IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

[Frayed Knot]

It's past midnight (when we let it all hang out) so I'm within the framework for starting the IGT

Niese goes up against Jair Jurrgens
Lineups to follow in like 17 hours or so.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Bay on the pine again.

Reyes
Harris LF
Beltran
Muffy 3B
Pagan
Duda 1B
Thole
Tejada
Niese

[Gwreck]

Harris is apparently 7-14 lifetime + 2 walks against Jurrjens (credit to Rubin via Twitter).

I wonder if Tejada at 3rd and Murphy at 2nd is a stronger defensive alignment.

[metirish]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Bay on the pine again.

What to do with him?, sitting him for a day then playing him for two and sitting him again isn't working.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Gwreck wrote: Harris is apparently 7-14 lifetime + 2 walks against Jurrjens (credit to Rubin via Twitter). I wonder if Tejada at 3rd and Murphy at 2nd is a stronger defensive alignment.

Or Muffy at 1st, Harris at third and Duda in LF.

At any rate, shitty D at the corners, but Niese is our best K man.

[Ceetar]

metirish wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Bay on the pine again. What to do with him?, sitting him for a day then playing him for two and sitting him again isn't working.

Well, the idea here is to sit him against those 'really tough' guys figuring he's more likely to 'break out' against someone less tough on him. I personally don't agree, in fact, maybe bearing down to face a tougher opponent helps raise his level of play.

Maybe he can have a key pinch hit off Venters or something. Who, btw, always makes me wonder if he has a brother Marvin Gardens.

[metirish]

Is that really the idea?, fucking hell if it is, and fucking hell if he agrees with that sort of thinking.

[Ceetar]

metirish wrote: Is that really the idea?, fucking hell if it is, and fucking hell if he agrees with that sort of thinking.

I'm just guessing. he's got really poor numbers against JJ.

[metirish]

Terry Collins on Jason Bay sitting: �I�m sure he�s annoyed. He�s a pro.�

Rubin /Twitter

[metirish]

Rubin

Bay: �I�m a realist. I�m not playing that well. That�s just the reality of it. Had I been out there hitting .500, I think I�d have a little more reason to have a little more say. "

[TransMonk]

Good to hear those quotes by both Collins and Bay.

[G-Fafif]

I'm torn between hoping the Mets win and hoping the Braves lose.

What? I can have both? Outstanding!

[ashie62]

metirish wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Bay on the pine again. What to do with him?, sitting him for a day then playing him for two and sitting him again isn't working.

Could try waivers...lmao..he is washed the fuck up..

[smg58]

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[smg58]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Gwreck wrote: Harris is apparently 7-14 lifetime + 2 walks against Jurrjens (credit to Rubin via Twitter). I wonder if Tejada at 3rd and Murphy at 2nd is a stronger defensive alignment. Or Muffy at 1st, Harris at third and Duda in LF. At any rate, shitty D at the corners, but Niese is our best K man.

Murphy is hard to figure sometimes. He had a lot more minor league experience at third base than Turner, and yet Turner looks perfectly comfortable there. It's not like Harris hasn't made a costly misplay at third, either. I actually like getting Murphy back out there.

[ashie62]

Wet track?

[Guest Edgy DC]

I think the idea with Bay* should be to gradually decrease his playing time as he continues to fail, and gradually increase it if/when he begins to succeed. I don't think being in the lineup should be an all-or-nothing proposition.

*I think it should be the idea with everybody.

[Theoldmole]

SNY feed conked out.

[ashie62]

RBI's for Pagan & Duda 3-1 Mets.

[Guest Edgy DC]

A Niesingle is nice. Reyes follows with a 390-foot out.

[G-Fafif]

Gary just compared Tejada to Fonzie.

/swoon

Ron then compared him to a quarterback reading the field, because Ron has a hard time grappling with the Mets' existence from the time he left in 1991 until he returned.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Murphy certainly looks fine at third to me. Definitely has the arm.

I'd like to go back in time and shake up Jerry for his belief that Murphy couldn't play infield if he couldn't play outfield.

I'd like to go back in time in general.

[G-Fafif]

Gary slams the Home Depot Tool Race, Atlanta's answer to the sausages and the pierogis. "Heinous," he says.

There's a joke about Braves fans in "tool race," but I'll leave it to Fman to execute it.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Great BoB for Tejada here.

[Guest Edgy DC]

And Reyes picks him up one pitch after getting knocked down.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Willie Harris looks like a nu man. Mean, ugly, determined.

[Guest Edgy DC]

These Bravo announcers are joking about giving Reyes the rest of the series off.

[Lefty Specialist]

George Sherrill looks like the town drunk in a bad '60's sitcom.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

When Hawky achieves cruising altitude... it's a tremendously comforting feeling, innit?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Strange but true.

Also a good feeling: getting a the first pitcher knockout of the series. It's like whoever goes to his bullpen first is a great bet to lose the series.

And Thole gets his first knock.