IGT Friday 7-28-06 Pedro Returns Mets @ Braves

[Zvon]

Edgy DC wrote: Left oblique. Re-evaluated tomorrow. Now listed as day-to-day.

Ill be totally amazed if he plays at all this weekend.
Maybe thats just wishful thinking on my part.

He looked in BAD shape there on the bench.


Dag! Wright Ks after working a long at bat off Ray.
Beltran was trying awfully hard to steal second the whole time.

Ray effortlessly gets Nady to wiff and its up to Wags to bring it home.

[Guest Edgy DC]

OK, Wags, make it so.

And let's get Endy Chavez in left also. Floyd ain't been gettin' around so well.

OE: He's already there. Pay attention, Edge.

[metirish]

Mets win tonight puts them 13 ahead of Atlanta....Wagner strikes out McCann...

[Zvon]

Keiths exactly right-
This game has unfolded and set up perfectly for Willie. (so far)

Billy Ks McCann for out #1.

[Zvon]

Gets a fly out from Francouer and LaRoche LOOKS at strike three!

Good Game-
Mets win 6-4!
Pedro gets a win!
Mets up by 13 games!

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

[metirish]

I am amazed how the guys keep talking about how this is a huge win for the mets, yeah after the first inning Pedro was brilliant and the pen was great but a huge win...I don't know about that...Willie looked pumped after the win....

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wow.

We can dig at Wagner all we want, but lefties are now batting .114 against him.

[Guest Edgy DC]

metirish wrote: I am amazed how the guys keep talking about how this is a huge win for the mets, yeah after the first inning Pedro was brilliant and the pen was great but a huge win...I don't know about that...Willie looked pumped after the win....

It's satisfying to win when your ace gets himself in hole like that, I guess.

As you work toward post-season, you want to know not everything has to go perfect for you to win. Stay healthy. Stay loose.

[Zvon]

metirish wrote: I am amazed how the guys keep talking about how this is a huge win for the mets, yeah after the first inning Pedro was brilliant and the pen was great but a huge win...I don't know about that...Willie looked pumped after the win....

Well, it is kinda big taking the 1st game in any series.

If there was even a hint of pressure (The Braves/Turner Field and all), its no longer a factor.
Braves can reel off the next two and just be turnin their wheels in the sand.

It wasnt a HUGE game-if we lost we are okay--but I was a big win in that sense.

[Guest old original jb]

I felt no pressure, no sense of foreboding, and no sense of threat from the Braves. I just didn't have any expectation that the Mets would fold or the Braves would rear up from out of nowhere. In fact the Braves seemed listless and defeated. Kind of like it used to be for another team when playing at Turner Field.....the Mets.

[stevejrogers]

Zvon wrote: ="metirish"]I am amazed how the guys keep talking about how this is a huge win for the mets, yeah after the first inning Pedro was brilliant and the pen was great but a huge win...I don't know about that...Willie looked pumped after the win.... Well, it is kinda big taking the 1st game in any series. If there was even a hint of pressure (The Braves/Turner Field and all), its no longer a factor. Braves can reel off the next two and just be turnin their wheels in the sand. It wasnt a HUGE game-if we lost we are okay--but I was a big win in that sense.

Love this, that was the largest crowd in ATL Brave history!

Hey Atlanta, I like the fact that you think this is a big series and all, and quite encouraging for future seasons, but reverse the two teams, I'd wager you'd be stretching to say 33 thousand show up at Shea.

Its a Friday night, late July, you are barely on the cusp of the Wild Card race, let alone the divisional race and THATS the biggest crowd of the year?

Lets do a comparison

2004, the Mets fancied themselves as being in a race at this same time and played the Braves in a weekend set at Shea before heading to Montreal and back to Atlanta for the series that ended Jim Duquette and Art Howe's tenure at Shea

At conclusion of games of July 25, 2004
Eastern Division
W L Pct. GB Streak Last 10
Atlanta Braves 52 45 .536 -- W-3 7-3
Philadelphia Phillies 52 46 .531 0.5 W-2 6-4
Florida Marlins 48 50 .490 4.5 L-3 3-7
NEW YORK METS 47 50 .485 5.0 L-3 3-7
Montreal Expos 37 61 .378 15.5 W-4 6-4

Mets got swept that night and drew 33,166 and 32,542 respectivly for those two games. If fans see a team as a pretender, even if management thinks its a pretender, they are going to treat the team as a pretender.

[Willets Point]

metirish wrote: Damn I'm David Cone, we share the same last name except mine is spelled Coen.

I didn't know you were Jewish.

[Willets Point]

SteveJRogers wrote: 900 DAMN POSTS!

And that's just in this thread!

[Frayed Knot]

old original jb wrote: I felt no pressure, no sense of foreboding, and no sense of threat from the Braves. I just didn't have any expectation that the Mets would fold or the Braves would rear up from out of nowhere. In fact the Braves seemed listless and defeated.

I dunno. I still think this team has a lot of fight in them.
They just may not have the horses to pull it off, but they've always managed to throw a 50-20 stretch in there somewhere whenever someone has counted them out. Too late for 50-20 I realize, but 35-10 would be hard to fight off. Stepping on their throats in game 1 just makes the odds of them getting off a run like that a little tougher.

Tough to call a game w/a 12 game lead a BIG win, but it's a semi-big one because of the above and because Pedro shook off the dust and got off the deck.

[metirish]

] I didn't know you were Jewish.

I'm not, but for whatever reason Coen is a big name in Tipperary, of course we are all related...

[Guest cooby]

Just wondering, when did Andruw Jones start chewing on his teeshirts?

[Frayed Knot]

This story's been told many times before, but when Cone was first in NYC and still relatively unknown he'd get invited to appear at Bar Mitzvah's and Temple by New Yorkers who thought his name was Cohen.
He's also Irish - I believe he said it was originally O'Cone - and it's possible that the C-O-N-E spelling is one of those American corruptions of European spelling.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

]Efforting to get to level 400 by the end of the night!

Endeavoring to up your post total is a good way to get asked to leave. Would you please think of the people who have to read what you write here? It's not about you, it's about us.

[stevejrogers]

]1. Nobody cares how many posts you have.

I meant it as a joke

]2. Endeavoring to up your post total is a good way to get asked to leave. 3. It makes a mess of the threads and discourages others from participating. While you were throwing up 20 posts an hour, other people were leaving. 4. Please contribute when you have something to add to the discussion. When you don't, don't.

It was mostly PBP of the game, I didn't think I was doing anything too out of line

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Look, I don't wanna discourage anyone from participating, just asking you to reel it in some.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Understood.

Such threads are better with less play-by-play and more color.

Fewer facts and more ideas.

[Elster88]

Never mind.

[Elster88]

ScarletKnight41 wrote: The Internet is a series of tubes.

LOL

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Elster88 wrote: ="ScarletKnight41"]The Internet is a series of tubes. LOL

It was Ted Stevens' line. The sad thing about that is that he was serious.

[Elster88]

ScarletKnight41 wrote: ="Elster88"] ScarletKnight41 wrote: The Internet is a series of tubes. LOL It was Ted Stevens' line. The sad thing about that is that he was serious.

Yup. Have you seen the Jon Stewart video I posted? Stewart's expression after he listens to Stevens is hilarious.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Not only did I see the video, but I saw the show when it first aired. The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are staples in our household.

[Elster88]

With the best talk show hosts, their facial responses when they hear something (for example an "I can't believe what that moron just said that" face) are as funny as their one-liners. Jon Stewart is no expression. Do you know the specific expression I'm thinking of? It cracks me up every time I watch that youtube clip that I posted.