IGT 5/13/2008 Nats at Mets

[stevejrogers]

Nats
Lopez 2B
Guzman SS
Zimmerman 3B
Johnson 1B
Milledge CF
Kearns RF
Dukes LF
Nieves C
Lannan SP

Mets
Reyes SS
Church RF
Wright 3B
Beltran CF
Alou LF
Delgado 1B
Easley 2B
Schneider C
Maine SP

One another board I suggested that something the Mets really could use this year is a nice win streak, or a stretch where they run off 20 out of 25 or something.

Well, no better time than...

[Benjamin Grimm]

SteveJRogers wrote: On another board I suggested that something the Mets really could use this year is a nice win streak, or a stretch where they run off 20 out of 25 or something.

How come you don't share that kind of keen insight with us?

[stevejrogers]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ="SteveJRogers"]On another board I suggested that something the Mets really could use this year is a nice win streak, or a stretch where they run off 20 out of 25 or something. How come you don't share that kind of keen insight with us?

Because I'd get flammed for being too pessimistic. I ended that post feeling that the Mets probably don't have it in them this year.

[Elster88]

Keep it on the other board then. If you're not going to say it here, why even bring it up?

[Frayed Knot]

Maine plunks first batter with first pitch.
Payback for last night cheerleading session no doubt.

[Frayed Knot]

"Because I'd get flammed for being too pessimistic"

When talking about the suggestion that this (or any) team could benefit from a 20 of 25 streak I don't think "pessimistic" is the phrase you're looking for.
Seems to me that "absurdly obvious" works better.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Seems to me that by saying the "I said this on another board," you are saying it here.

[stevejrogers]

="Frayed Knot"]"Because I'd get flammed for being too pessimistic" When talking about the suggestion that this (or any) team could benefit from a 20 of 25 streak I don't think "pessimistic" is the phrase you're looking for. Seems to me that "absurdly obvious" works better.

No, the fact that I ended that post by saying that I don't see this team pulling that off at all this year would have been overly pessimistic.

In any event, Wright extends his hit streak, but Mets strand him.

[Frayed Knot]

Predicting that a team will NOT pull off a 20 or 25 (or such similar streak) is not exactly going out on a limb.

We now return you to your regular game already in progress.

[stevejrogers]

Speaking of absurdly obvious, a DP would be nice right here.

[Guest AG/DC]

The old 6-5 works.

[stevejrogers]

AG/DC wrote: The old 6-5 works.

That IS one way of doing it!

[Guest AG/DC]

Washington Post says waaah:

With the Trash Flying, Nats Take Out Mets

Nationals 10, Mets 4

NEW YORK, May 12 -- Shea Stadium, decrepit and months from demolition, deserved a game like this one -- filled with both trash and trash talk. Shea's walkways around the visitor's clubhouse are a dump of discarded energy drinks and tangled extension cords. On Monday, a 20-mph wind ripped in from the outfield, at one point causing a garbage bag to tumble-weed across the infield.

In a strange way, though, the Washington Nationals used those aesthetics -- on a night when the game itself resembled the setting -- to remedy one of their most miserable stretches of the season. The Nationals defeated New York, 10-4, in large part because the Mets' sloppiness exceeded their own.

Two Mets errors led to two Nationals unearned runs.

New York starting pitcher Nelson Figueroa, over five innings and 108 pitches, walked five batters and hit two more.

And even after exiting the game, Figueroa decided to attempt a few more shots, upset about what he felt was exaggerated cheering from the Nationals' dugout.

"They were cheerleading in the dugout like a bunch of softball girls," Figueroa said. "I'm a professional just like anybody else. I take huge offense to that. If that's what a last-place team needs to do to fire themselves up, so be it. They could show a little more class, a little more professionalism now that they won tonight, but in the long run, they're still who they are."

