IGT--Nationals @ Mets, 05/27/09

[ashie62]

I think Ramon Martinez gets some Schaefer for one of the better neighborhood DP'S I've seen in a while.

[Willets Point]

The audio has gone kaput on MLB.TV.

[Guest holychicken]

Willets Point wrote: The audio has gone kaput on MLB.TV.

I am still listening right now.

But I am just listening to the audio feed. . .realized you might be talking about the video feed.

[Fman99]

Slice of cold pizza, gin and juice, and Mets baseball! Good times.

[Elster88]

Gary I have a lot of respect for you. But don't say that the difference in the clubhouse (without Delgado) is reflected in the Met play. You're better than that.

[nymr83]

Wright strikes out for the 4th time tonight.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Awesome pic, NYMR. I may have to make that my wallpaper.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Unless its the last week of the September with the season on the line, a visit from the Nats is good for what ailes you.

The FAN feed is down, but I can get the Nats' feed. Horrible.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Nice that the Marlins helped us tonight, too!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

="Nymr83"]Wright strikes out for the 4th time tonight.

Do you still get the sombrero if you get a hit? Is it just a less precious metal, then? Is it pyrite if you get jobbed on bad ball-and-strike calls?

Edited May 27, 2009 by Guest

[Piggiestomatoes]

Young Daniel, you should have had that ball.

Just got home and, again, these Nats announcers (particularly Dibble) are horrible!

[Fman99]

Dibs is the worst. He's a smear.

Unearned run, now 7-4 and Dunn on deck as the potential tying run. Which gives me the fear.

[Guest holychicken]

I know that run was not an ER.

However, if a player gets a hit with 2 outs and take second on defensive indifference and then scores on a single, is that run earned?

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Nats announcers keep complaining about fans walking in front of them. And they think on Murph's homer that "something hit the ball" before it hit the Subway sign, and therefore was in play.

[Frayed Knot]

These have been really fugly-ass games the last two nights.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

SWEEP!!!!

[Fman99]

Put that muthafucka in your muthafuckin books!

[Guest Kong76]

First place NY Mets.

[Frayed Knot]

holychicken wrote: I know that run was not an ER. However, if a player gets a hit with 2 outs and take second on defensive indifference and then scores on a single, is that run earned?

Yes, that IS an earned run.

[Guest holychicken]

Frayed Knot wrote: Yes, that IS an earned run.

Thanks. Seems borderline, which is why I asked.

[Guest Kong76]

hc: However, if a player gets a hit with 2 outs and take second on defensive indifference and then scores on a single, is that run earned <<<

Yes.

[Elster88]

A thought on the earlier stuff regarding the home run: the sightlines may be bad but at least in this case it wasn't the sightlines that made it so hard but rather the gratuitous advertising.

[metirish]

So this is an average outing for Johan?.....

[ashie62]

metirish wrote: So this is an average outing for Johan?.....

Yeah..kinda funny

I hear a new chant at the park ----- sucks and it ain't the MFY"S..Anybody here it?

[Guest Kong76]

And with that, uh ... everyone arrive home safely.

[Gwreck]

Nice game. Still can't figure out why Johan couldn't throw strikes there. I understand walking Flores or Guzman, I guess, but Jordan Zimmerman? They guy doesn't have a major league hit. You can't take a few MPH off the fastball and groove a couple? Tip your cap if he hits the home run but somehow I doubt that would happen.

I couldn't tell from my seats in 514 where the ball hit but it clearly hit *something* on the porch, based on how the ball fell down after striking part of the stadium. Clearly a HR.

I was very surprised to not see Fernando Martinez yanked from the game, especially given that Tatis was in the game as PH and could've gone to left with Sheffield moving to right. Fans were all over him, as I suppose they should be.

The Mets just don't get it and still keep trying for force "Sweet Caroline" down everybody's throat. Lots and lots of booing.

[Guest Edgy DC]

The problem in part is that there are no alternative songs people like to sing along to anymore at all. Not in the United States.

"Sweet Caroline" allows people (drunks) to a-melodically yell "duh-duh-duuuh!" and "So Good! So Good! So Good!" and that's more than most songs.

You know, that's what made the "Jose! Jose! Jose!" chant so good before the Mets ruined it. It may have been only like three different notes, but folks spontaneously sang something.

Edited May 27, 2009 by Guest

[Elster88]

="Edgy DC"]The problem in part is that there are no alternative songs people like to sing along to anymore at all. Not in the United States.

Hey let's not have a sing-a-long at all then! I graduated kindergarten a long time ago. We can all sing together in karaoke bars. Let's go Mets chants fulfill my need for ritualistic tribal chanting at the stadium.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Hey, am I required here?

[Gwreck]

You know, I went back and looked at the tape of the game: on Daniel Murphy's home run, Sheffield was tagged out at home plate. I don't think he ever touched the plate, and he didn't go back out to touch it after the replay call was made.