LOL WHERE DROFORD

I CANT EVEN RUB MY DICK BC BOOM HOME RUN AGAIN AND AGAIN

ORIOLE PITCHING = so bad

Even ellsbury can hit the wall on the fly...

can't believe Orioles are this bad = what a joke

shutup

Jays came back from 5-0 to win 8-7. Ugly fucking game but take'm how you can get'm.

I think the series against the O's is gonna be tough, but if they can take 1 it keeps the O's at bay.

Also, no matter what team you're playing, comeback wins I feel are essential in getting hot as a team. Gives you the feeling that you can overcome anything.

Feel bad for the Twins and mostly Paul Molitor. They can swing the bats, but that bullpen... yeesh!

Dennis Eckersley is the most annoying fucking commentator. Shut the fuck up.

Q pitched a hell of a game and I got my bobblehead tonight! WOOOOOOOOOO.

Dustin Pedroia went 11 for 11

I like to think him going on the DL was about the time they started playing bad

He should be coming back though

Would be funny if the Cubs win the Series the year after BTTF2.

Nothing more frustrating than watching a pitcher pitch well and little squibbers squeak throough on him seemingly all game. Stroman was dealing pretty good yesterday and couldn't catch a break.

I remember earlier in the year I was watching Sabathia vs the Rangers and fuck the dude was dealing, and everything that could have went wrong in an inning went wrong, the guy could not catch a break and by the end of the inning gave up 7 runs... it was like COME THE FUCK ON lol. Baseball can be a cruel game.

Yankees going for the sweep today right? Going to be amazed if they somehow grt the 2nd wildcard spot but they are sticking around.

I'm fully expecting either the Yankees or Royals to make the playoffs, get to the World Series, and then be vanquished by the Nationals led by World Series MVP Daniel Murphy.

That would be the worst possible scenario for the Mets, so I'm assuming it will happen.

Kevin Gausman won a game on the road first time since August of 2014. He was 0-16 in 25 road starts since.
Trumbo got #40. Outside shot of him getting to 50. Needs 10 in 32 games.

I'm actually NOT looking forward to upcoming 3 games with the jays. Miley Ubaldo and Gallardo starting. Maybe I'll be shocked..the first two pitched decently last time out and Gallardo can't pitch much worse than his last start

Don't worry dro, I'm sure the jays will go out of their way to make those bums look like cy young candidates

Gallardo kills the Jays

Red Sox getting pummeled by KC.

KC is the most pesky, irritating team to play against. FUck those guys, but also thank you for beating the Sox at Fenway.

KC looks like they're heating up. I know there are a few teams right now that have a better record than KC, but I still think KC is the team to beat.

p.s.________I hardly follow baseball. :shifty:

p.p.s.____________Go Jays!

The ump tonight is calling the worst strike zone I've seen the whole year..but to be fair it's both teams..

Orioles are only the 6th team ever to hit 50 HR twice in one month as a team.

Currently at 205 with 31 games left which is 59 short of tying the record of 264. They had 56 homers in June so if they could hit a few more in this Jays series they could have a shot at the record.

Ump is calling it consistently, nothing wrong with his strikezone, just big side to side.

Woo hoo go Toronto. Oh Canada!

lol. Nice game tonight. Pretty much a tailor made victory. 7 innings from your starter, big hold from bullpen in the 8th. Add on runs in the top ninth, 1-2-3 bottom ninth from Joaquin The Crippler Benoit.

Hopefully they take advantage of that fucking plug, Jimenez tomorrow night.

-edit- double post

I was right about the Jays making Miley look like a Cy Young contender though.

Yeah I'm done with the Mets if they don't re-sign Cespedes this winter. They can't win without him. He's a fucking beast.

There's nowhere to put him Vito. He's not a centerfielder and clearly doesn't want to play there. They still have Granderson on the books, Conforto needs to play everyday, and God knows what they're gonna do with Bruce.

What they need to do is figure out their centerfield situation and second base. I thought I read they might extend Walker. But nonetheless. 3rd base is also a position of need.

Didn't Cespedes say he plans on staying there? That he would not option out if need be? Could have sworn that was on ESPN which shows he wants to be a Met.

Also, we all know that Vito will never be done with the Mets.

You make room for Cespedes. He is their only bat. Grandy can be a 4th outfielder in his last year. Conforto in CF where he's been playing in AAA, Bruce in RF. Conforto to RF full time in 2018 when Bruce and Grandy are both gone.

I don't see them extending Walker given the amount of time he's missed with his back injury, but it'll look bad if they don't keep him considering they traded Dilson goddamn Herrera. As for 3B, Reyes has a league minimum option for next year since Colorado is paying his regular salary. He'll be back and be the insurance policy at 3B for when Wright inevitably gets hurt again.

