Good thing Hamels spent the last few years with the Phillies. He is probably used to stuff like the 7th inning yesterday by now.

Congrats on the World Series, Steezo. I'm a Yankees fan, but I don't hate the Mets, just like to tweak their fans from time to time.

The team is great and if the pitching holds up, they gonna get a ring. I'm happy for the fans, but the Wilpons winning irks me. I don't like that family.

P.S. If the Royals ever close out the Blue Gays, TUP and Steez should do an avatar bet or something.

I generally don't bet on baseball because I don't want to jinx my team. I'm still convinced my secretly Dad bet on the Mets/Yankees Series in 2000 and that's why the Mets lost. But I do bet every year with a friend of mine about the Mets regular season. Usually it's the number of wins in the current season, but this year it was whether they would make the playoffs. I finally won the bet for a change and my friend owes me a steak dinner, although he's trying to say we later changed that to a round of drinks and a table dance at the Bush Co. I don't remember changing the bet, but I'll probably go along with it.

Like or dislike the Wilpons, they got majorly screwed over by Bernie Madoff. I think they lost half a $billion. The (fake) returns on their investments were the reason they structured player contracts the way they did. It made sense to invest the money with Madoff and get 10-15% returns on it and then pay the payer deferred payments later.

They got screwed over by their own egos, thinking they were the smartest people around, investing everything they could with the smartest investor around, and not doing their due diligence.

Real estate bubble bursting hurt em badly also. Both happened as they were sinking money into the new stadium.

Anyway, that pitching staff looks unstoppable. Will only get better next year when Wheeler comes back from Tommy John in June.

New official Kansas City Royals team motto/slogan.

"We are so good even Ned Yost can't keep us out of the World Series."

^ LOL. TUP, if you can wrangle an away ticket, my couch is yours. Join the party.

I'd probably have better luck wrangling a Kardashian.

Here's something for Fangraphs and Baseball Perspective to chew on. Ned Yost will be managing the American League in the All-Star Game in back to back years.

Everything points to this being a good matchup. The Mets have flame-throwing control pitchers and KC has contact hitters who can hit the fastball. As far as the offense, the Mets are a new team since the beginning of August and actually are a pretty good team to hit with the DH in the American League games. We have some great defensive players and sometimes have to sit some of our offensive guys to play them. Cuddyer, Uribe, Flores and Duda could prove crucial in the AL games. And Cespedes will be batting against some pitching he may have seen in the past, compared to the NL clubs he's faced recently (which he has hammered anyway).

I still can't believe all of this (World Series trip) is happening. I feel like maybe I died and don't know it or I'm in a coma and having a dream. I told my brain to put a live elephant into my dream so I know to try to wake myself up. So far no elephants.

Rear Admiral puts on this horse and pony tale about living outside of the U.S. for tax purposes. Thanks to last night we now know the real story. He is living outside of the U.S. so he can get someone decent announcing the World Series instead of Buck and Reynolds.

Joe Buck is relentless at using the word relentless.

Thor!!!! Huge win tonight for my Mets. My eyes and face are burning from the wind, my hands are sore from clapping, and my throat is hoarse. Loved it from the first (purpose) pitch on. Syndergaard pitched a real gem and we're right back in this thing! I think that long layoff had a big impact on the Mets bats and now that they seem back on track, I think they have a real chance. Amazin'!

Clippard couldn't throw strikes and Murphy couldn't field and the team overall couldn't hit except for Conforto, but it was a fun game for the first 7 innings at least. And I got a game ball after Bartolo Colon got the last out in the 6th. Someone unseen from the dugout tossed it right to me. Maybe it was Colon since he was looking right at me when he left the field and saw I was pointing at him and cheering. Also I saw Jerry Seinfeld walking in and out of the Delta Sky Club after the game. I think he was picking up his wife and kid from the private lounge area.

Random New Yorker walking by, yelling to KC fans: So what!?!?!? You aren't even from Kansas!!! You're from Missouri!!!

Random New Yorker walking the other way: So what is Kansas somehow better than Missouri?

The Mets are second with 11 runs scored after the 6th inning in the playoffs this year. The Royals are first with 44.

They should give an MVP for batting coaches. I've never seen a team foul off so many two strike pitches as the Royals. Almost every at-bat has been a struggle for the Mets pitching staff.

Tonight, I get to see the first Mets game ever played in November, so that's something. And we have 3 aces lined up as starters, so it's not impossible.

My condolences, Steezo.

Congrats TUP. You love Ned Yost now, huh?

Harvey was so great tonight. My hands are swollen and the skin is splitting from clapping and my voice is shot from cheering him on. Having said that, they should've only given him 1 batter in the 9th before bringing in Familia. And for how great they were in getting the Mets to the Series, I'll be surprised if either Murphy or Cespedes are on the team next year. Shocked if Cespedes is back, actually.

Not too many positives from tonight's game, although I did make the Jumbotron sometime during the middle innings, cheering after Murphy completed a double play (without booting the ball for a change).

You mean the manager with the best playoff game winning percentage (minimum 20 games managed in playoffs) in the history of Major League Baseball? (Steps away from computer to listen to the chorus of Sabernerds bashing their heads into walls as they read that)

The Royals are the Michael Myers of baseball. You can throw them off a cliff, set them on fire, electrocute them, run them over with a car, drop a piano on them and leave them for dead. Then when you think they are finished and you turn your back on them they disembowel you with a butcher knife.

Yeah, Mets aint paying Cespides $20+million, nor Murphy $12-15. They better drop the dime on some sort of offense though, because they gonna run out of b-level prospects to use as trade bait at the deadline.

KC's scouting report had a big impact as well: Make d'Arnaud throw the ball; make Duda throw the ball. I don't think our catcher caught anyone stealing 2nd this series and if Duda makes that throw in the 9th, we're playing another game tomorrow.

