IGT 133 - 9/1/05 vs Phillies - Big Important Game

[Elster88]

Phillies					Mets
		AVG	HR	RBI			AVG	HR	RBI
Rollins, Jimmy	SS	.263	9	36	Reyes, Jose	SS	.276	6	54
Michaels, Jason	CF	.309	3	26	Matsui, Kazuo	2B	.231	3	22
Abreu, Bobby	RF	.295	22	84	Beltran, Carlos	CF	.267	14	62
Burrell, The Bat	LF	.283	27	97	Floyd, Cliff	LF	.281	27	80
Ultey, Chase	2B	.296	21	81	Wright, David	3B	.313	21	88
Bell, David	3B	.243	6	44	Jacobs, Mike	1B	.310	4	9
Howard, Ryan	1B	.286	11	36	Diaz, Victor	RF	.265	9	29
Pratt, Todd	C	.257	7	21	DiFelice, Mike	C	.071	0	0
Lieber, Jon	P	.054	0	4	Glavine, Tom	P	.146	0	1
			(12 - 12)	4.81				(10 - 11)	4.06

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[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

You and Rotblatt fight this out among yourselves

[Guest Rotblatt]

Beat me to it, Elster!

From my aborted thread:

It's a new month for the new Mets, and they need to turn over a new leaf.

Today's Key Questions for the Game: Can Glavine remain dominant? Will our bats awaken? Will Leiber continue to suck ass against lefties? Will Willie play every lefty on his bench in order to maximize Leiber's suckage?

Willie gets it right by putting Matsui in there, but errs by taking Castro out of the lineup. Castro's hot as hell and hammered the ball in his last at bat. If ever we were going to put Jacobs at C, today was the day, as lefties are hitting .315 off of Lieber, and Mientkiewicz is on the bench, I think.

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

Hey, where'd Rotblatt's IGT go? That was like a one-punch knockout.

[Elster88]

Rotblatt wrote: If ever we were going to put Jacobs at C, today was the day, as lefties are hitting .315 off of Lieber, and Mientkiewicz is on the bench, I think.

Sadly, I don't think Jacobs is going to play catcher, I'm pretty sure DiFelice will get a start on every one of Castro's off-days.

Minky's back?!?

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[Guest Rotblatt]

]Hey, where'd Rotblatt's IGT go? That was like a one-punch knockout.

Well, Bret, posters these days no longer have any heart-gumption-fire-sticktoitiveness. Not like in the good old days, when guys like Sal, Norrin & Wide roamed the hallowed halls of CPF, getting into fights at the drop of a hat and setting New York cyberspace abuzz with their firey invective and drunken abuse.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Elster88 wrote: Minky's back?!?

I thought they activated him today, but I just checked, and they're activating him tomorrow instead.

So I take back the part about starting Jacobs as catcher. I'd still rather see Castro in there, though . . .

[Guest Edgy DC]

Not sure I wouldn't want to try Jacobs at catcher and Offerdude at first.

Today is Tom Glavine's bar mitzvah. "Today I am a Met."

[Guest OlerudOwned]

2 outs, 2nd and 3rd for Chase Bleeping Utely.

Dont let them set the tone glavine. Get this schmuck out

[Guest Rotblatt]

Walks Utley and Bell down 0-2 with the bases loaded and 2 out.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Rotblatt wrote: Walks Utley and Bell down 0-2 with the bases loaded and 2 out.

And then he singles home 2 runs

FUCK!

[Elster88]

2-0. I feel like crying.

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[Guest Rotblatt]

Base hit brings in two.

]Can Glavine remain dominant?

Early returns say no.

[Frayed Knot]

Top 1:

Rollins - GO (nice play by Wright)
Michaels - 2B into LF corner
Abreu - BB on 4 pitches
Burrell - comebacker which Glavine bobbled and could only get one
Utley - BB to load the bases
Bell - blooper into RF on 0-2 count to drive in 2
Howard - K swinging

[Willets Point]

mutter-fuckter

[Guest SwitchHitter]

Elster88 wrote: 2-0. I feel like crying.

Me, too. It isn't often I say "Go Mets!" but I'm saying it today.

[Willets Point]

Get 'em back boys, this Lieber guy has got nothing!

[Guest Rotblatt]

Glavine strikes out Howard.

Bell makes what sounds like an amazing play to rob Reyes of an infield single.

[Guest Rotblatt]

And fucking Matsui flies out on the first pitch he sees.

Goddamnit, that's 2 outs on 3 pitches.

We can't keep gift wrapping innings for pitchers.

[Frayed Knot]

Bottom 1:

Reyes - thrown out on chopper to 3rd
Matsui - line out to CF
Beltran - FO to LF

[Elster88]

A ten pitch inning for Lieber.
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[Guest Rotblatt]

Damnit, Gary!

"And he won't get there! Or will he? Burrell extends his glove to make the catch for the final out of the inning."

He was pretty excited about Matsui's fly out as well. This is going to kill me.

[Willets Point]

Fongool!

[Willets Point]

Pratt! (Who wrote that song parody set to "Jet!" by Wings).

[MFS62]

I'm having a bad feeling about this one already.

Later

[Elster88]

A 1-2-3 second for Glavine.

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[Willets Point]

Now the Mets need to get 1-2-3-4 men on base.

[Frayed Knot]

Top 2:

Pratt - GO to SS
Leiber - K
Rollins - GO to SS

[Elster88]

Cliff becomes 1.
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[Guest Rotblatt]

Base hit for Cliff into center!