“When I got in the dugout, I said I was getting a puppy,” McNeil said following the Mets’ 6-3 win at Citi Field. “I was pretty happy. How could you not be happy with a puppy in your hands?”

Your average home run is worth around 0.1 WAR. So if 1.0 WAR is worth something like $8 million/year, that pupper has already generated $800,000.

As a Knicks fan, even before I read your comment here, I was thinking about some sad stuff. I knew someone was going to mention the Knicks somewhere early in the comments and I’d thought I’d braced myself but naah. You still managed to hurt me.

What does it say if you’re more scared of being embarrassed than potentially embarrassing your cross-town rival or even making a mutually beneficial deal? That’s some serious defeatism but I guess Mets.

U.S. Women’s Soccer has generated more revenue than the men’s team for the past three years. How much longer do you think this trend needs to go on before adjusting salaries? Note that the men currently make close to three times as much as the women.

U.S. women’s soccer games have generated more revenue than U.S. men’s games over the past three years.

Voit must be made of iron (and tbh, he kind of looks it). How the fuck did he survive that with no concussion and all his teeth?

Seriously, it’s the best movie of the series. Which is somewhat damning with faint praise, admittedly.

There was not insignificant air-to-air combat during the opening week of the first Iraq War. 36 Iraqi fighter aircraft were shot down. The U.S. lost one F/A-18.

It matches to his upright stance. You don’t get to alter the strike zone by hugging your knees. Any other reading of the rules would be absurd, no?

There is no reason why Pitchf/x, Statcast, or Trackman should not be the standard for calling balls and strikes. Pitchf/x was already better than human umpires, and Statcast and Trackman have buried them both. 

I hope you get your deserved stars in the morning.

MLB still glorifies the intentional up-and-in-pitch, and it’s a problem. “Intimidation” is considered cool. Who’s going to tar the legacy of Bob Gibson or Pedro Martinez?

Good points both.

It’s hard to describe, and yeah, I’ve heard it varies person to person depending on sensitivity. But the pain is definitely in the tooth. If you’ve ever had a filling or root canal done and the drill strikes the nerve (and the novocaine isn’t quite strong enough), that’s pretty much what it feels like, except not…

It’s hard to describe, and yeah, I’ve heard it varies person to person depending on sensitivity. But the pain is…

Btw, the Bohemian earspoon was a real thing!

Can you believe it’s 2019 and we’re still making timely “Dwight Gooden Arrested for Drug Possession” references? It’s like if Milli Vanilli were still making records and got caught lip synching again.

I’m thinking Chico’s Bail Bonds would be pretty fitting for the Mets.

The U.S. Marshals, like almost every instrument of enforcement, are under the Executive branch. The Sergeant at Arms literally carries a ceremonial mace as their only weapon..

I once had a co-worker who grew up in Georgia under the Soviet Union. As a Pioneer (Soviet Girl Scout) she actually learned how to throw grenades.