What a dumb sentiment. "You should just ride the wave of popularity!"
How about having some conviction in the things you believe and having the balls (not really) to go against the grain and heaven forbid be downvoted on reddit because it's not in vogue given the events of the day. If all you're ever willing to do is to say what you believe after the fact when the results are in you're a coward. A coward in the face of reddit downvotes, which is comfortably the most cowardly type of coward
the Mets have embarrassed themselves in many ways in the past two years, but nothing about a veteran pitcher coming here from a small market, sucking ass, leaving to a different small market and going back to being good should reflect poorly on them. the Mets had plenty of pitchers come into the organization both through free agency and their farm and pitch extremely well throughout the year. Peralta just couldn't handle pitching in NY, he isn't the first and he won't be the last. it's easy to say some stupid shit as a fan of a small market team but every NY fan can attest to the fact that this is just something you have to suck up happening every once in a while. the bigger criticisms towards the Mets should be similar to "if that's a roadblock, how could you be so foolish to allow players who have proven they can perform as Mets like Alonso and Weaver to fuck off for basically nothing or very little?"
Freddy is a veteran, his lack of performance here was on him.
Right like Weaver and Brazoban and Raley did this year. Oh wait, just about every other pitcher we traded seemed to be just about the exact same guy when they left or far worse. But I guess that would've taken like... five seconds to google, so I can't blame you for not being willing to invest that type of research into a simple reddit dispute
Interesting way to say that the Rays pitching coaches have done a phenomenal job since he came. Peralta pitched just like he did when he got here in his 4 starts.
Look at his game log because something clicked after that Baltimore series. I dont care what kind of veteran pitcher you are. You dont make that drastic of a change without some proper coaching.
It really didn't help him that the Mets defense is abysmal. It seems like he's kind of an emotional guy and having to get five outs didn't help his focus.
You didn't watch Mets games so why even chime in? He was not a good Met, period. It happens. Maybe he will be an amazing Ray. They don't have to be intertwined. He sucked, that's that. He sucked on opening day, was mediocre for a stretch, then became borderline unpitchable for a while. That's sports sometimes. That's on him, he's a veteran.
Sorry, Sport, but how tf do you know that I didn't watch Mets games? Apart from the fact that I watch most of Freddy's starts for fantasy baseball reasons, if there isn't a game I care about on at a particular time Mets are one of the teams I will watch because the broadcast team is good. The Mets were butchers behind him, and with guys out of position or without positions--despite not necessarily hitting either--it was a total shit show. Now, of course, there might be pitchers who react better to there being a comically horrible shit show behind him, but you can't minimize the fact that pitching for a team that was a not funny joke on defense is a challenge.
Yeah I was worried with his first few starts after getting acquired, and then even on his heater the advanced stats indicated he was getting lucky, but glad to see I was wrong about that and he's just on one right now.
I’m sorry but you cannot tell me it’s more pressure to play on a random July Thursday afternoon in New York than it is in the ALCS with the entire country watching
Trevor Plouffe mentioned this on Talkin’ Baseball, how when you get to the Rays, they tell you what you do well and basically tell you that’s going to be your whole thing on the team.
I can see how that worked for Freddy. “Hey man, that change up? Throw that more, k?”
Which, by coincidence, is also what the Brewers do. He did well with the Brewers, and now he's doing well with the Rays. I'm assuming the Mets were trying to fuck with a good thing that he already had.
Also, Hedges. His non-challenge basically led to a series of unfortunate events.
If Hedges challenges that pitch to Caminero in the fourth, it's out number one. Next groundout is just a throw to 1B, out number two. Strikeout, out number three... inning over & no damage done.
stats can tell you anything. It's a different first half team than last, Kwan was slumping most of the year and Jose missed a bunch of home games when he was hurt.
It's obviously better for the sport to have the World Series on one of the main broadcast networks, but man I wish the TBS crew could call the World Series. No one is better than BA and I like their studio show more than Fox's.
Great sickos series. Brewers dodgers is prime time and rays guardians is Memphis vs UNLV. Nobody knows more than 2 players but it’s gonna be a damn good game
Hey now, real ball-knowers know about Ian Seymour, Ben Williamson, Taylor Walls, Petey Halpin (just learned who he was yesterday), Bryan Rocchio, Slade Cecconi…need I go on?
Okay, but have you ever seen a Canadian CFB sicko!
I can name multiple MAC coaches from memory! (Joe Harasymiak, Chris Creighton, Eddie George, Chuck Martin and PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY!!!) (Admittedly I googled how to spell Harasymiak's name)
My wife and I sat in the rain for Akron RubberDucks Opening Day in 2024 to see Chase Delauter play and Petey Halpin became one of our favorites. We joke that our babies are all grown up in the MLB now!
I like this Rays squad, but boy do neutral playoff games have less sauce when they're indoors. Looking forward to seeing the dark October night when they're playing in Cleveland
On monday i went to my first game in years after living away (still 2.5 hours away) and I have to agree.
It didnt help that some chick decided to swing her beer bat while it was full. Im assuming thats what happened because about 25 people in the section ended up smelling like beer, myself included.
2020 haters are why I can never truly hate the Dodgers from the heart. If I had to deal with that stupid ass narrative for 4 entire years I would have crashed the fuck out
Imagine if the Ryas had won, and it was the only championship in franchise history. The fans would still love it, sure, but the narrative would be awful.
I'm a Bayern Munich fan, they won the 2019-2020 champions league in the most dominant fashion ever seen (still the only team in the history of the 70+ year old competition to win every game), and it gets discredited because of "the bubble."
It's a tired narrative and was only retroactively applied, no one at the time said it.
What the fuck are you talking about? Lindor has consistently been one of the best if not the best shortstops in baseball during his Mets tenure, you’re just making shit up
We just stole home field advantage and everyone's acting like Tampa Bay is right where they need to be... I didn't expect us to sweep Tampa Bay, we're in a great spot to come back home. I really hope Jose can shake this game off and doesn't put too much pressure on himself the rest of the series.
This series is for sickos, like me. This is probably the season I became a real die hard fan of my snakes, and the first postseason where I’m just interested in watching good baseball no matter who’s playing.
This was a sick game and even better series so far. I’m loving it!
The rays turned hom around in short order after getting here. Simply amazing what he has been doing these last couple months. He is getting better and better as the season goes on.
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