IGT - Mets at Brewers 7/31 - Win #300, Take 1

[Benjamin Grimm]

I wasn't on the IGT last night, but I'm wondering if I'm the only one who wanted Heilman to pitch to Fielder? He seemed to be rocking along, and I'd rather go with the pitcher who's doing well rather than the unknown quantity in the bullpen.

And I suppose he has to stay down in New Orleans for ten days, but if it were up to me, I'd promote Adkins and demote Mota as soon as I could.

[TransMonk]

DocTee wrote: Had you arrived on time, would you have left the game early?

Not at all. I was pretty pissed that I was late...mostly because it took me an hour and a half to go the last 15 miles and get through the parking lot. My wife was very cool about staying for the extra frames considering we had a ten year old in tow, a ride home that would take more than an hour and work in the morning. More people than I would have expected left after the Brewers tied the game and it was clear Glavine would not get the win. The crowd then thinned out after the bottom of each inning from the ninth on. I was very happy to see the extra baseball because I missed the first 3 innings...made me feel like I got my money's worth.

It was a terribly exciting game...not necessarily well played by all involved. Each team had multiple chances to win it before the final run crossed the plate. It was nice to see a full house in Milwaukee on a Tuesday night. I don't know if I've ever seen that before.

The Brewers fans were the roudiest I've ever seen. I got more crap for wearing a Mets jersey and cap to a game last night than in every other Brewer/Mets game I've attended combined. I guess winning breeds confidence. Fortunately, they're new at this...so they're pretty easy to give crap back to.

While Turnbow was warming up, he threw 2 pitches in a row to the backstop drawing jeers from the fans.

At one point after a Brewer groundout, Delgado started going around the horn by throwing it too high for Castillo, sending the ball into centerfield.

[Guest Edgy DC]

By signing Mota for two years and backloading the deal to minimize the financial pain of the suspension, you get the idea that Omar Minaya is being punished by cosmic justice, that he deserves all the pain Mota can inflict on his team.

OK, you may not, but I do.

Minaya had a great 2006, but he's having a Phillipsian 2007.

[Centerfield]

Not that this mattered in the outcome, but why was Alou being an asshole and not backing off when the centerfielder calls it?

Why was he being an asshole and grounding into a DP in our best opportunity to score?