IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

[Edgy MD]

The Reds return to Citi Field following a Braves series that saw the dis-spiriting reality of the team taking a modest step forward in their quality of play, only to still lose three of four.

Mets bring Noah Syndergaard to the mound. Reds counter with Homer Bailey who, despite being among baseball's biggest albatross contracts the last four years, but has been pitching reasonably well of late.

The big question as these two bottom feeders clash for dominance of the bottom: Will there be a Matt Harvey scoreboard video tribute?

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[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Syndergoo opposes Homer Bailey, who's been dreadful.

Actually Bailey sucked ass and they tried the Trachsel Cure on him, and he's been OK since.

Reds are playing better lately although they suck like us overall

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

fucking hell

[Edgy MD]

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[*:2icf67um]José Peraza ® SS[/*:m:2icf67um]
[*:2icf67um]Joey Votto (L) 1B[/*:m:2icf67um]
[*:2icf67um]Scooter Gennett (L) 2B[/*:m:2icf67um]
[*:2icf67um]Eugenio Suarez ® 3B[/*:m:2icf67um]
[*:2icf67um]Mason Williams (L) RF[/*:m:2icf67um]
[*:2icf67um]Tucker Barnhart (S) C[/*:m:2icf67um]
[*:2icf67um]Preston Tucker (L) LF[/*:m:2icf67um]
[*:2icf67um]Homer Bailey ®, rhsp[/*:m:2icf67um]
[*:2icf67um]Billy Hamilton (S) CF[/*:m:2icf67um][/list:o:2icf67um][/td:2icf67um][td:2icf67um]
[*:2icf67um]Amed Rosario ®, ss[/*:m:2icf67um]
[*:2icf67um]Jeff McNeil (L), 2b[/*:m:2icf67um]
[*:2icf67um]Wilmer Flores ®, 1b[/*:m:2icf67um]
[*:2icf67um]Michael Conforto (L), lf[/*:m:2icf67um]
[*:2icf67um]Todd Frazier ®, 3b[/*:m:2icf67um]
[*:2icf67um]Brandon Nimmo (L), rf[/*:m:2icf67um]
[*:2icf67um]Austin Jackson ®, cf[/*:m:2icf67um]
[*:2icf67um]Kevin Plawecki ®, c[/*:m:2icf67um]
[*:2icf67um]Noah Syndergaard (L), rhsp[/*:m:2icf67um][/list:o:2icf67um][/td:2icf67um][/tr:2icf67um][/table:2icf67um]

A lot of last-name-first-names in that Reds lineup.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

There's already "controversy" that Hovvey has set up a press conference at the same time as Mick's, despite the Mets having asked him not to.

[Edgy MD]

Matt Harvey and the Mets press office. It's just like old times.

[Guest d'Kong76]

He'll probably be late, and tripping his balls off.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm sure the press conference will be all about Qualcomm.

[seawolf17]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm sure the press conference will be all about Qualcomm.

Someone should ask the question, just for old times' sake.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

How's the pee coming along, Matt?

Do you find the cocaine in the Queen City as robust as the varieties more common to the Meatpacking district of Manhattan? How do they compare?

You like staying up all night in clubs then banging Ford Modeling agency chicks afterward. Is Cincinnati's 10 pm downtown shutdown and Miss Pork Board candidates a match?

[Ceetar]

In a way, it's kinda funny Harvey ended up in Cincinnati because he turned down in assignment to _Las Vegas_

[Edgy MD]

Is the ice hockey better on the Ohio side of the river or the Kentucky side?

[Benjamin Grimm]

[Fman99]

An Eddie K appearance! He looks and sounds great.

[Frayed Knot]

Before this (4th) inning started, I was starting to wonder whether this was going to be one of those games where we score early and then spend the next 8 frames trying to stave off challenges to that lead.
But now 5-Zip smells a lot better than 3-Zip

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, I thought they scrod themselves royally the previous inning when they got the first two on, 3-0 on Frazier, then he inexplicably swung at ball four. And even though he recovered to hit a long double sacrifice fly, the team came away with no runs.

So here's to the tack-on runs. Key play was Rosario easily beating out a ball that would've been a double play for everybody else in the league except him and Billy Hamilton. Certainly every other righthanded hitter.

[Edgy MD]

Frazier almost killing our secondbaseman.

Any time he wants to come off the DL in his head would be welcome.

[Edgy MD]

I think McNeil just hit one, like ... Duda length.

[smg58]

McNeil's legend continues to grow.

[Fman99]

He Ka-fuckin-boomed that shit!

[Edgy MD]

OK, Dave Eiland. Enough.

[Edgy MD]

Pinch-run with Harvey!!!

[Edgy MD]

A reliable lefthanded reliever would be nice in this situation.

[Guest 41Forever]

Just saw the video of McNeil's blast. Wow -- to the back of the upper deck!

Why did we wait so long to promote this guy?

[Edgy MD]

Really a helluva situation to put Wahl in.

[smg58]

Bases loaded, the heart of the order, breaking pitches not coming close -- I give Wahl some credit for getting an out.

[Edgy MD]

Dive, Amed.

[Frayed Knot]

Not that the bloop is the reason, but I'm not quite sure why Mickey saw the need for the Wahl/Gsellman switch.

In all, it was just disappointing to only get 6-1/3 of of Syndy tonight.

[Guest 41Forever]

Jackson has been a nice pick up.

[Edgy MD]

A Dilson Herrera sighting!

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