The belabored play-by-play that filled this game's 3 hours 15 minutes explained part of Figueroa's postgame disposition. Most of his time on the mound was serenaded by the jeering of 45,321. The Mets right-hander allowed three hits to Washington pitcher Odalis P�rez and a decisive sixth-inning two-run double to Lastings Milledge, who broke from what Manager Manny Acta called "a tailspin."

The Nationals had arrived in New York needing any sort of win, in-artful or not. Since May 4, they had dropped from four games out of first to a season-high 8 1/2 . In the weekend series against the Marlins, they got blown out and got their hearts broken. And the only thing worse than extending a losing streak is doing so at Shea on a night when the temperature fell well below 50 degrees.

So the Nationals found an unlikely formula to avoid such misery, and it included both a starting pitcher, P�rez, who had earned his last win since Aug. 18, and a reserve outfielder, Elijah Dukes, who decided around the third inning to start some clapping from his dugout seat.

"Just changing the feeling in the clubhouse," Dukes said. "It was funny, though. Kind of softballish."

"What [were] we going to do?" Milledge said. "We're not going to cater to anybody on the opposition. We're not going to cater to him or anybody else. We've been down the last couple days. We got to get something going."

P�rez took care of things on his end, too, surviving 6 1/3 innings filled with 11 hits, two of them home runs. This season, the left-hander had gained a reputation for reliability, with a 3.43 ERA. But he'd also found a penchant for no-decisions. In his last four starts, he'd departed games with scores of 1-1, 3-2, 2-2 and 3-3.

Bloody hell. Energy bar wrappers. Oh, the humanity.

[stevejrogers]

Mets draw first blood. 1-0 in the second after a Schneider infield hit.

OE: From one SS who replaced a World Series champion to another!
<--

[Guest AG/DC]

Schneider brought the run home on a groundout.

The two infield hits in the rally were Alou to the shortstop and Delgado bunting.

[bmfc1]

Thanks Damion.

[Guest KC]

That Ryan Zimmerman is a pain in the ass.

[stevejrogers]

KC wrote: That Ryan Zimmerman is a pain in the ass.

Thought this was going to be re-arranging the sock drawer night?

[bmfc1]

Churchy for the All-Star Game!

[Elster88]

We robbed the Nats in that Ryan Church deal.

[Elster88]

I am normally dead-set against the kind of comment I'm about to make:

After the Church home run they went to the dugout camera...and there was no excitement at all.

[Guest KC]

*** throws sneaker at Rogers ***

[bmfc1]

On MASN, some bimbo is interviewing the Nationals pitcher's HS coach... during this time--HR and double. Keep the interview going!

[stevejrogers]

***Hurls bunch of office supplies at KC***

[Guest KC]

E88: >>>dugout camera...and there was no excitement at all<<<

That was kinda weird, I wonder what Reyes said to Delgado (I think) almost
kinda emphatically or something -- I don't know if that's the word I'm looking
for exactly -- almost like I told you so or something.

[Elster88]

I like HoJo's mustache.

[batmagadanleadoff]

SteveJRogers wrote: OE: From one SS who replaced a World Series champion to another!

What does "OE" mean?

[stevejrogers]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: ="SteveJRogers"]OE: From one SS who replaced a World Series champion to another! What does "OE" mean?

On Edit. After my post I saw that I had moved from Kevin Elster to Frank Taveras, and rather than making a brand new post noting that neat little item, I went back and added it to the post.

[batmagadanleadoff]

SteveJRogers wrote: ="batmagadanleadoff"]What does "OE" mean? On Edit. After my post I saw that I had moved from Kevin Elster to Frank Taveras, and rather than making a brand new post noting that neat little item, I went back and added it to the post.

Thanks.

SteveJRogers wrote: Mets draw first blood. 1-0 in the second after a Schneider infield hit. OE: From one SS who replaced a World Series champion to another! <--

So what does that mean? The part about the shortstops?

[stevejrogers]

Everything you wanted to know about all 500+ different posting levels here at The Cranepool Forum.

I went from the posting level that Elster (who replaced 1986's Rafael Santana) to that of Taveras (who replaced 1969's Bud Harrelson)