Game #117 IGT -- Mets at Pirates -- 8/7/26

[Frayed Knot]

 

Welcome to the Steel City where things get started at 6:40 Friday night as Zac (don't call me Zack) Thornton faces off against Carmen (don't call me Miranda) Mlodzinski [6 - 3, 3.15, 1.31 in 25 G tho just 9 starts]

Cribbing partly off Coob's KTE, we won't see Paul Skenes in this series (he pitched Wednesday), or IL'd #2 starter Mitch Keller. We also won't see O'Neil Cruz, or wunderkind Konnor Griffin, or the recently DFA'd Marcell Ozuna, or RF Ryan O'Hearn. We likely Will see Luke Weaver at some point depending on the status of games when they hit late-innings.

Pirates are a bunch of games ahead of us in the schedule though have hit the skids with 9 losses in their last 11 games as they've run into some tough competition lately: Yanx, Cubs, DBacks, Reds, Brewers

 

And now bonus points to the first person to name the duo (not shown in the video) who sang backup on the studio version of this song.

[Edgy MD]

You're thinking of Fleetwood Mac guitarist Stevie Buckingham, producer on the track, and his bandmate Lindsey Nicks singing backup (and also serving as inspiration for the track, I believe).

The real trivia I want an answer to is who did the hair and costumes for that clip.

[Frayed Knot]

It was, in fact, Stevie & Lindsey, back in the pre-FM days and before they took to screaming 'Go your own way' at each other.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I was gonna guess Melvin Tidewater.

[Edgy MD]

Carmen Mlodzinski = 36 Scrabble points.

Xzavion Curry = 36 Scrabble points.

I'm calling this game a tossup.