Painfully familiar: the New York Mets (RIP Morbs)

https://i.imgur.com/5WmGxFU.png

• degrom hit 102 last night
• meet the new bullpen
• jeff mcneil also thinks the vax is a personal decision; talk to him, alonso
• guillorme's throw was bad, but mccann still should have caught it
• missed keith going 'mmm'
• wish i didn't have to watch them on my computer using a vpn

been making me a tinge sad that morbs will never get to see lindor in a mets jersey, but i appreciate them remaining a continued source of amusement. keep it up boys

I hope they win at all.

And then come in last.

Painfully Familia

Who will actually smile more though, Lindor or Nimmo?

hbp blown-call walkoff, appropriate for a mets/marlins game

crunch otm. lots of tweets of ppl feeling bad for marlins fans, this isn't an emotion that actually exists in the universe

honestly ffs

If I owned the Mets Sandy Alderson would be fired by 9AM this morning. https://t.co/l5chQ6eyO6 pic.twitter.com/h13pYEnRxw

— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) April 16, 2021

Depressing.

otoh, DeGrom is doing DeGrom things: .53 ERA and .667 BA (early days).

2 fewer innings for the bullpen to blow it for degrom

HE GOT THE WIN

THE BOYHOOD DREAM HAS COME TRUE

Painfully familiar indeed. Only the Mets would lose to a very depleted Phillies lineup by way of a wild pitch strikeout of the pitcher that ending up scoring the 2 decisive runs.

Alvarado and Hoskins trying to start brawls with Smith and Castro was the insult on top of the cake, even had Ron Darling wishing the Mets would have given to the rage.

Ok maybe some karma for Alvarado and Hoskins tonight. Crazy game.

that ball bounced back like a homer imo

mets getting a ridic amount of dumb ump calls in their favor so far this year. morbs pulling strings upstairs or mlb bending over backwards to keep mets competitive. rojas is not exactly making me forget the shit for brains callaway years with his bullpen management. weird roster

hitting coaches fired lol

they get on base at a healthy clip, can't do anything to score mostly
not sure what that is but whatevs, chili the patsy here

This Donnie stuff is so stupid, unless Donnie is code for PEDs.

have to think that the general manager spelling his first name incorrectly and having a shitty last name contributed to the questionable decisionmaking

This guy who is up for the Mets is the weirdo pitcher from Everybody Wants Some!!

You gotta like that story; 27 yo career minor leaguer in his second at-bat gets the game winning infield hit in the bottom of the 10th.

Eureka it’s Mazeika!

Mets suck

Lol, when are you going back to booing Stanton along with the other bleacher creatures?

Who you kidding. Stanton gonna be the hero of NY if he keeps this up

Go jerk off to Susan Waldman you loon.

Only thing worse than a Yankees fan is a Dallas Cowboys fan.

calstars will at some point turn on every single yankee except cole and higgy before the season ends

Nah bro

Go jerk off to Susan Waldman you loon.

Only thing worse than a Yankees fan is a Dallas Cowboys fan.

I was born at the fry station at Mickey Mantle's Restaurant. Where you from?

Mazeika, king of the walk-off fielders choice.

Is Lindor Jason Bay 2.0? It's still early (it better be), but damn, he is lost.

He's walking a good amount and not striking out much. He rates pretty well in exit velocity and barrels. I think he'll figure it out but it's definitely been rough.

I also feel there is something about coming to the NY market that is a shift. But yeah, he hasn't hit well so far. His defense has been good though.

God, just saw Pillar in the dugout tonight and cringed. Looks brutal and glad he seems ok (aside from nasal fractures).

So many injuries and yet a lot of unexpected people coming through lately. This has been a very fun month so far.

this is a nice catch but i'm not sure it's enough to make up for being 0-for-5 with five strikeouts in your career

KHALIL LEE TO THE RESCUE!!! pic.twitter.com/69GtNN84dH

— SNY (@SNYtv) May 19, 2021

He's walking a good amount and not striking out much. He rates pretty well in exit velocity and barrels. I think he'll figure it out but it's definitely been rough.

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, May 17, 2021 8:23 PM (two days ago)

i love lindor and even tho he's a met i still have a hard time rooting for him to fail, but his slash numbers have been pretty concerning for a bit now even dating back to last season. his SLG percentage has fallen off a cliff and if he's not providing elite power at that position he's kinda just... a high AVG/low OBP shortstop getting into his 30s... it feels pretty dicey to me longterm. they really need him to be an MVP level player for the next 4-5 years because the back half of that contract is gonna be ugly given the type of player he is

'i love lindor but nevertheless i must bury him'

too soon

Over the last ten games he is batting .278/.341/.500, 132 wrc+

More or less, that’s the slash line of his best batting season.

Jacob deGrom is throwing 102 MPH...

Someone send help.

— Palm Beach Cardinals (@GoPBCardinals) May 20, 2021

deGrom needs his own thread:

ERA 0.71 IP 51.0 SO 82 WHIP 0.57

He is 9-for-20 at the plate this season, and he’s allowed only 22 hits in 51 innings on the mound. Put it another way:

Jacob deGrom's season:
4 runs, 3 RBI as a hitter (9-for-20, .450)
4 runs allowed in 51 innings as a pitcher.

— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) June 1, 2021

deGrom is going to do what Kluber and Donaldson looked like they might do (but almost certainly won't now): get into the HOF on an astounding peak value after the age of 27.

He still needs to play 3 more years to be eligible, and may need a Cy young / no hitter / post season heroics along the way to really seal the deal. But he is definitely on the path.

You think he needs another cy young?! He could tread water the next three years and I think he’d skate into the hall no problem.
I don’t like his odds of playoffs heroics with the Mets!

https://i.postimg.cc/KYQ1Fvcr/a-dlsfjasd-fj.webp

:')

Mark Vientos my boy

Also Soto came back and is immediately smashing the ball

did you catch vientos blowing through the stop sign tho lol

I absolutely did and it was incredibly funny, thankfully he drove in the winning run

lol

Pretty close to a grandslam response by bichette

devin williams <nervous.gif>

he just needs to get that era under 10

familiar pain, fully

waiting for them to pounce on alex cora

Don't follow the Mets at all, but found this interesting (Posnanski):

As for the Mets, I’m obsessed by the swirling rumors that Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto loathe each other. I have no idea if it’s true, but if it is true, yikes. I don’t know how you come back from that. Sure, there have been successful organizations where the biggest stars are not, as the sportswriter lingo goes, “on the same page.” The Big Red Machine won even though Pete Rose and Johnny Bench were not always on the same page. Reggie Jackson and Thurman Munson were definitely not on the same page when playing for the Bronx Zoo Yankees. You can think of other examples.

But there was a positive energy that tended to come out of the tension — Rose and Bench drove each other to be better. Munson and Jackson drove each other to be better. It does not appear that Soto and Lindor have THAT kind of relationship.

there's a lot there but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ as to whether it's affecting anything

i do wish soto had the same sort of relationship with lindor that he had with judge tho :(

The early-'70s A's thrived on everybody loathing the owner (a winning strategy inherited by Steinbrenner).

10-21 for April, worst record in the majors :/

“The freedom with which we play is kind of being suffocated a little bit” - Luke Weaver

Clay Holmes, fractured tibia on a line drive off the bat of Spencer Jones, out indefinitely.

classic

right around this time last year griffin canning went down with the torn achilles

loose bodies?

https://www.mlb.com/cut4/here-s-the-full-article-that-viral-mookie-wilson-quote-is-from-and-by-the-way-it

Nolan Mclean looks b0rked.

this is getting brutal

my theory is that as the weather gets warmer mclean's breaking balls break differently and he's just not used to it yet

looked like they were on the upswing just 4 games ago, and yet…

We're approaching 1993 vibes here.

Keep Soto away from the fireworks.

They traded David Peterson to the Cubs

sooner they dump whatever they can the better. their season is done.

post trade deadline vibes are…good? Won 10 of their last 13 and Benge and Ewing three out three guys at the plate today in the first two innings.

I was just going to post this about that last bit:

The Mets created a bit of baseball trivia with this wild baseball riddle in the first two innings of Monday's 2-1 win over the San Diego Padres at Citi Field.

How can the Padres get five hits, walk twice, add a hit-by-pitch, and go 3-for-4 with runners in scoring position, but score only one run on a sacrifice fly?

The answer is the bit of trivia from a pair of rookies, as right fielder Carson Benge became the first Mets player to record two outfield assists at home plate in the same inning, doing it on back-to-back plays to close the first inning, before left fielder A.J. Ewing gunned down a runner at home to end the second.

Since at least 1920, there had been no other team that recorded three outfield assists at home plate in the first two innings of a big league game.

also, yan can cook

yan has the makings of a cult hero unless

a) he doesn't suck
b) no one kills him

Luis Torrens hitting 6 home runs in 9 games is quite the pleasant surprise

Senga 7/7 in save opportunities and struck out the last two batters tonight by throwing 10 straight fork balls

still a chance to make the offs

no

let’s not go nuts, but vibes have still been good. Electric atmosphere at Citi the other day when bichette hit the come from behind 3 run HR in the 8th

The stuff with Alonso returning is kind of nuts.

I just watched the video of him signing stuff for the guys who caught his 300th HR. He brought out cans of Miller Lite for them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKYes1qGS6I

it happens

i feel bad for the current players, brutal way to lose

the pain of watching Freddy Peralta preparing to co-ace the Rays deep into a playoff run.

The Mets are actually one of the 14 teams in the league NOT be to be swept by the Rays this season. They beat them the last time they met!

peralta has a 0.78 era in his last 4 starts which have all been wins

the rays fixed him!

Maybe he was just happy not to be running meetings trying to get Soto and Lindor to kiss

And make up. Kiss and make up.

Peralta confirmed that the meeting occurred but declined to disclose details of the conversation.

Lindor acknowledged the meeting took place but downplayed its significance.

"It was more of a conversation like we always have with our group of Latinos," Lindor said in Spanish. "But I don't want to comment on the details."

Soto denied such a meeting happened before confirming that the relationship between him and Lindor has improved this season.

"There was no meeting, no discussion," Soto said in Spanish. "This year has been better. We've gotten along very well. We've learned from each other."

flashing back to the rat vs raccoon skuttle

this whole alonso thing is amazing (he hit 301 tonight)

Lindor is at 299 right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZZmJsy3MG4