IGT - Sat 5/24 Mets @ Rox

[Frayed Knot]

Reyes - SS
Castillo - 2B
Wright - 3B
Beltran - CF
Tatis - RF
Delgado - 1B
Castro - C
Evans - LF
Vargas - P

Posednik - CF
Herrera - 2B
Holliday - LF
Helton - 1B
Stewart - 3B
Smith - RF
Ianetta - C
Quintanilla - SS
Francis - P


Couple of new guys/injuries for the Rox also.

Clint Barmes, starting at SS recently due to Tulowitski's injury, is now DL'd (hurt on Reyes's slide yesterday), as is OFer Brad Hawpe.
Call-ups include Ian Stewart who has been their top corner IF propsect for the last few years, and OFer Seth Smith who's most known for backing up Eli Manning at Ole Miss.
That means the Rox are starting backup QBs to both Eli (Smith) and Peyton (Helton) Manning.

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Reyes leads with a single. Castillo, batting 2nd, sac bunts the 1-0 pitch foul.

In the first inning.

In Colorado.

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Two balls, two strikes on Castillo. This takes away the sac bunt. I hope. If Castillo doesn't make an out, Wright gets up with two on and nobody out.

In Colorado. Against a lefty.

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Double steal!

Wright's not bunting. So far.

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Randolph's secretly pissed that he doesn't get to engineer one run on two outs and a balk.

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Bases loaded for Beltran. Nobody out. Big inning?

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Beltran decides not to bunt and instead drives in three runs.

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Beltran clears the bases. A three run double. This is what could happen when you don't bunt with the top of the order. Still, nobody out.

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Call me crazy but I knida like this start.


No word yet on whether Beltran's bases-clearing 2B will quell Joe Badabingo's efforts to dump him immediately in favor of a single-A prospect.

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Willie can smell Gary Carter. Therefore, he probably won't have Tatis sac bunting.

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Tatis still up. Tatis hasn't squared away to bunt.

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Foul ball. On a full non bunting swing.

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Tatis singles. Beltran to third. Still nobody out.

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Carlos Delgado up. Delgado means skinny in spanish.

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FOX show a shot of Minaya and Bernazard in a suite with Horowitz , looked like an animated conversation.

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The skinny on Delgado is that he can't hit lefties anymore. Delgado still means skinny in spanish.

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The Delgado shift must not be on, what with first and third. I wouldn't know, thanks to FOX.

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Delgado fans. Still first and third. Big Ramon Castro up.

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Where have you gone, Gustavo Molina? Evans wears 6.

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I was hoping the rookie Evans would be wearing #24. I like trouble.

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Huge congrats to Evans.

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="metirish"]FOX show a shot of Minaya and Bernazard in a suite with Horowitz , looked like an animated conversation.

JH: "Archuletta! You voted for Archuletta?!?

OM: "Hell yeah, I hated that Cook kid and his phony hard-rock emo shit"

JH: "I would do Syesha in a New York mintue though"

OM: "Jay got Jungle Fever ... Jay got Jungle Fever"

Edited May 24, 2008 by Guest

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Evans rips a line drive double into the vast expanse of the Coors Field outfield.

I lost track of the score. It feels like 20 to nothing. Is there a forfeit rule in place?

Edited May 24, 2008 by Guest

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Reyes can't get picked off from the batter's box now, can he?

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When was the last time the Mets scored 5 in the first inning?

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When was the last time Wright came up with two on and nobody out in the first inning?

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="Frayed Knot"] ="metirish"]FOX show a shot of Minaya and Bernazard in a suite with Horowitz , looked like an animated conversation. JH: "Archuletta! You voted for Archuletta?!? OM: "Hell yeah, I hated that Cook kid and his phony hard-rock emo shit" JH: "I would do Syesha in a New York mintue though" OM: "Jay got Jungle Fever ... Jay got Jungle Fever"

Funny , Jay was holding a bunch of papers which Minaya snapped from his hands.



I'm thinking of watching the game in closed caption , it can't be any more annoying than Stockton and Karros.

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batmagadanleadoff wrote: When was the last time the Mets scored 5 in the first inning?

It's happeed five times this season so far.

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Considering that it's Vargas and Coors field you never know how valuable that 5-spot could be.
In fact, let's we could use 5 more in the 2nd

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metirish wrote: ="batmagadanleadoff"]When was the last time the Mets scored 5 in the first inning? It's happeed five times this season so far.

If it happened five times, it should've happened 10 times.