IGT Fri Aug 3 ATL @ NYM Who Fucking Cares

[Fman99]

Anibal Sanchez vs Jacob deGrom. I mean, I care, but, fuck, this post All Star break dip is hurting my feelings now.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Braves RH Anibal Sanchez (5-3, 3.00)
Mets RH Jacob deGrom (5-6, 1.82)

DeGrom sat at 4-0 on May 18, but is 1-6 in his past 12 outings despite a 1.86 ERA and a .204/.254/.313 opponents slash line in that span. The 30-year-old owns a 0.98 WHIP with only 32 walks and 164 strikeouts across 138 1/3 innings. DeGrom is 5-4 with a 1.80 ERA in 15 career starts against the Braves, but is 0-1 in four starts this season despite allowing two earned runs in 25 innings. -- gracenote

[Benjamin Grimm]

I saw something somewhere that mentioned deGrom as a "leading Cy Young" candidate. I don't imagine we've ever had a Cy Young winner (except perhaps for a reliever?) who had a losing won-lost record, but I suppose that now that wins and losses are no longer regarded as accurate measures, such a thing may be possible. But it still seems like an unlikely thing to happen.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Me and Wifey Bucket "won" tix to this one -- turns out field level behind 1st base!

[Lefty Specialist]

DeGrom sat at 4-0 on May 18, but is 1-6 in his past 12 outings despite a 1.86 ERA and a .204/.254/.313 opponents slash line in that span. The 30-year-old owns a 0.98 WHIP with only 32 walks and 164 strikeouts across 138 1/3 innings. DeGrom is 5-4 with a 1.80 ERA in 15 career starts against the Braves, but is 0-1 in four starts this season despite allowing two earned runs in 25 innings.

Boy, I've seen pitchers with bad luck, but this is bordering on a criminal lack of support. I'm betting this game will be 0-0 in the sixth and they'll find a way to blow it.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Sounds like a reasonable bet to me.

[Benjamin Grimm]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Me and Wifey Bucket "won" tix to this one -- turns out field level behind 1st base!

I bet second prize was four tickets to the game.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

We actually did win 2, but they gave us 4! on face value is like a $500 gift!

[Guest d'Kong76]

That's pretty cool, maybe your 'bucket luck will rub off on the bats.

[Lefty Specialist]

Wear something blue or orange so we can see you.

[Lefty Specialist]

Fman99 wrote: Anibal Sanchez vs Jacob deGrom. I mean, I care, but, fuck, this post All Star break dip is hurting my feelings now.

Yeah, it's kind of ShamWTF!

[Edgy MD]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Me and Wifey Bucket "won" tix to this one -- turns out field level behind 1st base!

Write to the broadcasters and tell them you'd be happy to talk about your book for a half inning. Maybe they'll send Justine Ward over to talk to you.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Who is this Justine? Has she replaced Steve Gelbs?

[Edgy MD]

She's an SNY studio reporter, but has gotten occasional fill-in work as sideline reporter.

[Frayed Knot]

She's all over the 'In-Trade' thread if you care to back-track what you may have missed.

[Guest cooby]

Are you guys familiar with the song Sally Simpson from ‘Tommy’? The theme for the summer was Come unto Me...etc’

The Mets theme for this summer could be ‘Who fucking cares’

I love this thread title !

[Frayed Knot]

Lefty Specialist wrote: DeGrom sat at 4-0 on May 18, but is 1-6 in his past 12 outings despite a 1.86 ERA and a .204/.254/.313 opponents slash line in that span. The 30-year-old owns a 0.98 WHIP with only 32 walks and 164 strikeouts across 138 1/3 innings. DeGrom is 5-4 with a 1.80 ERA in 15 career starts against the Braves, but is 0-1 in four starts this season despite allowing two earned runs in 25 innings. Boy, I've seen pitchers with bad luck, but this is bordering on a criminal lack of support. I'm betting this game will be 0-0 in the sixth and they'll find a way to blow it.

Meanwhile, I'm peaking in at the Sawx/Yanx and I see Boston hurler Rick Porcello at 13-4 with an ERA a few ticks over Four
Sox are averaging over 6 R/G for him.



Back in Queens, we have an insurmountable lead after two.

[ashie62]

The Mets prevent offense is in full gear

[ashie62]

Edgy MD wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Me and Wifey Bucket "won" tix to this one -- turns out field level behind 1st base! Write to the broadcasters and tell them you'd be happy to talk about your book for a half inning. Maybe they'll send Justine Ward over to talk to you.

What is the obsession with Justine Ward?

Must be cause the Mets are so horrid

[Guest d'Kong76]

Rarely see a slicker 4-3-5 DP than Reyes to Bautista to Frazier hahaha...

[Frayed Knot]

Ashie62 wrote: What is the obsession with Justine Ward?

Prettier than Devin Mesoraco

[Guest d'Kong76]

Ashie62 wrote: What is the obsession with Justine Ward?

Taylor Rooks asked me that the other day, I quickly changed the subject.

[Frayed Knot]

Phrases that have become all too familiar this year:
- two hits for the Mets through six
- [opposing pitcher] has established his season high for strikeouts
- can't get that hit with runners on
- deGrom once again on the short end
- Mets will have to come back against the [opposing team's] closer

[Frayed Knot]

And then there's shit like that which defies explanation

[Edgy MD]

Nice to see deGrom enjoying himself. Once you accept and embrace that the universe is absurd, you're halfway home.

[Frayed Knot]

Six runs allowed in two games and you feel like we've never been in either game.
That it's a one-run lead and we have 2-3-4 coming up in bottom 9 doesn't evoke even a hint of a chance.

[Frayed Knot]

Not even a sniff of a hint of a suggestion of a rally!

[ashie62]

Mickey Calloway is a friggin Toad

[Frayed Knot]

Ashie62 wrote: Mickey Calloway is a friggin Toad

Yeah, this one was all his fault.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

15 times got the tying or go ahead run to the plate. pathetic. big crowd, wanted something, anything to get behind, didn't get it. We were complaining about Piano Man banality then a cameraman put us on the big screen during it and we we pretending to dig it.

what a night.