IGT 1017, Mets at Cards, NLCS Game 5

[Guest Edgy DC]

He fielded the ball about 30 feet off of first. Rather than throw to the pitcher covering, he ran the ball over there to make Floyd run it out.

So, we win at home.

[Valadius]

I nominate the Cardinals to be our new component of Triple Happiness computation.

[Zvon]

Valadius wrote: I nominate the Cardinals to be our new component of Triple Happiness computation.

lmao.
works for me.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I'm cranky now, but Zvon sure laughs his ass off a lot.

[Willets Point]

It's amazing he has any ass left.

[Zvon]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: I'm cranky now, but Zvon sure laughs his ass off a lot.

only laughin on the outside Yancy.


So we got our backs against the wall.
Well---it wont be the 1st time......

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Any chance we can get Buckner and Schiraldi added to the Cardinals roster for tomorrow night's game?

[Valadius]

We should have had Lastings on the roster instead of Andy Hernandy.

[Gwreck]

Somebody needs to pound a fastball into Albert's backside.

This is where I miss Duaner especially. Pedro would've done it too.

[Guest cleonjones11]

Who are our savior pitchers for the next 1 or 2 games?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

For better or worse, John Maine and TBD.

[Guest cooby]

Judging from this, the game only lasted 15 minutes after I went to bed. That last inning must have been lame.

[soupcan]

P.S. My whale came out looking like shit.

[Guest cooby]

You have a whale?

[soupcan]

I have a sting ray and a shark.

The whale? Not so much.

[Guest cooby]

Aw...

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Edgy - "He fielded the ball about 30 feet off of first. Rather than throw to the pitcher covering, he ran the ball over there to make Floyd run it out."

I'm not sure his intent was to make Floyd run it out. I think he avoided a possible poor exchange on a toss to the pitcher covering since he could . It was quite unusual to see a first baseman take it himself when so far from the bag. Still, it would have served Pujols right if he had tweaked his sore hamstring while making the play.

The play illustrated that Cliffie is in no way prepared to play a vital role in this series. He can hardly walk, let alone run.

[Guest Edgy DC]

If he can swing, find a place for him to swing. If only to chase a righthanded reliever for a lefty, and then bring in Franco, we've got to use everybody we got.

[MFS62]

Gwreck wrote: Somebody needs to pound a fastball into Albert's backside.

AMEN!

Later

[Willets Point]

Valadius wrote: I nominate the Cardinals to be our new component of Triple Happiness computation.

Except that they're not in our division. How much happiness can we get from a Cardinals' regular season loss if it doesn't come from the Mets?

[Guest cooby]

I have always hated the Cardinals, but especially since 2000. I'd be very happy with a Cardinals loss every day

[stevejrogers]

Willets Point wrote: ="Valadius"]I nominate the Cardinals to be our new component of Triple Happiness computation. Except that they're not in our division. How much happiness can we get from a Cardinals' regular season loss if it doesn't come from the Mets?

I agree, I think since the Cards left the NL East there have been varing degrees of hatred onto the Cards from "Met Nation"

Hell I hate the Dodgers, Yankees, Phillies, Marlins, Braves and Nationals, and have a brotherly hatred of the Astros, but other than that I really don't have any qualms about rooting another NL team in the WS (Well Braves are my thrid team behind the Reds but that was when they were in the NL West) and that includes the Cards, Cubs (HA!) and Pirates.

I think that sort of inter-division rivalry kind of dissapates anyway unless its so close and so "intertwined" like Sox-Yanks and Dodgers-Giants that it comes and goes.

I wouldn't be surprised if the two teams continue their course that younger Met fans would be surprised to know that there was a heated Met-Brave rivalry the way people who aren't old enough probably don't know the heat between the Mets and Cards in the 80's

That being said, I'm getting to a point where shouldn't a Met win be happiness enough during the regular year and TH itself should go the way of TC

[Valadius]

We had a rivalry with them in the '80s. We faced them in the 2000 NLCS. This NLCS has been filled with emotion. They've disrespected our team. Pujols has turned out to be a schmuck. Spiezio's stupid red tuft of facial hair has inspired a ridiculous practice of Cardinals fans taping small red pieces of paper on their chins. Eckstein has annoyed me. Molina has pissed me off. La Russa thinks he knows everything. In short, the Cardinals have made me very angry. Even though they're not in our division anymore, I think they can assume the spot left open by the Braves as the third component of Triple Happiness.

[stevejrogers]

Valadius wrote: We had a rivalry with them in the '80s. We faced them in the 2000 NLCS. This NLCS has been filled with emotion. They've disrespected our team. Pujols has turned out to be a schmuck. Spiezio's stupid red tuft of facial hair has inspired a ridiculous practice of Cardinals fans taping small red pieces of paper on their chins. Eckstein has annoyed me. Molina has pissed me off. La Russa thinks he knows everything. In short, the Cardinals have made me very angry. Even though they're not in our division anymore, I think they can assume the spot left open by the Braves as the third component of Triple Happiness.

So did the 1988 Dodgers, and almost 20 years later, Tommy Lasorda is welcome at Shea with nice applause. Orel Hershiser was a Met for crying out loud!

If you feel that they can, then thats your personal thing. To me its the Yankees loss, Phillies loss, Mets win right now

[Willets Point]

I'm personally feeling TH is unecessary going forward. The Yankees, Braves, Phillies (and hopefully the Cardinals) are all teams the Mets performed better than. I no longer have the sense of looking up and taking joy in our rivals loss now that the Mets are better than them.

[metsmarathon]

from now on, every day is tripple happiness. (cos it'd be dumb to have an NL team outside our division in there with the yankees)

[Guest Rotblatt]

metsmarathon wrote: from now on, every day is tripple happiness.

Great point, metsmarathon.

[metsmarathon]

see, if i had been keeping track, i'd've saved the seaver post for that!