IGT 04/26, Mets at Giants

[Willets Point]

I just notice the MLB.TV browser has a button that says "BOSS". You click it and a letter to the Best Boss Awards pops up and covers up the game. It's a nice idea but they need to come up with something less blatant.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

It's a hammy.

Keith is big on ice. And elevation. And Ace bandages.

[Centerfield]

Crap.

Any word on how long?

[Gwreck]

Some trouble but a big K for the first out.

Edit: More trouble, courtesy the guy you never want to shake hands with.

[Guest KC]

S: Keith is big on ice. And elevation. And Ace bandages.

And massage therapists.

[Centerfield]

You know, maybe we should have been walking Moises Alou.

[Willets Point]

Crap.

There goes our lead.

[Gwreck]

3 righties due up, looks like Bradford to pitch the bottom of the 8th.

[Gwreck]

Alright, we'll take it any way we can. Endy on with the go-ahead run, no outs...

[Centerfield]

Come on guys, get the run home. Win this game.

It's a long way until first pitch in Atlanta.

[Gwreck]

2nd and 3rd now with 1 out. No word on the pinch hitter. Was he announced before the pitching change?

[Centerfield]

It it's Valentin someone go kick Willie in the head.

[The Big O]

Centerfield wrote: It it's Valentin someone go kick Willie in the head.

It's our #1/#2 PHer.

Ninja edit: Facing Tim Worrell.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

="KC"]S: Keith is big on ice. And elevation. And Ace bandages. And massage therapists.

The irony is pretty amusing.

They won't know how bad the injury is for a few days.

[Gwreck]

Single plates 2. C'mon old man...

[Centerfield]

Go Franco!!!

[The Big O]

I'm nearly positive he's the oldest player to ever drive in Jose Reyes and Endy Chavez with a single off of Tim Worrell in San Francisco.

edit: My mocking is trumped by Franco swiping a bag.

[Gwreck]

Valentin wouldn't have gotten those runs home.

SC=not as high as you might think.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Yea old man!

[Gwreck]

Is he the oldest player to steal a base?

[Guest Hillbilly]

I don't know why we didn't give him a 3-years deal. Gotta be the oldest player to steal a base.

[Guest rpackrat]

Is Julio now the oldest guy to steal a base?

[Centerfield]

It must be driving Rickey crazy to sit in the stands and watch Julio Franco steal bases.

[Gwreck]

Now with the lead, Sanchez throwing in the pen.

[The Big O]

rpackrat wrote: Is Julio now the oldest guy to steal a base?

Googling reveals that last year he was the oldest player "in 96 years" to steal a base. Looks like:

="Baseball Almanac"]On August 18, 1909, Arlie Latham was chosen by John McGraw to be the Giants first full-time coach. Later that day, Latham steals second base to become the oldest player to date, at age forty-nine, to steal a base.

[Gwreck]

First time this year that Duaner's allowed the first batter he faces to reach.

Edit: Big double-play makes that irrelevant.

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

Gwreck--were you seriously praising a major league manager for remembering to double-switch? Or were you goofing on Willie? I don't know how to read your tone.

Either way, it's pretty remarkable (that WWSB would get praise for such a simple thing, or that in his 182nd MLB game thst Met fans would be twitting him about his ineptness on such a broad scale.) He's making Art Howe look like a Mensa member, and Bud Harrelson like a Mensa president.

[Centerfield]

Endy Chavez - Hitting Machine

[Theoldmole]

Jusr got here -- listening on XM on the car -- Giants announcers.

Two questions. Have they said how bad Bannister is?

How many players do the Giants have wrho are related to other players? Steve Kline...Larry Niekro...Tim Worrell? Any others?

[Gwreck]

Bret Sabermetric wrote: Gwreck--were you seriously praising a major league manager for remembering to double-switch? Or were you goofing on Willie? I don't know how to read your tone.

Definetly the latter.