Twins @ Mets IGT -- 4/22/26

[Edgy MD]

Benge not running for Alvarez here, either.

[Frayed Knot]

6 minutes ago, Johnny Lunchbucket said:

I'm with Howie. We should send Vientos to Syracuse but Mendy will probably buy him dinner for being "aggressive."

If John Stearns were still 3B coach he'd likely would have drilled Vientos with a tackle.  It's totally illegal but we all know how much Stearns used to love reliving his days as a Safety at U of Colorado.

[Edgy MD]

Wow, Wallner shoulda dove for that one!

[Edgy MD]

And now we have the closer question coming up.  Did anybody answer that one earlier?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

We should have traded for Buxton, not Robby Jr.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

One down!!!

[Edgy MD]

Is Kimbrel even up?

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

TWO!!!

[Frayed Knot]

And up comes Buxton.

[Edgy MD]

I make an Outman reference and now here he is.

I'm a jerk.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Mets win, yay

[ashie62]

BOOKS!!

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

YESSSSSSSSSS! 

 

Phew!

[Frayed Knot]

As Jim Lampley said following George Foreman's comeback KO for his second heavyweight title, "It Happened!!"

[seawolf17]

<sprays champagne ironically>

[Edgy MD]

WoW.

Congratulations to the fans for bringing a playoff intensity.

Congratulations to the players for it also, even if they expressed that intensity with some boneheadedness.

[Frayed Knot]

Weaver now tied (with Holmes) for the Mets lead in pitching wins (2).

[Fman99]

1 hour ago, Fman99 said:

Today's the day, my friends. I'm feeling it. 

I love being right 

[Edgy MD]

Actually, I didn't think you were posting about the game when you wrote that.

[Frayed Knot]

So not to cast any negative light on things during this joyous occasion, but we're 24 games into the season now and, if you figure that 4.5 R/G per team is the norm for a baseball team, the Mets now have FIVE games where they've scored more than 4.5 R/G [11, 10, 9, 5] and 19 where they've been 4 RS or fewer.

[Gwreck]

27 minutes ago, Johnny Lunchbucket said:

We should have traded for Buxton, not Robby Jr.

Stearns tried, Buxton wouldn’t waive the no-trade clause

[Gwreck]

Also Mark Vientos is possibly the slowest man I have ever seen play for the Mets.  John Olerud carrying a refrigerator is faster.

[Frayed Knot]

7 minutes ago, Gwreck said:

Stearns tried, Buxton wouldn’t waive the no-trade clause

Yeah, even mid-season last year when the Twins were seemingly making everyone available and you figure that Buxton would be a prime candidate to be moved, Buxton publicly announced that he wanted to stay with Minnesota and would not waive his no-trade clause.

 

 

In the meantime, the Phils just lost (7-2 to the Cubbies) meaning that we and the Phightin's are now TIED for last place in the NL (L)East. It's not much, but it's something.

[Edgy MD]

3 minutes ago, Gwreck said:

Also Mark Vientos is possibly the slowest man I have ever seen play for the Mets.  John Olerud carrying a refrigerator is faster.

Wilmer Flores has feelings, you know.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm thinking Rusty Staub. 

[Frayed Knot]

Staub second tour was definitely slower.

But Rusty '72- '75 was only somewhat slow. He had 47 career SBs more than half of them (24) of them during a three year span with Montreal in his age 25 to 27 seasons ['69, '70, '71]

[Edgy MD]

  

[Lefty Specialist]

16 hours ago, Lefty Specialist said:

Not watching.  Maybe that'll work.

 

Guys making their first ML start usually do well against the Mets, I'm pretty sure.  This guy will probably look like Sandy Koufax against them.

Great, now I can't watch until they lose again.

[seawolf17]

We used to joke about the time that one of the broadcasters (Kiner?) said something about Charlie O'Brien "carrying a piano on his back" down the first base line.

[The Hot Corner]

11 hours ago, Gwreck said:

Also Mark Vientos is possibly the slowest man I have ever seen play for the Mets.  John Olerud carrying a refrigerator is faster.

You forgot about me, so soon?

I made numerous unsuccessful efforts at posting a picture of Daniel Vogelbach "running".  https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/08/19/daniel-vogelbachs-grand-slam-secures-mets-series-victory-over-cardinals/

Had to do it this way to make it work.