IGT 7/1/2011: MFY @ NYM -- Watch the 7 Roll

[ashie62]

This game sucks ass thus far.

[metirish]

never fucking tagged him

[Fman99]

Shit call there, get a clue ump.

[Lefty Specialist]

Damn, that hurts.

[Guest attgig]

B S

[Gwreck]

Honest mistakes are one thing but Layne was running towards third when the play was happening. He was late and out of position. Incompetence is unacceptable.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Just coming n from the boozosphere. Missed the tag, but caught Pagan with the bases loaded. I liked him up there, but I can tell early in the at-bat that he was chasing the low curve and they were going to get him on one in the dirt.

[metirish]

Some sloppy play from the Mets throughout the game, sorry Keith but I don't want to hear about Murphy not being a first baseman anymore.

[bmfc1]

Agreed--Murphy should have caught that ball, no excuses needed from Keith.

[Lefty Specialist]

Daniel Murphy starring in "White Men Can't Jump".

[Fman99]

I will admit, I enjoy the Avis commercials with the Boston fan that no one talks to. I can't wait for the final episode, where he goes all ape shit postal and guns those fuckers down in a white hot rage.

[bmfc1]

Fman99--according to metirish, we have to stay on point. He admonished me earlier for a TV related post.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Twelve baserunners, but only one run.

Stop turning, worm... or keep turning, one or the other.

[Fman99]

Michael Kay now reading Joba tweets on the air. He's so punchable.

Meh, fucking A-Rod.

[Fman99]

bmfc1 wrote: Fman99--according to metirish, we have to stay on point. He admonished me earlier for a TV related post.

He was probably speaking Irish and you misunderstood him. Happened to me with him earlier today on Twitter.

[metirish]

bmfc1 wrote: Fman99--according to metirish, we have to stay on point. He admonished me earlier for a TV related post.

oh please

[Fman99]

Reyes vs the Panamanian pool killer. My money's on THE SEVEN.

[Guest Edgy DC]

How weak that the Yanks are bringing in their seventh pitcher with a five-run one, two out on the seventh, and the tying run still two safeties away.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

How many different cinematic takes on "medium-funny shlub can talk to the animals, learns about love" can there be, really?

[Fman99]

G-Fafif wrote: Fman99 wrote: Lets stomp these arrogant shitdicks. Man I wish that worked into an acronym for METS.

It does if you capitalize properly.

lets stoM[/bigpurple]p thE[/bigpurple]se arroganT[/bigpurple] shitdickS[/bigpurple].

[Fman99]

A-Rod looking dreamily at Teixeira and remembering how warm his hands were. On his shoulders. Whilst being ass-farked.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Turner!

[Fman99]

Well that sucked a Bronx rooster.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Beltran.

[bmfc1]

They know better than I do, but if you're doing something out of the norm--here, a switch-hitter batting righty against a RHP--aren't you admitting that you're in trouble.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

RE: Beltran batting righty-- Rivera's cutter eats everyone up, but it devours lefties more efficiently. (He has slight reverse-splits over the course of his career.)

Ex-major-leaguer/award-winning physicist Ojeda now play ump-ologist regarding the phantom tag on Reyes, claiming that Rodriguez's glove "buckled" as it came near Reyes.

[MFS62]

metirish wrote: never fucking tagged him

Ojeda said "the glove buckled" (indicating a tag).
The only thing that buckled was the unpire's knees, as he knelt down to kiss A-Rod's ass.
Later

[metirish]

By Adam Rubin Here are quotes to a pool reporter from plate umpire Jerry Layne, who called out Jose Reyes in the seventh inning on a tag apparently missed by Alex Rodriguez. Layne may have been partly screened because he was rotating to cover third base on the play. Your comments on play at third base? "You see what it is," Layne said. "It was a close play at third base, and I'm not going to comment about the ejection. I had him tagging him, you know, on hte side by the belt/buttocks are for an out." The Mets aruged that A-Rod missed the tag? "Yes." You clearly saw a tag? "I called what I saw." That was your call? "That was my call, yeah."

[Frayed Knot]

The Reyes play:
- probably was safe but it was a dumb chance even if he gets the call there. That's now three times in the last two games he's been erased after getting on.
But the biggest PITA about the whole thing is that not only do the Yanx get an extra out despite screwing up but they get one because they screwed up. It's one thing when good things happen because you're playing heads up ball, but they seem to get it when playing heads-up-the-ass ball. I remember Piazza dashing home once on an overthrow and getting thrown out; then there was the whole 'Jeter flip' play which only happened because Shane Spencer missed two cut-off men.

Other than that just too many mistakes
- too many MFY leadoff men allowed on
- no RiSP hits. What'd we have, like 13 baserunners but just one run? Yanx, as usual, bunched their hits.
- can't let Ivan Freakin' Nova and the soft part of their pen hold us to one run.
- Murphy's error
- Boy, good thing Jeter wasn't there, huh? I guess since his replacement went 4-4 Derek would have had 7 hits in 4 ABs

[Ceetar]

No problem with Reyes going. 1. he was safe. 2. he's supposed to be aggressive. That's his role. (Nevermind that when he sees the ball bounce of Nunez's foot and realizes he's not going after it there's not exactly time to analyze the relative benefits. He saw a chance to make it, and went. same way he tries to pick up a pitcher's move) Should he never steal, never push a double to a triple especially with two outs? Sometimes it's gonna be an out, but those are the breaks. Think about it for a second if the call goes correctly, Reyes tagged up from first on a fly ball and went to _third_. It was a pretty pivotal moment.

It sucked because we didn't score, but all and all it wasn't that horrible. They got hits, got baserunners. Just so happened it was often with two outs. if they'd been leadoff guys, more opportunities to score. Really, the main difference in the game was that the hits/walks the Mets got were with outs, and the Yankees got more leadoff guys on.