IGT 08/28/2006 Phillies at Mets: Gay Dame Makeup

[dinosaur jesus]

Is this the Ron Hodges post?

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Hail!

[seawolf17]

HAIL!

[Zvon]

HAIL!

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

[Zvon]

[Willets Point]

Edgy DC wrote: Willie's letting the rookie bat with 95 pitches under his belt, a five-run lead and 37 pitchers in the bullpen rested after a day off. Today he becomes a man.

Did he have to shoot his pet dog because it got rabies?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I thought he was being Bar Mitzvahed?

[Guest Edgy DC]

So do the last two games crush the Phillies' spirits or re-double them.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Crush may be too strong a word, but they certainly don't do anything for the Philies' cahnfidence.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Well, they don't improve them, that's for sure.

Proud of how the Mets bounced back from a blah 1st game in this series and re-established themselves as the Phils' superior.

And John Vacationland: 3 starts against the Phils, 3 wins and a 1.99 ERA. Nice.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Was Conine in the house?

[Guest Hillbilly]

The cumulative effect of the season long consistency of the Mets can be clearly seen in the standings. The Mets are only 1 game behind Detroit for the best record in baseball.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I think the Phillies should be able to shrug off losing two of three to the Mets at Shea. I think this was their last game of the season against a team that currently has a winning record. Their wild-card position is still pretty good, and they can be masters of their fate (if not their domains) with a strong September.

[duan]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: I think this was their last game of the season against a team that currently has a winning record.

this season that means that this is their last game of the season against the mets and not much else!

[metirish]

I just heard that there was only 8000+ at the game today...rain outs suck.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Greg's Description of Wright's Disputed Single

Classic!

[Frayed Knot]

That single was maybe the strangest call I've ever seen - essentially for being the schoolyard-type compromise that Greg talks about.

1) Calling it foul makes it a dead ball which affects everything afterward: runners stop running, fielders stop chasing, ballgirl picks the thing up, yyybbb
That's why the NFL sticks to its "whistle was blown" explanation. It drives football fans nuts but it's chaos any other way since the genie can't be put back into the bottle.

2) On what basis did they base the reversal?
I guess the 3rd base ump doesn't actually see it but figures he needs to call something so gives it his best guess. But at what point does he decide to seek help after the fact?

Not that I minded the result but I don't like the process.
It reminds me of the type of "split-the-baby" calls that the NFL refs make all the time when they're winging it because they can't figure out what else to do. Declaring it to be a single because ... well because it pisses off each side only a little bit instead of one side totally (would have been a double if called correctly from the start, but a foul ball had they stuck to their first instinct) just reeks of making it up as you go along.