IGT - NY Mets @ Colorado Rockies 4/13/2010

[Fman99]

Frowny face.

[metirish]

I'm liking Valdez quite a bit.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Meh. He got no bat.

[nymr83]

its 8-0 and Castillo is thrown out trying to stretch a single into a double.
Do other teams have shitty fundamentals like this? it seems chronic in Met-land.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Hey Dave Lennon-- he's making something happen!

Oh, and mazel tov, Mr. Rye.

[Fman99]

Hey, a home run! I missed it on the gamecast.

No kaboom? Boy.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Oh, Jenrry.

As far as hangy curves go, those were noice. Maybe he can work out the breaking stuff with the big-leaguers, after all.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Light Frenching to open the 7th, then Ferny Tat-toos a fastball. 2nd and 3rd, none out.

POP QUIZ: Who hits into the double-play this inning, and how does it work?

[Fman99]

Light Frenching to open the 7th, then Ferny Tat-toos a fastball. 2nd and 3rd, none out.

POP QUIZ: Who hits into the double-play this inning, and how does it work?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

When I do time and a half to get the baby fed and abed, and the starting pitcher can't be bothered to do the same, I'm just a little black rain cloud.

[Fman99]

Ruh roh.

Bases loaded, no out.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I'm pretty much rooting for Nieve to go black-hat and just start plunking dudes.

[Guest Edgy DC]

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Geez it's not even bad luck, it's just shitty baseball, same as we saw too much of last year.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

And it's, like, shapeless and formless, too. Amorphous, personality-free bad. (Hence my rooting for the plunking. At least if this team were assholes, they'd be something.)

[Gwreck]

Castillo was actually safe on that play but the point holds that he shouldn't have been stretching it.

I was surprised to see Jerry not allow Valdes to go out for a third inning. Seems like an unnecessary over-use of relief pitchers when we were already down 8 runs.

Bad, bad game (and apparently it's only get worse here as Nieve and Takahashi fail to impress).

[Guest Edgy DC]

Early holes have a way of exposing a team ever-deeper.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

And Tulowitzki strikes out to end the inning.

Although if you told me he had late dinner reservations, and had simply gotten bored with the scoring carousel, I could be convinced of that.

[Fman99]

And it's, like, shapeless and formless, too. Amorphous, personality-free bad. (Hence my rooting for the plunking. At least if this team were assholes, they'd be something.)[/quote:30wi9k5w]

I agree.

I think they should all grow 1880s style handlebar moustaches. It should be a team rule. Go old school.

[Guest Edgy DC]

At least we're into the bullpen.

One of the really sucky-suck things about a blowout is that --- particularly in the first game of the series --- our pen is burnt while theirs naps.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Shouldn't a team take a strike as a rule in this sort of situation?

[Guest Edgy DC]

RBayI single.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Shouldn't a team take a strike as a rule in this sort of situation?[/quote:1nuqbf5j]

Like Francoeur there, for instance. Three pitches, three swings.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Shouldn't a team take a strike as a rule in this sort of situation?[/quote:zp1p7bz0]

Like Francoeur there, for instance. Three pitches, three swings.[/quote:zp1p7bz0]

Results aside, he was taking good at bats while the game was close, too.

[Guest Edgy DC]

It's something that bothered me last year. Seems like a fundamental issue. Take a strike if the tying run is behind you in the ninth. Take a strike if the tying run is well behind you in the eighth. If nothing else, make the pitcher pitch.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Reyes swings at the first pitch a foot inside.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I CAN'T BELIEVE I TRANKED MY KID FOR THIS!

[ashie62]

I CAN'T BELIEVE I TRANKED MY KID FOR THIS!

[G-Fafif]

When Maine threw that ball down the right field line, it was like an usher had just shown 2009 to its seat.

[metirish]

A lot of pressure on Niese and tonights IGT starter after me and Maine sucked elephant balls.