and white broadcast, it's got no color, no pop. just bland and boring.

Edgy MD wrote: CDC: You don't need masks outdoors if you've been vaccinated. Get out there! New York Yankees: Seven of our vaccinated players and personnel have just tested positive. Did their vaccines "kick in" yet? Or were they vaccinated like three days ago or something like that? Anyways, even if the vaccines did kick in, they're not infallible, and that's before even accounting for whether or not there are variants out there that can evade the vaccine's antibodies. But seven players seems like a high number from such a small sample (Yankees). Yankees have been reported as having reached their 85% threshold, which I assume means it's kicked in. I wonder if it's just that relaxing protocols is obviously going to lead to exposure, and even if they're not contributing to rampant spread of the virus, it's not that big a surprise if you're testing a group of people regularly you'd get some asymptomatic exposure. I guess the big question becomes, did they all get it via exposure to the same person, or did they spread it amongst themselves?

no, it's just one.

=kcmets post_id=64091 time=1620849628 user_id=53] I'm sure they'll analyze (really, advertise) the odds on the coming SNY coverage.

Luis Rojas is going to cite something about Alonso's improved defense, and repetitions or something, and mostly play Alonso at first, I'd wager on this.

=Fman99 post_id=64066 time=1620844841 user_id=86] =seawolf17 post_id=64028 time=1620839499 user_id=91] This is *exactly* what I was hoping for. Wonderful, well-deserved standing O from the crowd, then they whack the ball all over the place on him.

Frayed Knot wrote: Three off days in the next ten [Mon - Thurs - Thurs] makes this easier to endure. Probably. But I see it differently. All these off days, plus the disproportionately high number of Mets games already canceled that will be made up as doubleheaders, plus this upcoming IL stint for deGrom, and that he's already one or two starts behind pitchers who haven't missed a start this season, doesn't bode well for the Mets or for deGrom. This will end up costing deGrom about four starts when it's all said and done. And that's assuming deGrom doesn't miss any more starts because of his health. He'll make up those 4-5 starts in October though, when most pitcher's are done for the year.

isn't it 15 day IL for pitchers though? Or did that not happen? It's hard to keep track of Manfred's nonsense.

=smg58 post_id=63767 time=1620610098 user_id=62] OK, so one of the biggest in the long list of flaws of the Wilpon era was the tendency to bring guys back from an injury before it was prudent, thereby turning a small injury issue into a much bigger injury issue. This regime was supposed to be different.

Respect, the media should try it Edgy the grade was for the media's fact finding mission.

"Absolute trash" is... um... a pretty strong take. Also, if you stipulate that an in-game conversation/altercation between teammates is "none of our business," then how on earth is VACCINATION in-bounds? because it's a public health crisis? because it's DIRECTLY correlated to how soon the media could return to the clubhouse? Because there are literal avenues for talking about it, via baseball, because of the 85%, the loosened restrictions, etc. The media asks 'how does the hamstring feel?" all the time, but they can't ask "any effects from that second dose?" If he'd said "I'm not talking about that" they would've berated him for not talking, so he tried to talk about the game, and was just brutally disregarded. no respect for any of those assholes. Since when does Rojas get to decide unilaterally what's news and what isn't? And nobody else is allowed to be interested in the tunnel fight because you're not interested in it? These are human beings. Obviously you're allowed to ask, but it was made VERY clear they didn't want to talk about it. They all answered the question, and then were barraged by the same question like the media were trying to one up each other "You couldn't get an answer you liked? watch me, I AM THE BEST i will get the answer! I will preface it with 'not to belabor the point!'" They're human beings, in the work place, allowed to keep some things private. That they went about it in a ridiculously silly way is their right. I have no desire to turn every baseball player into a boring clone that only answers with bland canned nonsense like "we got a little heated, but we resolved it, it's in the past" in a monotone and then move on to answering stupid questions about if his slump is over now or 'signature moments'. Again, they are human beings entitled to their privacy once they've stated what they want to state about the incident. They have to put on a baseball game for me, they don't have to reveal every personal interaction for public consumption. And the media did not ask about the game. They didn't even bother asking about tomorrow's starter, actual real information that fans want to know about the whole damn entertainment product. I'm sure Rojas has some more thoughts about that, after the usage of the bullpen last night, but berating him about Lindor's creative cover story was more important to them. So as to Edgy's point about 'doing their job to serve us information', a big ole F on that one.

nope, I Love it. keep it in house, none of my business. Certainly not after the 15th time the vultures asked. Oh, but waaah, we can't go in the clubhouse (WELL ASK ABOUT VACCINATION) What a lame cover story ( THEN STFU AND ASK ABOUT THE GAME) Rojas even dropped a lure "hey, we don't know who's starting tomorrow yet!" and they ignored him. flat out ignored him. how disrespectful. Why should he bother coming out to talk to them if they're not going to even listen? It's absolute trash. If he'd said "I'm not talking about that" they would've berated him for not talking, so he tried to talk about the game, and was just brutally disregarded. no respect for any of those assholes.

Rojas was GREAT in that press conference. Fuck the vultures, "This is family, let's talk about the game. Talks up the guys constantly." that's the right way. Good job by him.

=Fman99 post_id=63521 time=1620443375 user_id=86] =kcmets post_id=63514 time=1620443076 user_id=53] Disrobing happening as we speak.

Jared Walsh appears to be the real deal, so when he continued to hit this year I think it forced the issue a little bit, plus Ohtani playing regularly too.

he did play an inning (one of 783 in his career) at third the other night.

I love Bobby as a baseball guy...Just based off that blurb I wouldn't vote for him.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Pujols is obviously a slam-dunk Hall of Famer but I've had deep suspicions of him from the moment he arrived on the scene as a fully-formed musclebound superstar. Even his background smells funny to me, he was like, quietly whisked off the island into a St. Louis area high school and nobody seemed aware of him. I imagine he was actually reporting to a gym/lab that resembled Ivan Drago's I mean, if there's something you can take that turns 2011+ Albert Pujols into 2001-2010 Albert Pujols you'd think more people would be taking it. Also it'd be weird not to be taking it in 2011 in your walk year. BB% 2009: 16.4 2010: 14.7 2011: 9.4 2012: 7.8 2013: 9 Lower Like the only enhancement that would do that is one that make your body appear 10% smaller than it was, so that your strikezone was tinier. You could ponder eyesight but his contact numbers were pretty stable but he started swinging at more balls out of the zone. I wonder if there was a concussion or something in 2010 that just went unnoticed, or some other sort of neuro thing.