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With you 100%. It's very annoying to have paid for MLB TV and then not have access to every game. Too greedy.
And this from CASHithead on Judge:
“The way he navigated the season; he was healthy, and you know what he’s capable of when he’s healthy. He’s always put up huge numbers when he stays healthy, and now he’s stayed healthy for a number of years".
Again, blaming Judge's health as a make-up for his inability to sign the guy shows a total lack of class at a time when the story is a season for the ages.
“There was no legitimate reason why he wasn’t here,” Cashman said. “He’s employed. He was due to provide work. The postseason roster hadn’t been set yet. (read: the press release with the roster wasn't made public yet). He chose not to come.”
Leaving Chapman off the roster was a no-brainer, but I've seen Cashman's M/O long enough to bet that Chapman was most certainly alerted to the fact he would not be on the post season roster before he decided to head home to Florida.
Now comes the part where Cashman piles all the blame back on the player, creating yet another villian who has victimised the Yankees. 10 year old children are more subtle in their deception than the ol' CASH-hole. The guy's got a pathological problem with tearing down players in public. I hope Judge scoots town. Very soon after the Guardians sweep!
Hard to believe a 101 win season is a disaster, but harder still to disagree with you.
Well, cold comfort, but at least you didn't pull a Toronto and goat a huge lead.
Mets picked a terrible time to go flat. The end of the season and now this.... it's been glimmers of hope surrounded by dismal baseball. And you're paying Max for 2 more years.
The Padres rose to the occasion. Their bottom 3 was the difference, and if Grisham, Kim and Nola continue to over perform, they will continue through the playoffs. Plain and simple, they were better than the Mets in every aspect of the series. Even the Mets game 2 win was shaky at best.
If it's me, I'm letting Degrom walk. Too much $$ for too few innings. Put simply, if he wins a game or 2 down the stretch, the Mets are mowing the grass at Citi, waiting for for the Phillies.
Your best hope now is a Hader collapse in the 9th.
No hits through 4 on 46 pitches.... there's plenty of blame to go around in New York beyond the starting pitching. Can't be falling any further behind though.....
So what was the reason for the trade.
Ummm, Aaron Hicks a name that rings a bell?
I've been pretty open about my disdain for Cashanova....or any GM who publically abuses their own players and puts themselves in the spotlight.
My point in that post was that NY has a lot of beat writers who lose the plot in their effort to sell a story. It's hardly a defence of the Yanks GM to point out how ludicrous the notion is that picking up Yaz instead of Beni would have been a better move for the Yankees at the trade deadline. That's just a complete loss of credibility by the writer.
I mean, that's as ridiculous as suggesting that the Yanks would have been better off picking up Castillo instead of Montas......hang on, wait a second....but, but, but
You thinking the M's should give Ichiro a call?
Love to see the Phillies moving on. Love to see the Cleveland run continue but that's a stretch.
Why Eflin? The dude sucked last night.
Evened up. Let's hope the Mets can come through a bit earlier tomorrow with some clutch hits.
Ottovino with a 5 run lead is about right. You'd have no fingernails left if the lead was 1 or 2.
No doubt Buck remembers well leaving Briton on the bench ...
Givens? Joelys?
Sucks your bullpen is so slack you gotta trot Diaz out there in the 7th and probably the 8th.
Hope it doesn't bite you tomorrow.
What a comeback! Hope it continues vs the Trashstros.
Alvarez???!!!! He's been worse than awful.
Lol, Max stunk, plain and simple. Giving up a dinger to Manny is one thing, but the bottom of the Padres line up has been even more ineffective than the Mets' bottom 3 this season. That said, putting up a single run against any opposition starter in the post season is rarely going to result in a W.
The shock of game 1 was how quickly it got away from NY. 3, even 4 runs down early is not insurmountable.....unless you hit like the Brewers!
To blame this loss on the pitching or the hitting is easy as they were both awful. Darvish has been terrible early on in games this season, but the Mets situational hitting has disappeared over the past few weeks. Alonso was wired so tight on his first 2 k's, he almost threw his bat through the screen!
There's no doubt Degrom has to hold the Padres to 1 or 2 runs tomorrow. If the Mets can grab an early lead, they should be fine.
Too true. Mats had everything the way they wanted it going into the last weekend. Max couldn't come through, just like tonight, just like last year for the Dodgers.
Best hope Degrom can bounce back tomorrow. More importantly, the bats have to wake up. This line up can sure go from fearsome to super-soft in a flash. Aside from Escobar, they've underperformed hugely.
Not to mention the irony of letting Wheeler walk away, given the job he did for Philly today.
