Rest Of Baseball - 2015

[ice grillin you]

holy shtein just saw starling marte night

[PhillyPhreak54]

Actually I was watching the game when it happened...so...try again.

[Rome]

that's how much I hate them

wash nfl

lololol

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Hamels giving up 5ER...mock?

Is there a worse in-game BP manager than Matt Williams? He's killing your Nats, Havas.

[ice grillin you]

kc tor is real

[Rome]

From ESPN's winners/losers column:

New York Mets

The Mets have hung in the NL East race despite not really having an offense, so it made sense when GM Sandy Alderson went out and made a trade for Carlos Gomez, a good two-way outfielder and not even a particularly expensive one. But as word leaked out, the trade was scuttled amid reports that the Mets were either concerned about Gomez's health or backtracking on financial grounds. The team blamed the whole thing on "social media," which is a popular scapegoat for old white men to use, and seeing Alderson break out that line makes me wonder exactly how dystopic Logan's Run really was.

After failing to trade Zack Wheeler for Gomez, they tried to trade him for Jay Bruce, only to have that deal fall through, as well, when the Mets realized that Bruce expected to be paid. Instead, they got impending free agent Yoenis Cespedes from the Tigers minutes before the deadline. Cespedes is having a career year and certainly qualifies as the big bat the Mets needed, so landing him is nice, particularly since the Mets were able to do so without trading Wheeler. Still, there are two reasons not to be over the moon about the trade.

First, the Mets can't play Cespedes, Curtis Granderson, and top outfield prospect Michael Conforto at the same time without putting Granderson in center, a proposition that makes me sweat under my eyes at this point in Granderson's career. Second, Cespedes, a fine player who's worked out of the cooler-than-he-is-good rut he'd been in for a couple of years, is now obviously New York's third choice, and only because the Mets couldn't bring themselves to take on two relatively cheap contracts for players locked up past this season. In light of all the baggage that came before, the Cespedes trade is a Pyrrhic victory at best.

I'm not going to rehash the reasons the Wilpons are such comprehensively embarrassing owners, because they're well documented. But at what point does their custodianship of this highly visible franchise pass the McCourt Zone? For the good of everyone involved, the commissioner's office needs to step in and force a sale by whatever means necessary, because the Mets aren't being run like a baseball team anymore.

The line at the end of the first paragraph was farging hilarious.

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http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/108124/bryce-harper-gets-snippy-after-mets-take-sole-possession-of-first

Awwww poor Brycie is gonna cry

I don't know which scenario is more satisfying

Mets blow division to Nats and Nats win division and choke in the playoffs again
Nats don't make playoffs at all and Mets gag in the playoffs

[Geowhizzer]

22 years ago today:

[PhillyPhreak54]

One of my favorite baseball memories

[Geowhizzer]

Dave Dombrowski has stepped down (or was fired) as GM/President of the Tigers.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Hamels has allowed three homers and balked in a run

Mock!!

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where is easy!!

[PhillyPhreak54]

Jose Fernandez going on the DL with a shoulder problem now

[PhillyPhreak54]

Natitiude?

Losing to the DBacks and Rockies is awesome.

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Used the company seats to take my customer from Detroit to see the Tigers

What a boring game. Even with Miggy back they can't hit.

Kuechel threw well. Almost got a foul ball. Closest I've ever come.