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!

Can only imagine what Morbs' reaction would have been to the Mets-Braves series this week. Swept after leading each game by at least 3, yeesh.

it’s . . . amazin’

It's such a shame.

Side note: Verlander, oof. Plenty of season left but they didn’t pay him to cough up all those runs.

Alonso to IL, currently being blown out by the Pirates, and someone named Zach Muckenhirn is pitching.

letting ke'bryan hayes go 5-for-5 is a poor sign

i really like lindor but .222/.296/.431 is not ideal

21-36 since april 22; only oakland and kansas city have been worse

steve cohen is holding a press conference before wednesday's game. i cannot imagine that anything remotely good will come of it

The pitching has been really poor, especially when they have a big lead. When the pitching has been good they seem to be unable to get any hits lately.

i just have no idea what cohen's press conference will accomplish

is he gonna blame himself/his front office for giving all this guaranteed money to apparently shitty players? is he gonna blame the players for sucking? is he going to say that he believes in this group of players but they're just struggling at the moment?

the players already know they're underachieving; i don't see how -- even with the last option -- cohen talking publicly about it will help matters

it's gonna be deeply metsian when they finish behind the nationals, who aren't even trying

the worst team money could buy, part 2

“I didn’t get to finish ‘Oppenheimer’ that day,” said Mark Canha, the veteran outfielder who was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers late that afternoon.

I loved that quote. Was hoping for more from the article though.

yeah, not very juicy - but i read that as the disappointing performance this season was not a clubhouse issue or management issue - just bad luck, injuries, age. just baseball things.

Yeah it’s less juicy than the Padres collapse. Tommy Pham always seems like a dick even when they’re giving him the nicest personal interpretation. Guys are playing pool together? Who cares!

Also, interested to see that Alvarez is included in the leaders dinners!

alvarez is great, he gets so happy in the dugout when his teammates play well. also those gray eyes, that smile. my mets crush

I too love el troll, always looks high as fuck off the field and apparently makes a great lasagna
https://i.postimg.cc/288cs6s2/IMG-9822.jpg

lol

this is a regular meme on the mets subreddit

https://i.ibb.co/VW3BG0z/b62vctri9oab1.jpg

he really loves that shirt.

Oh my God

https://i.redd.it/mets-ground-crew-takes-a-group-photo-in-front-of-the-v0-ln2ibncil4rb1.jpg?s=402d227165bde499b1d01ad263c63807bb5ce1d6

amazin'

I love it so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j93rtl8Cc6Y

baseball really is amazing

I hope someone got Alvarez safely to higher ground

Btw I don’t know if you follow the Mets Instagram (top 5 team Instagram imo!) but did you see this

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxJBnvyOrpu/

hah no i'm not really on insta but i guess i need to be. lol that tiny mic. last game i went to they were giving away big sexy shirts but they were out by the time i got there.

They do a lot of tiny mic questions, it’s elite tbh. Three more & then I’ll knock it off.

Favourite female artist (Alvarez in video)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwarNyRPfkP/

Best/worst dressed on the team (not featuring Alvarez):

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CunGaI5vRNY/

Who would you road trip with? (Alvarez in video, Baty talking about him like 😍)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cs_1MKuuwla/

Literally as I finished posting that I noticed Alvarez had updated his story and posted a link to a playlist of his

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX8sljIJzI0oo

i love the alvarez/baty bromance!

everybody's favorite baby met is having a helluva game

Very happy for him, he’s him

buck :(

https://nypost.com/2023/10/04/buck-showalter-mets-brass-butted-heads-over-daniel-vogelbach/

"Vogelbach’s limited mobility also meant he couldn’t be used in the field."

understatement of the year

I remember seeing his name trending on Twitter several times when he was in a lineup and people were absolutely raging /blaming Showalter & the thinking was that continuing to play him was Buck’s decision - I’m kind of surprised that it was FO but again I’m not that familiar with the Mets inner workings at all so that was probably obvious to you.

Showalter was told he had to play Vogelbach, the source said.

Part of the manager’s opposition to Vogelbach was philosophical: Showalter viewed the DH spot as one that should be used on a rotation, allowing position players a partial rest while remaining in the lineup.

But Showalter — who was fired last weekend, allowing new president of baseball operations David Stearns the opportunity to pick his own manager following the Mets’ 75-win season — also had an issue with Vogelbach’s limited skill set, according to a source.

Showalter viewed the DH spot as one that should be used on a rotation, allowing position players a partial rest while remaining in the lineup.

i'm surprised more managers don't do it this way. i mean sometimes it's done this way in a pinch but as a philosophy of what the DH should be for i like it

The source for this article is obviously Buck Showalter.

NEWS: Billy Eppler has resigned as Mets GM, the team announced.

— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) October 5, 2023

predicting much rejoicing along the 7 line

Just for you
https://i.postimg.cc/NMGGNvMr/IMG-0497.jpg

<3 senga and mauricio should be in the baby mets club, imo

should have traded pham to the AL :(

I think you can say that the Diamondbacks are succeeding in spite of Tommy Pham. Paul Sewald is a bigger influence on their success.

Senga posted a picture on his Instagram story of him and his agent having lunch with Lars Nootbaar.

i mean yeah i'm just saying that pham got the dbacks started yesterday with his homer

Nothing in his Mets tenure would make you believe that Sewald could be an effective reliever. He infamously went 118 major-league appearances without getting his first win. Pretty incredible turnaround over the past few years.

Yeah I read about his awful Mets career at some point last year! Mariners pitching lab can fix anyone (except Chris Flexen and Brennan Bernardinho).

David Stearns said the Mets will not fill their open GM role this winter. “We’ve got enough going on,” Stearns said.

— Tim Britton (@TimBritton) November 7, 2023

I feel like that’s an important role to fill

Stearns is totally running the show, gm would be second banana so not that essential as it would be in orgs where gm has a lot of power. this is why ng left miami, her gm role was demoted to secondary status.

Brett Baty, Uh Oh (3D tracking)

To be fair, I don't know what the heck was going on with that ball pic.twitter.com/H5owOa6J8Q

— David Adler (@_dadler) July 16, 2023