IGT 04/08/2021 - Fishsticks at Mets - Bring It on Home!

[Chad ochoseis]

Just got back to the game after a meeting. This looks like more fun than pricing automobile insurance in Iowa.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

walk off HBP!!

[Willets Point]

Wait, what just happened?

[Edgy MD]

OH, I'm pissed if I'm a Marlins fan.



Of course, I only exist in theory if I'm a Marlins fan.

[TransMonk]

Don's got a gripe, here.

[MFS62]

Rojas: "We benched Smith and McNeil because we've got to get guys like Villar and Pillar in some games." Also Rojas: On pace to pitch Castro and May in 120 games each this year

On the pre-game radio show, when asked by Ed Coleman about the starter they had never seen before, Rojas said "We have video of him and our advance scouts told us what he throws".

Really? Did they watch those tapes? Did they read the scouting reports? Does this guy throw a kind of pitch they've never heard of before?

Obviously they either didn't watch, didn't learn anything, or, as I have said often when they are embarrassed by a pitcher they haven't seen before, their advance scouting is incompetent.

When we had a thread of what we would do as the new owner, I mentioned firing those scouts.

I'd say the same thing today.



Later

[TransMonk]

Wow.

[Willets Point]

Edgy MD wrote: Of course, I only exist in theory if I'm a Marlins fan.

You're one guy wearing a fluorescent visor and has the money to travel to lots of games of other teams.

[Edgy MD]

Man. Walkoff cheapness.

[kcmets]

=kcmets post_id=60118 time=1617912733 user_id=53]
Two runs, please! #lgm #ygb #ymdyf

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Books.

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: one out Mike, don't be afraid to bunt if they give it to you

Or don't be afraid to do that either

[Edgy MD]

Good chance he gets dril't tomorrow.

[Willets Point]

Kind of feel a bit dirty about this win.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Edgy MD wrote: Good chance he gets dril't tomorrow.

Oh yes. McNeil throws his bat 15 yards and Conforto nearly dislocates his shoulder taking one off the armor. Better buckle up

[smg58]

From a strategy standpoint, that's exactly why I hate intentionally walking the bases loaded in walk-off situations.



REALLY happy to see Jeff get his first hit in style. (PS he only has one strikeout, and the .000 BABIP can literally only go up.)

[kcmets]

Edgy MD wrote: Good chance he gets dril't tomorrow.

Off day tomorrow, Saturday matinee next opp to get beaned.

Edited April 8, 2021 by Guest

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: Good chance he gets dril't tomorrow.

Saturday.



but yeah, and good, that means he won the game today AND helped win on Saturday and support deGrom!



But that McNeil bat flip coupled by this? Saturday gonna be interesting.



Let's just hope they're not pre-warned and deGrom get's stupidly prematurely ejected by accidentally grazing someone.

[Willets Point]

Oh good, this will be discussed and debated for 48 hours, then.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Conforto is going to be hated by the Marlins fans for a long time. (Until and unless they sign him as a free agent this winter.)

[Frayed Knot]

Don's got a gripe, here.

Well, yes and no.

Yes in that the umps should have called it.

No in that they can't use replay to interpret a judgement call like intent.



And that's just one more flaw of replay use; that once you dip your toe into it, the trend towards feeling that EVERY call should be reviewed

marches steadily on until the whole idea of "limited replay", which is what sold the idea in the first place, gets erased.



On the play itself, that call has been under-called for years if not decades ... so I don't feel too dirty winning the game via one.

Chase Utley and Craig Biggio were the worst offenders, but they had plenty of company.





oe: it could have been worse I suppose, he could have taken a page out of Jacoby Ellsbury's book and simply aimed for the catcher's glove

with his swing and gotten on that way. Ellsbury led the league in those for several years running and almost all of them just happened to

come with 2 strikes on him.

Edited April 8, 2021 by Guest

[LWFS]

Put it in the [fake, hollow, Ikea shelf] books

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: =TransMonk post_id=60144 time=1617913787 user_id=71] Don's got a gripe, here.

Well, yes and no.

Yes in that the umps should have called it.

No in that they can't use replay to interpret a judgement call like intent.

[Centerfield]

GKR sound embarrassed to take the win. I kinda am too.



But to be honest, that McNeil bomb was so good it should be worth 2 runs alone.

[Lefty Specialist]

Cheap wins are still wins. The way this team is playing you take what you can get. No hits with RISP today.

[Chad ochoseis]

Sometimes you hit the ball with RISP, sometimes the ball hits you.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: =TransMonk post_id=60144 time=1617913787 user_id=71] Don's got a gripe, here. Well, yes and no. Yes in that the umps should have called it. No in that they can't use replay to interpret a judgement call like intent.

Umps or ump? Can the third-base ump or crüe chief over-rule the home plate guy there, or is he on his own?

[Edgy MD]

As shitty ways to walkoff go, it probably still beats the extra-inning win featuring a fake runner on second.

[Lefty Specialist]

Just glad it didn't go to the tenth with Familia lurking out there in the bullpen humming the theme from Jaws.

[Frayed Knot]

I expect Conforto to deny everything despite the Zabruder film examinations to follow.

Who, Moi?