IGT 5/7 Mets at S.D. A healthy Colon will fix this. 8:40 p.m

[Edgy MD]

Colon's and Wright's seemed to land in the same spot.

[Zvon]

Fuck that quick pitch shit. jeeze, I don't get this guy. He does not need to do that.

[Zvon]

If Weeks only got a strain he's an overactor.

[Guest themetfairy]

That's way worse than a strain. He went down like a sack of bricks.

[Guest themetfairy]

This will forever be known as the Bartolo Colon Game!

[Frayed Knot]

Nice to see a clean and relatively low pitch-count inning from Jerry Family.
Haven't been too many of those this year.

[Fman99]

BOOOOOOOOOKS

[Zvon]

This does not only erase the despondency of the last few, it once again takes us over the top.
I'm charged up like we just won the series or something.


And as Gary said....when I hit all the media outlets, at the rate of speed I move, I can believe that the internet did blow up.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Cast your vote!

[ashie62]

Ashie62 wrote: With his arm and mighty bat. Workhorse James Shields goes for the Pads.

The mighty bat lol.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Was at the 'Bartolo Game' with the Opera Singer, sitting with the 7 Line people in right field, all 1,400 of 'em. Phenomenal time. I wasn't sure if it would be a bunch of WFAN radio-caller bros (there were a few, but didn't encounter a single asshole in the bunch). Everyone we did meet was super cool and seeing that many Met fans outside Shea/Citi was bonkers for me, being a lifetime road-gamer. They sang 'Meet the Mets' and even had some soccer-style chants for individual players, not all of 'em worked, but credit for the effort.

When Bart hit the homer, you woulda tought we won the World Series or something. Complete euphoria. For me, it was about the same level of crazy for the visiting fan as when Fonzie hit the HR off Bobby Chouinard in Arizona in '99, but that was a grand slam in the playoffs. This was just Bartolo Magic.

Said hi to ring-leader, Darren. Seemed a real nice guy. Saw Jim Breuer in the pisser. Took a picture with Ron Burgandy. The whole 7 Line experience, I surprisingly recommend it.

San Diego has great beers. I may have had one or two.

Wish u were here #awhalesvagina

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Was at the 'Bartolo Game' with the Opera Singer, sitting with the 7 Line people in right field, all 1,400 of 'em. Phenomenal time. I wasn't sure if it would be a bunch of WFAN radio-caller bros (there were a few, but didn't encounter a single asshole in the bunch). Everyone we did meet was super cool and seeing that many Met fans outside Shea/Citi was bonkers for me, being a lifetime road-gamer. They sang 'Meet the Mets' and even had some soccer-style chants for individual players, not all of 'em worked, but credit for the effort. When Bart hit the homer, you woulda tought we won the World Series or something. Complete euphoria. For me, it was about the same level of crazy for the visiting fan as when Fonzie hit the HR off Bobby Chouinard in Arizona in '99, but that was a grand slam in the playoffs. This was just Bartolo Magic. Said hi to ring-leader, Darren. Seemed a real nice guy. Saw Jim Breuer in the pisser. Took a picture with Ron Burgandy. The whole 7 Line experience, I surprisingly recommend it. San Diego has great beers. I may have had one or two. Wish u were here #awhalesvagina

Looks like good times!

Any chatter about some of those associated going all sexist bullying on Twitter? It seemed like quite the controversy this last week.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Didn't hear one thing about it! I didn't even know that was a thing. What's the quick backstory?

[Lefty Specialist]

I've been timid about doing the 7 Line away game thing for fear of being surrounded by douchey Yankee-like fans (or sitting too close to Jim Breuer). Good to know that was not the case.

[TransMonk]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Was at the 'Bartolo Game' with the Opera Singer, sitting with the 7 Line people in right field, all 1,400 of 'em. Phenomenal time. I wasn't sure if it would be a bunch of WFAN radio-caller bros (there were a few, but didn't encounter a single asshole in the bunch). Everyone we did meet was super cool and seeing that many Met fans outside Shea/Citi was bonkers for me, being a lifetime road-gamer. They sang 'Meet the Mets' and even had some soccer-style chants for individual players, not all of 'em worked, but credit for the effort. When Bart hit the homer, you woulda tought we won the World Series or something. Complete euphoria. For me, it was about the same level of crazy for the visiting fan as when Fonzie hit the HR off Bobby Chouinard in Arizona in '99, but that was a grand slam in the playoffs. This was just Bartolo Magic. Said hi to ring-leader, Darren. Seemed a real nice guy. Saw Jim Breuer in the pisser. Took a picture with Ron Burgandy. The whole 7 Line experience, I surprisingly recommend it. San Diego has great beers. I may have had one or two. Wish u were here #awhalesvagina

I'm 7-lining in Milwaukee. Can't hardly wait.

