IGT 4/4/07 - Mets (Maine) at Cardinals (Looper)

[Gwreck]

Mets
Reyes SS
LoDuca C
Beltran CF
Delgado 1B
Wright 3B
Alou LF
Green RF
Valentin 2B
Maine P

=red]Cardinals
David Eckstein SS
Chris Duncan LF
Albert Pujols 1B
Scott Rolen 3B
Jim Edmonds CF
Preston Wilson RF
Yadier Molina C
Aaron Miles 2B
Braden Looper P

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Tonight's pre-game discussion topic:

Braden Looper: Most irrational hate for an ex-Met in the last 10 years. Agree or disagree?

[metsmarathon]

bbbbbbbbbbb-but he sang a song that we sing!

[metirish]

Gwreck wrote: Tonight's pre-game discussion topic: Braden Looper: Most irrational hate for an ex-Met in the last 10 years. Agree or disagree?

As much as his pitching pissed me off the faces he made were very annoying...

[Guest OlerudOwned]

His last name is Hernandez, but he's not fooling anyone with his español.

[nymr83]

Looper is through 1, but I'd expect as much from an ex-reliever. the question with this guy is can he go 5+ every night?

[Frayed Knot]

Gwreck wrote: Braden Looper: Most irrational hate for an ex-Met in the last 10 years. Agree or disagree?

Maybe not the most irrational (that field is VERY wide open) but for a guy who had one pretty good year here to go along with his one pretty lousy one, there's an awful lot of fans who act as if he's one of the most incompetant pitchers in MLB history.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Looper could have taught the Mets and their fans that they didn;t have to spend huge $$ for a closer, but he wound up scaring them into spending gigantic $$ for a closer.

That's because we for some reason were reluctant to shut him down or try someone else when it was obvious the guy should have been in the hospital.

Anyway Looper always preferred No. 41 and there he is in it again.

Alou hits everything hard.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Reason #1432 to love the SNY booth: Frank Zappa discussions.

[nymr83]

was Alou's catch really that nice or Wilson's ball that deep? the radio made it sound like it was leaving the park off the bat.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Alou knows how you feel, Preston.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Nymr83 wrote: was Alou's catch really that nice or Wilson's ball that deep? the radio made it sound like it was leaving the park off the bat.

Big hanger up in the zone that was a lot like Alou's, in terms of how it looked off the bat. Alou got to it on the warning track, rather anticlimactically.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

[Guest cooby]

I'm not so sure it was irrational

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Looked like a HR off the bat for sure but hung in the sky long enough for Alou to catch up to it on a slow gallop. Looks also that it went to a particularly deep part of the LCF gap. Too bad Preston Wilson.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Drama queen.

[nymr83]

and heres Edmonds with another dive that shouldnt have been needed. showboat!

[Benjamin Grimm]

="OlerudOwned"]

Nice!

I rarely fail to point out Looper's middle name. I like the way you did it this time around.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

'Bout time for a Beltran Boom.

He couldn't shut us out forever.

[Theoldmole]

Open the window, Aunt Minnie!

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Finally, the explosion we've been waiting for. I was afraid that blast was going to hook foul like the one he hit opening day.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

That was a big single for Green.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Big 2-out hit for Green, with Looper reeling in the 6th. I guess we know how big his tank is now, huh.

[stevejrogers]

TheOldMole wrote: Open the window, Aunt Minnie!

Nice Rosey Roswell reference there Mole.

One good thing about Curt Smith's books is that it highlights the lesser known local institutions who were not in the elite "future Ford C. Frick award winning" crowd

[nymr83]

still a successful first start from Looper, 5 scoreless from an ex-reliever is hte best you can expect before he gets hit

[Guest Kid Carsey]

I told youse guys Green was gonna bust out of the gate quickly this season.

Agreed on Looper, ny, definitely a quality start given the circumstances.

(quality not the quality that some people call quality which I don't really buy
that new label of quality ... nice job)

[stevejrogers]

Fun trivia, Bob Prince (who was one of that well known variety) was his second in the both, his job was to throw down a waiters plate that had nuts, bolts and other stuff on it to simulate a window crashing.

One other time Bing Crosby, who was the co-owner of the Bucs at the time, was in the booth talking about Ralph Kiner, Kiner than mashes a ball and just as Bing says it's out of there, Rosey steps over Bing, steals the mike and goes into his call in a very John Sterling-esque way.

[Theoldmole]

Maine or Zito?

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Ka-bing!

[nymr83]

HR Reyes!