IGT 9/20/2013 Mets @ Phillies Return of Sugarpants

[ashie62]

Hamels v. Dice Dont-be Sucky

The article on CBS for todays game has Wright returning. News to me but I have not been watching closely.

Mets can tie Philly with a sweep...

[batmagadanleadoff]

This back page isn't aging well.

[Frayed Knot]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: This back page isn't aging well.

Neither are the Phillies ... Ba-dum-Ching!

[ashie62]

Eric Young Jr., lf
Daniel Murphy, 2b
David Wright, 3b
Josh Satin, 1b
Andrew Brown, rf
Juan Lagares, cf
Travis d'Arnaud, c
Omar Quintanilla, ss
Daisuke Matsuzaka, rhp

Phillies
Cesar Hernandez, cf
Jimmy Rollins, ss
Chase Utley, 2b
Carlos Ruiz, c
Domonic Brown, lf
Darin Ruf, 1b
Cody Asche, 3b
John Mayberry Jr., rf
Cole Hamels, lhp

[metirish]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: This back page isn't aging well.

Jose and Johan on the right, who are the first two supposed to be?

[Benjamin Grimm]

The one on the left is definitely Pelfrey.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Beltran with the tuba, I think.

I like that artwork. It's too bad the Mets shrunk from that Philly rivalry. Their fans will talk about beating us at the tape for the rest of their fan-lives.

[Edgy MD]

I thought it was Wright with the tuba.

That series was awful --- culturally anyhow. The News seemed to want the rivalry so bad that they even ran a couple of articles encouraging fans to be dicks, and dispatched some gonzo to show us how it's done, provocatively acting like a dick in order to capture the experience for those of us who didn't have the time or scratch to head down to Philly to get drunk and beat up.

It's a winning tabloid formula. Provoke violence. Make violence you incited your lead story. Sell papers. Cash checks.

Still, for a brief moment in time, Mike Pelfrey was in ascendance to the point where folks were comfortable and excited even to have their hopes resting on his shoulders with first place on the line. Were we ever so young?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yup (Wright) and yup. It was standard Snooze practice at the time to assign their metro reporters to write idiotic articles about how the rival city is lame.

It was something St. Louis would do.

[Gwreck]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: This back page isn't aging well.

I suppose it's an open question as to why it is posted every time the Mets play the Phillies.

I really have no interest in being reminded of that series. I did some research a while back and the Game Score that Halladay put up in the middle game of that series was the "best" performance by a pitcher opposing the Mets that I've ever seen in person.

Edited September 20, 2013 by Guest

[batmagadanleadoff]

It is Wright. When I first posted that back page three years ago, there was also confusion over the identity of the 2d Met.

That was three weeks before Dickey was brought up.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Gwreck wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: This back page isn't aging well. I suppose it's an open question as to why it is posted every time the Mets play the Phillies.

I dunno.

[ashie62]

Nice to see David back...

[ashie62]

Philadelphia does have Fairmount Park..the largest city park in the U.S.

[Zvon]

Ashie62 wrote: Mets can tie Philly with a sweep...

That's something.

Ha! Mayberry don't suck cause that was a great try and it helped us.

[ashie62]

Ashie62 wrote: Nice to see David back...

KABOOM![/bigpurple]

[Zvon]

^^^^^^^^^^^[/bigpurple]

[Ceetar]

Is there anybody better than David Wright? damn.

[Frayed Knot]

David Wright's life is a movie

Not really, but that was Joe Girardi's quote which got replayed often after Jeter hit a HR in NOT his first AB following a long lay-off. Jeet's HR (the only one he'd hit this year) was in his first AB in his second comeback of this season after he had missed just a week.

[Zvon]

Wrights up again. *sits up*

[Zvon]

robbed.

[Zvon]

Thats a big run. A 2 out run.

[Zvon]

Ha. That was just a load of horseshit from Matthews. They might be good, and we knew that, but we never were afraid of them.

[Zvon]

Taking advantage of every opportunity. This is strange.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Just got home from the in-laws-- with kiddie-music en route-- to catch the game in mid-swing.

On the list of small, happy surprises, coming home to an in media res Fuck-You game against these mooks is somewhere between coming back from the restaurant bathroom to find your food has been delivered and running into a long-missed friend in an unexpected place.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Just got home from the in-laws-- with kiddie-music en route-- to catch the game in mid-swing. On the list of small, happy surprises, coming home to an in media res Fuck-You game against these mooks is somewhere between coming back from the restaurant bathroom to find your food has been delivered and running into a long-missed friend in an unexpected place.

Way to tempt fate, jackhole.

[Zvon]

Good play by Young. Muffy, you hadda catch that! Thats the run thats gonna hurt.

[Zvon]

[bigpurple:wgp1mh5j]WHA!???[/bigpurple:wgp1mh5j]

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"I thought he got him in the old... bohunkus."

Me too, Keith. Me too.

[Zvon]

Phils pheed shows Q may have ticked him but they say no. Any definitive view? These guys won't show one.