Win one for Dad IGT 6/16/13 Cubs @ NYM

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Except that douchebag dad in the New York Times.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Valdy
Muffy
Wrighty
Byrdy
Doodee
Bucky
Quinty
Nieuwy
Heffie

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Murph takes a chance going for the lead runner, and does it nicely.

Yesterday Valdespin looked as if he had never turned a double play before. Being at the game, it was hard to tell whether he just had no time, or didn't manage the turn well.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Speen with a better job there, but Castro just a bit too quick on a slowly hit ball. Hefner makes the Cubs lineup's center fold (ugh), fanning Soriano and Rizzo to keep it 1-0 Cubbies.

[Guest Kong76]

Gonna have to bring in the fences a tad more this winter.

[G-Fafif]

My friend's teenage daughter got to do the "PLAY BALL!" before today's game, so that's a win right there.

Not like the Mets have listened to her instructions just yet.

[Edgy MD]

One hit and no runs through four innings sounds, as Stevie Nicks says, hauntingly familiar.

Let's not do that this time.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

This offense is often on the edge of seventeen straight batters retired.

[Guest Carnac the Metnificent]

A: An underachiever







Q: What do you call a pitcher who two-hits the Mets?

[Guest Kong76]

That three-bad throw sequence has me laughing so hard I have
freakin' tears dripping down my cheeks.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Wow. That was straight out of tee-ball.

[Edgy MD]

The wrong team is in blue for a home game against Chicago. It's a little disorienting, and I briefly got the notion that two Mets were scoring as the Cubs threw the ball around the park.

[G-Fafif]

Marvelous Marv "he didn't touch second, either, Case" game also versus Cubs, also at home, also on Father's Day.

[Frayed Knot]

And who could have foreseen a leadoff double being stranded because no one got the ball out of the infield AGAIN!!
(K, Pop-out, Pop-out)

[Guest Kong76]

Frayed Knot wrote: And who could have foreseen a leadoff double being stranded because no one got the ball out of the infield AGAIN!! (K, Pop-out, Pop-out)

A rare commodity this year indeed

[metsmarathon]

Kong76 wrote: That three-bad throw sequence has me laughing so hard I have freakin' tears dripping down my cheeks.

We do that kind of thing all the time on my work softball team. But we're amateurs.

[Frayed Knot]

Slight change in M.O., this time it ws the first two guys on and ONE ball left the infield (where it was, of course, caught on the warning track).
Same result though.

[Frayed Knot]

At this point I'm barely looking up from the crossword puzzle during these "rallies" because I already know how they're going to end.

[Edgy MD]

Hey! Buck got on!

Third straight leadoff runner for the Mets.

[Edgy MD]

Top of the order. Big inning for the fathers.

[Zvon]

I'll suffer the 9th with youz.

[Zvon]

I am not prepared for Met Kabooms! Gimme a sec.

[Edgy MD]

Thanks, Marlon.

We're really good at making an inconsequential late mark. Let's make it consequential.

[Zvon]

[Edgy MD]

A Buckaboom away from a tie game.

[Zvon]

I got here just in time for the big tease, didn't I. Or is this a comeback brewing. I forget what they look like.

[Edgy MD]

Those sliders away have been death for Buck.

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: Those sliders away have been death for Buck.

And a fastball brings life.

[Edgy MD]

Oh buntabunta.

[Edgy MD]

Good bunt, but... for Nieuwenhuis and Cowgill.

Let's go, Mets!