IGT - Philthies @ Mets, 5/6/09

[Guest Swan Swan H]

A clever ruse by the Mets to keep Park in the rotation for three or four more miserable starts, helping sink the Phillies into the third place tar pit they deserve.

[Zvon]

*Z reviews the suck charts*

hey, guess who sucked tonight?
THE PHILS!

[Elster88]

That's a game that would've been great to be at. 1-0 is baseball at it's best.

[Guest themetfairy]

An old fashioned pitching duel.

It's nice that Johan won this one.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Elster 88 wrote:

]That's a game that would've been great to be at. 1-0 is baseball at it's best.

This is the game I was hoping to see last Wednesday.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

="Kong76"]F99: You are a negative nellie this week JCL <<< Wanted to smack him last night (not that I'm actually a violent person)

Am I really getting to you guys? Sorry.

I'll get better once the Mets play a little better (I believe they'll get there), and Jerry stops being my worst enemy.

[Gwreck]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Ron Darling extols the subtle virtues of being Alex Cora. According to Ron, Cora has intangibles. I like intangibles. I especially liked the intangibles Dwight Gooden had from about the middle of 1984 through the middle of 1986. Bernard Gilkey had some great intangibles in 1996 when he had one of the best Met seasons ever. And Tom Seaver has some set of intangibles also, throughout his entire Met career.

I'm with you on this, and was thinking the same sort of thing, but then they flashed his stats for the year and it had an OBP of .412 and an average of .310 something and it occured to me that if that's how he's going to produce -- for now, at least -- I'm fine with him hitting 2nd occasionally.

[Zvon]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Am I really getting to you guys?

Nah.

[Gwreck]

seawolf17 wrote: Jerry's going all out. Do NOT take Santana out of this game. Gwreck, I'm assuming you're at the game. Go lock the bullpen door, and take Ryan Church's helmet away.

Hahahaha. Nope, actually sat this one out as I'm recovering from 4 concerts in 6 days. Will be there tomorrow though. Ordinary would be happy to oblige...

[batmagadanleadoff]

Gwreck wrote: ="batmagadanleadoff"]Ron Darling extols the subtle virtues of being Alex Cora. According to Ron, Cora has intangibles. I like intangibles. I especially liked the intangibles Dwight Gooden had from about the middle of 1984 through the middle of 1986. Bernard Gilkey had some great intangibles in 1996 when he had one of the best Met seasons ever. And Tom Seaver has some set of intangibles also, throughout his entire Met career. I'm with you on this, and was thinking the same sort of thing, but then they flashed his stats for the year and it had an OBP of .412 and an average of .310 something and it occured to me that if that's how he's going to produce -- for now, at least -- I'm fine with him hitting 2nd occasionally.

As a Met fan, I hope you're right. But this reminds me of the Billy Martin anecdote when someone was praising the fast start of an historically bad ballplayer to the Yankee manager. Unimpressed, Martin replied that the player sucks, and that he'll be hitting his usual .230 by season's end.

[batmagadanleadoff]

By the way, Johan Santana is the NL Pitcher of the Month for the month of April.

[Gwreck]

P.S. We're finally back to .500.

[Fman99]

Zvon wrote: ="John Cougar Lunchbucket"]Am I really getting to you guys? Nah.

Not bothering me, just something I noticed. You do your thing boy.

[Guest Kong76]

JCL: Am I really getting to you guys? <<<

Just goofin' on you.

[Guest holychicken]

Do you think Santana will leave his wife and family to enter into a gay relationship with another straight male?

[Guest Kong76]

???

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Don't pretend you're not thinking the same thing, man.

[Guest Kong76]

The Santana gay thing? No.
The Mets looking for ways to blow it? Yes.

[Guest holychicken]

uh. . .I wasn't asking for me. . . it was for a friend. . . seriously, I swear.

[ashie62]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ="Ashie62"]Season over 4/29/2009 ASH I guess that's it then. See you guys next April!

