IGT 6/24 NYM's visit the bored MFY's

[Theoldmole]

and he sneaks it thru

[duan]

it is OVER!

[Guest Iubitul]

(exhales)... Thank God...

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

The Mets Win - THE METS WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Theoldmole]

Happy recap!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Had 'em the whole time.

[Guest holychicken]

Bad defense screwed us in the last series. . .and (at least) three good plays this game really helped us out.

I hate bad defense and love good defense. :)

[Frayed Knot]

The key to the game was DEFENSE!!!!!!!!!

(sorry, I was having a metsonline flashback)

[Guest KC]

Who the heck is Lolita?

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Lolita Lopez. The Channel 11 sports ditz who insists on pronouncing everything in a Spanish way, even when it's not supposed to be pronounced that way (when she referred to Villanova as Villa-nueva this winter, D-Dad was almost homocidal!).

[Guest gnatman]

ScarletKnight41 wrote: Lolita Lopez. The Channel 11 sports ditz who insists on pronouncing everything in a Spanish way, even when it's not supposed to be pronounced that way (when she referred to Villanova as Villa-nueva this winter, D-Dad was almost homocidal!).

She reminds me of the Hispanic newswoman character spoof on 'Married With Children"

Also, the woman who does the locker room interviews on YES has to be the least knowledgeable "baseball" reporter ever - she makes Suzy Q Waldman sound like Whitey Herzog

[metirish]

great IGT guys, had a laugh reading it.....I watched a few innings on Al-Yankzeera and Kay said this about Pedro after I thihk he retired 9 in a row.." umm , I don't like using the word genius talking about an athlete but that folks is the Einstein of pitching"....nice one Mike..



anywho, great situational hitting by the Mets tonight...

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I had 3 consecutive heart attacks in the 9th inning.

[metirish]

Yeah I hear ya, Looper gives up hits but gets his 16th save, I was squeezing my lucky baseball hard as hell in the 9th..

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

That wasn't a save situation, was it?

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Saved my mood for the next 18 hours or so.

[metirish]

You are probably right SK, I jumped the gun I think..either way it felt like one..

[Guest Rotblatt]

Nice IGT, guya! A fine read. And a fine game!

I was out with relatives of the girlfriend and a dude in a Mets uniform passed by, saying something like "Pedro shut the Yankees DOWN!" whereupon my girlfriend remembered it was the Subway Series. We went to a bar for the final inning, which made me quite happy.

Got a keeper, there.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

What was incredible was that Pedro was at 58 pitches after 3 innings and still made it thru 8.

He's a keeper too.

[Guest SI Metman]

It was just like the last time when he faced the MFY and had that 27 pitch 1st and still managed to make it 7.

Pedro owns innings 4-7 this season.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Something that belongs in the UMDB: Billy Graham, preaching last night as part of a New York revival meeting that appears to mark the end of his public ministry, asked the gathered to pray for both the Yankees and the Mets.

[duan]

tell you something, whatever Sal may say about the cheapness of Wilpon and that the mets aren't really competitive, they're a fucking fun team to watch when they're playing well like they did last night. It was 3 am when the game finished and I didn't feel anything other then 100% completely awake.

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[Guest holychicken]

In that game the mets set or tied the record for most sac flies in an inning (3). Obviously, this is impossible without an error. Now, if Bernie had made the error on what would have been the third out, would it still have been ruled a sac fly? If not, how would it be ruled?

[Frayed Knot]

]Now, if Bernie had made the error on what would have been the third out, would it still have been ruled a sac fly?

No. The Sac Fly was concocted (in the '40s I believe) with the thought that a hitter "settling for" a Fly Ball in those run-scoring situations (man on 3rd/less than 2 outs) can be somewhat intentional* and so is rewarded w/a non-AB plus an RBI even when the ball turns out to be dropped as in the Bernie debacle. The batter "did his job", it wasn't HIS fault that the klutz dropped the rock.
With 2 outs, however, there can be no such intent and therefore no such reward.

*(indeed, ML batters tend to hit OF flies in those situations more often than can be accounted for by chance)

]If not, how would it be ruled?

As a time at bat, an error against the hitter's BA, and no RBI -- just like it was a muffed grounder or infield pop.

[Guest holychicken]

The explanation as to why they did it, becuase of intent, made it all come together for me.

Thanks. . . . KNOT!

heheheh (reminds me of middleschool)