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Daily Walkoff ⚾️ Mets #171 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀 dailywalkoff.com I like these!

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Guys on The Mets Pod were hoping and speculating this might be the case for Brooks Raley as well.

Griffin Canning is your man!

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Ther Rays could be Don Zimmer.

Aug. 5. He's going to do better batting near Soto, and the build up will be pretty fun! Pete thrives in big spots.

I have to believe the Mets would at lease match that.

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Daily Walkoff ⚾️ Mets #158 "Best Of: R Names" 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀 dailywalkoff.com My first home run!

Absolutely nothing good is going to come from the growing association with -- and access to -- sports gambling. https://www.wsj.com/sports/baseball/mlb-umpire-sports-gambling-violations-3c28fbef?mod=hp_featst_pos4https://www.wsj.com/sports/baseball/mlb-umpire-sports-gambling-violations-3c28fbef?mod=hp_featst_pos4

I'm going to Spring Training later this month and I'll be rocking that cap! It's fantastic, guys!

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The Tigers started him at High-A West Michigan, so I was fortunate to see his professional debut. He's been a bit of a disappointment since reaching the majors, and might have been rushed a little. He'd be a project if he came over.

The whole focus on a unanimous vote is about the writers making this about the writers. Used to be making it on the first ballot was the biggest thing. Someone was "a first-ballot Hall-of-Famer." Now it must be unanimous, or the player is slighted. As long as you are above 75 percent, it doesn't matter. It's not like there is a difference between Ralph Kiner's 75 percent and Ichiro's 99.7. They're both Hall of Famers. Should everyone vote for the obvious players? Of course they should. Does it really matter? Not as long as they reach 75 percent. Buster Olney's podcast this week was all about the voting and there was much venting about seeking out the one holdout and doing Lord knows what to him or her. When we start demanding unanimous collective thought, that's a problem. "We need to all think the exact same way and outliers will be ostracized" is a bad way to go. Celebrate the 99.7 percent who got it right. Olney also went off on a rant about making all the ballots public and how sports journalists should demand transparancy. Sure. Sports journalists are by far the largest group that won't name sources - "a person familiar with the Mets' thinking..." -- so there's no way they'll want transparency. I did notice that ARod, Manny and the other juicers are going nowhere in the voting.Wonder if at some point the Hall will convene a committee and look at that era and figure out what to do with Bonds, Sosa, McGwire, Clemens, Arod and the like.

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I suspect an Astro. I was hoping that Sabathia would go in with Cleveland's logos, but he actually spent more time in the Bronx and I'm not sure he never wore a Cleveland cap with the C.

It was Mickey. Let me get the date for you. It was in Cincy and think May. It was the first year they had the uniforms with the tail, and Jay Horwitz gave me a media guide with the new uniforms on the cover and we talked about them. Looking at Baseball Almanac, I think this was the game: https://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=199305280NYNhttps://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=199305280NYN OE: It must have been Dallas Green! Looks like Torborg was fired just before that Reds series. My memory had dimmed. Hard to believe that was 30 years ago! Like Emily Litella says, "Never mind!"

Back in 1993 I was working on a story about a local player who was having a cup of coffee with the Mets, and the team was playing in Cincinnati, which is not a horrible drive. I got to go in the Mets clubhouse for the short interview, and it was my first time in a Major League clubhouse while players were in it. I had some short but nice conversations with people and a longish one with Al Harazin, who went to University of Michigan, in the dugout during batting practice. Torborg was one of the nicest people I met that day, and I appreciated that he made a little bit of time for a nervous out-of-town reporter working on a story about a player who wouldn't be there very long.

Here's the Hall of Fame Ballot Tracker, which as tallied about half the ballots prior to the announcement later tonight. The percentages tend to drop, so Wagner can't really afford to lose too may. I think Beltran will fall short. A litle surprised about Sabathia, who I did not think of as a first-ballot guy. Public Ballots: 202 Anonymous/Unverifiable Ballots: 11 % of Ballots Known: 54.3% Ichiro Suzuki 100.0% CC Sabathia 92.5% Billy Wagner 85.4% Carlos Beltrán 81.2% Andruw Jones 72.8% Chase Utley 52.1% Álex Rodríguez 39.9% Manny Ramírez 36.2% Andy Pettitte 31.9% Bobby Abreu 24.4% Félix Hernández 23.9% Jimmy Rollins 20.2% Dustin Pedroia 15.0% Omar Vizquel 12.7% Mark Buehrle 12.7% David Wright 10.8% Francisco Rodríguez 8.0% Brian McCann 3.3% Russell Martin 3.3% Ian Kinsler 3.3% Torii Hunter 2.3% Ben Zobrist 0.0% Troy Tulowitzki 0.0% Fernando Rodney 0.0% Hanley Ramírez 0.0% Adam Jones 0.0% Curtis Granderson 0.0% Carlos González 0.0%

I'd be curious what Boras and Pete are asking for. You'd think if it was anywhere close to what the Mets are offering, they would have split the difference and called it good by this point.

=smg58 post_id=183324 time=1737308843 user_id=62] Is anybody besides the Mets, Yankees and Dodgers even trying?

Is Scott better than Minter? I wonder if Sterns chose between the two, and whether signing both was an option. Wondering if bringing Stanek back is an option.

I halfway expect the Dodgers to sign Alonso, Bregman, and Santander by the end of the day. Just because they can.

I am hoping this is just some hardball negotiating.