IGT. 6-12-05 PEDRO.

[metirish]

Piazza was cursing up a storm on the post-game talking about Cooper, hey Mike swing the fucking bat , tough pitch to take...6/6 on this homestand, not good.

[seawolf17]

West Coast trips scare me; especially with this team not hitting. Ugly last couple of games.

[Guest KC]

KB and I went today. GCT was all abuzz with teenagers in their red white
and blue going to I'm guessing the Puerto Rican Day parade. (I don't fol-
low city current events much). A couple of them were less fun on the re-
turn trip but St. Patrick's Day payback from when I was that age is a bitch.

I dunno, looking at my scorecard I'm thinking I almost knew this game was
going to suck in the first inning with a bunch of K's mixed in with wild pitches
and that bad throw to Lackey on a pick off move and only a run to show for
it. Three backward K's in the seventh just blew.

How do you score when Molina hits the ball fair on a scorecard and is out
running into the ball? We had a five guy discussion on this and nothing. I
put 1-3 even though that ain't what happened and a note to ask the CPF.

Haven't seen Piazza so whack since that spring training episode with I
forget who. Also written on scorecard notes, guy seven rows ahead of us
in the middle of the eighth has his buddy fill a size twelve boat shoe full of
beer and guns it for applause. Then throws the shoe a couple of seats
over to someone who just slipped it back on like this is a common thing.
Might have been the highlight of the game.

[Frayed Knot]

"How do you score when Molina hits the ball fair on a scorecard and is out running into the ball?"

Unassisted putout to the closest fielder - in this case the catcher.
A similar grounder hitting the runner going from 1st would result in a PO to either #3 or #4; those are more common.


"Haven't seen Piazza so whack since that spring training episode with I
forget who"

Guillermo Mota

[Guest KC]

Mota, of course.

2U would then be the syntax I use. Kinda still needs a footnote if you want
to know what happened a week from now. Thanks, I know where to ask.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I can't decide if our true colors are coming out or if we're just banged up.

WYSIWYG

A few weeks ago we were 3rd in runs scored in the NL.

We're now 9th.

Tuesday: 3 runs
Wednesday 1 run
Thursday 1 run
Friday 2 runs
Saturday 5 runs (2 in 9IP)
Sunday 3 runs

Not good.

[Guest sharpie]

I was at the game with the littlest sharpie and 6 of his teammates and about 500 other kids and youth baseball coaches from Brooklyn. We stood around for about an hour in the player's parking lot ("don't lean against the players cars") and it was hot. Saw Kaz Ishii arrive about 45 minutes before game time. Kids sat on the base of the home run apple. Finally they let us on the field to stand there while someone sang the Star Spangled Banner. We were in the area in front of the Mets bullpen. Several of us went right up to the plexiglass to watch Pedro warm up. Kids yelled out to him. They chased us back to the front of the warning track. Finally the door opened and Pedro walked out into the midst of the kids with Rick Peterson. It was a long time of standing around for not much fun but the Pedro part was worth it.