IGT: May 29, Ring the Phillies' bell!

[Ceetar]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Mike Baxter is not exactly making anyone forget Bay with his defense. Actually, he kind of makes you remember Bay.

that was a tricky one. it was literally impossible to use his glove to pick it up, it was rolling under the padding. can we ..pad that maybe?

[Fman99]

Impressive work by Heff to get out of the runner on 3rd/no out jam. But I've always been a Hefner fan.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Our starting shortstop is starting to look like quite the Pitbull at the plate, as well.

[Fman99]

AND KA-FUCKIN-BOOM

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Boom boom, boom boom. Ba-boom-boom-boomboom, boom boom.

Edited May 29, 2012 by Guest

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

HAVE ANOTHER SLICE OF HAIRPIE, SCOTT! TOUCH 'EM ALL!!!

[Edgy MD]

When was the last time the Mets got two homers out of the nine-hole?

[Fman99]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: No sweat. Why don't you Phillies take a rest on daddy's lap?

That's an old picture. I think, maybe, before his cock started working again.

[Frayed Knot]

Ronnie dropping the hammer on the official scorer!

[Fman99]

Bobby P, mowing em down.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"Hey, Bobby-- why don't you take some of these prospects off my hands?"

[Piggiestomatoes]

Frayed Knot wrote: Ronnie dropping the hammer on the official scorer!

Wow..."If he wants to be a scout, we'll get him a pairof Sansabelt and a radar gun."

That's fucking classic!

[Frayed Knot]

Parnell's eight pitches in the 7th were obviously too much to have him continue.

[Edgy MD]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Our starting shortstop is starting to look like quite the Pitbull at the plate, as well.

It's awesome how many guys who started in the minors this year have made a contribution.

Gonna be tough to cut us down to 30 ranked players at the end of the season.

[Frayed Knot]

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[ashie62]

Must win this game..

Pissin rain here.

[smg58]

I don't mind the rain when we're winning. Something tells me this game is over.

[Gwreck]

Random note for the rain delay:

During the aftermath of the Hefner homerun, did anyone else notice Ron talk about Joe Blanton hitting a home run in the World Series, and that he was the "first pitcher" to do so?

Obviously that's not quite right, as plenty of other pitchers had done so previously, particularly before the DH. Blanton was, as best as I can tell, the "first NL pitcher to do so in the DH era" which is a pretty arbitrary line to draw for "first."

Love our announcing crew but even they're not perfect.

[Edgy MD]

Atlanta up on the St. Louis Beltrans, 5-4 in the seventh. Miami beating the Nationals by the very Nationalistic score of 2-1 in the eighth inning.

I believe a pitcher hit a WS homer in the first or second year of DH play. An AL pitcher, I think, for the A's.

[Ceetar]

Gwreck wrote: Random note for the rain delay: During the aftermath of the Hefner homerun, did anyone else notice Ron talk about Joe Blanton hitting a home run in the World Series, and that he was the "first pitcher" to do so? Obviously that's not quite right, as plenty of other pitchers had done so previously, particularly before the DH. Blanton was, as best as I can tell, the "first NL pitcher to do so in the DH era" which is a pretty arbitrary line to draw for "first." Love our announcing crew but even they're not perfect.

Wonder if Babe Ruth did it. *checks* no. but he did have a triple.

[Edgy MD]

Ken Holtzman, 1974: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/OAK/OAK197410160.shtml.

[Frayed Knot]

Gwreck wrote: During the aftermath of the Hefner homerun, did anyone else notice Ron talk about Joe Blanton hitting a home run in the World Series, and that he was the "first pitcher" to do so?

I suspect he meant to say that Blanton was the last pitcher to do so in the WS

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy DC wrote: Atlanta up on the St. Louis Beltrans, 5-4 in the seventh. Miami beating the Nationals by the very Nationalistic score of 2-1 in the eighth inning.

Now 3-1 Marlins.
Ceshek got out of a bases-loaded one-out situation in the top of the inning (K'd Harper then a Zimmerman GO) with no runs allowed
Hanley then hit the first pitch of the bottom out of sight.


Miami, btw, is an ML best 19-8 in the month of May
Another thing as I check out tonight's in-progress game, is that their stadium is actually somewhat loud! Not sure of the crowd size but they were roaring when they danced out of that jam in the top of the inning then again for the leadoff HR.
On the other hand, the grass there looks like shit.

[metirish]

this will get you unfollowed mate

@NY_Sports_World
Huge #Mets fan, but nothing's worse than Mets Yearbook ......

[Ceetar]

metirish wrote: this will get you unfollowed mate @NY_Sports_World Huge #Mets fan, but nothing's worse than Mets Yearbook ......

I can sorta get if you're not real into the old timey stuff, but what's he want? two blow-hards over-discussing the 'important' issues of the game so far?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Have a seat, Schneider.

[Guest themetfairy]

Books!

[nymr83]

It beats WPIX cutting to a sitcom rerun imo, and I wouldn't want "Mets Classic Games" or anything like that because who would want to cut out of Game 6 to get back to the rainout? Yearbook is fine, keep it on mute til the game comes back if you really want.

[Edgy MD]

The fun thing is that was exactly what you were hoping for 30 years ago. If they put on an old highlight film during a rain delay, you would be living in hope. If they cut to a Dick Van Dyke rerun in progress, you knew things looked bleak, and there was a good chance that the Sara Lee Kessler would be opening the evening news by telling me I'm an idiot and I oughta go to bed or at least done my homework, because the game was called twenty minutes ago. And now it's too late and you're too tired to do your homework. Idiot.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Q's quick compact swing tonight reminded me of the good Gregg Jefferies.