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I'm on Team The Loose Bodies Were Causing More Problems Than Were Being Told and hope it is being addressed this off season.

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I don’t have a problem with Mendoza. Wasn’t his fault. I think Shildt is leaving before his contract is up. You don’t see guys doing that too often. That probably means he won’t resurface elsewhere, depending on what his contract says. All the best to him.

Mike Schildt out in San Diego.

Well that's gonna sting all winter for the Phils!

Bochy out in Texas. Offered a front office role. Bob Melvin might start packing boxes.

[bIGPURPLE]Beautiful! [/bIGPURPLE] I believe! GO, Brewers!

Stinking Marlins. It's always the Marlins.

Wheels coming slightly off.

Did you eliminate the Tigers?

Newsday had a headline, "Who is to blame for the Mets' Collapse" but it ended up to be clickbait. It listed the culprits in descending order: 3) Carlos Mendoza 2) David Sterns 1) The players Way to go out on a limb there, guys. I think this is going to turn out to be the transition season that last year was supposed to be.

WOW! Sorry I doubted!

[bIGPURPLE]ALVAREZ!!!!![/bIGPURPLE]

They really needed to bust out here snd make a statement, and instead they are doing even worse tgan usual.

When you say moving forward, do you mean the next six games or next season?

UGH.

Ugh, that was terrible. Alvarez's double play probably killed the best chance they had.

Nice bounce back game for Tong! Hopefully, that's a big confidence booster!

Stanek.

I like to collect some fun Mets things when I can, which is not always easy where I live. But the Tigers authentic shop page has a section where you can purchase game-used balls from particular games. As we know, I went to the Sept. 1 game that the Mets won 10-8. It was the glorious Juan Soto game with the grand slam and triple. So I splurged a little and bought a ball from that game. In that game, the Mets were ahead 6-5 in the bottom of the fifth when Gregory Soto gives up hits to Spencer Torkelson and Andy Ibanez with a Riley Green strikeout between them. Out goes Soto, in comes Ryne Stanek, much to the chagrin of every Met fan in the building. Catcher Dillon Dingler comes to the plate. He took a strike then a ball before Stanek throws one very wide, sending it to the backstop and allowing Torkelson to pretty much jog home to tie the score. Soto's triple that put the Mets ahead again came the next inning, but at the time I was like, "Are you effing kidding me?" My box from the Tigers arrived today. I excitedly opened it. Each MLB authentic ball has a hologram on it, and you can go to the website and enter the code to learn the batter, pitcher, and what happened. I was pretty excited, given all the Met stars in the lineup that day. The website spits out: Batter: Dillon Dingler Pitcher: Ryne Stanek Second pitch: Ball, slider, 88.4 mph, Ball1 1, Strikes 1. Third pitch: Wild pitch. Torkelson scores. Andy Ibanez to second. Well, at least it was a memorable play.

How about if that "need" for absolute positivity costs the team a playoff spot? Then it kind of looks like cowardice, a lack of judgment, dithering, weakness in the decision-making process, poor personnel evaluation, and general schmuckerie, don't it? But they made the moves before it cost them a playoff spot. If they called them up in late September when out of the wild card by 5 games, that might fit your point. But when they started getting worried, they brought them up, ahead of some very big series. I think it shows the opposite of what you are saying.

I don't think there was ever any evidence that they lacked confidence in the AAA pitchers. I just don't think you remove a veteran like Senga, Montas, or Manaea - whom you are paying a hefty price to pitch - without being absolutely positive they are not going to reverse course and that takes some time. They did promote Blade Tidwell earlier in the season.

Multiple reports say he's on his way up! https://sny.tv/articles/brandon-sproat-strong-consideration-mets-start-9-4-25

Losing Griffin Canning had a far bigger impact than I thought it would.

Sorry guy! Tough day at work got in the way of getting an IGT out there!