ExWNYer

It's better than anything they've ever worn before and should be their permanent helmet going forward, IMO.

Seems like he's been lost at the plate forever but has shown some signs lately that maybe he's starting to come out of it. He's something like 9-19 over the last several games,including two bombs against the hated Skanks last night. Prior to this little stretch, he couldn't buy a hit. We'll see if he keeps it up or backslides and thuds suddenly as seemingly every other Mets 'streak' of some kind has this season. BTW, sad when one of the few highlights of the year following a 101 win season is a 9-3 drubbing of New York AL in late July.

Look at the Tweet from Tom Pelissero in the post immediately preceding yours.

I have not tried this yet but I have heard Sal Capaccio mention it on numerous occasions.

Too many Cooks spoil the broth...

Sucks for him. These guys workout all year long preparing for the season and then it's gone in the blink of an eye. Heal up and godspeed, Nyheim. Next man up...

How have the two of you not been nominated for 'Cutest Couple' yet?

@Gugny I saw that Kelenic broke his foot in a fit of anger. Sucks for him but I get it when these competitive guys lose it in the heat of the moment. I'm sure he wishes he had that one back. I don't have an issue with Kelenic being traded but I have an issue with Kelenic being included in that trade, if that makes sense. Shipping away Kelenic for Diaz was not the problem but taking back a washed up Robbie Cano with that albatross of a contract was ridiculous. The Mets did Seattle a huge favor by getting Cano off of their books and those kinds of salary dumps almost always mean that the acquiring team gives up a prospect(s) who is not one of the top in the organization. Kelenic could have been used to acquire another integral piece, if they were willing to trade him. Yet another in a long line of Metsy moves by their former GM. RE: Guillorme...you know it's going poorly when your backup players are dropping like flies, too. Like you @SinceThe70s, I would have loved to have seen Mauricio called up but if he's going to languish on the bench like Vientos did in his first call-up, why bother? Vientos is still not playing as much as he should during call-up #2. How can you evaluate him for the future if you're the Mets or how can opponents evaluate him for a possible trade if he is riding the pine? This team should officially be sellers in a few days and I'd like to see some of these kids, Mauricio included, getting significant time down the irrelevant stretch. BTW, Scherzer sh*t the bed again...4 HRs allowed in a loss. Hope you're enjoying that money, Max.

Not to worry, Augie. I'm sure HOUSE just inadvertently added an extra 'o' to his post. Right, HOUSE? RIGHT??!

Elementary, my dear Watson...

@Gugny @Another Fan Like every season...whether it's projected to be a possible World Series run or a rebuilding year...I am renewed and hopeful every Opening Day. That said, if they try to run this thing back next year with a healthy Diaz and a few minor tweaks to the bullpen, I will have a difficult time being hopeful. I would welcome Scherzer and Verlander being gone. There are several intriguing and younger FA options available after this season and I want this team to get younger while also getting better. There is just too much uncertainty with older players and having to hold your breath hoping that they will not fall off a cliff and underwhelm. They have $83 million dollars tied up in two mediocre pitchers who are supposed to be franchise guys. Unacceptable. What a shock that two stud free agent acquisitions have become turds in the punch bowl after signing with the Mets. That never seems to happen...😉 Okay, it happens almost exclusively with this team. lol I hope that this is the same fate awaiting Aaron Rodgers and the J-E-S-T, JEST! JEST!! JEST!!! The problem with this overpriced, under-performing cast of characters is that you just can't spin them off without eating most of their salaries and the return you'll get still won't be the higher end prospects from these other organizations attempting a playoff run. This is self-imposed purgatory courtesy of the GMing ineptitude of one Billy Eppler-lectic-fit and the Costanza-esque enormity of Steve Cohen's wallet.

