IGT 06/16 - Cubs at Mets

[kcmets]

https://www.kcmets.com/CPF/CHC.png> 38-29

Stock p (0-0, -.--)

http://www.kcmets.com/CPF/NYM.png> 34-25

deGrom p (6-2, 0.56)

[MFS62]

Oh oh. The dreaded "they've never faced this pitcher before" specter looms.



Later

[G-Fafif]

Five-game lead in the NL East.

[batmagadanleadoff]

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[Benjamin Grimm]

Oh oh. The dreaded "they've never faced this pitcher before" specter looms. Later

They have:



http://leaptoad.com/mets/scorecard_graph.php?game=9127&font=5>

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, I never work from that dread. I think if you spent some time digitally hobnobbing with fans of virtually any team, you'd find a whole lot of folks sincerely telling you how their team is particularly susceptible to unfamiliar pitchers.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Stock's the Cubs sacrificial lamb.

[batmagadanleadoff]

It's the Cubs who should be dreading tonight.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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[kcmets]

Being a fan of lamb, I'm quite intrigued by concentrated lamb stock.

[Frayed Knot]

Stock might be the one guy in the league who can give JdG a run for his money in the nightly mph comparison* they do every night. He can drop triple digits on ya.





* I just realized that I have no idea who the sponsor of that gig is (used to be Cholula but that was like four years ago) which means it's probably not money well spent

[Edgy MD]

It's Spectrum, isn't it?



Cholula's money must've been well spent, if you're still remembering it. I think they did better because (a) they had flames on the graphic, and ( their ads were regularly rotating behind the batter and flanking the scoreboard.

[kcmets]

Cholula is the Piels Light, or maybe Meisterbrau of hot sauces.



Keystone? Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I had a 24-oz Miller High Life can at the game last night. Went down like water



Then, I tried some funky LIC Brewing IPA that was actually pretty not tasty. Didn't finish it

[kcmets]

I like IPA, but have a ABV limit <6%. Upwards is too hoppy for me.



I hope Ceetar agrees or else he'll be throwing a sneaker at me...

[Ceetar]

ABV has nothing to do with hoppiness and it's more likely to be the opposite anyway.



but JCL is dead to me now. Higher Burnin' is pretty good, and when the alternative is Miller High Life..bleh. But I get you, there's almost only NE IPA at Citi Field if you want craft, so it makes it tough if you're not a huge fan of that very fruit-forward almost syrupy smooth pillow mouthfeel style of IPA.







I'm seeing rumors of a Mermaid Pilsner or a Beach Beer by Coney Island (Bushwick PIls?) so that might be where you want to go.

[Lefty Specialist]

I have this fear about tonight's game. DeGrom, competitor that he is, wills himself onto the mound despite injury. It goes poorly and he comes out of the game early with a more serious injury than they were originally talking about.



I hate thinking this way, but I can't shake the foreboding. Every fiber of my being hopes I am wrong.

[Benjamin Grimm]

My fibers agree with your fibers.

[kcmets]

=Ceetar post_id=68147 time=1623868992 user_id=102]
ABV has nothing to do with hoppiness and it's more likely to be the opposite anyway.

[kcmets]

Lefty Specialist wrote: I have this fear about tonight's game. DeGrom, competitor that he is, wills himself onto the mound despite injury. It goes poorly and he comes out of the game early with a more serious injury than they were originally talking about.

I share these fears.

[Fman99]

Hoppy IPAs are great. deGrom is great. You're all paranoid and nutsos.

[Ceetar]

=kcmets post_id=68150 time=1623869538 user_id=53]


I guess it's the alcohol then. I had an 8% or so a couple of weekends ago.

Truth Serum I believe it was called from a brewery not far from me. Too much.

[kcmets]

Yes, Soul! I didn't have it locally and didn't realize where they were located until

reading a can a few days later. I wish I knew because I lived in Pleasantville for over

25 years and would have been more chatty with the vendor (it was at a craft fair)...

[Lefty Specialist]

=Fman99 post_id=68153 time=1623869738 user_id=86]
Hoppy IPAs are great. deGrom is great. You're all paranoid and nutsos.

[Ceetar]

if you write about that experience we'd happily publish it on BarleyProse.com!

[G-Fafif]

Villar 3B

Lindor SS

D. Smith LF

Alonso 1B

McKinney RF

Pillar CF

Guillorme 2B

Nido C

deGrom RHP

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

ABV has nothing to do with hoppiness and it's more likely to be the opposite anyway. but JCL is dead to me now. Higher Burnin' is pretty good, and when the alternative is Miller High Life..bleh. But I get you, there's almost only NE IPA at Citi Field if you want craft, so it makes it tough if you're not a huge fan of that very fruit-forward almost syrupy smooth pillow mouthfeel style of IPA. I'm seeing rumors of a Mermaid Pilsner or a Beach Beer by Coney Island (Bushwick PIls?) so that might be where you want to go.

I generally like the NEIPAs, that one was was way too "pillowy" as you described. I also suspected it might been skunked a little, just wasn't for me.

[Edgy MD]

Amazingly, the Mets seem to be congealing around a specific lineup of sorts.



Also, Guillorme seems to have bumped back ahead of Peraza — seemingly getting all the righthanders and leaving José to the lefties.



I'd still like to see him getting a stronger walkup song than "Brother Louie." It's not the worst, but it sort of has a dampening effect on my rooting energy.



(This place is starting to read like a drinking forum with a baseball problem!)

[kcmets]

Citi Field Selling Expired Skunky Beer, Details at Eleven!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Has there been any detectible pattern regarding combinations of starting pitchers and catchers?