IGT 9/9/07 - Mets vs. Astros

[TransMonk]

I like Alou.

KABOOM!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Beautiful girl
Lovely dress
High school smiles
Oh yes!
Beautiful girl
Lovely dress
Where she is now I can only guess

'Cause its gone, Daddy, gone!
Love is gone
Gone, Daddy, gone!
Love is gone
Its gone, Daddy, gone!
Love is gone
Gone, Daddy, gone!
Love is gone away

[Valadius]

Alou goes KABOOM!!!

Mets lead 4-0 after 5.

[Frayed Knot]

Mota quickly gets the natives restless

[Guest Edgy DC]

Hello, Mr. Mota.

[TransMonk]

Jiminy Christmas.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Mota thinking like the infielder he was and blows a play.

Problem is that he was a failed infielder.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ron Darling on A-Rod: "The way he's swinging, he needs to be called up. I mean, there's got to be another league to call him up to, because he's making a mockery of this one."

[Guest Edgy DC]

Mota had nothing on the line but his future Metliness there.

[Valadius]

Why did Mota have to attend the Armando Benitez School for Gifted but Frustrating Relief Pitchers?

[TransMonk]

Mmmm...roller derby.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Mota's and Benitez's success rates could hardly be more different.

Why can a third- or first-base ump overturn a ball call, but not overturn a swing call?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Reyes looks like ptt these days.

[Valadius]

I was just about to mention Reyes' struggles. He's hit a mini-slump and seen his BA fall to .288 from .301.

[Frayed Knot]

Today's trivia Q:

- Two other pitchers - aside from Pedro - w/3,000 Ks born outside the U.S.A.


I think I got 'em both (my guesses below before they provide the answer)





















Bert Blyleven
Fergie Jenkins

[Guest Edgy DC]

Scott hits a ball foul by a few feet and doesn't run, and his interim manager pats him in the butt. He should be kicking it.

Aflac asks: Pedro is the third pitcher born outside the US with 3,000 Ks. Who are the other two.

Fergy Jenkins is one. I don't think that Dennis Martinez got close. They say it wasn't Marichal. Who?

[TransMonk]

You are correct FK.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Blyleven. Damn.

[Frayed Knot]

Football talk during baseball games annoys me.
Particularly when it's solely to satisfy the gambling jones of an announcer.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Keith Hernandez = Pete Rose_{but for the grace of God}

[Valadius]

Gomez comes in to play left field.

[Guest Edgy DC]

We may have found a position for Gotay.

[Valadius]

Two outs now in the ninth.

Nail it down, Wagner.

[TransMonk]

Sweep.

Lovin' it.

[Valadius]

Mets win!
Mets sweep!
Pedro wins again!
Mets clinch 3rd consecutive .500 or better season!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Valadius wrote: Mets clinch 3rd consecutive .500 or better season!

You've got to be kidding.

We have to set our sights higher than that.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Valadius wrote: I was just about to mention Reyes' struggles. He's hit a mini-slump and seen his BA fall to .288 from .301.

He's hit far more than a min-slump. He was slumping when he was at .301.

[Zvon]

="Edgy DC"] ="Valadius"]I was just about to mention Reyes' struggles. He's hit a mini-slump and seen his BA fall to .288 from .301. He's hit far more than a min-slump. He was slumping when he was at .301.

I think he's just being a great team mate and making it so writers wont be splittin the MVP votes between him and Wright.


wooohoo

[Valadius]

Picture of the day:



Pedro Martinez celebrates after hitting a double

[metirish]

Interesting bit here form Oswalt...

] "The pitch to Mo (Alou) was a little bit up," Oswalt (14-7) said. "The ball had a scuff on it after it hit the warning track (on Beltran's double). I was going to try to use it to my advantage and make it move around. It didn't. "It stayed straight. I should have thrown it out and stayed with the game plan I had at the beginning of the game. But that didn't lose the game, either. We had so many opportunities to get guys in. We have to do something to move guys around."

So the ump doesn't automatically take scuffed balls out and Oswalt chose to keep that ball,or did the ump not see it....