Brandon Nimmo is “week to week” with whatever he did to his right knee and ankle this past Friday night in yet another game that counted only as much you wish it to. The Mets termed it a low-grade sprain. Nimmo, newly signed for eight years, isn’t interested in timetables or diagnoses that indicate anything […]
 
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 4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brandon Nimmo, Crawfish, Cynicism, Fatalism, Spring Training Injuries The fan’s instinct is to choose the following: • Pursuing the extra base over playing it safe. • Letting the starter pitch as long as he can. • Extra innings in the event of a tie score in the bottom of the ninth on the road. • Staying awake postgame in order to watch AMC’s Breaking Bad Season Four […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Breaking Bad, Cody Ross, Cynicism, Heath Bell, Instincts, Jeremy Hefner, John Buck, John Buck's Baby, Juan Lagares, Justin Turner, Marlon Byrd, Patrick Corbin, Paul Goldschmidt On Monday night, the Mets got not quite enough of what they needed and a bit too much of what they didn’t. While that may sound like a description of any given one-run loss, this one struck me as quintessentially Metsian. I know I’ve seen it before, again and again. Their starting pitcher could have gotten […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Age, Cynicism, Ike Davis, LaTroy Hawkins, Loss, Marlon Byrd, Shaun Marcum |
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