IGT 07/18, Mets at Braves

[Guest Kong76]

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METS:
Angel Pagan CF
Luis Castillo 2B
Daniel Murphy 1B
David Wright 3B
Jeff Francoeur RF
Jeremy Reed LF
Omir Santos C
Alex Cora SS
Johan Santana LHP (10-7, 3.09)

Braves:
Nate McLouth CF
Martin Prado 2B
Chipper Jones 3B
Brian McCann C
Yunel Escobar SS
Matt Diaz LF
Casey Kotchman 1B
Ryan Church RF
Kenshin Kawakami RHP (5-6, 4.26)

After tonight's game there will be a concert by All-American Rejects. Make your own joke here.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Game two of a doubleheader.

[Guest Edgy DC]

So I watch that Wings performance and there's absolutely no shots of lead guitarist Jimmy McCullough. He only accidentally ends up in the background of a shot of Denny Laine. What's up with that?

[ashie62]

Edgy DC wrote: So I watch that Wings performance and there's absolutely no shots of lead guitarist Jimmy McCullough. He only accidentally ends up in the background of a shot of Denny Laine. What's up with that?

Denny had ownership of some Wings songs..McCullough was treated like the Stones bassist after Wyman..invisible

[ashie62]

If anyone has seen the movie Tropic Thunder, one of Ben Stiller's characters is a smiling tard named "Simple Jim"

I swear Francouer looks just like him

[Guest Kong76]

CF McLouth, Nate
2B Prado, Martin
3B Jones, Chipper
C McCann, Brian
SS Escobar, Yunel
LF Diaz, Matt
RF Church, Ryan
P Kawakami, Kenshin (5-6, 4.26)

[Guest Kong76]

I just cut and pasted that from the Atlanta Journal Constitution or whatever
it's called. Braves are throwing the Mets a bone and only fielding eight. I just
went and checked and they got nine Mets listed and still only eight Braves!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Kotchman is the mystery firstbaseman.

Pagan reaches and Castillo bunts him over.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

A hit! A countable hit!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Francoeur, here's your chance to become a man.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Wright and the boys decided to go all Alzado with the old-fashioned eyeblack.

SugarPants gets the semi-intentional pass. Francoeur-- still getting applause from the Atlanta "fandom"-- up with 2 on, 2 out.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Nope. Frenchy is 0-8 on the series.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Good news: Jeff Francoeur's apparently striking out a lot less!

Bad news: It's not because he's more selective, but because he's taking half-swings two-thirds of the time!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Seriously, now: When the f*ck did Martin Prado become Ron Gant?

[Guest Kong76]

The 'B' booth on Saturday Fox baseball is much more pleasing to the ear for me.

[Guest Kong76]

And the 'B' booth tells us that Johan has reached the 1,700 K mark!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Kong76 wrote: The 'B' booth on Saturday Fox baseball is much more pleasing to the ear for me.

Oh, Karros has his moments as well... like now, when he's talking about how, in being a defector, Yunel Escobar had to adjust from the "more emotional" Cuban style of baseball to the American game, where "you just can't do that sort of thing."

[Guest Kong76]

It's an official FOX game, they're talking about the Yanks.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Oh, Pagan just bunted real pretty.

Wasted when Castillo and Murphy ground out to the right side.






But, hey-- two hits already!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Mild surprise: Leading off the third, Kenshin Kawakami does NOT walk or otherwise get on base.

[Guest Kong76]

CORA gets a hit!

Santana sac bunts him over. I was looking for him to hit a double in the
gap but I'm delusional at this point.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Murder seeing Santana pitch knowing any mistake is such a fate-sealer.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Some "good, clean" dirty ankle-breaking shit from Matt Diaz right there, as the replay shows Diaz reaching back to trip Wright up as he slides past third.

(SIDE NOTE: My absolute least favorite idiot-color-man thing is when someone tries to sell me their version on things as the slow-motion replay contradicting them rolls onscreen. Thanks, Eric Karros, for making my headache a bit worse.)

[Guest Kong76]

EDC: Murder seeing Santana pitch knowing any mistake is such a fate-sealer <<<

How long before he wants to leave? He really is the consummate gentleman,
but his time here has to start to get to him eventually.

[Gwreck]

There was nothing clean about that play. He had to reach across his body, after he already had touched the base, to trip up David.

Diaz gets plunked next inning. Time for the Mets to stop being a bunch of sissies.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Greg Maddux is living well, isn't he? Plenty of porterhouse in that gold mock turtleneck, methinks.

[Guest Kong76]

Fran Coor with a Baltimore Chop to load the bases!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Kong76 wrote: Fran Coor with a Baltimore Chop to load the bases!

4-6-3, or 6-4-3?

[Guest Kong76]

Now now