IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

[Frayed Knot]

One more game in the drive for five (hundred)

Note that the starting time is 8:05 PM, or 7:05 if you're already in the Central Time Zone, 9:05 for those of you in Nova Scotia

Pelfrey faces LHP Matt Harrison [5-6; 3.16; 1.27 WHiP] - part of Texas's haul obtained in trading Mark Teixeira to Atlanta.

Game time weather is expected to be approximately 98 degrees with zero chance of rain.
Tomorrow's weather is expected to be approximately 98 degrees with zero chance of rain.
Sunday's weather is expected to be approximately 98 degrees with zero chance of rain.

[Ceetar]

ugh, 8:05. I was totally timing my evening for Happy Hour->Pick up pizza on way home to arrive at 7:05.

[TransMonk]

Reyes SS
Turner 3B
Beltran RF
Bay LF
Hariston DH (initmidating, ain't it?)
Paulino C
Pagan CF
Murphy 1B
Tejada 2B

[Ceetar]

TransMonk wrote: Reyes SS Turner 3B Beltran RF Bay LF Hariston DH (initmidating, ain't it?) Paulino C Pagan CF Murphy 1B Tejada 2B

I'd have put Duda there. or if it's Hairston, Beltran.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ceetar wrote: ugh, 8:05. I was totally timing my evening for Happy Hour->Pick up pizza on way home to arrive at 7:05.

Pick up whiskey on way to pizza. Pick up barfly on way to whiskey. 8:05 should work out.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: ugh, 8:05. I was totally timing my evening for Happy Hour->Pick up pizza on way home to arrive at 7:05. Pick up whiskey on way to pizza. Pick up barfly on way to whiskey. 8:05 should work out.

I've been told I should cook the sausages in the fridge, not get pizza. Maybe I shoudl stop and get some Texas Toast.

[metirish]

Kinsler - 2b
Andrus - SS
Hamilton - CF
Beltre - 3b
Young - DH
Cruz - RF
Moreland - 1b
Torrealba - C
Murphy - LF
Harrison - P


nice lineup there

[Guest Edgy DC]

Trying to get Beltre going by flopping him in the middle there. He's not deserving it this year.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Beltre is far deserving of hitting clean up on a MLB team this season than the black hole that's in the middle of the Mets line up tonight.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Rockin' Doc wrote: Beltre is far deserving of hitting clean up on a MLB team this season than the black hole that's in the middle of the Mets line up tonight.

Put beautifully.

I'd like to see Paulino behind a couple of on-base-y types against lefties.

[ashie62]

Texas is good and the extreme heat is a home field advantage.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

i'm at the Lehigh Iron Pigs game tonite. In left field for the Charlotte Knights, Lastings Milledge. This team is also managed by Suupa Joe McEwing.

[ashie62]

Way to work a 3-0 count Baysuck.

[ashie62]

Nice non catch Bayfuck.

[ashie62]

Fuck you too Pelfrey

3-0 Texas

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Pelfrey seems to be the player who lets me down the most. Seemed like the bigger the game, the more he crumples. Not that this is a HUGE game, but riding a two-game win streak and closer to .500 it would be nice to get it. And he goes and pukes up a three-run dinger in the first.

[bmfc1]

It's bad enough that the Mets are losing but SNY keeps showing GW Bush. Please stop!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

rangers can score, still plenty o time.

[ashie62]

bmfc1 wrote: It's bad enough that the Mets are losing but SNY keeps showing GW Bush. Please stop!

At least its not Obama.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Excuse me, waiter?

I think you brought me the Politics Flame War by mistake? I could've sworn I ordered an IGT. Could you... thanks, I appreciate it.

[Meanwhile, a nice/lucky K by Pelf pisses on the Ranger rally.]

[Fman99]

It's WPIX, not SNY. Believe me, I know.

Thanks to MLB Extra Innings and Verizon, amazingly, the Mets/Rangers game is the only MLB action being played today that isn't available in my house. FML

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Tonight, between errors, ill-advised pitch chasing, and falling over while making outs, Jose's looking a little like what his detractors used to say he was, in the days before JoseSlag was criminalized. (Not to mention the dam-ned SMILING!)

[bmfc1]

Fman--I'm getting the game via Extra Innings.

[Frayed Knot]

Would be nice if our hitters could even make it a little bit hard for the Texas defense.
Virtually every ground ball is soft and easy; each fly out is high and lazy.

[Fman99]

bmfc1 wrote: Fman--I'm getting the game via Extra Innings.

Yeah, I'm considered a "local market" so I'm blacked out on MLB Extra Innings. Yet my service provider doesn't carry the "local" channel that the game is on, so I miss all the WPIX games. 25 of them, this year.

Time Warner would pipe these games in on a local access channel. Verizon, not so much.

[Frayed Knot]

That's ridiculous that you're a 'local market', you're 300 miles away!!

I think Verizon is the one to bitch to about that.

[bmfc1]

That's insane fman99.

[Fman99]

Frayed Knot wrote: That's ridiculous that you're a 'local market', you're 300 miles away!! I think Verizon is the one to bitch to about that.

Yep. I've been personally calling and nagging them repeatedly. Fat lot of good it's done me.

[Frayed Knot]

Fman99 wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: That's ridiculous that you're a 'local market', you're 300 miles away!! I think Verizon is the one to bitch to about that. Yep. I've been personally calling and nagging them repeatedly. Fat lot of good it's done me.

What I suspect is happening is that, because you get SNY as part of your package, they automatically put you on the blackout list as a way to force you into watching the game directly via SNY. But then they just assume all Met games are on SNY and when they're not there's no human being to un-flip the switch so to speak and allow the game through because the whole thing is, I'm sure, automated.

The fact that you are decidedly NOT in the home area means they probably shouldn't black out either but they'll probably cite some MLB policy at you.

[Fman99]

The real kicker is that the non-YES Yankee games are ALWAYS carried on the local NBC affiliate.