IGT 8/24/13 Det@Mets: Nobody's Watching; Nobody's Posting

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The MLB Weekend Top 10: The Best Pitching Matchup You'll Never See
By Shane Ryan on August 23, 2013 5:16 PM ET

The weekend is here, and I don't know about you, but I'm ready to sit back, watch some baseball, cry, watch more baseball, think about exercising, back to baseball, cry, baseball, eat, cry, baseball, baseball, cryball, eat, cryercise, baseball, eat. WHO'S WITH ME?! To approach this with sober objectivity: We might be dealing with the best weekend of baseball so far this season. There are no less than four incredible series matchups, a wonderful, tragic pitchers' duel, and a special bonus slotting in at no. 10 � 1. Tragic Pitching Matchup of the Week: Max Scherzer vs. Matt Harvey (Saturday, DET-NYM) In all the time I've been writing the MLB Weekend Top 10 (37 years this September), I don't believe I've ever seen a better duel. Do I even need to sing their praises? If the season ended now, they'd both deserve to finish second in Cy Young voting. I say "deserve" because Scherzer would undeservedly win the AL Cy Young, and Harvey would undeservedly fall outside the top two in the NL. But forget all the technical nonsense � these are two of the best strikeout artists in the game, and the fact that the schedules lined up so they'll face each other in an Interleague game is just fantastic. Now, the tragedy. Since this is a Fox Saturday game, you will probably not get to watch it. You can check the coverage map here � unless you live near the New York or Detroit metropolitan areas (or near Kansas City, for some reason), you will be seeing Boston-L.A. or Oakland-Baltimore in the 4 p.m. time slot. I've written extensively about the baseball blackout absurdities surrounding the game, but at least those are byzantine business entanglements in which MLB is only one culprit. But this? THIS IS MADNESS! This is MLB and Fox killing themselves. Why wouldn't you make this game available nationally? I mean, at least put it on one of the 18 Fox Sports channels, right? I don't know what the satellite situation is � if you go to a bar with DirecTV, will they be able to pick up a New York Fox affiliate? � but as of now, there is no way to watch this game on any MLB package. I'm not one for predicting the future, but I definitely have visions of myself screaming at a crappy Internet feed at around 4 p.m. tomorrow. This is easily the worst pitchers' duel tease of all time. Thanks again, MLB, for mismanaging an excellent product. Other than that, though, should be a great weekend! Have fun! [sobs.]

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/72398/the-mlb-weekend-top-10-the-best-pitching-matchup-youll-never-see

Edited August 24, 2013 by Guest

[Guest Kong76]

Watching and posting over here

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[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

ooooh, Los Mets en Los Orango Uniformas.

Senor Harvey no bueno. Mucho macho!

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[Guest Kong76]

Didn't sound like Burkhardt at first, guess he sounds different
from the Pepsi Porch.

[Guest themetfairy]

Watching for now - need to go out soon.

An rbi double by Scherzer? Really?

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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: ooooh, Los Mets en Los Orango Uniformas. Senor Harvey no bueno. Mucho macho!

If the Mets weren't pinching pennies, Jeff woulda also had 'em in matching orange pants.

[Guest Kong76]

Lotta fannies in the seaties!

[Lefty Specialist]

Harvey pitching like a mere mortal today.

[Guest Kong76]

Scherzer putting on a pitching clinic through four with
like nine strikeouts (didn't see last out) ....

[Edgy MD]

We should be bunting like nutjobs today.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

With the watching-two-off-the-outside-corner sliders and the multiple-pitch-spoiling and whatnot, nice AB and walk from Johnny Olivepressers.

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[Edgy MD]

Howie real excited by Harvey earning a walk.

Real excited.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Well, hey, it's offense, of a kind.

Unlike what Eric Young's kid is doing up at the plate. Striking out on a high hanger, ye gods.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Wait a minute... ACTUAL offense? From Murph and Ike?

[Rubs eyes]

[Gwreck]

John Buck, you're fired.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

To be fair, it was Johnny Vintner who soured the sweeter chance.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Omar Infante is catcher-slow.

Still, nice throw by EYJ to grill that meat on Fielder's single.

[Gwreck]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: To be fair, it was Johnny Vintner who soured the sweeter chance.

Yabbut, swinging first pitch when the pitcher is clearly tiring and struggling with command? Just poor

[Frayed Knot]

Gwreck wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: To be fair, it was Johnny Vintner who soured the sweeter chance. Yabbut, swinging first pitch when the pitcher is clearly tiring and struggling with command? Just poor

And a hit there really would have made Scherzer's brown eye blue.

[Edgy MD]

Time for the furious comeback.

[Edgy MD]

Or to go noiselessly. That could happen too.

[Frayed Knot]

That's [u:1b0kjcjs]2 runs scored total[/u:1b0kjcjs] over the last three games.
Not going to win a lot that way.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I mean, I expected these games vs. ATL and DET to be difficult especially following that long road trip but looks like we're doing the regular late-season SHaM bottom-out now. Damn. Yuck.

I'm pretty sure this makes the decision not to retain TC easier but otherwise I'd like the summer to continue another few weeks one of these years. I'm sad and miss that. I really do.

[Gwreck]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm sad and miss that. I really do.

Yeah. It was a really nice day at the park, great pitching matchup and all, but first when the Tigers scored, and then after the Lagares/Buck combined failure there was just no hope of a comeback. There's barely 1.5 quality major leaguers in our lineup here.

[Zvon]

I gotta blame FOX for blocking out the fan with the mo-jo, me. If I was watching this never would have happened. I'm glad FOX got an additional sports channel. That's two channels I will never watch for sports, ever.

Let me reiterate: fuck you FOXsports.

[ashie62]

Waiting for the interweb to talk more about shutting Harvey down anytime now.

Some of these AL teams seem like real powerhouses..above and beyond ATL and LA

[G-Fafif]

I watched from Promenade. I watched Omar Quintanilla leap for a line drive that was probably 20 feet over his head. I watch him leap full out for balls that are multiple Quintanillas above his person all the time. He will strain something before he catches something.

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G-Fafif wrote: I watched from Promenade. I watched Omar Quintanilla leap for a line drive that was probably 20 feet over his head. I watch him leap full out for balls that are multiple Quintanillas above his person all the time. He will strain something before he catches something.

Well, he must have already strained his brain. After the opposing pitcher has just walked one (or was it two?) batters, why did he swing at the first pitch? I wanted to put my fist through my car radio.

Later