IGT, 8/12, Hey, Puig, Meet the Mets

[Zvon]

OO, lets make Mattingly regret this...oh, he is gonna make the change. Terrys right. That was a delay of game there.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy MD wrote: See, great time for a pinch-hitter. But I'm not thinking of Justin Turner. Where's Brownie?

Exactly.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Frayed Knot wrote: Even as hot as he's been, when Ike has to face a LHP he doesn't bring a whole lot of confidence.

At the risk of going Francessa on yous, as good as he's been lately he hasn't come though in a Big Spot yet.

Meantime, I hate the motherfucking Dodgers all of a sudden.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Turner.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

On a 2-strike fastball. Looking.

[Edgy MD]

Justin Turner, compared to Dustin Pedroia by Vin Scully.

I'm suddenly not convinced.

[Zvon]

Yea, chew that gum Turner. Be careful though. Wouldn't want you to choke on that too.

Looks at a 3rd strike. And it was a strike.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

It's enough to make a lady go into long-deferred labor. Or curse uncontrollably. Either way, here we are.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Does Puig get a high-five from DeVito for that GiDP?

[Edgy MD]

We shoulda be so on top of this game. Let's not go quietly.

I too am feeling irrational antipathy for the Dodgers.

[Zvon]

That was kinda quiet. Well, if the umps are all for the Dodgers nothing should stop em.

[Frayed Knot]

A winnable game that we managed, for a variety of reasons, not to win.

[Ceetar]

Frayed Knot wrote: A winnable game that we managed, for a variety of reasons, not to win.

the offense is woefully inept.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

This game really pissed me off. The kind of game that loses a series.

[Frayed Knot]

Ceetar wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: A winnable game that we managed, for a variety of reasons, not to win. the offense is woefully inept.

Eh, they did get ten hits plus two walks so it wasn't one of those nights where they were flailing all evening. It was more one of those games where the timing simply sucked all night.

The biggest problem came when five of the first eight batters getting hits resulted in just two runs thanks to the missed bunt (9th batter of the game) plus the two GiDPs (2nd & 10th). That inning plus the two more we left on base in the 3rd blew a real chance of running Nolasco's ass out of the game early but we let him off the hook.
After that it was the FIVE LOBsters in the 7th & 8th while the Dodgers bunched most of their shit in one inning (cheap hits, real hits, our only error).

Dodgers left 3 on, we left 9

[Edgy MD]

We chase Nolasco early, and we're feasting on the back end of the bullpen for a good chunk of the series.

We have a deeper bench, we're making some deadly counter-moves, like sending Brown (or Duda!) up for Quintanilla with two men on in the eighth.

We have a deeper bench and a little more wa and a little less ego massaging, we're maybe sending Satin or Brown up for Davis when they send in a ridiculous junkballing lefty against him.

Feels like the first time in a month Ike's gone down chasing that low breaking pitch like he did the whole first half. Ah, what's the use? What's the use?

[Vic Sage]

Ah, what's the use? What's the use?

welcome to the dark side.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Feels just like the beginning of a long losing streak, doesn't it?

[Edgy MD]

Vic Sage wrote: Ah, what's the use? What's the use? welcome to the dark side.

It's my inner Big Al.

[Edgy MD]

And Danny DeVito, last night, you made the list.

[Vic Sage]

what did that mini-me tub of lard do?

[Fman99]

Wow there's a lot of rage in this thread. Makes me glad I went to bed with the Mets up 2-0 and cruising.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy MD wrote: And Danny DeVito, last night, you made the list.

He's just doing what he does. I'm just curious as to whether he and Ice-T and fuckin' Meathead were doing it in May.

[Edgy MD]

Going to the game alone, with ringside seats, basking in Johnny-come-lately reflected glory, looking for all the world like Billy Crystal west.

But you know, he's back with his wife, and loves animals, and is noticeably old, so I shouldn't be bringing the hammer down on him, but a strange amount of bitter antipathy bubbled out of me last night and some of it landed on him.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The whole scene reeked of "Yankees-at-their-worst, minus the reasonable-people boundaries."

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The MFYs basically won on a questionable strike call and the Mets lost on one. It was just a hateful night all around.

A ridiculous strike 1 on Trumbo with the bases loaded and 1 out and Angels down by 1, after which he and the next guy whiffed chasing other pitches out of the zone.