IGT #42 - Mets at Braves - May 20 (Game 1)

[Guest AG/DC]

I'm sad Glavine got out of that first with just the one run scoring.

[metirish]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Can I just interject a conversation I had with Johnny Lunchpail Jr. yesterday. JCL: Who is on the Mets? JLJ: Daybidrye. JCL: What number? JLJ: Five! JCL: Who else is on the Mets? JLJ: Jose Jose JCL: What number is Jose Jose? JLJ: Sebben!

Very cool

[Benjamin Grimm]

AND very cute! (How old is he now?)

Now, who's that guy with the scary voice on The Wheelhouse?

Is he for real?

[Guest AG/DC]

JCL: Who is on the Mets?
JLJ: Daybidrye.

JCL: What number?
JLJ: Five!

JCL: Who else is on the Mets?
JLJ: Jose Jose

JCL: What number is Jose Jose?
JLJ: Sebben!

JCL: Good, now when will you be done reconfigueing that SQL server? I've got readers waiting
JLJ: TREE!

JCL: OK, your mother and I are going for lunch. We'll be back at tree.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

He just turned 2. He actually learned Dabidrye a week or so ago but surprised me knowing Jose Jose (Jose).

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: He just turned 2. He actually learned Dabidrye a week or so ago but surprised me knowing Jose Jose (Jose).

Oh, he's 2. NOW I'm impressed. I thought he was in high school.


(Sadly, my own high-schooler might not be able to name that many Mets. There are times I fear I have failed as a parent. I'll quiz him tonight and see. We're going to see "Sapmalot")

[Valadius]

I had to pop in and comment on the miracle that was Luis Castillo hitting a home run.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Braves take the lead on a series of singles in the third.

Maine's throwing a lot of pitches today. Doesn't look like he'll go too deep into the game.

[Guest AG/DC]

We should have piled on in the first.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

AG/DC wrote: We should have piled on in the first.

Was there any chance Wright could have scored on Churchie's hit?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Maybe. It would have been close, though. The ball was hit hard and scooped up pretty quickly.

Had he gotten the green light and been thrown out, we'd be obsessing over Alomar's recklessness.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Ron Darling reveals that Barry Lyons' nickname was "Mattress Head."

[Benjamin Grimm]

How that came up:

1. Talking about Glavine's first years with the Mets.
2. Led to talk about Art Howe.
3. Comment that Howe had a "Barry Lyons hairline."

[Benjamin Grimm]

Glavine's coasting now. He's retired eleven in a row.

[Centerfield]

I think the only thing that could make this worse is if John Smoltz were sitting on our Disabled List right now.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Maine, meanwhile, throws 70 pitches in the first three innings, and Kelly Johnson leads off the fourth with a double. (Just as Darling is saying that Maine needs a quick easy inning.)

[Centerfield]

Wasn't Maine under Glavine's tutelage while he was here? Maybe he taught him to suck against the Braves.

[Guest mario25]

They cant let this piece of doo-doo Glavine beat them

[Guest AG/DC]

I don't know how Centerfield ever gave up smoking.

[Willets Point]

How bad is it? Gameday has it 2-1 Braves, but y'all are talking like its much worse.

[Fman99]

Mainey doesn't have his good stuff today methinks.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Well, now it's 3-1.

The problem is that Maine is struggling and Glavine is sailing along.

Both of these need to turn around if the Mets are to win this game.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

We will win.

[Willets Point]

See, Glavine was just holding back his best stuff until he returned to his true team.

[Guest AG/DC]

Can't ask anybody to win if we can't back him with more than an unlikely solo homer by Castillo.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah and we can't win convinced that 2 runs is too many to overcome.

[Centerfield]

The strike zone in Gamecast suggests that Glavine is getting the call off the corner again.

[Benjamin Grimm]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Yeah and we can't win convinced that 2 runs is too many to overcome.

I haven't said that they CAN'T win. Just that they need to reverse two trends in order for that to happen.

Keith: It's "ominous" when you get a chance to knock out a great pitcher in the first inning and you don't do it.

[Benjamin Grimm]

And now it's 14 in a row for Glavine.

And Maine has thrown 91 pitches through four innings.

It looks like the bullpen will be getting three or four innings today. Not ideal in the first game of a doubleheader.

I want to see Maine get a quick fifth so he can take the mound for the sixth.

[Fman99]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ="John Cougar Lunchbucket"]Yeah and we can't win convinced that 2 runs is too many to overcome. I haven't said that they CAN'T win. Just that they need to reverse two trends in order for that to happen. Keith: It's "ominous" when you get a chance to knock out a great pitcher in the first inning and you don't do it.

It's more ominous when they retired a dozen guys in a row and rack up the baserunners in the interim.

:sigh: