Zvon

There were games today!?!? GAH! Oh, A.L. The real ballgames start at 5:30. I haven't missed nuthin

Indians win. Last out was more ump crap, but it was a borderline checked swing that, even after seeing it in slo-mo, could have been called either way.

Bogaerts, with a very pathetically defensive at-bat, goes down on a checked swing and the tying run is stranded.

I think Papi's safe. 8th inning, Papi on 2nd, 1 out. 5-4 seriously, I just used a racist word when I really meant "Guardians". OE: pinch runner for Ortiz.

I thought I was watching a home run derby.

Centerfield wrote: Fuck. That was headed for CF. Nymr83 wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Jeez. For a split second I thought we had the lead. yeah that was right up the middle scoring Kelly for about a millisecond in my mind HahnSolo wrote: Don't think that was hit hard enough to get through the infield but would have liked to have tested that theory I looked this play from the behind the plate view a bunch of times now and it did look like the 2nd baseman would have been able to get to it. Far from 100% sure tho. The ball could have had some weird spin, crazy bounce...it almost looked like a humpback liner, but it never got high or low enough, nor all that humpy or far. And that's the thing. With all that Asspuddin did he even did that. Possibly robbed us of a run with his glove. That just floored me when it happened.

Well if they lose I will have a problem getting to sleep, apparently.

I'm gonna have to read the thread. There must have been some hot posts (not sexy hot--those strikes that weren't strikes! They torture me by leaving that fuckin box up there all the time, lol). What a game. Ended up having company so I couldn't go full court press online. Made a handful of cards. And I'll have to make a card or two reflecting how we lost. No rush there. When Granderson made this catch I thought there was no way we would lose. Like with Endy. [fimg=400]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Tk-1IhQ0_G_HwOkITOzyEMGM7pGPtWuGWOGSkLA4tODKi7Fm0-MMPgnhJ0M71y3P90jbVk3IAgccNGb93ovnOrGSur4Prif_RSFGrElYoRmnx6kClUnP5rcDNOVcJH73wa76PkIPIaHVCWHCv44vMF_saEhZwMr67M3_yY_Lz71s6dBJBu82A9pSOPUqRNfRWGQgdTUe_UxBFBMhSUp9KdkqYSYEby-JXkIRjk-rWl21ZMaiG39v6hKj9-GWZo3v6NtErmnKCHxxvJ06jCsnQOBQgnwWsWqoWga29_MxQsna66VXhQsCv36FZ-kSp97NP8kJA1q7BSEzNp_lIjh2ZbKRnh3GUbFxOOytOH0Ev7SX6Lp3h6LUtpjhyB34zds5RuPv_yoDOjLzlA-bAB11ntww_2yw29mcTI4f4nqgg7E_x_4x4zR0s9XlElZ2fl4yGwIWGAadT-WBRBDjEGpQH_UPXOXCO3hyQyVb1CAS2hNQXhuBf-Rn-tgOTCYzvZQEdJ-CUKWFxsKKHqAYVgsDkjE4tetjThhn_6ra9OQWvOEEd-Y_QBe2rILOBMPWY3bhbR9PeFrWkPWAqOQ4w0PloCHac_JcdMBwz6-MSjAJwhdNEWlGHw=w522-h696-no[/fimg] Bumgarner. What else can ya say? Yea, Cubs FTW. batmagadanleadoff wrote: Well fuck , Bumgarner was aces , Familia again though Armando Benitez woulda gotten practically lynched if he ever blew two World Series saves and gave up post-season game crushing home runs like the ones Familia gave up to Alex Gordon and Conor Gillapsie. I did voice a concern right after the game about the Familia & The Benitez Syndrome. I don't want this to start looking like a snowball that's going in that direction. Some media will try and push it that way. I hope it doesn't get to Familia over time. But come-on, Fammy has done more great stuff in the post than bad, and up until tonight he gave up only one homer this ENTIRE season. OVER 50 SAVES! I think he will shake this off, save fiddy in 17, and successfully close the World Series. Oh, and real quick--it might have been a game plan to jump on Bummy early in the count but they needed to take more pitches during the first 3/4 innings. Not doing that played right into Madison's hands. What a game, What a season. Satisfied, but disappointed. No more Mets baseball OE: crap! 16 pages?! I better go get a snack.

