IGT # 39 - Mets v. Washington - May 15, 2005

[Gwreck]

Nationals
Felipe Lopez 2B
Cristian Guzman SS
Ryan Zimmerman 3B
Aaron Boone 1B
Lastings Milledge CF
Austin Kearns RF
Rob Mackowiak LF
Jesus Flores C
Jason Bergmann P

Mets
Reyes
Castillo
Wright
Beltran
Church
Delgado
Castro
Anderson LF
Pelfrey

[Benjamin Grimm]

Castillo's back.

Was Alou also evicted from today's game?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Holy crap, totally forgot this was a gay dame.

[metirish]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Castillo's back. Was Alou also evicted from today's game?

Alou is being rested for the yankee series.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Oh, that's right. He's going to play in the "Cathedral."

[Benjamin Grimm]

Gary, Keith, and Ron are wayyyy up in the Upper Deck.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Oops, they're not as high us as I first thought. They seem to be just behind the box seats.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Howie Rose, Art Shamsky, and Ed Kranepool will all drop by during the telecast to say hi.

[Frayed Knot]

Alou needs the rest after his tiring 3 innings last night.

[metirish]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Oops, they're not as high us as I first thought. They seem to be just behind the box seats.

Hold on a sec , Gary spent all week jawing about doing the game from way up in he nose bleed section , what happened?

[Frayed Knot]

Gary said last night that they were told it was "not logistically feasable" to set them up that high.
Still, even in the lower rows of the upper deck reserved you're sitting pretty damn high.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yeah, those seats are pretty steep.

They're actually sitting in the Upper Level box seats.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Pelfrey's retired his first six batters.

No sign of the "softball girls" yet.

[Guest AG/DC]

Beltran's got a diving basket catch to his credit already.

[Benjamin Grimm]

And Wright adds a nice leaping grab of a line drive.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Ed Kranepool will put on the headphones for the bottom of the third.

I hope he gets through his visit without suing anybody.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Kranepool thinks he was still with the Mets in 1980.

It's strange that I know more about his tenure than he does.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Big Pelf got out of that jam. Did he really ditch the mouthpiece?

[Benjamin Grimm]

This is his second start without the mouthpiece.

What was the story on that thing? My guess is they were afraid he'd bite off his tongue.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Kranepool wants to get on the steroids so he can resume his career.

[Benjamin Grimm]

He's pitched four innings, and Pelfrey has a no-hitter going.

[metirish]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: This is his second start without the mouthpiece. What was the story on that thing? My guess is they were afraid he'd bite off his tongue.

Yeah it's to protect his tongue , they were afraid he would trip over it when he finished his wind up and went into his follow through.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Ed says he gave up his number 21 to Warren Spahn and didn't get any compensation from Spahn for it.

Switched to 7 because the Mets were giving infielders the low numbers, and Ed picked 7 because he was a Mickey Mantle fan.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Ed: "Although I had some problems with Duke 'Schneider' he was helpful to me..."

No follow-up question on what those problems might have been.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Gary mentions the no-hitter on the air, and Keith says, "You just shot the clown!"

[Guest themetfairy]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: This is his second start without the mouthpiece. What was the story on that thing? My guess is they were afraid he'd bite off his tongue.

They thought it kept him from tipping his pitches.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Weird.

]The one Spring Training matter that carried into the season was the mouthpiece. Pelfrey had begun using it in college as a means of camouflaging his pitchers. He had been tipping his pitches by sticking out his tongue. The mouthpiece stopped that until this spring, when teammates told him he was tipping his pitches by chewing the mouthpiece on fastballs, but not breaking balls.

You probably don't want him thinking about his tongue when he's pitching!

[Benjamin Grimm]

The injury to the clown isn't mortal, as Pelfrey gets through five and is now more than half-way to his no-hitter.

Mets need to get a run or two for him.

(I don't post on other boards, but if I did I'd mention there, but not here, that the best way to win a game is to score more runs than your opponent. I hope that doesn't make me sound pessimistic.)

[Benjamin Grimm]

I don't usually participate in IGT's, and I guess that's a good thing, because when I'm here everyone else stays mostly silent!

Art Shamsky has the headphone on and is chatting with the guys.

[HahnSolo]

Rob Mackowiak. Sounds like an "I'm gonna break up a Met no-no" name.