All, “Where’s your precious Barry Bonds-man now?”
That’s the story I’m choosing to believe, at least.
Via SBNationGIF.
Scorned Victor Conte gears up, goes full Green Goblin on McCovey Cove
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Nick Swisher always wants to bro it down
Everything about [Nick Swisher] is annoying, from his mannerisms to his always wanting to ‘bro’ it down. Being around him is just exhausting.
– An unnamed American League veteran.
Is broing it down the same as broing it up? Regardless, I bet it really is annoying that Nick Swisher absolutely always wants to do that thing. “Dammit Nick it’s 3 a.m. and the plane just landed and we’ve got a game tomorrow, can we just this one time not bro it down?” “Nah, bro, let’s bro it down!”
David Wright Awesome Watch: Yup
If you were tracking David Wright’s brief chase for a .400 batting average, you might be disappointed now that he’s only hitting .352 for the season. You might even figure he has tailed off a bit. You’d be wrong though.
Check it out. Here are Wright’s OPSes by month:
April: 1.064
May: 1.000
June: 1.042
What happened to Streaky David Wright?
Wright’s batting average has tailed off a little after his blazing start as his batting average on balls in play has normalized, but he has made up for it with a bit more power of late.
Also, Wright, so plagued by strikeouts in the last few seasons, has struck out only twice in 48 plate appearances in June. For the season, he has struck out at a 12.8 percent clip, well below not only the 22.9 percent rate he maintained from 2009-2011 but also the 16.4 percent mark he averaged from 2004-2008. He is walking more often than striking out for the first time in his career, and walking more and notching extra-base hits at a higher rate than he ever has in any season.
We’re still less than 40 percent through the season, but the Wright we’ve seen so far is not the good but underwhelming 2009-2011 version or the awesome 2004-2008 version but some even better upgrade, David Wright 3.0. And it’s spectacular.
Also, lost in the awful Subway Series sweep by the Yankees this weekend was this, the longest home run hit by a Met this season:
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That’s a clown question, bro
Bryce Harper hit a home run in Toronto. Since the drinking age is 19 in Canada, a Canadian reporter asked him if he’d be enjoying a legal celebratory beer after the game. Bryce Harper did not appreciate the question, and in fact felt it was a clown question, bro:
Unclutch A-Rod is the all-time Grand Slam king
William Tasker at It’s About the Money has more.
Here’s A-Rod’s career line: .301/.386/.564
Here’s A-Rod in high-leverage spots: .302/.388/.577
Here’s A-Rod on a boat:
The Phillie Phanatic has been sued four times this decade
Suzanne Peirce claims she was attending her sister’s wedding at The Golden Inn in Avalon on July 17, 2010 and was poolside with the Phanatic, who was “engaging in various antics” during a comic routine, according to a lawsuit filed last week in Common Pleas Court and first reported by Courthouse News,
The Phanatic suddenly picked up both Peirce and her lounge chair and tossed both into the pool, according to the suit….
This isn’t the first time the Phanatic’s been accused of being too fanatical: in 2010 the Daily News found he’d been sued at least three other times in the last decade, once for hugging someone too hard. In 2010, a woman attending a Reading Phillies game with her church group claimed he sat on her legs, making her arthritis act up and ultimately led to a knee replacement, a lawsuit alleged.
You’re going to want to click through and read this one. Apparently the Phanatic wasn’t even a part of this wedding, he was just hanging out at this hotel on the Jersey Shore doing his thing, which of course includes chucking unsuspecting women into pools.
To the Phanatic’s credit, he’s probably under a lot of workplace-related stress, what with (presumably) getting intentionally vomited on and offered sex for tickets all the time, plus having to suffer through whatever Cole Hamels chose for his warmup song every fifth day, plus having to put out fires between Jayson Werth and Chase Utley in the clubhouse, plus now having to pretend to actually enjoy watching Jonathan Papelbon carry on in the ninth.
But then there’s a lot about the Phanatic that suggests he’s part of the problem. Case in point: He has been sued at least four times this decade.
Via Howard Megdal.
Which Mets are worth a shift?
Mark Simon at ESPNNewYork.com looks at the Mets with the most pronounced pull tendencies in advance of the series against the Rays, who employ aggressive defensive shifting. Not surprisingly to anyone who has watched a Mets game in the last couple of years, Jason Bay and Scott Hairston pull nearly everything. I imagine aggressive infield shifting would/will hurt Bay in particular, since he seems to get many of his singles on ground balls that find holes on the left side of the infield.
In a related story, a guy at my weekly baseball game in Brooklyn downloaded some iPhone app that tracks stats and creates spray charts. I, too, almost exclusively hit my ground balls to the left side of the infield. I’ll hit line drives up the middle sometimes, but everything on the ground goes to the shortstop, the third baseman, somewhere in between, or right over the third base bag. I’m a bit concerned that once the data is available visually, opponents will shift their second baseman over and destroy my BABIP. Pete if you’re reading don’t say anything.
Bill Murray rules
This day got away from me. I’ve had some ongoing tech troubles, plus that doctor’s appointment, plus some random other business to attend to. This site has been clear in its stance on Bill Murray, but in case you missed those posts: Bill Murray rules. See here for details:
Via Toby Hyde, who also has a whole thing about how bad the Mets are on defense.
The mehs have it
As of right now, 63 percent of responders said “meh” to the news that Jenrry Mejia will move to the Buffalo bullpen. If you did — or even if you didn’t, since I have no way of knowing — here’s your opportunity to be a little more specific.
The following poll assumes you agree that Mejia would have more longterm value to the Mets if he could stay and succeed as a starter, since healthy starters typically throw about 130 more innings in a season than relievers. But if you don’t agree with that, feel free to abstain or voice your dissension in the comments below.
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Mejia bullpen-bound
In case you missed it, news out of Buffalo says that Jenrry Mejia will rest a few days then join the Bisons’ bullpen. I’ve got a doctor’s appointment this afternoon, so in lieu of a post with my thoughts on the discussion, I figured I’d first solicit yours.
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