IGT 4/24/21 Mets v Nats Follow that up Marcus!

[ashie62]

Well, you can't. Not now, not ever.



For as great as he was Seaver was not in the same league as Jake at age 33.



On we go. The gnats trot out retread Joe Ross. Ross has been ok. The 2021 early bias towards pitching is helping most bums.



C'mon Marcus, party like it's 1968.

[bmfc1]

It's also on FS1 which means longer between-inning breaks. John "I'm Not As Good As Ron Darling" Smoltz is doing color. Goldsmith works for the Mariners. I expect Rosenthal to spend at least a half-inning talking about "the Mets culture".



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[kcmets]

On WPIX up here, so we Gary and others.

[ashie62]

Good. I have trouble separating Fox sports from Fox news.

[MFS62]

Let's[CROSSOUT] kick some ass[/CROSSOUT] go Mets!



Later

[G-Fafif]

Nimmo CF

Lindor SS

D. Smith LF

Alonso 1B

Conforto RF

J.D. Davis 3B

McNeil 2B

McCann C

Stroman RHP

[Edgy MD]

It'd be crazy to try to match that performance.



Marcus is kind of crazy, though.

[Lefty Specialist]

Well......no.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, that's not gonna work out.

[Edgy MD]

I'm pretty sure Lindor didn't see a strike there.

[Lefty Specialist]

Lindor doing his Carlos Baerga impression again.

[bmfc1]

Is Conforto trying too hard to live up to a contract that he doesn't have yet while Lindor is trying too hard to live up to a contract that he has?

[LWFS]

This ump has a... um... unique interpretation of the strike zone.

[LWFS]

Walks, errors, seeing-eye business, and it's two runs.

[Lefty Specialist]

Stroman lost a little focus because of the ump there. And Conforto's throw home was a bit, um, bouncy.

[LWFS]

I mean, he was charging it for ten steps or so before fielding it; it would've been almost more understandable if he'd sailed it.

[Lefty Specialist]

Dunking and dorking and plays not made, and this is looking messy.

[Edgy MD]

I hate paying good money just to be dorked.



I usually expect to be paid for that.

[Edgy MD]

Well, a hardy welcome to 2021 for Michael Conforto's bat, anyhow.

[LWFS]

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This ump has a... um... unique interpretation of the strike zone.

[bmfc1]

McCann did everything he could not to take a walk.

[LWFS]

I'm not sure at what McCann was swinging. Maybe he was, like, lost in reverie, remembering appetizing pitches in days gone by.

[Lefty Specialist]

The Mets seem listless today, almost like they have a hangover from watching deGrom pitch.

[LWFS]

Oh, come ON, baseball fates. First cue-shot singles from the pitcher, now check-swing bloop singles?

[Lefty Specialist]

Schwarber with another dork. And here we go again.

[Lefty Specialist]

Time for the grounds crew to remove the Tarpley.

[LWFS]

Stephen Tarpley: most assuredly NOT in the Circle of Trust

[bmfc1]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Time for the grounds crew to remove the Tarpley.

Well put. Jerry Blevins stayed in purgatory for that crap?

[Edgy MD]

I hate to see anybody hitting like a sucker, but Smitty kind of breaks my heart.

[bmfc1]

Edgy MD wrote: I hate to see anybody hitting like a sucker, but Smitty kind of breaks my heart.

He hit a HR in the opening series off a pitch near his face and hasn't stopped swinging at those pitches since.