Matt & Jacob & Wheeler & Pray for Noah: The 2015 "Sustainable Model" New York Mets

try sometime when they don't have an 11-gamr streak, skrit u chump

they just segued from Wally Backman to a HoJo rememberance. big anniversary year coming up.

nostalgia's a hell of a drug

'85 was an awesome year even tho they finished 2nd: arrival of Carter, Gooden became king of the world, etc.

Current BP playoff odds:

Div title: 46.8%
Wild card: 16.1%
Playoffs: 62.9%
Playoffs (Adj, ie making it to Div Series): 54.7%
WS title: 4.5%

(eat it, sanskrit)

btw select tickets for games April 30-May 6 are $13 off. Best values appear to be in Promenade for the Oriole games next week.

Wright may be back by Saturday

mook ck your email

Montero optioned after spot start, LH reliever Jack Leathersich up

well, Montero was DL'd instead.

Strasburg has been dealing tonight since Flores' glove opened the floodgates.

Dilson Herrera up to play 2nd, Murphy shifts to third til DW returns.

jerry blevins recommended listening to the serial podcast fyi

great game

Honey, are we going to the game today? …They’ve got that [deGrom] gnome tonight. Pack up the kids.

The last time the Mets had lost 1-0 on consecutive days was Sept. 4-5, 1990, at St. Louis and Pittsburgh, STATS said. The previous team to defeat New York 1-0 on back-to-back days was the Chicago Cubs in April 1973 at Shea Stadium. Ferguson Jenkins beat Tom Seaver in the opener in a matchup of future Hall of Famers.

Nats/Expos had never won consecutive 1-0 games before.

C Johnny Monell of da Bronx called up. The end of Recker?

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2015/5/4/8547971/mets-johnny-monell-las-vegas-catcher

can't stop talking about recker's end, huh

if he had a wider skill set...

I have an extra ticket for tnite ($8), but almost all the NYers have been ruled out already. Jimmy the Mod?

sorry would love to do a day game @ some pt tho :\

ok... there is a matinee vs Cards in a couple Thursdays i am taking off for

Bartolo is just a head-shaking spectacle of ease and mastery. Though Familia yielding a leadoff HR to Machado in the 9th gave me Armando Benitez flashbacks...

In the Mets program I learned that the 3 all-timers Kirk Nieuwenhuis would invite to dinner are CS Lewis, Churchill, and George W Bush.

via espn.com:

Colon became the first pitcher in at least 100 years to defeat the same opponent with seven different teams...

Colon has defeated the O's while pitching for Cleveland, the White Sox, the Angels, Boston, the Yankees, Oakland and the Mets.

STATS said its research dating to 1914 shows no other pitcher who has topped the same opponent with seven different clubs. Dan Haren, David Wells and Hall of Fame spitballer Burleigh Grimes were among the seven to beat a team six ways.

Left fielder Michael Cuddyer barely avoided nicking him and marveled at what Lagares can catch, telling Collins: "He calls me off balls hit right to me."

YUP

http://deadspin.com/the-mets-could-have-been-named-the-avengers-bees-or-b-1702440839

man, if they'd been named the new york burros the post/daily news headlines would be un-fucking-real...

bartolo.gif

http://www.gfycat.com/AlertGrandAmurratsnake

my bad, that was Chris Davis that Familia surrendered the bomb to. Machado's was off Colon.

season-low crowd at Citi for last night's game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llu7Y4PZae4

gets called up for the next spot start, apparently

why he wdn't stay i dunno!

rumors ~swirling~ that matz will be called up for sunday (probably because syndergaard just pitched)

syndergaaaaard up, will start at wrigley tuesday

Harvey moaning that 5+ days' rest throws him off.

Wright has a sore back now (no structural damage on MRI). Maybe we'll see him by August.

yikes

hueg doubleplay

Familia 12/12 in saves

v close to time to cut bait on Mayberry.

Wright began "baseball activities" today. Murphy hitting .136 vs lefties; might need to become a platoon 2b when DW comes back.

the man who would be THOR

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2015/5/12/8590911/somebody-found-noah-syndergaards-school-yearbook-picture

http://cdn.fangraphs.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/NS-Curve-3.gif

Mets don't seem to get they have to beat some good teams now n' then

^^^i guess we can now say that the cubs have arrived

Like the Mets, they have currently arrived at a projection of 85.5 wins

Hung Jeurys

it's hay-you-rees you iliit'rit

reckin ball

^^^

blowing a 5-1 lead, there they go

deGrom is throwing all of pitches harder than he did last year. His curveball isn’t breaking quite as much as it did, he’s not using it against right-handed hitters as often, and it’s generating fewer swinging strikes overall. Hitters haven’t whiffed on his four-seam fastball as often, and they’ve already hit more home runs against that pitch this year than they did all of last year.

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2015/5/15/8609521/mets-jacob-degrom-strikeouts-home-runs-curveball

http://www.hardballtimes.com/the-1961-expansion-draft-and-baseballs-anti-competitive-history

off to see Bartolo go for 7th straight walkless start

RIP Curtis, RIP Bartolo

tbf, he didn't walk anyone

wilmer!

satisfying win.

OF Darrell Ceciliani called up -- hoping that means the end of Nieuwenhuis.