Painfully familiar: the New York Mets (RIP Morbs)

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!

still has work to do imo, even adjusting for the short 2020 season. and he turns 33 in a couple weeks

JAWS
  Starting Pitcher (152nd):
    41.4 career WAR / 38.6 7yr-peak WAR / 40.0 JAWS
  Average HOF P (out of 65):
    73.3 career WAR / 50.0 7yr-peak WAR / 61.6 JAWS

I hope you’re right but I don’t think he is a lock just yet. David Wright was also on the verge of the Hall, but then injuries pretty much took it away.

Xpost

I'm ready to start a deGrom thread. If you have a better title than "The Ghost of Tom Terrific," please, speak up--cribbing from Bruce Springsteen is a sign of desperation.

How about “From the perspective of a person living in 2021, Jacob DeGrom seems like he has a good shot at the hall of fame, if his arm doesn’t explode. He’s 33.”?

That's not long enough. Maybe "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton and from the Perspective of a Person Living in 2021, Who Feels Like Jacob DeGrom Has a Good Shot at the Hall of Fame if His Arm Doesn’t Explode. He’s 33.” I kind of like that.

Or just “DeGrom good”.

"deGrom Good, deGrom Delightful, deGrom DeLovely"

I could also always pun on the word "Poll," an ILX favourite.

“I am DeGrooom”

happy bobby bonilla day

does bonilla celebrate? i kind of imagine him throwing a party on this day every year'

of course, each year the party gets just a little bit less valuable, in comparison to what that same party would have been like in the early 2000s

Despite the injuries, this team seems pretty tight-knit. I don’t think I’ve seen teammates tagging and cheering each other on through social media as much as this year. Would love to see some more consistent hitting, but otherwise this year has been better than expected so far.

The rumor they were talking on sports talk news this afternoon was that the Mets were considering just paying Bobby Bo off, which to that I "BOOOOOO...".

Mets just need to embrace it and no matter what happens, 7/1 will ALWAYS be Bobby Bo day.

i'm curious what their motivation would be. would it save them any money, or are the embarrassed that it's become a thing every year? it cant be that much trouble sending the guy an etransfer every 12 months.

paying him off would cost them (a little extra) money

no reason not to lean into the meme

Was watching last night’s game in NY and there was a phone commercial featuring Bobby himself that said Happy Bobby Bonilla day at the end.

Coin Gallery of Oyster Bay?

unless bonilla owes a bunch of money to satan or something, he should be donating 99% of that shit every year

Bobby Bonilla Climate Pledge Park

Baez looked pretty bad today at shortstop.

i had thought getting kumar rocker at #10 was kind of a coup for the mets. probably should have known

Probably should have held off on the those billboards saying welcome to New York

https://i.postimg.cc/4yZv7c1Q/correx.webp

METS BABY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po5HxJgyaMU

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…