Good morning, ESPN has
Opening Day Baseball…in Korea, today is the anniversary of Mike Piazza setting
the HR mark for catchers, and some big minds in Hollywood have ideas to
reinvent baseball.
Los
Angeles Times Via Yahoo Sports: Better baseball on TV: What MLB can learn from
'Bachelor' and 'Millionaire'.
Here are some ideas some TV execs have to “reinvent” the game: “Start
mic'ing up players”, With Empty stadiums, have one honorary fan win admission
and sit wherever he or she wants; “During a game, each manager would use two of
the trademark “Millionaire” lifelines: phone a fan or poll the fans.”; “Try
something radical: The game is over after three hours, period. Better yet: The
game is shortened to seven innings, but no matter what, it’s over after two
hours.”
Mets Links:
Mike
Puma NY Post: Mets turned down Edwin Diaz
trade, banking on turnaround. ““I would want him because I think he is going to
be good,” the talent evaluator said. “And if you look at the way relief
pitchers are up and down from year to year that even gives you a little more
confidence in saying he can come back from it. He’s healthy, he has done it
before, he is still young. I think he has value from when they got him.”
NY
Post: Mets mailbag: Joc
Pederson trade would be tricky all-in leap. “The lefty-swinging
Pederson would address the center field question and give the Mets a better
chance to win in 2020, if there is a season, but he’s also entering his walk
year. Adding Pederson would probably mean trading Brandon
Nimmo or Dominic
Smith…”
NJ.com:
MLB rumors: Are Michael
Conforto’s Mets days numbered? Author Joe Giglio thinks the loss in
2020 revenue may cause teams to make “difficult budget decisions on good, not
great players in 2021 and beyond.”
SNY.TV:
Buck Showalter on Mets manager Luis Rojas: 'I bet he doesn't know I'm a big fan
of his'. "Let me say this about the Mets: I like their manager.
I don't know him, but I like his path. I'm a big bio freak and I know where
he's been…I learned a lot from Felipe," Showalter explained. "For
instance, that he would call for a steal one pitch in advance. I finally
realized that and pitched out. In those days there were about eight people in
the stands, so I could hear Felipe's booming voice all the way from the other
dugout. He tipped his hat and said, 'It's about time you figured it out!'"
Sports
Talk 1240.com: Host Bill Donohue begins the show welcoming former NewYork Mets
pitcher Bret
Saberhagen, followed by former Mets catcher Todd
Hundley.
Centerfield
Maz: Remembering Mets History: (2004) Mike Piazza
Sets All Time HR Mark For Catchers, May 5, 2004.
Chris Flanders Mets
360.com: NY Mets ’til I die. Chris
looks at the “Netflix documentary series entitled “Sunderland ‘Til I Die,”
which chronicles the trials and tribulations of the Sunderland football club in
the past couple of years… the story hit me right in the eyes as not only about
Sunderland AFC, but about the New York Mets, more specifically the arc of the
team and our rabid fan base.”
NY
Post: Matt Harvey’s All-Star start nearly turned into ugly Yankees controversy. Harvey
hit Robinson
Cano in the first inning. The
right-hander said, “My bad” and Cano responded: “No problem.”
Newsday
interviews Curt Gowdy Jr., who is SNY’s executive producer and whose father
called the 1969 World Series for NBC as SNY airs the complete 1969 World Series
this week. Last night was game
one.
MLB LINKS:
NY
Post: MLB hopeful Blake Bivens found out family was murdered on Facebook. As
the 24-year-old Double-A pitcher awaited a flight last August from Tennessee to
his home in Virginia, Bivens signed onto social media and learned his wife,
14-month-old son and mother-in-law had been murdered.
Asian Baseball:
Last night ESPN started their broadcast at 1AM Eastern with
the NC Dinos beating the Samsung Lions 4-0. Drew Rucinski
went 6 scoreless giving up 3 hits. Aaron
Altherr played CF and went 0 for 4. (Box
Score) KBO
Scoreboard here.
