4th of July, IGT (Mets at Rockies)

[Guest Edgy DC]

Let Alomar.

[metirish]

I tell ya,watching the Mets this year has been far from enjoyable..way to many games like this.

[Guest cleonjones11]

2007 Mets are a medicore team from top to bottom....much like many others...Don't expect to much...

[Guest Edgy DC]

It isn't Independence Day, of course, without George Plimpton.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

When is Delgado going to announce his retirement?

[Guest Edgy DC]

We could have gotten this from Mo Vaughn.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Schoeneweis pitching on the road. We're gold.

[Willets Point]

Look to the silver lining. Like the 2005 Padres, the Mets will win a division title by default. So we can all look forward to watching them go 3-and-out in the NLCS.

[metirish]

Willets Point wrote: Look to the silver lining. Like the 2005 Padres, the Mets will win a division title by default. So we can all look forward to watching them go 3-and-out in the NLCS.

I was just wondering to myself the the NL East is the worst division in baseball.

[nymr83]

metirish wrote: ="Willets Point"]Look to the silver lining. Like the 2005 Padres, the Mets will win a division title by default. So we can all look forward to watching them go 3-and-out in the NLCS. I was just wondering to myself the the NL East is the worst division in baseball.

The AL East has only 1 .500 team.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Damn, when I left to take the kids to see the fireworks, we were winning. I couldn't believe it when I saw a 15 on there. Did Mota have a complete meltdown or something? Yikes!

[Guest Edgy DC]

It's called baseball, people.

Let's get Lo Duca that cycle.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Gad, Keef's ADD is on overdrive.

[Guest Edgy DC]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Damn, when I left to take the kids to see the fireworks, we were winning. I couldn't believe it when I saw a 15 on there. Did Mota have a complete meltdown or something? Yikes!

Mota was a disaster.

Reyes did nothing to help him.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Gotta love Lo Duca getting himself a 14-pitch at-bat in the ninth inning of a blowout getaway game.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

LoDuca gets + 0.25 of Schaefer for having a 13-pitch at-bat in the 9th (grounds out).

Beltran then crushes the 1st pitch he sees off the wall.

[Guest Edgy DC]

OK, we pulled within 10.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Poo. No Alomar.

[Guest Edgy DC]

So, what was the fate that had us unable to get the last out in the fifth?

Two outs and a runner on first. We're down 7-4, disheartnening, but certainly it's still a game in Colorado.

A batter reaches on a fair ball that was actually foul.

Another reaches on a ball in the 3-4 hole that sure seemed playable by either 3 or 4.

Then Reyes lets Holliday beat out an infield hit.

Now some of that is bad luck, but the team had each play within their agency and came up short. Although, to be fair to the Devil, Mota had done his job. (His first three runs first three runs not so much).

It's sequences like this that are maddening during these periods.

Our teenaged terms for innings where pitchers cough up large amounts:

Five-run inning = giving up a Partridge.

Six-run inning = giving up a Brady.

Seven-run inning = giving up a Walton.

Eight-run inning = giving up a Bradford.

Learn these terms. The Mets have been forcing them back into usage.

[Willets Point]

Nymr83 wrote: ="metirish"] ="Willets Point"]Look to the silver lining. Like the 2005 Padres, the Mets will win a division title by default. So we can all look forward to watching them go 3-and-out in the NLCS. I was just wondering to myself the the NL East is the worst division in baseball. The AL East has only 1 .500 team.

Yes but the AL East has one great team compared to zero for the NL East so it is a stronger division.

[Guest iramets]

Which great team do you mean, Willets?

[Willets Point]

The one that's leading the majors in winning pct.