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[G-Fafif]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Bastid stole the back page of the Snooze from Ike Davis, he can bite my yellow ass. F Stasberg!

That was a curious editorial decision. Backpages of the Pest (IKE CREAM!) and Snoozeday (Mike And Ike) were Ike-intensive but kind of lame.

Strasburg will only debut once. Davis will be awesome repeatedly (presumptuous nature of that statement notwithstanding).

[Guest attgig]

Frayed Knot wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: DocTee wrote: And the other thing you discover by watching him is that all of his pitches are strikes, the ones called balls are merely the ones the umps miss. Or at least that's the world according to Nats color man Rob Dibble. THE Rob Dibble? The Wild Man Rob Dibble who averaged 4.5 BB per 9 IP during his career? I know he knows fastballs. But how does he know what a strike is, or should be? Dibble's just a homer-announcer-extraordinaire. It's not just Strasburg, all Washington pitchers are cruelly deprived of strikes by umpires. And they're not just missed calls, they're intentionally bad calls because the umps are specifically biased against the Nationals. And when the tracking-box thing backs him up he cites it as evidence, and when it doesn't back him up he just simply ignores it.

you should listen to dibble on the mets-nats games. this guy seems to hate the mets, and roots hard against us more so than any other team... it's odd.

[Willets Point]

attgig wrote: you should listen to dibble on the mets-nats games. this guy seems to hate the mets, and roots hard against us more so than any other team... it's odd.

Especially when Philadelphia is much closer by and so much easier to hate.

[Guest attgig]

btw, looks like metirish wins the big wet kiss...

[Benjamin Grimm]

attgig wrote: btw, looks like metirish wins the big wet kiss...

[metirish]

I hadn't noticed

would be nice if my Flynn were with me to celebrate.

[MFS62]

Here's a report from a friend who is a Nats fan:

I was there (right behind the plate no less). It was awesome. My head exploded. The End

I expect to get more details when he sobers up.

Later

[duan]

I can't help but remember Mark Prior on May 22nd 2002.
IP H R BB SO
6 4 2 2 10

against another incarnation of the pirates

[bmfc1]

Strasburg's next start, Sunday @ Cleveland, is now going to be on TBS. Perhaps Ron Darling will call that game and report back on SNY.

Ron will not be there:

http://news.turner.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=5199

[Fman99]

The more recent one I was thinking of is Cincy's Johnny Cueto, who went 7 IP, giving up only a single solo HR to Justin Upton, no walks and 10 K against the D-Backs opening week 2008.

[metirish]

looks like he will miss the Mets when they go there July 1st...that according to a sked I saw in the Snooze

[bmfc1]

If the Nationals pitch him every 5th day, yes, the Mets will miss him July 1, 2, 3, and 4. But if the Nationals pitch him every 5th day, as Boswell says they will, then he'll pitch on July 3.

[Fman99]

bmfc1 wrote: If the Nationals pitch him every 5th day, yes, the Mets will miss him July 1, 2, 3, and 4. But if the Nationals pitch him every 5th day, as Boswell says they will, then he'll pitch on July 3.

You said the exact same thing twice here.

I have tickets for the July 4th matinee in D.C. Hopefully he's not pitching and I can see the Mets wail on some crumbum instead.

[Gwreck]

If the Nationals pitch him every 5th day, yes, the Mets will miss him July 1, 2, 3, and 4. But if the Nationals pitch him every 5th day, as Boswell says they will, then he'll pitch on July 3. You said the exact same thing twice here. I have tickets for the July 4th matinee in D.C. Hopefully he's not pitching and I can see the Mets wail on some crumbum instead.

Dude, your Gwreck research department produced that fact last month

In all seriousness, I agree with Fman that it's probably better to miss him and just get the the crappier pitchers instead but part of me also wants the Mets to be the one to deliver his first whooping of the season.

