I.G.T. 8/11/2011 Gaydame Padres @ Mets

[ashie62]

Padres enjoy daygames also...

[Guest themetfairy]

Fman, LWFS, Seawolf and I will be at the game.

Who'll be around to post?

[ashie62]

Slackers such as myself..

Have a great day..

[Guest Edgy DC]

That's one freaky animated gif to launch a thread on.

[bmfc1]

METS:
1. Scott Hairston ® CF
2. Justin Turner ® 2B
3. David Wright ® 3B
4. Jason Bay ® LF
5. Lucas Duda (L) 1B
6. Nick Evans ® RF
7. Ronny Paulino ® C
8. Ruben Tejada ® SS
9. Jon Niese (L) P

[Frayed Knot]

We're facing something named Cory Luebke today. The 26 y/o left-hander from Coldwater, Ohio was a 63rd overall pick in the 2007 draft who was called up last September. He now has 41 ML games under his belt, 11 of which are starts (37 and 8 this season).

Sporting a 3.06 ERA while giving up less than a base-runner per inning [.962 WHiP], it looks like he was moved into the rotation in late June where he's gone 3-4 in 8 starts since [2.92; .932] including coming off a 7 inning, 1 run, 5 hit, 9 K, 0 BB performance against the Pirates.

Tough on LHBs if the fairly small sample of data is to be believed [.150/.220/.187 across 119 PAs/against]. He has never faced the Mets.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

From same neck of the woods as Niese and Billingsley and that pitcher from the Nationals.

Stammen.

[seawolf17]

Short-staffing issues at work means I'm headed in to lead our afternoon information session... which means after all that, I'm not Citi-bound right now. Blargh. Public apologies and thanks to CF for getting me the tickets anyway.

[Centerfield]

Look at us. Two chumps who went to work when we both had the opportunity to take our sons to a game on a beautiful day. We suck.

CF-Seawolf Similarity Score Rising.

[Willets Point]

If this is the MLB.tv Game of the Day, why do I still have to log in to my account?

[Ceetar]

Willets Point wrote: If this is the MLB.tv Game of the Day, why do I still have to log in to my account?

because you have to have an account to watch.

Niese gets out of a sticky situation, going to bot-2.

[Willets Point]

Ceetar wrote: Willets Point wrote: If this is the MLB.tv Game of the Day, why do I still have to log in to my account? because you have to have an account to watch.

And you get an account by subscribing so it can't be a free game. Not that it matters much to me since I've already paid, but it's weird.

Weirder still, I've got SNY images with the San Diego broadcast team's play-by-play.

[Guest attgig]

I got normal audio on mlb feed.

but you can create an mlb account without paying for it. it's just the regular mlb.com account.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Doodoo with a 2-run dubble off the lefty.

[TransMonk]

[Frayed Knot]

Well, a whopping total of 3 hits combined through 4 innings.
Luebke has struck out 7 and walked 3 so has thrown a lot more pitches than you'd expect for only 4 frames.

[TransMonk]

Maybin goes yard...cuts the lead in half.

2-1 Metsies..

[Guest Edgy DC]

Runner on third, one out, rookie with eight games up.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Big grab by Duda.

[TransMonk]

Poop...

[Guest Edgy DC]

Qualls, though...

[metirish]

Twats on twatter are saying multiple ejections.....or is that ejaculations?...Fman is there right?

[TransMonk]

These Mets need to work on their pickle drills.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Didn't even get him in a pickle, but yeah.

Great strikeout by Niese.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Shawked that they're sticking with Niese now against Blanks.

[TransMonk]

UUUUAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGG!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Sloppy game. Sloppy series. Sloppy shmejada.

[Ceetar]

TransMonk wrote: UUUUAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGG!

Ruben Tejada bobbles more balls than a circus clown.

[TransMonk]

Rally time!!

[Frayed Knot]

I don't like Harris bunting there.
What is it with guys named Willie and bunting?



... and I especially don't like Paulino grounding out on the first pitch right after it.