IGT 5/16/12 Reds@Mets - Winner holds the road WC slot

[batmagadanleadoff]

Meaningful Met games two weeks before the Memorial Day weekend. Who woulda thunk it?

[Ceetar]

This amuses me, so I'm going to share it.

Ike/Wright's combined slash line: .285/.418/.455

[batmagadanleadoff]

Some Mets numbers heading into their series with the Reds:

All hit, no field Josh Thole's defensive WAR (BRef ver.) is 0.4. Thole leads all Mets in dWAR and ranked in the top 10 among all NL'ers until his current injury caused him to miss enough games to drop him to 11th place.

Daniel Murphy, the accident that can't wait to happen, leads all Mets in games played.

Going into tonight's loss against the Brewers, David Wright's 2012 WAR was 2.0. By comparison, Eddie Kranepool's career WAR (1962-1979) is 2.2.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Is anyone going to this game? I was gunna go last nite but turned off by the rain. Tonight could be slightly better.

[G-Fafif]

Kirk Nieuwenhuis � CF
Mike Baxter � LF
David Wright � 3B
Lucas Duda � RF
Daniel Murphy � 2B
Ike Davis � 1B
Justin Turner � SS
Mike Nickeas � C
Johan Santana � LHP

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Is anyone going to this game? I was gunna go last nite but turned off by the rain. Tonight could be slightly better.

Yeah, so see you all there. Doing a solo act or may hook up with the hooligans. Let me know if you come by!

[Edgy MD]

Shibboleth. I thought this started tomorrow.

[Ceetar]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Is anyone going to this game? I was gunna go last nite but turned off by the rain. Tonight could be slightly better. Yeah, so see you all there. Doing a solo act or may hook up with the hooligans. Let me know if you come by!

skipped this homestand as a "hey, not going saves like $100 towards Germany" fund. next time.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Mike Leake appears to have been going to Bronson Arroyo's salon.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Kirk Nieuwenhuis caught stealing on an off-speed pitch, having slid past the bag. Not the most committed of jumps. More like a "might as well" jump.

[Ceetar]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Kirk Nieuwenhuis caught stealing on an off-speed pitch, having slid past the bag. Not the most committed of jumps. More like a "might as well" jump.

hit and run? (I sound like Keith)

Howie says he kept his foot on, bad call.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

SNY's super-cam disagrees with Howie-- it came off by a visible inch for a split-second.

Speaking of commenter-things-- Keith seemed to be actively trying to jinx Murph during his inning-ending groundout ("He should KILL this guy," "Murph should eat up sinkerball guys like this," etc.).

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Devin Mesoraco kinda has a shrunken-Joe-Klecko look to him.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Mike Leake makes like a Rolling Stone in scoring from first on a two-out double. (A decent relay from left JUST fails to get him at the plate.)

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"Of COURSE Mike Baxter is frisky on the bases... he grew up running to catch the Q44 and QM16 buses in Whitestone, Queens. Have we mentioned that before? Because he did."

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Nice catch from Baxter to save some run-age on the Cozart liner.

Keith remotely, um, expressing his support/admiration to Joey Votto in the on-deck circle is why the SNY broadcast is the best in baseball.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Johan through 6 on 95 pitches, with a little more help from Mike Baxter and Red hitters' windmill-like qualities.

The Met offense? Just through, apparently.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Votto's brainfart deserves, like, 4/5 of Ike's RBI. Still, though... nice.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Squeeze. Again. Ha!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

OGTedBerg wrote: Are we sure Murphy wasn't going for straight steals of home on both the suicide squeezes, with Cedeno and Nickeas just bailing him out?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

If only we could teach Duda to jump. Like, three or four inches, even.

[Fman99]

Nice high cheese there by Bobby P.

[Fman99]

Some Mets numbers heading into their series with the Reds: All hit, no field Josh Thole's defensive WAR (BRef ver.) is 0.4. Thole leads all Mets in dWAR and ranked in the top 10 among all NL'ers until his current injury caused him to miss enough games to drop him to 11th place.

Yabbut, who leads the Mets in gWAR?

[ashie62]

Collins fucks up again leaving Parnell in to hit but wasting the ab by putting Rauch in.

Big, big mistake.

[Guest themetfairy]

Grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory....

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

And now we're bringing Carrasco in, to pitch in a one-run game we intend to keep close.

How... unconventional.

[Fman99]

And how... predictably shitty.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"That second run was charged to Carrasco, who in his... tenure as a Met, has accomplished nothing."

-Gary, last half-inning

[Fman99]

How is Chapman not closing for this team? Dusty Baker is a tard. I think he's got a toothpick lodged in his brain.

[Piggiestomatoes]

Wow, I put this up with the two Frankie fuck ups over the weekend. Another horrible loss.

Congrats on the site being given its clean bill of health.