IkeGT 4/19: Cubs @ Mets

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I figure this is fair game after another mojo-smashing Metiquette error spoiled our 4th straight winning streak at 1-game.

Niese faces sophomore Randy Wells. Ike may or may not be in the lineup?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Metiquette Rule #1, folks. Somebody starts an In-Game Thread, and it's a winner (there have been few enough of these), let him or her start the next one. Out of gratefulness, if onthing else.

Oh, and GO, IKE!

[metirish]

10 and 0 here we come.......the 10 most important games since the last 10 anyway....

[Guest Swan Swan H]

I LISAAC ISAAC!

[seawolf17]

OH MY GAWD! IKE DAVIS IS IN FRED WILPON'S BAWX! IKE DAVIS IS COMING TO CITI FIELD!

[soupcan]

Where's Ike gonna hit in the order?

Over/under is 6.

[metirish]

Where's Ike gonna hit in the order?

Over/under is 6.[/quote:bbv85cm8]


Let's see what Francoeur thinks about that first.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I hope he gets an appropriate uniform number. (I don't know exactly what that means, but if he gets an inappropriate number, I'll know it!)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I was trying to lobby for 17, which would require Tatis switches, but someone on the website suggested 3, so as to make the infield 1-3-5-7, not bad.

Davis was wearing 20 in Buffalo

Of the "availables," 9 is more likely in my estimation.

[metirish]

Won't they just give him the vacated #35?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I hope he gets an appropriate uniform number. (I don't know exactly what that means, but if he gets an inappropriate number, I'll know it!)[/quote:qf234hph]

Like a dropshadowed cock-and-balls on his back?

I AM PLEASED BY THE PROSPECT OF A PROSPECT-RARA-AVIS DAVIS!

[Frayed Knot]

I hope he gets an appropriate uniform number. (I don't know exactly what that means, but if he gets an inappropriate number, I'll know it!)[/quote:2qnhr6rk]

Logic that is positively Potter Stewart-esque!

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Maybe 3, Killebrew-style.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Eight (8) ... like Willie Stargell, and Joe Morgan and Carl Yastrzemski. Oh ... and Bill Dickey, too.

[Benjamin Grimm]

6 would be nice. He'd nestle right between Wright and Reyes. (Numerically, not physically. Or maybe both.) Number 6 would be good for a guy who looks like Steve Garvey. And it's also Stan Musial's number. And maybe it will keep Wally Backman from becoming the Mets manager.

[bmfc1]

What number did his father wear?

[Benjamin Grimm]

I just told you! Steve Garvey wore number 6!

[ashie62]

What number did his father wear?[/quote:1hnfdyx6]

MFY Ron Davis, (sorry Ike) wore various numbers north of 30.

Whatever the number is, choose well as I expect Ike to wear it for the rest of his Mets life.

[metirish]

His did did wear some interesting numbers


http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/davisro02.shtml

[Guest Edgy DC]

I just told you! Steve Garvey wore number 6![/quote:3hmwlxdk]
Ike was born March 22, 1987. Garvey's Pads had a series in Chicago against Ron Davis' Cubs July 21-23, 1986, so for your theory to hold water, Ike would have had to have been born (conditional present perfect imperative?) at least one month premature.

But there's probably a better way to welcome the guy to the Mets than to insult his mother.

[Ceetar]

Where's Ike gonna hit in the order?

Over/under is 6.[/quote:3l8dn02h]

I'm thinking 5, to break up the lefties. If Jacobs can do it, so can Ike.

Better question is, does Manuel pinch hit Tatis if the Cubs bring in a lefty?

[Benjamin Grimm]

But there's probably a better way to welcome the guy to the Mets than to insult his mother.[/quote:bw8dsz6o]

Maybe, but if there is I can't think of one.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Where's Ike gonna hit in the order?

Over/under is 6.[/quote:2121gbz0]

I'm thinking 5, to break up the lefties. If Jacobs can do it, so can Ike.

Better question is, does Manuel pinch hit Tatis if the Cubs bring in a lefty?[/quote:2121gbz0]
Of course, Jacobs didn't break up shit.

[Ceetar]

Where's Ike gonna hit in the order?

Over/under is 6.[/quote:3nisdvdi]

I'm thinking 5, to break up the lefties. If Jacobs can do it, so can Ike.

Better question is, does Manuel pinch hit Tatis if the Cubs bring in a lefty?[/quote:3nisdvdi]
Of course, Jacobs didn't break up shit.[/quote:3nisdvdi]

He broke up plenty of rallies.

[bmfc1]

Ike's uni number tonight will be 42.

Same as everybody else.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

boooo. didn't we just honor Butch Huskey?

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Mets.com has him in 29.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

29? That would suck.

[soupcan]

Well, according to Mets By The Numbers, Tobi Stoner is 29, so did Tobi get sent back down or has Ike promised him a Swatch to switch?

[Guest attgig]

the mets front office is smart with ike! (not so with meija)

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2010/04/ike-davis-strasburg.html

Talking to MLBTR's Ben Nicholson-Smith, I learned that teams can now safely promote minor leaguers for their MLB debuts with no chance of the player amassing 172 days of service in 2010. By promoting '08 first-rounder Ike Davis today, the Mets ensured that he will be under team control through 2016 instead of 2015. In contrast, the Braves have Jason Heyward through '15.