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

lotta homers

reds hits: 5

mets pitchers: 7

Rubin:

"With four long balls on Tuesday night, the Mets now have 189 homers -- fourth-most in franchise history. With 23 games remaining, they need only 11 more homers to match the franchise record of 200 set in 2006. A whopping 53.7 percent of the Mets' scoring this season -- 293 of 546 runs -- has come via the homer."

more:

"Terry Collins said there has been no development yet that would suggest that Jacob deGrom (forearm) or Steven Matz (shoulder) will be ready to return to the rotation in this next turn. Matz resumed throwing on flat ground Monday."

yikes

'steal-on-Thor' game deflated by 2 CS in one inning (Rivera)

keith: i hate to be critical . . . but this reds team is playing like garbage

Keith: I flew all the way from New York for this?

he's not wrong

probably still grumpy from the lack of late-night dining options

crutis now with 25 homers and 45 rbis

no one has ever had 25+ and fewer than 56 (presumably at the end of the season)

whoa thats nuts

So many pinch hit homeruns

Rubin:

Mets have won 14 straight games against the Reds. That's the second-longest winning streak in Mets history against one opponent -- trailing only a 15-game winning streak against the Pirates in 1986 and '87.

seeing this team go on a 14-4 sprint during an injury plague is one of the strangest events in Mets history

conforto
nimmo
tebow

BAHAHAHAHAHahaHAHA

what do you think of their playoff run, troll?

@AnthonyDiComo
And the 36-minute Tim Tebow #Mets conference call concludes with this: "Thanks everyone for signing on! Y'all have a blessed day!"

the fans are taking it well

http://i.imgur.com/Y5o62WO.jpg

Tebow, who hasn't played organized baseball since his junior year at Nease High School in Ponte Vedra, Florida, in 2005, has been working out with former big league catcher Chad Moeller in Scottsdale, Arizona, since Memorial Day. Tebow spent almost two hours last week at the Southern California's Dedeaux Field running a 60-yard dash, shagging fly balls, throwing from the outfield and taking swings against former major league pitchers David Aardsma and Chad Smith in his audition for clubs.

"well that's all i need to see, sign here."

Bob Nightengale ✔@BNightengale
Sandy Alderson acknowledges that Tim Tebow won't be available every day in instructional league because of Tebow's ESPN broadcasting job

change topic to something meaningful, peckerheads

@CJNitkowski
I was on board with this #Tebow thing until I read he will miss multiple days per week in instructional league to do TV. No longer serious.

@manbearwolf
@CJNitkowski he gets to miss days? LOL. I missed days too, weddings, birthdays, and graduations. Must be nice.

alderson would have been better off just saying 'baseball is entertainment; let's see what he's got' and leaving it at that. playing it with a straight face is absurd

at least he's not distracting attention from the wc chase, right?

he cant be any worse than Jason bay

who you may notice is no longer on the team

he can't be any worse than bobby bonilla

@AndrewSiciliano
Tim Tebow is already selling $125 autographed baseballs and $175 autographed bats on his official site.

bless him

holy shit they gave him a $100K signing bonus? what a fucking joke

lol wut

he cant be any worse than Jason bay

― johnny crunch, Thursday, September 8, 2016 1:54 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

spit water all over my keyboard

it's a full life for you huh

"We don't have to listen to what everybody else wants us to do with our lives," Tebow said during a telephone conference call. "We get to do what we want."

Tebow will be allowed to leave the instructional league for his job as an analyst for the SEC Network, then return.

and on it goes:

Seth Lugo had a blister his last start, so Bartolo Colon will pitch Saturday on regular rest and Lugo will wait until Sunday to face the Braves.

<3 the barves infield dfense

"What are there, 300 other Minor League guys that are there? Probably more than that," outfielder Jay Bruce said of the Mets' system. "I don't even know. I don't particularly care -- nothing against or for (Tebow). He's become a number at this point. There are a lot of other guys there working and trying to get to the Major Leagues. Now he will be as well, and we'll see what happens."

...

"A lot of us played multiple sports growing up, and had a chance to play them at high levels," outfielder Curtis Granderson said. "The absence of not playing them in a long period of time makes it definitely difficult -- not impossible, but definitely difficult."

http://m.mets.mlb.com/news/article/200442432/mets-players-react-to-tim-tebow-signing/

@AnthonyDiComo
Terry Collins says he "got distracted" trying to set up his pitching, which is why he didn't pinch-run for Flores. "My fault."

he needs a rest

@keithlaw
Yes it's your fault because doing those things is LITERALLY YOUR JOB TERRY

Collins says Montero is out of the rotation

Wally Backman fired at AAA for "pattern of defiance"

whoa

glad the little stinker will never manage in Queens

well yeah

@BMonzoWFAN
Program note: Wally Backman will join Mike Francesa at 2:05p ET on @WFAN660

I listened to that for like 2 mins but it was incred boring

Backman says he quit and was "disrespected"; idgaf. also wd rather cut my ears off than listen to Francesa do an interview.

Rubin:

Terry Collins expressed the possibility of having Jacob deGrom and Steven Matz piggyback in a start the next time Rafael Montero's spot came up. The Mets can delay that Montero start a few extra days because of an off day on Thursday.

reyes's range/reaction on that rendon ball was worse than the throwing error he committed the prev play

with a roster of like eighty dudes we dont have a fukkin defensvie replacement for him terry?

what the everliving fuck