IGT 6/17/2010 NYM @ CLE: You Gotta Sweep Cleveland

[G-Fafif]

Tonight at 7:05, America's newest Every Fifth Day game show sensation, RAD or ICKY. Tune in and find out whether host R.A. Dickey will be more RAD than ICKY as he looks to make a certain Tribe of Clevelanders knuckle under to his charms.

I say R.A. Dickey is totally RAD and not all ICKY.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Also, like another former-journeyman-turned-out-of-nowhere-Mets-pitching-hero, you can call him "Reader."

[batmagadanleadoff]

R.A. Dickey has become my favorite Met pitcher over his last three or four starts. That knuckle-ball of his is ridiculous. And I say that endearingly.

OE. I guess I should say Radickylous.

[Guest Edgy DC]

They should give away free dickeys at his next start.



The Dickies should play the national anthem.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

R.A. Dickey has become my favorite Met pitcher over his last three or four starts. That knuckle-ball of his is ridiculous. And I say that endearingly.

OE. I guess I should say Radickylous.[/quote:207u79v5]

I'm a little surprised at how much I'm enjoying the amiable freakishness of Dickey's knuckler; I find myself looking forward to R. A. Dickey starts like I do visits to Coney Island.

[soupcan]

[ashie62]

LETS

[Guest themetfairy]

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

[bmfc1]

METS:
Reyes-SS
Pagan-CF
Wright-3B
Davis-1B
Francoeur-RF
Carter-DH
Blanco-C
Feliciano-LF
Tejada-2B
Dickey--P

Indians:
Donald-SS
Choo-RF
Santana-C
Hafner-DH
Kearns-CF
Branyan-1B
Peralta-3B
Duncan-LF
Valbuena-2B
Westbrook-P

[Guest themetfairy]

[Ceetar]

R.A. Dickey has become my favorite Met pitcher over his last three or four starts. That knuckle-ball of his is ridiculous. And I say that endearingly.

OE. I guess I should say Radickylous.[/quote:1yxabkmj]

I'm a little surprised at how much I'm enjoying the amiable freakishness of Dickey's knuckler; I find myself looking forward to R. A. Dickey starts like I do visits to Coney Island.[/quote:1yxabkmj]

I don't enjoy them quite as much. (I was at the first Phillies game) He lets so many guys on base, and I know they're all bloops or the occasional walk, but I just spend the time cringing that he's going to make one bad pitch and give up a ton of runs one of these days.

The new Coney Island park any good?

[Guest OlerudOwned]

R.A. Dickey has become my favorite Met pitcher over his last three or four starts. That knuckle-ball of his is ridiculous. And I say that endearingly.

OE. I guess I should say Radickylous.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Incidentally, while trying to research knuckleball velocities, I noticed that Martino just today wrote an article on that very topic.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2010/06/17/2010-06-17_ra_dickey_attributes_success_with_knuckleball_to_past_as_starting_pitcher_abilit.html

[Fman99]

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Incidentally, while trying to research knuckleball velocities, I noticed that Martino just today wrote an article on that very topic.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2010/06/17/2010-06-17_ra_dickey_attributes_success_with_knuckleball_to_past_as_starting_pitcher_abilit.html

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Holy mackeral. Well, I know what I'll be asking about next chat.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Pen-an, pen-an, pen-an, pan-annnnn... PENALTY!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

ka-ching

[Ceetar]

Knuckleballers are weird: R.A. Dickey holds opponents to a .236 average if his throws ball one, .296 if it's strike one.

[Benjamin Grimm]

In one of his recent starts, I was watching the opposing team telecast on Extra Innings, and they showed a slow-motion replay of one of his pitches; the camera followed the ball on its way to the plate. You were able to really see that the stitches on the ball weren't rotating. The ball wobbled a bit, a little back-and-forth sway, but none of that spin that you'd normally see. I know that that's how a knuckler behaves, but I don't think I had ever seen one so clearly. It was uncanny. It's hard to believe that a ball could be thrown 60+ feet without any spin at all.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Pen-an, pen-an, pen-an, pan-annnnn... PENALTY![/quote:3faqir8n]

ka-ching[/quote:3faqir8n]

wrong thread! Hard to work, goof off AND watch soccer at the same time.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Thanks for the explanation. I thought maybe you had taken some of Steve Rogers' medication.

[Guest themetfairy]

[ashie62]

Eew! That Donald guy is playing again.

[G-Fafif]

Reyes dived back into second, was checking his hand a bit. Let's get out of Cleveland with nothing worse than a quad contusion.

[G-Fafif]

Wright strikes out in the middle of a rally and we still have two runs. When you're hot, you're hot...in Cleveland or otherwise.

[Guest Kong76]

This is fun, can we go to Seattle next?

[G-Fafif]

Make it three!

[G-Fafif]

Howie likened Westbrook, before the game began, to Millwood, and it wasn't a flattering comparison. So far, I'd say Westbrook and Millwood have more in common these days than last names that encompass two discrete words apiece.