JPKMets

Aye aye, cap’n.

Man, what a brain cramp I had on Hidalgo. I put him wayyyy back in time. Well, the 2004 season was not my favorite, especially the trade deadline. But Hidalgo crushing baseballs - I saw him maul some Yankees at Shea - was fun!

Time to retire Almost A Met for Luis Robert. I love this move. Hell, sign Beli still and let Taylor caddy.

I got Koufax, Yogi, and Early Winn. Good vintage!

1 Dog thumping triples with his giant bat is one of my favorite Mets. The mid 90s weren’t all joy. But. between Lance’s 200 hits and Bernard Gilkey’s MVP insanity and the 3 weeks of Richard Hidalgo crushing baseballs after the trade, 1996 rocked.

SO HYPED FOR LUIS ROBERT.

There is no way he isn’t my favorite Met within 5 minutes of first seeing him in a Mets jersey.

My heart hasn’t been moved by a position player since Promising Jose Kings retired. But now, this nubile Cuban LF rises to take his place!

Truly! I’m all the classics to rebound when they slump. Oh well, Sparks has rebounded, maybe Luger’s can as well.

I need to check out childhood favorite Smith and Wollensky soon and see if they have their mojo back. They really got off-track after COVID.

@jonbois.bsky.social I found this chart on the NewYorkMets subreddit by the user u/cm012776

Thought you might appreciate the style of this beauty.

Truly well-deserved. Starc was the Danger Man with his left arm dealing thunderbolts all series long.

The Glove was the standard for defense. The Pernell Whitaker of the Parquet.

The way ICE officers approached the vehicle involved in today's shooting was counter to their training, a senior Department of Homeland Security official told NBC News. The official said ICE officers are trained: — never to approach a vehicle from the front; — to approach vehicles or possibly armed people in a “tactical L” 90-degree angle to prevent injury or cross-fire; — not to shoot at a moving vehicle; — only to use force if there is an immediate risk of serious injury or death. ICE officers are also instructed that firing at a vehicle will not make it stop moving in the direction of the officer.

This seems significant: not a FORMER DHS official, but a SENIOR (current) one saying the officer who fired acted counter to training.

This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One.

I think they know this is bad. Really bad.

BREAKING NEWS: Minneapolis Woman Killed By ICE Agents was 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good Mayor to Federal Agents: "Get the Fuck Out"

Renee Nicole Good was murdered by ICE. Say her name.
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My understanding is that he gets to be the blue and orange version of this gent.

Fucking reprehensible anti-American trash bin on legs. The only way the Trump administration even makes *sense* is if it’s goals germinated in the Soviet Union while Newt and Rush were working hard to dumb America down, year after year, decade after decade.

😡😡😡😡

Fucking terrifying. Watching the feed from NBC’s helicopter. Every time a citizen throws a snowball, I’m legitimately expecting gunshots in response. This is not fucking ok.

Every second the murderer is not arrested is another second for feds to hide him in a place that would create a jurisdictional fight. He's on video killing a person. You have to arrest this guy an hour ago, but you might still have time now.

Oh, also, excellent piece as always, Ms. Sato.

Probably never been a better time to eat out of the toilet at the Library Bar on Avenue A and Houston. I’ll pass on both with pretty equal amounts of emphasis.

Don’t turn away.

A 23 year old larping as a journalist made a misleading and inaccurate YouTube video that the administration full of chronically online shitposters used to justify the “largest immigration operation ever” and now someone is dead

Too busy refining talking points to besmirch the American who was murdered in cold blood by ICE today. That would be my best guess, George.

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

Of course it’s lies. They want to be first (and second, third, fourth). It’s better for them if the initial response is lies so they can make a huge show of “analyzing and correcting”. Anyone who is still on the “they’ve got a good heart” train about people lost to MAGA, it’s time to let go.

MAYOR FREY: “They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly: That is BULLSHIT.”

Yes it’s hard to watch… don’t turn away.

WAKE UP

Mayor Jacob Frey: "To ICE, get the f--- out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety and you're doing exactly the opposite."

I truly don’t know if this is a deep question along the lines of “how have we bastardized analysis to the point where Vogie is above league average?” or if he’s copping to not knowing that all the component parts and steps of OPS+ are just vanilla facts and that their stats are just stats.

It’s getting awfully late to keep whistling past the graveyard.

We are being assaulted by a cadre of legitimately evil, deeply unpatriotic people who have decided that the cure for the soul-deep pain of being a complete failure is to revel in increasingly heartbreaking acts of cruelty.