IGT, 5/17, @ Atlanta

[Guest Edgy DC]

OK, we're going for a complete reboot here, so let's leave out all photopun variations Let's go, Mets! "Lettuce Van Gogh, Mets!" and "Lesbians Wake Me up Before You Go-Go, Mets!" They were fun, but it's just. Not. Working.

We have Pelfrey going against Derek Lowe tonight. Lowe, self-loathers may want to ignore, has a Perezian ERA, but is not being demoted.

This thing will pass, and pass violently. Hold on, get ready.

[Ceetar]

What about trash talking?

[Guest Edgy DC]

This thing will pass, and pass violently.[/quote:1ejzjd4s]
Like a kidney stone, apparently.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I have no doubt some ATL ass will be kicked tonight.

[Centerfield]

What we need is a good fight song.

What would Rage Against the Machine think of the Braves and their insensitive use of Native Americans as a mascot?





Or we could rise up against those that seek to keep us down!




Or better yet, focus on perseverance. We WILL hold on damnit!



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[Gwreck]

What about trash talking?[/quote:3ls03iqe]

Perhaps if you didn't want to act like a 10-year-old. Seriously, the cartoon-character-urinates-on-[insert object of derision here] has really run its course.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

If the CPF can't solve its YouTube problem then I don't know how much hope to have for the Mets ability to solve their problems.

[Gwreck]

Personally, I think the over-reliance on Youtube is part of the problem itself.

[Ceetar]

What about trash talking?[/quote:3ptxaxz6]

Perhaps if you didn't want to act like a 10-year-old. Seriously, the cartoon-character-urinates-on-[insert object of derision here] has really run its course.[/quote:3ptxaxz6]

Sloppy on my part, I agree. but I'm at work so went for speed rather quality. took the best option on the first page of google images for "Braves suck"

[bmfc1]

METS:
Reyes-SS
Castillo-2B
Bay-LF
Carter-RF
Wright-3B
Davis-1B
Barajas-C
Matthews, Jr.-CF
Pelfrey-RHP

Cox:
Prado 2B
Heyward RF
C. Jones 3B
McCann C
Glaus 1B
Hinske LF
Escobar SS
McLouth CF
Lowe p

[Ceetar]

we haven't release Gary matthews jr yet?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

METS:
Reyes-SS
Castillo-2B
Bay-LF
Carter-RF
Wright-3B
Davis-1B
Barajas-C
Matthews, Jr.-CF
Pelfrey-RHP

No Francoeur. Once is a day-off, twice can be seen as a benching (especially as he returns home).

[Ceetar]

you can't really put Pagan for Matthews aside. No reason to sit Pagan or play Matthews. Not sure Bay's 0-13 should be hitting third or Carter, a guy who couldn't make the team out of Spring, fourth).

Matthews is 3-17 against Lowe, if you were curious. Although that might be higher than his average this season..

[metirish]

Matthews in a pinch hitting roll is doing nothing, they should start him in all the games this series and if his current form holds up then cut him, maybe he needs a run of games to get going.

[Ceetar]

Matthews in a pinch hitting roll is doing nothing, they should start in all games this series and if his current form holds up then cut him, maybe he needs a run of games to get going.[/quote:2dzwyvid]

He's had plenty of opportunity. Holding to some thought that he could 'get going' is just looking to fail. Put your best players on the field as often as possible. Pagan is that. Give him a day off when we're not reeling.

[metirish]

Then cut him, any good team can rest the regular players , give them a blow as Eddie C would say.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Matthews went 2-2, and Jerry seems to want to get the guy going, and if this is what it takes, this is what it takes. But bad medicine is what I need. If he fails to get going, it may hasten the end of his tenure, rather than prolong it.

More interesting to me is how Carter couldn't buy a spot on the roster the first six weeks, and is now the team's cleanup hitter two games in a row.

See, Jerry learns! Overlearns, maybe, but he learns! Go, Jerry!

[Frayed Knot]

I think Jerry is going to pull a deal where GMJ starts three days in a row while Frenchy, Pagan, & Bay each sit a day (or more in Francoeur's case).

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

you can't really put Pagan for Matthews aside. No reason to sit Pagan or play Matthews. Not sure Bay's 0-13 should be hitting third or Carter, a guy who couldn't make the team out of Spring, fourth).

[Gwreck]

A guy who couldn't make the team out of spring" is kind of a specious argument, innit?[/quote:xorwnr3r]

Very much so, particularly as it was abundantly clear that Carter deserved to make the team on merit, but was passed over for a veteran instead.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

A guy who couldn't make the team out of spring" is kind of a specious argument, innit?[/quote:hz4ly60x]

Very much so, particularly as it was abundantly clear that Carter deserved to make the team on merit, but was passed over for a veteran instead.[/quote:hz4ly60x]

You have to run it through the Babelfish "Ceetar --> English" translator. Whatever you put in, the result is "If Jerry does it, it's wrong."

[Ceetar]

A guy who couldn't make the team out of spring" is kind of a specious argument, innit?[/quote:3v8xwd2t]

Very much so, particularly as it was abundantly clear that Carter deserved to make the team on merit, but was passed over for a veteran instead.[/quote:3v8xwd2t]

You have to run it through the Babelfish "Ceetar --> English" translator. Whatever you put in, the result is "If Jerry does it, it's wrong."[/quote:3v8xwd2t]

now now.

We don't even know if it was Jerry's call for sure.

But the same people that decided Carter was the 26th+ guy on the roster are the same ones making the decisions now.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yeah, but that logic is doomed thinking. It can be used to discredit anybody and any decision.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Heading out a few minutes to take advantage of $1 Upper Reserved Monday with a couple of friends. Happy to see Carter in the lineup, though I'm sure the sorority girls in Francoeur t-shirts will be disappointed.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Heading out a few minutes to take advantage of $1 Upper Reserved Monday with a couple of friends. Happy to see Carter in the lineup, though I'm sure the sorority girls in Francoeur t-shirts will be disappointed.[/quote:dea2gpvc]

Maybe they'll take them off.

[G-Fafif]

Happy to see Carter in the lineup[/quote:20hcu11c]

Even when his popularity waned elsewhere, Carter always did well in Georgia.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Heading out a few minutes to take advantage of $1 Upper Reserved Monday with a couple of friends. Happy to see Carter in the lineup, though I'm sure the sorority girls in Francoeur t-shirts will be disappointed.[/quote:3n5fwesi]

Maybe they'll take them off.[/quote:3n5fwesi]
If Frenchy wasn't a married man I'd say they would be his only shot at rounding the bases during this series.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Offensive spottiness be damned-- at least we're spraying line drives all over the field.

[nymr83]

$1 Upper Reserved Monday

really?

damn i wish i'd known that sooner. i'm off to a poker tournament in jersey so i'll miss most of tonight's game unless theyhave it on there.
lets stop sucking!

[Guest joepet]

Lets do this!!!!!!!