Sox fans (like Brewers fans) need something to do this post season!!
AL Wild Card
Cleveland
Jays
NL Wild Card
Phillies
Mats
ALDS
CLEVELAND
Jays
NLDS
Braves
Mats
ALCS
Jays
NLCS
Mats
WS
Jays
Tiebreaker #1: total # games in WS 5
Tiebreaker #2: total # games of playoffs i.e. 44
Metheny had a couple shots at the top job and didn't produce. Must have been great in interviews.
So happy he got it! The pressure must have been intolerable the past few weeks. What a relief!
Chapman might not be such a bad choice. Someone has to wheel around the mop and bucket.
Actually I think the Mets match up much better with the Dodgers than the Braves. With Buehler and Gonsolin out, the Dodgers rotation is a tad thin. It speaks to how good the Dodgers are that they're still considered the best team in MLB after losing their top 2 starters. Imagine the Mets without Degrom and Scherzer.
IMO the Braves are the team to beat this post season. They match up really well vs any line up in baseball. You might make the case that their rotation isn't as tough as the Mets, but we just saw what happened there. Their bullpen is stocked and their in-season moves, mainly promoting Harris and Grissom, blow away any other teams' promotions or trades. Who knows? Maybe Ruf and Naquin light it up in October, but there's no evidence of that happening yet.
No doubt. They need to win the division much more than Braves IMO. Their #'s 1&2 aren't capable of pitching on short rest and haven't been putting together back to back quality starts lately.
You're only down 1. Plenty of time. Just need the pen and a bat or 2 to step up.
Bassitt with a shaky 3rd inning puts the questions to the Mets:
1. Can the bats actually stage a comeback?
2. Can the bullpen lock down some innings?
This hasn't been a good weekend for Buck and the lads, and that's putting it mildly. A comeback here and now would change all of that.
So, in trading for Benintendi, the Yankees got the cheapest top option on the market because of their hesitance to ever do something aggressive (Juan Soto, Ian Happ, Mike Yastrzemski, for example).
Lil' Yaz??!! The dude wants to be taken seriously and he's complaining about picking up Benintendi instead of Yaz???!!!!
Made my day!
That sums up the Crew's season quite well. Last year, the rotation was injury free. This year, it's been Burnes and whoever can lace em up.
Lack of depth is the curse of the small market team.
How many hack sportswriters are paying their mortgages covering the Yanks? Without CASHhole to kick around, what on earth could they write about?
Yanks are in. They have a bye. Stories about "what could have been" this season are ludicrous at best.
I love insightful baseball coverage, but looking back with 20/20 vision about deals that haven't even settled yet, and worse, citing ruined clubhouse chemistry without naming names, is about as perceptive and intelligent as a review of the stadium nachos.
https://gothamist.com/food/yankee-stadium-is-selling-nachos-in-a-helmet-for-20
Crushing loss yesterday. So many chances to run up a huge lead early
Milwaukee isn't good at all when woodruff isn't pitching. Burnes has been less than lights out and the offence struggles with RISP.
Phillies are the better team but they've been awful since Harper returned to the line up.
Can only be an improvement on Darrin Ruf.
What a win! I wouldn't say it was a "must" win for the Mets but with Atlanta fizzing out against the Nats, you're back in solid control. Escobar has been clutch since coming off the DL. He's a professional hitter who won't give away too many ABs or get overwhelmed by the moment. He's a much better playoff choice than Baty.
Of all the playoff teams, the Mets are the team that needs the bye most IMO. The last thing you need is Scherzer and Degrom trying to pitch through the WC into the NLDS and onward. Max couldn't handle it last season.
Fantastic! All time drug-free leader in HRs. Open the vault!
Have you seen enough of Kimbrel in Dodger Blue for a season?
Yanks clinch! Plenty of time to set the roster and rotation for the division series. The blistering start at the beginning of the year certainly took off the pressure in September. Hate to think he won't break Maris' record, but 60 without drug intervention is a nice, round number for Judge.
Mets stall. Again. This team has dropped too many games against patsy opponenets in September. Love this quote about the possibility of moving the Mets/Braves series because of hurricaine fear: “We know what’s going on,” Mets manager Buck Showalter said, stressing the importance of first getting through the team’s two-game series against the Marlins. “I really don’t want to put a focus on that, because our guys have done a great job of staying on task.” Hate to see what the Mets would look like if they lost focus.
Brewers ready for a bath in the latrine. The Phillies have done all they could to help Milwaukee win the final WC, but looks like 4 years of post season play in a row is enough the Crew. Look for Stearns to find employment elsewhere next season.