Mets

[Amazin69]

We remember Ty Adcock! He was the guy who got pummeled in that game at Pittsburgh last year. (The same game where Make-A-Wish Eric Orze made his debut and couldn't get anybody out.)

Welcome back?

[Westheim]

Originally Posted by Amazin69

We remember Ty Adcock! He was the guy who got pummeled in that game at Pittsburgh last year. (The same game where Make-A-Wish Eric Orze made his debut and couldn't get anybody out.)

Welcome back?

Too late, he's already gone, replaced with Austin Warren, who will probably be gone by Sunday to make room for spot starter Blake Tidwell.

I want Dedniel!

But for now I take nine straight wins (across seasons) against the Cards, first time the Mets have ever done that.

Also, Pete walloped one over the fence, leaving Cliff Floyd in the dust and joining Paul Molitor (HOF), Kevin Mitchell (1986 champ!), Carlos Gonzalez, and Gary Matthews (Sr., and probably proud dad of twice-a-Met Garry Matthews jr.) with 234 career bombs, t-293rd at this point.

[Amazin69]

Whompin' Wilmer Flores has cooled down since his hot start, but he is now on 160 career blasts, tying him with:

Alvin Davis

Jeff "Frenchy" Francoeur

Bopping Bill Melton, first man to hit 30 bombs in the depths of Comiskey Park and 1971 AL HR champ

Brandon Moss

Tony Phillips, whom I loved until he flopped as a Met

Henry Rodríguez

Pete Rose, all-time *hit king

Frank White

Roy White, whose time in the Pinstripers' chain included a stint with the Columbus (GA) Confederate Yankees (wth?) in the early 1960s. As a black man. Way to go, whoever was the GM after they fired George Weiss. (Roy Hamey, I guess.)

[Westheim]

Mets need to get rid of Senga and his stupid "oh I can't" to pitching on four days' rest, which only leads to more and more stupid roster moves and underdone prospects that get their brains beaten in. Three and two thirds for Tidwell, six runs in, and runners still on the corners.

...and we're gonna do that again and again whenever they have more than two series in a row...

[Amazin69]

Originally Posted by Westheim

Too late, he's already gone, replaced with Austin Warren, who will probably be gone by Sunday to make room for spot starter Blake Tidwell.

That's BLADE Tidwell, of course. I leave it to you to make the puns, since you actually watched the game.

("Isn't that just like the Mets? Bring a knife to a gun-fight!" —paraphrasing Sean Connery in The Untouchables)

[Westheim]

Originally Posted by Amazin69

That's BLADE Tidwell, of course. I leave it to you to make the puns, since you actually watched the game.

("Isn't that just like the Mets? Bring a knife to a gun-fight!" —paraphrasing Sean Connery in The Untouchables)

Are we allowed to make puns about cutting yourself?

Anyway, he sucked. Totally blunt. Couldn't have cut a sandwich in half.

[Déjà Bru]

I just read elsewhere that your old friend Michael Conforto is currently in a dreadful slump, 0 for his last 28 and a batting average of .141.

[Westheim]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

I just read elsewhere that your old friend Michael Conforto is currently in a dreadful slump, 0 for his last 28 and a batting average of .141.

Oof. I was hoping to point out a horrendous BABIP (.203!), but it's *also* 38 strikeouts in 99 AB.

Move over, Chris Davis!

[CONN CHRIS]

Originally Posted by Westheim

Move over, Chris Davis!

The patron saint of bad MLB contracts! Whenever I feel sad about our Javy problem, light a St. ChirsDavis candle and feel slightly better.

[Westheim]

Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

The patron saint of bad MLB contracts! Whenever I feel sad about our Javy problem, light a St. ChirsDavis candle and feel slightly better.

Conforto's only on a 1-year deal, but he's already halfway to that dreadful 0-54 skid mark Chris Davis left with his face in the 2019 season.

[Déjà Bru]

Don't feel sorry for him. You can feel sorry for the Orioles, perhaps.

On August 12, 2021, Davis announced his retirement from baseball. . . . During the course of the [seven-year, $161 million] contract he signed in 2016, Davis batted .196/.291/.379, with 92 home runs. At the time of his retirement [in 2021, after having missed the entire season wih an injury], Davis was owed $17 million in deferred salary for the 2022 season, as well as $42 million in deferred payments from his 2016 contract. He was scheduled to be paid $9.16 million per year between 2023 and 2025, $3.5 million between 2026 and 2032, and $1.4 million between 2033 and 2037.

So, set aside the fact that he bombed. Due to the way his contract was structured, he could miss the penultimate season and retire before the final season and still be annually paid more that you and I ever made in our lifetimes, for the next 15 years.

EDIT: Actually, that final statement is in error. When I add up what I did make over my long career, it amounts to an impressive sum (to me). It's just that the money has been so dissipated by bills, bills, bills over the years that I don't realize how much of it has passed through my hands!

[Westheim]

So Chris Davis' bad contract will outlast the annual Bobby Bonilla Day celebrations!

Bobby B.'s final $1.19M check from the Mets will come in 2035.

[Amazin69]

Originally Posted by Westheim

Oof. I was hoping to point out a horrendous BABIP (.203!), but it's *also* 38 strikeouts in 99 AB.

Move over, Chris Davis!

Sorry to hear that about Mikey, but it's only Cinco de Eddie Mayo. This time last year, we were still bitching about Lindor.

