IGT 4/30 @ HOU: Mind Is Playin' Tricks On Me

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Or is that just the knucklers?

Dickey. Norris. It's a showdown at 8:05 sharp.

[Ceetar]

classic trap series right? crappiest team in the league, Mets are expected to win at least two.

This is the Mets last trip to Houston when they'll be competing, however superficially, against the Astros for a playoff spot.

i.e. the last time a Mets pitcher will bat in Texas.

[Fman99]

I'm looking forward to watching the Mets knock around quasi-retarded Bud Norris tomorrow. Seriously, he looks like a penny eater to me.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ceetar wrote: classic trap series right? crappiest team in the league, Mets are expected to win at least two. i.e. the last time a Mets pitcher will bat in Texas.

Was just thinking, this is the last time we won't have to pack a DH.

Also feeling weirdly nostalgic about Cooter's and Kevin Bass and JR Richards and Joe Niekro and Darryl Kile and Mike Scott and Jose Cruz and Beltran catches and the like.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It's the last day of the month, and today's game has potentially big Schaefer implications.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Head of the Class of '62:

LF Nieuwenhuis
SS Tejada
2B Murphy
3B Wright
1B Davis
RF Baxter
CF Torres
C Thole
RHP Dickey

(Whither Duda?)

Class Clowns:

CF Schafer
2B Altuve
SS Lowrie
LF Buck
1B Downs
RF Bogusevic
3B Johnson
C Castro
RHP Norris

Edited April 30, 2012 by Guest

[Ceetar]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: It's the last day of the month, and today's game has potentially big Schaefer implications.

Torres trying to make a late push.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Is Doodoo hurt?

[Edgy MD]

I figure maybe it's his day to catch a blow. I don't think he's sat yet.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Ceetar wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: It's the last day of the month, and today's game has potentially big Schaefer implications. Torres trying to make a late push.

Bad ass.

I still predict he'll get hurt climbing Tal's Hill.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Yes, but against a hard-throwing righty? That's his biscuits-and-chicken, man. (I presume he eschews bread and butter for something more... substantial.)

Maybe he ran afoul of some banditos?

Edited April 30, 2012 by Guest

[Benjamin Grimm]

Like toast and jam?

[Edgy MD]

More curious to me is Torres returning but Terry keeping Nieuie in the leadoff spot.

Maybe he wants to give Torres a chance to get going first.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Maybe it depends on the opposing starter. I bet if the Astros were pitching a lefty Nieuwenhuis and Torres would be flip-flopped in the order.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Lucas with the (post-nasal) drip on.

Lucas Duda is sick. No injury. Flu or something.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Dickey is performing capably through 4.

[TransMonk]

Yes he is. The Mets should score him some runs.

[Fman99]

Dang. Torres robbed there.

[TransMonk]

Buck me! Torres robbed of a triple.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

By spot-starter/Deliverance-the-community-theater-version-cast-member Travis Buck, no less.

[batmagadanleadoff]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Lucas with the (post-nasal) drip on. Lucas Duda is sick. No injury. Flu or something.

It's the Mets. Duda probably has Bubonic Plague.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Dickey is pitching effectively through 5.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Combo of a few fine ABs last time thru + Dickey's quick inning + top of the order = Smashy time

[Fman99]

I'm in favor of some smashy.

[Edgy MD]

Let's get some runs!

[Edgy MD]

Leadoffy single. Can this Norris guy hold a runner?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Sout

[Fman99]

Yeah, do it for Kim Jong Il!

[TransMonk]

We strike out A LOT. That bugs me.

[Edgy MD]

Edgy DC wrote: Leadoffy single. Can this Norris guy hold a runner?

I guess so.