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We'll Pitch Dickey. We're not picky. IGT:5/25/10 PHIL@NYM

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Holy Mother of Koo! Valdes burns Werth for a double so deep that Throb scores from first.


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wow!
I was wondering if we shud be givin a pinch hitter some swings there but Valdes shuts me up with a double.


and..........




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Tasty slice of Koo, Cuban.


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R.A. Dickey and Raul Valdes combine to shut out the Phillies. Just how it was laid out coming out of Spring Training.


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Maybe the best played game all year.
Not the most dominate necessarily as the hits and walks per team were close to even until the very end, but we took advantage of every situation and stuffed them in all of theirs. Got runs via outs, turned DPs, solid 'D' all around, stole a few bases, used just two pitchers, etc.

FUNDIES BABY!!


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Thank you sir, may I have another!

May the beatings continue.


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Excellent game and great company to take it in with (thanks for the ticket, KC). Very happy to see the Mets putting runs on the board almost every inning (6 of 8).

We still have "Takin Care of Business" but afterwards they played "Uprising" by Muse which I thought was a nice choice.


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Beautiful night. Beautiful game. Beautiful win. Beautiful setting. Beautiful Blue Point Toasted Lager. Beautiful wife (whose work outing I tagged along on) who volunteered to get me the beautiful Blue Point Toasted Lager, available only at Catch of the Day, which we were sitting diametrically opposed from on Promenade.

Beautiful Dickey, of course.

Beautiful lack of violence instigated by no-show Phillies fans since they had as much fight in them as their alleged Fightin's.

Beautiful. Just beautiful.


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Overtimin' Edgy tonight. Promised myself not to keep up with game.

THEY STOMPED ANYHOW!


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Beautiful night. Beautiful game. Beautiful win. Beautiful setting. Beautiful Blue Point Toasted Lager. Beautiful wife (whose work outing I tagged along on) who volunteered to get me the beautiful Blue Point Toasted Lager, available only at Catch of the Day, which we were sitting diametrically opposed from on Promenade.

Beautiful Dickey, of course.

Beautiful lack of violence instigated by no-show Phillies fans since they had as much fight in them as their alleged Fightin's.

Beautiful. Just beautiful.[/quote:swos8fgk]

Agreed. There was one vocal group of Phillies fans in RF under the porch getting some chants going early, all wearing the same shirt, but they faded quickly.

I'll stick to Brooklyn Sabroso or Shackmeister Ale. Not a big fan of the toasted lager. Actually, I was sitting pretty close to opposite it as well, in section 508.

Beautiful vintage and historic Reyes.

Phillies scored three times in the 9th in hopeless fashion after wakefield came out, besides that haven't scored since the 6th inning on Friday. That's once in 29 innings.


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Wasn't nothin that didn't go right tonight. HUGE props due to Valdes; we all thought that game was destined to jump the shark when they had Utley, Howard etc up with 2nd & 3rd, no out.

I also liked that Carter came thru and that we whupped up on Nelson Figueroa's ass. The Phillies will release him at some point, maybe very soon, and I hope all his fans here realize we were the better club for doing it first.

Omar's been very sneaky with Dickey, Valdes and Takahashi.


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Beautiful Dickey, of course.... Beautiful. Just beautiful.[/quote:1t1hcstz]

I'm trying to conjure up some of the past Mets memorable knuckle-balling performances. I'm blank here. Ya got any? Anybody got any?


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This might have been the previous standard-bearer in Mets history.


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Wow! Sturdivant, Moorhead, and Springer were 0-5 among them. Dickey's the first of his kind.

His only remaining competition for most successful knuckleballer in Mets history is Pitching Coach Charlie Hough.


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The amazing thing is that now that Dickey seems to have finally mastered the pitch, he could pitch until he is as old as Moyer is today. (Although he feels a lot older after the Mets hit him for 5 runs last night)
Knuckleballers, if they are any good, pitch to the age of 40 and beyond - Wilhelm, Wilbut Wood, the Niekros and Wakefield.
Dickey is a mere kid at 35. Who knows?

Later


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Additional weirdness: Raul Valdes is now 4-for-7 on the season in 9 PAs (two sacs). He's hitting/OBPing .571, and slugging .714.


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He's too tired to pitch tonight so I say we put him ahead of Gary Matthews Jr. on the PH-depth chart.


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If Oliver Perez can't get an inning in a game like this, when IS he going to pitch?

I wonder if they actually want him to feel buried so that he'll accept an assignment to Buffalo.


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Perhaps GWreck (not to mention a nation of dozens behind him) is getting his wish.


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If Oliver Perez can't get an inning in a game like this, when IS he going to pitch?

I wonder if they actually want him to feel buried so that he'll accept an assignment to Buffalo.[/quote:tw8a8puw]

I hope so. What has he done to deserve an inning? I'd rather see 3 innings of Vakdes, it helps give us a better idea what Valdes can do when pitching more innings if he is required for a spot-start.


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I'm certainly not going to criticize Jerry for not unnecessarily going deeper into his pen.

Ollie will likely get a moment this series, with the lefty-stacked lineup.


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We would have seen Ollie probably, had Valdes not sacked up bigtime there in the 7th.

I tellsya, get good performances out of these guys when they;re asked to perform and you're a managing genius.


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We would have seen Ollie probably, had Valdes not sacked up bigtime there in the 7th.

I tellsya, get good performances out of these guys when they;re asked to perform and you're a managing genius.[/quote:2au5vhoc]

shocker, that.


I called Valdes coming in in the 3rd. (though at the time it only lookedl ike Dickey would make it 5) just seems to make sense if they might consider him to start, to have him throw a bunch of innings.


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