Frayed Knot wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 7:59 pm If you keep looking for the reliever who might not have it that day you're bound to find one sooner or later.

That's a pretty solid principle.

If they're smart, they'll add Benny Agbayani.

Mendoza didn't use his long man despite losing his starting pitcher after four. He pulled Dedniel Nuñez while he had three pitches working and had fanned three guys in a row. Then he sent a lefty out to save it going up against a star switch-hitter whose OPS is a crushing .270 points better against ...

Good play.

I watched the Mets in the Summer of Cerone in 1991, but somehow completely deleted him. I'm aware, of course, that he was there, but not a single concrete memory sticks.

Sewald has some loose laces flying off his glove.

Well, the Mets ninth-inning job is currently being listed at linkedin.

Diekman sort of was set up, sending him against righties, but he didn't come in to anybody.

Damn, Taylor always looks confused going back.

Gotta go through Marte.

Ottavino for the eighth sure makes it look like the Mets are planning to throw Smith right into the ninth-inning fire.

I realize that Torrens is Venezuelan, but it feels odd to see 13 on the back of a non-infielder.

The last Mets catcher to wear it has to be ... part-time backstop Clint Hurdle?

A long foul ball aside, putting Reed Garrett back in the middle innings looks like it may be the way get him back in gear.

Now the WHO'S CLOSING mystery lingers. John Franco was here yesterday. How's his arm?

And that endorsement of Dedniel Nuñez as bullpen darkhorse is suddenly looking prescient.

Or at least, it is to me. Not so much to Carlos Mendoza, who is lifting him in the middle of an inning after three consecutive strikeouts, with three different pitches working.

I, for one, welcome the Luís Torrens era to Citi Field. (If they play "Brother Louie" for him, I think I'm going to scream.) I happen to love Brother Louie. Whatever do you mean? I love it too, but it's a tragic song, and they played a chorus of it every time Luis Guillorme came up, and i...

Transactions, 6/2/2024 Direction GOING COMING Transaction Demoted to Syracuse RetUrned from Rehab Assignment and Activated from Injured List Position Group Relief Pitcher Relief Pitcher https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/d_people:generic:headshot:67:current.png/w_213,q_auto:best/v1/p...

This is looking like a Dickey start.

Not a Mets Dickey start. A Rangers Dickey start.

It looks like the all the Mets players are participating in Fantastic 4 Day.

For some reason, I thought this was 1:10. I tuned only to get the beefy tones of the esteemed Todd Zeile.

I, for one, welcome the Luís Torrens era to Citi Field.

(If they play "Brother Louie" for him, I think I'm going to scream.)

Transactions, 6/1/2024 Direction GOING COMING Transaction Released Signed away from SDP to Minor-League Contract and Assigned to FCL Mets Position Group Infielder Relief Pitcher https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/d_people:generic:headshot:67:current.png/w_213,q_auto:best/v1/people/59...

I'm sorry this game went sideways, as we had at least three forumites in the crowd.

Cobb played in a racially segregated league, which implicates him — and everybody up to and including heroic princes like Christy Matthewson and Lou Gehrig — in racism. Beyond that, Cobb as a savage misanthrope steeped in racial animus is a popular myth largely descended from a single source that ap...

"Piano Man" in the eighth.

Ugh.

Iglesias is in for Lindor, and ... it's starting to show that he may not be the same guy.

Sticking with the saw that Ty Cobb was the embodiment of racism is bad enough, but calling him "the old Confederate" is more than a bit unfair, as Cobb in fact came from a long line of abolitionists.

First Mets Gold Glove winner = Tommie Agee, no?