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An easy question I came across today-
You catch David Wright (or put in your favorite player here)'s home run in his final career game ever. Do you keep it, sell it, or give it back to him (for the usual kind of goodies you might get for that- a signed ball, etc)? This is easy for me- give it back to him, all I ask for is a picture with him and the ball (and that he signs the pic for me if I send it to him later). [mayyyyybe a bat or something too].

But a much harder one-
You catch a David Wright (or your favorite player) foul ball in his final career game. There is a kid nearby you who is sad, and wanted the foul ball. Do you give it to them?
I'm not seeking any kids out to give it to, but if l like used my height to get one from a kid behind me, or even if there was just one nearby who expressed sadness or something, I think I would have to... I'd at least take a pic of myself w the ball first, but it would be tough to give it up... in general I don't care about foul balls besides the pure act of catching them, but this one would obv have more meaning to it.
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Sure. That's what I mean by they could get lucky and make it in. Could happen to anyone. They have a good core like I said but they don't have the players or the means to get the players to support that core. And they won't with these owners. And further, these owners do all the things wrong to impede progress - like forcing Reyes into lineups, like forcing players back from injury too soon, forcing players to play through injuries, stealing team funds etc. Can a team still win lots of games despite that? I guess so, but not without a ton of luck.
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certainly theres a good core of players there.

they're not going to be supported properly. they've had this great pitching core for 3 years now and have not once supported them with proper offense.

they won't have sufficient depth for them.

they're all insanely injury prone. there's no reason to believe they won't get hurt.

they won't make good bullpen signings.

i know this all for a fact because it's always the same.

they COULD get lucky, but theres no hope they'll be "good".
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and It's not pessimism. it's realism. it's trying to be smart about how your team operates and how basically everything they do is wrong. Trust me. I see it every day. Pessimism implies that there is some correct positive to be had. There is 0 reason to ever have any hope this team will be good so long as the Wilpons own the team.
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and part of the issue is they CANT sign anyone. they just so happened to sign new players to 2-3 year deals last offseason (bruce, frazier, vargas) JUST SO HAPPENS the year before basically the biggest FA market in like MLB history at the exact positions where they'd have those kinds of needs. theres nothing they COULD even do next season. theyre blocked by those guys
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GeneralKenobi85 posted...

Well Wigs, I know it's in your nature to be eternally pessimistic as a Mets fan, but you have to admit things look a little brighter for them. Going into next year they're going to have a rotation of deGrom, Syndergaard, and Wheeler. Plus I still think Matz is better than what he's done this year. And all the young position players seem like a good base to build off of. I still think they need to make some kinda big signing for someone like Machado, but that's unlikely.

See

this is exactly the kind of thinking that gets us into the trouble we are. We were 5-21 in June, when basically fully healthy. FIVE and TWENTY ONE. this happens every single year. they play a little better baseball at the end of the season and then the front office goes HEY no need to do anything different, lets ride the same team as last year that won 75 games and hope nobody gets injured.

EVERY YEAR.

LITERALLY. EVERY. YEAR. THE. SAME. THING.

No. They need to make a huge splash in the offseason or next year will be 75 wins again or worse. And they're obviously not going to do that. But they said they're "committted to trying to win next year" which they ALSO say every year and back it up by signing guys from the bargain bin, except not at a bargain (hello Jay bruce 3 years 39 million). its the same goddamn lies every year. "we are committed to winning (but we cant afford to sign anyone good)"

