IGT 6/15/15 - Blue Jays @ Mets

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Remember the part when I doubted before? I was wrong about that!

No streak for you, Jays!

[Fman99]

METS WIN! HOLY SHIT!

[Frayed Knot]

Nothing like winning a game via Duda's legs.

P.S. - I would have scored Duda's hit a double

[Zvon]

Awesome. wow. fuckin awesom. Amazin'. Just wow. I really didn't think they could do it. Wow.

[Edgy MD]

Edgy MD wrote: NO DOUBLES THAT YOU SUCKAS!!!!

Nymr83 wrote: SHIFT THAT MOTHERFUKERS!

Frayed Knot wrote: Stick that in your shift and smoke it!

Well played, gentlemen.

Gwreck wrote: Well, technically it was a single, second on the throw.

[Zvon]

Flores sure moves his feet fast when someone throws icy water at him.

[Edgy MD]

Zvon wrote: Flores sure moves his feet fast when someone throws icy water at him.

Spared Steve Gelbs the embarrassment of another fumbled interview.

[Zvon]

Poor Steve Gelbs. He'll never win.....

[Lefty Specialist]

[Edgy MD]

I don't enjoy dumping on him. But man, when you have a young ESL player, hyperventilating and deliriously happy, and you get only three questions, stop asking philosophical questions about polysyllabic abstractions like "resiliency." He has to translate into Spanish, come up with an answer and translate back, and after three beats the moment is lost, so he's going to spit out some banality. Stick to baseball questions � pitching, hitting, running � because that's an everyday language for all players.

>Wilmer, how good did that feel?

>What pitch did you get?

>Did you ever see Lucas run so fast?

[Frayed Knot]

Thoughts on the Game

- this one would have sucked to lose
- shifts giveth and shifts taketh away
- not often you give up runs in the 9th & 11th innings and still win
- Until Tejada's walk w/1 out in the 11th, the Jays pen had gone 10-up/10-down
- the only way Bautista can be hitting those pitches is that he's guessing and cheating for them. But give him credit, he does it very well and then doesn't miss them
- I liked that we got Encarnacion out of game but then it looked for a while that his running replacement was going to have the winning run scored and his defensive replacement have the game saving defensive play
- I would have scored Duda's hit a double; there was never a throw home
- Gutsy and great call by Tuefel to send Cuddyer and nice read by Duda to go to 2nd. Both decisions made all the difference.
- I had no problem with the Grandy PH. Buehrle's not a classic lefty killer and the alternatives were the spare catcher and the worst hitter on the team

Edited June 15, 2015 by Guest

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: I don't enjoy dumping on him. But man, when you have a young ESL player, hyperventilating and deliriously happy, and you get only three questions, stop asking philosophical questions about polysyllabic abstractions like "resiliency." He has to translate into Spanish, come up with an answer and translate back, and after three beats the moment is lost, so he's going to spit out some banality. Stick to baseball questions � pitching, hitting, running � because that's an everyday language for all players. >Wilmer, how good did that feel? >What pitch did you get? >Did you ever see Lucas run so fast?

And it if you ask a question that contains one of those polysyllabic words, if the player responds with a blank stare (while he's trying to figure out what he was just asked), don't repeat the question using the same word.
It happens all the time, and it shows the asker doesn't understand what's happening.

Later

[Edgy MD]

My problem with the Grandy ph was wanting wanted to save the lefties Granderson and Ceciliani for when the lefty was out of the game. If you can't use Campbell there, he probably shouldn't be on the team. But that's a bigger issue. It's certainly understandable why they'd roll the dice with Grandy there with two on.

Any game the Mets win these days with d'Arnaud out of the lineup feels stolen. Feels like we finally have bullets in our gun when he is out there. And if and when Murphy returns, the lineup will go eight deep most nights.

[Gwreck]

Edgy MD wrote: Gwreck wrote: Well, technically it was a single, second on the throw.

Touche

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: My problem with the Grandy ph was wanting wanted to save the lefties Granderson and Ceciliani for when the lefty was out of the game. If you can't use Campbell there, he probably shouldn't be on the team. But that's a bigger issue. It's certainly understandable why they'd roll the dice with Grandy there with two on.

Especially since the Jays' closer is a lefty so saving Grandy (or Ceciliani) for later probably just puts him in against a different LHR

[Fman99]

The key play in the 11th, really, is Tejada going all statue-like between 1st and 2nd and extending the inning, when the second basemen should have just flipped it to SS to get the game ending GIDP.

[Frayed Knot]

And not just 'go statue' but then made the 2B chase him for a sec in order to kill any chance at a DP.

Makes one wonder what Murph would have done in that kind of situation (either as the fielder OR runner): Run into the fielder? Run backwards? Call a time out? Throw to 3rd? Fake a punt?

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: Makes one wonder what Murph would have done in that kind of situation (either as the fielder OR runner): Run into the fielder? Run backwards? Call a time out? Throw to 3rd? Fake a punt?

He would have been called for double dribbling.
OE: or icing.

Later

[Ceetar]

Frayed Knot wrote: And not just 'go statue' but then made the 2B chase him for a sec in order to kill any chance at a DP. Makes one wonder what Murph would have done in that kind of situation (either as the fielder OR runner): Run into the fielder? Run backwards? Call a time out? Throw to 3rd? Fake a punt?

hestiated, panicked, pivoted and tore his knee.

[Zvon]

I thought this was cute. Found it on fb.
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