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You are still expanding the parameters of the discussion that I have been having. It doesn’t include the bullpen and it only includes the top 3, not the top 4. Porcello is a mess, and I have said so.

Our hitters are acting like they are already in the All Star Break. Come on. They should be destroying these Bengal hurlers.

And we have to sit on the edge of our seats and bite our nails in the late innings against the terrible Tigers.

It’s the ball. He is not the only one having a career power year. I just noticed that Bret Gardner hit his 14th off Morton today. There are many more experiencing power surges.

This baseball is ridiculous. Vasquez should not be hitting balls that far out to RF on a swing like that. The ball is making a mockery of the game.

Miggy has been acting like a psych this season. Whalen he is not yucking it up as his team is getting plastered, he is uncle to control his anger over balls and strikes. The guy seems unstable. To bad, because he was such a consistently excellent player for many years.

Don't worry. No matter what s*** Boone throws out there this season, it has flushed. It's been one of those years for your team when even managerial and player blunders look like genius after another win.

Where is the game thread for today?

I haven't been praising our starters. I have simply said that the top 3 are performing to expectations after April and that I expect that to continue. That's not praise. I am just saying that they are not the issue on the team that needs to be addressed going forward. Going forward, Porcello has to fix himself. And we need a #5 if Eovaldi goes to the pen. That is not heaping praise on our starters. It is simply saying that we are good with 3 of them. As far as the pen goes, since you have made it part of our discussion, they suck. I don't care what kind of numbers you come up with. Other than Barnes and Workman, the others are marginal major leaguers, and I would have no problem dumping anyone of them.

Relievers have not been part of our debate on the starters. My comments roasting the relievers have not been in the context of that conversation and are completely unrelated. You have conflated the two issues, not me.

I have done no such thing. You have conflated the starter/reliever issue. Until last night, we were just debating that merits of the starters performance and how to measure it. We went in circles on that argument ad nauseam. Then last night you tell me that relievers have been part of the argument and the merits of the performance of relievers versus starters has been the topic of our debate. It has not. Any conflation of those topics has been in your head. I am sorry that you have done so much research on whatever topic you thought we had been discussing. I thought those reliever numbers were unrelated to our discussion. My position on the performance of Price, Sale and ERod is pretty clear and so is yours. I have a theory that the lack of spring training ruined the first month of the season for them. You disagree, but have offered no explanation for their performance other than randomness. Maybe I have that last part wrong and you have no theory at all and this is all about poking holes in my theory as you have said earlier. If so, you haven’t moved the needle a hair in convincing me, and I know that it irks you to no end that you have not, but at this point you are engaged in an obsession. For your own good, I will stop engaging you on this topic as you clearly don’t know when to stop.

Except for Eovaldi, and he is a starter. If your stats demonstrate that our bullpen is a strength, that makes a terrible case for the type of sabremetrics being practiced by you. No one in that pen could fetch us a used tarpaulin in a trade.

The bullpen is atrocious. There, I said it again. There isn’t a single arm in that pen that I would cry over losing.

Put it in the books!

Nunez did something!!

It's easy to strain your shoulder on a play like that.

The Tigers are knocking into each other as they run to the bat rack.

The lead is about to disappear. It's the one magic trick our bullpen knows.

They are a terrible team and they are gifting us this game, but our bullpen will try to give it back.

But will his Uncle Alex protect him?

Let's hope that no one hits the ball to him at SS.

Holt doing a great job with the bat tonight and he PH's Nunez! Seriously, boneheaded move if for no other reason than he sucks at SS.

Mets bullpen is doing its best to blow a late lead to stay worse than us in the Bullpen category.

Our hitters better keep hitting tonight.

Terrible.