IGT 8/27 - Astros at Mets

[Centerfield]

Mets face Houston and try not to embarrass themselves.

[metirish]

Pagan. Castillo. Beltran. Wright. Davis. Francoeur. Blanco. Tejada. Pelfrey.

DPLennon
#Mets need infielder, call up Luis Hernandez from Buffalo. Jesus Feliciano optioned.

[Zvon]

non embarrasstro

[Centerfield]

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[ashie62]

LETS!

[Guest themetfairy]

[ashie62]

Rolling off the wires, Beltran waives no trade clause and Mets are willing to eat 9 million this year and next.

Anybody else hear this??

[Zvon]

lets strand Bourn at 3rd, please

[Zvon]

Rolling off the wires, Beltran waives no trade clause and Mets are willing to eat 9 million this year and next.

Anybody else hear this??

[Zvon]

You walk in a run and I will be pissed Pelf.

K!YAY!

[Zvon]

Castillo gets Wright an RBI.
Nice.

[Zvon]

just when you think youve seen it all in this game

[ashie62]

I'm sure Buckethead agrees.

[Zvon]

2 hits after 6.
oy

Buckethead agrees

[Guest themetfairy]

Nice work by Ike on that DP! He should get some Schaefer for that.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

ohfuhgfodsakes

[Zvon]

I agree Jerr.
U gave Parnell a chance and he was failing.
get him outta there.

But sheesh, Parnell wants to be a closer, I'd like to see him become the closer,...he gets a chance and bang-zoom, 1st and 3rd.

[Frayed Knot]

Funny how non-closers closing are eligible to get pulled when struggling but not designated closers.

[Zvon]

Don't walk him Tak.

Go after this guy.

WOW.
a call 4 us!

[Fman99]

That's two.

[Fman99]

METS WIN!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

You've been Takahad!

[Zvon]

We gotta be the best fans the Mets have anywhere.
Still biting our nails when we are 9/10 games out, lol.

[Frayed Knot]

Lots of beer for pitchers and defense and not so much for the hitters ... but we'll take it.

And we just .500'd ourselves again.

[Guest themetfairy]

I was so sure this was going to end badly. I'm thrilled that it didn't

[metirish]

Funny how non-closers closing are eligible to get pulled when struggling but not designated closers.[/quote:31esj6mx]

I was thinking this as Manuel pulled Parnell, as were all here I'm sure. Having no problem with pulling Parnell makes not pulling the big ticket closer all the more stupid in it's thinking.

[Frayed Knot]

Thing is, a closer with more of a track record - like KRod or a lot of others - certainly deserves a longer leash than does a relative newbie like Parnell.
My only objection is that closers almost NEVER get pulled even when it's obvious they don't have it that night.

When I did that little closer "study" I went through the box scores of more than 400 ML games (basically a month's worth) and saw maybe two closers that got yanked in the middle of an inning. There were a whole lot more cases where the manager went down with the ship.

[Ceetar]

Nice work by Ike on that DP! He should get some Schaefer for that.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I was so sure this was going to end badly. I'm thrilled that it didn't [/quote:1d27i2fb]

Same here.

I'm also grateful. Thanks for the "umping" in that last frame, blue.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Had a great evening with a banged-up Gwreck, TransMonk and TransMonkette (and G-Fafif earlier on)...and them winning was a refreshing change.