IGT 9/21/21: NYM @ BOS: I Will Not Mention The Dropkick Murphys

[bmfc1]

Willets Point wrote: The NESN reporter in the stands with the 7 Train Army says that Mets fans are "much nicer than Yankees fans."

"The 7 Line Army" but closer than anything that Gary will say about them.

[Willets Point]

Polar Bear strands himself on an ice floe.

[Edgy MD]

Well, now I see why we don't tend to send Alonso for an extra base.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: This guy is way too cute with his pitches.

Which is exactly why you don't just hand them outs.



Bad send.

[Willets Point]

Willets Point wrote: The NESN reporter in the stands with the 7 Train Army says that Mets fans are "much nicer than Yankees fans." "The 7 Line Army" but closer than anything that Gary will say about them.

Sigh. I knew that. My goof.

[Edgy MD]

Man, Rodriguez owes Gary DiSarcina a Christmas card.

[Edgy MD]

The camera keeps finding Jacob Barnes in the Sox bullpen. Even in that highlighter-colored uni, you can't miss him.

[Edgy MD]

Baez, we just needed contact there. You didn't need to hit one to New Hampsha.

[Frayed Knot]

It would be so 2021 if that ill-fated send was the end of our scoring for the night.

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: It would be so 2021 if that ill-fated send was the end of our scoring for the night.

And of course there was no reason at all to think it would come back to bite us.

[bmfc1]

Add in 2d and 3d one-out, Baez and Alonso up, and no runs.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, but at least they had to face a new pitcher who was on his game.



When DiSarcina did that send, the Mets had the bezez loaded, no out, and a pitcher self-destructing.

[Frayed Knot]

Not yet six full innings and yet headed for the three hour mark.

[Edgy MD]

Hand is really good at digging holes.

[Edgy MD]

And falling into them.

[Edgy MD]

C'mon. Hansel Robles, guys.

[G-Fafif]

I don't hate these not red Sox uniforms. There, I said it.

[Edgy MD]

Nice homer, Alonso, but dudes, TAKE A STRIKE.

[kcmets]

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I don't hate these not red Sox uniforms. There, I said it.

[Edgy MD]

I'm not even particularly sure I get the City Connect thing. I dial it up and the first description I see is "Nike has been working with each MLB team to craft a uniform that expresses the personality and communities of the team's home city."



That's sort of a big part of what unis have been trying to do all along, no?

[Edgy MD]

The official scorer will have to decide on a winning pitcher ... if the Red Sox win, Gary.

[Edgy MD]

Blurf.

[bmfc1]

A big win on Sunday night, one more chance to get back in the race, and another terrible performance.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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[Frayed Knot]

the Mets have played nine straight regular season games that have lasted at least 3:30

And the sad part is, there's been nothing unusual about this set of games. As a whole they haven't been high-scoring or particularly "strategic" to where a game is sailing along until the brakes get slammed on in the 7th inning. And it's not one of those Septembers of yore with 38 guys on each bench.



These games have started slowly, muddled through the middle, and then crept to an eventual conclusion, several of them with me no longer in attendance by that point.

[Edgy MD]

They don't even have the 40-man roster to blame anymore.



The most notable game lengtheners are that (a) three of them have come against American League clubs, and ( managers are going to the bullpen earlier in every game.



Oh, yeah, © lots of calls to Chelsea.

[Frayed Knot]

Usually it's the mound conferences, pitching changes, and replay reviews which bring the games Up to three hours, but these recent games are usually past the one hour

mark before they even hit the end of the 3rd. When that happens, 3:15 or longer becomes the base line with late game machinations just tacking onto things from there.