I guess we in the crowd are partly to blame for the 9th inning. We had Harvey so pumped up he couldn't throw a strike. And the crowd just wouldn't stand for him not at least starting the 9th. But, like I already said, you have to yank him after he walks the first guy up in the 9th.

BTW does anyone still want to complain about the voting in the All-Star Game?

I have a lot of respect for the KC team. I didn't enjoy having so many of their fans at Citi Field for the last two games, but I can't blame them for coming after winning the first 2 at home.

Random New York observation: If you were to guess the demographics of the city based on the crowd at Citi Field, you would think it was still mostly white, Irish and Italian.

That's more a reflection on MLB and the world series, no?

All the Koreans in Queens were too busy staffing Jack shacks in the tri-state area to go to the game. The coloreds to lazy to go, the jews too cheap and the mexicans were too busy working.

Dude, you won, enjoy it and don't ruin the good feelings people are having towards the Royals. Them books were cooked.

Personally I'd like to see the All Star game be USA vs The World and have the foreign players against the Americans. There is interleague play every day now, so AL v. NL is old news.

I think my vocal cords may be permanently damaged. It's been over a week since Game 5 and I still sound like a 2 pack-a-day smoker.

Well, one more plus from going to the Series. I get a week's worth of free coffee because I brought back a commemorative shot glass to give to the only hot barista I know who likes baseball.

2016 ballot.

See Griffey and Hoffman being 1st ballot selections.

Griffey and Piazza only. Griffey set a new record being on 99.3% of ballots.

See full results here:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2605588-2016-bbwaa-hall-of-fame-election-results-announced

I feel good for both of them. Griffey now has the highest % vote total in HOF history, edging out Met's great Tom Seaver. So does Piazza go in with a Mets cap or a Dodger's cap? His preference is for the Mets.

440 votes cast-

437 Ken Griffey Jr. 99.3% HOF
365 Mike Piazza 83.0% HOF


315 Jeff Bagwell 71.6%
307 Tim Raines 69.8%
296 Trevor Hoffman 67.3%
230 Curt Schilling 52.3%
199 Roger Clemens 45.2%
195 Barry Bonds 44.3%
191 Edgar Martinez 43.4%
189 Mike Mussina 43.0%
180 Alan Trammell 40.9% Last year on ballot
150 Lee Smith 34.1%
92 Fred McGriff 20.9%
73 Jeff Kent 16.6%
68 Larry Walker 15.5%
54 Mark McGwire 12.3% Last year on ballot
51 Gary Sheffield 11.6%
46 Billy Wagner 10.5%
31 Sammy Sosa 7.0%


Eliminated from consideration


11 Jim Edmonds 2.5%
8 Nomar Garciaparra 1.8%
3 Mike Sweeney 0.7%
2 David Eckstein 0.5%
2 Jason Kendall 0.5%
1 Garret Anderson 0.2%
0 Brad Ausmus 0.0%
0 Luis Castillo 0.0%
0 Troy Glaus 0.0%
0 Mark Grudzielanek 0.0%
0 Mike Hampton 0.0%
0 Mike Lowell 0.0%
0 Randy Winn 0.0%

Amazed Bagwell is getting so close. People must have their head in the sand about his obvious juicing.

Also surprised Raines is so close. I love him as a player, but always felt he was a notch below HOF.

Hoffman will probably get in next year.

I'm the same way on Raines. Always struck me as Willie Wilson with more power and more injuries.

Curt Schilling had this to say about whether or not he should be in the Hall: "By my criteria, no—I’m not. I’ve always thought that Hall of Famers are people that you don’t debate about." I'd tend to agree with that. If you have to ask the question, then they shouldn't get in.

My nightmare continues.

Tell Harvey to wear a rubber when he's getting birthday butt from a ho and he won't get a UTI. If he has to bare back em, pee right after and drink some cranberry juice.

At least we have one pitcher who has shown he can beat Kansas City. I really would've loved for the Series to make it to Game 7 last year just to see what would've happened. Oh well, it is what it is. Nice win today.

Hey Steezo.....I think that my Phillies are going to lose 100 games this season.

Wow, it's possible. I just checked the over/under for wins for the Phillies and they range from 65-66.5. And the Braves are sposed to be just as bad, if not worse.

Currently debating whether or not to place a bet with one of my friends as to whether or not the Mets will reach 90 wins this season. He still owes me a steak dinner for the Mets making the playoffs last year, so I'm gonna wait until we go out to eat before I decide on whether or not to bet this year.

The Mets should kill the NL East this season. I've been a lifelong Phillies fan. You know that MLB Extra Innings is free this week right?
I think that I had the Mets winning 92 games this season.

The Mets must be truly blessed. Bartolo Colon, the fattest, oldest player in the league hit a home run today. No player in MLB history has hit their first home run at his age. My hero. And he rolled a baseball right to me across the top of the dugout during last year's World Series. Just look at the athleticism:

I like watching him pitch. He makes it look effortless.

Steezo.....that was the coolest shit ever yesterday. And I have been a baseball fan for 40 years. And I don't like the Mets.

It was like Eric Cartman took Redford's place in The Natural.

Thor's turn tonight. Syndergaard just hit his second home run of the night vs. the Dodgers. Amazin'!

You can delete your own posts, just click edit, then delete post. I don't think we can move/merge single posts, just threads.

Okay, thanks. Accessing this board is not the easiest thing for me to do with the technology I have at my disposal.

Whats the O/U on how much longer Freddie G makes it with the Braves?

I know Lou and H2C used to do it, but I don't think they had the system crashing down upon them like you've got today. Not your doing, of course. Anyway, more for the XXXXPornTalk thread.