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

[bmfc1]

Nice description, Grimm, calling it "Swoboda-like."

Edited May 15, 2008 by Guest

[Guest AG/DC]

That's a good situation.

Delgado has the infield in I assume.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Carlos, give us a fly ball for a sac, please!

[Guest Grote15]

Carlos... fails....I'm tearing..

[Benjamin Grimm]

Delgado smokes one, but it turns into a game-ending double play.

[Guest Grote15]

OK...this may have done it for Willie Randolph....I predicted May...

[Guest AG/DC]

Boogers.

I'm going to go choke my pillow.

[metirish]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Delgado smokes one, but it turns into a game-ending double play.

Stunning , I'm stunned.


Great job at play-by-play Ben.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Horrible. Absolutely horrible.

[Guest Grote15]

Any takers that this is the breaking point for Wilpon? It would be for me but I'm a nowhere man.

[Fman99]

Fnerp.

The Mets are suck.

Losing 3 of 4 to these Nats is just awful. Someone punch me in the neck.

[bmfc1]

3 out of 4 and 5 out of 7 against two sucky teams. If they get swept by the MFYs, maybe 2 out of 3, Willie's gone on Monday, or he should be.

[Guest themetfairy]

This is demoralizing. Pelfrey pitches the game of his career and they can't score a single run behind him - Blech!

[Benjamin Grimm]

metirish wrote: Great job at play-by-play Ben.

Thanks!

Now, who's going to punch Fman in the neck?

[Methead]

You gotta be kidding me.

[Guest Grote15]

bmfc1 wrote: 3 out of 4 and 5 out of 7 against two sucky teams. If they get swept by the MFYs, maybe 2 out of 3, Willie's gone on Monday, or he should be.

I'm kinda hoping...like tonight??

[metirish]

] Now, who's going to punch Fman in the neck?

Edited May 15, 2008 by Guest

[bmfc1]

Willie Harris being interview by Ed Coleman right now. When he entered the game, MASN showed a graphic which stated that he lead the league in appearances as a defensive replacement. I laughed because I never saw that stat before. Now we know why he was in the game.

[Frayed Knot]

You can write this one off to a Murphy's Law kind of game but when you get 8 hits (or whatever it was) over two games you're not going to do a lot of winning.

[soupcan]

Nats continue in the Expo tradition of being a thorn in the Mets side.

[metirish]

Mets now at 20 - 19 , 4 - 6 in the last 10 games , they've been a .500 team for far too long now .

[Benjamin Grimm]

I do have to wonder if this is the beginning of the end for Willie.

What happens this weekend could be pivotal for him, although not necessarily for the team.

If they win two or three in the Bronx, I think the vultures will back off for a bit.

If they lose all three (I'm gagging as I type this) I think the calls for his head might grow too loud to be ignored.

[HahnSolo]

FAN reporting that Wagner took some shots at his teammates after the game. Something to the effect of "I didn't play, ask the guys who played. Oh, they're not at their lockers are they?"

[Benjamin Grimm]

I can see why Wagner has been beloved everywhere he's gone.

[bmfc1]

The press goes to Wagner because they want him to say something inflammatory. He should have said "no comment." Or, "we gave it a good try, the boys tried hard, we'll get 'em next time." What he said was his version of "no comment."

[bmfc1]

From Adam Rubin's blog:


Wagner rips teammates for ducking media

That undercurrent of discontent over some Mets ducking the media boiled over after the game. As reporters spoke with Billy Wagner after the loss, first about the Yankees series, then about today�s game, Wagner wondered aloud why the closer was drawing attention.

Then he went Paul Lo Duca-esque, minus the racial component.

He looked over toward the area of Carlos Delgado�s locker and blurted: �Someone tell me why the (expletive) you�re talking to the closer. I didn�t even play. They�re over there, not being interviewed. � I got it. They�re gone. (Expletive) shocker.�

[bmfc1]

Good name for a band: Expletive Shocker.

[Guest AG/DC]

Somebody set up a blog for Billy Wagner.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Wagner talks like a guy with way too much job security.

At the very base of it, I don't really care whether Delgado talks to the press or not after the game. I just don't. Sure I'd prefer we had guys who the press all loved and stuff but just as Wagner's guaranteed $$ and no-trade clause makes him brave enough to say whatever he wants the same applies to guys who choose not to talk.

Rubin today wrote about how the writers were mad that Santana told them all no interviews the other day but was chatting up a spanish-language press; ans also, when he did talk, he lied about whether he knew he'd be startinbg in the MFY series.

I hate to suggest this but when every game has pre and post game TV coverage, there's 2 weekly magazine shows and there's an official house organ on the Internet providing news and highlights, how much more do quotes about the game delivered in the newspapers matter? Not much.

[Guest KC]

Shame the Mets lost today. Watching replay, I enjoyed the visit by Eddie and
Art to the upper deck outside broadcast perch. Howie too.

Feel bad for Pelfster.

Funny line when Howie said something about bringing his first date to Shea
and Keith chimes in, "when was that five years ago?"

As for Wags, shut the fuck up, and keep up the good year you've had so far.