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  1. roger_that
    Perfect drag bunt by McNeil.
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    Edgy MD wrote: Portsider on the mound and the Mets without their two best derechedero hitters. Pete actually has, as I never tire of noting, remarkably close lifetime OPS vs. RH or LH pitching. Of course, he is needed in the lineup, but it really doesn't matter which hand the opposing starter uses.
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    Edgy MD wrote: Alomar arrived to the Mets coming of an MVP-caliber season — possibly (probably?) the best of his career. According to BBref, his 1999 was a hair better than his 2001 (120/100 RBI, 138/113 R, 24/20 HR, 7.4/7.3 WAR. #3 MVP/#4 MVP) but point taken. The part that killed me was how fiercely Mets fans resisted seeing what was in front of their eyes. Especially in the field--he was worse defensively than offensively, in my opinion, from the start, and I remember being told what a glove wizard he was and how he was helping the team on defense. I was all "B-b-but he looks like a monkey trying to fuck a football out there! WTF are you talking about, glove wizard my hairy Irish ass!" and so on and so forth.
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    Two separate Jesse Gonder references in one day! Where else but the CPF.
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    =MFS62 post_id=95361 time=1654711704 user_id=60] =roger_that post_id=95359 time=1654711161 user_id=128] Being an abrasive, belligerent jackass definitely makes for internet problems, especially when trying to be funny or sarcastic. I should know.
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    Being an abrasive, belligerent jackass definitely makes for internet problems, especially when trying to be funny or sarcastic. I should know.
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    Not worse than Mackey Sasser. Or Clint Hurdle. Or Jesse Gonder. In a pinch, I'd give the kid a cup of coffee, let him see what MLB is like, do a little pinchhitting, get behind the dish in a blowout or two, and send him back to Syracuse or wherever, with a pat on the ass and the words, "Work on it, buddy."
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    Yeah, I read that one, too. Made me think that they could bring him up as soon as August. Much better to promote a prospect too soon than stick him in the minors while you're losing games you could be winning now. The harm in promoting kids too soon is BS: we promoted kids from Kranepool and Cleon Jones and Swoboda before they were ready, and (Kranepool and Jones, anyway) we sent them back down to log more time in minors when we saw that they were not. Swoboda got off to too hot a start for that, and kind of got messed up as a result, but that's much rarer, and sometimes (Gooden and Reyes and Strawberry and Wright) we've been very pleasantly surprised.
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    I Dream of Petagine.
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    Edgy MD wrote: He was a favorite of data crunchers, always lamenting the lack of opportunities he got in the bigs, despite an auspicious minor league résumé. Bet you guys didn't know you were posting on his 51st birthday: https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=petagi001robhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=petagi001rob Those minor league stats look very tasty. Usually that OBP carries over to the major league handily, which is very tasty indeed.
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    =nymr83 post_id=95238 time=1654646947 user_id=54] I don't know what state you are in, but posting at red lights is still a ticket in most. Doesn't seem worth it
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    Hey, for someone browsing the web while driving, you're lucky I didn't write that the Mets were angling to get Wilson Phillips.
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    =kcmets post_id=95235 time=1654646450 user_id=53] If you can't see I was making a silly joke but need to correct me.... whatever.
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    =kcmets post_id=95221 time=1654640479 user_id=53] McNutty works his way up to the five spot!
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    Starting threads while driving sounds dangerous. Stay safe. It would be pretty macabre if I never posted again, wouldn't it? No, I arrived alive (and I was posting at red lights, which is barely doable but safe enough.) Here's yer link: https://www.si.com/mlb/mets/news/new-york-willson-contreras-mlb-trade-deadline-target-mets-james-mccann-mlb-insider-jeff-passan-jim-bowdenhttps://www.si.com/mlb/mets/news/new-york-willson-contreras-mlb-trade-deadline-target-mets-james-mccann-mlb-insider-jeff-passan-jim-bowden
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    I'm driving. Meantime Google.
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    So sez SI. No link yet.
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    Edgy MD wrote: Brandon 2112 Rusch? http://leaptoad.com/mets/profile.php?PlayerCode=0629http://leaptoad.com/mets/profile.php?PlayerCode=0629 How quickly we forget.
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    Benjamin Grimm wrote: The Mets will be getting to Anaheim just in time for the Angels' new-manager winning streak. Seriously. Teams tend (in my imagination, at least) to play much better initially for a new manager than they had been for the manager who just got fired. I wonder if there's any truth to this.
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    Lastings Milledge. Slowly I turned, step by step.....
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    =seawolf17 post_id=95149 time=1654615248 user_id=91] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=95148 time=1654615078 user_id=68] =roger_that post_id=95147 time=1654614782 user_id=128] Currently, it doesn't matter if the fielder drops it. Batter is still out. My way the ball would be in play, but instead of the runner being out if the bag is stepped on, he would have to be tagged out.
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    Currently, it doesn't matter if the fielder drops it. Batter is still out. My way the ball would be in play, but instead of the runner being out if the bag is stepped on, he would have to be tagged out. So he could get into a pickle, and the fielder would need to decide whether to try to tag out himself, or to throw to another fielder, or what. The fielder would be creating problems for himself, IOW, by intentionally dropping the ball.
  23. roger_that
    No, what I'm calling for is allowing the fielder to drop the popup, or not, as he chooses, and if he chooses to drop it, THEN a runner on first who must run to 2B would no longer be forced at 2B, as he currently would be.
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    Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: [this to me just seems too exploitable under normal circumstances--iow, legal deception wouldn't be a clever way to take advantage but the "right" play. You could modify the IF rule, though. You could make it so when the ump calls "Infield Fly" that means the ball is in play whether the fielder catches the ball or drops it BUT runners trying to advance must be tagged out, not forced out. With runners on first and third, for example, that becomes a tricky play: the guy on first tries to get himself into a pickle, while the guy on third takes a long lead but breaks for home at the right moment, or not at all, depending on his reading of the play on the other runner. That's a good play, one I love to watch, and it takes only a small modification of the current IF rule. This would also reduce the number of triple-plays on IF plays.
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    True, but we kinda love it, don't we, when, say, an OFer dekes the runner into leaving the base too soon on a sac fly (the other day, some OFer--Yaz, I think--tried catching a fly ball in a squatting position to do just that), we say "How clever! Brilliant! Bravo!" It's all a matter of what's considered traditional trickery and in accordance with the way it's always been done.
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