Gay Dame IGT 7-7

[Frayed Knot]

OK, Loopy & Castro in on another double-switch

Castilla - GO
Schneider - FO
Byrd - BB
W. Cordero (PH) - FO


Mets win!!!

[Willets Point]

Floyd gots it. Yay Mets!!!

[Guest Spacemans Bong]

Floyd catches a first pitch flyball in foul ground in left and the Mets win 3/4 against the team with the best home record in baseball. Enormous win for the Mets, and they're above .500.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Motherfucker, Looper.

[Guest KC]

>>>The problem was Piazza rounded first very slowly and came to almost a complete stop<<<

He had to stop and wait until the ball was thrown.

It's over. Mets take 3 of 4.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Officially, that would be a 6-2-9-2-6 double play.

[seawolf17]

And the Metsies are back out of the cellar.

[metirish]

3 outta 4 at the Nats, super stuff.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Three of four from the division-leading Nationals.

Not too shabby.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Sweet win.

It took all of us to win this.

Farewell, five hundred!

[Guest Spacemans Bong]

5 back of the Braves in the WC.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

[Elster88]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Officially, that would be a 6-2-9-2-6 double play.

I don't think so, I think Gameday got it wrong. Didn't Floyd make the last out at the plate? I think it was Guillen straight to the catcher on the fly, to Carroll, back home.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Gameday shows that Cordero foul went pretty deep. Does that hook around the pole in a smaller park?

[Elster88]

[Guest Rotblatt]

So here's the question: is this the beginning of the end for the Nationals, the beginning of the Mets' resurgance, both, or neither?

Perhaps I'll start a poll . . .

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

And that's 20 saves for Looper.

I don't generally think much of saves, but that's a pretty good total after 85 games.

[Elster88]

Rotblatt wrote: So here's the question: is this the beginning of the end for the Nationals, the beginning of the Mets' resurgance, both, or neither? Perhaps I'll start a poll . . .

They're still not hitting. Take away Piazza's three hits and Beltran's two hits and they don't score today.

[Frayed Knot]

9 - 2 - 6 - 2 RBI-1B/DP would be more like it.


Bell = WP
Loops = Save
Piazza = 3 hits (999 as NYM) including game winner
Benson = Good start
Beltran = 2 2Bs and game-winning run
Rest of team = eh

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

For the third time this season I was in attendance at the one game of a series that the Mets didn't win (although this time I also saw a winner on Monday at least).

STFU to the guys selling the Mets Suck shirts on Monday. Who do you think you are talking trash after you've had a major league team for all of 15 minutes?

[Elster88]

I've seen a lot of angry posts because of those T-shirts. Doesn't really bother me that much. They're excited to have a team is all. They're not allowed to be overly excited about having a team after a few decades? Saying that they can't have t-shirts because they just got a team smacks of Yanqui fans telling Red Sock fans that they only have 18 more championships to catch up.

[Guest Spacemans Bong]

Edgy DC wrote: Gameday shows that Cordero foul went pretty deep. Does that hook around the pole in a smaller park?

In the Polo Grounds maybe, but it's only 335 down the line in DC, and it was a good 20 feet from the fence. The question was whether it'd go in the stands, not go out.

[Guest Spacemans Bong]

By the way, the Nationals have scored 345 runs this year and allowed 348.

I do not expect them to have a good second half. Perhaps they'll defy Pythagoras for the entire second half, but I'd bet against it.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

They're not established enough to talk trash. And they've never had a particular rivalry with the Mets.

I'm fine with them being excited about having a team after a 35 year absence - go to town. But the should do it by cheering on their own team, not trash talking about mine.

Fuck 'em!

[Elster88]

Love the afternoon win, but hate no night game on a weeknight. Let's play two.

[MFS62]

Edgy DC wrote: Gameday shows that Cordero foul went pretty deep. Does that hook around the pole in a smaller park?

Edgy, IIRC the left field line at RFK is a pretty standard 330' or so.
Its in the power alleys and centerfield where fly balls go to die at RFK.

There aren't too many ballparks that come to mind with a shorter distance at the foul/ fair pole. Of course, Yankee Stadium is shorter. And Fenway is 315' to the wall, but I don't know if the ball was high enough at that point to clear the Monster, Maybe in the newer parks in Milwaukee, Houston and Cincy it might have had a chance. And I think I read thatthey moved the plate back about 15' in OPACY, so it might not have been a homer there, either.
Come to think of it, MLB passed a rule a few years back that any new ballparks had to be a minimun 330' down the line and 400' in center. If any of the newer parks are less than that, it required a waiver from the Commissioner's office.

Hope that helped.

Later

[Elster88]

ScarletKnight41 wrote: They're not established enough to talk trash. And they've never had a particular rivalry with the Mets. I'm fine with them being excited about having a team after a 35 year absence - go to town. But the should do it by cheering on their own team, not trash talking about mine. Fuck 'em!

I see your point.

But I've also seen people (not necessarily you, CookieMom) grumping that they go nuts at every little thing. I see all of this: the trash-talk, the t-shirts, and the cheering a 2-out single when down 8-1 as exuberance at having baseball in town. Considering how many people don't like baseball, I see this as a good thing.

[Guest holychicken]

]And they've never had a particular rivalry with the Mets.

This is what I agree with, not the fact that they haven't been around long.

I mean, what have the Mets done to them? Nothing. . . until now.

MUAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!!!

[Willets Point]

I would really enjoy it if the Mets, Nats and Phillies all got to be good at the same time and a had a good three-city rivalry. [Any Team] Sucks t-shirts are stupid no matter what fans sell/wear them although generally they only attract a small part of the fan base. I found my RFK experience to be cordial, although I wasn't there for SK's run-in. Interestingly, the most hostile I've ever seen opposing fans was in Baltimore back at an interleague game in 1997. Maybe there's a regional distaste for New York teams down there.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

The grumbling has come from me, I'm sure.

And they can be as stupid as they want - it's their business.

It's the trash talk and the sudden MFYesque attitude of entitlement that pissed me off.