Good Morning Baseball

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Um, this isn't Cincinnati, but the Red Sox and A's are playing a game that counts on my TV. Oakland leads 2-0 in the 3rd.

[smg58]

Dice-K looked really sharp in the fourth, but threw 60 pitches in the first two innings and is down 2-0. Blanton is methodically and unspectacularly shutting the Sox out to this point.

[soupcan]

What time did it start - 5:00?

[soupcan]

(double post)

[Guest SI Metman]

6 AM.

Sawx just took the lead in the 6th. Manny had a 2 run double.

3-2 Red guys

[metirish]

A's take the lead with a two run home run by Jack Hannahan of Kyle Snyder in the 6th inning, A's lead 4 - 3.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Nice to see Keith Foulke back in the majors after all those injury problems. Dude was dominant in the 2004 playoffs.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Gotta be torture for Sox fans to be shut down by Embree and Foulke.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Holy crap, Brandon Moss homer ties it in the 9th

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

JodyReedDudley78 wrote: Now I'm going to be really late for work. However, my main concern is wiping the jizz off of my screen. I heart Moss.

[Fman99]

Listened to part of the game on XM on my way into work this morning. Will do the same tomorrow.

[Guest Triple Dee]

Most Mets games start at 10am in my neck of the woods. I usually have the game running in the background on my PC at work. (I had to bribe the IT guy to allow video streaming from mlb.com to my PC.)

Colleagues are frequently puzzled as to why they hear cussing emanating from my office so early in the morning.

[soupcan]

Triple Dee wrote: Most Mets games start at 10am in my neck of the woods.

Where you be?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah, I give up. Pluto?

[Guest Triple Dee]

Sydney, Australia.

If I was living on Pluto, I would possibly still be watching games from last September and that would not be fun.

[Gwreck]

Edit: Redundant.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Where women glow and men chunder?

[metirish]

Your up late mate, it's nearly 1am in Sydney, so a 7pm start time in NY would be 10am next day in Sydney?....

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Sounds like a wild finish, Sox hold on.

[Frayed Knot]

Manny's 2RBI 2B plates two for the Sox in the 10th.
Now Oakland has one back in the bottom half (but only one thanks to some horrid baserunning) on a BB and 3 consecutive hits ... and now a GO leaves the tying & winning runs on and the Sawx win.

That Papelbon always makes me nervous.

[smg58]

Both closers sucked today, but Papelbon gets bailed out by some horrible baserunning and the Sox win 6-5.

[Guest AG/DC]

Great IGT, mates.

[soupcan]

If I didn't have a 9-5 I think I'd really enjoy watching the Mets at 10 am or so every day.

I'd have some Vegemite and throw some shrimps on the barbie.

Then I'd go out and find Nemo.

[Guest Triple Dee]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Where women glow and men chunder?

I believe, the men plunder.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

They plunder and they chunder. Can you hear the thunder?

[Guest Triple Dee]

metirish wrote: Your up late mate, it's nearly 1am in Sydney, so a 7pm start time in NY would be 10am next day in Sydney?....

Yes, it is but how can I go to sleep when I'm in such esteemed company. Besides, I have a crapload of work to do for tomorrow.

[DocTee]

Do Papelbon and Street have enough on this side of the ledger to get back on the horse? Does can either carry Mariano's jock? Will their respective teams go to closer by committee? Only time--and SJR--can tell!

[Guest Triple Dee]

soupcan wrote: If I didn't have a 9-5 I think I'd really enjoy watching the Mets at 10 am or so every day. I'd have some Vegemite and throw some shrimps on the barbie. Then I'd go out and find Nemo.

Following the Mets from here is so much more painful than you could ever understand.

I am rarely able to converse with real human beings about the Mets. The last real-life conversation I had about the Mets was with a girl who was wearing a Braves jersey at my gym, last November (there's something about a woman with a tomahawk across her chest that really appeals to me, but i digress).

Once I woke up at 3am to watch Shawn Estes miss Roger Clemens ( it was a day game in NY shown live on TV here)

I had planned a vacation to NY last October before....well, you know.

[Guest Triple Dee]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: They plunder and they chunder. Can you hear the thunder?

You better run, you better take cover.

[Farmer Ted]

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