IGT 4/15/25 NYM@MIN Tax the Twins!

[Chad ochoseis]

Happy April 15, everyone.

Tylor Megill vs Bailey Ober, who is apparently quite good. 1.06 career WHIP in is fifth season. Keeps guys off the bases, strikes out plenty and doesn't walk many, gives up a lot of home runs.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

It hasn't been much to watch but we've been fortunate to encounter opposition playing so poorly on this trip.

I'd like to see a game where both teams play well but we play just a little better.

[Fman99]

I did not make it to the end of yesterday's game, though I felt that being up 5-1 with the current bullpen's performance that it was a pretty safe lead.

[Edgy MD]

Apart from Tax Day, it is also Jackie Robinson Day — a day I have been kind of standoffish about, but I embrace it this year, as honoring a civil rights icon is suddenly a dangerous act of defiance and resistance this year.




I guess Mark Vientos, born in Connecticut to a Dominican-born father and a Nicaraguan-born mother, is the most representative African-American on the roster.

[Chad ochoseis]

Agreed. But "Jack the Twins" wouldn't have worked as a subject header.

I'm all for honoring him with an annual Day. But having everyone going out there with 42 on their back is only slightly sillier than having the entire team play second base every April 15.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Personally, I think that every major leaguer should have to wear a Jackie Robinson mask on April 15 and also be required to change their first names to "Jackie Robinson ". As in Jackie Robinson Vientos and Jackie Robinson Alonso.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

lollololol

[Centerfield]

Apart from Tax Day, it is also Jackie Robinson Day — a day I have been kind of standoffish about, but I embrace it this year, as honoring a civil rights icon is suddenly a dangerous act of defiance and resistance this year.

I'm with you on this. I have no issue with Jackie Robinson Day. In fact, I think it's one of most important things MLB can do is to recognize Jackie and our history of segregation. I just thought that making everyone wear 42 and retiring his number across baseball was overkill. Like you can't make up for the past through forced pageantry. But this year, I'm all for it. And I know batmags was kidding, but let's take it further. Every elected official should recognize it. Force the assholes who run on hate to be conspicuously silent. I think the next President should make it a point to throw out the first pitch at Dodgers games every Jackie Robinson Day, so that if we ever elect another asshole like Trump he can get booed mercilessly in LA. I think every team should build a rotunda.

[Frayed Knot]

Tylor Megill vs Bailey Ober, who is apparently quite good. 1.06 career WHIP in is fifth season. Keeps guys off the bases, strikes out plenty and doesn't walk many, gives up a lot of home runs.

He's also one of the few starters in MLB who can say to Megill, "Your turn Shorty", as they pass each other between half innings (listed at 6' 9" / 260)

[G-Fafif]

Lindor SS
Soto RF
Alonso 1B
Marte DH
Nimmo LF
Vientos 3B
Torrens C
Taylor CF
Acuña 2B

[ashie62]

Julien 4
Buxton 8
Wallner 9
France 3
Correa 6
Larnach DH
Jeffers 2
Castro 5
Bader 7

Over 1

[Edgy MD]

　　"Unger, didn't you serve under Over in the Air Force?"

　　　　"Not directly. Technically, Dunn was under Over and I was under Dunn."

　　　　　　"Yep."

　　"So, Dunn, you were under Over and over Unger."

　　　　"Yep."

　　　　　　　　"That's right. Dunn was over Unger and I was over Dunn."

　　　　"So, you see, both Dunn and I were under Over, even though I was under Dunn."

　　　　　　　　"Dunn was over Unger, and I was over Dunn."

[Frayed Knot]

Lindor SS
Soto RF
Alonso 1B
Marte DH
Nimmo LF
Vientos 3B
Tokens C
Taylor CF
Acuña 2B

Prior to the game tonight's starting NYM catcher will sing, 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight'

[MFS62]

Tough crowd.
No turn goes unstoned.
Later

[G-Fafif]

The autocorrect was wide awake this afternoon.

[Fman99]

I am hoping #42 has a big game for the Mets today.

Not sure if I've mentioned this, but my father and his brother as kids both got to meet Jackie Robinson, as my grandmother was the president of the Little League in which they both played, in Flushing in the mid 1950s, and I have seen old newspaper photos of my grandmother standing next to him at a season ending banquet at which JR was the featured guest.

I'll have to see if I can find those newspaper clippings the next time I visit with my uncle.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Peet

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Twins are wearing their road caps at home - with the Jackie Robinson patch.

[batmagadanleadoff]

That scoreboard thingy widget whatchamacallit that the Mets are using this year in the corner of the screen is terrific. You could read all the info easily and with clarity.

[The Hot Corner]

My MLB.com feed went crazy after a few pitches, so I can't watch the game. I do like the score thus far.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

That was nice Soto-ing right there. Follows a sloppy inning where we lost a lead with a gametying leadoff homer.

[Edgy MD]

It is going to be hard to unscramble the eggs once they overturn this.

[kcmets]

Why are they spending all this time on Carew on Robinson Day?

[Edgy MD]

Part of the way the program their show is to do features on the greats from the city where they are playing.

I mean, that is why, though it isn't a good reason why.

Byron Buxton just earned that 42 on his back right there.

[Frayed Knot]

Tacking on to the Gary/Keith/Gelbs discussion of Rod Carew: of the 33 members of the 3K+ hits club, only two had a larger percentage of singles than Carew's 78.7%
- (mostly) dead-ball era Eddie Collins: 79.7%
- Ichiro: 81.4%

Others towards the bottom of that list, several mentioned in the G & K discussion
24th place: Ty Cobb, 72.9%
25th: Lou Brock, 74.3%
26th: Wade Boggs, 74.9%
27th: Derek Jeter, 74.9%
28th: Pete Rose, 75.5%
29th Tony Gwynn, 75.7%
30th: Cap Anson, 76.1%