Rising
Apple: Three 2019 Mets players you can watch in the KBO this year. Aaron Altherr – NC Dinos; Drew Gagnon – Kia
Tigers; Chris Flexen – Doosan Bears;
CPBL
via Twitter: Today's game in the CPBL. Uni Lions (7-9) vs CTBC Brothers (6-9);
Donn Roach (1-2, 8.86 ERA) vs Huang En-Si (0.0, 4.76 ERA).
You can watch the game here in English starting at 6:30 AM Eastern.
You can watch the game here in English starting at 6:30 AM Eastern.
⚾Play ball⚾
— 愛爾達體育台|ELTA SPORTS (@ELTASports) May 5, 2020
Here we go! Join us to enjoy the very first English-commented @CTBC_Brothers game.
跟我們一起收看首場英文轉播的中信兄弟主場賽事！
Announcer: Phil Wu 吳昇府
Commentator: Papa Juan 阮柏緯
Special Guest: @LivelyMitch 萊福力#CPBLonELTA@CPBL https://t.co/6vVovFLkkh
Mack’s
Blast From The Past May 5, 2010: DRAFT: - Christian
Yelich, Burch Smith, David Lutz, Kevin Ziomek... and Justin O’Connor
Born on this date:
- Juan Acevedo (1970)
New York Mets signed free agent Eric Gunderson on May 5, 1994.
New York Mets signed free agent Juan Lagares on May 5, 2006.
New York Mets released Ben Johnson on May 5, 2008.
1965
|
In a match-up of eventual Hall of
Famers at Shea Stadium, Phillies' right-hander Jim Bunning beats the Mets,
1-0, for his sixth straight complete-game victory over the New Yorkers. The
Philadelphia starter provides the game's lone run with a sixth-inning
lead-off solo homer run off southpaw Warren Spahn, who also goes the
distance, giving up just four hits.
|
1995
|
Thirty-three years after Don
Zimmer played third base in the franchise's first game, Edgardo Alfonzo
becomes the 100th player in Mets history to cover the 'hot corner'. Howard
Johnson played the most games at the position, appearing in 835 games over a
span of eight seasons.
|
2004
|
Mets backstop Mike
Piazza passes Carlton Fisk for most home
runs hit by a catcher when he hits his 352nd round-tripper as a catcher. The
Norristown, PA native's 405-foot opposite-field historic homer comes off a
Jerome Williams' 3-1 fastball during the first inning of the Mets' 8-2
victory at Shea Stadium.
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2008
|
In the 4,000th game played at
Dodger Stadium, Joe Torre's Dodgers beat the Mets, 5-1. The Los Angeles
skipper also managed in the 1,000th game at the Astrodome (Mets - 1977) and
Coors Field (Yankees - 2007), the 2,000th at Busch Stadium (Cardinals -
1991), the 3,000th at Angel Stadium (Yankees - 2003), and the 6,000th at
Yankee Stadium (Yankees -2001).
|
2012
- Two-time Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana wins his first game since
undergoing shoulder surgery towards the end of the 2010
season, defeating the Diamondbacks, 4 - 3. Santana had pitched
well for the Mets
in his previous 5 starts this season, but the team failed to score in his first
four outings, then his bullpen blew a 4 - 0 lead in the 8th inning in his fifth
start.
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4 comments:
Edwin Diaz is a keeper - and hasn't blown a save yet in 2020.
Korean baseball - could a Pete Alonso HR reach the demilitarized zone?
Lots of talk it seems, speculating about trades. I like the team as is.
If you could trade Dom Smith for a similarly young John Milner, would you do it?
Dom Smith for a young John Milner? Interesting as I think John Milner's 20 HR then would be 40 HR now. However, the team has a number of 1B options. If I was trading Dom Smith I would want a player back who could catch or play center.
Minor leaguer Blake Bivens article on the murder of his family last August was amazing. Strength thru faith in the face of incomprehensible tragedy.
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