Mets - Brewers; 08/01/07 IGT

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For those of you in NY, I thought you should know that whenever A. Rodriguez comes up, ESPN leaves the Mets game! Between that and Steve Phillips, I love ESPN!

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Fairchild didn't make enough bad calls at home last night, so he has to make more tonight?

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KA-KA-KA...

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: We're not equipped to win a slugfest.

You suck, Dickshot. You suck!

[Guest Kid Carsey]

Marlon says DING-DONG this.

I'm fading, I feel like it's 11.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm loving this Vargas guy. Leaves non-breaking breaking pitches up in the zone.

By the way, todays Met RBIs are brought to you by

Regulars - 0
Reserves - 7

[metsmarathon]

dink.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Welcome to the second half, Greenie.

I think we are equipped to win a slugfest, but just haven't been acting like it.

Reyes and Castillo getting infield hits is a nice thing too.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Kid Carsey wrote: I'm moving to Milwaukee, the food is cheaper at the ballpark.

It's actually a really nice place to see a game. We went last year. The food IS reasonable, and the brats with the secret stadium sauce is as good as advertised.

They built a miniature stadium on the spot of County Stadium for Little League games.

Lots of tailgating. A good time.

Met Selig there, too.

[Willets Point]

I have $1 on the bratwurst.

[Willets Point]

Damn. Lost to the chorizo.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Damn, not Mota. We only have a three-run lead.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Got to applaud Manny Parra. I haven't seen a bailout like this in ages.

[Guest holychicken]

Starting pitcher struggles, Mets put up 8 runs and Mota throws two inning of perfect relief.

I must be asleep already.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

And I extend my apologies to Mr. Mota. He has not sucked tonight.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

He didn;t suck last night either.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Two bunt singles for Reyes.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Fine defense, but my applause is all for Parra. Wow.

[Guest Edgy DC]

C'mon, Sand-Guy, no runners.

[Guest holychicken]

I can only watch the game on MLB game day. . . but it seems a lot of balls are going to green and turning into hits. I imagine him botching every one of them.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Phew! Wags gets it done, but he sure does make it scary.

[Guest Edgy DC]

[Guest holychicken]

Get with the times, edgy. . .

Say hello to the NEW fonze:


"Very nice, very nice!"

[Guest Edgy DC]

We're in Milwaukee, where there's no substitute for the Fonz.

[Gwreck]

I didn't even need to see this game (except for the Castro blast, which happened exactly was I was passing the TV in the MSG concourse while at the Police concert -- what timing!) to know that Willie should never be allowed to put Marlon Anderson in centerfield.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Marlon was everything I could have hoped for.

[Gwreck]

After reviewing the game, I'd tend to agree. And the offensive contribution is great. Does that still make it a sound strategic decision? Marlon's now up to 50 career CF innings with the 9 he played tonight.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Edgy DC wrote: Oliver Perez is not getting a defensive 1 on his Strat-o-Matic card. His footwork on that play was awful.

Maybe that was it. As I was watching, something made me expect the throwing error. When Perez grabbed the ball I was thinking "inning-ending double play" but before the ball left his hand I was anticipating an error.

I rewound my TiVo and watched the play again to see if I could identify what it was I picked up on, but nothing seemed apparent to me. The Brewers announcers said something about his arm angle.

[Willets Point]

I think Farmer Ted meant for his post in the PotG thread to go here. I he copies it over I'll delete the post in the PotG thread.

[Guest Edgy DC]

="Gwreck"]After reviewing the game, I'd tend to agree. And the offensive contribution is great. Does that still make it a sound strategic decision? Marlon's now up to 50 career CF innings with the 9 he played tonight.

Not particularly based on that, no (Nitice my objection in the IGT at the start of the game), but Willie's got to work with what he's got to work with. He can play Milledge for three weeks straight, or acknowledging the shortcomings still in his game, give him a blow two or three times over that period.

Marlon is clearly faking it in centerfield, but there's questions about Milledge out there also (which he answered in part the previous game. But check out Vargas in Splitsville:

Vs. RH Batters

.240 BA / .295 OBP / .415 SLG // .710 OPS

Vs. LH Batters

.315 BA / .383 OBP / .533 SLG // .916 OPS

If there was ever a night to sneak Marlon out there, this would be one. Willie's pretty vindicated this morning, and it was something more than dumb luck.

Edited August 2, 2007 by Guest