Painfully familiar: the 2021 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!

fucking terrible name

that doesn't excuse the DUI though

how do the mets keep coming up with this stuff?!

Maybe the Wilpons were just victims of the franchise like everyone else?

The new owner certainly doesn't seem to have changed anything.

stop hiring a GM. has never worked out

— ryan (@ryantherooster5) September 1, 2021

“The New York Post was first to report details of Scott’s incident, which occurred early Tuesday morning when police found him sleeping in his car in White Plains, N.Y. ESPN reported that Scott had been at team owner Steve Cohen’s house earlier in the night for a charity fundraising event.”

Even in the midst of a extended winning streak, gave up a 9-0 lead today in a 7 inning game, only to barely squeak by in extras. Geesh.

I’m amazed they won after that.

you gotta believe

Mets suck

When I see kids wearing Mets caps I can only say I’m so sorry…your parents must be major douches…

Gary Cohen surprising me with multiple Gilmore Girls references in the past two weeks.

Jonathan Villar is batting .519 in the last 7 games.

welp, who is going to watch the battle of the old men tonight? over 81 years of experience and leadership!

Double no hitter incoming surely

i'm very excited to listen to the mets broadcast crew today for a couple reasons. first, they're great, and i'm keith hernandez. but more importantly, i figure they will either not talk much at all about the thumbs down stuff, or talk about it briefly or in passing or something. the cardinals announcing team, whoever it is, will talk about it at length and find a way to spend an inning or two on it during each game of the series. somehow, they will have terrible opinions about it, and if jim edmonds is on, he'll have a just bonkers opinions of some sort and will then dan mclaughlin will start to apologize to him for disagreeing but stress that the facts are facts. at this, edmonds will double down and assert his opinion as the truth.

meanwhile over in the mets broadcast they appear to be enjoying a baseball game

, and i'm keith hernandez. but more importantly,

and just like that, hernandez just made a reference to wainwright and hill having 81 years of experience combined. make sense to me!

Love GKR

wow. that third pitch was called a ball.

https://i.imgur.com/oEV3fy1.png

that may place in those end-of-year "worst called strike / worst called ball" articles

for those not catching this game, so far the home plate ump called a pitch thrown near the middle of the zone a ball, the third base umpire called a ball that was at least 6-7 feet fair a foul ball, and the first base umpire's right cheek was smashed by an errant through by SS edmundo sosa. the umpire's attention was completely focused on first base, so he didn't see it coming at all.

i am worried about the final umpire at 2B.

*errant throw*

fuckin waino isn't going to make the hall, but wow he's really been great

Welcome back, Thor.

had no idea it'd been so long

right on time

i'm not against 'moving on from' (hate this euphemism) luis rojas but why in the fuck is sandy alderson still in charge of anything? the mets have gone 817-863 (.486) and made the playoffs twice in 11 seasons since his involvement with them began, and he's seemingly incapable of hiring people who aren't sexual predators

i don't like tlr either but he's at least won some other shit since the 1989 world series

anyway, mets free agents:

syndergaard
conforto
familia
stroman
baez
villar
loup
hand
hill

on the bright side, the return of robinson cano for $24m!!!

I think maybe half of those guys come back? Thor might do the qualifying offer.

Team really does need a manager and management that they can believe in. Cohen can only do so much.

Cohen can only do so much.

I feel like he could stand to do a bit less. All he needs to do is shut up, hire Epstein, and open his wallet.

I meant Cohen can only do so much to inspire confidence, but I also agree he should not be on Twitter and yes, Epstein would be ideal.

Heard that brainiac Cohen decided not to hire Epstein. I presume Sandy is the sticking point.

I'm going on the record that this guy is going to be the Daniel Snyder of the MLB.

i thought it was more that epstein wasn’t interested? either way, not great

I have very low expectations about this search, and am expecting it to go poorly.

amazin

A report that the #Mets have put former #Pirates 1b Dorian Boyland on growing short list led to a pleasant conversation with Boyland who told me no contact with the NYM, no interest in the job. He said he is happy to run his car dealerships.

— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) October 18, 2021

You have to hand it to the Mets. They found a worse owner than the Wilpons.

You could just make these up now and it would be 100% believable. Like, how long before they do a ted lasso and try hiring an Australian cricket coach?!

The Boyland rumor may have actually been made up, but as long as someone can get a lolmets out of it, it’s worth it.

The Mets have already been turned down by a handful of targets in their search for a new baseball operations head. Each of Theo Epstein, Billy Beane, David Stearns, Matt Arnold, Scott Harris and Brandon Gomes had been raised as potential candidates only to later be ruled out of consideration.

Cardinals general manager Michael Girsch can be added to that list, as Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (Twitter link) that New York reached out to the Cards for permission to speak with him last week. Girsch, however, declined to pursue the opportunity, electing to remain in St. Louis instead.

girsch is pretty much a no name in st louis, for what it's worth. so good move to be turned down by him?

is this press (mlb trade rumors) right that the dynamic is these various candidates turning them down? if so, yikes

and bobby valentine lost his race to become mayor of stamford, connecticut

Barves fan here - HAHA

Anyway, here it is, I wish I didn't have to do this pic.twitter.com/h0QcU3k5p6

— Michael Baumann (@MichaelBaumann) November 5, 2021

so boring and predictable

I’m not happy this morning . I’ve never seen such unprofessional behavior exhibited by a player’s agent.I guess words and promises don’t matter.

— Steven Cohen (@StevenACohen2) November 24, 2021

What a fucking baby.

This guy makes Jeff Wilpon look smart.

apparently this is about matz? horrifying that a guy the mets traded away might use them as leverage in free agent negotiations

put that coffee down, steve

He's raging about all these external things and:

1. Sandy Alderson is still involved even though he hired three scumbags for managers/gms.
2. They still don't have a manager.
3. Farm system is still a disaster.

He should probably be thankful Matz didn't give him a chance to outbid the Cards, that deal would've been even more lolmets embarrassing

perhaps, even apart from being sandwiched between aldersons, the mets’ gm opening was so bad and hated because the billionaire owner is micromanaging back-end-of-rotation negotiations

Low threshold these days for what counts as news:

https://www.mlb.com/news/keith-hernandez-mets-jersey-retirement

With the new rule-of-Baines in place, I think it's almost a certainty that he'll eventually get into the HOF via one of the committees: 60.3 bWAR, his years as an announcer, famous Seinfeld episode (crucial to any serious HOF resume). I imagine his cocaine dalliance is long forgotten.

I never knew Dusty Baker was part of that whole episode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_drug_trials