IGT - Rainy Friday 4/14/06, Brewers @ Mets

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ralph Kiner in the house.

Not sounding so great. Reyes and Wright are "those two young kids." Beltran is "Beltry."

He sometimes gets sharper as the conversation grows. Sometimes not.

[Gwreck]

Hernandez, Reyes, and Franco all giving Delgado a lot of sh*t for drawing two pickoff throws from Capuano.

Tom McCarthy references Retrosheet on the broadcast when the dig up the details of Delgado's last SB (April 2002, on a double steal with Mondesi that set up a 12-11 win).

[Willets Point]

It's Ralph, you've got to love him like you love your grandfather.

OE: Unless your grandfather is an abusive alcholic prick. Then you probably don't think of him so fondly.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Christ, he makes a decent point about Glavine, then goes on a tangent about the sixty-two team and stops dead in the middle of a sentence.

HANG IN THERE, BIG GUY!

[Theoldmole]

Nice D by Wright and Delgado.

[Willets Point]

!Me gusta David Wright!

[Guest GYC]

And Delgado continues to shut up anyone who would potentially bitch at his fielding. He should copyright the tagout.


Anyone else loving this father-figure role he is playing, too? You saw him laughing and ribbing Franco from 1st base after the pick off throw. You saw him vs. Reyes and Anderson after the pickoff throws before they were on the field, with them ribbing him about it. You see him shaking his finger at Wright, smiling, after the throw. Nothing can go wrong in Metsland. Nothing.

[Theoldmole]

I brook no criticism of Ralph Kiner.

[Zvon]

Glavine gets out of a jam.
7 Ks in 4 innings....impressive.
Up to 72 pitches tho.

[Willets Point]

]Nothing can go wrong in Metsland. Nothing.

From your lips to G-d's ears.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I like the angle they're taking with Ralph. He's just there as a storyteller, nothing more, and that's cool.

[Gwreck]

Diaz single leaves Valentin as the only non-pitcher hitless Met.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Welcome to 2006, Victor Diaz.

[Willets Point]

Howard Cosell hosting the Mets pre-game show is something I never knew.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Howard Cosell and Ralph Branca did the original Mets pregame show?

Go Ralph! Crack open the UMDB. I did not know that.

[Zvon]

OUCH!
Come on Hernandez----anything but a DP..........
Im starting to feel pity for the kid.

[Gwreck]

Report from Shea:
"High Comedy in the stands tonight. BIG fight. Asshole Yankee fan and idiot wearing shorts and Weeks jersey."

[metirish]

OUCH Diaz.......Ralph might sound not so good but he can still tell a story.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ralph Kiner taking Willets and Edgy to school.

Victor Diaz makes people wonder just what it was they demanded him over Nady for.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Boo all you want on that play, Soupy.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Willets Point wrote: Howard Cosell hosting the Mets pre-game show is something I never knew.

Yup. It may have been national, I'm not sure, but you can see and hear him pontificating about the Mets and Seaver's brillance in clubhouse celebration footage from 1969

[Guest martin]

man, victor diaz is too cool for school on almost every play i see him make. he almost looks like he cant be bothered to direct maximum attention to the play.

[Guest Edgy DC]

]Report from Shea: "High Comedy in the stands tonight. BIG fight. Asshole Yankee fan and idiot wearing shorts and Weeks jersey."

Gwrek posting from the joint.

Ralphers recalling Murph now. Sweet.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Howard Cosell... If people think blowhards today like a Mike Francesa are bad, this guy pretty much started the whole "I'm smarter than you and quite frankly I don't give a shit" attitude from sports journalists

[Gwreck]

Edgy DC wrote: Gwrek posting from the joint.

I wish. Friend at the game sending the occasional text message.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

You reckon if Ralphie announces he's done during the year and the Mets give him a "Thank you and farewell" tribute, which includes on-field gives like a team signed jersey with his years of service as the number that Harold Reynolds would have a beef because its Reggie Jackson's, Hank Aaron's, Willie McCovey's, (or insert any famous 44 of your choosing) number?

HA!

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

I'm not kidding, Reynolds had a HUGE problem with Bob Murphy's "gold watch" being a framed, team signed uni of Murphy42 with 42 being the years of service Bob Murphy gave the franchise.

Reynolds really thought it was a slap in Jackie Robinson's face, and that rather than it being a gold watch, that it was the Mets retiring 42 for Bob Murphy!

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Talk about getting a grip and talking about something before knowing all the facts at hand. And he STILL wouldn't back down from his view after being told that it was a gift from the team and not a retired number thing!

[Willets Point]

Cracks are forming in my hatred of Tom Glavine.

[Willets Point]

mlbaseballtalk wrote: Howard Cosell... If people think blowhards today like a Mike Francesa are bad, this guy pretty much started the whole "I'm smarter than you and quite frankly I don't give a shit" attitude from sports journalists

Except Cosell did it right. The other's are just imitators.