IGT 4/21/08 - Mets at Cubs

[Valadius]

John Maine will strike you out if he wants to...

[Gwreck]

Mets
Reyes
Castillo
Wright
Beltran
Delgado
Church
Casanova
Chavez LF
Maine

Cubs
Reed Johnson CF
Ryan Theriot SS
Derrek Lee 1B
Aramis Ramirez 3B
Kosuke Fukudome RF
Mark DeRosa LF
Geovany Soto C
Mike Fontenot 2B
Carlos Zambrano P

[bmfc1]

Congratulations to Dan Shulman, of ESPN, for setting the record in seeing how fast an announcer will mention the you-know-what of '07. Shulman did it while Reyes was up in the top of the first! Way to be original Dan!

[Guest themetfairy]

I'm watching on SNY. I had enough of the ESPN announcers last night to last a lifetime.

[Zvon]

I absolutely loved the lead in video thing.
Fantastic performance---BRAVO!!



I gotta send that link to my brothers.

[Zvon]

Nice play by Casanova on the dribbler in front of the plate to end the 2nd.

No score after 2 and a half.

[nymr83]

Aramis hits the big F-You shot. 2-0 Cubbies

[nymr83]

yeah! lets walk fontenot to get to lee! great idea!

[nymr83]

Mets get one back but Beltran strands 2 runners. Its 2-1 Cubs.

[Zvon]

After getting two on no out to start that inning, top of the line up batting, I thought , ok- time to not only get on the board, but take this game back.

And Reyes of all people hits in to yet another double play ><

Dagnabbitt!

[Theoldmole]

Why has Endy played the last two games? Pagan hurt?

[Guest AG/DC]

Good question.

We can talk about bullpenners all we want, but one run won't cut it 19 nights out of 20.

[Zvon]

TheOldMole wrote: Why has Endy played the last two games? Pagan hurt?

The only thing I read about him made no mention of injury.
As a matter of fact, it led me to believe he was given a day of rest before this series and he would be playing vs his former team.

[Guest Triple Dee]

The dropsies are contagious.

[nymr83]

reyes and wrignt both getting sloppy..

[Zvon]

Fuk me.

Fukudome's single loads the bases with no out.

Keep it down Heilman,...we need that triple play.

Nice K.
Ok, double play.

[nymr83]

no thanks to his defense, heilman has loaded bases with nobody out...

[nymr83]

he gets the HUGE STRIKEOUT

[nymr83]

HE GETS THE BIG POPUP!

[nymr83]

Aafter fouling off 3 2-strike pitches ceeno smacks a single putting the mets down 4-1. great effort by heilman after the E.

[Guest Triple Dee]

Fuck-a-doodle-doo.

Heilman was lucky to get away with the balk.

[Zvon]

Ugh.

Errors kill man, errors kill.

The floodgates are officially open.

[Guest AG/DC]

You know that whole "Let's get some more runs" thing at the end of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"? Maybe that works.

[Guest Triple Dee]

Sosa gives up the big Cookie. 7-1 Cubs.

[nymr83]

there was no reason to take heilman out given the score, just let him try and finish it

[nymr83]

Castillo wastes no time flailing at the first pitch despite needing baserunners...

[Guest themetfairy]

Blech.

At least the thing is over.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Another game where the Mets take several innings off offensively (and defensively) and are out-executed by the other guys. No shame in Maine's performance or, actually, in Heilman's.

I'm not sure Fukodome's epic battle against Heilman didn;t feature more pitches than the Mets let Marmol and Wood get away with in the 8th & 9th combined. Pathetic. I mean, there's a day game tomorrow. Fight them already.

I'm not McLovin Casanova as much as I thought I might now that the season's underway. I know Gustavo Molina traveled to Philly the other day just in case The Schneid had to go onto the DL or catasrophe struck. Casanova needs to have one big hit pretty soon.

Marlon Anderson is again looking like a guy released by the Dodgers last summer.

Woulda bneen nice had we known the enemy.

[Guest AG/DC]

I'm thinking Marlon could do with a start at first and see if that can get him going.

I'm thinking Delgado could do with that as well.

[Fman99]

Well that sucked didn't it.