IGT 4/9/17: MIA@NYM -- Syndergaard Sundaay

[Zvon]

GREAT! throw by Rivera.

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[metirish]

This booth though , how will we endure another few hours of this ?

probability I stay around for it all?, falling

[Batty31]

I've muted it...I'd rather watch with silence.

Edited April 10, 2017 by Guest

[Fman99]

Two guys thrown out on the bases this inning? Rivera throwing darts tonight. If I'm d'Arnaud I'm nervous. Better hit, brah.

[bmfc1]

And we have to deal with this crap again in two weeks.

[Frayed Knot]

Look at it this way: our quota of Sunday Night games will be largely spent before April is even over.

[Fman99]

Holy fuck, these announcers. I get that we're spoiled because GKR are the best, but, shit. Shut up, dudes.

[Lefty Specialist]

Omigod. They're doing the Mr Met Twitter fight. With Mr. Met.

Just kill me now.

[Guest 41Forever]

The stuff with Mr. Met was painful.

[Zvon]

Braden was interviewing him.

Mr. Mets does not speak Dallas.

[metirish]

Ravech asks the booth why Thor threw that pitch , silence and then Dallas Braden stumbles over his answer, a good booth can add to a viewing experience but this booth is really taking the piss

[Guest cooby]

Makes you miss joe Morgan and that other guy.

[Guest cooby]

A lot

[Lefty Specialist]

Heavens to Mergatroid. "Cespedes with the lime-green sleeve".

Do these people ever watch baseball?

[Guest 41Forever]

BRUCE-kaboom!

[Frayed Knot]

Nice of them to go to full screen once Bruce's HR was halfway to the OF seats.
I tend to think that watching a HR is more important that seeing a guy take off his batting gloves, but apparently opinions differ on that topic.

[Guest themetfairy]

Home run calls are always better en espanol.

[Zvon]

kaBOOM wise, for Bruce, I got nothin. I thought making one was a waste of time. I'll have to correct that.

I'll cover it with one of my very first kaBOOMs. This is easily over 10 yrs old now. Maybe 15.

[Edgy MD]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Heavens to Mergatroid. "Cespedes with the lime-green sleeve". Do these people ever watch baseball?

Say what you will about Buck and McCarver, but you knew it wasn't the first baseball game they've seen since their last assignment.

[Zvon]

That was a bit of a blast.

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[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Oh wow. Conforto

[Guest themetfairy]

[bigpurple:x2spswew]Conforto![/bigpurple:x2spswew]

[Frayed Knot]

Well that's a nice sign. #Conforto

[Guest 41Forever]

Conforto-KABOOM!

And that was a BOMB!

[Edgy MD]

Glad to see Bruce and Conforto entering into a healthy competition.

"Dietrich playing on the outfield grass, but barely. I mean ... he's fully dressed, but he's playing his position a little deep." — Howie Rose

[Zvon]

Of course I was prepared for a ConfortoBash.

[Fman99]

KABOOM AND SHIT!

[ashie62]

WTG Mikey!

[Zvon]

That was officially, "a blast".

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[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Say what you will about Buck and McCarver, but you knew it wasn't the first baseball game they've seen since their last assignment.

As I've said before, the network is the bigger problem than the announcers themselves. ESPN doesn't think you tune in to watch a ballgame, they think you tune in to watch how they present it.
The game, in their mind, is secondary to whatever pre-planned gimmicks and promos they've got up their sleeves. Everything that's on ESPN is about what else is on ESPN.