IGT - 4/13 Rubber game vs. Milwaukee

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Hey, only 3 and 9/10 years left on Castillo's contract.

[Valadius]

Come on Carlos. Launch one.

[Zvon]

Bases bloated for Delgado.

[Valadius]

Let's go Delgado!

[TransMonk]

motherfather

I hate this game.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

I don't envy Brewers fans for having to watch a Gagne/Mota/Turnbow bullpen. Even when they're good they're terrifying.

[Guest KC]

THAT

INNING

SUCKED

[Zvon]

Gah. Only decent pitch Mota threw all day. A riser.
Gets CarlosD to pop out.

If Delgado swung at that strike he looked at--turned on it, well......he didn't.

[TransMonk]

Last call for a win...Church, Easley, Schneider.

[Guest KC]

Let's

[Zvon]

GO

[Guest OlerudOwned]

METROPOLITANS

[Guest AG/DC]

Let's

[Zvon]

="Zvon"]GO

[Guest OlerudOwned]

METS

[Zvon]

Lets go home....

[Guest AG/DC]

Let's... call this the suckiest loss of the year.

[Fman99]

Maybe it's not a bad thing that I couldn't watch this fiasco.

[Guest KC]

I feel like I aged a month today ... check under yours seats and safe home.

[Guest *62]

Someone please start the POTG thread .... I have anger issues to resolve.

[Zvon]

Steve: "Hey, where's Reyes?
Did he lose his starting job?"

[Guest OlerudOwned]

[Gwreck]

Things that drove me absolutely fucking nuts today:

1. The moron Yankee fans in my section cheering for the Brewers. Go play on the train tracks.

2. The ass clown who, after every strikeout by Mets pitching, let out this stupid wordless yell for about 2 minutes. No, really. The kicker: people were cheering and applauding him.

3. Bottom of the 6th, 2 on, 2 out. Pagan and Castillo each just walked on 5 pitches, and David Wright comes up...and swings at the first pitch. Attention David: maybe Torres was having some control issues there? Taking a pitch or two might be prudent.

4. Bottom of the 7th - Delgado hits into what is seemingly another double play, but somehow he makes it to first in time (I thought he was out). Later in the inning, when Schneider grounds into the inning ending DP, he's safe at first. Bad call, and all Wilie does is trot out after everybody's already back in the dugout and has a little chat with Ed Montague, as if they're discussing where to get a good slice after the game. I know it's not Willie's style, but just a little, tiny bit of frustration/anger could be shown by our manager. You say in the post game that you want the team's play to be more "crisp"? How about a little more "crispness" from you. That one deserved a much bigger argument. C'mon Willie, show a little fight.

5. Bottom of the 8th, first and third and Castillo grounds out to first.

Attention Brady Clark:
1. You are NOT the tying run (we are down by 2)
2. It is NOT a force play.
So why are you breaking on contact? Also, your slide into home was terrible.

6. Oliver Perez giving back a four run lead as soon as his offense gives it to him. Terrible, just terrible.

On the traditional 1-10 scale of frustration this one was a 15. Plus it was cold and windy and cloudy and generally miserable at Shea.

[Guest AG/DC]

Brady Clark's head needs some straightening out.

[Guest Grote15]

For all the hype about the Mets the last few years the Mets have won nothing other than a divisional title.

How do Willie and the jacket keep their jobs?

The good news is Oliver Twist is a FA at the end of the year.

[Guest AG/DC]

I don't kow what hype you're talking about.

Plenty of teams haven't won division titles in the last three years.

That's neither good news nor bad. It just is.

[Guest KC]

Woof

[stevejrogers]

TransMonk wrote: ="SteveJRogers"]What is worse than the "Everybody Clap You Hands" bit at Shea? When fans clap like sheep to it. Yeah, God forbid baseball clubs actually encourage fan participation in a baseball game in order to make the experience of attending the ballpark more enjoyable. Do you sit on your hands during a rally when you're at a game?

It's one thing for some classic organ music to be played, or some sort of cheesy rally clip to be played on the screen (Hackman's Hoosier's "I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game..." speech that ends with everyone clapping, Peter Finch's "Get out of your seats, open the window and yell..." leading to Lets Go Mets, etc) or goofy trivia segments in-between innings.

But it's another thing to hear some obnoxious voice come over the PA and say "EV-REY-BOD-Y-CLAP-YO-HANDS!" followed by some canned clapping noise designed to tell the fans "You must CLAP NOW! CHEER ON YOUR TEAM!"

Not to sound too much like certain curmudgeons but there is a stark difference between something being an organic cheer (and yes I'll give that much props to the annoying WOOOO that fans have added to "LETS-GO-METS" in recent years for being an organic thing) and something that is created by the Shea PA staff designed to direct the audience into doing something.

And of course yes it's not just at Shea, but it is just about EVERY sporting event possible, and I do realize that the genie isn't going to get put back in the bottle on this one.

I'm also extra grouchy today because of what I witnessed on that field today and the usual coldness inside the wind tunnel known as the Loge Reserves.

[Guest themetfairy]

I'm back from the game. Cold and pissed off.

Blech!

As for "Everybody Clap Your Hands," that causes me to cringe in pain, and my son to comment about the banality of it. At least the kid has his head on straight.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The way I look at it the real failure today was Oliver's. Smith too. I mean, get 2 outs.

But we scored 7 and brought the tying run up or on base a million times. Granted I missed the Clark fiasco and you can't be pleased with Wright's groundout, and you already knew Castillo's considerable limitations, but we hit well enough to beat a good hitting team like Milwaukee most days and had some bad luck too.