IGT 09/23, Cubbies at Metsies

[metirish]

[Guest themetfairy]

Whew!

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Exhale.

[Valadius]

Fantastic night. Fantastic.

[Theoldmole]

And Pittsburgh still a run to the good.

[bmfc1]

The Citizen Kane clip is my favorite.

I missed "the books."

[G-Fafif]

A 'Goodbye Yankees' chant followed by a more pedestrian 'Yankees Suck' went up in Mezzanine Section 7 right before the main attraction closed out to the good. Sweet.

[Gwreck]

We had the cheering for the Braves win go up over in our side of the Mezz (complete with some tomahawk chopping).

Big win, of course.

In our section, we were all solidly behind the idea of the squeeze play with Reyes at third and Castillo up.

We also really wanted the pinch runner for Castro when he was on third base.

Not mentioned in this thread: when Johan was batting with a 2-2 count and the bases loaded, some moron ran onto the field -- the back of the infield, between third and short. Nowhere near any players, as the infield was drawn in. Got dragged off by about 15 security officers to the Cubs bullpen.

[G-Fafif]

Gwreck wrote: Not mentioned in this thread: when Johan was batting with a 2-2 count and the bases loaded, some moron ran onto the field -- the back of the infield, between third and short. Nowhere near any players, as the infield was drawn in. Got dragged off by about 15 security officers to the Cubs bullpen.

Nice zig-zagging by the moron, eluding two tackles, the kind of form not shown at Shea since Freeman McNeil.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

There's a good chance that the streaker/runner/moron was a co-worker of my friend, who you may know as the occasional poster GYC.

He had told me that he was going to be on the lookout for something of that nature because a few of the guys he worked with were going to the game, starting their drinking at 2 in the afternoon and preparation, and claimed they wanted to be the last streakers in Shea's history.

[Guest AG/DC]

If there is any good etiquette* at all to disrupting a game with an act of self-immolation, it's that you do it with either the game outcome or the playoffs outlook reliably secured, preferably both.

*And I ain't saying there is.

[G-Fafif]

AG/DC wrote: If there is any good etiquette* at all to disrupting a game with an act of self-immolation, it's that you do it with either the game outcome or the playoffs outlook reliably secured, preferably both. *And I ain't saying there is.

At least it wasn't while Johan was pitching.

[Centerfield]

Not that this is like anywhere near timely now, but I just wanted to throw my two cents in about how nice it is to have an ace.

Remember when we debated whether Leiter was an ace? Santana is a fucking ace. Leiter was just the best pitcher we had.

[Frayed Knot]

This must be at least the 10th time this season where the general consensus has been that THIS is a must game and THIS is the reason we got Johan ... and he's come through each time.

[soupcan]

I was on vacation in Colorado in February and was out to dinner and wearing a Mets hat.

While waiting for a table a guy walks by me, sees my hat and says -"Johan's not worth it, your boys made a bad deal".

Yeah, I don't think so.

[TransMonk]

Johan has met every expectation I had of him from the beginning of the year.

It's really nice to have a guy who is going to keep us in the game everytime he takes the mound.

[Guest AG/DC]

Coolest thing about Johan is that he was darn good but not great in the first half. I consoled myself with the notion that he's always been a second-half pitcher, knowing full well how empty such consolations can be.

He's pretty much been great-plus the second half. Maybe the best one-man pennant drive by a Mets starter since Gooden '85.

[metirish]

Gwreck wrote: We also really wanted the pinch runner for Castro when he was on third base.

Has Jerry ever put the squeeze play on while manager here?

[Gwreck]

Nope.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Castillo drew a pretty big walk last night, ahead of Wright's RBI single. And I thought Reyes coulda scored on his dribbler.

[metirish]

In the booth Gary questioned why Reyes didn't break for home and Keith thought Jerry must have had him under orders not to go, Ron agreed saying that becasue Castillo rarely gets it out of the infield he wanted to give Wright the chance to knock him in.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I was thinking that Reyes, even though he didn't break early, could still have dashed home when he saw how the play was unfolding. The pitcher (I think) had the ball and was kind of stumbling toward the bag to beat Castillo. Jose might have been able to read the play and do a Jackie Robinson-style charge for the plate.

I think he might have made it, since the fielder with the ball had his back to the plate and was heading in the opposite direction.

[metirish]

Great picture.