IGT 8/13/06 - Mets (Trachsel) at Nationals (Armas Jr.)

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Damn! Escobar walks. Willie comes out to slap Wagner upside the head a bit and talk some sense into him!

[Zvon]

Delgado with the sliding catch on the foul pop and game ovah!

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

YES - Delgado catches the ball in foul territory to end the game. The Mets Win! The Mets Win!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Delgado isn't much with the bat, but he more than makes up for it with his defense.

[metirish]

Great play by Carlos.

[Zvon]

Good game.

So much for any post game show-- 11's already joined Fresh Prince in progress.

What ever happened to the ol post game show?
I wanna see a Kiners Korner.

[Guest KC]

Randolph to Wags: Look, we're on Amtrack tonight. If we're late they're gonna
run out of microwave hot dogs, fake cheeze-wiz nachos, and warm cans of Budweiser.

I'm starving, get a fucking out.

Is it me, or is trying to move a team by train from Wash to Phil kinda dumb?

[metirish]

] Good game. So much for any post game show-- 11's already joined Fresh Prince in progress. What ever happened to the ol post game show? I wanna see a Kiners Korner.

That's on SNY now.

[Zvon]

KC wrote: Is it me, or is trying to move a team by train from Wash to Phil kinda dumb?

I think its quaint and kool.
I bet itll be quite relaxing.

[Zvon]

metirish wrote: ] Good game. So much for any post game show-- 11's already joined Fresh Prince in progress. What ever happened to the ol post game show? I wanna see a Kiners Korner. That's on SNY now.

With Ralph himself?

[metirish]

] With Ralph himself?

No Ralph, just the studio guy talking to Ron,no Gary even.

[Guest KC]

There's nothing quaint about Amtrack's east coast service - it would take
a lot of kool-aid for me to see it that way. Who knows, maybe they get a
charter car or two on the train with buffet and stuff.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Traachsel showing some game three stuff.

[Theoldmole]

...and we leave it like this?

[Guest KC]

Mole: >>>...and we leave it like this?<<<

Leave what like what?

[stevejrogers]

KC wrote: There's nothing quaint about Amtrack's east coast service - it would take a lot of kool-aid for me to see it that way. Who knows, maybe they get a charter car or two on the train with buffet and stuff.

Yup. Had a long one from Stamford to Vermont a few years ago. Not even Willie Nelson's "City of New Orleans," some neat New England scenery and plenty of Sam Adams from the dinning car prevented me from being bored out of my mind!

[stevejrogers]

="Zvon"]Good game. So much for any post game show-- 11's already joined Fresh Prince in progress. What ever happened to the ol post game show? I wanna see a Kiners Korner.

Been that way for a long time now with shows on the WB...err now its CW 11

Your only bet for any kind of pre/post coverage will always be with whomever the cable carrier is.

Worst example was in 1999 I believe, where the Mets were doing a 1969 reuion and what may have been the last OTG played at Shea.

The WB carried the Met game that afternoon, and started their programing promptly at regular Met game time and ended promptly at the game's conculsion. I even emailed the WB wondering was it REALLY neccessary to air the 12 pm airing of a rebroadcast of the previous week's "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" I mean did that showing do ANY ratings that would neccesitate a firm "NO!" to carrying a special Met pomp and circumstance event?

No response of course

UGH! Just noticed that Ch 11 is having the Met game next Saturday as well.

I might be TiVoing both 11 and SNY to see if ANY of the pregame stuff is televised!

Yeah because reruns of Friends and Everybody Loves Raymond will do better raitings that some celebration of a beloved championship team!



Is it any wonder that the MFY OTG hasn't been on over-the-air TV for the last 18 some years?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Trains are great, even though (1) the Amtrack government-subsidized monopoly is a disaster, and (2) people are zipping around France and Japan in high-speed supertrains made with technology developed here while we're still rumbling around in 1930s-tech sardine cans.

