IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

[kcmets]

NYM (36‑40) Zack Wheeler (RHP, 5-5, 4.94)

CHC (41‑34) Jose Quintana (LHP, 4-6, 3.87)

[Edgy MD]

Chance to go over .500 in the Vulture Era.

[G-Fafif]

Squirrel 2B

Polar Bear 1B

Davis LF

Frazier 3B

Conforto RF

Buffalo C

Rosario SS

Lagares CF

Wheeler P



Let's get animal on these Cubbies!

[Guest 41Forever]

And Darryl Strawberry, today you are only tied for the Mets rookie home run record.



Way to go Polar Bear Pete!

[G-Fafif]

Pete halfway to Aaron Judge's MLB record, and wouldn't that be a fine one to dislodge?

[G-Fafif]

Cody Bellinger's NL rookie record of 39 is surely in Pete's sights.

[G-Fafif]

What Alonso does with one swing, McNeil does with several. That slap hit the other way down the line was positively baseball porn.

[Edgy MD]

Yup. And it's the old type of porn, from when they cared about things like character and atmosphere.

[Edgy MD]

Todd Frazier, meanwhilst, for what I think is the second time this season, made a pissy face, thinking that he got too far under a pitch, and then sudenly realized he had hit a homer.

[batmagadanleadoff]

If the Mets keep this up, someone's getting beaned.

[Edgy MD]

If a Cubs pitcher beans someone, Phil Regan is gonna kick somebody's ass.

[G-Fafif]

Give Frazier and Ramos a finely calibrated time machine and they too could tie Darryl's rookie record.

[batmagadanleadoff]

It'll be shades of Bill Hands, 50th anniversary coming up and all.

[Edgy MD]

I assume the second-base ump will get a call right eventually.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Is there some moronic unwritten rule of baseball that you can't ask for a replay review when you're up by nine runs late in the game?

[Edgy MD]

I imagine no, but there might be someone who projects such a rule as an extension of other running-up-the-score unwritten rules.



And hey, as you said, a Met might be fixin' to get drilled anyhow. I can see a grumpy Cub rationalizing that the appeal was over-the top.



I'm all for the appeal, but I agree with Gary that the decision should be made on the field.

[Frayed Knot]

Is a Rowan Wick what you use to light your Rowan Candle?

[kcmets]

Scoring every inning while the other team can't sounds fun!

[batmagadanleadoff]

I'm not sure that "running up the score " is even a thing in baseball. It makes sense in football when, for example, the team with an insurmountable lead late in the game starts making 50 yard pass attempts. But in baseball? What is the team with the big lead supposed to do? Swing softly? Pull a Marv Throneberry and miss the bases after hitting the ball over the wall?

[ashie62]

This is truly fun

[Edgy MD]

Caratini just set a land speed record for a pitcher heading from the mound to the dugout.

[Frayed Knot]

E-Rawlings

[Guest 41Forever]

Books!!!

[Guest 41Forever]

Flexen seems to have found a role.

[MFS62]

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Flexen seems to have found a role.

[Edgy MD]

Well, Familia is on the DL. He don't scare me nohow. Hopefully he comes back healthier.

[Fman99]

Edgy MD wrote: Yup. And it's the old type of porn, from when they cared about things like character and atmosphere.

Big furry triangles, too, lest we forget. Like an under-maintained swatch of the Wrigley Field ivy.