World Series or Bust! with the Coke Party Patrol: 2016 New York Mets

also lol cespedes

http://m.mlb.com/video/v562513083/hounym-reed-hits-an-insidetheparker-on-miscue/?c_id=mlb

hahahaha

who is the ump? that's my new favorite ump

baseball is hard

cb bucknor ftw (for once)

Keith: "Whaddya thinkin', Lincoln?"

https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/713076858733137920

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CelQAmnWwAUbaMz.jpg

Kranepool and Shamsky, as you all know

harvey scratched tomorrow, opening day availability in question, mets won't say why except that 'his arm is fine'

@MarcCarig
Harvey says he had a bladder infection that prompted clots. Got tested, cleared for light activities. OK for Opening Day.

@NYPost_Mets
Harvey says he holds his urine in too long. Has to learn to pee more often.

@keithlaw
My daughter used to be like this. Then she turned five.

https://twitter.com/based_ball/status/714840102749343745

hahaha nice

post had so many headlines it couldn't pick just one

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CeynPXVWAAAyffL.jpg

wow, even the opening and closing paragraphs are joeks. gotta hand it to the post

can't be that hard for Matt to find supermodels who will encourage him to go more often

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cez--nyXEAUX3wG.jpg

coca-cola cornhole

wtf

apparently i'm going a week from Sunday

EC: What do Nats have to do to overtake Mets? Is it as easy as bringing up Giolito and Turner and letting them play?

Klaw: Fire their manager?

Keith was going Full Dinosaur on the glories of Dusty during yesterday's game

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ce51pBtWEAAqD_j.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/01/sports/baseball/ny-mets-kansas-city-royals-opener.html?

perhaps you should head back to your cave until the Bombers make it to the Division Series again?

how inconsiderate of me, you likely used your 10 free articles for the month already. here it is without a paywall:

http://i.imgur.com/O2oaBsY.jpg

http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.10926966.1444093840!/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.JPG

good start

i'm panicking! only ~1457 innings to go

glad to hear a woman in the booth, don't know when the last time i heard that

^^^ agree with this

she's a regular since midsummer, no? seeing complaints on FB that espn team is making it sound like KCR is the only team that scouts, and similar witless stuff.

Mets radio good 'nuff for me.

She (Jessica Mendoza) did three games last year, but she's a regular starting this year though.

mendoza is good

mets outfield is not good

bartolo time is good

good takes there by Cespedes.

now that's more like it

as a society, what should we do about Marlins Man?

it's so crazy to me how a professional baseball player could drop a ball like that

yeah well try it

@AdamRubinESPN
Rusty Staub, John Franco and Edgardo Alfonzo will help raise the NL championship banner before the #Mets' home opener.

Thor yields leadoff triple to Escobar, Ks next 3

choke on yr smallball, champs

NEIL WALKER

DANIEL WHO?

so syndergaard throws 95 mph sliders now

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/noah-syndergaard-is-aroldis-chapman-now/

Eric: Keith, have you ever seen a 95mph slider before? Thor looks even better than advertised in your opinion who is the first pitcher the Mets lock up long term or do you think they will wait until they’re all eligible for free agency.

Klaw: No and I’m guessing that was a cutter (or a bad gun reading). Thor is the one guy of their aces I’d most want to lock up – I think he offers the best potential for durability. [Post-chat edit: sounds like pitch f/x had that velocity and Syndergaard called it a slider. I think it would be the hardest slider in MLB history.]

there's a GIF of it in that fangraphs article. i'm not fantastic at pitch recognition but it looks like a slider to me. insane

pretty sure bartolo got the biggest cheer during opening day intros

@AdamRubinESPN
I think Mets fans really want to boo the Phillies, but have no idea who these people are.

lol nice

Duuuuuuuuuuuuu-da

Con-FORRRRRRRRR-to

wallllker

final arizona fall league line for tim tebow: .194/.296/.242 in 19 games

@DCameronFG
Dumping Bruce is the easy part. But the team should probably start shopping Michael Conforto too.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/lets-fix-the-mets-outfield

I'd think Houston or Texas might be interested in Bruce as both clubs seem to always look to get Texans playing on their teams.

I could perhaps see the Reds trading Hamilton as they got 3 other CF players on the 40 man roster. Hamilton would definitely be handy in the Mets new stadium since it is pretty big as he can cover a ton of ground.

Going to try to attend #1 again this year.

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/mets-top-10-wins-of-2016-1-september-22-against-phillies-123116?cmpid=feed:-sports-CQ-RSS-Feed

new brooklyn cyclones manager:

http://ultimatemets.com/cards/EdgardoAlfonzo1972.jpg

it was his brother a few years ago?

http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2017/1/25/14383774/conforto-mets-playing-time-jay-bruce-malpractice

spoke w someone @ a retirement party yesterday who has been a lifelong mets fan, 1st game he attended was in '63 @ the polo grounds, was @ game 5 of the 69 world series -- he said the wilpons, fred specifically, are really terrible ppl (w ancedotal confirmation i won't go into), & his fandom m/l ended in 2015 it sounded like

i want anecdotes

i think we all made that assumption safely

lets's kill last year's team threads, shall we?