SLACKISH REACTION: Oh yeah the game. Hey look, they won 4 in a row and you play who they tell you to. Here’s a question – does Conforto get his job back? You don’t want to mess with chemistry, right? Man if I had an ESPN show I’d make that argument and rile everyone up. Anyway, I really like Mickey’s new strategy of hoping guys hit clutch HRs.
“The baseball gods just have a funny way of just bringing us to our knees. I don’t think him saying that affected the way the team has played, but I think it did affect the expectations that everyone had. Now that it’s not happening the natural inclination is, ‘OK, who are we going to blame for this?’ ” (via NY Post)
Well Niko, great question. That’s a MAJOR NO NO. This is Gary’s world and we just live in it. And Zeile does not have Keith Hernandez Level privileges. He’s a guest in Gary’s booth and YOU DO NOT STEP ON GARY.
I won’t be surprised if we never see Todd in the booth ever again. You don’t believe me? Ask yourself why Murph isn’t our 2B.
“It’s probably one of my worst innings ever, one of my worst starts ever,” Harvey said. “It’s frustrating. There’s a lot that this team and this organization has wanted me to do, and I just haven’t been able to do that. Especially today, that was pretty embarrassing for me. It was a rough one.” (via MLB.com)
Whoa, pretty strong stuff there from TDKOALA, I mean how bad could it have been? I am curious, aren’t you?
— Empty Seats Galore (@EmptySeatsPics) May 23, 2019
…that’s weird. Do they not have t-shirts in Anaheim of Los Angeles? Where is everyone? Anyway, I really don’t see how this start could have been that bad, I really want to see.
So let’s join the game where it’s already 1-0, that’s weird, and there seem to be two men on already, wow that was fast and….UH OH
And yeah Matt’s face says it all…
OK well it’s 4-0 Twins, I am sure Matt will regroup and hey how did that guy get on second anyway……and UH OH
The Twins scored 6 runs off Matt Harvey in the second inning. His ERA is 7.23.
“Try left-handed, Harvey,” yelled one of the hundreds of fans in attendance at this makeup game. Each one can be heard clearly.
Now you know I loves me some Matt Harvey walking to the dugout pictures so…
Un error llamado “Matt Harvey”!
Los #Angels firmaron en la temporada baja al lanzador derecho Matt Harvey. El club no tomó en cuenta su pasado reciente y le ofreció $11MM por una temporada.
For The Dark Knight, 2.2 innings pitched, EIGHT runs, all earned. A walk and a strike out. He is now 2-4 with a 7.50 ERA. I wish I could have live-blogged this one just to see the faces the sweatshirt bully made. Maybe I’ll go through the condensed game once they post it.
The #Royals, who broke Matt Harvey’s spirit in 2015, have probably been the reason he’s stuck around in 2019.
64% of the batted balls Matt Harvey allowed today were hard hit — 9 of 14 — his 3rd career start with a greater than 60% hard-hit rate (min 10 batted balls).
Before this year, he’d had just 1 such start since Statcast began tracking in 2015.
I have come here to discuss the Yahoo/Mets partnership. The tweet above is the Yahoo App’s Matt Ehalt getting mad at me because I commented that I broke Mets information while eating chicken on my deck before he shared the information on his twitter feed.
I was going to fully ignore the Yahoo App. After all, the Wilpons and Yahoo surely have enough money to advertise on Mets Police, an openly capitalist site, but Mr. Ehalt’s tweet has made me reconsider. So now I shall not ignore, I shall very well discuss.
Let’s start here.
The site was originally set to be called Queens Baseball Club. According to the New York Post’s Andrew Marchand, one of the results of the delay is a name change. The site will now be called Flushing Meadows Baseball Club. As for when it debuts, that is still yet to be determined.
The initial delay was for the Mets and Yahoo to receive the blessing of Major League Baseball. Now that it has been secured though, there is still no sign of Flushing Meadows Baseball Club on the internet. (via Sports Radio PD dot com)
We have both word marks trademarked. We brought this up to Yahoo when we found out about their Queens Baseball Club and about how similar it was to our trademarks and our brand. We have worked hard at elevating our brand of QBC/Queens Baseball Convention over the last six years and were at first bewildered at the announcement. Yahoo, my partner Dan and myself had numerous phone calls to try to work something out. Yahoo decided that they didn’t want to confuse our brands and decided to change their name. (via Van Hagar.)
That’s interesting.
The hold-up seems to have occurred because someone, either with the Mets or MLB, failed to make the financial particulars of the deal entirely clear to the league office (via Deadspin.)
That’s interesting.
There are a couple of highly-unusual elements to this deal. First, this is an app that’s partly revolving around media coverage of the Mets, but it’s paying a fee to the Mets. (via Awful Announcing.)
That’s interesting.
Anyway, I look forward to paying what I hear will be $5 to see the content generated by Mr. Ehalt. First up, Mr. Ehalt either doesn’t know what his site is called or hasn’t changed his bio yet or maybe Yahoo thinks we don’t all know the new name.
Anyway I am sure Mr. Ehalt will get around to updating that. He was busy covering the Mets today with tweets like this…
…which shows that he knows one of my great secrets for breaking news…I follow @mets and when they tweet something I spin it into a post! That’s exactly how I scooped Matt last evening while eating chicken on my deck.
Anyway let’s see what else…
Ah a lineup tweet. But not just a lineup tweet – you could get that anywhere, say by following @mets – this had context. Would this be the lineup that causes Washington to make a managerial change? Pretty insightful stuff if you ask me.
There were also many tweets, many many tweets, describing the game that people were probably watching anyway. Here is one that was well liked, getting 6 hearts which is 6 more than my tweets get.
The thing that makes no sense at all, is that Matt is hustling at the ballpark all day and getting hearts on is tweets while I’m eating chicken on the deck and yet more people follow me than him. Does that make any sense? No, it does not.
I highly encourage you to start putting $5 away and support The Wilpons’ newest initiative and Matt’s new pay-site. Should it ever launch I am sure the content will be can’t miss stuff you can’t get anywhere else.
Meanwhile, I’ll be here knocking out dumb content you can read for free. Poolside. Eating chicken. And scooping beat writers by 12 minutes.
This image is in 2017 and I am not throwing Syndergaard under the bus. This is just an example of an ad that Nick Francona and Paul Lukas discuss in the article you should be reading right now.
I spent a lot of time trying to research MLB Charities’ paper trail. From the best I can tell, for a while it was being done through the McCormick Foundation, which had a program called Welcome Back Veterans. But when I started digging into it, what I found is that Welcome Back Veterans is basically a phrase and a program, but there’s no entity, no organization, no board — nothing by that name. And I asked MLB, “Who’s in charge of this? Who runs Wecome Back Veterans?” And they had no earthly idea, because there isn’t anyone in charge. It’s not a registered entity — it’s just a tag line. (via Uni Watch)
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