C'mon JCL did the same thing

[soupcan]

I know the Met offense is sputtering night in and night out, but man a 1-0 game is a pretty cool thing. On the edge of your seat with every single pitch. I'll continue take a pitcher's duel over a slugfest any day. That kind of game is to me, what baseball was meant to be.

-Was there last night for my first ever night game. Maybe its just me but the place seems a lot brighter than Shea was at night. Proud to say that I am now 1-2 at games at Citifield.

-Yes it was ugly visor night

-I do not recommend the Acela Club for dinner. Its a prix fixe kind of deal. $48 per person to start. $10 more per person if you want a seat that has views of the field. The prime rib is $5 extra. Side dishes are also $5 extra. The food isn't bad but the service is l-o-u-s-y. We sat at 5:30 and didn't walk out of there until 7:15, mostly due to waiting too long for food, drinks and the check.

[metirish]

Thanks for the heads up with the Acela Club , I was never going to go there but I'm definitely not now. Agree about a pitchers duel over a slugfest , that was a fun game to watch.

Santana is a genius.

[soupcan]

I think if you want to hang out there in bad weather or during a rain delay and just have a drink and watch the game its fine, but I won't have dinner there again any time soon.

Too much good food to be had elsewhere in the park.

Walked through the Caesar's Club on my way to my seats after dinner (I don't think my tix gave me access to it, but no one seemed to be checking). Nice, spacious but no views of the field! WTF? Are you coming to a game to watch the game on the field or are you coming to hang out in a bar and watch it on a flat screen? Why come and spend the $$ if you're going to spend your time in there? That I do not get.

One other observation - Loud Phillie fans all over the place at the beginning of the game - didn't seem to notice or hear them as much after their team made 3 errors and blew the game. Strange.

[metirish]

Listening to Johan talk after the game last night I got the feeling that while he would like more offense he seems to know that when he pitches he's got to be great , it's like his burden and he's accepted it.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Jason Werth wrote: "By the time I threw it I got called for traveling."

Not bad.

[Centerfield]

What a great game. Between the Phillies propensity for comebacks, and Rodriguez's propensity for baserunners, I couldn't bear to watch the ninth inning. Instead, I watched the Celtics-Orlando game and kept flipping back to see the outs tick up on the scroll. Great job all around last night.

Santana is really, really good.

[Guest Edgy DC]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Wow, Feliciano in. I gues Putz has the night off after working the first 24 games this season.

Post of the thread right here.

[Guest Edgy DC]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: ="Gwreck"] batmagadanleadoff wrote: Ron Darling extols the subtle virtues of being Alex Cora. According to Ron, Cora has intangibles. I like intangibles. I especially liked the intangibles Dwight Gooden had from about the middle of 1984 through the middle of 1986. Bernard Gilkey had some great intangibles in 1996 when he had one of the best Met seasons ever. And Tom Seaver has some set of intangibles also, throughout his entire Met career. I'm with you on this, and was thinking the same sort of thing, but then they flashed his stats for the year and it had an OBP of .412 and an average of .310 something and it occured to me that if that's how he's going to produce -- for now, at least -- I'm fine with him hitting 2nd occasionally. As a Met fan, I hope you're right. But this reminds me of the Billy Martin anecdote when someone was praising the fast start of an historically bad ballplayer to the Yankee manager. Unimpressed, Martin replied that the player sucks, and that he'll be hitting his usual .230 by season's end.

And that player was... ?

[batmagadanleadoff]

I don't remember. That's why I omitted that detail.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Great, great game to be at. Santana's stuff just looked nasty (I think that's the hardest he's thrown this year--topping out around 95), and I don't think I'll ever forget Delgado's lumbering run from first. I was positive Werth was going to throw him out, but he inexplicably held on to the ball. It's like he thought it would be more sporting to give Delgado a head start or something.

On the down side, Wright looked lost up there, and Reyes just can't buy a hit. He's been smoking the ball for days, and it's always right at someone.