IGT Game 2, 7/28 doubledip

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

If Pelfrey's ever going to get a win, Now Is The Time.

Not only is the opponent right, but the opportunity is Shirley there to unseat So-So next time around.

Jiminez
Belliard
Zimmerman
Young
Kearns
Schneider
Fick
Langerhans
Hanrahan

Reyes
Gotay
Wright
Delgado
Alou
Green
LoDuca
Milledge
Pelfrey

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Hanrahan is making his MLB debut tonite. He's a 25-y.o. minor league free agent who was 5-4, 3.70 at AAA with 71 Ks in 75 IP.

[Guest iramets]

Keith was offering a strange, nigh upon incredible, explanation of Pelfrey's lack of MLB success to date in the top of the first:

Pelfrey was formerly a FB-Curve pitcher, and the Mets switched him over into a FB-Slider pitcher in ST, "So naturally it's to be expected that he wouldn't have immediate success with the new slider" or WTTE.

Hold the phone! You're telling me, Keith, the Mets deliberately did something to Pelfrey that THEY KNEW WOULD HAVE A NEGATIVE EFFECT ON HIS PITCHING IN THE SHORT RUN and, knowing that, they then chose to make him a regular starter? What part of this do you think is utter crap? Even I don't think the Mets are so self-destructive to do that.

Wiggy has been traded for Dan Wheeler.

[bmfc1]

The next time that Pelfrey is scheduled to start, why don't the Mets just forfeit because the result will be the same. Brian Lawrence is pitching great in AAA but let's call up the guy with the 0-7 record. It's not like the Mets are in a pennant race! And if Omar was showcasing Pelfrey, well who would want him now... I mean, other than the Mets?

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

So much for Pelfrey's claiming of a rotation spot on the strength of this start.

Edit: I'm not campaigning to trade him. He's got ability... you just have to wait for it. Getting batted around and making bad pitches is what young pitchers do.

[Guest iramets]

if anyone understands Keith's logic (or the Mets' logic, if Keith was accurate and I've rendered his thoughts correctly), I;d love to know what he meant.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

Keith's been at Shea since probably ten o'clock this morning after a night
game. Who knows what the fuck he's thinking or saying.

You're whackier than he is if it makes you think of Wiggy imho.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

Cy Hanrahan making the most of his first game in the bigs after seven years
in the minors. Wow.

Puttin' up a dough nut through four, and he hit a triple in his first big league AB
to boot for chrissake.

[bmfc1]

I'm assuming (hoping) that Pelfrey goes back to NO after the game... is it allowable to recall Chip Ambres yet? He was DFA'd and just cleared waivers.

[Guest iramets]

Kid Carsey wrote: Keith's been at Shea since probably ten o'clock this morning after a night game. Who knows what the fuck he's thinking or saying. You're whackier than he is if it makes you think of Wiggy imho.

It didn't make me think of Wiggy--Gary announced that Wiggy had been traded for Dan Wheeler today. Does sharing that information make me insane, or was I born that way, iyho?

[Guest Kid Carsey]

I was kidding, ira. I know it's not always easy to tell. Try this rubric: when I
write something so silly, so paranoid, so loopy that you're sure I must be
joking around, I'm probably not serious.

[Guest Edgy DC]

No matter what haps, this guy has had a debut more memorable than I'm comfortable with.

[Guest Edgy DC]

And on that note, Wright takes a swallow of Schaefer and ends the shutout.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

Talk to me CARLOS DELGADO!!!

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Whammo

[Guest iramets]

Delgado gets Pelfrey off Da Hook.

[Guest Edgy DC]

No matter what haps, I'm taking credit for that rally.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Another rally in there?

Yeah, I'm gonna tell my tale!

Come on,

Come on, give a listen!

Cause I was born lonely

Down by the riverside

Learned to spin fortune wheels

And throw dice

And I was just thirteen

When I had to leave home

Knew i couldn't stick around

I had to roam

Ain't good looking

But you know I ain't shy

Ain't afraid to look a girl

Right in the eye

So if you need some lovin'

And you need it right away

Take a little time out

And maybe I'll stay

But I got to ramble! (Ramblin' man)

Oh, I got to gamble! (Gamblin' man)

Got to, got to ramble! (Ramblin' man)

I was born a ramblin' gamblin' man!

Yeah, yeah, yeah!

Yeah, alright!

Here we go now now!

I hope you got

'Cause you know I need some

I ain't around to love you now

And I gotta run

Gotta keep moving

Never gonna slow down

You can have your funky world

See you 'round

But I got to ramble! (Ramblin' man)

Oh, I got to gamble! (Gamblin' man)

Got to, got to ramble! (Ramblin' man)

I was born a ramblin' gamblin' man!

[Guest Edgy DC]

King was born a fat kid
Never kept his weight down
Still he struck out Shawn Green
Lefties never got round

[Guest Edgy DC]

Gracias, Washington.

Keith, we need you. Get your foot out of your mouth.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Lo Duca handling his hammy.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Welcome back, Mike DiFelice.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Anderson? WTF?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Where the hell is John Maine?

[Guest Edgy DC]

They're sending up Anderson because Washington is going to go to Rauch against Castro. Booth guys agog.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Willie's trying to stay out of the doubleplay also, I guess'm.

[Batty31]

Well that was a complete waste of a bench player.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

I hope Glavine and a couple of the other pitchers have spikes and fielders
gloves should this go the way I feel it may go.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Willie, playing for the win at home.