He's said he wants to stay but he immediately walked back his opt out comments saying "I'll leave that to my agents".

We all know his agents will tell him to opt out because it's a horrible free agent market and he's going to get the $100+ million offers he didn't get last offseason.

Still the fact remains, he wants to be a Met. And yes, you make room for the best player on the team.

Toronto needs to take 1 more from Baltimore to send them on their way down to a no wild card spot.

I will be if they let Cespedes go. I waited through 4 terrible Alderson seasons to finally see the team be good, letting their best player leave is going to make their lineup even worse than it has been this year. There's little point in having a stud rotation (which is injury prone as hell, btw) if nobody in your lineup can score.

I was the same way last offseason, very adamant that they bring Yo back and he's showed everybody why this year.

.... I'll believe it when I see it :lol:

God it'd be great, only so Droford could suffer.

You won't see me in this thread again if they let him walk. Except maybe a video of me burning every piece of Met gear I own (and that's a lot).

lmfao Vito you are the best.

God the thought of Bruce, Granderson, and Duda all being regular starters in the lineup next year is vomit inducing. They're all the exact same player. Left-handed hackers with no strategy at the plate other than to swing for the fences every AB.

#SaveUsYo

http://m.mets.mlb.com/nym/video/v111...h-walkoff-jack

God I love a fucking home run when everybody immediately jumps up the second the ball hits the bat.

Exactly. Although, he will probably stop posting. But deep down we will just imagine how much he is suffering.

They'd be dumb to have Conforto share time. He needs to play everyday. And not in 2018. Right now. And not in centerfield. Because he's not a centerfielder. It didn't work with Cespedes in c.f. this year, and it won't work throwing Conforto out there either. You can't just run a guy out there, out of position, and expect it to stick.

They're not gonna bench Granderson, who's making $15 mil. The only thing I can think of is they move Granderson and in turn one of Cespedes, assuming he doesn't opt out, or Conforto goes to right and they live with Lagares in center or look for an upgrade.

If they run out an outfield of corner outfielders they're gonna have the same issues they've had this year out there.

Conforto made a great diving play in CF earlier this year and has been getting excessive work there in the minors along with now taking RF reps. It's clear they're committing to him being comfortable at the other two OF positions because he's going to need to play there if he wants to help at all down the stretch in September. Whether or not idiot Terry gives him ABs over Bruce or Grandy in September remains to be seen.

Os are 1 game ahead of Detroit 2 ahead of KC And 3 ahead of Seattle. So it's not the end of the world just yet.

Given how big of a colossal bust Jay Bruce has been with the Mets I wouldn't even be averse to them just paying him the $1 million buyout after the season and letting him go so Conforto can play RF next year. Bruce is a fucking dullard.

As for Grandy, the best thing he can do for this team is going to be to pull a Cuddyer and retire this winter. He can't play at this level anymore. If he has to be an expensive backup next year then so be it but they CANNOT use Grandy's contract as an excuse to not pay Cespedes.

You pay Cespedes whatever he wants and you put him in LF next year. You work the rest of the OF around him. He's the heart and soul of this team and a fucking New York franchise has no business letting a guy like him get away.

The window of contention with these pitchers will be slammed shut if Cespedes leaves, because he is the only surefire offensive weapon the Mets have. They have no chance of winning without him. None.

A diving catch does not mean he's good in center. It's just a diving catch. I think if they pay down the contract they'll be able to move Granderson. The question is whether or not they'll pay it down.

Or trade his contract for another at a different position.

All I'm saying is he's seemed comfortable there. A lot more comfortable than I would have expected. Not saying he's a long-term solution there, but if CF is the only way to get him into the lineup in 2017 because they insist on trotting one of Bruce/Granderson out in RF, so be it. He can move to RF in 2018. This is all contingent on retaining Cespedes, which they simply need to do.

In a perfect world...I'd like Cespedes in LF, Conforto in RF, and enough offense coming out of the infield that you can get by with Lagares playing CF every day. Juan is still amazing defensively and kills LHP but is useless against RHP. If you have a strong 1-7 though it doesn't matter as much.

Doubt the Mets could get to that point though. Wright and d'Arnaud are always going to be hurt, Flores is the same as Lagares in that he can't hit RHP, and Duda is inconsistent. All of these are more reasons why they need to keep Cespedes as he's the one guy that consistently mashes everybody.

Baltimore Orioles, greatest team of all time.

Jimenez looked good tonight. Happ was a bit off, but battled and kept the team in the game.

We'll see which Gallardo and which Sanchez show up tomorrow. Gonna be fun.

It's possible to challenge a play even after losing an earlier challenge?