[Guest themetfairy]

We did Colorado with them last year (the second 14-9 Mets victory in as many days) and had a great time. High spirits but no douchebaggery.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Lefty Specialist wrote: I've been timid about doing the 7 Line away game thing for fear of being surrounded by douchey Yankee-like fans (or sitting too close to Jim Breuer). Good to know that was not the case.

Like I said, there were a few, but they were easy enough to stay clear from. The seating at this event was completely loose, for the record. Everyone sat/stood with who they wanted to hang with and that surprisingly worked. I thought it would be a shit-show, but it wasn't. The guys we met and hung out with said seating worked the same at Citi for 7 line events.

These guys, btw, flew out from Queens, and were normal people with jobs, who just like the Mets. Blondie worked in marketing for a bank, the bearded guy was nice and normal, too, forget what his job was. The kid in the white t-shirt was a Marine stationed at Pendleton (also from New Mexico) who just wandered over cause it looked fun. Met a really cool married couple from Chicago who made the game into a little So Cal trip, following the Mets around like they're the Grateful Dead. We facebooked and may meet up in Chicago in the summer. I was leery, too, but happily have no bad stories to tell.

[Edgy MD]

I'm leery too. But I have to give credit where credit is due. It could have been how our community evolved had we played our cards right.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Didn't hear one thing about it! I didn't even know that was a thing. What's the quick backstory?

here's the long backstory. i dunno yet if anyone officially denounced these numbnuts or not but this kinda stuff is a live wire right now.

http://mysummerfamily.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-bad-apples.html

[batmagadanleadoff]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Didn't hear one thing about it! I didn't even know that was a thing. What's the quick backstory? here's the long backstory. i dunno yet if anyone officially denounced these numbnuts or not but this kinda stuff is a live wire right now. http://mysummerfamily.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-bad-apples.html

I read half of that article and it's all over the place. I'm a zillion paragraphs in and I have only - maybe - a vague idea of what happened to the writer. And I'm not sure if the answer is even in that article or if I have to click on links or videos.

Something about people being mad at her because of something connected to the Thor Gnome? I give up.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yes, it is too long and rambling.

I think she said on Twitter she was going to sell the gnome she got at the game, and some folks saw that as a violation, and, so called her a c--- and stuff.

They only gave out so many gnomes and apparently lines were long and lots of folks were disappointed they didn;t get one. I'd surmise part of the anger had to do with the bad guys missing out on their own.

On an semi-related note I was at Saturday's Orioles game and they gave out a really nice lined canvas shopping/beach bag to all the ladies with the bird logo -- and no sponsor logo at all. Almost unimaginable at Citifield where the giveaways are always splattered with ugly sponsor logos.

Edited May 9, 2016 by Guest

[batmagadanleadoff]

Yeah, that's the word: "Rambling". You have the best words.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Yeah, no one should be subjected to that garbage - online or #IRL. Apparently 25 states represented the 1,400 San Diego tickets, so maybe this outing was more of a tourist thing for softy lamestreamers like me, don't know.

Speaking of Mets memorabilia, I have a bunch of yearbooks I am gunna get rid of. If anyone wants one or two or three of them, I'll put them in the mail and you can reimburse my postage, if you're so inclined. I'll list what I've got later (snap some pics, too, if anyone is interested). Didn't have the heart to take them to a Goodwill/second hand place.

[Guest themetfairy]

Didn't hear one thing about it! I didn't even know that was a thing. What's the quick backstory? here's the long backstory. i dunno yet if anyone officially denounced these numbnuts or not but this kinda stuff is a live wire right now. http://mysummerfamily.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-bad-apples.html

It appears that the saga has a happy ending.

[Fman99]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Yeah, no one should be subjected to that garbage - online or #IRL. Apparently 25 states represented the 1,400 San Diego tickets, so maybe this outing was more of a tourist thing for softy lamestreamers like me, don't know.

"Softy lamestreamer" was the mascot of my high school sports teams.

[Benjamin Grimm]