IGT 7-1-2008 "A Call To Armas" Mets at Red Birds

[stevejrogers]

Mets
Reyes SS
Chavez LF
Wright 3B
Beltran CF
Church RF
Delgado 1B
Easley 2B
Castro C
Armas P

Cardinals
Schumaker RF
Miles 2B
Pujols 1B
Ankiel CF
Glaus 3B
Duncan LF
Molina C
Wellemeyer P
Ryan SS

[Frayed Knot]

I think I was saying something about a "Murphy's Law" season earlier?
Wellemeyer retires ONE batter gets out of the inning unscathed.


Meanwhile, Reyes's SB pct = barely adequate
28 of 37 ~ 75% and when you add in the pickoffs it's worse still

[stevejrogers]

Reyes gets caught stealing after a leadoff single by F. Molina.

FWIW, Tony Armas Jr. does have an MLB.com pic for his profile. So there!

[stevejrogers]

Just reading that now on GameDay, wow!

Yeah it was an "everything that can go wrong..." type of inning for the Mets!

[stevejrogers]

Ankiel with a 2 run homer (Aaron Miles had a one out double).

Making that hard luck top of the first even MORE hard luck for the Metsies!

[stevejrogers]

Glaus with a basehit. This is not looking good.

BTW, is it true that the Mets have not come from behind from 3 runs down all year? That can't be right, can it?

Edited July 1, 2008 by Guest

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Tremendous, unrelenting suck

[stevejrogers]

Time to get those runs back!

[stevejrogers]

Thats one. A start.

[Frayed Knot]

The only team to run itself out of more runs tonight is the frickin Rangers who let Joba the Hut off the hook big time with some real dumbth.

[Guest AG/DC]

We needed Tony Armas Sr. there.

[stevejrogers]

Ehhhh. We got on the board at least. Now if Armas can SETTLE DOWN, maybe a lead can be had!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I think we need Tony Armas III.

[Frayed Knot]

There ya go Ramon!

[Fman99]

Ramon Castro can drink my milkshake.

[Fman99]

No, I take that back. Give me that milkshake, Ramon!

[Fman99]

Easley saves a run with a nice pickup on a hard grounder. On to the top of the inning...

[Guest AG/DC]

The Cardinal broadcasters and Aflac asks, "Who were the principles in the last trade between the Cards and the Mets?"

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Jesse Orosco and Joe McEwing?

[Guest cooby]

No Zvon tonight? I hope he hasn't given up!

[Guest AG/DC]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Jesse Orosco and Joe McEwing?

Nope.

[Guest AG/DC]

Fman99 wrote: Easley saves a run with a nice pickup on a hard grounder. On to the top of the inning...

He costs a run perhaps, by chasing crap out of the strike zone offered up by a pitcher who has nothing.

Castro gets some measure of makeup.

[Guest KC]

I sign on, Wright homers!

7-3 in the sixth.

[Guest AG/DC]

David Wright: pretty good for a bad season.

[Guest KC]

Lotta season left. I wanna leave St. Louis with three under the belt.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Needs a triple in his next turn.

[Gwreck]

Trivia answer is Wilson Delgado and Roger Cedeno?

We need to buy Keith and Gary a map. I remember this same geography problem from either last year or '06.

Keith: "Well, Missouri, I think it's the only state that is surrounded by 8 other states..."
Gary: "I think it's 11..."

Gwreck: "Jeez. Both Missouri and Tennessee are bordered by 8 states each."

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I was trying to imagine the 11 states surrounding Missouri.

[Guest AG/DC]

Gwreck wrote: Trivia answer is Wilson Delgado and Roger Cedeno?

Throw Chris Widger in there, but yeah, judges say you get a beer.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

This is the O I was anticipating arriving last night.