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Buck finishes out the season. Or at least until the season outcome has been decided. Eppler and Buck hit the unemployment circuit together, clearing the way for Stearns to come in and clean up the little piles left by the past 10 years of Mets' GMs.
Crew runs into the 14-50 Oakland A's buzzsaw. At home. 4 hits through 7.
I guess if you're Verlander or Scherzer, signing up for 43 million is as good as it gets. They both have rings and Cooperstown tickets, so nothing left to prove there.
Some delusional owner needs to wave his big wad around... that's just kismet for those 2 guys. I'm sure they'll pitch their hearts out, but the evidence is pretty clear about the risks involved in signing old arms. I can't blame Scherzer or Verlander or Degrom in Texas for taking the money, but expressing any surprise or frustration when they can't pitch like 27 year olds in peak health..... that's denying the reality of taking such a huge risk. The real surprise would be getting 200 innings of sub 3 ERA baseball from any of those 3.
It's not over yet for the Mets, but without a rotation, they're just another mediocre club looking up at the elite.
Yup. 8 runs against Strider ought to be enough. You're missing Timmy Trumpet big time.
The market agrees. $1600 worth of stock traded on the heels of the PR. It's definitely show-not-tell time for OWPC. I'm thinking the canniest investor here needs a 100% gain to get within eyesight of a 25% loss. And based on the volume, nobody here (or anywhere) is seeing a big opportunity to load up.
Voggy with a rally-killing dp. With that dude up. Marte should have been running on the first pitch.
Burnes back to Cy form against the O's. Someone is going to be very happy to sign him for the big $$.
as we prepare our extraction and production facility to be operational before the end of the third quarter of 2023.
Still holding. Not overjoyed to see Zeke tucking a 3 month extension into the PR for an already overdue milestone.
I wonder how much of that contract can be insured. And how much that policy costs!
Degrom was a gamble at best. Who would take thar chance for those dollars. Ironic the team is tearing it up without him.
Meanwhile, the Crew gets torched by AARON HICKS???!!!!
https://www.mlb.com/news/jacob-degrom-rangers-60-day-injured-list
Degrom bumped to the 60 day list. Go figger......
Yup. Any time Springer and Bichette go 0-10, that's a game you gotta take from a team as stacked as the Jays.
Brewers give up 11 stolen bases in a game....and win! Don't know about some of these new rules this season. I get the idea that MLB owners are old and boring, with the creativity and imagination of hamsters, but baseball ain't hockey.
On the other hand, maybe if fighting were allowed.......
The Mets are learning the hard way what the Angels have been living for years: signing the wrong guy for huge $$ is a blunder that hurts on so many levels. The opportunity costs have nothing to do with money if you're in a big market, but the necessity of the manager to pencil in the same mediocre names in the line up and on the mound - it hurts player development, team morale and chemistry. It's not all on Buck. At this level, very few managers operate without the shadow of ever-growing front office analytics crew hanging over them. On one hand, the NL is weak. 500 might be enough to punch your ticket to October ball. On the other hand, the NL is really competitive. 91 wins might be enough to lock down homefield advantage.
September is a long ways off and over 162, teams find their place. There's no way Pittsburgh could keep playing up to their early season level. Gotta think the Mets can't keep playing down to theirs.
Just watched the replay of ikf's walkoff hit. Is it me or were the Yanks a bit less than full energy when they went to "maul" him? Looked like a bit of trotting.
Brewers made the Yankees look like the Rays yesterday! I guess 5-1 and 15-1 look the same in the L column. Crew wins games 4-3 but loses them 9-3!
O's are an explosive team. Since that Davis contract ended, they've been better and better. Love to see them looking down at most of the AL East after those years of PAIN.
Hahaha!
Boone has nothing. Judge and Cole are the rocks. Rizzo is punching over his weight with the shift. Torres is acceptable. The rest of the team is interchangeable with the mediocre core of any other MLB roster.
I second that. Enjoy the dog days. The time for genuine moaning and groaning is months away. Unless you're Oakland.
Seriously, with Scherzer? We're not talking about a 28 year old horse in his prime who can toss 250+ innings a season. This is a guy who gets hurt. A lot. A guy who broke down in the post season with the Dodgers, and that was 2 years ago. Maybe in the playoffs you ask him for a bit more, but 6 innings is all you can expect from Max during the regular season for your 43 million.
