#Noah Syndegaard

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Time for Day 3!

First! For missing scene: the Mallard Family by @greyliliy https://archiveofourown.org/works/12077487

Image Description: A picture of Cloudy Mountains. Text: FWAW Day 3 Missing Scene: the Mallard Family by GreyLiliy It wasn’t as if the Muddlefoots weren’t aware that Drake Mallard was a prickly individual that was unpleasant to be around at the best of times.

It was just that as his direct neighbors, they got to see a different side of Drake. They knew things about him the rest of the community refused to put into the big picture that was the Mallard family.

To start, where most people saw a lenient dad with an out-of-control kid, The Muddlefoots saw a brand new single parents struggling to raise a troubled child all by himself.

Full Disclosure, this is sort of why I wanted to do this thing. I wanted to shout out this amazing fic. This fic that completely changed how I thought about the Muddlefoots. It's WONDERFUL. It tells the story of the 90's Darkwing Duck from THEIR perspective... namely they are just trying to make this new dad comfortable in this neighborhood, figuring out how he works so they can help him do the best for htis new family and it's just SO SO SO GOOD.

The best part is, it doesn't change anything about them! They are still exactly the same, just they are more emotionally intelligent than Darkwing and with more logic than he gives them credit for. Please please please read it.

Next is one by @theladysyk0 https://archiveofourown.org/works/11389257/chapters/25504239

Image: Dark and Light pink diamond pattern. Text: FWAW Day 3: Crossover Harley Quinn and Deadpool BFF's 5-Ever by The Lady Syko Deadpool pops into the DC universe, finds Harley after another bad break up with Joker, and the two decide to make a real go at this friendship thing. It's fluffy, it's sweet, it goes in HARD with the crossover stuff. Like "Spider-man meets Batman's villains and they all start asking if they have doubles in each universe" hard.

I know the writer, and she put in so much work on this. It's been her baby for YEARS. I'm so proud of her getting it out and she's a very skilled writer. Please go give this (and her) some of the love she deserves.

(Also another one of her fics has a MAGNIFICENT Noah Syndegaard running gag. And she has a great Danny Phantom story I almost put at Post Canon. Just go read her.) Finally, Angry Words by PoH https://archiveofourown.org/works/22905319

Image: The city of Rapture from Bioshock, an underwater city.

Text: Day 3: Fluff Angry Words by PoH

Saix is an Ugly Communist Goddess

Okay, to go into more detail, I was unsure to put this under fluff or Prompted but... I couldn't let this go anymore. (Besides, the initial prompt was "Xigbar accidentally ticks off a Big Daddy that chases him to TWTNW and then the Org has to take care of a Little Sister)

This is an incredibly Funny story about the SeaSalt Trio and video games. To say more is to spoil the joy.

PoH writes a lot of wonderful KH stuff, please go read all of it. I'm just trying to keep it to one rec per an author if I can.

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The MLB Sucks!

Major League Baseball is slowly sliding into a pit of complete and total irrelevancy. You’d think the sport would be in a great position after the Cubs World Series win, however the MLB has failed to capitalize on the new found success of its once  beloved perennial losers. The league has continued season after season to lose the mind share of casual fans. I’m willing to bet if you asked the average person on the street today most wouldn’t even know that the MLB season has even started.

Let me start this discussion with my personal baseball opening week story. So throughout my entire life I’ve watched opening day for baseball on a Monday, but for some reason there were three games on Sunday that I had no idea were going on until it was too late for me to watch them. The next day I realize I can’t miss work in order to watch my favorite team the Tigers open things up in Chicago, so I plan a media blackout in order to watch the replay after I get off. However, weather caused a game cancellation. So that brings us to Friday, I have the day off from work and its Opening Day in Detroit. I completely forget about the game come 1st pitch and end up missing the entire. ‘Whatever there are other games to watch to satiate my baseball palette, right? Wrong. I checked through my entire upcoming television guide and there are no more televised MLB games on for the rest of the day. Heck I even found college baseball between Texas and Oklahoma, but no MLB. And this is the experience for me a former hardcore fan trying to come back to the sport and making slight efforts to go out my way to find it and consume it. Imagine what the experience is for the casual fan or someone attempting to get into the sport for the first time.

