After last night's win, really need to take 2 of 3 against the O's before the tough road trip coming up.
He's 100% a millionaire and he was one at 16. I really have no idea what any of this means as towards excitable though.Francisco Alvarez is not a millionaire, at least not on his pre-arbitration minimum salary.
He is definitely an excitable guy.
Considering the slump he had been in, he was probably relieved and overcome with the emotion of the moment. He's young, and he's human. It's also a game. Have some fun!I think in that situation it is fine. He could probably tell as soon as he made contact that the game was over and it was a walk-off. Many guys would have reacted the same way. We loved it when RHJ did virtually the same thing out at IU.
Good thing none of the players coming out of the dugout to celebrate touched him. He would have been called out as a result.I kept watching the replay and to me, it looked like he did step on the edge of the plate. But it doesn't hurt to make sure.
Alvarez had a crazy personality during the at bat. Did you see him shaking his head after the third pitch missed? He was really jacked up. Then when he hit the 4th pitch, he started celebrating rather than run the bases. It all worked out, but man, it would have been brutal if the wind knocked it down and hit the wall for a long single. But I guess these guys are all millionaires and showboaters. There are no Don Drysdales to keep them in check.
Given how cold Alvarez had been, I agree that the take sign was in order. Had he popped up, and if the Mets had eventually lost, Mendoza would have been second guessed on this board and elsewhere.I got a chuckle out of I believe Gary asking whether to give Alvarez the green light on 3-0 and either Ron, Keith or both emphatically said no.
I don't think either one of them walked it back either, but IIRC, Ron was chuckling, probably at himself.I got a chuckle out of I believe Gary asking whether to give Alvarez the green light on 3-0 and either Ron, Keith or both emphatically said no.
Alonso has always been really into that. I don't like it either.I get the walk-off celebrations but enough with ripping off the guy's jersey. Excessive, imo.
If hypothetically he had missed the plate, and if the ump had managed to see it between the mass of bodies, it would have been an appeal play. I doubt anyone on the Orioles was paying attention. The players were all leaving the field. Once they do, the umps will leave the field and that is that. If they try to appeal at that point (perhaps because they saw a TV replay), it's too late.
Yea, he seems to be the ringleader.Alonso has always been really into that. I don't like it either.
Tie game, I like it. Down not so much.Given how cold Alvarez had been, I agree that the take sign was in order. Had he popped up, and if the Mets had eventually lost, Mendoza would have been second guessed on this board and elsewhere.
He was okay last year, but has been a disaster this year. I don't get how Mendoza gives a long, long leash to screw up, but Peterson is pulled at the first sign of a threat.Quintana is bad news waiting to happen.
3-0, tie game, power hitter up. You give him the green light.Tie game, I like it. Down not so much.
After seeing these lowlights, I'm really glad I had plans last night and missed the entire thing.Missed most of the game. The Athletic hammered the Mets for their horrific fielding last night. Pissing all over Quintana, but what about the fielding?
"Both were costly errors, but the boof from Brandon Nimmo on a routine flyball unleashed a display of errors seen more at the Little League level than here. Two runs scored and the game was put away.
The Mets are 2 1/2 games out of the playoff picture. Losing games like that won’t help."
Yakkity Sax would fit:
Who's on home?
I'm starting to prepare for the worst for them- to wind up 1 or 2 games short of the last wild card spot. Somewhere above @Doctor Worm said it well, they are at best an 87ish (or was it 85) win team. They have flaws, and they win in spurts. It's been season that has been fun at times and frustrating at others.After seeing these lowlights, I'm really glad I had plans last night and missed the entire thing.
They split these first two against the Os. They need to go 4-3 in these next 7 tough games if they want to be taken seriously as a playoff team. Winning a home game today would be fairly important.
The fact that the Braves are so badly ravaged by injuries, combined with nobody else being good enough to get a stranglehold on that last wild card, gives me hope. But unless they had Senga to go with Peterson, they would get hammered in the playoffs.I'm starting to prepare for the worst for them- to wind up 1 or 2 games short of the last wild card spot. Somewhere above @Doctor Worm said it well, they are at best an 87ish (or was it 85) win team. They have flaws, and they win in spurts. It's been season that has been fun at times and frustrating at others.
To me its more of a worry that the Braves have been relegated to picking guys up off the street to put a lineup together. Yet even while playing the schedule we have this month before the O's we still haven't been able to overtake them and have actually now lost ground.The fact that the Braves are so badly ravaged by injuries, combined with nobody else being good enough to get a stranglehold on that last wild card, gives me hope. But unless they had Senga to go with Peterson, they would get hammered in the playoffs.
At work so not seeing the game. But he tried to go 1st to 3rd on a single to left? Who the hell does he think he is?
Good shit. And he kept his jersey.
Is Winker no longer a stinker?