The Padres wanted Gausman for Pomeranz which was never going to happen

LOL Manny just scored from 1st on a ball hit to 2nd

I'm at the game right now.

Good game. Fun to watch, love how calm estrada is under pressure

If the Mets wind up trading Amed Rosario or Dominic Smith for anybody I am going to fucking scream.

There is no point whatsoever in this team being buyers. They are 4 games under .500 since April ended and couldn't hit water if they fell out of a fucking boat.

If anything, they should be seeing if they can get anything for impending free agents having strong years like Colon or Jerry Blevins. Trade Neil Walker if anybody wants him and call up Dilson Herrera. It's time to punt this season away and start focusing on next year.

Be ready to give a blank check to Cespedes or else Citi Field will go back to being a fucking morgue in 2017.

I'm going to Blue Jays/ Orioles game again tomorrow afternoon.

My family will be there too.... say hello for me....

Glad they won today....

hes so scared

Hope the Jays win today only so Droford could make the excuse that the whole team came down with a case of small pox pre-series.

Do you think Droford is like this in real life? Wold despise sitting near him at a baseball game. Seriously Droford, NEVER take a female to a baseball game with you. She will leave you forever.

It will be hard to find them since there is a large Asian population... I will do my best though.

I'm in really good seats. Basically next to the ball boy on first base side front row.

I took my then GF to Matt Wieters first game back in 09 and it was not fun mainly because it rained a lot prior and we got wet..I remember Dontrell Willis itched for the Tigers he gave up 7 runs in 5 inning..Luke Scott hit 2 homers

Gallardo really earning that paycheck today. Solid outing.

lol. Will say the Jays are lucky to be catching a slumping Os team. I think they'll be tough tomorrow to close out the sweep. Nice ot have taken at least 2 of 3 though, very relieving as a fan :p

Will say, so J.A. Happ has to possess the best value as a pitcher in the bigs right now.

Wondering if the Jays can make a move at the deadline worthy of note. I know they want Rich Hill but there's question mark with the blistered finger and I don't know who they can give up and if it'd be worth it. I could definitely see him ending up somewhere else.

Os need something resembling starting pitching. Tillman can't be the only guy pitching well and Gausman is clearly a little bit inconsistent albeit pretty nasty.

Why didn't they keep dome closed? I got ridiculous sunburn. Wasn't even hot I baked in the sun.

My forehead is purple.

Sucks it was a bad game, but fun overall

9-1 for the home team in a packed stadium sounds like a fun day to me. Lol I went to the 14-5 Seattle game, haha now that was fucking brutal... still fun though. Stadium is so much nicer than it used to be.

WOOOOOW Chapman you fucking bum!

Braves and Padres closing on swapping resident woman abuser Hector Olivera for out machine iron glove extraordinaire Matt Kemp.

Ideally it'd be an even swap and the Padres can dump Olivera. Or even eat maybe half of Kemp's remaining contract. Meanwhile it opens the door for their outfield prospect Hunter Renfroe. Renfroe hasn't walked at all but he's got plus power and rates well in the field and on the bases. That's a huge improvement over lame duck Kemp even if Renfroe hits at an average clip.

Nationals-Prates trade:
Nats get Mark Melancon
Pirates get Felipe Rivero and a prospect (Taylor Hearn)


Remember Melancon being a huge bust for the Red Sox a few years ago and the only real bright side to his very short time there was the trade that brought Brock Holt to Boston. Good for him that his career rebounded pretty well since then.

Pirates did a nice job of getting quality for 2 months of a closer.

Anyone remember when Matt Kemp was a perennial MVP candidate?

No because he was only that for one year, then got hurt, and never got back to that level.

Thank God he's gone. And they're saving about half his contract. I'll take that.

On a good team that guy is useful. Low obp tho.

Lucroy to the Indians. Fuck.

Was sounding like the Mets were really close to landing him. I don't think he'd have turned this team around but he had a 2017 option so he'd have been a nice add and he'd have allowed us to dump the bust that is Travis d'Arnaud.

Oxymoron. It's different for a guy like Melvin Upton, who's a solid base runner with good defense. Kemp doesn't provide any of that and he's an out machine. Glad he's gone.

Indians continue to wheel and deal, trading for Andrew Miller. This comes just days after the Yankees refused Andrew Miller for Lucas Giolito straight up as the team felt Miller had more value given that he's signed for 2 more years.

Actually, that tells me there's about an 80% chance the Yankees already had a pocket deal in place with Chapman to re-sign him this offseason.

I don't think they're gonna resign Chapman. I'd have taken Giolito for Miller straight up.

Oh fuck Lucroy has vetoed the Indians trade!!!

Sandy get on the fucking phone RIGHT NOW.

YES! YANKEES ARE IN SELL MODE! Although sending Andrew Miller packing totally was unexpected.

Yankees getting Tyler Clippard back from the D-Backs.

Yanks are going to go balls out in a couple of offseasons. Harper, Machado, Fernandez. Maybe all three.

They've done a great fucking job of acquiring potential major league quality talent.

The a Mets already got denied on a deal for Lucroy. I thought you wanted them to just pack it up?

It's about damn time. It's taken a lot of convincing, but we can't win with what we got. Too old, ain't producing like we should be, ain't winning like we should be.


If you're 30 years old and younger, you're safe. Rest of the roster is fair game.

Just a different game. The Yankees can't buy a title anymore. They've needed to go back to developing a core of young controllable players to build around for a while. Seems like they've finally figured that out.

Lucroy is signed through 2017. If the Mets can get him without including Amed Rosario or Dom Smith I'd be all for it.

I don't think Lucroy is enough to turn around this putrid Mets offense but he'd be a really nice guy to have for next year. And if the Mets blow in 2017 you can always trade him.

Supposedly Lucroy nixed the trade because the Indians told him he'd be relegated to 1B, DH, and backup catcher next season. So he asked them to simply rip up his 2017 option so he can be a free agent and they refused.

http://i.imgur.com/SUZw5G3.jpg

Because clearly what the Indians already had is better than Lucroy.

fuck that

Lucroy is ballsy asking them to void his option. Why would they do that?