IGT 6/13/19 -- Sugar, Sugar & Jake

[Guest 41Forever]

Hopefully keeping the streak going as the Mets head to St. Louis with Jacob deGrom (3-6, 3.45) against Jack Flaherty (4-3, 4.08)



Keeping with the Archies theme, we're going for an update of the song. Mary Lou Lord and Semisonic covered the song on "Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits" a 1995 release that has mostly alt-rock bands stomping on our memories an turning in crappy covers. There are a few exceptions. Lord knew a great song can be modernized without being destroyed and added mostly some fuzz guitars. I like it!



The other standout is our Ramones covering the Spider-Man theme, which became a staple of their concerts. I kind of liked the Toadies version of "Goolie Get Together," despite very little memories of the Groovy Goolies.





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[seawolf17]

Keeping with the Archies theme, we're going for an update of the song. Mary Lou Lord and Semisonic covered the song on "Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits" a 1995 release that has mostly alt-rock bands stomping on our memories an turning in crappy covers. There are a few exceptions. Lord knew a great song can be modernized without being destroyed and added mostly some fuzz guitars. I like it!

I *love* that record. Collective Soul, Frente!, the Violent Femmes, Liz Phair, Helmet, the Butthole Surfers, Juliana Hatfield and Tonya Donelly, Sponge... that record *was* college.

[Edgy MD]

I do, also. But I was hoping for a deeper dive into the original Archies catalog. Archie trading riffs with Reggie? Betty harmonizing with Veronica? That sort of tense frenemy friction makes for great music. It's like a high school Fleetwood Mac with feuding couples letting the blood out on stage — somehow with melody and nuance — both bands anchored by a weird and wiry drummer holding it all together.

[Vic Sage]

My faves: "open your heart and let the sun shine in" by Frente! also, "the bugaloos" theme by Collective Soul. And i can listen to the "Josie and the Pussycats" theme all day long.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Underdog and Spiderman = best underlying material and those came out pretty good.



Scooby Doo sounded like a Matthew Sweet song before Matthew Sweet did it.



I loved the idea of this more than the record itself, to me it came off too self-consciously "alternative" -- like they had to fuzz up and over-louden everything or be exposed for their lack of alternativism.

[Guest 41Forever]

I was disappointed I didn't like more of the songs, but those aren't my favorite bands and not my favorite styles. Had it come out in the 1980s and had lots of new wave synth bands, I probably would have been singing the praises more. I do like "Sugar Sugar," the Ramones and the Goolies, but those were either more straight forward or bands I already liked. Listened in the car today, and you're right about Josie. That's a keeper I had forgotten about. The Banana Splits cover, too!



A disc of "School House Rock" covers came out around the same time, and I liked that one a little better.

[seawolf17]

A disc of "School House Rock" covers came out around the same time, and I liked that one a little better.

The Mr. T Experience "Adjective" and Blind Melon "Three Is A Magic Number" covers are the definitive versions of those songs, I think.

[Ceetar]

Breaking news. I appear to be going to this game?



Well, that is, if I don't get arrested for bringing a 17,000 pocket 'diaper bag' into the park.

[ashie62]

Love the Tommy Roe version. Like to listen to it and his version of Dizzy back to back



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[Guest 41Forever]

Love the Tommy Roe version. Like to listen to it and his version of Dizzy back to back https://www.whosampled.com/The-Archies/Sugar,-Sugar/covered/https://www.whosampled.com/The-Archies/Sugar,-Sugar/covered/

That's an amazing site I never knew about!!!

[kcmets]

Haven't really been paying much attention to the other divisional standings

as much as I normally do... didn't realize the Cards were as mediocre as us.



STL (33‑33) Jack Flaherty (RHP, 4-3, 4.08)

NYM (33‑34) Jacob deGrom (RHP, 3-6, 3.45)

[ashie62]

Me neither. Flaherty is in his second year and for real. Other than that, mediocrity abounds



Weather clearing

[ashie62]

Flaherty has a 6 era on the road

[kcmets]

avi wuz here

Edited June 13, 2019 by Guest

[G-Fafif]

McNeil 2B

Conforto RF

Alonso 1B

D. Smith LF

Frazier 3B

Ramos C

Rosario SS

Gomez CF

deGrom RHP

[Frayed Knot]

=kcmets post_id=12827 time=1560438696 user_id=53]
Haven't really been paying much attention to the other divisional standings

as much as I normally do... didn't realize the Cards were as mediocre as us.

[Ceetar]

I just realized the last time I went to a game that'll likely be this empty was when the Giants no-hit the Mets in June 2015. With the young 'uns I've really only been hitting the 'big' games. OD, playoffs, Father's day. Crowded.

[kcmets]

I didn't look, but I imagine the Cardinals are among the NL leaders in road

attendance... predicted official crowd: 32,694...

[Ceetar]

=kcmets post_id=12865 time=1560454821 user_id=53]
I didn't look, but I imagine the Cardinals are among the NL leaders in road

attendance... predicted official crowd: 32,694...

[Ceetar]

the 3 night games against the Cardinals in 2017 in July were right around 30.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Cards are scoring at the same pace we are and pitching better on a RS/RA basis.



Paul Goldschmidt, who sounds like a 19th century St. Louis beer baron, is having an only ok year, Goldschmidt-wise. Guys like Paul deJong (who slaughtered us last year), Kolten Wong and Harrison Bader are their real performers offensively.



Thanks for listening to this WKTE newsflash

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Confortoboom

[Edgy MD]

Conforto now on a 31-homerun pace — 26th best in Mets history and accelerating — and he's doing it completely under the radar.

[Frayed Knot]

Alonso does that 3-6 move very well - whether it's as the start of an attempted GiDP or just a simple force play.

But he makes good, and quick, decisions on those, and seems to make a strong accurate throw each time.

[Edgy MD]

Quick decisions matter.



Meanwhile, the Mets have hit two in a row to the fence for outs. They're about five feet short of back-to-back-to-back.

[Guest 41Forever]

Edgy MD wrote: Conforto now on a 31-homerun pace — 26th best in Mets history and accelerating — and he's doing it completely under the radar.

That's true! He gets overshadowed by Alonso, but he's having a good season!

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: Alonso does that 3-6 move very well - whether it's as the start of an attempted GiDP or just a simple force play. But he makes good, and quick, decisions on those, and seems to make a strong accurate throw each time.

Joe and Evan (WFAN) were talking about him the other day when they were trying to figure out a way to get both Pete and Dom in the lineup and they noted he said he had played third base in high school and as a freshman in college. The strong throwing arm comes as no surprise.

Later

[Edgy MD]

Did Go-Go do that smelly-bat thing the first time around with the Mets?

[Guest 41Forever]

Boo. Cardinals tie it up. Let's get that back for Jake.

[Edgy MD]

Let's get last year's ball back also, while we're at it.