IGT - 06/22/2009 - St. Louis Cardinals @ NY Mets

[metirish]

Holy shit the Mets are able to field a "team"

Cora, ss
Murphy, 1b
Wright, 3b
Tatis, lf
Church, rf
Santos, c
Reed, cf
Castillo, 2b
Redding, rhp

[TransMonk]

It's like an ode to the Art Howe days.

[metirish]

LaRussa should sit Pujols or something.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Castillo: "I'm batting eighth?"

[Vic Sage]

you're right... he should be batting 9th.

[Valadius]

That looks like a Dallas Green lineup.

[stevejrogers]

Joe Torre and Casey Stengel also qualify with that lineup!

[Guest Swan Swan H]

The lineup scoffs at the collective lack of faith by throwing up two in the first.

I'm watching via Slingbox on my son's iPod Touch in the waiting room of a hospital. Coolest app ever.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?n1=santoom01&year=Career&t=b#bases

Omir Santos situation splits are nuts. The smell of baserunners turns him from mild-mannered Tim Spehr into line-drive smashing Mike Piazza.

[Farmer Ted]

Mets.com has Misch's # as ---

C'mon, Charlie, give the boy some digits!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Pujols 0-2 against Tim Redding. Tatis batting cleanup.

Omir hits with nobody on.

We are through the looking glass.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Pujols 0-2 against Tim Redding. Tatis batting cleanup. Omir hits with nobody on. We are through the looking glass.

Luis Castillo swings 2-0 and goes the opposite way with power.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Murph-a-boom!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I think Fernando might be a bit confused as to the meaning of "cleanup."

(Although GIDPs are a pretty novel way to assay the LOB issue.)

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Smoked liner, anyone?

Pujols' shot looked like it would've pinned Wright to the LF wall, Warner-Brothers-style, if he'd gotten in front of it.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Yeah, that's why you don't throw a curve for a strike at 1-2. (Especially not one of yours, Tim. No offense.)

[seawolf17]

Okay. Seriously, Mets? It's fucking JUNE. PUT A GODDAMN CAMERA IN THE GODDAMN BULLPEN.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Redding mostly clean through 7.

This squad better get the most out of its 7th-inning stretch, since with at least one more dance with Pujols awaits, it's two innings of white-knuckle time.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Omir goes Moses Malone!

[ashie62]

Omir Santos..your 2009 ROY candidate

[ashie62]

This game has a John Stearns Doug Flynn Steve Henderson Pat Zachary feel too it

Lotta empty seats too

[ashie62]

Enter Skip Lockwood

[Fman99]

Crunch time as Jerry brings in Stokes to face Mr. Poo Holes. Gary keeps calling him "El Hombre" which I find odious.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Slightly screwball-y fastball gets Schumaker.

It doesn't work on Tyler Greene (PHing for Rasmus).

Pujols coming to bat. Stokes (not K-Rod?) in for Pujols-wrangling. Ding ding.

(I think this is the year when everyone's decided Pujols needs a nickname.)

Edited June 22, 2009 by Guest

[Fman99]

Creepy sun baby wants a double play ball here.

[seawolf17]

A Pat Misch sighting! Wearing #48.

DOUBLE FUCKING PLAY! SUCK IT, PUJOLS!

Thank you, Creepy Sun Baby!

Edited June 22, 2009 by Guest

[Fman99]

All hail creepy sun baby!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Nobody puts Creepy Sun Baby in a corner.

Pujols had a chance to earn his nickname from me there. He's not getting "Hombre" now.

[Gwreck]

Who is this Stokes guy and where have we been hiding him?

SC = 43

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Pretty good game