SHaMs @ Braves: 7/16 IGT

[Guest Kong76]

Nice find on the stretch song, LWFS ... I don't remember ever seeing that one.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

A lot of the live stuff on YouTube is tasty.

I thought it would bring 'em a bit of brio. It wilted 'em instead.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

A lot of the live stuff on YouTube is tasty.

I thought it would bring 'em a bit of brio. It wilted 'em instead.

[Piggiestomatoes]

="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr"]These SHaMs look depressingly familiar.

I think this is as disturbing as CSB but not nearly as cheerful/uplifting, and should close every IGT where the loss just sucks; like tonight.

[Fman99]

metirish wrote: Do we have a bunch of posters on the DL?, IGT's of late have been slow. LWFS is doing trojan work though.

Golf night. Will try to chip in more tomorrow.

[metirish]

Rubin actually has a tragic number posted in his Mets blog today



Braves 5, Mets 3: Tragic number down to 68
July 16, 2009

] If it wasn't clear already, Thursday's 5-3 loss to the Braves cemented the notion that it would be irresponsible for the Mets to make any trade this month, unless it was a swap that made sense for 2010 and beyond, whether that's trading Gary Sheffield for prospects or otherwise. The Mets dropped 7 1/2 games behind the Phillies. And with none of their injured stars returning soon, how can it make sense to go for it? Remember the Mets' desperation in 2004? Trailing the Braves by six games entering a series at Atlanta the weekend of the trading deadline, the Mets dismantled the farm system for Kris Benson and Victor Zambrano, including parting with Scott Kazmir. The Mets were swept that weekend by the Braves anyway, falling nine back. Surely, the Mets won't be that reckless again. (As an aside, front office people wanted to void that trade for Zambrano days later because of his elbow injury, but the highest members of the organization vetoed it, concerned for how Bud Selig might react, I'm told.) Anyway, no sense going over the nuts and bolts of Thursday's loss. Oliver Perez and Derek Lowe were a draw through six innings, allowing three runs and five hits apiece. Bobby Parnell surrendered the tiebreaking run in the seventh on an RBI single by Chipper Jones. *** Meanwhile, from the why-I-shouldn't-try-to-respond-to-every-e-mail department ... Here's an actual exchange: Reader: Adam, From Goldstein's chat yesterday: "Why does everyone kill the Mets' system? Mejia, Flores, Holt, Martinez, and while I didn't love Ike Davis, he's performing well so far. That's a pretty solid top five." Since you are one of those killing the Mets farm, care to comment? I never thought you favor pile-ons. My response: I would think most systems have four prospects. The 2000 Birmingham Barons, which I covered, had Mark Buehrle, Jon Garland, Aaron Rowand, Joe Crede, Kip Wells, Josh Fogg, Josh Paul, Matt Ginter, Rocky Biddle and on and on. Plus, I know many of the scouts assigned to the Mets. That's what they're saying. And whether you believe it or not, if that's what they report back to their superiors, it cripples the Mets on the trade front and becomes reality. Reader: It's not what I believe, it's what Kevin Goldstein said. Presumably he also talks to scouts. Your answer basically confirms it's a piling-on.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Hopefully the posting of a tragic number will have the opposite effect that the ill fated magic number posting did in recent years.