IGT 05/07 - NYM @ CIN - On the Road Again, or Somewhere...

[Guest d'Kong76]

P J Conlon (0-0, 0.00)
Gomer Bailey (0-4, 4.81)

[Guest d'Kong76]

Just bumping while we await lineups, news and other metstuff...
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[G-Fafif]

Yes to Ces...

CF Conforto
LF Cespedes
RF Bruce
2B Cabrera
3B Frazier
1B Gonzalez
C Lobaton
P Conlon
SS Rosario

Frazier to get a video salute on this, his first trip back to GABP since he left for the White Sox.

[Guest d'Kong76]

That was quick, G-F!

[Edgy MD]

Céspedes back in the lineup!

[nymr83]

Did Nimmo bang Callaway's wife or something?

[Benjamin Grimm]

The Reds are 8 and 26 (same as the Orioles) with an MLB-worst .235 winning percentage, putting them on a pace to go 38 and 124 on the season.

If the Mets don't get right over these three games, it will be especially pathetic.

[Edgy MD]

And they've been carrying Homer Bailey and his unfathomably huge contract for about four seasons now.

Get straight, Mets.

[Centerfield]

Cespedes's leg has been hurting him. He said he felt pain Saturday and had to be removed from the game Sunday. It's the same quad injury that has plagued him in the past. The one where he came back too early causing him to suffer a much more serious injury.

The Mets have struggled to find at-bats from Brandon Nimmo, their best offensive player not named Cabrera.

So naturally, Ces is back in the lineup tonight.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I know! Hopefully they'll revisit this decision just like they did with deGrom.

[Guest 41Forever]

Conforto BOOM!

The Cincinnati Slumpbusters might be exactly what this team needs!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Aye, boyo, pretty hatchet so far.

Edited May 7, 2018 by Guest

[Edgy MD]

Let's trade Harvey for Teddy the Batboy.

[Edgy MD]

Mom sounds mostly American. Dad sounds VERY Belfast.

[nymr83]

would have liked to see more than a run there with 2nd and 3rd no out for top of the order

[Edgy MD]

Maybe pull Céspedes early tonight.

[Edgy MD]

Conlon has an auntie waving a picture of St. Padre Pio.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ach.

[nymr83]

Gonzalez is like a pro at avoiding the DFA - nice night!

[Guest 41Forever]

An early hook for Conlon, or was he starting to get battered?

[Edgy MD]

He was getting hit.

Homer Bailey, man. He's good for what ails ye'.

Just a reminder of his contract:

2014: $9 million
2015: $10 million
2016: $18 million
2017: $19 million
2018: $21 million
2019: $23 million
2020: $25 million mutual option ($5M buyout)

[Edgy MD]

Only Reds manager to win Manager of the Year.

I'll guess Davy Johnson.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Sparky Anderson?

[Guest d'Kong76]

That would be my first and only guess. Might be a trick question.

[Frayed Knot]

The problem with Homer Bailey who, along with Phillip Hughes of the Yanx, were 1A & 1B top pitching prospects in all of baseball one year, was that he tore his UCL right after signing that big deal.
He may even have torn it in the act of signing the contract although my facts might be a little off there.





My mother took to watching some occasional golf on TV in the final years of her life and became a bit of a Rory McIlroy fan on account of his Belfast-area accent. One set of her grandparents
emigrated from Belfast as adults (1905) and so kept their accents their entire lives and it was the one British Isles accent she could pinpoint even a half century after both were gone.

[Edgy MD]

I checked the Manager-of-the-Year thing and ... we're all wrong.

I don't recall this guy managing the Reds.

Get Sewald out of there. His pitches have no action.

[Edgy MD]

Gonzo wants a third.

[Guest d'Kong76]

7-5, Mets... let's stretch!
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[Fman99]

They should be winning by way more than 2 runs. The Reds SUUUUUUCK.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Rosario really needs to learn the strike zone and be more disciplined at the plate. It seems that half the pitches he swings at aren't in the strike zone.