Another Real IGT May 8 NYM @ SDP Gay Dame

[Frayed Knot]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Burly Bashlor is ... a stiff sinewy meatball factory dumbass I'd like to see that with a cartoon on the back of his baseball card.

That would be a fun cottage industry, mock cards where you'd create cartoons to go along with a player's 'fun fact' but not necessarily a positive fact.

Manny Machado's in-season hobbies include lazy play and dirty slides'

All kinds of options for the cartoon on that one.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

LGM

YGB

BBB

YYY

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Shit getaway day call

[Edgy MD]

Conforto may not have seen a strike that whole at-bat.

[Frayed Knot]

Called strike three at Conforto's shins leaves the Mets down to their last out.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Pray for Zimmo

[Edgy MD]

Nimmo gets a shit strike called too.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Ok, now we Needoo Nido

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Conforto may not have seen a strike that whole at-bat.

And now Nimmo walks on Ball Five

[Edgy MD]

Ramos is all that remains on the bench.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Nido let us down

[HahnSolo]

Don't want to second guess but no Ramos there?

[Frayed Knot]

Another one of those, runs early then Operation Shut-Down, games

[Frayed Knot]

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Don't want to second guess but no Ramos there?

[bmfc1]

1st and 7th innings with a runner on 3rd, less than 2 outs, and nothing. That damn popup that fell between RosERRio and McNeil for the 2d SD run. McNeil being too short to rob a HR. The SD OFer being tall enough to rob Alonso.



Mets are now 1 and 5 in games before a day off.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, the idea that strikeouts are just another kind of out is kind fo absurd. Two squeeze bunts with the infielders back, and the Mets win.



I don't want to oversell bunting, but damn, with the infielders stacked on one side and behind the infield arc, its just refusing a gift. In a game that's really hard.

[nymr83]

Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, the idea that strikeouts are just another kind of out is kind fo absurd. Two squeeze bunts with the infielders back, and the Mets win. I don't want to oversell bunting, but damn, with the infielders stacked on one side and behind the infield arc, its just refusing a gift. In a game that's really hard.

you dont need to BUNT though, you just need to put the ball on the ground which preserves the chance for a hit (and a bigger inning) while STILL getting the runner home. 'believing' in situational-hitting doesnt have to mean lots of bunting for outs

[Edgy MD]

Well, I don't think it would be for a whole lot of outs. Not the way the defense is positioned.



Obviously, they failed to put the ball on the ground swinging away. And now they live in shame.

[Fman99]

Frayed Knot wrote: Annnnd ... Six straight pitches later, the inning is over.

That sequence irritated the hell out of me. Second and third and those two dopes are swinging from their heels.

[ashie62]

The Nido game

[kcmets]

Edgy MD wrote: Conforto may not have seen a strike that whole at-bat.

I hate when it comes down to this, but it was baffling. Might as well just

give the ump your bat and stand there without one.

[Edgy MD]

Pitches 2, 4, and 5 were all called strikes.



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Did Drake have a dinner reservation?

[kcmets]

A plane to catch.

[nymr83]

#4, at least according to that graphic, is on the corner and you can't argue that call.



robo umps now please.

[Centerfield]

I feel like Conforto gets robbed on calls more than any other Met.



Did he bang an ump's wife or something? WTF.