IGT 08/31, Mets at Rockies

[Willets Point]

Peninsula Pilots get a mention. I regret never getting to see them in my Virginia days before the franchise moved to Wilmington.

[Frayed Knot]

I also thought Perez was a bit unlucky tonight ... at least for a while anyway. A bunch of infield hits which weren't scored errors but were plays that could have been made, plus there were more than a few bloops falling in here and there.

He's still got to find the plate more often and continues to have a hand in digging his own grave, but his acquisition has always been more about next year than about this year anyway. He's going to be a project.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Pitcher Jeff Francis gets his 2nd RBI of the night to give the Rockies an 8-4 lead.

[Willets Point]

5 earned runs in the last 7 innings sounds good.

[Willets Point]

Rockin' Doc wrote: Willets and Scarlett look so much alike they could be twins. It's hard to keep track of who is who around here sometimes.

I'm 242 posts away from my custom Mr. Met designation and some clarity.

[Guest cooby]

260 by my count. Get cracking!

[Willets Point]

I suck at math (259).

[Willets Point]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: In fact, the Mets have never swept a season series against any National League club, so there's a chance at history tonight.

Why mess with tradition.

[MFS62]

The announcers mentioned during his first at-bat that Green came into the game with a big lifetime o-fer against the starter. Once I saw his first swing, I knew that was true.
Man, he took some ugly cuts against the guy. He wasn't even close to the ball.

I still feel the Mets can be very vulnerable to decent lefty pitching.

Later

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I kept listening to the game even after I signed off of the laptop for the night. Somehow the concept of prayer came up. I had a lot of fun listening to Gary describe davening to Keith.

Keith - what would a Jewish player do?

Gary - Daven.

Keith - What?!?!?!

Gary - You know, like what Leo Mazzone used to do in the Atlanta dugout.

Maybe it was due to the late hour and my general lack of sleep this week, but that totally cracked me up.

The other thing that struck me was when they were talking about the post-season roster rules, and Gary was explaining that the Mets have one assistant general manager who is in charge of knowing all of these technical rules and keeping them straight. My reaction is that now I know what MK should be when he grows up