Retro IGT 5/5/1979: NYM @ SFG: HOLY YOUTUBE!

[G-Fafif]

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Mets
Taveras SS
Trevino 3B
Mazzilli CF
Henderson LF
Montanez 1B
Youngblood RF
Stearns C
Flynn 2B
Swan P

Giants
North CF
Whitfield LF
Clark RF
Evans 3B
Ivie 1B
Tamargo C
Metzger SS
Andrews 2B
Nastu P

Edited August 16, 2013 by Guest

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Holy fucking shit

[G-Fafif]

"Jackie" Clark. Murph liked to extend certain guys who preferred one syllable and one syllable only: Bucky Showalter and Buzzy Capra come to mind, too.

[batmagadanleadoff]

May 5, 1979

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[Edgy MD]

There is clearly a conspiracy afoot to keep my from ever getting a stitch of work done.

[batmagadanleadoff]

It's the prime of Craig Swan, going for his 4th Win in the first week of May. Pretty good pace for a pitcher on that team.

[Guest themetfairy]

Love the old graphics!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

[bigpurple:18y4qg3v]NO SPOILERS[/bigpurple:18y4qg3v]

I've only seen the top of the first so far and man are Maz's pants tight.

[G-Fafif]

The difference between cordial and chummy? Bob Murphy. Not an ounce of pretension to his presentation. Makes Vin Scully sound like an unconscionable self-promoter.

[G-Fafif]

Mazz brought out the lineup card, just as he had done almost every day of the season to date. It couldn't have been for luck. Are players trusted to do that regularly anymore?

[G-Fafif]

Murph really did love analyzing the weather, as a trained meteorologist might. Puffy cumulus clouds were merely the tip of the cold front with him.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I know I'll never have time to watch it straight through, but I watched random bits of it just now.

I got a kick out of hearing Ralph refer to Alex Trevino as "Lee", a mistake I think he made frequently, as I recall. And Ralph, in his recap, announced the Schaefer points! (SPOILER ALERT: Trevino 4, Mazzilli 2, Stearns 2).

[Edgy MD]

G-Fafif wrote: Mazz brought out the lineup card, just as he had done almost every day of the season to date. It couldn't have been for luck. Are players trusted to do that regularly anymore?

Very captainly role. Torre was grooming him for big things.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

G-Fafif wrote: Mazz brought out the lineup card, just as he had done almost every day of the season to date. It couldn't have been for luck. Are players trusted to do that regularly anymore?

For some reason Girardi had one of his MFYs scrubs do it the other day, I think maybe their starting catcher.

[G-Fafif]

Joe Pignatano is coaching first in this game.

[G-Fafif]

1 1/2 commercials show up around 1:30. And then there's a jump in the action, so if you were looking forward to seeing the Mets score runs, you might instead want to focus your anticipation on the First Chevy of the '80s.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Friggin Taveras.

[G-Fafif]

Steve Albert: the proto-Josh Lewin.

[Edgy MD]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Friggin Taveras.

Most level swing in Mets history.

[G-Fafif]

Mets baseball is the perfect way to enjoy Schaefer Beer, but not the other way around, according to Hall of Famer Ralph Kiner.

[Zvon]

Steve Albert: the proto-Josh Lewin.

This is great. I forgot all about Albert.

Interesting call by Murph as North is thrown out trying to steal second on a close call: "Billy North is running! The throw by Stearns-they may get him! OUT at second base! Beautiful throw by John Stearns and Frank Taveres puts the tag on Billy North, and the second base umpire Tony Patche quickly moves into short center field to get away from an argument, the way any good umpire would do."

Wonder what Murph would think of todays umps, many of whom look for trouble.

[DocTee]

Ralph: "George Theodore, looked like he was put together by committee...he was a strange looking guy."

[Zvon]

DocTee wrote: Ralph: "George Theodore, looked like he was put together by committee...he was a strange looking guy."

One thing I never really gave Ralph credit for. He has a great voice.

[MFS62]

G-Fafif wrote: "Jackie" Clark. Murph liked to extend certain guys who preferred one syllable and one syllable only: Bucky Showalter and Buzzy Capra come to mind, too.

And he seemed to pronounce every syllable (maybe he even added a few) in Red Schoendienst's name.

Later

[Lefty Specialist]

I'd forgotten that on every follow-through, it always looked like Swan was going to trip and fall. Not exactly classic pitching form.

Nice to hear Bob and Ralph in mid-career form, even if the team sucked. Hooked up the HDMI cable to the laptop and watched a few innings on the big TV. Good stuff.

[Edgy MD]

How about the intro with the explanation of Skip Lockwood asking the official scorer to take the error from the day before off of Doug Flynn and put it on himself for not effectively backing up the base? I loved Flynnie, but it seems to me if a throw gets past the bag, it's either on thee thrower or the guy covering. Backing up effectively is a wild card.

Here's thinking the Mets were defensive of Flynn's rep at second, trying to help him get the Gold Glove that he had perhaps deserved the year before but had instead gone to Manny Trillo.

That season's 1979 GG for NL secondbasemen would instead go to Davy Lopes. Flynn would finally collect his only hardware in 1980.

[Edgy MD]

"Swan is one of the real hard throwers in baseball. His fasteball is usually clocked in excess of 90 miles an hour."

Swan's form looks pretty lousy in the first. It may be the mound, but his center of gravity is consistently falling toward the first base line.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The dirt was really... dirty back in the 70s, I guess owing to the rain that morning.

A shame we are missing that highlight I was hoping to see.

[Edgy MD]

To be fair to Mazz, the fabric and cut of the times made for a lot of guys wearing pants that looked like superhero tights. Willie Mona�ez looks like circus strongman in those pants.

They should have a turn-back-the-clock-night with those uniforms, just for Recker.

[G-Fafif]

Edgy MD wrote: To be fair to Mazz, the fabric and cut of the times made for a lot of guys wearing pants that looked like superhero tights. Willie Mona�ez looks like circus strongman in those pants. They should have a turn-back-the-clock-night with those uniforms, just for Recker.

Please forward that suggestion to the promotions department of the Las Vegas 51s by Tuesday.