IGT 8/29 - Mets at Rockies

[Guest Edgy DC]

Apparently, all we had to do with Matsui was farm him out for a spell. Did he look like a big-league offensive player out there or what?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

It would be hard to argue that the Mets gave up on Kaz too soon, though.

How about those Rockies announcers? They seemed to spend the entire game answering e-mails.

My favorite was, "What's a screwball and why is it illegal?"

My second favorite was, "Where can I buy a $15 Rolex that will keep me hard all night long?"

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: It would be hard to argue that the Mets gave up on Kaz too soon, though.

Yeah, of course. You wish there was a better answer than "He needed a change of scenery," but sometimes that's all the wisdom you got. And even if he got it together, it's hard to argue that he would have been more productive than Valentin has been.

He was poking it to left with the bat control of Tony Gwynn, and timing his steals with that karate chop thing. His first steal was on a high-and-outside pitch, a golden pitch for Lo Duca to throw, and Paulie was right on the money, but he had a great jump on Trax.

Maybe thin air is his scene or something. But, as sour as it'd turn that trade, I hope he tears the (non-Met) league apart. Unless he somehow ends up on the Yankees.

How bad is for your team when the announcers are answering e-mails all night? And who is vetting the questions when many of them are based on the false premises of viewers who don't know the rules?

[Willets Point]

Do you think every game is like that or is Tuesday Rockies Mailbag Night? For some reason I kind of liked it. Different from the usual commentators pulling stuff out of their asses or showing cute kids in the stands at least.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I liked it too. Although I didn't like that "If Frazier was here, he could tell you all about the spitball, heh heh."

I dislike winking attitudes about cheating.

[Frayed Knot]

Are we talking about the same George Fraizer who was the only honest man to lose 3 games in the same World Series?


Lefty Williams also lost 3 in the 1919 WS but that was a best-of-nine plus ... well you know.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I don't know about honesty, but, yeah, that's the George Frazier that's in the booth for the Rocks.

[MFS62]

="ScarletKnight41"]The Jewish Star (I've been calling him that for years - I'm not going to stop now)

That sounds like something that would have been found in the "announced" (in Part I), but never made, movie History of the World Part II - Jews in Space.

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[Willets Point]

The Jewish Star sounds like a gossip rag from Williamsburg.

[MFS62]

Willets Point wrote: The Jewish Star sounds like a gossip rag from Williamsburg.

Are you sure you don't mean a Yenta rag?

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