[bmfc1]

Fman99 wrote: bmfc1 wrote: If the Nationals pitch him every 5th GAME, yes, the Mets will miss him July 1, 2, 3, and 4. But if the Nationals pitch him every 5th day, as Boswell says they will, then he'll pitch on July 3. You said the exact same thing twice here.

Oops. E, me. I've corrected it, above.

[seawolf17]

Gwreck wrote: In all seriousness, I agree with Fman that it's probably better to miss him and just get the the crappier pitchers instead but part of me also wants the Mets to be the one to deliver his first whooping of the season.

Oh, screw that. By then, I want us to deliver his LAST whooping of the season, to the point where they realize he's not ready yet. I don't want him to be 5-0, 1.80 when he gets to us; I want 1-4, 6.80.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Nah, I have no problem if he wants to shut down the rest of the division. Just don't think you can get away with the 100-MPH fastball and 96-MPH slider (really?) junk against the Mets.

[G-Fafif]

On TBS right NOW!: The 'Burg retires the Tribe 1-2-3 to begin his first road start ever. Buck Martinez's hair, I swear, is a dead ringer for the George Washington wig the kid's Nat teammates stuck on his head after the game the other night.

You can listen to Bob Costas testily defend his "Walter Johnson, move over" hyperbole with Dan Patrick here.

[G-Fafif]

Travis Hafner solves Strasburg for the kid's second gopher. If Costas were doing the game, he'd note how many home runs Robin Roberts gave up.

[G-Fafif]

He recovers to get Peralta, his fourth K in two innings. Stephen Strasburg's still pretty motherf*cking great.

Nine innings pitched: 18 strikeouts, lifetime ERA of 2.00.

[Zvon]

WTBS blacked me out today, the corksockers.

Jeeze, I live over 500 miles from Washington.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Five and a third, two hits and a run.

Five walks, eight whiffles.

[Frayed Knot]

First ML loss this afternoon.
6 IP - 9 hits (all singles), 0 BB, 9 Ks
Nats lose 1-0 to Royals

[metirish]

Some sort of SO record in first four starts - 41

[Zvon]

Bought a pack of baseball cards on the way out of the supermarket.
Buying a pack from a machine is soooo weird.

Anyways, I got this card in the pack.
Course I'm gonna try and do it.
Tuff gig tho, one shot deal.
Small area. I tend to erase a bit.
(Joepet, if your reading this I will give you this card in a heartbeat cuz I know you will make the cut)

So, I call my bro and tell him about it and he says
"Well, your gonna do Strasburg, right?"

And I was like "No way!. I'm doin a Met.
I wanna do Davis!"

What do you guys think?
(keep in mind that it has to be from a picture used in a 2010 Topps or Bowman "product".)

[Guest Edgy DC]

Reyes has more character, with the braids and shit. I imagine All-Star types have a better chance of getting recognized.

[Zvon]

Edgy DC wrote: Reyes has more character, with the braids and shit. I imagine All-Star types have a better chance of getting recognized.

My bro says if its not Stras its gotta be Wright if I want it to be considered.
I'm not sure I agree with this.
We talked MVP and he brought up a very good point.
The better Reyes does, the more chance the vote for a Met MVP will be split.

Cause my ultimate dream is those two splitting the MVP.

Oh my, I have hijacked this thread and I'm really jumping the proverbial gun here with MVP talk.

Now back to your regularly scheduled subject.

[ashie62]

Topps is Looking for Strasburg sketch cards.

[Zvon]

Topps is Looking for Strasburg sketch cards.

That's exactly the point I brought up with my brother.
That everyone's gonna be submitting Strasburg ones.

I wanna draw a Met.



The card does not specify any specific player.
But your probably right...thats what they might be looking for.

Topps: You can't get me to sell out, ya dirty screws!

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: First ML loss this afternoon. 6 IP - 9 hits (all singles), 0 BB, 9 Ks Nats lose 1-0 to Royals

How about some props to the winning pitcher?
A guy named Bannister.
Funny how stuff happens.

Later