IGT, 8/12 Fish @ Mets

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I figure to start this while I can:

Ramirez
DeAza
Cabrera
Willingham
Ross
Wood
Treanor
Amezega
VandenHurk -- sounds like a Dutch superhero.

Reyes
Gotay
Beltran
Wright
Delgado
Alou
Green
Castro
Perez

I'd like to teach Gotay to play RF and Milledge to play 2B.

[Centerfield]

I hate this team. I can't remember ever being more disgruntled with a first-place Mets team. Suck suck suck. I have no confidence that they will win today.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I've never even been gruntled with this group.

[Frayed Knot]

We saw Vandenhurk in April.

As I recall he had some great looking stuff but was so inconsistant with anything other than the fastball that we eventually started smacking him around and he was pulled after throwing a million pitches in just four innings.

Of course we were actually hitting back them.

[DocTee]

Vandenhurk started and won the Futures Game in SF this summer during the All Star Break. (And this was after having made several starts for the Fish. ) He's a native of Holland-- played, I believe, on their national team, skippered by former MFY Robert Eenhorn.

I always wondered why their was a rush to sign Japanese players (Hideki Irabu, in particular) after Ichiro's success. Was there a similar rush to sign Dutch players after Bert Blyleven's success?

Anyway, Vandenhurk is supposed to be a keeper.

[bmfc1]

Nice of Jeff Wilpon to get dressed up for the Glavine ceremony.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I'm as pleased as the next guy over Glavine's round number achievements but seems to me this was an event that, you know, deserves a domestic beer or something. Not this. Not while his team is in the dumps.

[metirish]

It's a bizzare tribute,Glavine looks embarrassed,way over the top IMO.Gretzky saying that Glavine might have been the missing piece in the Kings 1993 Stanley Cup bid was fun.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Enough already!

[metirish]

Ahh for fucks sake now Seaver is to speak...

[Guest Kid Carsey]

I thought they were going to do all this BEFORE game time. I coulda went
out for brunch or something. Mrs. Glavine and Mrs. Glavine need to check
with each other next big event they attend together (or if they did they
need to stop).

[bmfc1]

I don't understand why this couldn't be done between 12:30 and 1. I enjoyed the fans booing Bobby Cox.

[metirish]

Glavine is all class though.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Lotta cash and prizes for 58 wins in 4.5 years.

Jesus. Leadoff HR.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

Ramirez couldn't wait to get started either, huh?

[bmfc1]

I am stunned: my son and I are seeing Glavine at RFK this Friday and I thought it would be cool if he wore a "Glavine 300" shirt.. they're aren't sold on the website! The Mets have actually not taken advantage of a chance to make money.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

Have one made ya cheap bastard.

[bmfc1]

Kid Carsey wrote: Have one made ya cheap bastard.

WTF? That was a joke, right?

[Guest Kid Carsey]

Of course.

[Gwreck]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Lotta cash and prizes for 58 wins in 4.5 years.

No kidding...and on the highlight video, they show one measly strikeout from the playoffs last year -- the time when having Glavine really paid big dividends. Strange.

[nymr83]

i was annoyed at the whole big half hour ceremony thing.

[TransMonk]

To save the IGT from being a total bitchfest:

3 Run for Alou.

3-1 Good Guys

[Guest Kid Carsey]

Freakin' Alou hits a three run KABLERAM and the kvetching continues ...

[Guest Edgy DC]

Kiner on a Sunday, a Sunday, a Sunday. That would be so good.

[Guest Edgy DC]

That's a crappy run.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Throw was on target enough that Castro should have stayed home.

[Guest Edgy DC]

This inning sucks. Missing a fly by 13 feet. Wow.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

Inning could have been a lot worse, and I think it was only six or seven
feet looking at the replay.

Yanks are winning, *lick*, *lick*, *lick* ...

And REYES GOES YARD TO TIE IT!!!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Two catchers broken at once. Getting scary.

And DiFelice, pulling a big-league pitch for the first time in a decade, breaks the auxialry clock with a long foul drive.

I wonder if the Mets will ever bother fixing it.

[Frayed Knot]

Interesting trip around the bases for Cody Ross: Walk, Error, Error, Pick-off