SHaMs @ Braves: 7/17 IGT

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

For the forces of not-so-good:

CF Pagan
2B Castillo
3B Wright
LF Sheffield
RF Francoeur
1B Murphy
SS JCL's Favorite Clubhouse Leader
C Santos
P Beeg Pelf

And for them Chick-Fil-A-scarfin' muhfuhs:

CF McLouth
2B Prado
3B Larry
C McCann
LF Anderson
SS Escobar
RF Church
1B Kotchman
P Jajir Jjurrjejnsj

The season's over, there's nobody to trade or trade for, Carlos Beltran's career is over... blah, blah, blah.

Uck Fatlanta, their dumb timely retirement of their legends' numbers and their stupid soft drink hegemony... let's light the fires with a little pre-game clinical precision:

[Guest Kong76]

Needed all that Maddux drama in a Mets' broadcast like I need fleas.

[G-Fafif]

I thought for sure Maddux would take himself out of the ceremonies with 20 minutes to go.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The ex makes a nice running catch on DW near the RF line track.

The crowd seems into the game, in somewhat un-Atlantan fashion.

[Piggiestomatoes]

Maddux's last line at the end of his comments: "Let's go beat the Mets. Like the old days."

Douchy...but I'd expect nothing less.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

G-Fafif wrote: I thought for sure Maddux would take himself out of the ceremonies with 20 minutes to go.

Bad ass!!!!

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Suckiest buncha sucks who ever sucked.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I pretty much give up

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I like Pelfrey's approach tonight early-- bust the lefties inside-- but the stuff's not there (especially on the 4-seamer, which in not tailing like it normally does, is staying up).

Also, McCann hammers mistakes up and in.

[MFS62]

Escobar is a real pain in the ERA.

Later

[Piggiestomatoes]

Warthen must go! Just fire him right in the bottom of the first.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Any time you can get a nice 30-pitch first inning in against a lineup that's only marginally better than the Mets', you've got to jump on that bargain, right?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Nice job, Cora.

[Piggiestomatoes]

Already, FUCK!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Good manners from Mr. Cora there. Why make a guy throw more than one pitch after working so hard on the previous guy? Come on, that would be rude.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Hey the guy who gets squirted in the eye by a grapefruit in that McDonald's ad is in my brother's flick.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Humilating,

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I sense we're headed to another shutout.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Shutout, blowout.

[Guest Kong76]

It's 'bout quarter to nine on a Friday night
And the clock goes tick tick tick tick tick suck

[ashie62]

Put in Blaine Beatty

[Piggiestomatoes]

Four or five more doubles and we're right back in this game!

[metirish]

That's a ball Wright should be driving into the stands

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Our hanging breakers get hit out of the ballpark.

Their hanging breakers get hit for hard singles and the occasional double.

("Their," by the way, is anyone else.)

[ashie62]

Slip Slidinn Away
Slip Sliding away
To that cellar destination
not so far far away.

The nice part is I no longer have expectations for this bunch...and when does football season start?

[Guest Triple Dee]

And I just can't look its killing me
And taking con-trol

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Pagan's not so well-stocked in the throwing department, is he?

[Piggiestomatoes]

Posada thrown out at the plate. Tiggers lead the MFY's 3-2 going to the top of the 7th.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Fuck it, why change him here?

Let Pelf take the beating-- if he's not going to do the job in terms of run prevention, let him choke on the innings.

[Guest Kong76]

Ya know things are bad when there's Yank updates in the IGT.