On Your Marc Get Set: A Call to Arms IGT, Pt. III: 6/19/2013

[Edgy MD]

Can't go winless forever and ever, Shaun.

If the boys can shut the Braves down, a man like you can.

[TransMonk]

I'm pulling for him, but Marcum seems like quite the letdown after yesterday's hype.

[Edgy MD]

Maybe, like getting Mike Torrez after Gooden and Darling in 1984 or maybe Bob Shaw after Seaver and Koosman, but sometimes vet guys find themselves too.

I'm counting on it, anyhow. The guy turned in one of the most remarkable relief outings in the team's history last week. Somebody's got to fill a hole until other rooks make their marks. Might as well be him.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: Maybe, like getting Mike Torrez after Gooden and Darling in 1984 or maybe Bob Shaw after Seaver and Koosman, but sometimes vet guys find themselves too.

Bob Shaw was a Met before Seaver (and thus, Koosman) and for a time, was the Mets best starting pitcher.

[batmagadanleadoff]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Maybe, like getting Mike Torrez after Gooden and Darling in 1984 or maybe Bob Shaw after Seaver and Koosman, but sometimes vet guys find themselves too. Bob Shaw was a Met before Seaver (and thus, Koosman) and for a time, was the Mets best starting pitcher.

It was Shaw who taught Gaylord Perry how to throw the spitball.

[G-Fafif]

When I was a rookie, I was tutored in locker-room protocol by Mike Torrez and Rusty Staub, two generous guys who went out of their way to make me feel comfortable.

From Doc's first autobiography, Heat, in which he swore he was clean, a notion he's since refuted upon the publication of his second autobiography. Nothing in there about Dick Tidrow dousing him with ice water.

I haven't read Doc yet, so I don't know if he's changed his tune on any of this to "barbecue sauce, what do I look like -- an underage busboy?"

[Edgy MD]

I've clearly conflated Bob Shaw with Seaver/Koosman-rookie-era relief filler Don Shaw.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: I've clearly conflated Bob Shaw with Seaver/Koosman-rookie-era relief filler Don Shaw.

I used to do that all the time, until I read Ryczek's book in 2010.

[Edgy MD]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I've clearly conflated Bob Shaw with Seaver/Koosman-rookie-era relief filler Don Shaw. I used to do that all the time, until I read Ryczek's book in 2010.

A Shavian conflation.

A Shavian Conflation, by the way, is opening for The Run-On Sentences tonight at The Grasshopper Lounge. All-ages show!

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Edgy MD wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I've clearly conflated Bob Shaw with Seaver/Koosman-rookie-era relief filler Don Shaw. I used to do that all the time, until I read Ryczek's book in 2010. A Shavian conflation. A Shavian Conflation, by the way, is opening for The Run-On Sentences tonight at The Grasshopper Lounge. All-ages show!

Their co-bill with The Masturbating Fetuses at Arlene's Grocery last week was killer.

[G-Fafif]

Young - CF
Murphy - 2B
Wright � 3B
Byrd � RF
Duda � 1B
Buck � C
Nieuwenhuis � LF
Quintanilla � SS
Marcum � RHP

[Edgy MD]

Told ye. Nieuwie's now a leftfielder.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Finally, somebody gets #22.

[smg58]

Neither Murphy nor Wright gave Young much chance to steal. I guess that's a re-adjustment that needs to be made.

Marcum has a 5.43 ERA and a 3.05 FIP. That's a really large discrepancy. Hopefully that means he's due for some good luck.

[Edgy MD]

The gray numbers and letters on the blue jersey make some sense in theory, but don't work at all in execution.

[Edgy MD]

Just had to check the boxscore to make sure Quintanilla wasn't playing second.

[Edgy MD]

My fault. Had to use the bathroom.

[Edgy MD]

Wow, getting two runs out of a triple-play grounder.

[Frayed Knot]

WOW!
1) Thank you Mr. Medlen
2) How can you be throwing that ball to 3rd?

[Edgy MD]

Broken bat ties the game.

So, these are those strange creatures they call "the breaks." I've heard tell of them.

[Frayed Knot]

Nice read by Buckminster.
He was a lot more sure that that ball was going to fall in than I was.
Either that or he was incredibly lucky.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Marcum is harshing my buzz. Again.

[Fman99]

Edgy MD wrote: Maybe, like getting Mike Torrez after Gooden and Darling in 1984 or maybe Bob Shaw after Seaver and Koosman, but sometimes vet guys find themselves too. I'm counting on it, anyhow. The guy turned in one of the most remarkable relief outings in the team's history last week. Somebody's got to fill a hole until other rooks make their marks. Might as well be him.

That all sounds well and good until you watch him drop a big dumpola on the mound.

[Frayed Knot]

That was one ugly, long-assed, and dragged-out 5th inning.

[Zvon]

Here for the comeback. And then I guess they will again give the lead back.

[Edgy MD]

Duda looking reasonably comfortable at first.

[Zvon]

Torres with a nice 2.1 innings. 4 Ks. Lets keep him.

[Edgy MD]

Yup. Torres looking generally impressive.

Follow his lead.

[Edgy MD]

Cheapie by Satin knocks out Medlen and brings the tying run to the plate.

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: Cheapie by Satin knocks out Medlen and brings the tying run to the plate.

Ronnie thinks that BUpton was lazy out there. I agree.