Sunday Night Live - IGT Mets-Dodgers, 8/26

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

What's with the "Mets" behind home plate painted in the grass? Looks like it was painted by Mrs. Jackson's third grade class with finger paints.

[Zvon]

Are the Mets swinging wooden bats this inning?
the way the ball is doing the opposite of jumping off the bat on contact I get the impression they are using plastic bats.....

[Frayed Knot]

metirish wrote: Conine on with a hit...anyone catch what his AB song is...he's a rocker for sure.

Are you sure he's not a Mod?

[Valadius]

Hey Yancy, wherever you are - Guillermo Mota's middle name is Reynoso, or so say Howie and Tom.

[metirish]

Frayed Knot wrote: ="metirish"]Conine on with a hit...anyone catch what his AB song is...he's a rocker for sure. Are you sure he's not a Mod?

WOW..that would be fucking cool...I only caught the last strains of the riff so I could be wrong, if he is a Mod I wonder if him and the rockers get along in the club house.

[Valadius]

Aww... His Nastiness pops out.

[Zvon]

I never ever say a Met game is over b4 the last out, always the optimist, but Sieto's in and dis gahm is ovah folks

[seawolf17]

David Wright is batting .400 with Jose Reyes on base, according to Miller. Now that's a stat.

[Willets Point]

Well, you can't win 'em all.

[seawolf17]

Lastings Milledge strikes out! Stunning.

[Valadius]

Bahhhhhhhhhh. Shitmonkeys.

[Frayed Knot]

Kid, it just wasn't your night.

[Gwreck]

I had a perfect view of the play -- was sitting in the front row of the upper deck at 3rd base.

I am 100% sure that it was on Alomar. He was giving a lackadasical wave and only put up the stop sign after how strong the throw back in was. Way too late for Lastings to have done anything.

Sandy was also out of position and should have been farther down the line, especially considering that the ball was hit to LF.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

He's absolutely awful.

[metirish]

Dickshot has been saying how awful Alomar is for months now...there should be an age limit on the third base job,he's too old.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I think there should be a skill limit.

Alomar has had a different seat each season he's been here. Maybe he'll get a new one next year.

I don't know how they measure third-base coaches, but I think it's the sort of play higher-ups would review.

[metirish]

I think it was Bobby Valentine that said coaching third base is the toughest job in baseball......could have been Larry Bowa that said that though.

[Frayed Knot]

Sure, cuz you only notice them when they screw up.
They're the bass guitarists of a baseball team.

I agree that this one was Sandy's fault; as soon as it was hit I was thinking that it was NOT a run-scoring hit.
What Alomar was trying to do, IMO, was waive the runner on so as to not break his momentum in case of a bad relay, figuring he could then hold him up if the relay was on target (which of course it was). The problem was then compounded when Milledge looked down at the exact wrong moment and didn't see him again until it was too late.

[Centerfield]

Broadcast guys mentioned that Pedro had seen a flaw in Mota's delivery. Didn't make it until Mota pitched last night, but his line sure looks good this morning.

[Gwreck]

I think the story goes that he called Guy Conti from St. Lucie where he was watching games. Apparently Mota had been tipping his changeup.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

They barely finished that story before the first batter Mota faced crushed one -- though right at Alou for an out.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wasn't Mota's turnaround in 2006 attributed in part to a corrective observation made by Pedro?

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Im thiking I'd heard that story before too.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I did! Except it was Jorge Sosa:

]Pedro is watching While rehabbing in Florida, Pedro Martinez has made a contribution to the Mets' success up here. He watches most games on TV and recently he was watching Jorge Sosa and noticed a flaw in his delivery. Martinez called bullpen coach Guy Conti, who relayed the information to Sosa and pitching coach Rick Peterson. "He saw my arm angle was off," said Sosa, who credited the change for helping his turnaround in the bullpen. "It was making me a little slow in my delivery."

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

And it was Mota last October:

]Mota arrived in Flushing and found friends. There was Lo Duca, the old friend. And there was Martinez, the new friend. He watched Mota throw in the bullpen, and he spotted a problem. "He was tipping his pitches, from his mechanics," Martinez said last night. "You could tell what he was going to throw, just from his delivery. When you see differences like that, a good hitter, a guy like Pujols, he would just eat him up." So Martinez mentioned this, not just to Mota, but to Lo Duca, pitching coach Rick Peterson and bullpen coach Guy Conti. They all went out to the bullpen one day for an intervention, and they all worked to fix Mota's delivery so he wasn't tipping pitches anymore.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Bam.

[metirish]

Apparently it's Peterson that needs to watch his spot when Pedro gets back.These stories make for good press but I wonder if they are all that true.

[Valadius]

Once Pedro retires, I'd hire him on the spot to be a roving pitching instructor.