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April 26, 2022

Help Max Scherzer help dogs!!!!!!!

I have blatantly stolen this entire article from TheMediagoon.com because he likes dogs and won’t get mad. (And I have stuff to do).

I am very familiar with St. Hubert’s, its a good place. Now I am wondering how close Max lives to me. Hmmm. Anyway….

Help Max and Erica Scherzer raise money for St. Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center

Click here to donate

Make your Giving Day gift early this year and have it DOUBLED!

Your special gift today will help us provide medical care, behavioral support, and other services necessary to place animals in need into loving homes. By making your gift early, you will also be strengthening our advocacy efforts to build a world where more people can find joy, comfort, and companionship through a shared love and appreciation of animals.

As an added incentive, our new neighbors, St. Hubert’s board member Erica Scherzer and MLB All-Star Pitcher for the NY Mets Max Scherzer, are pitching in to Spring Forward and have offered to match all gifts up to $21,000—which means your gift will have TWICE the impact.

St. Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your gifts to St. Hubert’s are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

April 26, 2022

TLDR drGrom likely out for Mets until mid-June

Here’s what ya wanna know.

An MRI scan taken Monday of deGrom’s right shoulder revealed “considerable healing of the stress reaction on his scapula,” according to a team release. Mets doctors cleared deGrom “to begin loading and strengthening of the shoulder,” which he must do before he begins throwing. (via MLB.com)

That reports floats a timetable which, IMHO seems verrrrrry optimistic to me, in which deGrom is back in mid-June. The Mets have a 4.5 game lead. There is no reason to rush this at all.

….

So I woke up to a text from my son asking about the 9th inning.

I was watching the Scherzer part of the game but once he left the complete lack of chemistry between Gary and Ron (after a decade and a half!) made the scoreless game boring so I turned it off in the 8th.

I just watched the highlights and it seems like it was a fun 9th.

That said, no regrets. The game was boring, and I just saw the highlights. This is the part that the baseball mafia doesn’t understand – you are losing the ME crowd. Didn’t care, don’t care. Seems like it was fun, but I bet lots of things were fun yesterday I chose random Youtube videos over your billion dollar project.

On the other hand, you may have noticed that my college age son was watching. You know what has that generation watching? They bet on sports. So it looks like the sport has that right – gambling is the future.

Anyway MLB, I enjoyed my Youtube videos and had a nice sleep. Thanks for the highlight reel!

April 25, 2022

Mets and Scherzer vs. Cardinals 7:45pm Game Notes

RHP Max Scherzer (3-0, 2.50) vs. RHP Miles Mikolas (1-0, 1.76)

Max Scherzer has earned the win in each of his first three starts to begin the season…He is the first Mets hurler since Jorge Sosa (2007) to start and win his first three games with New York…He 3-0 with a 2.50 ERA (five earned runs/18.0 innings) with seven walks and 23 strikeouts…It is the first time in his career that he has won each of first three starts…He is seeking to tie a Mets record of winning each of his first four appearances with the Mets…In 1966, Bob Shaw notched victories in each of his first four career games…He won each of his first four appearances after he was acquired by the Mets from the Giants on June 10, 1966…Courtesy of Sportsradar

Scherzer has not suffered a loss in any of his last 22 starts…That is tied for the 15th-longest streak of starts without a loss in modern MLB history…Roger Clemens (30 straight) holds the all-time mark…The last pitcher before Scherzer and Logan Webb to have a streak this long was Walker Buehler, whose 23-start unbeaten streak lasted from 2019-2021.

Scherzer was born in St. Louis and attended Parkway Central HS in nearby Chesterfield, Missouri…He has pitched well throughout his career in his hometown, owning a 1.74 ERA (nine earned runs/46.2 innings) in seven starts here, including one postseason start (Game 2 of 2019 NLCS, in which he took a no-hitter into the seventh inning)…In his last start here, he allowed just one unearned run in 8.0 innings with 13 strikeouts and no walks…He has racked up at least 11 strikeouts in each of his last four starts here, including that playoff start…He has faced his hometown team 15 times in his career overall (including postseason) and is 5-6 with a 2.53 ERA (27 earned runs/96.0 innings) in those games.

cherzer entered the 2022 season as the active leader in strikeouts…He ranks 18th on MLB’s all-time strikeout list and is within striking distance of several pitchers above him this season…He needs 42 strikeouts to pass John Smoltz…

Vulgar Pete: Last Game: 1-5, K

April 25, 2022

2022 $44 Mets Mothers Day Cap

This design sucks.

All teams will wear this nonsense for Mother’s Day on May 8th. $44 SHEESH.

April 25, 2022

Link: @ceetar reviews the Brewery at Citi Field

This cup is not part of the brewery, it is clearly inside Citi Field. But it is a picture of a beer and says Mets on it so it makes for a good Featured Image.

Over at Optimistic Mets Fan, our buddy @ceetar took a break from Made Up Statistics to focus on his first love, beer, and this review of the new Wilpon owned brewery at Citi Field. He doesn’t seem to love it.

….there are a lot of empty taps. Maybe they’ll expand this by the summer, as things get up and running, but it’s not like Opening Day showing up was a surprise, and they’ve literally operated in this space since 2018. As of 4/21/2022, there have been no additional labels filed with the TTB, which would be required to can more Ebbs beer.

Those prices are cheaper than a beer inside the park, but it’s hard to say I’d actually recommend stopping here instead of just going inside and taking in the park and batting practice. Perhaps if you’re not ready to head home after, it’s good for a nightcap, and hopefully they add some new guest taps going forward. (Via Optimistic Mets Fan)