IGT 9/4/11 - Mets at Nationals

[Gwreck]

Reyes SS
Turner 2B
Duda RF
Wright 3B
Pagan CF
Bay LF
Satin 1B
Nickeas C
Pelfrey P

[Ceetar]

Gwreck wrote: Reyes SS Turner 2B Duda RF Wright 3B Pagan CF Bay LF Satin 1B Nickeas C Pelfrey P

Tejada is good to go, so Reyes will indeed get his day off.

[crossout]Reyes SS[/crossout]
Tejada SS
Turner 2B
Duda RF
Wright 3B
Pagan CF
Bay LF
Satin 1B
Nickeas C
Pelfrey P

[Gwreck]

2 RBIs for Tejada as well as a first major league hit for Josh Satin so far.

[Frayed Knot]

Here's my solution for the pace of game problem: A pitcher needs to throw a pitch within twenty seconds or:
- First offense: automatic Ball
- 2nd offense: automatic walk
- third offense: half-season suspension

At this point Pelfrey would be suspended through the year 2525 (if man is still alive?)




Duda ties it up with a HR as I'm venting.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Jason Bay, threat to the National security, singles to load them bases and knock out the pitcher.

[Frayed Knot]

Coffey takes over for Livan -- Team weight remains unchanged.

[Frayed Knot]

Nickeas pulls off a suicide squeeze!!!!
Seems like the last time the Mets pulled one of those off Davey Johnson was in our dugout.

[Guest Edgy DC]

He also pulls off a nice play not fielding a sacrifice bunt and letting it backspin foul. The batter subsequently GiDP'd.

Nice escaping the jam, Joshie.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Igarashi faced one batter and he's the pitcher of record.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Izzy on for the eighth. Leadoff hit.

[Guest Edgy DC]

We go to the ninth.

Beato or Parnell?

[bmfc1]

FK said: "At this point Pelfrey would be suspended through the year 2525 (if man is still alive?)" First, I approve! and 2d) nice Zager & Evans (not Nick) reference.

Good win but they should have swept.

The Magic Number on clinching third is down to 21. With that kind of suspense, no wonder that the game against the Braves on 9/17 was moved to FOX.

[Fman99]

Took a nap and woke up in time for innings 7-9. Also not on WPIX, a nice weekend of Mets on my actual TV, and Hagin-free.

[Frayed Knot]

bmfc1 wrote: FK said: "At this point Pelfrey would be suspended through the year 2525 (if man is still alive?)" First, I approve! and 2d) nice Zager & Evans (not Nick) reference.

1) You can never go wrong by throwing in Zager & Evans references. You just can't.

2) The length of these games is REALLY getting to me lately. Yeah, part of it is the recent Yanx/Sawx series which defies anyone's idea of good baseball*, but even two of these three Mets/Nats deals took over 3 hours and that 4th inning from Pelfrey just drove me nuts. Not only did he suck but he sucked at the rate of about two pitches per minute. Where have you gone Jim Kaat, our nation turns its tired eyes to you?




* As Phil Mushnick pointed out in his Sunday column, the 5-game game Mets/O's 1969 WS took almost the exact amount of total time (11 and change hours which included one extra inning game) as the recent three-game Yanx/Sawx series. It's a real problem for MLB IMO and any steps they've taken to correct it lately ain't working.

[ashie62]

It did take Notre Dame almost six hours to lose to USF yesterday...

[Guest Edgy DC]

It may have been a tough week, but I thought things were working better.

Just stay away from the Yanks/Sawx.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wikipedia, in reverence to Zager & Evans, wrote: RCA thought they were onto the "The Next Big Thing", but follow-up singles, such as "Mr. Turnkey" (a song about a rapist who nails his own wrist to the jail wall as punishment for his crime) went largely unnoticed by the public. "In the Year 2525" was their only Hot 100 entry.

How did this miss?!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Nice execution by the kids. (And a nice feather in the cap to Mr. Satin, getting his first belt-notch off junky Livan-- precisely the kind of guy who gives newbs and the overeager serious migraines.)

But, man alive, has Collins' ****bunty side revealed itself this weekend, or what?

[Guest sharpie]

This thread links up with the parenthetical song thread in the non-baseball forum. The songs full title is "In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)"