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FYI, i didn't use any punctuation

I nominated Nintendog from Nintendogs w/ no issue.

Then I tried to nominate Waluigi, his name showed up in the drop down. Clicked it and it filled in "Mario Tennis" but then wouldn't let me add him
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"You have already nominated this character"

oh.
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deGrom is having a better year than Kershaw when he won MVP in 2014.
I have heard deGrom mentioned for MVP also, in that regard. Of course, MVP tends to go to players on winning whereas Cy Young doesn't matter for that.
MVP is stupidly/ambiguously defined anyway. If you mean the V in MVP then say so. You have half the people voting for the best player in the league and half sticking to the definition of "valuable". And then you can break down that 2nd half more by defining value as "leading team to the playoffs" vs "Imagine how much worse this team would be without this guy".

Edit: Well, maybe not strictly better. But they're very comparable. And there is no clearcut offensive leader.

deGrom 2018 - 1.68 ERA, 28 G, 188 IP, 219 ERA+, 2.07 FIP, 2.70 xFIP, 6.7 H/9, 0.4 HR/9, 2.0 BB/9, 11 K/9, 8.2 bWAR, 7.4 fWAR

Kershaw 2014 - 1.77 ERA, 27 G, 198.1 IP, 197 ERA+, 1.81 FIP, 2.08 xFIP, 6.3 H/9, 0.4 HR/9, 1.4 BB/9, 10.8 K/9, 7.7 bWAR, 7.6 fWAR

Scherzer 2018 - 2.28 ERA, 29 G, 193.2 IP, 186 ERA+, 2.73 FIP, 3.06 xFIP, 5.8 H/9, 1.0 HR/9, 2.1 BB/9, 12.1 K/9, 8.2 bWAR, 6.0 fWAR

Strikeouts are the only thing Scherzer really has over deGrom. And it's not a large difference.
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At this point, even if you think wins mattered in any meaningful way at all, deGrom would still be the most deserving, he's that far ahead of everyone else at this point. The ERA gap is just too large.
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National League pitcher fWAR ranks:

1. Jacob deGrom - 7.4
2. Max Scherzer - 6.0
3. Patrick Corbin - 5.7
4. Aaron Nola - 5.5
t5. Noah Syndergaard - 3.8
t5. Zack Wheeler - 3.8

The Mets have 3 of the best 6 pitchers in the NL, and they are the 4th worst team in the league. Fuck the Wilpons.
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Nope neon. this is the worst thing that could happen to deGrom financially. mets are going to overwear him and make his arm fall off before he can touch free agency
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deGrom now ties the MLB all time record for consecutive starts giving up 3 runs or fewer (25). Previous Mets holder was Gooden (24).

Record holder was a dude from 1910
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thanks friends

Monday spreads are up
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love the park, def one of my favs

I had a crab sandwich on sourdough from one of the stands in the OF.

here's some pics from the weekend:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10101710583608585&type=1&l=4ef5fb99b9
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ok im back on the grid now for real

to answer your question @Forceful_Dragon I was at the Matz 11-inning game on Saturday. good game!
dat nimmo play to end it

Thanks for the seat recs!

Forceful_Dragon posted...

and it's a dumb loss where the pitching is great but the offense doesn't do shit.

lol welcome to like 95% of mets games. pitching great against the mets doesn't really mean anything because everyone does it. don't ever pick up a pitcher in fantasy just because he had a good start vs the Mets. he'll prob get shelled next time out. the mets games don't usually seem close because we've had like at least 7 games this year where it was 0-0 or 1-1 through 8 innings and wind up losing 7-1 or something

and yeah at this point I am pretty resigned to MLB not doing anything. There's so many points where they should've stepped in, it was so egregious and they haven't. I'm convinced there is literally nothing they could do that would force them to sell. Once you get to not only stealing money from the team for self-profit, but also literal insurance fraud and MLB doing nothing, then yeah. It's hopeless. And the main issue isn't Fred (the elder), it's Jeff (the younger). Fred will probably die within 5-10 years and then Jeff will be full owner (with Katz) and that honestly will probably make things worse.

