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The play doesn't seem like anything exciting when you're "watching" on MLB Gameday, as I am: Gavin Lux grounds out, second baseman Luisangel Acuña to pitcher Edwin Díaz. 3 OUT Ho hum. Grounder to second base, pitcher covering. Big deal.

LFG!

I know batting average doesn't mean anything anymore, but 7 of 9 batters tonight are bunched between .261 and .276.

How did Vientos take 2B on Nimmo's sac fly? Was there a throw home?

That's what they're paid for. Otherwise dorks on the CPF could do it for cheaper. Even for free.

=Fman99 post_id=203276 time=1757070355 user_id=86] I'm pretty excited about this series. I think this is when the Mets put the hammer down on these fuckers.

I had it on very good authority here on the Cranepool Forum that he (and Baty) were hopeless and should be dealt for whatever used athletic equipment some stupid team would offer in trade.

Well, yeah, any time before they get eliminated from the playoffs--whether in July, August or mid-September--is BEFORE it costs them a playoff spot. But that's just excusing the inexcusable.

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? These kids could be the best thing since Gooden, Darling, and Fernandez, or maybe since Seaver, Koosman, and Gentry. Imagine if they'd held them back so that Bruce Berenyi, Ed Lynch and Mike Torrez (or Al Jackson, Jack Hamilton, and Bob Hendley) could take their turns?

Again (and you're probably sick of hearing me repeat this point) this pattern of calling up rookies who succeed immediately ONLY when the MLB talent falters is a terrible indictment of the Mets' ability to recognize talent in their minor leaguers. If Senga needed to be sit down, put on the IL, stuck in the bullpen until he straightened himself out several weeks ago, but was kept in the rotation simply because they had no confidence in their talented AAA pitchers, that's on the front office, and I find it damning indeed.

How has Waddell avoided the nickname "Rube"?

Frayed Knot wrote: No ethnicity was indicated for Ensign Willie Keith, played by the actor Robert Francis, in THE CAINE MUTINY Actually, he was the WASPiest of WASPs. Maybe that's "no ethnicity"?

Again, how do you walk anyone with an 10-run lead? I don't get it.

Did anyone figure why McN-DH, and Baty-2B, and Vientos-3B? Also, did anyone comment on this being a rematch of 1968 World Series, with Gipson facing McLean?

Detroit manager to team: "OK, we finally got that damn McLean out of the game--let's gang up on this bullpen and score a TON of runs!!! Let's GO, boys!!!"

Time was, a manager would be committed to a mental institution for even considering removing McLean from the game at this point.

=Marshmallowmilkshake post_id=203069 time=1756859693 user_id=119] McNeil adds to it! 10-8!

Yet another Goddamned bases-empty HR by that worthless Soto!!!!

Tong Torontonial!;! Irrelevant to today's game, but true nonetheless.

Torrens torrid!!

Injuries all equal, why play Squirrel at DH? Much better defense to put him at 2b, Baty at 3b, and Vientos at DH, no? Is McNeil hurt or something?

=roger_that post_id=203004 time=1756771218 user_id=128] A record for lead changes this season?

A record for lead changes this season?

This too shall pass

I think you're forgetting about the role played by the coach here. Oddly enough, on the Miami broadcast (I don't know about the NYC broadcast), there was a quick shot of Soto admiring his blast for a long second. Obviously what he could tell was that the ball was either going to go out of the park (which it very nearly did) or be caught by the LFer, who was positioned perfectly. The Mets' first base coach could see the same, of course, and he could have yelled to Lindor "Tag" (and then "Go") in that second, reducing the need for Lindor to make any of your complicated calculations. I'm not quarreling with you that the circumstances (fast runner, deep fly with OFer positioned perfectly, long throw) arise very often, or even that last night's play was especially poor judgment, but more generally, you almost never see an advance on a sac fly with a runner on first, no matter how promising the conditions. I can't remember the last time I saw it. And I continue to maintain that in some instances, like last night, the runner on first has a MUCH greater chance of success than attempting a stolen base. To me, it looked as if Lindor could have taken second base easily on Soto's fly ball. And BTW if we're going to play retrospective vision games, that particular advance turned out to be unnecessary since instead of hitting into the DP that my plan would have prevented, Alonso hit a HR that scored Lindor anyway.