Fish Fry IGT, 8/9/08

[G-Fafif]

Ramirez SS
Gonzalez RF
Cantu 3B
Willingham LF
Jacobs 1B
Uggla 2B
Baker C
Amezaga CF
Olsen P

vs.

Reyes SS
Evans LF
Wright 3B
Beltran CF
Delgado 1B
Tatis RF
Easley 2B
Cancel C
Stokes P

Brian Stokes wearing No. 43

Let's Go Mets!

[G-Fafif]

Fernando Tatis starts the night with another catch only he can make. He's like Endy if Endy was the Warren Beatty character in "Heaven Can Wait".

Stokes comes backs to earth by giving up a ground rule 2B, but recovers with a more routine fly ball.

The other Brian Stokes played a militant basketball player in The White Shadow.

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I saw Brian Stokes Mitchell in "Kiss Me Kate" and "Kismet". Had tickets to "Man of La Mancha" but it was cancelled during a brief musicians strike.

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Reyes handles Willingham's liner like it's a soft fleece blanket on Delta Airlines Fleece Blanket Night.

[bmfc1]

We're back from Dewey Beach, pumped for an exciting evening of Mets baseball.

[bmfc1]

J. Reyes might need a day off. Perhaps Monday afternoon.

[TransMonk]

Shea PA plays Mr. Roboto after Delgado's HR?

How long has this been going on?

[Guest KC]

Hard to tell where Delgado's bomb landed ... it may still be in flight.

[metirish]

Carlos in the dugout writing in his note book , maybe I missed it but I have not seen him do that in a long while.

[TransMonk]

4 run first innings are nice, gives Stokes some breathing room.

[Frayed Knot]

Did our pitcher sing the national anthem too?







Smacking Scott Olsen around early and often is definitely worth the price of admission.

[Guest AG/DC]

Uggla's just going downhill since the All Star Game, isn't he?

Does Keith still work here?

[Guest KC]

Gotta suck being Keith.

[metirish]

I think Keith works a few weeks straight then takes a few off .

[metirish]

Stokes AB song , Tonight ,Tonight...Smashing Pumpkins.

[apmorris]

Hey guys, checkin in.

[TransMonk]

Fuckbuckets.

Stokes has been pretty good, but 2 two run bombs have tied up this game.

The offense hasn't been helping since the first, either.

[Guest KC]

The offense does snooze an awful lot.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Hey, watching the Marlin's catcher's wife in China.

How was Stocker, other than the two-run bombs?

[TransMonk]

We plate one in the 6th with the bottom of lineup.

Still only one out runner on 2nd.

[seawolf17]

And Tateasley does it again. 5-4 good guys.

[seawolf17]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Hey, watching the Marlin's catcher's wife in China. How was Stocker, other than the two-run bombs?

Very good, actually. I was impressed. The Jacobs home run was a bad pitch that got crushed. It was one of those old-school Darryl long-swing low-ball home runs.

[TransMonk]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: How was Stocker, other than the two-run bombs?

I wasn't blown away, but he threw strikes. 6 Ks in 5.2 IP.

If he would have gotten through the 6th without giving up the 2 out Jacobs HR, I would have definitely given him a higher grade.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Cool. Good to know there is help when we need it.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

This kid fucking rocks.

[TransMonk]

Dan Murphy is a GOD!

[seawolf17]

Dan Murphy for MVP.

Crowd's been good tonight -- nice ovation for Stokes when he was removed from the game, then they just asked Murphy for a curtain call.

[Guest KC]

This Murphy story keeps getting better, and better, and better ...

(if only my fingers could post as well as he's been hitting :-)

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

KC wrote: This Murphy story keeps getting better, and better, and better ... (if only my fingers could post as well as he's been hitting :-)

And one game in NO! He's basically coming up from Double A and doing this. How has he been under the radar? We're lucky he's not a Twin.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Bomb-tran. Woulda been more impressive were Wright not caught stealing in the same AB.