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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Apr 28, 2015 19:42:06 GMT -5
I have to say this Jake DeGrom Garden Gnome is mildly disturbing, and a bit too 90's Dan Cortese looking.  |
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Apr 28, 2015 19:53:09 GMT -5
HEY! THE METS ARE 11-3! LAST TIME THEY DID THIS? 1986! HIT IT BOYS! Just saw that ep of Mad Men a couple of weeks ago. Haven't seen the back half of season 7 yet, but I hope they not only show the Mets winning in 1969, but also pour one out for Lane when they do. |
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Apr 28, 2015 23:47:39 GMT -5
Y'all might wanna check the Nats-Braves box score.
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Post by MarkInTexas on Apr 29, 2015 12:41:48 GMT -5
Anyone else find it utterly bizarre that MLB is staging the Orioles-White Sox game in a completely empty stadium? Obviously, these are unusual circumstances, and this is the Sox's only scheduled trip to Baltimore this year (other than the recently scheduled makeup doubleheader), but if they're going to play the game, why not play it in Washington or Philadelphia, since both the Nats and the Phillies are on the road today? Granted, I don't know the logistics involved in moving a regular-season game to a neutral ballpark on short notice, but if the NFL can do it, I suspect that MLB could do it as well. Indeed, both Philadelphia and Washington will continue to be on the road this weekend, so I don't know why one of those cities couldn't host the Tampa series, instead of moving it to Tampa and pretending that Baltimore is "home".
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Post by MarkInTexas on Apr 29, 2015 12:43:24 GMT -5
Y'all might wanna check the Nats-Braves box score. It takes talent to blow a 9-run lead. Who do the Braves think they are, the Rangers? |
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Post by Lt. Broccoli on Apr 29, 2015 18:25:36 GMT -5
Anyone else find it utterly bizarre that MLB is staging the Orioles-White Sox game in a completely empty stadium? Obviously, these are unusual circumstances, and this is the Sox's only scheduled trip to Baltimore this year (other than the recently scheduled makeup doubleheader), but if they're going to play the game, why not play it in Washington or Philadelphia, since both the Nats and the Phillies are on the road today? Granted, I don't know the logistics involved in moving a regular-season game to a neutral ballpark on short notice, but if the NFL can do it, I suspect that MLB could do it as well. Indeed, both Philadelphia and Washington will continue to be on the road this weekend, so I don't know why one of those cities couldn't host the Tampa series, instead of moving it to Tampa and pretending that Baltimore is "home". Could be legal/financial reasons, like the Orioles can't collect "home" revenue from a stadium outside of Baltimore. I don't know, but that's what happened with the New York Rangers and the Stadium Series - when they played outside Madison Square Garden, they weren't legally allowed to be the home team. Maybe for the Orioles it was financially better to play in an empty stadium than to play outside the city? |
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Post by Pear on May 1, 2015 18:12:59 GMT -5
The Cubs are 13-8. What is this new world I am living in?
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Post by Shipwreck on May 4, 2015 20:07:44 GMT -5
The Astros have the best record in the American League.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2015 22:43:02 GMT -5
Ah. Joba Chamberlain just came in with a 6-3 lead and the White Sox farted him out of the game to the tune of 4 runs on 6 hits in 2/3 of an inning. Life's simple pleasures. Baseball is neat.
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on May 7, 2015 8:51:22 GMT -5
Ah. Joba Chamberlain just came in with a 6-3 lead and the White Sox farted him out of the game to the tune of 4 runs on 6 hits in 2/3 of an inning. Life's simple pleasures. Baseball is neat. The White Sox also releasing a swarm of flies on him was just adding insult to injury. |
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Post by MarkInTexas on May 7, 2015 13:08:06 GMT -5
The Astros have the best record in the American League. Which, somehow, is still true, though now they have it by only a half game. At least the Rangers are now only the third-worst team in the AL. |
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Post by Lemminkainen on May 10, 2015 2:39:50 GMT -5
And when it rains, it pours. The Rays' starting rotation is a injured mess - a week into last season, they lost Matt Moore to a TJ surgery and he's only supposed to start rehab now. A few days ago, Alex Cobb, their best pitcher when healthy, found out he was having TJ surgery, and now Drew Smyly's got a labrum tear.
Seriously, Cobb was the kind of guy who managed to post a 3.9 WAR despite missing two months after taking a line drive in the head.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on May 10, 2015 22:10:09 GMT -5
Hey, the Yankees are surprisingly good this so far this season! And Michael Pineda posted 16 Ks in this afternoon's 6-1 win over the Orioles.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on May 15, 2015 21:24:44 GMT -5
What is a "fielder's choice"?
