Marshmallowmilkshake

101-win season flushed away.

Darn. I thought Cahna had one there.

Phew.

Um, Otto. What the hell?

Squirrel!!!!!

Howie was saying during a game the other night that the Mets' success rate in getting calls overturned was around 70 percent, and the next best was the Cardinals around 50 percent.

Darn. And Gore's speed can't help him there.

Pete believes.

They always kick us in the shins.

If Mitch Keller of the Pirates doesn't hit Marte in the hand, I suspect we win the division.

Edgy MD wrote: Sometimes, I'm thinking about Michael Kay. Or, actually, I think I'm thinking about Michael Kay, but I'm actually thinking about John Sterling. Sometimes, I think I'm thinking about John Sterling, but I'm actually thinking about Michael Kay. I conflate. But when I think, what I think is that it's a ridiculously bad situation that this staggeringly successful franchise has not only employed such poor broadcasters, but they've allowed them to stick around and become insinuated into the Yankee brand, so everybody has to pretend these guys are real assets to the brand when they aren't, and generations don't realize that they're playing out "The Emporer's New Clothes" on a nightly basis, and things don't have to stink this much. Making a change would be the organization admitting that they've been feeding folks garbage all these years. So instead, they keep feeding it, thinking maybe they can try to council these guys into retirement some day, but knowing that if they even try, some columnist would get wind of it and whip up a woefully misinformed fan rebellion. The same thing happened with Rizzuto for two-plus generations. Folks were convinced they were lucky to have him when they in fact deserved far better. Was it Kay or Sterling who was featured in Fman's KTEs with Suzyn Waldman? Which one does the horrible "It's high, it's far ..... it's caught by the second baseman" call?

That San Diego bandbox is so small that Bartolo Colon hit a homer there.

=smg58 post_id=110025 time=1664989499 user_id=62] I think they gambled on Alvarez being ready to contribute at this level by Labor Day, especially since the Cubs were not budging on Contreras, but Alvarez got hurt. (And I'm guessing he played hurt when he was struggling at AAA.) Honestly that's what I would have done, but it backfired. You have to admit the mistake on the Ruf deal. The Mets went from being overly aggressive on getting relievers under van Wegenen to not being nearly aggressive enough. Relievers are easy to find and cheap at the deadline, but they just haven't been enough of a priority.

Which of our top prospects were you willing to trade to get someone like Willson Contrares? Vientos? Baty? Because that's what teams were asking for. The fact that they had to overpay for Ruf, to me, is an indication that they were not going to get one of those top upgrades without losing some of those top prospects. If JD Davis or Dom were playing anywhere near to what was expected of them, we wouldn't have needed to chase people like Ruf.

And Alvarez gets his first ML home run!

As you wish! Alvarez and Vientos

We are Vogel-BACK in it!

Rats.

Ouch on that strikeout.

He'll never cleanse the Yankee taint from his soul.

Two starts in a row makes me wonder if he is tipping his pitches.

=bmfc1 post_id=108921 time=1664399859 user_id=73] According to Mike Puma, the Mets offered to move today's game to 4 PM and play tomorrow night and ATL refused. F them.

Gore flashes his speed AND leather!

Congrats, Pete!! David Wright and Mike Piazza are good company to keep.

BOOKS!!!!!