They need act as if the team we saw in June is the real Mets, which it is. Forgetting the fact they were NOT that injured for most of their earlier awful stretch, they never sign enough depth anyway. The amount of fixing this team needs is insanely excessive and can only be fixed by a budget of a team that has no budget. Anyone who is optimistic about the Mets next year has only watched the Mets for the last 2 weeks.
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too much time off for the team waiting for the winner
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i love drake's little doofy sketches of random shit
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I care about baseball plenty I've been holding back plenty of new wilpon shit every day I can go back to that if you like "lol"

i like the wild card game. I like the focus on "win your division". Really the wild card shouldn't be a thing at all - its like a last chance resort thing. the old way they did it gave waaaaaaay too much equal power to a team that didn't win its division. This way its basically like the WC doesn't exist but one team gets a last stab. I like that. Besides the importance on winning division, also makes rivalries more meaningful
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bump
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yes
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https://twitter.com/Miss_Met/status/1041102117124141056?s=19
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Level 2: Oakland
Bonus - 4
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I'm shippin' up to boston...
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David Wright did what everyone said he couldnt and played one more game and went out on his own terms. That is a happy ending , I suppose.
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guffguy89 posted...

Imagine someone who is born with a drive inside them to be the best at whatever they set their mind to be and not let anything get in the way of that dream. Then imagine them coming up against an obstacle that nobody can overcome, but still fighting against it anyway, trying to defy reality, because that is all they know how to do. That news conference was the culmination of a guy who never quits coming to the sober realization that some obstacles are simply too large to overcome.

It's not the first hall of fame career to be cut short by injury. It won't be the last. But it's pretty special that he'll get the opportunity to play one more time for his team.

yeah. its really cool he had the drive to do what he did. really sums him up. I of course will be there (and at the last game). My love for David overrides by hate for the Wilpons
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I am honored that I was able to grow up watching "the David Wright era". It is a shame that it had to end this way - what would've easily been a HOF career. I hope to see him stay involved with the team in some capacity in the future. As a franchise legend, it should be.

I just wish they had won for him in 2015 and got him the ring he deserved. To me, that's the most disappointing thing about falling just short that year.
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here's most of the clip

https://twitter.com/SNYtv/status/1040302606827040768
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I should note. He never officially said he's calling it quits. He said along the lines of "its basically impossible" that he'll play next year. Because he still doesn't want to admit its the end, even though he knows deep down it's going to be.

He lived out his dream. It was tragically cut short. But he fought back to make it back, if even for just one day. This man is everything we should all aspire to be.

he was one of the all time greats. but he won't really be recognized as such because it was cut short.
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David Wright holds a press conference.

In complete tears the whole time.

He will be activated from the DL, first time in almost 3 years, on Tues 9/25 but probably not play until being scheduled to start at 3B on Saturday 9/29, the 2nd to last game of the year. He says he playing after this year is "pretty much impossible". The end of an era.

What a shame a truly hallmark player had to have his career end this way- he was a surefire hall of famer 3 years ago, but won't have the time logged now. He is truly an unbelievable class act every step of the way. A real leader and I'm not just saying that to be cliched. The way he carried himself, not just during the injury but before and currently... he's just truly a remarkable person. He loves baseball so much. He cares about his team so much. He suffered all through the bad years , as the only good player, because he believed in sticking it through with the team - a truly loyal person. He deserved far better than being cursed with his injury.

It's truly unbelievable that after all David Wright has been through that he's able to step foot on a MLB field again after almost 3 years. A true testament to his resilience, determination, and love for baseball. He had spinal stenosis. This is a career-ending injury. And while it wound up being the case here - HE FOUGHT. FOR THREE YEARS. To get back on the field to make his dreams of playing baseball just one more time, a reality.

My favorite player of all time and I am going to miss him so much. Thank you for a lifetime, David. I will never forget being at his first game back trying to return from the spinal stenosis in Philadelphia, when he hit a home run his first AB back - he always had a flair for the dramatic (notably, 3 times he hit a HR in his first AB back off the DL). He will go down as the best Mets position player of all time - holding leads in every offensive category but HRs basically (Strawberry), 2nd overall only to Tom Seaver.

Always remember David as one of the most fiercely loyal and caring people you'll know - a fantastic athlete through and through - a true definition of a class act - to fans, to teammates, to young kids working their way up the system, and even to those in the front office who may have not deserved his kindness and compassion. That is David Wright.

