IGT 08/09, Mets at Padres

[Guest Kong76]

[Fman99]

Pagan, cf
Castillo, 2b
Wright, 3b
Murphy, 1b
Francoeur, rf
Sullivan, lf
Santos, c
A. Hernandez, ss
Santana, lhp

[Guest Kong76]

Tony Gwynn CF
Everth Cabrera SS
Adrian Gonzalez 1B
Kevin Kouzmanoff 3B
Chase Headley LF
Kyle Blanks RF
Oscar Salazar 2B
Henry Blanco C
Tim Stauffer P

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Castillo with the up-the-gullet base hit. No sprains while rounding first, or stopping, or returning to first.

[nymr83]

I see its Ugly Jersey Day in San Diego.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

STERLING Willie MaysTM catch from Pagan on Everth "Devastator" Cabrera.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Mild friskiness from the Met O, as singles from Frenchy, Andy Hernandy and Johan produce a run and two LOB.

[Guest Kong76]

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[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

How much must it sting to be batted eighth in either of these lineups?

[Guest Kong76]

Nice little ~ 20 minute umpire-gets-his-bell-rung delay as Randy Marsh took
one off the chin with the best of them. I mean, the mic'd version sounded
just nasty.

[dgwphotography]

It did sound nasty...

The last 20 minutes just cemented a thought I've had for a while - I would tune in to listen to Gary and Ron (and Keith) just shoot the breeze about baseball even if there wasn't a game on.

It's the fact that as good as Ron is, Gary is just one of us. I loved the story he told about keeping score until the 25th inning as Hank Webb threw a pick-off throw away, and Bake McBride scored from first....

[Valadius]

Again, I can't escape the fact that his name is Randy Marsh.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

You don't mess around with Jo.

[Valadius]

Oscar Salazar gives us our first break in about a week.

[Guest Kong76]

dgw: It's the fact that as good as Ron is, Gary is just one of us <<<

Just when they were finishing up that story KB walked into the room and I
had a big stupid grin on and she said, "what?"

"Ah, nothing ... just listenin' and grinnin'."

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"The category is... umpires who are terrible at their jobs."

_NGEL HERN_NDEZ



"Well, I know the answer, but... I don't think I should say it."

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Johan's probably demanding to go the whole game, and I can't blame him.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Come on, complete game. (With 1st and 2nd occupied, David Wright could help by killing the save opportunity.)

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Apparently, Southern California Marines also leave games early.

[Frayed Knot]

So we've got (at least) a 4 run lead and a half-inning to go and Frankie warming up.

So what are our odds of pulling this one out? 30% I figure, maybe 40%.

[Guest Kong76]

37.895311%

[dgwphotography]

Kong76 wrote: 37.895311%

"I'm also an excellent driver"

Frankie is in - why?

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Was Johan over 100 pitches or something? You'd think he'd be demanding to stay in there, considering recent history.

[Valadius]

Crap, it's Frankie.

[Frayed Knot]

dgwphotography wrote: Frankie is in - why?

To get his shit back together and the memory of his last two outings out of his head.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Who had "third-batter-in-the-inning" for "first XBH against Frankie?"

Collect your prize.

[Frayed Knot]

See, that wasn't so hard was it Frankie boy?

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Apologies to Frankie. He got the job done.