@Another Fan (Disclaimer: Long post...read on at your own peril. Or don't...you might be glad you saved yourselves the time and energy) Hello, Gents. Just noticed that it has been almost 3 weeks since any of us has posted. I have missed our chats ( rants? 😉 ). Win (or mostly) lose, they are therapeutic. Summer has been busy but good so far. It was beautiful here up until about mid-June with low humidity and temps in the low 70s but then someone opened the blast furnace that is a Virginia summer and unleashed the hounds of hell. We are making up for it in spades...hot and humid with temps in the 90s with a decent amount of rain tossed in for good measure. Good times...not. I hate VA summers. Every time I hear some bozo say, "I LOVE the heat!", I want to slap him (or her) into next week...but I digress. Have been catching up with some friends, going to dinners and enjoying good wine, food, and company. We were also in Jamestown visiting relatives for the week of the 4th which coincided with the Mets six game win streak. Made it to Dunkirk for their outstanding fireworks display over the marina and made it up to Niagara Falls with the family, as well. We had some rain and some beautiful days, as well, but all-in-all a great, relaxing visit with almost a week's worth of Met wins. I did not post during that short-lived streak because I didn't want to jinx it and I knew it could just be an anomaly. Sure enough, as soon as I left New York state, they immediately went back to being the SOFM... WRT this Mets squad, I expect them to stand pat...maybe try to add a minor bullpen piece...and hope to get hot down the stretch and sneak into the last Wild Card spot. That does not inspire me and I don't see it happening anyway. This team is just too inconsistent and can't seem to pitch when they hit or hit when they pitch. It is baffling and aggravating but I think the sample size is large enough now to definitively say that this is who they are...yet another in a long, torturous line of bad &/or underachieving Mets teams. At this point, I'd be all for tearing it down to the ground and keeping only the Franciscos, Alonso, Nimmo, & Baty...and even all of them have been less than inspiring except for the young stud Alvarez who has been a godsend; however, I don't believe that Cohen's ego will allow him to let this team tank and he may end up throwing bad money after bad money. He says he wants to use money to make them competitive until they can build a robust farm system like the Dodgers or Braves and then use homegrown talent complemented with the occasional free agent stud. That sounds great in theory but he can't have it both ways. The farm is several years from being robust and they will be caught in this perpetual back-and-forth until they fully commit to a plan and stick to it. They can't be competitive with high salaried players without sacrificing prospects at the deadline to supplement those high salaried players and they can't be competitive by shedding salary and hoarding prospects who are not abundant enough and not MLB ready. It is the purgatory that comes with being a Met fan and it's beyond old at this point. BTW, can they please sit Pete for a game or two? Please?! I know they need him but he is so in his own head right now that it would take a team of psychiatrists to pull him out of there. He's hitting something like .177 for the last month and a half or so and now it's affecting his defense which was not Gold Glove level anyway. Save him from himself. Lastly, I did not watch any of the game last night and saw that they had won, 11-10, against an awful White Sox team. Upon further review, they had a 5-0 lead in the 1st inning...their highest scoring 1st all season...and also had 8-2 (4th inning) and 11-4 (6th inning) leads before barely hanging on for the 11-10 win with the tying and go ahead runs on 2nd & 3rd in the 9th. In a season like last year, that would probably have been an "exciting" win. This year it is just an annoying microcosm of an initially promising season gone steadily south after the first few weeks. Next year...always next year. Apologies for the long-winded post yet again. Cheers.

Nobody should begrudged these guys getting their money when they can. I certainly don't. But let's call it like it is. Dude is nearing the end is chasing the bag, not a championship. If you really think that Tennessee is a legit contender despite playing in a weak division, you are delusional. I never thought he was coming to the Bills and I'm just glad this whole thing is finally over and done.

Finally...Thank. The. Lord. Enjoy your money, enjoy your losses.

Disagree. The beer koozie is definitely a hint that they will be drinking at practice. Obviously.

His claim to fame is kicking a then record 63 yard FG in 1970 against the Lions. I liked him but will never forgive him for botching two FGs in the 1979 Week 1 opener at home against Miami which would have avoided the Bills "0 for the '70s" streak against them. He missed a 47 yarder (maybe the Bills should just eschew 47 yard FGs and go for it - I'm talking to you, Scott Norwood) and a very makeable 34 yarder at the end of the game that he shanked wide-left and the Bills fell, 9-7.

Despite Li'l Dirty's shortcomings on the field, in no world was Colton Schmidt ever a better #6 than Isaiah McKenzie.

Dear Augie, I disagree WHOLEHEARTEDLY!!! Sincerely, O.J. Simpson P.S. - Meet me on the golf course to help in my search for the real perps and we can discuss.

Maybe try a menorah this year. Fewer lights and easier to pitch... Sir, you are no gentleman.

