The Buscher

Can’t see Vlad losing this with the rhythm he’s been on, and his pitcher’s been laying them in perfectly. This has been a blast.

Alonso’s cousin is the worst batting practice pitcher I’ve ever seen. Dude is throwing sidearm. Holy crap Alonso put his cousin on his back!

I think Acuna’s taking this round unless Alonso’s cousin got his shit together.

Guys are barely swinging and the balls are sailing 450 feet. But the drama is incredible.

And then Joc tied it. The balls are undeniably juiced to hell.

Alonso heel turn on the Cleveland crowd

Whole lot of people on Twitter butthurt that the team allowed the flag to touch the ground during their celebration. Fuck the flag and fuck forced patriotism.

Justin Verlander rules.

Matt Chapman has replaced Christian Yelich in the Home Run Derby as Yelich has a minor back issue. Yelich still intends on playing in the actual game. Lineups: NL 1 - LF Yelich 2 - SS Baez 3 - 1B Freeman 4 - RF Bellinger 5 - 3B Arenado 6 - DH Bell 7 - C Contreras 8 - 2B Marte 9 - CF Acuna P - Ryu AL 1 - RF Springer 2 - 2B LeMahieu 3 - CF Trout 4 - 1B Santana 5 - DH Martinez 6 - 3B Bregman 7 - C Sanchez 8 - LF Brantley 9 - SS Polanco P - Verlander

I’ve seen the Phillies linked for a potential reunion with Giles as well.

It’s not just that the Mets make decisions that simply don’t work out. It’s that the decisions completely blow up in their face. Every time. I’ll be rootin for Alonso, McNeil, and deGrom during the All Star festivities, and I’ll continue to pull for them from afar since they’re seemingly the only three likable players on the team. But much like main roster WWE, I’ve been worn down one time too many. I can’t justify the countless hours I spend supporting this franchise as long as the Wilpons remain in charge. I can’t give up on baseball, but I’ve given up on supporting this team. I’ll have to take the All Star break to mull my options.

Jay Bruce, traded away by the Mets in November, has 4 home runs against the Mets in the last two weeks. He’s doing the exact same thing Daniel Murphy did against them while being a far more productive this season than Cano. I can’t do it anymore. This franchise has reached Browns and Knicks level of embarrassment.

Hell yeah!

Jake Arrieta hit THREE batters last night, one of which was after warnings had already been issued, and the umpire didn't throw him out. The only people ejected were Todd Frazier who wanted to charge the mound after the second hit (which prompted the warning) and Mickey Callaway after arguing Arrieta not getting ejected after the third. On top of all of that, in his post game comments to reporters, Arrieta addressed Frazier by saying "I'll put a dent in his skull". I'm shocked that a Trump supporter is a giant piece of shit.

I mean I could understand if John Means went down and the Orioles didn’t have a rep, as they have no other good pitchers and the only other player who would warrant going (Mancini) would need to replace a position player. But it just seemed like a lay-up for Giles. It was fair to argue against the rule of every team needing a rep when the game was for homefield, but with it now just being for fun I think it’s best to give every fanbase a reason to watch.

MLB basically gives the middle finger to Canada. Marcus Stroman pulls out of the All Star Game and replaces him with Masahiro Tanaka instead of giving the Jays a new rep when they actually had one who was deserving (Ken Giles). Even if they didn’t go with Giles, Tanaka’s numbers don’t scream “All Star” at all. Adam Ottavino would’ve been a much better choice.

Carlos Carrasco has leukemia

All that money spent on signing a billion role players and the Knicks still won't sniff the playoffs in a terrible conference.

They will once the playoffs expand to 16 teams.

Yeah, especially since they’re all getting a few days off next week anyway.

I’ve always had trouble developing my young players, just seems like they hover around the same ratings wherever even with them being trained. So I end up with a bunch of underwhelming position player prospects, just like the Mets.

So many teams were scheduled off today. MLB complains about ratings but then fails to schedule games on a day when people are able to watch.

I've been a lurker on the forums for years and it used to be mostly optimism and good comments about the game, and now it's just flooded with complaints. With the Show I almost wonder if it's just a case of them complaining because "nothing's changed" but failing to recognize that nothing really needs to change when the game has been good for a decade.

I’m mildly tempted as I have a Best Buy gift card to burn anyways. That said since I mostly play franchise (always find myself giving up on RTTS, too irritating) and they’ve barely touched that mode in favor of focusing on online play. Then again it’s not like I have this huge laundry list of games coming out later this year that I want.

Seems Best Buy has it down to $40 now