While it is statistically untrue that all innings are equally important .... Well, yes. Obviously. If possible, I wouldn't waste Garrett, clearly the Mets best reliever this season based on statistics, with a 6th inning stint if the Mets are already trailing by seven runs by then. But if I did, sti...

Why would you write that? The $20 million man is hitting .216 this year. I can read numbers. That's not what you wrote. What's so hard to understand? He wrote this: Nimmo is playing like he signed a $160 million contract last year and now he doesn't have to care anymore. You responded: Why would yo...

I voted for Garrett , but we need Garrett to get to the closer, so likely not to happen Yes. Also, if youse accept, for the purposes of this hypothetical thread, that Diaz is gonna suck all season long, kinda like in 2019, then there's gonna be a domino effect diminishment of the entire relief corp...

kcmets wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 11:33 am I think it should be Hank ll instead of Hank², no?

Hank squared = Hank. (1 X 1= !)

This makes no sense at all, no matter how I read it.

If you're squaring Hank, then it's Hank².

And where do you get that Hank = 1?

I know the Mets may well benefit from the third WC team, but I still think it was a stupid idea to add it. A .500 team should never make the playoffs. Ya think so? Inevitably, the teams that keep on just missing out on the playoffs will raise such a stink about the cutoff, that they'll expand the p...

metirish wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 8:00 am Currently 4th place and 10 games back

They're just a half game out. Did you forget what a stupid shitshow the league is now?

Also, Cohen could have just the same meant that the Mets can't be buyers until the trade deadline nears.

Five runz is a ztep in the right direction. Forward. So is this shitshow run of baseball where the Mets are getting their asses handed to them on a daily basis. Think I was kidding a few days ago when I wrote that they were about one two game losing streak from clinching a playoff spot? (Right dire...

Stupid shitshow update:

The Mets are practically a playoff team.

The Mets are only one game out of the money. If the season ended tomorrow, the Mets could still make the playoffs.

This has been your stupid shitshow update.

Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 3:30 pm They miss Alvarez a lot, and I think they miss Mauricio as well.

and Yoenis Cespedes, too.

All statistics are man-made. Not really. A double, for example, is a double. To calculate how many doubles a player hits in a season, you simply have to count the doubles and add them up. The doubles total for any given player is indisputable, and 100% reliably accurate so long as the counting is a...

Diaz's 2022 season was one of the all-time best ever for a reliever. Of course it was an outlier. Expecting Diaz to repeat that season, even if he'd never had a season wipe-out injury last year would be like having expected Roger Maris to top 60 HR's several more times. I have no idea how effective ...

I also like the game a lot lot less than I used to. But I'm a baseball addict. Like most other fans, I suspect.

It's an addiction.

Do you want runs or style points? Reminds me of Ty Cobb bemoaning the way Babe Ruth was revolutionizing the game with his brute power.

But analytics reveal that the best teams are the ones that maximize launch angle. Some conundrum, eh?

metirish wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 9:42 pm Mets haven't won a game wearing the City Connect

I don't think they're won a game in any uniform. But not to worry because at that rate, I think they can clinch a playoff spot by Thursday.

This Mets team is absolutely dire to watch Especially with the many hideous uniforms they'll probably wear half the time going forward. Its one big clown show, not to mention that the crapfest Mets are probably like one two game win streak from being in the money. I'm blaming Alonso for the disgust...

2021 Typewriter Chewing Gum Ltd. Mets set - Code Name: Play Ball, '62

Please do not take this quiz out to the back to shoot it in the head.

U.L. Washington - 1.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 3:12 pm I was wondering what was notable about Alabama, but it just clicked with me that it's the first state alphabetically. I assume this quiz was intended to keep going all the way through to Wyoming.

Just shoot me, now.

Holy mother of mercy. From the get-go, this quiz should've been taken out the back to the ditch and shot in the head between the eyes .

From the NYT: Stormy Daniels Describes Sexual Encounter With Trump and Is Grilled by His Lawyer https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/07/nyregion/trump-trial-hush-money-stormy-daniels Excerpt (emphasis added): Susan Hoffinger, the prosecutor, is now asking Stormy Daniels about having had sex with Tru...

If he denies it, it is a case of "he said-she said". But she has described so much detail of the encounter (the room, what he said, what he wore) that she may have turned it into a believable "He said-she saw" case. I doubt that he'll take the stand to deny it because if he does...

Stone's version might be wacky, but no more wacky than the Warren Commission's official conclusion that Oswald, acting alone, killed JFK.

I'm not sure about that. Even if she was lying about the sexual encounter, he's still paying her to shut up, and it's the bookkeeping that's on trial. But that's not the prosecution's theory of the case. The sexual encounter was not illegal and is not an element of any of the crimes charged. But th...

kcmets wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 6:16 pm First of all, them having relations or not isn't what is on trial.

Of course it is! Without the sexual encounter, there's no reason or motive for the defendant to have done any of the things he was indicted for.