IGT, 9/12 --- You say, "Harvey?" I say "Marvey!"

[Edgy MD]

The Mets reject your false values, your substitute realities, your substitute coffee creamers, and the myths you weave to blind the gullible. They reject your vision for the country and they reject your manuscript submission. They reject the false promises of prophets since fled. And if they are true to themselves, they will reject the creeping despair that threatens to cripple the franchise.

These are the men who will make that stand.

[*:93a2aaff]Tejada, ss[/*:m:93a2aaff]
[*:93a2aaff]Murphy, 2b[/*:m:93a2aaff]
[*:93a2aaff]Wright, 3b[/*:m:93a2aaff]
[*:93a2aaff]Hairston, rf[/*:m:93a2aaff]
[*:93a2aaff]Duda, 1b[/*:m:93a2aaff]
[*:93a2aaff]Shoppach, c[/*:m:93a2aaff]
[*:93a2aaff]Bay, lf[/*:m:93a2aaff]
[*:93a2aaff]Torres, cf[/*:m:93a2aaff]
[*:93a2aaff]Harvey, sp[/*:m:93a2aaff][/list:o:93a2aaff]

[Edgy MD]

And these those who would enslave you with their lies if you only gave them but half a chance! LOOK AWAY!

[*:cnjwcazy]Werth, rf[/*:m:cnjwcazy]
[*:cnjwcazy]Harper, cf[/*:m:cnjwcazy]
[*:cnjwcazy]Zimmerman, 3b[/*:m:cnjwcazy]
[*:cnjwcazy]LaRoche, 1b[/*:m:cnjwcazy]
[*:cnjwcazy]Desmond, ss [/*:m:cnjwcazy]
[*:cnjwcazy]Bernadina, lf [/*:m:cnjwcazy]
[*:cnjwcazy]Suzuki, c[/*:m:cnjwcazy]
[*:cnjwcazy]Lombardozzi, 2b[/*:m:cnjwcazy]
[*:cnjwcazy]Lannan, sp[/*:m:cnjwcazy][/list:o:cnjwcazy]

[G-Fafif]

UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!

Ruben Tejada � SS
Ronny Cedeno � 2B
David Wright � 3B
Scott Hairston � RF
Lucas Duda � 1B
Kelly Shoppach � C
Jason Bay � LF
Andres Torres � CF
Matt Harvey � RHP

Murph's back needed scratching because it's sore.

[G-Fafif]

Davey Johnson, highly observant, likens Not Shea Stadium to "a morgue" in D.C. radio appearance.

He didn't compare Terry Collins to a "funeral director, but more depressing," however.

[ashie62]

Cififield is a friggin amusement/theme park/restaurant.

They just happen to play baseball at the same time.

[Ceetar]

Ashie62 wrote: Cififield is a friggin amusement/theme park/restaurant. They just happen to play baseball at the same time.

sounds good to me.

[Guest themetfairy]

Harvey strikes out the side in the top of the first - not too shabby!

[Frayed Knot]

Are we allowed to have 3 hits prior to the 7th inning?

[Ceetar]

Frayed Knot wrote: Are we allowed to have 3 hits prior to the 7th inning?

as long as they're spread out, yeah.

[Frayed Knot]

But, I forgot, we're not allowed to score.

[ashie62]

I forgot, Im not supposed to watch anymore this season.

[Edgy MD]

Jason Phillips as cleanup guy --- how are we hitting worse than we did then?

Ryan Zimmerman puts the Nats up 1-0, or as we call it, running up the score.

[Frayed Knot]

This is what the Nats have been doing for like the last month or so - living off HRs like they're the first-half season Yanx.


Meanwhile, we've had six different ABs with a runner on 1st and [u:34m5vk87]one[/u:34m5vk87] managed to move the up (Shoppach's single).
The others have been Ks, force-outs, and pop/fly-outs.
And then there was the dope who got himself out all on his own.

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: This is what the Nats have been doing for like the last month or so - living off HRs like they're the first-half season Yanx.

And, as if on cue, Homer - Single - Homer up in Fenway and the Yanx lead 3-0

[Frayed Knot]

Good thing we missed Strasburg otherwise we might be getting shut-out thru 4 or something.

[Edgy MD]

Base hit, man.

Bunt time!

[Frayed Knot]

And another RBI chance is met with yet another wet noodle of a ground ball.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Nothing like metsian middle-inning malaise to offset a stronger than usual cup of coffee.

[Edgy MD]

Robert Carson, the spirit of Bobby Myrick smiles on you.

[Frayed Knot]

Not often that you get out of an inning where your pitchers start six straight hitters off with a 2-0 count.

[Guest themetfairy]

Lots of beer for Carson for coming into the inning with nobody out and stranding three inherited runners!

[Fman99]

Enough fucking popups and fucking GIDPs and fucking LOBs. I'm ready to launch these fuckers into outer space like the Robinson family.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

If nothing else-- and that might actually be the case-- we're learning a lot about what could be a really good, really cheap bullpen over the next couple of years... especially the lefties.

Would that our lefty hitters would have similarly timely successes. Alas, Ike.

[Frayed Knot]

I would have PH'd Murphy there rather than Ike (needing one or two runs rather than four) but I also don't think it would have made the slightest bit of difference.
Muffy just would have found a different way to make an out.


And we still have only had one hitter move another one up with a hit.
Wright had to move himself up twice w/steals.

[Frayed Knot]

Oh good, let's put another fucking leadoff guy on.
And if you could make it a .145 hitter with an 0-2 count, Bobby, that would be just real peachy.

And while we're at it, just when was Parnell's last 1-2-3 inning anyway?
I'm guessing it was some time in 2010

[Frayed Knot]

And walking two guys right after that would be a perfect topping.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Hampson Trade Value +++++++++++

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: If nothing else-- and that might actually be the case-- we're learning a lot about what could be a really good, really cheap bullpen over the next couple of years... especially the lefties.

Ahem.

Well done, Mr. Hampson.

[Frayed Knot]

The legacy of these last two Houdini acts will be to make this a 1-0 loss rather than a blowout.

[Frayed Knot]

Two more weak-ass ground-outs and a sky-high pop.

I count [u:1zejl7gf]One[/u:1zejl7gf] hard out all night - Torres's liner to LF which was, ironically enough, too hard to score the runner from 3rd.