Frayed Knot wrote: And then there was the old water bottle which came flying out of the stands just as Baltimore's LF Kim while in the process of catching a deep fly. Every once in a while, just when you think Canadians fit their rep for the most polite folks on the planet, the Canucks or Canadiens lose the Stanley Cup and suddenly the cities of Vancouver & Montreal are over-turning cars and setting them on fire. This was just disgusting behavior. Even with Rose in '73, as horrible as that was, Pete wasn't in the process of fielding a fly ball when the bottle skimmed past him. People are fuckin nuts. And they never caught the guy. Today the authorities are asking the person to turn him/her self in. So no one in that entire section felt that this action drastically crossed the line of acceptable behavior? I would have had the entire section escorted out.

My brother tells me Duda is not on the WC game roster. OE: Yep. Hmm. Kelly J has some good #s vs. Bummy. http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/mets-finalize-wild-card-game-roster-will-be-without-lucas-duda-vs-giants-1.12407749

bmfc1 wrote: B v P: http://dailybaseballdata.com/cgi-bin/dailyhit.pl?date=1005 This is excellent.

Frayed Knot wrote: - Oh, and Barry Bonds is out as Marlins hitting coach. Many of the right things were said about BB -- and, let's face it, just by lasting the whole season he beat a lot of folks' Over/Under guesses by about 125 games. But apparently he wasn't hitting it off with Donnie and there were always rumors of 'diminishing commitment' Every friggin time I saw him he was smiling and hugging a player. I don't know if the guy just got a HR or scored or what, but there was Bonds interjecting himself into the moment. It looked like the players enjoyed the hugs but who knows. I never saw him hug Mattingly.

I'm sure I would have said 100 wins. Like I do every year. [fimg=400:11epo5fs]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/A0Esbtpy0-iw_qC5XYq0AQA_IrlFg_WvZmNjXmSQep1jMHBJQEklH54rwif8IVgRHnWO9jsQ0uS3zwpl4ZTJakv_Mfdde64YevZZnyFXV7YVZ-rObf-TFnKoQU5mF4amf5xdYgxIQY7p7L1DVFDfp46dwb5Hb3QA7j1xpqwt9uA9smPWjCyEFpFMhvZF1tbOCOwtf1bo65daXHO2r749EZXlqrCNDq9bmZPb2K8yXfHdp_mfwb32mlErm3DjZH2iY-0zn5TL9f8niAyFBC0VvwNuYEFftd_75BmpUNUnR0WGY92BWHXeSH2zaR3a2Rni7nJqti_gYlk4WQiwT3SvNCSOMF_sDmXYGr5rdstjdAskT9tAtqUdJB4QkaN4lZNZtTVEJQlep2VbbpLuTxJpJwFgfkmkxViJMW_HAPOzbP5ar2ezxNZCAwK3N5DUQMLxzro-TFscXOsDgFXVE98lK55tbNPEctggJUWaK2x6nS60Hgpw_swCZP2kweyjCIuApBp8YDMNk97ZeODV1FMgUohRb2tlIQUd5tFhACbKe8jAqiPLHFz-KO2NzrdHfdM2P-43X2RsLEZMVZT-fdHCKmCovgZX0DzUms-KLCzb-ikWvUwWlw=w1600-h1200-no[/fimg:11epo5fs] I thought the roller -coaster analogy was apt, but this makes it ridiculous. Ha! [tweet:11epo5fs] [/tweet:11epo5fs]

slow quiet grrrrrrrrrrrrrslowleyturingtobigpurpleYAY! ON OCTOBER 1ST THE NEW YORK METS CLINCHED THE 2016 TOP NL WILD CARD SPOT! TO CELEBRATE, WE ARE OFFERING THIS SPECIAL 15-CARD POSTSEASON TEAM SET UNTIL OCTOBER 6TH. FOR EACH PLAYOFF SERIES THAT THE METS WIN, PURCHASERS OF THIS 15-CARD POSTSEASON TEAM SET WILL RECEIVE ONE EXCLUSIVE FREE BONUS CARD! A TOTAL OF THREE EXCLUSIVE FREE BONUS CARDS WILL BE CREATED FOR THE TEAM THAT WINS THE WORLD SERIES. [fimg=400]https://www.topps.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/500x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/a/r/artbb-16c2s-16tnset-nym_primary.png[/fimg] Extra cards. Now they gotta win! http://www.topps.com/collectibles/trading-cards/topps-now-postseason-team-sets/when-the-mets-win-you-win-new-york-mets-2016-postseason-15-card-team-set-topps-now.html Fiddy bucks. Three "call-up" cards included. Lugo, Gsellman, & T.J.. I can see "call-up" cards becoming a "thing". I missed this one the other day. Was so busy I didn't even look to see if there was one. It's a nice card too. If anyone ordered and has extras I'll trade a ToppsNOW Thor/Seaver for it. [fimg=500]https://www.topps.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/small_image/500x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/a/r/artbb-16c2s-16tn-0527-1.jpg[/fimg]

metirish wrote: Strasburg out of the NLDS , possibly longer http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/17700972 Hmm.wow.