Interesting fact: Rockville Centre in 1933 advertised that they were 37 minutes from Manhattan by train. It's the same trip time today... if everything goes right.

I should have headed down to Union Station to meet Mr. Met after the game. They probably have a special train entrance to get him on, don't you think?

[Theoldmole]

]Mole: >>>...and we leave it like this?<<< Leave what like what?

I realize my remark made no sense at all. I came on here about twenty minutes after the game ended, and getalife must have somehow held up a whole bunch of messages, because the last note I saw still had the Mets and Billy looking for the third out. So I post mine, and suddenly it's at the end of all those other notes.

[Frayed Knot]

KC wrote: Is it me, or is trying to move a team by train from Wash to Phil kinda dumb?

Nah!
The thing about the train is it gets you from downtown to downtown - in this case probably in less than 2 hours. You couldn't do any better than that via air-o-plane for this distance.

[Elster88]

Wagner

[stevejrogers]

Edgy DC wrote: Trains are great, even though (1) the Amtrack government-subsidized monopoly is a disaster, and (2) people are zipping around France and Japan in high-speed supertrains made with technology developed here while we're still rumbling around in 1930s-tech sardine cans. Interesting fact: Rockville Centre in 1933 advertised that they were 37 minutes from Manhattan by train. It's the same trip time today... if everything goes right. I should have headed down to Union Station to meet Mr. Met after the game. They probably have a special train entrance to get him on, don't you think?

Yeah but as the years go on this line written in the early 50's is getting more and more out dated "...I bet there's rich folks eating, in those fancy dinning cars, probably drinking coffee and smoking them big cigars..." -Johnny Cash "Folsom Prison Blues"

No fancy dinning cars, and no on-board special coffee either! Oh and its NO SMOKING these days

And I'm not even going to get into all the references in Steve Goodman's "The City Of New Orleans" in terms of the romantic notion of train travel

[Guest Edgy DC]

Let's start with the fact that trains go from central city to central city, add on the fact that we aren't degraded by a stripsearch, and they can be a better way to bounce around the eastern seaboard if priced competitively.

I think I covered all the loss of romance with the points about the single operator and the outmoded technology. All that can be undone, though.

[metirish]

I took an Amtrack Train around the States many years ago and my friend and i had a blast,we went form NY to Chicago and made our way down to Texas and around and back to NY, we were gone for 2 weeks,it's a great way to see the country.

My ulitmite train trip is taking the Trans Siberian Railroad for a month.

[Guest cooby]

City of New Orleans...great song. Wasn't it Arlo Guthrie though?

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Frayed Knot wrote: ="KC"]Is it me, or is trying to move a team by train from Wash to Phil kinda dumb? Nah! The thing about the train is it gets you from downtown to downtown - in this case probably in less than 2 hours. You couldn't do any better than that via air-o-plane for this distance.

What FK said. Except that it's more like 90 minutes from DC to Philly.

I recently took the Amtrak from DC to Central NJ. It's pleasant, quick and efficient. OTOH, even before the events of the past week, getting through airports these days is a major PITA.

I wouldn't call Amtrak quaint, but it is an efficient method of traveling between these two cities.

[Willets Point]

Of course, Al Qaida has demonstrated in Madrid and London that they can blow up trains as easily as planes but the security measures (or the hysteria level) do not compare for trains. I think the TSA should just be renamed ASA since that's all they're concerned with.

[Theoldmole]

NY to Washington, I'd opt for the train every time.

[Frayed Knot]

cooby wrote: City of New Orleans...great song. Wasn't it Arlo Guthrie though?

Arlo had the biggest "hit" with the song (about a billion different singers have covered it) but it was written by the late Steve Goodman, a fun-loving favorite son of the Chicago folk/blues scene.

[Guest KC]

Can I derail an IGT or what. I'm not anti-trains, I love taking the train, I just
think it's a silly way to transport a group of people who make 200,000,000
clams between them.