IGT--Phillies @ Mets, 06/09/09

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Rollins = punk

Two down

[Fman99]

I love that slider. Nasty break on that thing.

[Piggiestomatoes]

Got to give him props. Good, hard slide.

[Willets Point]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Rollins = punk

The same word came to my mind even though it was a great play.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

KROD!!!!!!!

[Fman99]

The Mets had the best starter, and the best finisher, in baseball toeing the rubber tonight.

[Guest themetfairy]

Whew!

[metirish]

Great finish.....Victorino in the dugout with them crazy eyes....yeah fuck you too Shane

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Wow. We really can't ask more than what we getting from KRod. All the talk about All-Stars, both he and Santana need to make that squad.

[Frayed Knot]

Not that it mattered in the long run, but the Phils had no one to pr for tying-run Matt Stairs there?!?
Hell, I'd pr Hamels if I had to.

[Zvon]

Yackity schmakity doo!

[Piggiestomatoes]

Great game.

[bmfc1]

What a game!

[Guest themetfairy]

Towards the end of the game, Keith expressed that he wished all games were like this one.

Gary, whom you could hear getting ulcers by the minute, disagreed.

[Guest Kong76]

mgim: Rollins = punk

He can slide like that any time for any team I'm following.

[Frayed Knot]

Nuthin' wrong with that slide and a lot of things right with it.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Never said it was a bad slide ... but Rollins is still a punk!

[Elster88]

PiggiesTomatoes wrote: Johan, that's a nice swing. I used to love when Leiter did that.

Leiter never did that. Ever.

[Guest Kong76]

mgim: Never said it was a bad slide ... but Rollins is still a punk! <<<

He had a good game, and hasn't been playing well.

I assumed you were talking about the slide.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Reading throuigh this IGT from start to finish was a happy recap of sorts.

Big win for the good guys.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Great game from the park! I mean, as much as you like HR slugfests

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Just got home-- I feel like I'm high.

Shealike buzz in the house tonight. It was bracing... therapeutic, almost.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Howie couldn't shut up about how it was the first time that the park thundered like Big Shea.

[nymr83]

Elster88 wrote: ="PiggiesTomatoes"]Johan, that's a nice swing. I used to love when Leiter did that. Leiter never did that. Ever.

was it Leiter that made a charity-bet with Francessa/Russo that he could hit one ball to the warning track the whole season?

[metirish]

Edgy DC wrote: Howie couldn't shut up about how it was the first time that the park thundered like Big Shea.

Gary remarked on that too.

[Frayed Knot]

Nymr83 wrote: ="Elster88"] ="PiggiesTomatoes"]Johan, that's a nice swing. I used to love when Leiter did that. Leiter never did that. Ever. was it Leiter that made a charity-bet with Francessa/Russo that he could hit one ball to the warning track the whole season?

He made some kind of silly bet with them like that. I forget the details.

But Piggies' original connection was that Leiter used to do that fake-bunt/swing-away thing a lot because it seemed to help his timing and he'd get the occasional (cheesy) hit out of it.
But Elster's right in that Leiter never stung a ball using that method the way Johan did last night. Even big Al's famous triple was really just a well-placed, soft-ish liner that was misplayed into a three-bagger.

[metirish]

Leiter might have been the worst I have ever seen with a bat but he was always fun to watch up there.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Definintely loud and a good time was had by all. I mean, even the Phillies fans got to see 4 home runs.

Two things I must mention:

a) I called the Beltran homer. I mean, really called it. Just had that feeling that after Wright put one out that Beltran would too, and I knew it would be first pitch. Ask the kid sitting next to me, he gave me all sorts of props.

I demanded that Church hit a home run and prove his worthiness. Saw it ticketed for the hat all the way, the way you know a 3-pointer is going in, as by that time we'd moved to the picnic area by French Fry Land.

[Guest Edgy DC]

metirish wrote: Leiter might have been the worst I have ever seen with a bat but he was always fun to watch up there.

Leiter stunk, but it isn't hard to think of ten worse. Statistically or visually.

[Frayed Knot]

re: base-running

For all the base-running gaffes we've made this year, last night's pair of run-into outs didn't bother me.

- Sheff hit a freakin' rocket, he hustled all the way (at least as much as his tender leg will allow) and it took a perfect bounce, excellent read by Ibanez (his fielding has surprised me as much as anything this year), and a good throw to get him. I didn't mind that he took a chance there but lost.

- Santos coming home:
I heard like three post-game callers to FAN and at least one of them crawled all over Shines for this one, but that kind of play is usually a go-on-contract play decided on beforehand. Omir did get a reasonable jump and if it's going to take a seemless charge, scoop and throw by Howard just to make it close I'll go 9 times out of 10 and maybe all 10.
Plus, as we all know, he was safe and it wasn't particularly close.