Frayed Knot wrote: MFS62 wrote: Looking at the offensive numbers leads me to ask, "Should Familia receive serious consideration for MVP?" I don't think Familia was even the best reliever on the Mets this year. ooooo, Reed. 4-WAY!

MFS62 wrote: Looking at the offensive numbers leads me to ask, "Should Familia receive serious consideration for MVP?" The precedent is closer Willie Hernandez who won both the CY Young and MVP awards for the Tigers in the same year. Later I think: yes. 3-way split!

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Zvon wrote: So is the WC an extra regular season game or the 1st game of the post season? Yes, it's a postseason game. Did you somehow miss all the excitement about the Mets being in the postseason? lol, no, not at all. I've slapped the logo on everything since Loney went yard. I'm just easily confused. This separate roster thing, I don't understand why that is. Like the ads on unis, I envision a future where baseball has less season games (154 again? Probably at first, and eventually lower) & more playoff games/tiers.

This is excellent. Thank you.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: For the Mets "batting title" I had to extend to an additional decimal place. Cabrera's batting average was .2802 and Cesepdes' was .2797. How about that? Thanks for putting this together . Looking at it I'm now thinking I favor a split MVP. This separate roster stuff in interesting. So is the WC an extra regular season game or the 1st game of the post season?

Bumgarner's great post season portfolio means only one thing to me. He's due for an asskickin'. I think Thor is a head strong guy and that's a good trait in a pitcher, but I do wish he would accept the fact that he has to do something about what base runners are doing to him. I mean, all that would take is a better move to first, right? That's all I'm worried about, base runners going wild. But if Syndergaard don't let em reach first then it won't be a problem.

TransMonk wrote: Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: Major League caps will have little New Era logos on the side starting next season. I don't like this. BOO!!!!!![/bigpurple] I very much third (& 4th) this. The side of a cap is reserved space for special events. MLB logo is on the very back, a good place for it. They could put it above that and, although I still wouldn't like it, it wouldn't stop me from buying one. That shit should be inside the cap as far as I'm concerned. If the post season hats still have those on the side I will pass, just as a form of protest. If everyone did that they would re-think it post haste! I have last years World Series cap. It's not like folks in the supermarket are going to run up to see which year it says. I'm covered until we see a cap that says WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS. Now if they stick that Little Era logo shit on the side of that hat I'm still going to want to protest, but I also will really want that cap. Bastages. They always get ya in the end. Could this be the prelude of a slow change towards ads on unis?

bmfc1 wrote: I hope that the vote for Selig ends in a tie. BoC I'm going to have to give this some thought (something I rarely do for anything).

I'll be keeping score. I predict no errors (or I'll need to redesign the border). [fimg=500:5biwd1e0]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/fkfP5nv3x-C_4oGNkWwQrLQroTrmFzn_MrDDpRnA6xmL8huuKqe0upIfORh-fjnUE3pSX4s8Zcp-lKt46XdlpWgKuZDm70Pf1z1wPPJFgaQhzWcYNcPTrFGP0FM_adtZoi5nWCDl-jhu7OcbWFcnLF7FoFeFxXEXeIOlxQB9T2xcsY2zE-0YebwNrQdHgGLMiiMAeo3cg10kTcmI0tHk4YOA-jRZ1GprfOkMkRLl5W3jl5E4svdU6Nw2hqKEsiju4GwTi_Suj2EVL-5Q0AriVUaXo9TjPj4wLG_xvcvFEl766G9X0EgtqYbqXX7PgjuphN-79jSxxVPGxeO-s_o_JV0bnN_3RoczgHNHyTguGkgNaFoghFRIE_n3-gpS84P3-WY64DN99ai9yOv0wSXSQxHJ_pqbquaSHgUNtUL71tfmRg8floJ6k_T3q-gxRMh5hm1-7w9s3LsxaiLMAvSG4D6OSgBY5V1xb7zzwhgIz4nkT2O22_NHiPKmcEYviRc0_UqhB_ObI47y-s_e-4wHeGwpgM5JVQEs_ybVt_urCHlRxI94dfHM-ctLjDnDUJf1n2LAhRLDkjshf8J8VPgi8LUloKtmuEfSJ1G6nk-bK1qNkSKxfQ=w1104-h828-no[/fimg:5biwd1e0]