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

@BNightengale
It is the most runs the #Mets have scored in a single inning in franchise history.

amazin'

mike conforto looks legit

he is on fire

8 str8

Conforto tied Joe Christopher's team mark from 1964 with doubles in six straight games. Conforto has reached safely in 17 straight.

Jeff Francoeur
Year Age Tm G PA R H 2B HR RBI OPS OPS+ Awards
2005 21 ATL 70 274 41 77 20 14 45 0.884 126 RoY-3

I arrived at the saturday game at 2, which was not early enough to get a gnome.
The lines were crazy. The game was fun though.

let's gnome mets

KM and i will be seeing Bartlo attempt again to pass Pedro in career wins (most for a Dominican)

vs Foltynewewitczty

Bartolo is the best!

Brignac took a hard shot to his foltynewiczky (morbs' joke, not mine, but it made me laugh)

i was misinformed; Juan Marichal is still #1 Dominican winner

Keith Hernandez was peeved last year about the Mets' "pitch-taking approach" last year, I haven't heard him enough this season to know if he's still on it.

(The) Mets lead the league in fewest swings at the first pitch during at-bats in all of baseball, at 22.1 percent, and see the fourth-most pitches per plate appearance (3.98) in the National League.

As evidenced by the big run-scoring, their patience appears to be paying off.

"Obviously, if you were seeing two pitches per at-bat and hitting every other one of them over the fence, I'll take it, but that's not reality," Mets manager Terry Collins said Monday. "Reality is: you have to make the pitcher work to where he's gotta come to you."

http://www.nj.com/mets/index.ssf/2016/05/mets_methodical_pitch-taking_patience_paying_off.html

Jaffe on the Cult of Bartolo:

Colon's pitches are sometimes described as "bowling balls" for the way that they sink and the difficulty that batters have elevating them, though to be fair, his groundball and home run rates are nothing special (40.7% and 1.0 per nine since joining the Mets before the 2014 season). What is special is his walk rate; he led the NL last year with just 1.1 passes per nine and has been below 1.5 per nine in each of the last four seasons. His 1.27 per nine since the start of 2012 is 0.01 behind Cliff Lee for the lead among all pitchers with at least 300 innings, while his 4.8 strikeout-to-walk ratio in that span is seventh.

http://www.si.com/mlb/2016/05/03/bartolo-colon-mets-wins-pedro-martinez

Rene Rivera!

ducas luda

Bartolo with a HOME RUN. What.

omg bart

he drilled that

grebt booth reaction
https://streamable.com/txu0

@AdamRubinESPN
Via @EliasSports: Bartolo Colon is oldest player ever to hit first career HR (42, 349 days) years. Unseats Randy Johnson.

That clip cuts off with commentary saying "this is one of the great moments in the history ..." -- it's fitting to end the clip at that moment, because you can complete the sentence any way you want and it would be correct.

Big Sexy goes yard. This is up there with the flip play.

http://cdn.barstoolsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/02/3353d5a74b6ce021-822x512.png?b2c70f

Colon is the coolest old geezer player since Julio Franco.

He is outslugging his catcher Plawecki.

I'm waiting for some serious speculation that he's returned to PEDs.

It should be pointed out that he homered in just his 247th lifetime plate appearance. In his AL seasons his PAs were in single digits.

btw the finish of Gary Cohen's call was "of baseball."

We also wd've accepted "San Diego" or "the Milky Way."

Bastardo saves the day!

Overlooked in yesterday's history was that Cespedes hit his homer sorta one-handed. Another today, i think he has 28 in 83 games as a Met.

first place btw

http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/70533/bartolo-colon-and-the-10-unlikeliest-home-runs-ever-hit

Colon's home run trot took two seconds longer than Kirk Gibson's!

more than the needed versions of "Meet the Mets"

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2016/5/9/11553868/meet-the-mets-versions-variations-tribute

Never heard the 1970s version. You might be able to sneak the instrumental version onto one of those library music compilations.

I like the '80s version, but I am more familiar with the version that has this rising synthesizer line in the background that really made the song for me.

forever love that 'shaving commercial' brass in the original

not to mention "the butcher and the baker and the people in the street"

THOR has yielded two gopherballs and smashed two tonight

Flores to DL (hammy)

Matz will miss next start w/ "elbow soreness" :p

pen lefty Sean Gilmartin up, likely temporarily

http://dailystache.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Bobby-Vs-disguise.jpg

happy 66th, bobby v!

these umpires have it in for the mets for the last two days

how'd they fuck em today?

2nd base ump said Lagares ran out of the baseline when avoiding the shortstop on his way to third. Shortstop wasn't even attempting a tag, Would have been 2nd and 3rd with 2 outs, instead was a double play.

so it was different umps on sat and sun, but the sat ump (3b carlos torrws) was overruled on sun (2b rob drake), perhaps for perceived overcompensation if not as a handoff

Rubin:

New York Mets third baseman David Wright was scratched from Tuesday's showdown against the Washington Nationals because his balky back acted up before the game. Manager Terry Collins already had decided to have first baseman Lucas Duda sit with back woes that developed during the weekend in Colorado, so the Mets are down two regular infielders for the series opener against the Nats.

(also Thor bats 8th)

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

if i weren't so lazy i'd look up the last time bartolo walked five guys

(okay three were to harper, but still)

and he hit one

he also has two families a la Orson Welles

http://deadspin.com/bartolo-colons-child-support-case-came-out-because-he-w-1777350230

@darrenrovell
Bartolo Colon has filed for the trademark to "BIG SEXY," with intent to use it on shirts, pants & hats.

@AnthonyDiComo
Per Elias: Cespedes hit his 30th HR in his 92nd game as a Met yesterday, passing Dave Kingman (111 games) for fastest to 30 in Mets history.

glad i didnt go tonight

RIP Harvey

Adam Rubin
ESPN Staff Writer

Terry Collins said the Mets will look at not pitching Matt Harvey his next turn. Undetermined.