IGT 9/30/10: Mets vs. Brewers?

[Benjamin Grimm]

I believe that this is only the second IGT I've kicked off this year.

But... will the game be played?

Late Afternoon: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. High near 78. Breezy, with a south wind around 21 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tonight: Rain and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Low around 66. Breezy, with a south wind 19 to 22 mph decreasing to between 11 and 14 mph. Winds could gust as high as 55 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between 2 and 3 inches possible.

[Guest Kong76]

As I told tmf by email before, 2-3 inches of rain is like 2-3 feet
of the fluffy white stuff. That's a lot of water.

[G-Fafif]

Play fast, fellas.

7 Jose Reyes SS
27 Jesus Feliciano RF
16 Angel Pagan CF
5 David Wright 3B
19 Mike Hessman 1B
21 Lucas Duda LF
13 Mike Nickeas C
11 Ruben Tejada 2B
35 Dillon Gee RHP

[Guest Edgy DC]

Hessman!

[G-Fafif]

Tallest position player on the team. By the fifth inning they'll be using him as a lightning rod.

[Guest Edgy DC]

In a DP sit., Gee gets two grounders to Wright but he goes for one on the first and the second bad-hops off his glove.

[ashie62]

I'm shocked.

[Frayed Knot]

And yet another inning that goes from 2-out/none-on to runs for the opposition.
That these came via a dropped pop makes it even worse.

[Guest Kong76]

Grinds my grits when Reyes tries to hit a three run homer
with no one on down by three ... you'd think by now, uuuh,
never mind ...

[Guest Kong76]

If I was sitting in the front row, I wouldn't be suffocating
myself under an un-funny paper bag head no matter who was
playing or what venue I was at.

[ashie62]

Gee looks good. Duda has an RBI, Wright has his 100 RBI's and Beltran is done...Super!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Anyone hear Howie's regrettable rant on pythagorean wins?

C'mon, Howie. It wouldn't kill you to try and understand something new.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Working hard to be more embarrassing than Howie.

[Guest Edgy DC]

If I was sitting in the front row, I wouldn't be suffocating
myself under an un-funny paper bag head no matter who was
playing or what venue I was at.[/quote:1ald4r2z]
Feeling sorry for yourself in the front row. Some peepers need some punching.

[Frayed Knot]

Anyone hear Howie's regrettable rant on pythagorean wins?

C'mon, Howie. It wouldn't kill you to try and understand something new.

[Guest Edgy DC]

For the sake of a grain of perspective, the Saints were a winless team going into their next to last game (when they beat the Jets in the snow). The Mets are a near-.500 team.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Anyone hear Howie's regrettable rant on pythagorean wins?

C'mon, Howie. It wouldn't kill you to try and understand something new.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Howie's been embarassing me the whole second half with that jive. And I'd really like someone to get down and explain it to him slowly.

No, Howie, it's not like saying the 2010 Mets should win 110 games, it's like saying that a typical team who produces and prevents runs at the rate of the 2010 Mets, would have 79 wins, rather than 77. Now repeat that back to me Howie. Algebra makes my skin crawl! It's not alctually algerbra. Repeat that back to me Howie. It's like saying a typical... Listen, I don't own a slide rule, OK! Baseball is played on grass... with real people! Get out of your mother's basement!

The idea that anybody who covers baseball for a living has to speak about baseball-reference.com as if it's some mysterious place he doesn't know where he hears strange things are done that we can't speak of --- it's so disappointing. It's called "baseball-reference" because it's a reference site. A site where facts are stored. Like facts that distinguish between the 1973 Braves and 1977 Dodgers. (ugh.)

I guess the reason I'm not as down on Wayne Hagin as others (though I'm still pretty down) is that I think I find him closer to Howie than y'all. Living outside of the FAN listening area, I didn't get as much of Howie's best years with Cohen. But man.