IGT, 3/8- US vs. Venezuela

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Mora singles in the bottom of the third off Oswalt to drive in Marco Scutaro. 1-0, K-Endys.

Rollins looking like an MVP on the basepaths so far (picked off after a leadoff double, following yesterday's pinch-running CS). Thanks, guy!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Oswalt gets Abreu on a lazy fly and Mucho Cabrera on a tapper to second to escape a two-on jam. 1-0, end of third.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Former Brave/Cub/Penn Quaker Mark DeRosa triples past Mags Ordonez; Kevin Youkilis and Adam Dunn run free like wild horses, except toward a pentagonal plate, where they both tally scores.

2-1, Fightin' Daveys, end of 4.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Rut roh, Roswalt-- Carlos Guillen walks, Jose Lopez doubles. A couple of grounders later, Roy's pulled for Lindstrom, and Team No-Johan is back on top after 4, 3-2.

[nymr83]

Victor Zambrano bounced from the game after walking in a run, still nobody out... HAHA!

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

LWFS - "Rollins looking like an MVP on the basepaths so far (picked off after a leadoff double, following yesterday's pinch-running CS). Thanks, guy!"

I can only hope that Rollins will consistently contribute such heads up base running to the Phillies offense throughout the 2009 season.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Poor Victor. Some things never seem to change.

[nymr83]

Ianetta clears the bases and is standing at 3rd with a 6-3 lead and nobody out

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

They have a mercy rule? What is this, coed softball? One of the best parts about baseball is that, as Yogi said, it ain;t over 'til it's over.

Yikes.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

The Jeter love is making this hard to watch. Dustin Pedroia makes a great play to end the inning, and they go and give Jeter credit?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Dunn makes it 11 with a blast to right, and is now slugging 2 million in the WBC's first two games (why didn't we look at him, again?).

Stop beating them-- they're already dead!

[metirish]

I watched this game until the 6th inning . I have in the past many times said how much I dislike Rick Sutcliffe but he said something last night that I totally agree with and that was when Rollins was taken out he was very critical of the move wondering why take Rollins out and what are the priorities here , to win or to get guys in the game.....it was a good moment from him.

[Frayed Knot]

In game 1 Davey swapped Jeter out for Rollins so it seems mostly like a time-sharing thing. Funny part was that both O'Brien & Sutcliffe assumed that taking Jeter out could only be the sign of an injury and stuck to that story until they got word from the bench that it was nothing more than a simple substitution.


I don't get annoyed by announcers too often but Sutcliffe just about busts the annoyance meter.
It's not that he's biased (Met fans see bias more often than Joe McCarthy saw communists) it's that he decides on the story-line beforehand (almost always the simplistic cliched one) and then sticks to it no matter if the facts back it up or not.
- so stories like Jeter making the team gel isn't pro-Jeter bias as much as it's rote recitation of cliched nonsense.
- and that McCann going the other way w/a pitch must have been on account of a tutorial from Jeter because he saw them talking before the game (imagine, a catcher and SS talking before a game!!!)
- and Pedroia & Youkilis bring "grittiness" to the U.S. team that didn't have it 3 years back, a dopey statement implying not only that the USA not winning last time was due to being gritty-challenged but that he could somehow sense both the difference and the source of that difference halfway through Game 1. ... btw, credit to Jeter after game 2 who answered the always dopey; 'Is the team winning because you're having more fun?', question with the honest; 'No, we're having more fun because we're winning'
- and Phil Mushnick's column today catches Sutcliffe citing Peavy being "tense" on the mound as the source of his wildness even as the camera shows him smiling and laughing.
- and on and on ...

[Guest Edgy DC]

Thank God for white people, bringing their grittiness into the world.

[G-Fafif]

Frayed Knot wrote: Met fans see bias more often than Joe McCarthy saw communists

The mere fact that Joe McCarthy had a list of communists but not Mets proves he was biased against the Mets.

[metirish]

That FK sums up Rick Sutcliffe perfectly for me....he was waffling on last night about how Jeter has always been this great approachable kid and remains that way .......form most tings I have read he is not exactly that approachable.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Form most tings I have read he is not exactly a kid.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

G-Fafif wrote: ="Frayed Knot"]Met fans see bias more often than Joe McCarthy saw communists The mere fact that Joe McCarthy had a list of communists but not Mets proves he was biased against the Mets.

McCarthy, not a fan of the Reds.

[metirish]

tings is a typo. I don't actually say things like that....

[G-Fafif]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: McCarthy, not a fan of the Reds.

He had a list of them. The rest of would call it a roster -- and count no more than 40 (and then only after September 1).

[Guest Edgy DC]

But damn, look at those win perecentages.

[G-Fafif]

Joe McCarthy was a push-button senator. Pushed a lot of buttons at any rate.