IGT April 18 2012 Mets v Braves Gay Dame

[Fman99]

Dickey v. Jurrjens. Be there or go to hell.

[Ceetar]

why would I want to be in Atlanta?

anyway ,12am start. early.

[Benjamin Grimm]

A 12 a.m. start is very early! I guess the game is over by now. Who won?

[Edgy MD]

"Gay dame." That's the other one.

[G-Fafif]

Nieuwenhuis-CF
Murphy-2B
Wright-3B
Davis-1B
Bay-LF
Duda-RF
Thole-C
Cedeno-SS
Dickey-RHP

[G-Fafif]

Bourn CF
Prado LF
Heyward RF
Uggla 2B
Freeman 1B
Francisco 3B
Ross C
Pastornicky SS
Jurrjens RHP

[Ceetar]

Kirk leading off. interesting switch.

Happy to see Thole in there again. Can't give too many starts to Nickeas.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: A 12 a.m. start is very early! I guess the game is over by now. Who won?

12Am and 12PM should be banned from the lexicon. It should be either noon or midnight.

[Edgy MD]

Noon start time. Good day to throw a rookie into a new and challenging role. Too early to spend all day thinking about it.

[Ceetar]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: A 12 a.m. start is very early! I guess the game is over by now. Who won? 12Am and 12PM should be banned from the lexicon. It should be either noon or midnight.

metric time please.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: Noon start time. Good day to throw a rookie into a new and challenging role. Too early to spend all day thinking about it.

I'll remention it at 11:30 then?

[G-Fafif]

Kirk leads off in his eighth MLB start. Jose didn't lead off til his twelfth. Mookie led off in his very first game.

[Frayed Knot]

12Am and 12PM should be banned from the lexicon. It should be either noon or midnight.

I always learned that, because a new day began at a second after midnight, that midnight was considered PM while the designation '12 AM' meant noon.
But, yeah, I would be hesitant to use either because there's probably about a 50/50 shot that whoever you're telling it to thinks of it as the other way around.
Just one more reason for the immediate adoption of the 24-hour clock.


I remember a whole buncha years ago Johnny Carson gave a guest spot to some ordinary LA-area citizen because he had made a minor local news story out of successfully fighting a parking ticket on the grounds that the parking hours sign was misleading due to the 12 AM/PM confusion.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I'm pretty sure (but not totally sure) that airlines never schedule departures or arrivals for 12:00: they're either 11:59 or 12:01.

[Edgy MD]

Ceetar wrote: Noon start time. Good day to throw a rookie into a new and challenging role. Too early to spend all day thinking about it. I'll remention it at 11:30 then?

I was speaking not of you, but of Nieuwenhuis, not having to spend all day thinking about living up to his promotion.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Noon start time. Good day to throw a rookie into a new and challenging role. Too early to spend all day thinking about it. I'll remention it at 11:30 then? I was speaking not of you, but of Nieuwenhuis, not having to spend all day thinking about living up to his promotion.

yeah, figured when I reread it. i'm sleepy.

Maybe he'll bunt for a basehit.

[Gwreck]

Edgy DC wrote: "Gay dame." That's the other one.

Agreed. It's time to ban that phrase too.

[Benjamin Grimm]

At least gay dames don't need condoms.

[G-Fafif]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: At least gay dames don't need condoms.

Are they still running that PSA on SNY?

[MFS62]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: A 12 a.m. start is very early! I guess the game is over by now. Who won? 12Am and 12PM should be banned from the lexicon. It should be either noon or midnight.

I agree. But I fear that will happen right around the time the Canadians stop measuring home runs in Meters, gas in Liters and temperature in Celsuis.
When I read the attendance at Jays games, I wonder how many people that is in American numbers.

Later

[Ceetar]

I'm sure these groups don't necessarily overlap, but the next time someone brings up that every other league (not true) uses the DH, so the NL should too, I'm gonna respond with every other country uses the metric system, so let's get that one done first.

[TransMonk]

Gwreck wrote: Edgy DC wrote: "Gay dame." That's the other one. Agreed. It's time to ban that phrase too.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!![/bigpurple]

[G-Fafif]

TransMonk wrote: Gwreck wrote: Edgy DC wrote: "Gay dame." That's the other one. Agreed. It's time to ban that phrase too. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!![/bigpurple]

From less linguistically loaded times, she appears to have been a fairly gay dame. Who wouldn't be happy with all that strange foreign money?

[ashie62]

Afternoon slacking! Yes LETS GO METS!

[G-Fafif]

Watching these last couple of games reinforces my sense that the biggest change in baseball in the last twenty or years regards defensive positioning. Next time you watch a pre-1990 game, notice how many balls get through infields versus today when video, scouting and whatever computer magic has allowed teams to play hitters, not positions. Wright's ball up the middle that was a rather routine groundout to Uggla is typical of what used to get through versus what gets gobbled up.

[Guest cooby]

I relish the word "relish"

[Frayed Knot]

David Wright is a golden God.

[nymr83]

Captain Kirk with his first steal, good job! Just like stealing candy from a baby or cloaking devices from the Romulans.

Wright gives the Mets the lead! Now one RBI short of Strawberry!

Umm... Why was Wright sent there with one out? Fuck

[Edgy MD]

We need a lead that can't be blown.

[HahnSolo]

Our starters were probably due for a couple of duds, but pretty jarring to see Johan and Dickey lit up early 2 straight days.