DUAL ST IGT, 03/31-04/01, Mets' Vegas Tune-up

[Guest d'Kong76]

Williams vs Seaworld, 8:05 PM, MLBN

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

No score in the 4th. Sewald looked good. Gave up a long double and a walk but that's about it.

Plawexki smashed a liner of the Cubs pitcher's leg so hard he almost got thrown out at first by the catcher.

Ben Zobrist can eat my asshole.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Funny, I tuned in with two outs in the top of the fourth and then got
distracted. The bottom of the fourth must have went really quick 'cause
I saw none of it.

Need to win a fucking game, although I'm told it doesn't matter. Nothing
really matters. Scaramouch, scaramouch...

[Guest d'Kong76]

Oh snap, it is the bottom of the fourth.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Big rally. Wright singles on a grounder to 2nd Zobrist overran, went to second ona WP, to 3rd on a sacred fly by Cespedes and scores on a Dodo opposite field bloop. 1- Zip!!

[Edgy MD]

And now we're mid-game and down 3-1.

Would sure be nice to go into the season without a monkey on their backs.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Chasen Bradford gives 3 back on a double, his own error, an infield single and a squeeze bunt.

Playwhacky with his 2nd hit.

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: And now we're mid-game and down 3-1. Would sure be nice to go into the season without a monkey on their backs.

There are no monkeys in spring.

[Zvon]

Oh, great effort by Grandy!

Why can't Grandy play center and Cespedes in right? Keep Conforto in left and have Lags spell em' all.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Hardworking frame for Goeddel, who looks like he will Goe down the street and rent an apartment for the summer.

[Zvon]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Hardworking frame for Goeddel, who looks like he will Goe down the street and rent an apartment for the summer.

loOHHH...well, it's spring training for us too.

[Edgy MD]

I'll say this for the Cubs: Kawasaki looks fearsome and wonderful on those goggles.

[Zvon]

Niiice pick off. David's throws have become a sticking point with me. Does he throw side arm all the time now because of the back? I know he's been doing it for quite a while- has he always thrown everything side arm? I seem to recall a day he threw some stuff overhand.

[Edgy MD]

I think it depends on his positioning. He throws sidearm coming in and from behind his ear when he's on his heels.

Meanwhile, it's like we're not allowed to win or something.

Come on, youse Mets. This bottle o' June 2015 is a crappy vintage.

[Zvon]

Ugh, that hung with no break.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Not sure what's more boring; Mets lack of O or the Cubs' booth.

[Zvon]

I'm so spoiled by technology. I want to know Robles's velocity and this Cubs feed doesn't show it. And they're not talking about it.

I thought he was doing well--he looked flat there.

[Zvon]

Jeez, that Grimm guy is in midseason form. I hope we don't see him again any time soon (not counting next inning if he stays in).

[Edgy MD]

The Cub defense meaninglessly bring their gloves out on the field, as De Aza, Granderson, and Wright whiff in order.

[Zvon]

haHA. No guys, there's no way Duda ever looks like Carew batting. Although that was a fine piece of hitting, thank you.

[Guest d'Kong76]

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Check under your DUAL ST IGT seats and arrive home safe.
See you tomorrow... bring your rally caps!

[Zvon]

Time to take this stuff down from the attic.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Game ll, Matz vs Hammel, 4:05 PM, limited coverage

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

This was the first Mets game I think I saw all the way through this spring.

We got a little unlucky in terms of runs scored against us (Bradford made a dumb error, then got dicked over by chopped infield hit by Kris Bryant and a squeeze bunt). Then some Cub scrubeenie hit one to Reno off Robles, not very encounarging.

Few highlights for the O beyond I think 3 hits by Doodoo and 2 from Plawecki. I thought we were primed for an inning when Plawecki smashed that shot off the pitcher but Danny Muno followed as a PH and immediately hit into a mo-killing DP. GFY, Danny Muno. I worry this team will have a shit-ton of GIDPs.

[Edgy MD]

The team has been "unlucky" for a lot of these games, in that they're matching the other team with regard to base runners, but being outscored meaningfully. But after 10 games, you have to start looking at stuff � stuff like defense and base running and how few Met hits are leaving the yard.

[ashie62]

I know its' spring but 14?

I like Zvon's suggestion of Conforto LF Grandy CF Cespedes RF

Lagares spell em all. Or deAza I guess.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Grandy in CF makes no sense at all. He's got the worst arm of any of them, and CF is very much a young man's position.

[Edgy MD]

The real issue is Terry's soft-handed refusal to give orders to veteran guys. Play where I say on the field, and bat where I say in the order ... Terry left that guy in Anaheim or something.

[Frayed Knot]

Mets have scored an actual run (via an error of course because this is the 'No RBIs from Hits' Spring Tour) and lead 1-0 thru 1-1/2

[Zvon]

Cespedes finally goes yard!
2-0 Mets