IGT, Game 7, 4/8 NYM@ATL

[ashie62]

BOOKS!

[Gwreck]

BOOKS

[metirish]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees

don't know about you guys but that had late season pennant feel about it the ninth

[Edgy MD]

Thank you, ballpark. Thank you, Valdy.

[nymr83]

Heart attack win!

[Zvon]

Sheezz. A four run lead, in April, the other team don't even score in the 9th and we are all shitting bricks. God, I love this team.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

My Tigers fans say to get used to this!

[ashie62]

This has to be a better Mets team.. Good deeds are being done by many.. You don't have to depend on David Wright all the time...

[metirish]

Nice to see Tejada having a good game and start to the season.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Can't say enough about the hugeness of that RBI hit off Beat-O. I believe it was an 0-2 count.

Also, Terry KILLING it in the replay booth. That's a part of our biggest rallies!

[Frayed Knot]

- Murphy was at least partially to blame for Valverde's error. That's the SS play there and I think Murph being on the base also screwed him up a bit. First he double-clutched, then he threw wide and to the wrong side of the base.

- What scares you about this Braves offense, especially in a game like this, is that, as streaky as they are, EVERY ONE of the guys in their lineup (and several on the bench) have not just the ability to hit the ball out of the park but have double-digit/year type HR power. That's quite a weapon to have as Yanx fans are going to find out due to their LACK OF that weapon after taking it for granted for so long.



Oh, and I need a drink!

[Zvon]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Also, Terry KILLING it in the replay booth. That's a part of our biggest rallies!

I never thought it would play out like this.

It's like a game show, The Call Is Right, and we kinda think we know the answer, cause they show us, and then we wait on the real answer, which in both these cases, I think, were actual close calls that even on replay might have gone either way.

At least before we saw the Atlanta feed replay. But even that..

[Frayed Knot]

Personally, I wouldn't have overturned that call based on what I saw.
But there's no harm in Terry asking (since he couldn't force the issue as it was past the 6th inning)

The first call we got overturned I was jumping up and down screaming for the replay as it first happened. That one was a lot more obvious.

[Edgy MD]

You think if it looks like a tie, the home office is supposed to defer to the runner (as is traditional), or the ump on the field (like a court of appeals deferring to the lower court in the absence of clear evidence demanding an overturn)?

I wonder what their guidance is at the home office. It would be kind of cool if it wasn't the latter. Or even if the guy making the final call doesn't even necessarily know what the original call was?

[Frayed Knot]

Supposedly there should be convincing evidence that the call was wrong before you overturn it. Tonight's example was so far from convincing that I didn't think it would be reversed.

But that's part of what's proven to be a problem with replay as it's existed in other sports: you can say all you want that it'll only be used for 'X', or that it's purpose is only to overturn obvious incorrect calls, or that reviews will be limited to a certain amount of time; but that's all like trying to stay slightly pregnant. Once you get into that box then it's only natural that it starts to be used as if a microscope to examine the smallest minutia.
I only hope we don't get to the place where football is now where the refs acknowledge that the receiver has the ball in his arms but they then spend five minutes trying to determine whether it's moving around within his arms too much and therefore he never has "control". If some replay determines that a runner was safe on 1st because, even though the ball hit the mitt prior to the foot hitting the base, because the ball was moving from the pocket to the web when the foot came down they're going to rule the runner safe, I'm going to have a problem.

[batmagadanleadoff]

This was the first Mets game I watched from start to finish, this year. In fact, this was the first Mets game I watched for more than two innings.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Zvon wrote: Braves are wearing the mid 70s blow pop uniforms. Niiiiice.

Those tops became my instant uni faves when I first saw them. Of course, I was in elementary school in '72. I would later learn, from other memorabilia collectors, that those Braves uniforms are considered among the flimsiest ever made. Collectors describe those Braves shirts as barely a grade above t-shirt quality.

I never heard of that "blow pop" phrase to describe the stylized feather.

[Zvon]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Zvon wrote: Braves are wearing the mid 70s blow pop uniforms. Niiiiice. Those tops became my instant uni faves when I first saw them. Of course, I was in elementary school in '72. I would later learn, from other memorabilia collectors, that those Braves uniforms are considered among the flimsiest ever made. Collectors describe those Braves shirts as barely a grade above t-shirt quality. I never heard of that "blow pop" phrase to describe the stylized feather.

I recently spent much time looking at these Braves unis colorizing a pic for a card. That logo thing reminded me of the 12 cent ice pop I'd get from the ice cream truck at age 7.


Hey, kool. I can use that old 'lanta logo thing. Thanks.

[Edgy MD]

Gave proof through the night!
That our flag was still... OH, CRAP!

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: Gave proof through the night! That our flag was still... OH, CRAP!

Did this happen last night? If so I'm prepared to call it a horribly bad omen for the Braves (like they need more problems, ha).