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Post by Lemminkainen on May 16, 2015 16:09:01 GMT -5
What is a "fielder's choice"? It describes a play where a fielder has the option to choose a man to force out that's not the batter (otherwise it's probably a groundout) - the most common application of it refers to when there's a runner on first and the batter grounds to the 3B/SS side and the fielder throws to second for a forceout. The fielder could choose to force out the batter, but it makes more tactical sense to force the lead runner. The batter does get on base, but recording it as a FC means the batter is not credited with a hit. |
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Post by Lemminkainen on May 22, 2015 17:22:04 GMT -5
Is it a bad thing in baseball when a 24 year old prospect is still in A+? *checks stats* 24 isn't necessarily doom when you're dealing with a guy who was drafted out of college, but... This guy seems like kind of a lottery ticket. He started off as a catcher who could hit, but it looks like injuries or lack of defensive talent moved him out to left field. He got injured again last year and hasn't really hit well in both attempts at A+ ball, so... I wouldn't expect much out of him. So they ended up releasing that guy, and the net result is that Arizona dumped about 6M in salary and the Braves have gotten about 20 innings of shitty pitching for taking Cahill. |
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Post by ganews on May 26, 2015 21:55:37 GMT -5
I leave for my conference in St. Louis on Saturday morning, which means I'll be going to the night game between the Cardinals and the Dodgers, the two best records in the National League (the good league).
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2015 10:59:34 GMT -5
I bought the MLB TV premium app a few weeks ago. My blackout area covers the Astros, Rangers, KC, and St. Louis. Literally every other baseball game not involving one of those teams I can stream on my TV, Ipad, or phone. It is fantastic. Baseball is now my permanent lava lamp/background noise.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2015 2:53:11 GMT -5
Get your shit together, Royals.
At least we've dropped to a tie for first with the Twins, and not the Tigers.
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Post by Pops Freshenmeyer on May 29, 2015 18:24:08 GMT -5
I don't really have anywhere else to post these thoughts, so...
Matt Harvey was on the Daily Show last night, and, as expected, Jon Stewart spent the entire conversation fan-boying his heart out at the Dark Knight of Gotham. His particular treatment for Harvey's arm, complete with pillow, miniature NYPD police barrier, and mini-mug of water was quite funny, and Harvey was able to kid about with it, despite seeming a little hesitant to poke at his condition.
But what struck me more was the conversation that followed, one in which both Stewart (quite within his right as a long-suffering Mets fan) postulated that Harvey will give the team all he's got for two years, see some success, then trade him away. What disturbed me was that Harvey essentially agreed.
This is the one thing that has bothered me most about Matt Harvey: He is quite open to the idea that everything will come down to business being business. It's a striking comparison to our current, established face-of-the-team, David Wright. By all accounts by fellow Mets fans, the organization is doing their damnest to try and make Matt Harvey the non-costumed Mr. Met, but he knows he is too damn valuable, even with TJ surgery in his history and currently in his first year back, to stick around with this team. And as such, the open acknowledgement that baseball fans league-wide tend to look down on the Mets seems to infect his thinking, which only breaks my heart as it seems like he has no interest in working on making the Mets a hot team in baseball -- and I mean that as the Mets as a team of players, and not as a commodity the way, say, the Yankees have been for much of the past 15 years, banking on the fact that they're the team with A-Rod, Derek "YEAH JEETS!" Jeter, Mo Rivera, on top of all the malarky about 'tradition' that is avoidable when talking about the Yankees.
And sure, you look at some of the pitching depth, and think we'd be okay if we lost Matt Harvey. The Mets have some of the best depth at pitching, that, I'm pretty sure Mets fans have a better knowledge of their minor leaguers knowing we have at least one or two more pitchers in AAA and even AA ready to come up if Harvey were to suddenly leave the team for whatever reason. And we'd be perfectly fine with lofting all the attention on Noah Syndergaard (did you see that home run the other day?!) or Jacob deGrom (NL Rookie of the Year last year), among our solid corps of Jonathan Niese, 'Big Bad' Bartolo Colon, and even Dillon 'G-Train' Gee. But for all of his speed (not the best, but still up there), command, and bravado, I've invested way too much in Matt Harvey for him to leave this team. Even when Syndegaard and deGrom were still projects-in-progress in the minors, us Mets fans have been expecting that Matt Harvey would be there as our future for the next five or seven years.
I guess what I'm saying is, if Matt Harvey gets traded, I hope it only helps the Mets without him. Not that I'd expect a trade for brilliant pitcher for another brilliant pitcher, but that GM Sandy Alderson (or whoever it may be by that time) recognizes the holes currently plaguing the Mets, and may be why we have such a miserable road record compared to how the Mets do at CitiField. But deep down, I don't mind if we happen to lose Syndergaard or deGrom -- I've never seen a pitcher as accurate at Matt Harvey. And though he's known as the Dark Knight, I believe in Harvey (comma) Matt.