more on the insurance fraud thing: They ended Wright's rehab at 19 games, with 3 days left in the AAA season. The max rehab stint is 20 games at which point you HAVE to be activated or DFA'd (since you can't option him). they stopped his rehab at 19 because they don't want to activate him because they'd have to pay him $2M out of pocket. Yet Wright is literally saying he's ready/healthy and they're forcing him to stay on the DL, in order to force insurance to pay him. And of course remember this isn't some random schmo minor leaguer. This is literally a franchise icon they are actively fucking over, over $2M.
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Switch to Falcons
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L1 Minnesota
Yes
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Up
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In other news the wilpons have literally committed insurance fraud this time
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cutch is a yankee soon now i guess

i guess this means judge is probably isnt gonna be 100%

too bad, I used to like him
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Lulu
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you had your chance with Wheeler and look at my man now
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Change to LIONS
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bumpin more
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hey I want to say one more thing about Wright and I won't rant like a lunatic but it needs to be said.

It's a money issue (of course). Wright is scheduled to earn $3.21M for September. If he does not come off the DL, the Wilpons recoup $2.41M of that sum through insurance (they already earn like $20M back a year on him).

So basically $2.5M is worth more to the wilpons than giving a franchise icon, a chance to comeback. Someone who has given everything he can to this franchise and more, stayed hard and true through all the rough years... The team is worth $3 billion and they are making up excuses and lying so one of the most important players in the whole franchise's history can't complete his almost 3-year comeback over $2.5 million.

Ok. That's all. That just really needed to be said. I just felt the need to wrap that up.
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Even Year Bullshit is dead !
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bup2
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go 9-way tie
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Yessir. We stranded a mountain of baserunners too. The McNeil triple-just miss homer followed by two hard lineouts and a Jay Bruce strikeout sequence was especially tough.

NL Cy Young Update from today (they've all been in sync for 2 starts now):

Nola - 7 IP, 4 H, 2 R (1 ER) , 2 BB, 8 K
Scherzer - 5 IP, 4 H, 3 R (3 ER), 0 BB, 5 K
deGrom - 8 IP, 8 H, 1 R (1 ER), 1 BB, 10 K

No decisions all around if that matters to anyone.

If "deGrom's opponent" were a pitcher, he'd be in the race too. Starters against the Mets with him on the mound had a 2.50 ERA going into today.
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Anyway, happy to talk about this Mets/Cubs game tonight if you'd like Chris, or whatever else, or anyone else :)
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(that all being said I really have been trying to do it less lately. but things are getting worse and worse with the ownership. If this were like 1 month ago me you'd be seeing 2x as many posts, trust me.)
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We are being lied to every fucking day. It's infuriating. It needs to be seen.

Unless you are trying to say "hey wigs don't discuss baseball in a topic about baseball"

I always welcome all kinds of discussion though. You've seen. i've responded to like everything else in these topics. Go ahead.

how about this game tonight right now? deGrom, what a baller right?
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fuck no. This is a MLB discussion topic. Feel free to talk about any MLB thing.

and this is shit that warrants being seen.

no one else is talking about anything else anyway so....
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btw Ricco (aka the wilpons through him) shut down basically any chance of wright playing this year cuz they'd have to pay him like chump change for the rest of this year and don't want to risk him playing next year which would mean they'd have to pay him again, instead of insurance. The man has been rehabbing 3 years trying to get back to baseball and finally when he's as close as can be, the fucking literal most disgusting person in the fucking universe shits all over the most beloved player in franchise history and lets money stand in the way of his return

they said he won't be called up because he "failed to reach benchmarks". when wright says he feels great.
yet they're fine with playing jose reyes and his .190 average basically every fucking day

i hope every fucking horrible thing fucking imagineable happens to jeff wilpon.

fuck this subhuman piece of fucking dogshit up the ass with a fucking machete.
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Its worth mentioning the Mets had found starting time for Jack Reinheimer, but will not be able to find starting time for their top prospect Peter Alonso.

