Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

[Edgy MD]

AT 8:05 tonight, the Mets visit Wrigley for the first time in 2019, as we pray Walker Locket don't put his finger in a socket. Tyler Chatwood goes for the Cubs. He's a righthander with a beard who has been a fringey starter, going in and out and in and out of MLB rotations since 2011, first with the Angels, then with the Rox, and the last two seasons with the Cubbies. He's been mostly bullpenning this season, however, and this will be only his second start.



The Mets are reeling after taking an apple corer right up the butts last night in Atlanta. They need some new beginnings and Chicago is as good a place as any to find them. And so they turn to Robert Lamm and Walter "Walker" Parazaider's thunderous alto sax work with this track from Chicago's first album, Chicago Transit Authority. Sweet trumpet figures from Lee Loughlane on the intro, too.



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[bmfc1]

Nicely done, Edgy.

[whippoorwill]

Whoever is picking these songs...Wowee

My favorite Chicago tune

[whippoorwill]

Whoever is picking these songs...Wowee

My favorite Chicago tune

[whippoorwill]

Ha! Reposted that after watching the excellent video!

[Edgy MD]

=whippoorwill post_id=13626 time=1561033218 user_id=79]
Whoever is picking these songs...Wowee

My favorite Chicago tune

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

There's all kinds of cool stuff but the connection there with Kath and drummer Danny Seraphine is pretty great too.

[Frayed Knot]

My only problem with that video is that I see Peter Cetera and I want to grab the rest of the band by the throats and beg them not to turn over writing/singing duties

to him should anything happen to Terry Kath or else their stuff will turn into a bunch of sappy garbage. I mean, sure, they were already heading downhill by that

point anyway, but by focusing on Cetera it put them on an express line to the yacht. And then he wound up leaving them anyway for a solo career which was also a

bunch of sappy garbage to the point where I can't tell the difference between Cetera solo and Cetara-era Chicago.

Cetera also skipped the band's HoF induction. I guess after such a stunning solo career he probably didn't want to admit he was ever in the band.

[whippoorwill]

I liked cetera as a Chicagoan (?) for this song and a few others (I've been searching so long, for example) but I agree his solo acts and later Chicago pap was awful

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I'm reading a bio by guitarist Steve Lukather of Toto now. He was saying how producer David Foster basically bogarted Chicago out from under them, co-writing with Cetera and going as far as to hire the Toto guys to play on those albums 16-19 or whatever

[G-Fafif]

Jeff McNeil – LF

Pete Alonso – 1B

Robinson Canó – 2B

Michael Conforto – RF

Todd Frazier – 3B

Wilson Ramos – C

Amed Rosario – SS

Carlos Gómez – CF

Walker Lockett – RHP



Zamora down to create space for Lockett.

[Frayed Knot]

Recently saw a low budget docu (on some low budget cable station) on Terry Kath produced by his daughter. She, being only a year or so old at the time of his death, never knew him so this was

a "searching for" kind of thing. The remaining veteran band members (Pankow, Lamm, etc.) appeared as did his widow and brother. Didn't deal at all with the circumstances of his death -- which

was basically a, "Don't worry, this thing's not loaded", type of situation -- and had some suggestions that maybe Kath wasn't long for the band at the time anyway.

Kind of weird, definitely not winning any Oscars.







We now return you to your regularly scheduled IGT, already in progress (even if the game is not):



Cubs are 40-33, 1/2 game up on the Brewers atop the NLC

Not one of their regular position players seems to be hurt at the moment (wonder what that's like?) unless you include Ben Zobrist who, for some reason, could possibly miss the remainder of the season

dealing with his divorce the country/religious singer whom he accuses of "violating their marriage vows" (probably not code for: failure to take out the trash promptly). Eight different players currently

have 200+ PA on the season (as opposed to five NYM) and I think Joe Maddon has had all eight players each play all eight positions on the field (although I'm still checking into that)

Starter Kyle Hendricks is IL'd so we'll miss him, as is big money reliever Brandon Morrow who I'm not sure is ever NOT IL'd

[bmfc1]

Frayed Knot wrote: Recently saw a low budget docu (on some low budget cable station) on Terry Kath produced by his daughter. She, being only a year or so old at the time of his death, never knew him so this was a "searching for" kind of thing. The remaining veteran band members (Pankow, Lamm, etc.) appeared as did his widow and brother. Didn't deal at all with the circumstances of his death -- which was basically a, "Don't worry, this thing's not loaded", type of situation -- and had some suggestions that maybe Kath wasn't long for the band at the time anyway. Kind of weird, definitely not winning any Oscars

I saw that and I had the same impression, that he was going to leave (but not in this fashion). His daughter's step-father is Keifer Sutherland.

[seawolf17]

https://twitter.com/cdorso/status/1141855746520440833?s=19https://twitter.com/cdorso/status/1141855746520440833?s=19

[whippoorwill]

Did this start yet?

[bmfc1]

The game is on MLBN with the Mets feed. I hope that seawolf17 enjoyed Alonso's blast!

[seawolf17]

Holy moley, that kid can hit. That was a rocket.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

That was a rockett off Lickety. Poor guy looked like deGrom for 2 innings anyway

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Spell check turns Lockett into Lickety

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

He was good only in the beginning

[seawolf17]

Jeez, that fell apart quickly.

[bmfc1]

Pounders VWP (very wild pitch) typifies this shitshow.

[Edgy MD]

Man, Contreras just bought it.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

JDD pinch hitting here in the 4th as the tying run. Not giving up yet!!!

[Edgy MD]

My God, Regan looks 99.

[Frayed Knot]

GiDPs R Us

[G-Fafif]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Spell check turns Lockett into Lickety

Cubs got to Lockett lickety-split.

[ashie62]

It's Regan's fault dang it! Lockett, total joke



My remaining interest in the Mets is centered on Pete Alonso, hit 50 dudu!

[kcmets]

=ashie62 post_id=13732 time=1561081038 user_id=90]My remaining interest in the Mets is centered on Pete Alonso

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

If we don't hit into 3 DPs we'd only lose the lead this inning instead of 2 innings ago