IGT 7-29-2006 Mets at Braves Saturday Matinee

[stevejrogers]

Thought I'd re-institute JD's IGT Mojo with my current 1-0 streak in Atlanta and here is a song going back to 1986 that forshadows the 2006 theme

Here is the Long Island Balladeer, William Martin Joel

We walked on the beach beside that old hotel
They're tearing it down now
But it's just as well
I haven't shown you everything a man can do
So stay with me baby
I've got plans for you

This is the time to remember
Cause it will not last forever
These are the days
To hold on to
Cause we won't
Although we'll want to
This is the time
But time is gonna change
You've given me the best of you
And now I need the rest of you

Did you know that before you came into my life
It was some kind of miracle that I survived
Some day we will both look back
And have to laugh
We lived through a lifetime
And the aftermath

This is the time to remember
Cause it will not last forever
These are the days
To hold on to
Cause we won't
Although we want to
This is the time
But time is gonna change
I know we've got to move somehow
But I don't want to lose you know

Sometimes it's so easy
To let a day
Slip on by
Without even seeing each other at all
But this is the time you'll turn back and so will I
And those will be the days you can never recall

And so we embrace again
Behind the dunes
This beach is cold
On winter afternoons
But holding you close is like holding the summer sun
I'm warm from the memory of days to come

This is the time to remember
Cause it will not last forever
These are the days
To hold on to
But we won't
Although we'll want to
This is the time
But time is gonna change
You've given me the best of you
But now I need the rest of you

[Elster88]

Not my favorite Joel tune. Not terrible, though.

[nymr83]

way to give them the first out on the basepaths.

[TransMonk]

At least Reyes seems to be getting closer to where he was before the injury with the bat.

[Zvon]

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

A 2-run shot by Delgado!

[TransMonk]

No, the other one.

[TransMonk]

Over/under on IP for Ducky today is 3.2...place your bets.

[Elster88]

Double play ball, Wright simply throws it three feet over Valentin's head.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Shit! Wright muffs the DP throw. Instead of two out and none on there are runners on the corners with no outs

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

A sac fly cuts the lead to 2-1.

[Elster88]

A better throw on the sac fly gets Renteria at second. Not that it was a terrible throw from Chavez. And it was from the warning track.

[Gwreck]

TransMonk wrote: Over/under on IP for Ducky today is 3.2...place your bets.

Over. If you had it at 5.1, I'd be betting the under though.

[Elster88]

A grand on the over. Shit, my gambling problem is kicking in.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

El Duque gets out of the inning with one unearned run.

I love Mr. Wright, but that was a big muff

[Guest ABG]

ScarletKnight41 wrote: I love Mr. Wright, but that was a big muff

Quotes from bad porn movies day?

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Porn Stash singles, and scores on Endy's triple!

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

ABG wrote: ="ScarletKnight41"] I love Mr. Wright, but that was a big muff Quotes from bad porn movies day?

Not intentionally. What did I say?

[Zvon]

RBI triple for my man Chavez !

[Guest Iubitul]

Wait a minute - after 3+ decades in baseball, Lou Pinella didn't know about the safety squeeze until Don Zimmer taught it to him in Tampa? Did I hear that right?

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Iubitul wrote: Wait a minute - after 3+ decades in baseball, Lou Pinella didn't know about the safety squeeze until Don Zimmer taught it to him in Tampa? Did I hear that right?

Don't listen to Lou. It'll cost you brain cells and make your ears bleed.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Now it's Reyes' turn to make an error. Two on and one out for Atlanta. Ugh!

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Hudson's bunt advances the runners to second and third with two out.

[metirish]

] Wait a minute - after 3+ decades in baseball, Lou Pinella didn't know about the safety squeeze until Don Zimmer taught it to him in Tampa? Did I hear that right?

You heard right,he brings nothing to the booth, I hate him and he sounds drunk when he talks.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Two more unearned runs tie the game

[Zvon]

Giles ties it with a 2 RBI single--and great play by Floyd--that liner took a funny hop and he snagged it.
If that got by him...yikes.

ElDouque gets Renteria to fly out to Floyd to end it-

3-3 Mets

[metirish]

Lou's analysis of players and the game is juvenile, Delgado gets hit.

[Zvon]

metirish wrote: Lou's analysis of players and the game is juvenile, Delgado gets hit.

Pinella is the worst.

Delgado will leave the game.

That hadda hurt.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

metirish wrote: Lou's analysis of players and the game is juvenile, Delgado gets hit.

The discussion of Latin players liking the heat and humidity was borderline racist.

Delgado comes out of the game after being HBP - Julio Franco comes in to replace him.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Franco steals second and then goes to third on the wild throw!