Mets have won 5 straight. They've just had a HUGE week and swept a doubleheader. What's not to like? You want pain, try cheering for Oakland!
Looks like 3M is going to have some more serious questions to answer:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/paradise-poisoned-how-the-idyllic-town-of-wreck-bay-was-left-asking-who-s-going-to-die-next-20230519-p5d9pb.html
A couple of big wins for your boys this week, for sure. Definitely could be pivotal point in the season if the Mets turn it at. And with Scherzer and Verlander, it really can't get much worse.
Brewers won't be in first at the All Star break. No Woodruff, no Yelich, Burnes ready to leave town.....it was a nice run from 2017-2021. I think the owner can't wait to tear this team apart. Williams, Adames, Woodruff, Burnes, Lauer......they all have trade value.
That aside, the Cards are definitely the more stacked team. I the rotation comes around, they could go deep this year in a weak NL.
Good luck getting out of this company. About the only reliable communication from OWPC is the fluff PR followed by a share beatdown on higher than usual volume.
200K shares sold dumps the PPS 20%.
Nothing here but pain.
ICU going off PM. Crucified after an FDA curveball last week. Low float.
Chirp, chirp. This is the only type of PR that OWPC has put out for far too long. 10k in volume. The time for handshake photos and pie-in-the-sky dreaming is long gone here. Hard news is all that can get this company off the mat.
Max can provide some hotel tips!
Last thing I thought I'd see (or wanted to see) in the Brewers/Cards game: Darren Ruf in a Crew uniform.
Mets should pick up Diaz's brother from Cincy at the deadline. He's having a great season.
Buck going to last the season?
That massive 12k in volume drove it up! What do they say: volume before.......
A real question to answer is: if the OWPC stock price does tick up on some PR or prayer, what's your sell point? Lots of bag holders here. Me included. I can't imagine many people are in the black at this stage, Zeke included. So if this somehow pops to .15 a share, how much, if any, do you dump? And will the line-up of folks scrambling to cut their losses cut off any momentum the stock might have on its way up. Assuming it goes up.
It's going to take a HUUUUGE announcement to turn the price around, especially with the current market and weed sector stagnation.
How good is the Rays rotation? And Glasnow comes into play in the next couple of weeks.
Tampa has almost been competitive, but this is an amazing team with no real holes to fill. Love to see them in the World Series after mowing down the Tankees and Trashtros. Really love to see them lose in 7 to the Brewers!
Nice clean slate for a new GM to work with.
That's a fait accompli....unless the Mets make it to the world series. Sterns is lining up the pieces to build his NY empire even as he cashes his Brewer's "consultant" check every week.
Don't the Mets have a lot of bad contracts coming off the books after this season?
Would Buck be the first manager of the year to be fired before the all star break?
Actually I get that. What you don't get is that old, tired arms fail as a matter of course in MLB, with very few exceptions. Some call it "bad luck" and some call it an ostrich reaction. Results are the same.
With 2 hits against the Reds, the umpires are the least of the Mets worries.
Look at the bright side: the stage is being nicely set for Sterns to take the reins next season.
Carassco has been a tough luck case with flashes of brilliance his entire career. Hate to see him struggling.
As for Quintana, see comments about walk-year performance.
Either way, I get that those 2 can perhaps be slotted into the "bad luck" column. But Verlander and Max? Degrom and Rodon? That's hardly bad luck.
There's injuries and there's injuries. Woodruff going down? That's bad luck, part of the game that all teams endure. But, the likes of Verlander, Scherzer, Degrom, Rodon et al landing on the IL is no surprise. Actually, it would be a shock if any of those guys pitched a complete season. Or even a season with a controlled, lesser workload.
Here's what you get for all that money, either:
1. A memory of a player's former greatness.
2. A false hope that an older player could replicate their walk-year numbers.
And the problem is, with all that $$ going down the toilet, you can definitely expect your front office types to be less than aggressive in acquiring expensive players mid-season.
Another old, overpaid pitcher with a recent history of injury has to grab some bench. Go figger:
https://www.mlb.com/news/max-scherzer-neck-spasms
30/30 for sure!