As the MLB struggled through the fallout of the steroids era, it has failed to establish an identity here in what is a very different world. We all know that the NFL has established itself as “America’s Game” and our new pastime stealing that title right from baseball. And the NBA has built itself on putting its stars front and center and turning them into larger than life pop culture icons. But where does that leave baseball in all this? It seems as if in the past 15 years we’ve seen baseball go from a solid number two position behind football as the top sport, to now there starting to lose ground to the NHL in order to hang on to the number three spot. I find myself hearing Conor McDavid’s name come up almost as much as Mike Trout.

The MLB has failed to establish stars out of its players, managers and teams. Let’s do a quick comparison to other leagues and their marketing. The NFL has it’s star quarterbacks like Brady and Manning but beyond that it does a great job of promoting great teams like the Atlanta Offense or the Seattle Defense. Why don’t we ever talk about big time defense units that bailout pitching for example? Who even has the best defense in baseball? I honestly have no idea, but I can tell you the Cowboys have the best offensive line in football. The NBA takes a different approach by putting their superstars front and center. But who are the LeBron James and Russell Westbrook of the MLB? Clearly Mike Trout and Kris Bryant, but those aren’t names the average person knows. There are so many marketable names from Noah Syndegaard to Bryce Harper but the MLB just doesn’t get it done in terms of making them household names. Heck Crosby and Ovechkin are bigger names in a less popular sport. Federer and Nadal, Spieth and McIlroy, Messi and Ronaldo, the list goes on and on of sports with bigger name stars than baseball. Taking a page from college sports, rivalries could help, but outside of the Yanks and the Sox, there almost are none. The Cubs and Cardinals have a small one and so do the Giants and Dodgers. But what if you’re a Mariners or Rockies fan? And where are the larger than life managers? A lot of them are actually still there we just don’t hear about them as often. They’ve muzzled to certain extent. We need more hat throwing tirades!

We’re knee deep in the digital age and people have the least amount of free time they’ve ever had. The MLB hasn’t  done much to embrace this either, however to be fair no league truly has. But it seems as if baseball has done the least in this realm. It is a sport that leans so heavily on tradition and that seems to be its biggest fault. There is a shift in culture that MLB has failed to shift with. People of Generation Y and X need three main things from the content they consume. They need it to be quick, easy to find and give them a sense of accomplishment after viewing. The MLB has failed to produce on all three of these accounts.

Let’s start with quick. One thing that has worked to save the NFL to a certain extent is the RedZone channel. Whether you’re a Scott Hanson person or an Andrew Siciliano person, Red Zone has become the number one way for many of us to consume football. So I want to watch all the big plays from every game as they happen. It’s the compromise many of us thought impossible until the NFL figured it out with Red Zone. Where is baseball’s equivalent? I’ve tossed around the idea with some friends of a thing called MLB Final Pitch. Wherein you’d get whip around coverage from every game going on at the time, prioritizing at bats where there are runners on and further from there at bats that are deeper in the count. How would this work in practice? Probably not well, but hey it’s an idea.

Moving on to easy find and consume. So unlike the NFL streaming games is relatively easy and hassle free, with a hard emphasis on relatively. Cord cutting is growing around the country as people are beginning to consume the majority of their content through the internet and many are quickly parting with increasingly antiquated cable subscriptions. Hulu, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are set to dominate living room time along with other video streaming services like YouTube and Twitch. MLB TV premium is supposed to be baseball’s way of not conceding to much ground in that area but like all of the major sports streaming services it falls way short. From the exclusion of local games to the ridiculous price point, MLB TV premium doesn’t do much to convince me to cancel my HBO Now in order to see the action on the diamond. People have the more money to spend on entertainment now than they’ve had in the past decade. However we live in a post financial crisis world and purchasing decisions tough. Spending roughly $10/month on Netflix or $20/month MLB TV premium isn’t a tough decision at all except for the most die hard baseball fans. This barrier to entry is such a turnoff for most people and throw in the fact that if you live near your favorite team (as many of us do) the games you want to see most aren’t available to you. And I’ve already explained how to difficult the MLB is making to watch games on cable lately.

So that brings us to whether or not you can feel accomplished after watching an MLB game, whether or not it was time well spent to see this glorified game of rounders. This is tough for baseball and there is no easy solution to make every 1 of the 162 games in a season feel meaningful. However, I think you can do it by shortening the season. Now hold on all you purists! I’m not talking about shortening the number of games. I’m talking about shortening the amount of real world time the season takes. I’m talking about a four month baseball blitz from May to August. I’m talking about dropping down to one level minor leagues, expanding major league rosters to twice their size and playing double headers almost everyday. Now it would seem like this works against strengthening the value of each individual game but if your team as made twice as much headway one way or another at the end of the day, it helps appeal to our ever shortening attention spans.

