IGT 10/05, Dodgers at Mets (Game 2 NLDS)

[nymr83]

a nice clean win for the mets, devoid of their usual late inning screwups followed by heroics (or vice versa)
goodnight.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm getting a little sick of Reyes' being described as an "exciting" player. He's a really freaking good player, his ninth-inning yeeps not withstanding.

It's patronizing.

Really, Steve Freakin' Lyons is one lucky dude.

[metirish]

Little is cluless..he thought that Green was in the game so that's why he went out to protest..I mean if KC had the the lineup why didn't grady...amazin.

[stevejrogers]

Just got back, left in the seventh due to a 63 year old pop and nippy breeze in the mezz and I have an early rise Friday morning.

-Great parking tip, park on the other side of College Point Blvd. Nice walk underneath the LIRR into Shea

-Didn't seem as electric untill the 6th. Seemed more like the crowd was "waiting to erupt" more so than anything

[stevejrogers]

Edgy DC wrote: I'm getting a little sick of Reyes' being described as an "exciting" player. He's a really freaking good player, his ninth-inning yeeps not withstanding. It's patronizing. Really, Steve Freakin' Lyons is one lucky dude.

Reyes is a WS championship away from Jeter territory!

[dinosaur jesus]

Thom Brenneman claimed last night that the playoffs are much tougher than the regular season for pitchers like Glavine and Maddux (meaning pitchers who have to hit their spots to be effective) because the strike zone is narrower and because (though I might have misheard him on this part) it's a special playoff rule that the opposing manager is allowed to send monkeys out onto the field to distract control pitchers.

Tom Glavine's lifetime regular season ERA: 3.46
Tom Glavine's lifetime postseason ERA: 3.47

Greg Maddux's lifetime regular season ERA: 3.07
Greg Maddux's lifetime postseason ERA: 3.22

Roger Clemens is a power pitcher who presumably doesn't have to hit his spots to be effective.

Roger Clemens's lifetime regular season ERA: 3.10
Roger Clemens's lifetime postseason ERA: 3.71

[Gwreck]

Crowd was indeed not quite as into it as Wednesday. Still good, but not quite the same as that first-playoff-game-in-6-years crowd.

The bus incident was funny. From my vantage point, I could see it coming and was waiting for somebody to realize that maybe that wasn't a good idea. Morons. The "Move the Bus" chant was one of the funniest things I've seen at Shea in a while.

Does anyone know what the hell Grady was doing after the first pitch?

They did play the Curly Shuffle, middle of the 6th inning.

Great game for the Mets.

[Gwreck]

dinosaur jesus wrote: Thom Brenneman claimed last night that the playoffs are much tougher than the regular season for pitchers like Glavine and Maddux (meaning pitchers who have to hit their spots to be effective) because the strike zone is narrower and because (though I might have misheard him on this part) it's a special playoff rule that the opposing manager is allowed to send monkeys out onto the field to distract control pitchers.

That's funny.

I wonder if anybody ever considered that ERAs might go up because, you know, the quality of the opposition was better?

[dinosaur jesus]

That would seem the obvious answer. Glavine and Maddux have actually pitched quite well in the postseason--they've both essentially pitched a full season with good ERA's. They both also have losing records, but I'd say that's the team's fault.

[Guest old original jb]

If the Mets go on to take this series, it will be mostly because they executed thefundementals (bunting well, hitting the cutoff man, beating the DP) while the Dodgers played "sloppy". Oh, and also because they scored more runs.

[Guest cooby]

What I liked about the broadcast last night was they showed real people in the crowd, not Hollywood types. Hopefully they all went home to do their facials and will stay there.

Oh, and in bed by 11:30! What more could you ask for a playoff game?

[Gwreck]

Cooby's post reminds me that Donald Trump was at the game and shown on the Diamondvision, which resulted in a rousing chorus of boos.

[soupcan]

A 13 page IGT - sniff- I'm so proud of you guys.

Gwreck is right - crowd was not as loud as the night before but When Reyes knocked in that run the place went nutty with the 'JOSE JOSE JOSE!' chant. That was very cool.

After the top of the 1st when Little questioned the scorecard (I guess that's what he was doing) Glavine walked off the mound and right over to the homeplate ump, and spoke to him for a good 20 seconds I suppose to see exactly what was up.

I am of course ecstatic that I'm able to go to these games instead of watching them on TV but I am doubly grateful that attending them precludes me from having to tolerate Psycho Lyons as well. Putrid, no-talent, arrogant, brown-nosing asshole does not begin to sum up what I think of that guy

Celeb sightings: Jerry Seinfeld, Matthew Broderick sitting together, Larry King and I assume it was his 17th wife, Shawn King who sang the national anthem. American Idol loser Diane DiGarmo.

A Boy Named Seo wrote: ]I predict it will happen at Dodger Stadium. What's the deal with Beltran at Shea? Ask Soupcan.

Um, uh, well, I, um....It was the guy sitting next to me!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Was Broderick showing evidence of the broken collarbone he got in Ireland.

Maybe the horse threw him on purpose. What must that guy's Q-rating in Ireland be at this point?

[soupcan]

Edgy DC wrote: Was Broderick showing evidence of the broken collarbone he got in Ireland. Maybe the horse threw him on purpose. What must that guy's Q-rating in Ireland be at this point?

Saw no evidence of broken bones. What I noticed about him - which was also the reason I did not immediately recognize him - was that he's got a salt n' pepa thing going on in his hair.