@Gugny @Another Fan And in yet another lost Mets season...on a night when their manager gets tossed during a typical 'rinse and repeat' home loss...on a night when their starting pitcher goes only 5 innings once again...on a night when their owner is addressing the media about his overpaid and under-performing squad and his embattled front office...Domingo German of their crosstown rivals tosses only the 24th perfect game in MLB history (and 4th in team history). The yin and yang that is ever present in baseball. Sadly, more often than not, the Mets seem to be the bad which evens out the good. <sigh> In a disappointing year that was supposed to be "all in" and about chasing a World Series title, a perfect game by NY AL feels like salt in the wound. Every time I hear that there was a no hitter (and even more rare, a perfect game) thrown, I think about the lone no-no that the Mets have by Johann Santana and think, "The one we have isn't even legit". Had there been replay back then, the Mets wouldn't even have the one that they do. I don't know how in the world the umps missed that shot down the left field line that clearly hit the chalk, but I digress. Hard to believe that as pitching rich as this franchise has historically been, they only have one no hitter and a questionable one at that. Several fan favorites and team icons have them...Tom Seaver, Doc Gooden, Nolan Ryan...but all with other franchises. And just to bring this full-circle, the last perfect game thrown by NY AL was back in 1999...by David Cone...another former Met. David Wells also threw one for them the year prior so back-to-back perfect games in 1998 & 1999 and a third last night while the Mets are still looking for their first 'clean' no hitter. That would be nice at some point. A perfect game for the Mets? Fuhgeddaboudit!

I keep telling myself I'm not going to watch them anymore this season but my addiction keeps sucking me back into watching. I did turn the channel when they got down, 5-1, on Friday and saved myself. I missed most of Saturday (the lone win) due to plans with friends but, unfortunately, watched all of the sh*t show on Sunday. The most disappointing thing to me is that they are not fun to watch. I like elements of this squad but there is nothing fun or entertaining about watching the highest payroll in baseball continually shoot themselves in the foot and invent new and excruciating ways to lose. There are too many talented players and coaches (Buck & Hefner) for this team to be an also-ran laughingstock sitting 15 games out of first place and eight...yes, EIGHT...games out of the LAST Wild Card spot in June. Holy cripes... Let me start off about Buck by saying that I like him...I wanted him as the manager. But he has frustrated me time and again this year with (IMO) his mismanagement of the bullpen. I am on record several times...you guys have seen it before. I know he's not managing with a full arsenal at his disposal but he's bungling what he does have. That said, he didn't go from winning 101 games and NL Manager of the year to not knowing anything about baseball but, as you guys said, he has always been known for preaching fundies and this is one of the most head-scratchingly bad fundamental teams in all of baseball. It's beyond perplexing. They don't have the margin of error for the kinds of mental & physical errors they are committing. Admittedly, Buck has forgotten more about baseball than I will ever know but, at some point, even the shelf life of the good ones runs out. This mess isn't entirely on him but he certainly should be held accountable for some of it. And a big "F*CK NO!" to Joe Girardi. I wanted him at one point, too, but have you already forgotten how putrid the Philthies were under his misdirection? They didn't take off until they canned his rigid ass and went in another direction. I'd rather stick with Buck or give Beltran his shot than bring in the crew-cut with the stench of both the Skanks & Philthies on him. That ship has sailed and is a hard pass for me. JMO Lastly, I don't think a managerial shakeup will do anything for this current rag-tag amalgamation of misfit toys. They are poorly put together by one Billy Eppler. I can't stand him and would welcome his firing today. He assembled this awful bullpen. There were better options still on the market but he chose to go with guys who had options so he could have the flexibility to call them up and move them down. How the fug has that worked out for you, Billy?? The 2023 NY Mess have lost 12 games already...TWELVE...when scoring 6 or more runs in a game. That is mind-blowing and the most in MLB. They have also allowed the most HRs in all of baseball. Between this Mets team and the constant infestation of trolls on the main boards starting 'Trade Diggs...he's a cancer' threads or 'McDermott sucks' threads, this has been a miserable sports summer. Have a great week, gentlemen. I'm headed to WNY on Friday for a much needed week of R&R with family.

^^^^^ This. A $45M cap hit to release or trade him this year and $30M next year. He's tied to the team for at least the next two seasons. He'll be 31 after the 2024 season so they may ready to move in another direction at that time but not before then.

Does this have anything at all to do with that lab-grown chicken from animal cells? Asking for a friend...🤔 https://apnews.com/article/cultivated-meat-lab-grown-cell-based-a88ab8e0241712b501aa191cdbf6b39a