Opening Day IGT, 4/6/09, Mets @ Reds

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

So who's our Designated Shoveler/Salter?

From the National Weather Service:
Monday Night: Snow showers likely, mainly before 10pm. Cloudy, with a low around 29. Northwest wind around 16 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

[Guest Edgy DC]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: So who's our Designated Shoveler/Salter?

I'll say Sheffield.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

bmfc1 wrote: [ 2. Darnell McDonald LF

I'm the microphone master, DMC
And can't nobody mess around with me
I'm the king of rap, rock and of rhyme
I deal what I feel, and it feels FINE


Probably my favorite rap song ever

[Guest Edgy DC]

The name's "McDonald"
Not "McDonald's"
The homers are Darnell's
But the burgers are Ronald's

[metirish]

Breaking News

game to start at 1:20 and not 1:40 per SNY

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

why? did Nick Lachey cancel?

[TransMonk]

metirish wrote: Breaking News game to start at 1:20 and not 1:40 per SNY

ESPN has 1:10...?

I'm confused.

[metirish]

TransMonk wrote: ="metirish"]Breaking News game to start at 1:20 and not 1:40 per SNY ESPN has 1:10...? I'm confused.

Does ESPN have that as Breaking News that they broke?

Burkhardt said the game was pushed back to 1:40 but Manuel and Baker got together and decided to have it a 1:20 start..that's all I know.

Nick Lachey said he didn't mind getting showered on...

[Guest Edgy DC]

Rubin is all 1:40 also.

He also said planes flying into Cincy were rocked by the weather. The reporters plane was hit by lightening, and the Mets' plane was shook up by heavy turbulence.

[Farmer Ted]

Anyone with the video clip of the Reds mascot taking the death spill off the ATV last year?

[duan]

tv just said 1.20 pm.

[duan]

jesus, that new mlb.tv is amazing.

[duan]

have switched to SNY feed.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Who was that chick?

[duan]

local student at some Cinci School of Performing Arts. The school provide the bulk of the cast in some MTV show.l

[duan]

santana looks pumped up.

[metirish]

Santana will be wrecked tired from the dugout chest bumping and elaborate hand shaking with his team mates all along the dugout....

[Guest Edgy DC]

The Star Spangled Banner Lyrics
By Francis Scott Key 1814



Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

[metirish]

duan wrote: jesus, that new mlb.tv is amazing.

Very cool that you can watch it from there..

[A Boy Named Seo]

Harang does look smaller (but still like a zombie). 40 pounds?!?

[Fman99]

Boo ya! The delay gave me just enough time to hit the liquor store.

Reyes on with the infield single. Let's Go Mets!

[Guest Mendoza Line]

Well, we now know who got the first hit of the year. And the first stolen base.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Let's pinch-hit Sheffield here.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Just missed it. We shoulda sent Sheffield up. Boo, Jerry, boo!

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Opening Day rituals in place.

Mets tie: check

Mets watch: check

Mets bracelet made by a street vendor in Mexico: check

Tom Seaver Starting Lineup figure boldly on display: check

Newsroom television set on ESPN for first pitch: check

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Lots of new gizmos in this year's edition of MLB.com Gameday, but nothing but the basics are working for me right now. You Shan't Know Their Velocity.

[metirish]

SNY has new graphics ...could do with showing them off less.

[Fman99]

For those wondering the Mets are wearing the road grays and the black caps with the blue brims.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Oh, awesome, ESPN360 is streaming the game for free. Huzzah.

http://espn.go.com/broadband/espn360/player?gameId=290406117&sportCode=&league=undefined

[Fman99]

Egh, Santana walks a pair. Throwing a lot of pitches early here.