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Post by Lemminkainen on Jun 6, 2015 13:07:08 GMT -5
And when it rains, it pours. The Rays' starting rotation is a injured mess - a week into last season, they lost Matt Moore to a TJ surgery and he's only supposed to start rehab now. A few days ago, Alex Cobb, their best pitcher when healthy, found out he was having TJ surgery, and now Drew Smyly's got a labrum tear. Seriously, Cobb was the kind of guy who managed to post a 3.9 WAR despite missing two months after taking a line drive in the head. Jesus Christ, now Odorizzi came out of a game after grabbing his oblique after a pitch. In unrelated news, Tal's Hill is finally getting removed. |
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Jun 15, 2015 17:39:22 GMT -5
Joc Pederson crashing into the outfield wall last night is going to be a Ken Burns moment for sure.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2015 2:30:44 GMT -5
Alex Gordon is seriously injured, a day after managing 7 hits in one day for us. This is a Pyrrhic victory. Ugh.
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Post by Pops Freshenmeyer on Jul 9, 2015 22:28:48 GMT -5
As anticipated, there are no Mets players starting on the field for the NL this year.
Except, y'all NL fans might be treated to the hotness that is Jacob deGrom as the starting pitcher, and Jeurys Familia as closer.
#truedetectiveseason3
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Jul 13, 2015 8:09:08 GMT -5
As anticipated, there are no Mets players starting on the field for the NL this year. Except, y'all NL fans might be treated to the hotness that is Jacob deGrom as the starting pitcher, and Jeurys Familia as closer. #truedetectiveseason3 Although it'd be wrong, it would be funny if deGrom was brought in just to pinch hit. |
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Post by Pops Freshenmeyer on Jul 13, 2015 18:13:47 GMT -5
As anticipated, there are no Mets players starting on the field for the NL this year. Except, y'all NL fans might be treated to the hotness that is Jacob deGrom as the starting pitcher, and Jeurys Familia as closer. #truedetectiveseason3 Although it'd be wrong, it would be funny if deGrom was brought in just to pinch hit. Too bad he's not going, but Harvey's pretty good at bat: m.mlb.com/news/article/136153856/mets-matt-harvey-hits-first-career-home-runI was at this game on Saturday. CitiField went fucking CRAZY. Watch the full video in the link -- I am SO HAPPY they showed the shot with the WOR radio call. Howie Rose's voice when he realizes it's a home run is how it felt. |
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Post by Nudeviking on Jul 13, 2015 19:12:35 GMT -5
As anticipated, there are no Mets players starting on the field for the NL this year. Except, y'all NL fans might be treated to the hotness that is Jacob deGrom as the starting pitcher, and Jeurys Familia as closer. #truedetectiveseason3 But there was a dude from their Single A/Double A team who started during the Futures Game! That's gotta count for something doesn't it? |
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Jul 13, 2015 21:05:37 GMT -5
Although it'd be wrong, it would be funny if deGrom was brought in just to pinch hit. Too bad he's not going, but Harvey's pretty good at bat: m.mlb.com/news/article/136153856/mets-matt-harvey-hits-first-career-home-runI was at this game on Saturday. CitiField went fucking CRAZY. Watch the full video in the link -- I am SO HAPPY they showed the shot with the WOR radio call. Howie Rose's voice when he realizes it's a home run is how it felt. Sweet! Saturday was the Lagares bobble head right? |
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Post by Pops Freshenmeyer on Jul 14, 2015 0:03:11 GMT -5
Sweet! Saturday was the Lagares bobble head right? It was! Unfortunately, by the time I made my way into the park, all the bobbleheads were gone. I was furious when I saw obvious fair-weather fans and tourists who could give a fuck about the game with boxes sticking out of their bags. BUT: when I made way over to my buddy's section (he was having a sort-of family reunion, including a pre-game and post-game tailgate; I bought a separate ticket), we had found out that when they asked other fans to make room so that I could join them, they completely abandoned TWO of their bobbleheads by the end of the game. It was a true Harvey Day miracle! Merry Harvsmas! Everyone! NOTE: I did not take one home, unfortunately. One was found under my buddy's girlfriend's seat, and the other was under his cousin's. Fuck it -- I saw Matt Harvey hit a home run, which, let's be honest, might never happen ever again at CitiField. That, and due to the design of the bobblehead being to look like Juan Legares catching a fly up against the wall, the bobble part of the head doesn't really get a chance to bobble when flicked. You really have to go out of your way to make his head move. |
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Post by Pops Freshenmeyer on Jul 14, 2015 0:11:19 GMT -5
As anticipated, there are no Mets players starting on the field for the NL this year. Except, y'all NL fans might be treated to the hotness that is Jacob deGrom as the starting pitcher, and Jeurys Familia as closer. #truedetectiveseason3 But there was a dude from their Single A/Double A team who started during the Futures Game! That's gotta count for something doesn't it? I live in the NOW, Nudeador. |
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