Marshmallowmilkshake

Big win!!

Wow. Villar.

A Yankee-lovin' Stony Brook grad?

Never seen a ball get stuck there like that at Citi.

First grand slam of the season!!

We should play more games against the Pirates.

Polar Bear plunge at Citi!!!!

Villar homer!!

=MFS62 post_id=70822 time=1625858091 user_id=60] I think JD Davis and a minor, minor league prospect (not our top 5) might be enough to bring back Kris Bryant if Bryant is on the last year of his contract. We can only vote for one (I voted Bryant), but Davis, Szapucki and #2 minor league prospect SS Mauricio (Lindor is our shortstop) might be enough to bring back both Bryant and Davies. Later

Lots of reports and speculation that the Cubs are sellers after the 11-game losing streak and will be looking to offload some talent. Talks for Bryant didn't get far in the spring, but the asking price might be lower now. He's having a nice year, with 16 homers, 43 rbi and .268 ave. Do we need offense over starting pitching? Martino and others suggest the Mets would be more willing to part with a better prospect(s) if they can get Bryant + a pitcher. Buster and his buddies say it will be a buyers market with wild cards apparently coming out of the NL West and fading Central and East teams look to deal. Do we want any of these guys? https://www.sny.tv/articles/cubs-scouting-mets-prospects-2021-mlb-trade-deadlinehttps://www.sny.tv/articles/cubs-scouting-mets-prospects-2021-mlb-trade-deadline

My fear with the seven-inning double-header games is that they crack the door open for eliminating nine-inning games altogether. That seems like a radical idea, but I remember ESPN's Karl Ravech talking on Buster Olney's podcast, saying he is all in on seven-inning games, and thinks MLB is headed there in the not-so-distant future. Now, I get that sportswriters tend to like short games. What's a magical evening for us is a daily grind for them, and they want to file their stories and get the heck out. But that would be a fundamental change to the game that would alter stats and everything else. There would be stats for the nine-inning era and the seven-inning era.

Frayed Knot wrote: The "Administrative Leave" for Bauer has been extended from the initial seven days to an additional seven days. Dodgers are also canceling a bobblehead day and removing all Bauer merchandise from online and team stores. As they should.

Not going to get a better chance than that.

Squirrel!

Did anyone have him as the Darkhorse Met? I sure did not!

Lefty Specialist wrote: =Marshmallowmilkshake post_id=70486 time=1625676031 user_id=119] Honestly, I've never heard about his being excessive in needling umpires. Not disputing you, just saying I've never heard that. Watch any SNY game. He's constantly moaning. He's not in their face like Weaver was, but he's always griping about ball and strike calls from the dugout. Gary has mentioned this more than once this year, even comparing him to Bobby Cox, who was legendary in bitching about every call.

Lefty Specialist wrote: Rojas is low-key, except when he's bitching to umpires, which he does entirely too often. That seems to suit this team. It seems like he kind of gets out of the way and lets them play. Not sure that's Manager of the Year stuff. https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/orioles-manager-earl-weaver-argues-with-the-umpires-during-a-home-at-picture-id159755323?s=612x612> Hall-of-Famer Earl Weaver, two-time Manager of the Year, disagrees! Honestly, I've never heard about his being excessive in needling umpires. Not disputing you, just saying I've never heard that.

=Ceetar post_id=70437 time=1625610291 user_id=102] yes, it's the manager's job to get his players vaccinated and not play them hurt and remove them when they're hurt and manager their workload, their prep, and all that, so they don't get hurt. He's just as much a pansy as every other manager across the country that's not mandating vaccines for his workers. Even more so maybe, because there are tangible benefits to reaching 85% that he could help them reach. He's failing the 60 or so percent of them, including Lindor, that ARE vaccinated and are still being limited in some of their freedoms around the ballpark. He's not finding a way to win, the players are. Mostly the pitchers. In part because of the changes to the baseball. He's choosing the right relievers but mostly they've ALL been effective. It's not like he's piecing together innings (especially with the nonsense 7 inning stuff) with luck and matchups. He didn't sign these guys. He should win manager of the year because Jacob deGrom is literally unhittable? please. Give it to Hefner if anything.

ME - He's got a Mets team in first place on July 1 missing most of his best players for long stretches and many of the top players who have not been hurt are performing below career averages. He's done a fantastic job. Him, and the front office that is a "]On top of that, It's extremely narrow-minded to credit him for the 6th string guy doing well but not dock him for the 5th string guy getting hurt. Like, Having these guys ready to go and staying healthy and not playing them through injury is a big part of it, and he's failed, badly. It's the manager's job to keep players from getting hurt? Is he supposed to sit down with Joey Lucchesi and motivate him to not tear his UCL? If he's finding a way to win with the guys who were the backups to the backups to the backups -- and that was the lineup I saw in Miami in May -- then he's doing a fantastic job.

_I'm_ not pivot. I still think he's doing a poor job overall as far as I can tell, but I"m not a voter. He's got a Mets team in first place on July 1 missing most of his best players for long stretches and many of the top players who have not been hurt are performing below career averages. He's done a fantastic job. Him, and the front office that is a "mess."

Great song! He's going to be NL Manager of the Year, I think.

PHEW!

And two!

There's one.

Bad walk.