IGT 7/9/08 - Mets v. Giants

[Gwreck]

San Francisco Giants
Fred Lewis LF
Ray Durham 2B
Randy Winn RF
Bengie Molina C
Aaron Rowand CF
Rich Aurilia 1B
Jose Castillo 3B
Emmanuel Burriss SS
Jonathan Sanchez P

New York Mets
Reyes SS
Chavez RF
Wright 3B
Beltran CF
Easley 2B
Delgado 1B
Tatis LF
Castro C
Santana P


Decent chance of a rain delay/rainout tonight.

[TransMonk]

Every time Carlos B. takes a called third strike it takes me back to that rainy night in 2006.

Swing the damn bat, man.

[TransMonk]

Old fashioned pitcher's duel tonight.

[seawolf17]

Look at Keef's old man glasses.

Ms. Wolf: "He looks more like a librarian than I do."

[TransMonk]

Castro with a 3-run KABOOM!

[Guest themetfairy]

Viva Castro!

[Guest themetfairy]

Just throw some fucking strikes Johan!

[TransMonk]

POURING rain with 2 outs in the top of the 4th. The umps letting them play for the out to make it official.

[Guest themetfairy]

OK - it's an official game!

[nymr83]

we have an official game folks!

[Guest themetfairy]

And it's time for Rain Delay Theater.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

That rain already cleared outta here, could be a shortie?

[Benjamin Grimm]

TransMonk wrote: POURING rain with 2 outs in the top of the 4th. The umps letting them play for the out to make it official.

That provided an interesting kind of drama.

I liked the shots of Bruce Bochy looking dismayed.

And Randy Winn did Santana a huge favor by swinging at the first pitch.

[soupcan]

TransMonk wrote: Every time Carlos B. takes a called third strike it takes me back to that rainy night in 2006. Swing the damn bat, man.

So fucking true.

="themetfairy"]Just throw some fucking strikes Johan!

The language! And you're a mom!

[soupcan]

And while I'm here -

Gary, Keith, Ron - regarding the lower number of complete games, pitches, innings etc. -

Pitchers make LOTS of money these days, the people that pay them would rather they last longer. That's pretty much it.

[Guest themetfairy]

Moms use language too

The tarp is coming off the field.

Nice rain delay killing by Gary, Keith and Ron. Most announcing crews wouldn't be able to handle this kind of thing in such an instructive way.

[Guest AG/DC]

soupcan wrote: ="TransMonk"]Every time Carlos B. takes a called third strike it takes me back to that rainy night in 2006. Swing the damn bat, man. So fucking true.

Yabbut, did you see yesterday's homer? The Freak threw a yakker that dropped from the letters to the cup that 'Los waited on perfectly to rip out. It really went a long way in exorcising that particular ghost for me.

In my notion of him, he usually fights the breaking pitch off (at best) to look for the fastball. He was all over it like a seagull on sick mollusk.

Edited July 9, 2008 by Guest

[soupcan]

You're totally right and I actually thought about that yesterday when he hit that ding-dong.

You know though, that K in '06 was so devastating that I still see it everytime he goes down looking.

[nymr83]

a yankee fan i know was Carlos Beltran for Halloween in '06, he wore the jersey and a whiffleball bat... which was taped to his shoulder.

[Guest themetfairy]

And we're back after a 42 minute rain delay.

[Guest AG/DC]

Nymr83 wrote: a yankee fan i know was Carlos Beltran for Halloween in '06, he wore the jersey and a whiffleball bat... which was taped to his shoulder.

All the more reason we need to get over it. The team lost that game, not Carlos. Yankee-fan-Nymr-knows can stick it.

You know, I was the Yankees for that same Halloween party. I didn't even get invited to the party.

Get it?

[TransMonk]

AG/DC wrote: Yabbut, did you see yesterday's homer?..

="soupcan"] You know though, that K in '06 was so devastating that I still see it everytime he goes down looking.

What soup said. I'm not meaning to say he watches a lot of great pitches fly by him. It's just when he does, that memory makes me want to puke.

[Guest themetfairy]

Heilman comes in to pitch the 6th.

[Frayed Knot]

Not a great sign that Johan didn't come back out after the short-ish rain delay.

Either he's hurt which certainly isn't good.
Or he asked out which isn't great either.
Or mgmt is being overly protective of him on a night with a short turn-around which I don't love either.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

The table is set for Mr. Wright in the 7th.

Come on, we need some insurance runs.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

hey, just getting here. Did they say why Santana didn't come back? I'm guessing it was because of the rain?

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Wright grounds out to third without advancing the runners. Intentional pass to Beltran to load the bases with two outs. Bochy will take his chances with the red hot Easley.

Burn him Damion.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Easley chooses a bad time to emulate Wright as he grounds to third to end the inning.

[soupcan]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: hey, just getting here. Did they say why Santana didn't come back? I'm guessing it was because of the rain?

I don't think they said yet.

My guess is that wasn't Johan's call.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Cardinals just scored two to tie the Phillies! This could be a very good night.