Program note*: Mets at Snakes on MLBN, tomorrow night at 9.30 PM (03.30 CET).

*not for you, it's the middle of the night. For me, because the odds of my forgetting this by the next time I check this thread are…not zero. (Hope I get GKR, rather than the Snake-cast.)

[Westheim]

Yes, I only get to watch the finale, which funnily enough starts at 9:30pm *my* time on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the list of pitchers the Mets have burned in the last ten-ish days:

April 27 - A.J. Minter (DL)
April 29 - Jose Urena
April 30 - Kevin Herget
April 30 - Danny Young (DL)
May 1 - Brandon Waddell
May 1 - Chris Devenski
May 2 - Ty Adcock
May 5 - Blade Tidwell
May 5 - Austin Warren

When I earlier mentioned Tidwell, I was just going by ear from what Gary Cohen said on the broadcast, and I thought, of course it's gonna be Blake, who would name their kid Blade??

[Amazin69]

Yikes! What's wrong with Young(ish) Danny Young? We're not exactly drowning in lefty options, especially with Minter back on the sidelines where we found him.

[Westheim]

Originally Posted by Amazin69

Yikes! What's wrong with Young(ish) Danny Young? We're not exactly drowning in lefty options, especially with Minter back on the sidelines where we found him.

Tommy John is floating around with Young.

Meanwhile, I finally got my Dedniel, and he comes in, faces three, walks all of them, and is ushered away briskly, only for Reed Garrett waving all the runners home in the bottom 8th.

Infinite ERA on Dedniel Nunez now, and I am a very sad little raccoon.

Oh the Mets somehow won anyway. Pete bonked a homer stupidly far, #235, moving up to tie Johnny Damon, who retired just as I started watching, Bill Nicholson, Ben Ogilvie (both of whom I know nothing about), and Dan Uggla, a Barves and Gnats foe I loathed considerably. Next up the road would be Hall of Famer Gabby Hartnett with 236, same as the moving target Nick Castellanos.

[Amazin69]

Bill Nicholson was the big bopper for the Cubs in the 1940s. In 1944 he became the first player ever to receive an intentional walk with the bases loaded.

Ben Oglivie was another player that the Red Sox get away in the early 1970s, first to Detroit, where he didn't do much, and then to Milwaukee, where he did quite a bit, forming a powerful outfield with Gorman Thomas and Sixto Lezcano (and fellow Hub refugee Cecil Celester Cooper at 1B). This was the offense that won a lot of games for future Mets manager George Bamberger…not that it helped Bambi with the Mets when all he had were Kingman in a low period, and George Foster.

[dsvitak]

Originally Posted by Amazin69

Bill Nicholson was the big bopper for the Cubs in the 1940s. In 1944 he became the first player ever to receive an intentional walk with the bases loaded.

Ben Oglivie was another player that the Red Sox get away in the early 1970s, first to Detroit, where he didn't do much, and then to Milwaukee, where he did quite a bit, forming a powerful outfield with Gorman Thomas and Sixto Lezcano (and fellow Hub refugee Cecil Celester Cooper at 1B). This was the offense that won a lot of games for future Mets manager George Bamberger…not that it helped Bambi with the Mets when all he had were Kingman in a low period, and George Foster.

Bill "Swish" Nicholson got his nickname because he once led the league in strikeouts...with 83.

How the game has changed.

[Amazin69]

Originally Posted by dsvitak

Bill "Swish" Nicholson got his nickname because he once led the league in strikeouts...with 83.

How the game has changed.

In contrast, a mere 19 years later, when Dave "Swish" Nicholson (no relation) led the AL in 1963 in whiffs, he set a then-record with 175 Ks. More than double.



Bill on the North Side, Dave on the South

[Amazin69]

So Keith shocked Gary by calling Gary "Gary" (instead of "Gar"), the offense was dead, David Peterson gave up his first HR in a month (not that it mattered, given the "offense") but did throw 104 pitches (this was the first game all year where both starters went 100+), Jose Butto pitched like a bum, and Vientos let a ground ball roll through his legs.

But the thing that pissed me off was that Nimmo tweaked his foot again, but Mendoza left him in there to limp around (there was double in the gap to start the 5th that he couldn't get to, albeit Peterson escaped that jam) because…Nimmo talked him into it.

FFS, MENDOZA! It's not Nimmo's job to decide if he's healthy enough to play…it's yours! DO YOUR JOB!!!

If you don't know to get Nimmo out of a random game in Arizona and let him rest the foot now so he doesn't need a week off later, let somebody else do the job.

Remember last year, when David "Wild Turkey" Stearns was too drunk last May to ever bother to get new reserve IF after Zack Shortstop was sent to Anaheim and so McNeil's knees were ground down to powder and he had to miss all of August and September? Well, I gave Stearns **** all last year…but I don't manage the team! It was Mendoza's job to locate his testicles, screw them into place, and tell Stearns that his 2nd baseman/former batting champion/homegrown hero #2 (yes, Peeete is more popular, but plenty of us love Squirrel, too) NEEDS A ****ING DAY OF REST sometime before the Indy 500!!

Does Mendoza think he's managing robots, not human beings? Don't listen to Mr. Pointy being all macho because he thinks Jesus wants him to suffer in silence or whatever. If you think you might need to take him out, err on the side of caution! Do a cost/benefit analysis in your head! 5 innings of rest in a night game before a day game, or possibly Something Very Bad happening.

You shouldn't even have to think about that one. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr…