IGT 05/14 - Yankees at Metropolitans

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

More stupidness

[Edgy MD]

Or, you know, do something crazy stupid.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Someone forgot to pack the brains on the baggage
car of the subway.

[Edgy MD]

I like you being cocky, Mets, but that doesn't mean you get a pass on brain-thinking.

Look at deGrom's mane. We haven't had a Methead that resplendent since Daniel Ray Herrera.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Game's moving much more swiftly this evening. Sucks,
but it's quick.

[Frayed Knot]

I think at this time yesterday it was still the bottom of the 4th

[Edgy MD]

Not bad for a guy who looks 16 years old, Montero.

[Zvon]

Tanaka looks solid and all but he don't look unhittable. WAKE UP GUYS! Don't make me pine for the Yankee Stadium Mets.

Ugh shit. Torres gets hit by a liner. Looks okay.

[Frayed Knot]

Zvon wrote: Tanaka looks solid and all but he don't look unhittable.

They've had some loud outs and some at 'em balls - and then erased one of the few base runners they did have with a dopey running play.
Got three more cracks at these guys so this is far from over.

[Edgy MD]

Maybe this is Tanaka's act. Not overwhelming, but no mistakes, either.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Is that the third stupid play or the fourth?

[Edgy MD]

Derek Jeter, putting on a clinic with the 30-foot RBI.

[Frayed Knot]

If I were given three chances to pick the player most likely to get a 14 ft RBI single I'd guess Jeter 1st & 2nd and wouldn't even take the third.

[Gwreck]

It's like they don't want to fight back. Really poor

[Guest d'Kong76]

Long flight last night, Gw ... looks like they have jet lag.

[Frayed Knot]

Calm down Gary, Jeter holds the franchise marks for hits, singles & SBs.
Let's not act like he's re-written the entire record book.

[Edgy MD]

And that's with 22% more plate appearances than anybody else.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Valverde efficient in the 8th.

[nymr83]

Trying to watch at the gym, but there is a huge problem... YES is on everywhere and is a few seconds ahead of ESPN (no SNY here). I refuse to watch YES, but I hate being behind the TV's around me

[ashie62]

We need at least 4 runs...

[Guest d'Kong76]

Throw at Tanaka here? Sure he doesn't see that much.

[ashie62]

OK.. Tanaka has totally kicked our ass...

[Guest d'Kong76]

Have they even shown Girardi on camera tonight. He's half
asleep in the dugout dreaming yeah this NL managing is just
as easy as in the AL.

[Edgy MD]

Ok, you goofball cocky Mets, time to play.

Abreu looks bad on a pitch for the first time this season, then gets mad and gets off the interstate.

[nymr83]

Saint Jeter drops it like a wide open STEPHEN HILL

[Gwreck]

Game score of 87 for Tanaka. Think that's the highest score against the Mets I've had the misfortune of seeing since that May 2010 debacle against Halladay in Philadelphia.

If I hear Gary Cohen say again about how the Mets need to have Eric Young in the lineup to win, I'm going to throw something at the television. In addition to the idiotic play on Roberts' should-have-been-a-harmless single, that was a really poor slide at second base in the 9th. Was neither a takeout slide nor a I'm-trying-to-beat-the-throw slide.

In positive news, this game had the lowest Yankee douchebag fans factor that I've ever seen for a subway series game at Shea.

[MFS62]

Nymr83 wrote: Saint Jeter drops it like a wide open STEPHEN HILL

If a sentence can make me both laugh and cry, it is that one.
Later

[Edgy MD]

I always associate poor Jackie Smith with wide-open dropsies.

This game pretty much ended when Chris Young got thrown out. It's hard to call it the "turning point" when a team trailing by multiple runs loses a baserunner, but the Mets seemed to have put their faith in being clever, rather than good. When that blew up on them, they had nothing.