Alas we are ALL getting older.

[Guest vtmet]

dumb question...I don't fully know the rules of "Schaefer points"...other than you divide up 10 points to as many players as you deem worthy...however, I don't notice any comments in the voting or the thread...does that mean that comments don't belong there?

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Correct - one does not comment in the voting thread.

[Guest vtmet]

thanks...

[Willets Point]

metirish wrote: If Willets says another bad thing about Glavine I'm going to Boston to give him a talking to.

C'mon up. I'll by you a beer to drink why I read off my lengthy apology to Glavine.

[Willets Point]

Nice IGT folks.

I still don't know what was up with the bus as the audio at the pub was drowned out by loud music and singles actively hitting on one another.

I also noticed the several nice crowd shots of what looked like real New Yorkers, glad to see some regular people got tickets. There was a big bearded guy in a Jets jacket, I was wondering if it was Vic/Norrin/Ralph.

[soupcan]

From the Game 2 IGT over at dodgerblues.com:

]When they flash the 'On Deck' graphic with lugo next, it should just say "Up next: 2nd out"

Those guys are fuckin' funny.

[metirish]

Ralph looking good as he throws out the first pitch...




hope the cpf crew at the game saw him.

[metirish]

Remember during this game Brennaman and Lyons were making fun of the guy with the strange looking device over his eyes?.....turns out it was for very poor vision..from the Times.

] But Brennaman is not great. He is mediocre, distinguished mainly by an unmodulated megaphone-like voice that is like a parody of what a sportscaster should sound like. It does not convey a warm welcome, or the promise of excellence, as do Vin Scully or ESPN�s Jon Miller, who was joined for Friday night�s Yankees-Tigers game in Detroit by the retired Ernie Harwell, ever a delightful and welcoming legend. Worse, for Brennaman, is his usual boothmate, Steve Lyons, a childish personality who has never attempted to live down his nickname, Psycho. Lyons is capable of an occasional insight. But he also made ignorant remarks two years ago about Shawn Green, who is Jewish, regarding why he did not play for the Dodgers on Yom Kippur. Fox suspended Lyons briefly. In their years together, Lyons and Brennaman have shown no growth as a team. And Fox has yet to show a desire to find a better backup duo for McCarver and Joe Buck. Once upon a time in the 1980�s at NBC, Bob Costas and Tony Kubek backed up the No. 1 team of Scully and Joe Garagiola. All of which leads to the regrettable incident last Thursday during Game 2 of the Dodgers-Mets playoff series at Shea Stadium. Brennaman and Lyons bonded like spitballing 13-year-olds in a middle school lunchroom to mock a Mets fan who was wearing an unusual-looking device over his eyes to help his poor vision. Stephen Teitelbaum, blind except for peripheral vision in one eye, was wearing a Jordy, a magnifying device, to help him watch the game. Brennaman and Lyons could not know those details when the camera found Teitelbaum, but they could see that he was not goofing with a child�s toy. Still, they pursued him as if he were the class weakling. What was he wearing, they wondered? �A Psycho-meter,� Brennaman said, to welcome Lyons to town. �Maybe he�s in virtual reality,� Lyons said. If he is, Lyons explained, �he should stay there.� And maybe, Lyons suggested, the Dodgers should don the contraptions to better hit Tom Glavine. Lyons then hit on the most logical puerile explanation: �He�s got a digital camera stuck to his face.� This insensitive nonsense went on for 53 seconds while Marlon Anderson batted, offering a window into stunted imaginations. But it also underscored the failure by anyone at Fox to tell them to let up. Fox could have dispatched someone to Teitelbaum�s seat to report back on his condition. Instead, Teitelbaum�s family called Fox on Friday, leading to Brennaman�s on-air mea culpa early in Game 3 Saturday from Los Angeles. This, then, is the second-best team Fox has to offer, the one that will call the American League Championship Series. Fox could do better by elevating Josh Lewin, who had a terrific game Saturday when the Tigers took their division series against the Yankees. Or Fox could show good sense by reaching out to SNY�s Gary Cohen to replace Brennaman. But such a move seems unlikely. The Foxians love Brennaman enough to make him the voice of two Bowl Championship Series broadcasts, including the title game. Maybe his huge, unrestrained voice will be more suitable for college bowl games.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Brennaman issued an explanation and an apology at the beginning of Saturday's Game 3 broadcast.

[Guest Edgy DC]

He's right. It's a mystery how FOX can't find --- if not a better team --- a more professional one.

And why couldn't Kevin Costner do any better? Could you imagine throwing a perfect game at Yankee Stadium on national television in the last game of your career, only to receive the souvenir DVD and find Steve Freakin' Lyons all over your perfect day?

[Guest cooby]

I remember seeing that guy, but I don't remember them saying half of that stuff

[soupcan]

Edgy DC wrote: And why couldn't Kevin Costner do any better? Could you imagine throwing a perfect game at Yankee Stadium on national television in the last game of your career, only to receive the souvenir DVD and find Steve Freakin' Lyons all over your perfect day?

How I hate that movie.

[Willets Point]

As a Star Trek geek I love that the device is called a Jordy (although then it should be spelled Geordie). I was watching that game in a bar with no sound so I had no idea they were mocking the guy. As soon as I saw it I figured it was a device to improve vision for the visually-impaired and stupidly assumed they were talking about it as such.

[metirish]

A Geordie is a person from Newcastle,which I'm sure you knew.

[Willets Point]

Yup.