Waddaya Call It?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

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//Considers changing name to "ScrappyDoo62" or "CousinOliverPerez"

[Benjamin Grimm]

All those "wait til next year" comments at the end of that thread are a bit more poignant now, given how 2007 ended.

And what to say about Steve Rogers?

Steve Rogers on 10/19/2006 wrote: I should be at the New York FUCKING TIMES right now, instead I'm pushing 30, I live with my parents and I can't barely pay for accounting courses and I can't spend a few hours a week on a blog so that its been updated once in 12 months

[Edgy MD]

That was an astounding (and possibly well oiled) comment from Steverino. Hopefully, five years down the road, he's climbed as far up the ladder as the Times has slid down.

Maybe they'll pass each other going in different directions one of these years.

[seawolf17]

Vic Sage wrote: the sinking feeling it gives me is to realize we lost Rottblatt, Valadius and Zvon, but we still have Steve Rogers and Cleon/Ashie. not a good trend for the Pool.

And Willets.

[seawolf17]

Topps released a version of this too, with an autograph.

[Benjamin Grimm]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: The painful IGT, complete with Rogers' shitty lyrics and Ashie behaving like a douchebag at the end. http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/5000/f14_t5019.shtml

I did a "print preview" in Firefox, and if that thread were to be printed it would run 82 pages.

[Benjamin Grimm]

seawolf17 wrote: Topps released a version of this too, with an autograph.

Hey, so did I! (But without the autograph.)

[batmagadanleadoff]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: All those "wait til next year" comments at the end of that thread are a bit more poignant now, given how 2007 ended. And what to say about Steve Rogers? Steve Rogers on 10/19/2006 wrote: I should be at the New York FUCKING TIMES right now, instead I'm pushing 30, I live with my parents and I can't barely pay for accounting courses and I can't spend a few hours a week on a blog so that its been updated once in 12 months

I just finished reading that thread, which was before my time, and the off-topic Rogers quote you just posted is the most memorable one.

[TransMonk]

I'm glad I missed that thread. What a miserable game. I also believe they would have rolled the Tigers in the WS.

I was watching at a bar with a bunch of Brewers fans trying not to act like I had just had my heart ripped out and used as a air hockey puck in front of them.

Last week made me feel a little better as the Cardinals did much of the same things to hopeful Brewers fans. At least I could tell them that I had been there as a fan and it sucks.

[A Boy Named Seo]

What a moment to flip on your cell phone camera. Shea was ROCKING.

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[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Gwreck wrote: Fuck Valentin, the problem with this series was Steve Trachsel phoning it in for Game 3. That is where things went off track. We should've never even been in a Game 7 with a clearly inferior team.

We've had this conversation before but IMO the game that really killed the Mets in this series was Game 2.

Anyone taking the Mets temperature at that time of year knew that the offense was struggling, they knew that the starting pitching was a big question mark, and that to have any chance we absolutely could not afford to let down in the field, or in the bullpen.

So what do the Mets do? Have a 3-run first inning off Chris Carpenter then give it away thanks in part to a careless error in the 2nd, dog-shit relief work from two of our best relievers, and a poor non-error on Speizio's hit*.

Fucking Wagner.

Get the least that was expected, out of that which was most reliable, in this game and Trachsel could've done anything in Game 3. We'd have swept them probably.

*- Probably. I watched this game from the right field side of Shea and never saw the play, and still haven't seen the replay.

[seawolf17]

I miss how Shea used to literally shake.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

So F. Taguchi.

[Gwreck]

No doubt they should've won game 2 but given its early place in the series I never think of it as the turning point.

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I seem to have erased Game 5 from my memory. Reviewing the box score is not a pretty sight.

We had the 12 runs in Game 4 and were going into game with the pitching advantage, with Glavine facing Jeff Fucking Weaver. After we took a 2-0 lead in the 4th, Glavine gave them right back, on a Pujols solo homer (whatever) but then, with 2 outs, walks Rolen on 4 pitches and procees to give up hits to Edmonds and Ronnie Fucking Belliard. Additionally, I was surprised to see that Felciano gave up a pinch-hit homer to Chris Duncan (a lefty batter).

[Ceetar]

seawolf17 wrote: I miss how Shea used to literally shake.

I'm not sure it's a given that Citi Field doesn't, it's just never been tested.

[Edgy MD]

Jeff Weaver? Who ever heard of him?

[seawolf17]

Edgy DC wrote: Jeff Weaver? Who ever heard of him?

Jeff Weaver, in 2001-02, carried my fantasy team. Looking back at the stats, he was mediocre, but it felt like every time out, he was throwing a complete game. He got traded to the Yankees midseason in 2002, and I was cahnfident he was going to carry me to a title with all the complete game wins he was going to get.

Never quite did.

[Frayed Knot]

My main memory of that series is that we shouldn't hit them a lot better than we did.
Not only was that staff not all that good but it looked perfectly suited for a lefty-heavy lineup of Mets to tee off on.

[Fman99]

Gwreck wrote: 5 years already and I still can't stop thinking about this game. I still am positive we would have won the World Series.

This haunts me.

[Ceetar]

Frayed Knot wrote: My main memory of that series is that we shouldn't hit them a lot better than we did. Not only was that staff not all that good but it looked perfectly suited for a lefty-heavy lineup of Mets to tee off on.

and if it wasn't for Beltran we may have gotten swept.

[HahnSolo]

Re: Game 2 that Bucket mentions above.

In the first inning, when the Mets scored 3 runs, Willie had LoDuca bunt after a Reyes leadoff double...he was already in scoring position. I know you can't predict future results, but the Mets gave up an out in an inning in which they would score three runs.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Re: Game 2 that Bucket mentions above. In the first inning, when the Mets scored 3 runs, Willie had LoDuca bunt after a Reyes leadoff double...he was already in scoring position. I know you can't predict future results, but the Mets gave up an out in an inning in which they would score three runs.

Plus Lo Duca was an all-star that year and Reyes, in 2006, was probably the fastest base-runner in the majors. I don't know what was dumber: what you wrote or sac bunting Reyes from second to third with nobody out in the top of the first in a game in Denver? Denver -- where you probably need eight runs to win a game, or the NLCS? Either way, Jerry had nothing over Wee Willie when it came to moronic sac bunting. Wasn't even close.