Painfully familiar: the New York Mets (RIP Morbs)

It’s not that bad? People will be much happier with a winning record and a chance for the playoffs. Put together another solid week or two and the ship is mostly righted. As for the future, I think it’s good enough to not tear it all down. When this team goes all in or all out, misery seems to follow.

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Steve gelbs is fine as a sideline reporting goofball but I still can’t take him seriously as a play by play guy. Can they bring back Gary Thorne again?

sure gave imanaga a paddlin today

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rip morbs

i need this grimace thing explained to me

really nothing more than the mets went 7-0 starting with the game where grimace threw out the first pitch in a city connect uniform

and have been the best team in all of baseball in june (saw some stat like that)

other correlations: return of francisco alvarez (apparently some kind of catching savant who makes all pitchers better), benching mcneil for iglesias, vientos continuing to mash, lindor hitting well after switching to the leadoff spot

one of those things where none of the memes are as good as the thing itself

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the overwhelming sentiment 3-4 weeks ago to completely do a massive selloff to the "we're looking pretty good playoff-wise, maybe we're buyers" now has been something to see esp. for long-time die hards like me, i admit i was all-in on the "blow the core up" team but i do think alvarez is the most important factor here, i buy into him having some sort of vibe x-factor (along with game calling skillz)

I agree with 龜 that the hitting has been the big change, which seems mostly down to (1) reverting to the mean (they were so bad before), (2) Martinez starting to mash, and (3) Vientos giving them another power bat that was previously a zero.

How does Vientos look at 3B? I know he was terrible last year but his savant page currently has him at -1 OAA which the Mets can certainly live with if he stays hitting.