"who is Jack Reinheimer"

exactly
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they say if he gets called up hes "just gonna sit on the bench" and "they want him to play"

I mean, i already said "uh. well why not call him up and play him?" (the answer is the wilpons are lying to the fans. multiple lies every day)

But, like. The minor league season ends like a week later anyway. So then hes not gonna be playing at all.
like it literally makes no fucking sense.
the minor league season ends! but theyre not gonna call him up so he gets more playing time
more playing time where?????
like theyre literally objectively stupid and/or compulsive liars
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https://twitter.com/laura_pollack/status/1034518492232515585
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the wilpons are literally sports trump
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Ricco on Dom Smith: "It's not always a straight line. It has been a little bit of a process for Dom.... There wasn't a clear opening for him."

That opening was closed by Adrian Gonzalez, and then by Wilmer Flores, and now by Jay Bruce out of position.

OH MY FUCKING LORD

THERE WASNT A CLEAR OPENING FOR HIM BECAUSE THEY INTENTIONALLY FUCKING BLOCKED HIM EVERY FUCKING CHANCE THEY GOT
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To recap, the season is:

- Meaningless enough that Peter Alonso is too good to come up and just sit
-Meaningful enough that David Wright cant get called up if he will need every third day off to just sit
-Just right for Jose Reyes to start every game

fucking print this and staple it to Jeff Wilpon's fucking head with the sharpest fucking staple you can find.
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Asst GM Ricco (aka Jeff Wilpon) confirms Peter Alonso won't be called up in September. Citing that that want him to get playing time and he'd just be riding the bench if he were called up.

SO WHY NOT CALL HIM UP AND FUCKING PLAY YOUR TOP PROSPECT WHO WAS LITERALLY ONE OF THE BEST OFFENSIVE PLAYERS IN ALL OF THE MINORS THIS YEAR

like they say his fucking defense is the issue and why hes not being called up yet they're insisitng on playing Flores at 1B, who we love but he has NO defense and Bruce at 1B WHO ISN'T A FUCKING FIRST BASEMAN

THIS IS SO FUCKING STUPID ITS COMPLETELY FUCKING MINDBLOWING

i cant believe this happening

this move is going to ruin the mets for the next 30 years.

Fuck this moron organization.
Fuck the wilpons.
Sell the fucking team.

(Also David Wright got his rehab moved to AAA which I would normally be ECSTATIC about but now they say he's not really close to being activated yet)
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yessss tag
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bup
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loz zelda
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o ya
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and
@TheKnightOfNee (are you "lol I picked the Lions"?)
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tagging people I didn't already tag in the discord (or who might not check it)

@foxhead84
@MZero11
@Camden
@Crescent-Moon
@HanOfTheNekos
@DpObliVion
@MysteriousStan
@Naye745
@davidponte
@Wizardsfan1000

and obv anyone else feel free to come play
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Confidence Time!!

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Thursday 8:20 PM:
Philadelphia Eagles

Sunday 1:00 PM:
Pittsburgh Steelers
Cincinnati Bengals
Tennessee Titans
Minnesota Vikings
New England Patriots
New Orleans Saints
Jacksonville Jaguars
Baltimore Ravens

Sunday 4:05 & 4:25 PM:
Kansas City Chiefs
Denver Broncos
Washington Redskins
Carolina Panthers

Sunday 8:20 PM
Green Bay Packers

Monday 7:10 PM & 10:20 PM
Detroit Lions
Los Angeles Rams
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Freddie Got Fingered
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late sunday games are awful, both in logistics, and in broadcasting.

I like A-rod though, but more as a pre-game analyst than a Color commentator
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KCF0107 posted...

I need to see the Rams have another season like last before booting Rule #4 and subsequently 6 unless we think we should put another team in their place.

also hells no

7. no really don't mess with rule 4
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https://twitter.com/AlbaneseLaura/status/1033428586236129281

Sure seems like Mets are hung up a bit on Alonso's D.
Callaway: "Its not just about swinging the bat here. Its about defense as well. We want to make sure hes in a good spot in his overall game and the things were going to value in this organization moving forward."

this is the same org that has no issues running jay bruce at 1B or dom smith or flores in the outfield.
This team has absolutely no care about what their defense is like. Alonso's D being the issue is hypocritical to how they operate.
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he played RF today

instead of conforto (well really it was A-jax or Bautista instead of conforto is the bad part)

and it wasn't just an off day they sat him 2 days ago vs a lefty

because wilpons
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of course bruce homered today lol

his first citi field home run of 2018
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