IGT 07/25 LAD at NYM - If the real thing don't do the trick

[Zvon]

Wowzers. 4 hits for Conforto, 4 hits for Newy,3 hits for Tejada. Pre concert fireworks.

[Edgy MD]

Double-digit runs is nice, but that doesn't mean you can railroad Plawecki, umpo.

[ashie62]

Barracuda!

[Zvon]

Everything is going our way.

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Again.

13-2

[Edgy MD]

We need to launch the Uribe Missile.

[Edgy MD]

If Mattingly offered us a run tomorrow if we'd trade in eight tonight, you'd have to be tempted.

[Edgy MD]

AHHH! How awful would a collision injury have been?

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: AHHH! How awful would a collision injury have been?

What happened? I was nuking White Castle burgers. I inhaled two of em. I shudda made four.

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[Zvon]

I wish they pitch to us. I'd like to see the record for hits in a game go down.

Mets:20 hits. 15 runs. Dodgers: Whateveh

[Edgy MD]

I believe at 15 runs, all fans with a valid ticket stub can redeem it for a Ford Focus.

[Zvon]

Zvon wrote: Edgy MD wrote: AHHH! How awful would a collision injury have been? What happened? I was nuking White Castle burgers. I inhaled two of em. I shudda made four.

Whoa! I just saw it. Almost lost my burgers.

[Frayed Knot]

Y'know when that Ravin guy is next going to see the mound for the Dodgers? ... Nevermore, that's when.

[Zvon]

Frayed Knot wrote: Y'know when that Ravin guy is next going to see the mound for the Dodgers? ... Nevermore, that's when.

Whoa! I'll quote him.

[Frayed Knot]

Just don't mis-quoth him.

[Zvon]

Mejia for the 8th & 9th?

[Zvon]

I may have to request an increase in my allowed allotment of beer. I'm not going to have enough.

[Fman99]

Edgy MD wrote: We need to launch the Uribe Missile.

I'm way ahead of you. But, maybe, you mean something different.

[Edgy MD]

Last time they scored this much at home, I was at the game at Shea with d'Kong, Fairy, and dgw. Valentin drove in seven in the first two innings.

[Edgy MD]

Let's stick Campbell behind the plate in the ninth.

[Zvon]

When I saw Duda lay off that curve that at-bat I thought YES!! He's back to how he was in April. And then he swings at the next curve like he's a blind man swinging a cane.

[Edgy MD]

That pop foul should tell you how easy bunting to the left side would be, Lucas. Nobody within dialing distance.

[Zvon]

Another game where I see no reason to use Familia. I don't want to hear this "get him work" shit.

[Edgy MD]

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[Zvon]

Whoa. Uribe looked like a wobblin' weeble but he makes a great play.

[Frayed Knot]

'Chapeau' (as the French would say) to Juan Uribe.

[Zvon]

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[Lundy]

My aunt and uncle gave my father and I (we were born on the same day) tickets for tonight's game as a birthday present.� They were very good seats (Sec. 109, field� level) and included Acela Club access. My dad was intrigued by this,� and wanted to get there early so we could have a late lunch.

My dad has articicial hips and can't move around like he used to. He has a handicap parking pass. Because we got there so early, they directed us to park in front of the Rotunda. Which was good, because we got there about 4:30, and the gates hadn't opened yet. People were already lined up. But we were able to stay in the air conditioning and just walked up as they were opening the gates. We had no bags, so no waiting.

We eventually make it to Acela. Little did we know that we could have made a reservation and not have to wait. But no big deal, 20 minutes later we were seated. To our surprise they had a buffet meal with LOTS of delicious items to choose from. All you can eat, too. We ate like kings! By 6:30, we were done and it was off to our seats.

On the way to our seats the PA announcer said they were putting the feed up from Wrigley Field because Cole Hamels was pitching a no hitter. We make it to our seats in time to see the bottom of the ninth in its entirety. When the outfielder made that great catch to secure the no no, the crowd let out a huge roar. Someone in the stands commented "that's probably the most exciting thing we'll see tonight."

Boy, was he wrong.

My dad doesn't have as close a pulse on the Mets as I do, so when he saw a jersey with JOHNSON 55, he said, "Who's that?" I said, "Oh, that's Kelly Johnson, just got him from the Braves." We got to know him pretty good tonight, needless to say.

There was electricity in the air. Maybe it got kicked started from the no hitter. Maybe some of it was from the new guys Johnson and Uribe. Maybe some of it was from the 7 Line Army, which was in full force in their usual roost in right center. Maybe some of it was from Harvey himself, who was getting it done with his arm and his bat. And maybe some of it was from the pending after show Heart concert (that my dad and I declined to stay for.) But there was a palpable feeling of electricity in the air.

It's not often you get to see your team score 15 runs. Especially with the offense we've seen this year so far. But the hits, 20 of them, kept piling up. A home run from the new guy Johnson. Four from Conforto, who was just stinging the ball each time up. Four hits from Kirk. Two hits from Harvey, for crissakes! I think the only starter without a hit was Plawecki, and he was on base twice. And it was nice to see Duda wake up from his summer slumber with two bombs.

The only drama left in the game was to see if Conforto or Kirk would get five hits, alas, they both walked and had to settle for five times on base in the game.

A silly aside...during the 8th inning Piano Man singalong, they were scrolling the lyrics on the video board. When they got to the line "and the manager gives me a smile" an image of a grinning Terry Collins pops out of nowhere. Cute.

The game ended around 10:30, and we left and got back to our car in record time. As predicted, no traffic at all, many stayed for Heart, which made it that much easier to get back to Suffolk County before 11:30. From start to end, a pretty good day at the ballpark.

[Gwreck]

Great night at the park with some friends who had access to nice seats. Great to see some offense.

Was surprised Harvey was allowed to hit in the 6th and pitch the seventh. Why waste his arm on a meaningless inning?


Heart setlist:
Crazy on You
Magic Man
Kick It Out
Straight On
59 Crunch
Alone (stripped down version)
Dear Old America
The Witch (The Sonics cover)
Immigrant Song (Zeppelin cover)
Misty Mountain Hop (Zeppelin cover)
Barracuda

[Edgy MD]

That's impressive:
[list:3b45vs5u][*:3b45vs5u]They have exactly three automatic show-stopping killer tracks in their catalog, and they have the courage to spend two of them right out of the gate.[/*:m:3b45vs5u]
[*:3b45vs5u]They use only one of their hugely popular but distressingly uncharacteristic and un-rocking late-eighties power ballads, and they bag the original arrangement in favor of an alternative version of that.[/*:m:3b45vs5u]
[*:3b45vs5u]They dip into the Zeppelin catalog, but they don't do that "Stairway to Heaven" cover that got a zillion FB shares.[/*:m:3b45vs5u][/list:u:3b45vs5u]

Sounds like Heart broke out as much as the Mets did last night. My only question is why do "Immigrant Song," when it underscores where you got that galloping bassline from "Barracuda" from? If you're going to do that, you might as well feature that shared element and merge them into a medley.

Did Nancy do the full Ovation acoustic solo intro for "Crazy on You"?

[Lefty Specialist]

Edgy MD wrote: Something's terribly wrong with SNY. They're showing porn.

Fman99 wrote: Four hits for Conforto. Duda and Murphy homers. Cats and dogs living together! MASS HYSTERIA!

My wife was wondering why I was laughing so hard this morning that I was crying in my Froot Loops.