IGT 7/2/10 NYM @ WAS: National Holiday

[Zvon]

Lil' Met Guy is the essence of coolness, yes.

Ha, what a catch by Frenchy.
That's how I'd play right field at my age.

[Zvon]

That don't really work for nothin if you never saw F-Troop.

If you have, you say that like the chief said : "IT IS BALLOON!"

[Zvon]

July 2nd: It is NOT Tatis.

[Zvon]

Nice inning by Parnell?
I missed it

[Zvon]

It was. 8 pitch inning.
Where'd everybody go?


Looks like it's just you and I Lil' Met Guy.

[Zvon]

[Zvon]

I guess what Jerrys tryin to do here is get this game into a save situation for K-Rod.
He's such a considerate manager

[Zvon]

Ivan doubles.

Done and



done

[Guest Kong76]

That don't really work for nothin if you never saw F-Troop.

If you have, you say that like the chief said : "IT IS BALLOON!"

[Zvon]

[Zvon]

Course K-Rod is greeted with a line single.
5-2.
Tying run comes to the plate.

[Zvon]

Single up the middle.
5-3

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Just wanna kill Jerry sometimes. What a joke.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Crazy thing is Jerry will blame this on the lack of an 8th inning shutdown guy, never acknowledging he doesn't have a real 9th inning stopper either.

Geezus.

[Zvon]

Crazy thing is Jerry will blame this on the lack of an 8th inning shutdown guy, never acknowledging he doesn't have a real 9th inning stopper either.

Geezus.[/quote:24bsl3a7]

If this goes south he will spin it.
He knows spinnage

[Gwreck]

Books never written:

Effective bullpen management, by J. Manuel.

[Zvon]

WOWWWWWWW[/bigpurple]

[Guest Kong76]

Don't see a game end that way often!

[Zvon]

Hahahaha, you can't read that in any book.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'll take it but FML, we are so doomed.

[batmagadanleadoff]

And K-Rod gets the damn save. Yay. (After giving up hits to the only two batters he faced).

[A Boy Named Seo]

Win as ugly as those white hats. That was fun!

[Piggiestomatoes]

Very industrious. He wasn't getting any hitters out!

[Guest themetfairy]

I agree totally with Gary's rant against managing to the statistics rather than managing to the game.

[Gwreck]

Your other favorite closer just blew the save in Atlanta.

[Zvon]

Coras sayin that was not a called play, and it was all Tejada!

[batmagadanleadoff]

That don't really work for nothin if you never saw F-Troop.

If you have, you say that like the chief said : "IT IS BALLOON!"

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Your other favorite closer just blew the save in Atlanta.[/quote:1u1pihiu]

Mine you mean. yeah?

I hate Wagner more than Rodriguez but it's still early. What I really hate is the lack of imagination and waste of money and energy that goes into the whole idea of a Brand Name Closer. At least the Braves will be let down by Wagner less expensively than he dicked the Mets.

[smg58]

Tejada scores big-time points in my book for having the presence of mind to block the base.

Utterly inexcusable baserunning, though. Sure you want to get a good jump, but not at the risk of letting a struggling pitcher get out of the inning without throwing home.

It's funny, by the numbers K-Rod is having exactly the kind of season he put up regularly in Anaheim, and yet nothing ever seems easy with him.

[Gwreck]

Your other favorite closer just blew the save in Atlanta.[/quote:5pfk6zkr]

Mine you mean. yeah?

I hate Wagner more than Rodriguez but it's still early. What I really hate is the lack of imagination and waste of money and energy that goes into the whole idea of a Brand Name Closer. At least the Braves will be let down by Wagner less expensively than he dicked the Mets.[/quote:5pfk6zkr]

Yes, yours. There were about 15 posts between yours and mine (unintentionally).

I have no problem with the "brand name" closer generally; my gripe (since 2008) has been the totally dipshit management of the 'pen by Jerry.