IGT 8/14, Mets in La La Land

[Centerfield]

My stomach hurts again.

[Guest Edgy DC]

If the "Boss" or Charlie Finley own this team, my stuff would be packed up and ready to go.

]Nobody gets any hugs until I kick the crap out of someone or something first.

And you complain that the men like their daily Coo'.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Wow. I'm really glad I couldn't tape this game and had to read here for the recap. Otherwise, I'd be extraordinarily crabby in 3 hours instead of just kind of sad right now.

This morning, I found myself thinking, "Hey! Pedro's pitching tonight! I should really tape the game!" Then I realized it wouldn't be on regular TV, got crabby and thought, "If he pitches a no-hitter and I can't watch it, I'll be extremely pissed."

So this game was way jinxed before it even began. Sorry, guys.

[Elster88]

An interesting historical footnote from Simmons:

]I had only one Red Sox friend (Hench) and one reader (Steve Comeau) realize the irony of Gerald "Ice" Williams' botching Pedro's no-hitter with the mistimed leap against the wall on Sunday: Remember when Pedro hit the leadoff batter during a Rays-Sox game in 2000, followed by the guy charging the mound, a raucous brawl, and then an enraged Pedro taking a no-hitter into the ninth? You know who the leadoff batter was? Gerald "Ice" Williams. Now that's goofy.

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, that incident was the fuel for the fans who decided that Williams tanked the catch on purpose.
Except that:
- he didn't exactly "botch" the catch; he may not have looked like a ballerina in mid-leap there but that's a helluva play if he makes it
- it's tough to assign blame for messing up a no-no when the next pitch goes over the fence!
- it's so fuckin' stupid to believe that Gerald is thinking about this 5-year old incident while he's in a dead sprint and makes what's essentiallly a corrupt decision based on a personal hatred which nobody knows even exists

[Elster88]

I wasn't connecting any dots or anything, nor do I think Simmons was implying anything. I just thought it was intersting. I remember watching the highlights from that game.

[Frayed Knot]

I realize that neither you nor the author were, but that was the incident several talk-radio losers used as an anti-Ice jumping off point that was briefly discussed in another thread.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I prefer the term "yahoos."

[Elster88]

Frayed Knot wrote: I realize that neither you nor the author were, but that was the incident several talk-radio losers used as an anti-Ice jumping off point that was briefly discussed in another thread.

I hadn't realized this was why people said Ice hates Pete, though it all makes sense now.

[Willets Point]

I remember being at Fenway shortly after the Sox-Rays fracas and the Yankee fan behind me was going on about how he had a picture of Williams "cold-cocking" Pedro set as the wallpaper on his computer. Yankee fans {shakes head}.