IGT 9/11 vs MFYs - See I TOLD You We Can Beat These Guys

[Fman99]

This would be a good moment for Pete here as the go ahead run

[Willets Point]

Crap.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Nope

[Frayed Knot]

That was likely our best chance ... although JDD vs a struggling Chapman is likely to happen in bottom 9 at some point and i kinda like that match-up.

[Willets Point]

I just hope that in the top of the inning things don't get out of Hand.

[bmfc1]

After this shitstorm of a telecast, it's nice to know that we don't have to deal with having the Mets on F*x until... NEXT SATURDAY!

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Brad Hand oughta be called Brad Nose

[Willets Point]

I guess Brad had everything well in Hand.

[Fman99]

Baez, McNeil, Pillar, up against the perpetually shaky Aroldis Chapman.

[Willets Point]

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Baez, McNeil, Pillar, up against the perpetually shaky Aroldis Chapman.

[Edgy MD]

Gotta tie this up so McCann can get his cycle.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

AWRIGHT

[Edgy MD]

Time to pinch-run native New Yorker Marcus Stroman!

[Fman99]

Got the bloop, now, let's get the blast.

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: ... although JDD vs a struggling Chapman is likely to happen in bottom 9 at some point and i kinda like that match-up.

Not quite the fireworks I was hoping for, but a nice start.

[Edgy MD]

Looks like the fourth batter this inning is going to have to be Almora.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Forgot to run Pillar

[bmfc1]

Damn, Pillar didn't know where it was at first.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Another ball in the dirt would help

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

He's gonna get a walk

[Willets Point]

Edgy MD wrote: Looks like the fourth batter this inning is going to have to be Almora.

Mazeika swinging.

[Fman99]

Aw fuck the fucking Yankees

[Edgy MD]

Gots to run, Pillar.

[Frayed Knot]

Phils win, Braves lose ... but we can't be just treading water at this point.



On the AL side. BoSox win, Jays win twice so, even with the win, the Yanx are doing less than treading water.

[MFS62]

I can't wait for Brett Gardner to fucking retire.



Later

[bmfc1]

We will never know thanks to McCann making the last out but Maz was on deck and if McCann tied the game the right move would have been to send up Almora. He's just as likely to get a hit and he's faster so if he made the last out of the bottom of the 9th he would have been the automatic runner. I wonder if Luis would have gotten this point.

[Edgy MD]

I just figured neither was an optimal choice but you go with a righty against Chapman.



But I guess there's enough to analyze among those things that did happen rather than what never got a chance to happen.



Run, Pillar!

[Edgy MD]

Weird thing yesterday.



I'm usually not particularly as engaged in following Saturday evening games this season, as throughout the pandemic, that's the evening I've been watching movies online with a group of friends who haven't been able to see each other. I can usually catch the first inning with youse, tune in to check the score once or twice during the film, and if the game goes long, rejoin in the eighth or ninth.



So last night the game was running late, and even though my group meetup was also running late, there was no baseball before the Messenger call came in and we all joined each other online before the movie.



One of our friends, Lovancy, is a lovely violinist. She wasn't able to join us for the film this evening (she didn't miss all that much), but she did chat with us beforehand to introduce us to this new dude she's been seeing — Chuckie. She's been telling us about him and so we know that he's an accomplished musician also. In fact, while she's a talented and accomplished amateur, he's a flat-out pro.



We all say hi to Chuckie, and as we greet him through the screen, we can tell he's visually impaired. Not sure if he's fully blind, but from his indifferent focus on the screen, it's clear he's mostly blind. We're chatting along, but before they go, our violinist friend says, "Why don't you play them something?"



He shifts over to the piano, and Lovancy says she'll be his camera operator. As he sits down, a very warm, slow "God Bless America" begins on the violin. We assume Lovancy must've pre-recorded it, as she's operating the camera, and he pauses a beat, and starts playing countermelodies and various chord colorations to accompany the violin. The song comes around for a second pass through and he starts singing "God bless America! Land that I love!"



It wouldn't have been my first choice, but hey, it's September 11, and whatever, and he's just a terrific singer. An operatic tenor but without the distorted enunciations that make opera such a challenging taste to acquire for some. If he was singing in public, you'd say, "That's a terrific singer!"



He finishes, and we clap our appreciation, and he thanks us and then says, "You're welcome, but who was playing the violin?"



We thought, again, that it had been our friend, but it turns out that the Mets game that after twenty minutes of staring at an MLB.tv screen that said "You're event will start soon," I hadn't shut down the stream before taking the call, and the Mets broadcast had finally begun, opening with a solemn violin performance, and Chuckie's performance by pure coincidence started at the same time, and rather than complaining that some other musician is rudely playing over him, he found the key and dropped right in. Like a musical or something.



Weird but cool.

[bmfc1]

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Edited September 12, 2021 by Guest

[batmagadanleadoff]

So what movie did youse watch?