Now this plan would be dramatic and probably has a ton of negative externalities I couldn’t even begin to imagine. I realize baseball is a very stat driven league and that would screw that up because players would play in much fewer games individually and it would difficult to promote the games stars when you wouldn’t have the same amount of certainty that your top players would be playing in any particular game you’re trying sell tickets to.  However, here’s a few advantages for owners, fans and players alike:

More day and night games means it’s easier to schedule a trip to the ballpark around your schedule. Also for the growing number of us that work nights more day games means we can catch at least half the action from our favorite teams because not everyone is sitting at home at 7:05pm or 1:05 pm on a Sunday.

The MLB doesn’t have to compete with football and an August World Series would do way better in terms of viewership than it does now in the extremely crowded sporting month of October.

Baseball Managers probably have the least amount of impact of any head coach on his particular sport. Forcing an increase in the amount they have to consider player scheduling would go a long way in undoing this.

For fans of teams that are clearly not making the playoffs August and September are pointless but with the expanded rosters you could see more playing time for big time prospects coming up through the ranks. It gives more an opportunity to find bright spots in lost seasons and not have them drag on for so long.

Now I realize a lot of the changes I propose are drastic and I’m sure there are some half measure that could probably work better. However, it’s clear that change is needed in the MLB and fast. This is a key time for the MLB. It’s clear that given the landscape of sports right now that football is set to take a major hit over the next few decades as player safety continues to haunt the NFL. The NBA is skyrocketing in popularity and shows no sign of slowing down. And the NHL is starting to expand to new markets. The ball is your court baseball and stagnation is not the winning play call.  

[toakatdot]

What Should The Mets Do With Syndergaard?

I give my take on an article from MetsJunkies.com about Noah Syndegaard

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METS ASEGURAN A THOR Y EDWIN DÍAZ PARA 2020

METS ASEGURAN A THOR Y EDWIN DÍAZ PARA 2020

Mets de Nueva York, a través de Brodie Van Wagenen, su gerente general tienen buenas noticias al respecto de “Thor”, Noah Syndegaard y más.

Para lo que significa la divisa de los Mets de Nueva York, el otro equipo de la gran manzana quiere seguir siendo temido en su pitcheo y en su bateo. Uno de los factores clave que tiene a favor es la continuación de baluartes como Noah Syndegaard y Edwin Díaz.

[lovin-baseball]

i saw noah syndegaard with a ponytail and i’m not over it

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Yankees' JA Happ Contracts Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease Ahead of Red Sox Start - Yahoo Sports

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Yankees' JA Happ Contracts Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease Ahead of Red Sox Start Yahoo Sports New York clubhouses may be well served to install some extra hand sanitizer dispensers after the Yankees pitcher J.A. Happ joined Mets ace Noah Syndegaard with the contraction of hand, foot and mouth disease. According to the New York Post's George A. Yankees place JA Happ on the 10-day DL with hand, foot and mouth diseaseNew York Daily News all 46 news articles »

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Noah Syndegaard’s NYC Abode

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Noah Syndegaard’s NYC Abode

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Matt Harvey

I think Jacob deGrom is a better pitcher. Noah Syndegaard seems like a nicer guy and more of a team player (and also he’s a better pitcher). But Matt Harvey is my favorite Mets pitcher. I think about half of the Mets fan base is constantly shouting, “trade him! He wants to be a Yankee, let him go.” Maybe he does. Maybe he’s just in this season to get a big contract when becomes a free agent.…

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Noah Syndegaard threw the fastest Opening Day first pitcher ever today when he hit 98.3 mph. #thor #record #mlb⚾️ #newyork #ny #mets #newyorkmetsbaseball #noahsyndergaard #openingday http://ift.tt/2ovz27Q

[plutofit]

An exceptional delivery and build helped Noah Syndergaard throw the fastest average fastball last year for a major league starter: 97.9 m.p.h. He may not have peaked.

[michaelgabrill]

An exceptional delivery and build helped Noah Syndergaard throw the fastest average fastball last year for a major league starter: 97.9 m.p.h. He may not have peaked.

[moscigarclubus]

An exceptional delivery and build helped Noah Syndergaard throw the fastest average fastball last year for a major league starter: 97.9 m.p.h. He may not have peaked.