Rays manager just did a second challenge even though he lost the first one earlier in the game. Guess the guys on NESN said its possible to use an ump's challenge but didn't seem like the ump himself disagreed with the call at first.

Could see if it was the ump who initiated but it was the Rays manager who requested it be done.

prediction : Boston falls out of the Wild Card before the aorioles do

Prediction: wishful thinking

They're 1 game ahead of the Orioles.

Granderson with 2 HR off the bench tonight. I think he'd be motivated being an expensive bench player next year. ;)

Granderson 2016 HR: 22
Granderson 2016 RBI: 38

lol that is almost impossible

On July1. Baltimore was 4 games up in the division. On August 1 they were one game up.

29 days later, they've not only lost first place, they're now one game behind Boston and have dropped to 3rd place.

Context is s real thing Droford. You make it sound like Baltimore is sounding the charge and making a run from behind. The reality is the opposite. Their lousy pitching and run differential is catching up to them and they're falling out of it.

ORIOLES are gunna get there ass swept this weekend dro

Same for Boston really..

No Droford. Not really. Boston didn't go from 4 games up to 3rd place in less than 2 months.

Lol

Boston was 2 games up in 1st on June 1st

July 26h they were 2.5 games back in 3rd

So 2 is the same as 4?

How much of a difference is there between 2 games and 4 games..it not like the Orioles blew a 10 game lead. I don't think either Red Sox Jays or Orioles have had bigger than 4 game lead so far..

Fangraphs has the Orioles going 16-14 remaining 30 games to finish 88-74 and get the 2nd wildcard playing Boston.

If 88 wins is the magic number then Detroit would have to go 18-12, Houston 19-11, The Yankees 21-10, KC 20-10 and Seattle 21-9. None of these teams could play .600+ ball the entire year and now I'm supposed to be worried..nah. Plus Seattle and Houston play 6 more times and Detroit and KC play 6 times..

Orioles claimed Drew Stubbs..If only it were like..2011 although he has 8 SB which is 6 less than the entire orioles team

Also looking at Michael Bourn from the Dbacks

Did the O's pick up a garbage can in those deals? Because that's where those players belong.

Lol. Tied with Detroit now.

lmfao

Remember when Droford said Boston and Toronto had no show at winning the division? Lol.

Saunders was eating dickcheese until the Oriole series. Couldn't fucking believe he hit a bomb off of Brach.

It's almost like he'd never seen a season of baseball before.

4 games is pretty much the same as 2 games guys.

In fairness to the Orioles if their starters pitch how they pitched against the Jays, they actually have a good chance of getting back into it.

SPREAD YOUR ASS CHEEKS DROFORD ILL GET THE BROOM

I don't think we'll be seeing Dro for a while.

Lol.

Fuckin Yankees

lol

Smart moves by Orioles to sure up their outfield, I'm disappointed Jays didn't add another left-handed reliever, come postseason time I don't think the combo of Cecil & Loup will be enough to get it done....

I'm sure they tried but mo move was available to make. Cecil could potentially find his form.

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You honestly think we're the only team doing this?

Bourn brings zero to Baltimore. He's not the base runner he once was and he's a zero at the plate. They'd be better off giving Joey Rickard more playing time, and that guy fucking sucks.

Even if he does, I want more than one reliable lefty to come out of the pen.

Well we can hope Aaron Loup is possessed by the ghost of of Randy Johnson.

He has 1 less SB (13) than the entire Orioles team. And Rickards season is done he got out on the 60 day DL

I'm regards to Puig i know it was the Yankees

It's called gamesmanship Droford. They are now direct wild card rivals since you know, Baltimore has completely shit the bed after the all star break.

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Dro what's going to happen on Monday when the Orioles are in 4th place

Stolen bases and base running are two different things. The latter is all encompassing. The former is not.

He also gets on base 30 points below league average and hasb zero pop. So you have a guy who's an out machine who's one decent skill is contingent on doing something he sucks at; getting on base.

He sucks Droford. There's no way around it.

And good for Baltimore that Rickard is out. He sucks. Losing a terrible defender who can't hit is addition by subtraction. Except when you replace with a player almost as bad in Michael Bourn.

The Orioles will still be in 3rd. Primarily because they're 2.5 up and even though it's a 3 game series there's little chance they play tomorrow's game.

Hawk Harrelson went on a mini rant insinuating that Kris Bryant isn't much if at all better than Todd Frazier. Said that because Bryant is hitting 90 points higher it's skewed the perception.

Then went on to say Frazier is better defensively and is right on Bryant's tail in homers and ribbies.

Lmao someone take Hawk out to pasture. The game has passed him by.

Is he not ranked the worst commentator in baseball?