IGT, Game 10, 4/11 NYM@LA (Gee vs. Skaggs)

[Zvon]

Frayed Knot wrote: Even when Tejada is making plays at SS he's often not making them cleanly. He's rapidly becoming the king of turning 'maybe' GiDPs into 'no-shot' GiDPs either by backing up on the ball, making a slow transfer, or making a sloppy flip.

Did you just wake up from a nap shouting that?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

All these walks, man. Something's gonna happen. Something else is gonna happen.

[Frayed Knot]

He barely played last year, but I feel like he's always been over-aggressive and after the lead runners and waht not.

But over-aggressive is what he certainly has NOT been so far this season. More like a guy who's so afraid of making a mistake that he's content just to get one out and doesn't even try for two.

[Ceetar]

Frayed Knot wrote: But over-aggressive is what he certainly has NOT been so far this season. More like a guy who's so afraid of making a mistake that he's content just to get one out and doesn't even try for two.

I meant aggressive in the sense that like that last play when it was maybe wise while running for a dribbler to just take the safe play at first, still flips off-balance to second. or throwing to third the other day. It's gutsy and aggressive. He's never had the greatest hands, part of what makes him only an average SS defensively.

[Zvon]

Frayed Knot wrote: He barely played last year, but I feel like he's always been over-aggressive and after the lead runners and waht not. But over-aggressive is what he certainly has NOT been so far this season. More like a guy who's so afraid of making a mistake that he's content just to get one out and doesn't even try for two.

A deer in the headlights all thru spring. And maybe now, 'lil bit.

[Ceetar]

ugh. They'll have to do this one without me.

[Zvon]

I think I'm just not gonna watch the bottom halfs. That way I think I'll sleep better.

[Edgy MD]

I think we just got bailed out there by the no-doubles defense.

[Frayed Knot]

Ceetar wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: But over-aggressive is what he certainly has NOT been so far this season. More like a guy who's so afraid of making a mistake that he's content just to get one out and doesn't even try for two. I meant aggressive in the sense that like that last play when it was maybe wise while running for a dribbler to just take the safe play at first, still flips off-balance to second. or throwing to third the other day. It's gutsy and aggressive. He's never had the greatest hands, part of what makes him only an average SS defensively.

Going to 2nd was the right move there, he just didn't do so very well.
It's like he's morphing in front of our eyes from a SS who was unspectacular but dependable to one who is unspectacular and not very dependable.

[Zvon]

Whoa, that was a good pitch Trout hit out in the 1st.

I'm not worried about him. He's no longer due.

[Zvon]

Yea, I dare ya to try for third.


Well, it wasn't a walk-off.

Leave that to Albert.

[Edgy MD]

Respeto por el brazo de Lagares alli.

[Frayed Knot]

Lagares's earlier throw probably kept the runner on 2nd there. Would have preferred he try it though.


This one goes to (at least) eleven.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

It Tastes Better When You Say 'HYOO-Rees' gets it down, and gets it done.

[Zvon]

[Zvon]

Jeeze. Howd he get Dave?

[Edgy MD]

Wright just got thrown out at first from left field.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Tell me how it ends

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: Wright just got thrown out at first from left field.

As soon as the guy hit the grass I thought Wright's safe 4 sure. And it didn't really look like a bullet throw,cause it had some loop to it, but I guess it was.

[Zvon]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Tell me how it ends

That's easy. It's the how that keeps me up.

[Zvon]

Damn. Okay, a quick DP please.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I don't know what it is-- new contacts, a weird smell in the air-- but, whenever the camera has zoomed in on him tonight, Ibanez has had a look on his face like a guy working in a shady, chop-shop-like garage: slightly grimy, eyes a little shifty, mouth in a wary rictus.

[Zvon]

Gotta load em right? I don't want to get Shucked up.

[Edgy MD]

T-R-O-U-B-L-E

Capital T

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

This walk-'em-loaded-with-Familia-on-the-mound strategy has the thick, lingering-home-run-pyrotechnic-display-smoke-y waft of failure about it.

[Zvon]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: This strategy has the thick, lingering-home-run-pyrotechnic-display-smoke-y waft of failure about it.

And they don't need a homer to set em off either.

[Zvon]

Cheeeeeeeeeze&crackers. Hits the mo-fo.


Wait a minute...

a wary rictus? Ha.

[Zvon]

Can't have a cigarette in an open air stadium, but you can do that. Isn't that special?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

This vision thing? Our on-field managers, they do not have this vision thing.

[Zvon]

And sadly my one game run comes to an end.

I don't think I've ever won two in a row.