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The Gardaí make their first visit to Citi Field under their new name, as their old teammate Carlos Carrasco comes off the Injured List to pitch agin' them. Cal Quantrill, son of Paul, goes for Cleveland. Cal, a rare second-generation Canadian MLB'er, has only appeared once before against the Mets, getting hit hard back in 2019.

Nice.

Mets will also be playing with an acute case of .500 Fever.

Cal is a righty pitcher, like his dad was.

Later

Andres Giménez makes his Citi Field debut in front of fans.

Oh boy, people are riled up

Nice touch with Gardaí

I really should be prepared with a KTE for youse guys, but it's been a busy couple of months with the new job and I've barely had time to pay attention to the Mets, much less my adopted AL team from my adopted city.

Briefly, they're good at everything except hitting. Emanuel Clase has a good case for best major league closer without a torn patellar tendon. They all catch-n-throw pretty well. The rotation is above average.

Giménez is turning into the good field no hit middle infielder we always knew he could be. I believe Amed Rosario is on the active roster but warming the bench.

Looks like Rosario is playing regularly but killing them with a .280 OBP.

Gimenez had a much better year last year than this so far.

Also not quite as phenomenal this year is Steven Kwan.

Bieber who we see on Sunday is their best dude still.

All clubs this weekend are to be wearing green military caps and optional camo socks for Armed Forces Day.

This is something I wish MLB wouldn't do

Yeah, it's kinda forced and gross kinda sorta.

Much more fun when one team wants to rock rainbows and another wants to rock camo, and still another wants to wear autism ribbons. Whether it's a cause I believe in or not, it certainly doesn't feel meaningfully endorsed when that endorsement is universal and compulsory.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 12:42 pm All clubs this weekend are to be wearing green military caps and optional camo socks for Armed Forces Day.

This is something I wish MLB wouldn't do

i think it would be a lot cooler if each team got to wear a uniform in the colors of one of the various armed services. like, i'd love to be seeing the coast guard mets play the space force guardians. how fucking cool would that be?

on the other hand, i'm of a mind to generally agree with the anti-military-camo uniforms. i mean, it's certainly fine and proper to support the troops and blah blah blah, but this always tends to veer just a little too close to flag-fucking.

Flag fucking and glorifying guns

If I was commish, there'd be no more camo, no more pink and no more shoes
that glow in the dark nor match your uniform.

I'll never be commish...

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 11:43 am Looks like Rosario is playing regularly but killing them with a .280 OBP.

Gimenez had a much better year last year than this so far.

I caught the end of a sportscast that said Rosario may not play - bereavement leave.

I'm ok with caps in the colors of the branch of the service of the team's choice.
But I'd stop it there.

Later

My son is a lifelong Cleveland fan and we were comparing our two team the other day

This should be good

After Senga's and Megill's outings, wary that Carrasco is going to be a
buzz kill with his 8.5x ERA. But I'm never wrong sometimes.


B Nimmo (L) CF
F Lindor (S) SS
J McNeil (L) 2B
P Alonso (R) 1B
B Baty (L) 3B
S Marte (R) RF
M Vientos (R) DH
M Canha (R) LF
F Álvarez (R) C

Josh Walker goes down to make room for Carrasco.

Michael Perez optioned to make room for Sanchez, as Locastro does something to his thumb diving into a base and goes on the 60-day.

That's a crap turn of events for Locastro. I'm pretty sure that he was still officially on a rehab assignment. Does his 60-day period get backdated to his original IL designation?

Not a big fan of patches logos and such

Gimenez made the all star team last season

I will still take Lindor over the traded guys

Of bigger concern is which Carrasco will show up. Hopefully the one that can go at least three innings

COOKIE Time

COOKIE bomb

1st inning gopher ball

3-0

Fuck this

So how's it going so far?

We got 'em just where we want 'em.
Now let's kick some butt.
Later

13th straight game been scored on in the first inning. A team record.

Remember that, you may need it one day in a trivia contest.