Mets @ Reds 9/5/14

[Guest themetfairy]

YOU DO NOT CHALLENGE OBI JUAN LAGARES!!!

But damn - a Frazier homer cuts the Mets lead to 2-1. Good thing that Obi Juan cut down the runner on the previous play!

[Zvon]

Haha, Frazier sucks. Or maybe he's just stupid.

Shit, Mesoraco goes yard, forcing me to learn how to spell his name.

2-1 Winners

OO, nice play by Duda.

[Zvon]

Oh, he was safe.

If the wheel was still on it would have been perfect! Man, I love baseball.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Upon further review, the replay rule kinda sucks.
(even though they got it right)

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Oh, Wilmer, you similarly dumb bunny.

[Zvon]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Oh, Wilmer, you similarly dumb bunny.

It wouldn't have mattered there, but, lazy feet. On contact does not mean wait a beat.

[Zvon]

Duda, be BIG.

[Guest Trachsel My Tears]

Zvon wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Oh, Wilmer, you similarly dumb bunny. It wouldn't have mattered there, but, lazy feet. On contact does not mean wait a beat.

Wilmer's kind of our Yasiel Puig, isn't he, only without the, you know, hitting or fielding ability.

[Zvon]

Oh, Wilmer, you similarly dumb bunny. It wouldn't have mattered there, but, lazy feet. On contact does not mean wait a beat. Wilmer's kind of our Yasiel Puig, isn't he, only without the, you know, hitting or fielding ability.

I think he can hit. Enough? Dunno.

Ha, Duda walks in a run. Good nuff

3-1 Men in blue

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Go SHaMs Go

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

As a formerly weighty gent myself, I don't mean to mock... but, man, was THAT a fat-guy play from Bart, there.

[ashie62]

Bartolo looks old and tired tonight.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Duda was weirdly close to being in position to make a Keith play on the bunt.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Every, say, third night this year, and that inning goes total shitshow after the first three plays.

Such as it is, we get damage control this evening.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

You know that guy-who-makes-the-great-inning-ending-defensive-play-comes-up-next-inning-and-gets-a-big-hit thing?

Yeah, the Herrera at-bat was, like, the total inverse of that.

[Zvon]

Flores lazy feet almost get someone hurt. Those are dangerous feet.

I'd recommend he wear little weights around his ankles during practice.

[Edgy MD]

Zvon wrote: I'd have gone with a four leaf clover.

I'd've gone with a harp. Stop being goofy.

Where's Irish, by the way. You don't have the Internet in Tipperary?

Zvon wrote: Trachsel My Tears wrote: Wilmer's kind of our Yasiel Puig, isn't he, only without the, you know, hitting or fielding ability. I think he can hit. Enough? Dunno.

Well, certainly without the established hitting or fielding ability.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Oh, Todd Frazier, bless your stupid heart, and your functionally-brain-damaged-type hustle.

[Zvon]

He seconds that emooooo-ooo-tion.
Frazier sucks.

[Edgy MD]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Oh, Todd Frazier, you dumb, dumb bunny.

You can say that again.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: As a formerly weighty gent myself, I don't mean to mock... but, man, was THAT a fat-guy play from Bart, there.

That too!

[Edgy MD]

Is O'Simon wearing a Dominican mohawk?

[Edgy MD]

Wright just took like a 50-mph pitch for strike three.

[Guest d'Kong76]

d'BOOM!!

[Edgy MD]

Oh, KAPOWIE! You don't try that shit twice, Simon.

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: Wright just took like a 50-mph pitch for strike three.

I thought that was a damn good splitter. I wish they showed the above view.


d'BOMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Guest Trachsel My Tears]

I was just about to inquire if you thought hitters like D'arnaud were pissed when Duda gets an IBB in front of him when --WHAM!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Mr. d'Arnaud to the spin-drying area... Mr. d'Arnaud to the spin-drying area...

Putting it as, um, Midwesternly as I can, the reaction from these Cincinnatians to Simon's struggles has been a little less "best fans in baseball" and a little more "most passionate fans in baseball."

[Edgy MD]

Zvon wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Wright just took like a 50-mph pitch for strike three. I thought that was a damn good splitter. I wish they showed the above view. d'BOMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, my eyes must be off. Gameday sez it was much faster.

[Guest Trachsel My Tears]

It's still an interesting multi-part question:

1) are hitters pissed if someone gets IBBed in front of them?
2) is being pissed, if that's indeed what happens, good or bad?
3) why don't more batters get all worked up, if this is the effect, routinely? Mostly they're trying to stay calm, patient, thoughtful--the opposite of "pissed."

Just wondering.

[Zvon]

The old 3 run homer. The last few weeks it's been nice to experience those. Can't say for sure, but I don't recall many of them early on.