The Mets will undoubtedly Retire 5, but this man (and Seaver) deserves a statue in front of Citi Field, mid-swing, tongue out .
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Amed Rosario (and Jeff McNeil AND Dom Smith... all guys who should be starting basically every single game the rest of the season) are ALL sitting today, for the first game of a doubleheader. What, they can't fucking handle 2 games in one day? THEY ARE YOUR FUTURE.

Oh hey and, this is from 6 days ago:
https://twitter.com/SteveGelbs/status/1038156072664670209

Callaway says that the reason Rosario is off today is because the team wants him to play every game the rest of the way. They wanted to take advantage of the off day yesterday to give him two days off in a row.

Every fucking day, they lie. This not normal behavior. Why the fuck do the Wilpons always have to fuck everything up so badly. Stop fucking lying. Stop fucking meddling. This is so fucking infuriating. No other team in sports has ownership that literally- LITERALLY - lies to its fans and ruins its future by doing stupid shit like playing Jose Reyes 2 days in a row over meaningful prospects on an almost daily basis.
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Ok Zack Wheeler is officially for real.
mets will go into 2019 with 3 of the best pitchers in baseball, a solid 4 in Steven Matz and whatever the blue hell Vargas is at #5 (though i like Corey Oswalt as a depth option), though the 5th should be Seth Lugo.

there's still another 2ish years before theyre gonna lose all the amazing pitching but thats what theyre gonna do cuz they refuse to spend on offense. such a waste. too bad they fucked up Cespedes too by forcing him to rehab and play through instead of getting surgery when they knew about it. but no. go through 2 months of rehab to play 1 game vs the yankees then go through a 10 month rehab process. too bad he didnt have that in may/june instead of AUGUST.

christ.
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Level 2 - Oakland
Bonus: 4
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maybe the mets and marlins should play a triple header tomorrow
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Bengals
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degrom pitches brilliantly, sets record for most consecutive starts giving up 3 runs or less, gets loss
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tag
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Nintendog from Nintendogs if you please
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Reg posted...

I mean

I had a "Six professional sports teams, and also the Jets" meme ready to go because it's the fucking Jets LOL. It was looking really good for like one play.

It's Seven and it's also the Mets, not the Jets get your memes right plz
though i guess "Six and the Jets" would also work technically!
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yeah rule 4 needs to be lolions again
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well like I said you'll see a takeover on that day.

sadly missing the marquis matchup by a day- Sale/deGrom slated for Sunday. Mets will be bullpenning on Saturday due to the rainout from today probs
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peace walker is awful (gameplay wise anyway)
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K Rool!

who would be at basically 0 before and now will have some semblance of value.
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ultimate dream is 69 wins
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bumpo
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oof sounds awful... good luck chris
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Mets lost but they scored 3 runs off of Nola, so I'm satisfied.
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At Citi Field, I've never seen fair amounts of Cubs fans until like this year.
The opposing fans I see in the largest contingent there (besides Yankees fans obv) are actually SF Giants fans, and Cardinals fans.
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We turned it upside down to an M when we beat them in the 2015 NLCS, that was fun
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also the NL MVP is one of Carpenter, Goldy, Yelich, Arenado, Freeman, or Baez imo, if it goes to a hitter. theyre all very good but I think you can argue that all 3 of the pitchers have been better.
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neonreaper posted...

I've seen Red Sox and Yankees fans travel well, taking over low-populated stadiums in Baltimore, Tampa, Atlanta, etc. But I've never seen them do anything like what Cubs did in 2010 and took over Fenway, during that sellout streak. Fenway was Wrigley East for a weekend. That was stunning, and those fans were almost all very good (though they seemed like they would rather lose forever than get new ownership).

I'm sure there are bandwagon Cubs fans like any championship team.

BTW you should see what happens at Fenway on 9/15
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the best moons were the cryptic picture based ones where you had to figure out where they were from other worlds
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i nommed both
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already done
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done
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who cares i want one in
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Godot, Hand, Dedede
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yes?
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tag, ill let you know
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