Zvon

Not a bad outing for Mejia. I'll continue to get a lil' bit excited about this guy.

Byrd scores from first on a Davis double. He was goin on the 3-2 pitch. MORE RUNS PLEASE! 1-3

Ive been away. 0-3? Come on Mets. We all would have gotten that quiz. Right?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Looks like a triple. Lucky he wasn't thrown out at 3rd! Yeaaaa, he slowed down at second. It did look like a homer to me but thats no excuse.

Wow, that did hit the top of the fence. Oddly it comes back onto the field. At worst a 2 out triBOOM for Young.

Ah, another one of those first HR ever guys. Nice. 0-1

Very nice DP. The bad hop gets gobbled up as opposed to Muffy being eaten.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: It's not Rice-Lynn-Evans but it ain't a bad outfield. Young does his thing on the bases and at leadoff, Lagares can really pick it and is OPS+ing at 102 as a rookie, and Byrd is one of the most productive hitters in the league. They all catch the ball. Byrds fielding in right has been much better than I expected. With the glove as well as the arm. I consider him above average out there this season. smg58: are you saying Duda plays center in that semi-platoon? Or does Young go to center there and Duds in left? Don't make me even imagine Duda playing center.

Edgy MD wrote: Bud Norris to Orioles, for something or other. For some brand new Astros.

m.e.t.b.o.t. wrote: m.e.t.b.o.t. is in a quandary. for the july 28 game, no metropolitan generated a positive WPA as shown by fangraphs.com. in the game in question, there were, of course, two net-positive performances - those of metropolitan relief pitchers bobby parnell and josh edgin. each pitched a full inning without allowing a run. this of course resulted in some infinitesimally small increase in the probability of the metropolitans winning the game, but that increase is less than the degree of accuracy to which fangraphs can present the data. so its possible that each player generated something less than +0.0005 WPA but greater than exactly and mathematically zero. m.e.t.b.o.t. will therefore be presenting the data as if each of these players generated 0.00025 WPA, good for 0.01 schaefers each. this will effectively act as a zero vote for all players, while still mathematically counting as a vote by m.e.t.b.o.t. The important question is how much beer does that translate into? A pinhead? They still get some beer, right? No matter. We accept your judgment. The last thing we need is you blowing a fuse.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: But, perhaps tellingly, Bobby Parnell is not in the starting lineup. Ha! Shit stirrer. So we stand pat. I like.

Boswell had the burns. He may have been the first guy I ever saw where I thought : when I grow up I want side burns like his. Still could be him because the burns came on around 68 into 69. That guy has a little side burn thing goin but Boswell had cool long ones. I personally think if we want to tag anyone to that image its J.C. Martin laying down his infamous bunt.

Yikes. Before I read all that I thought the pic was Valdespins mom.

My brothers all have collected boxes as well as wax. One has a real nice ...I think its '58 wax. I always knew there was a Met on the 75 box but I didn't think it was Webb. I thought it was a generic Met. I was not a fan of the '75 card design then or now, but there still is some good nostalgia there for me. Never got the '75 minis back in the day but in the late 80s we found a card guy who was selling unopened boxes and bought a bunch. That was an awesome pack party.

Wright 0.5 Byrd 0.5 Buck 1 Lagares 2 Wheeler 4 Hawkins 1 Atchison 0.5 Parnell 0.5

Good game guys!

Very nice play Muffy.

smg58 wrote: Hmm. I don't sacrifice with a guy who's 4 for 4 getting on tonight, and I don't intentionally walk Q to face two better hitters with the bases full. I agree with the sac. Make em sweat for the first out in that situation.

Wow. Fk u Lucas

Lags bunts to put two in scoring position for Q. They will walk Q-man and Satin will be battin. I like.

Buck lines a first pitch 2 RBI single right up the middle. Damn nice. 4-2 Mets

I'll take the walk, tyvm. Bases all busy with absolutely no out.

Redeem thyself Sir Ike of Ineptitude .

^The fact that he stumbled is one thing. That he did it while giving a big gung-ho-rah-rah pump is fuckin priceless.

Zvon wrote: Ha! Fish pitcher is a klutz.