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I am unduly nervous that Manaea might rocked

Anyway win win win!!

LGM

Baseball must really be in bad shape if a team like the Mets is just 3 games out of a wild card right now.

Bad weather on the horizon

Storming now in Morris County

Cowtipper wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2024 5:26 pm Baseball must really be in bad shape if a team like the Mets is just 3 games out of a wild card right now.

You should start a thread on how 40% of the teams make the playoffs.
That topic just doesn't get hammered home as much as it should.

ashie62 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2024 5:30 pm Bad weather on the horizon

Storming now in Morris County

Yeah, we're all gonna get hammered. But it should blow through fast.

Skip mess with McNutty's head...


Luis Arraez (L) 1B
Fernando Tatis Jr. (R) RF
Jurickson Profar (S) LF
Manny Machado (R) DH
Donovan Solano (R) 3B
Jake Cronenworth (L) 2B
Ha-Seong Kim (R) SS
Jackson Merrill (L) CF
Kyle Higashioka (R) C

Matt Waldron (RHP)
4-5, 3.76 ERA, 68 SO

Francisco Lindor (S) SS
Brandon Nimmo (L) LF
J.D. Martinez (R) DH
Pete Alonso (R) 1B
Starling Marte (R) RF
Tyrone Taylor (R) CF
Mark Vientos (R) 3B
Francisco Alvarez (R) C
Jeff McNeil (L) 2B

Sean Manaea (LHP)
3-3, 4.30 ERA, 60 SO

Ah, I'm too slow with my stupid graphic lineup table.

Check out Luis Arráez. The Pads strange policy of hording as many star middle-infielders as possible — acquiring a new one every offseason and another new one ever mid-season — has put them in the weird position of deploying Luis at first base, like he's Rod Carew or Pete Rose or somebody.

On the Mets' side, Poor Brandon Nimmo is playing Mike Kekich to Francisco Lindor's Fritz Peterson. They swapped lineup spots, but it only worked out for Lindor, and now poor Nimmo has no future batting third but can't go back home to the leadoff spot.

kcmets wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2024 5:32 pm

Cowtipper wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2024 5:26 pm Baseball must really be in bad shape if a team like the Mets is just 3 games out of a wild card right now.

You should start a thread on how 40% of the teams make the playoffs.
That topic just doesn't get hammered home as much as it should.

Did you know that 40% of major league teams make the playoffs now?

(Just hammering that home, per request).

As mentioned briefly during last night's telecast, this Matt Waldron guy is a (part-time) Knuckleballer!!!.
The only one throwing the Fred Astaire pitch currently in MLB.

Manaea waa straight up shit in London. He better be better tonight.

Waldron has been very good of late

Be good Sugar Sean Manaea

Lefty Specialist wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2024 6:39 pm Manaea waa straight up shit in London.

I think the word you're looking for is twaddle.

Tarp time. Random rain-delay music presented by...

Absolutely milling down here in Pelham Bay, as the crow flies not far from City Field.

Saw yesterday for the first of Mike Mills playing Radio Free Europe in Guitar as he wrote. Nice to see him my age kicked back and well

Don't get me going...

I saw them do this at a college pub on the first tour. They were great

Begin the Begin off Life's Rich Pageant still gets me

While we're waiting, I just checked the minor league box scores.
The Florida Coast League (short season A ball) Mets team has two players, named Zitella (3B) and Zayas (DH), in the lineup tonight.
Has any Mets team, majors or minors, ever had two players with last names starting with Z?
I can't remember one.
Later

According to bbrdotcom, there have only been 104 MLB players
with Z-Names...

Don Zimmer (1954-1965)
Pat Zachry (1976-1985)
Todd Zeile (1989-2004)

I didn't study it, but these are the only Mets that jumped out...

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2024 7:58 pm https://ultimatemets.com/roster.php#Z

So, it could have been Zeile and Zambrano in 2004.
Thanks
Later

kcmets wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2024 5:32 pm

Cowtipper wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2024 5:26 pm Baseball must really be in bad shape if a team like the Mets is just 3 games out of a wild card right now.

You should start a thread on how 40% of the teams make the playoffs.
That topic just doesn't get hammered home as much as it should.

That's right. It doesn't get hammered home enough. Because others keep on writing posts as if only four out of the 30 teams make the playoffs, as if it's still 1971.

Cowtipper wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2024 5:26 pm Baseball must really be in bad shape if a team like the Mets is just 3 games out of a wild card right now.

Because MLB is now a stupid shitshow. Have you heard?

Padres demonstrating that a memorial patch doesn't have to be on the sleeve.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2024 8:19 pm Padres demonstrating that a memorial patch doesn't have to be on the sleeve.

Who is PS?