IGT, KC @ NYM, 8/3

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: Let's pull Q and send Brown up against the lefty. Flurg, who else didn't want to see Recker up there?

this works right? Turner *gulp* slides over but then you could go one of a dozen ways with the easiest being Brown to LF Young to second Murphy to third.

[Edgy MD]

It would likely work better with a second real shortstop.

But Q's strikeout definitively didn't' work.

[Zvon]

Q have anything left at the plate for this season? It don't look like it.

[Edgy MD]

Pedro Feliciano, centerfielder.

[Zvon]

Funniest pop up
eveh.

[Frayed Knot]

Has Pedro got someone's signature tattooed behind his left ear?
HIs own?
His doctor's?
Jack Lew's maybe?

[Zvon]

Frayed Knot wrote: Has Pedro got someone's signature tattooed behind his left ear? HIs own? His doctor's? Jack Lew's maybe?

I thought it was sweaty matted hair.

[Edgy MD]

Nice job, Brown.

Needed that last inning, but...

[Zvon]

Ha! SS wears braces.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Satin smoov

[Edgy MD]

ALRIGHT!!!

(I just scared two sleeping dogs to death.)

[Zvon]

Cant catch em all braceface.

[Zvon]

Nice try on the freaky foul. Oh yea, Ha! Gordon, you sucked that time.

[Edgy MD]

I guess the presence of Atchy means that Parnell is still unavailable.

[Edgy MD]

Atchy getting it done with the arm and the legs.

The key to this game is our bullpen's defense.

[Zvon]

Nice inning ol' man. I'm not used to a steady pen. And as soon as I do get used to it....well, ya know...it's the Mets.

[Frayed Knot]

Turner - Recker - SQuinty ... sounds like some runs.

Or not.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I think the Wrecker pops one here and ends it.

[Edgy MD]

Recker's got beefcake power.

[Frayed Knot]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I think the Wrecker pops one here and ends it.

Seems like it's been a while since we saw Recker get close to a pitch.

[Edgy MD]

How about our bullpen?

[Ceetar]

these extra innings are messing with my desire for a pre-booze nap.

[Edgy MD]

EY has a mean game face when he's at the plate.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: EY has a mean game face when he's at the plate.

It's that big jaw.




A between-innings graphic confirms what I've long suspected, that the Mets are averaging the longest games in the NL this season (3 hours 11 minutes) and are tied for third longest overall in the majors. The Red Sox, to no one's surprise, head the list.

[Zvon]

Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: EY has a mean game face when he's at the plate. It's that big jaw. A between-innings graphic confirms what I've long suspected, that the Mets are averaging the longest games in the NL this season (3 hours 11 minutes) and are tied for third longest overall in the majors. The Red Sox, to no one's surprise, head the list.

So more Met baseball for our buck. Awesome!

[Frayed Knot]

So more Met baseball for our buck. Awesome!

Well, slightly more* Met baseball for the buck based on there being so many extra innings games.
But mostly it's just the same amount of baseball just l-o-n-g-e-r and more stretched out.



* and Gary confirms that this 11th inning here is the Mets 47th extra inning of the season, the most in MLB for 2013
oe: and now on to eXI #48

[Zvon]

Frayed Knot wrote: Zvon wrote: So more Met baseball for our buck. Awesome! Well, slightly more Met baseball for the buck based on there being so many extra innings games. But mostly it's just the same amount of baseball just l-o-n-g-e-r and more stretched out.

I prefer them to drag things out with some post season play but I'll take this. Gary sez 47 extra innings played by the Mets? Thats 5 games right there.

[Frayed Knot]

Was removing Murphy instead of say Satin worth the extra two spots in the batting order? ... Mebbe

[Edgy MD]

Feels like Aardsma has pitched every day for a week.

[Edgy MD]

And there he goes.