IGT 05/04 - Mets at Braves - Series Matter (ask anyone)

[Edgy MD]

Thank goody.

[Edgy MD]

Philadelphia and Miami lose, so they move from fourth into a tie for second without even playing.

[ashie62]

Friday very likely is a rainout. Pissing rain already at 6 am.

[Edgy MD]

Well, that would be one turn not having to worry about the #5 starter.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Unless there's a doubleheader on Saturday or Sunday, of course.

[Centerfield]

Maybe it can rain until Noah and Ces are ready.

[metirish]

Did you gear Keith's passionate defense of Ray Ramirez before the rain delay? The booth were talking about Cabrera and the discussion that SNY showed between Collins and Ramirez....basically it was Ray Ramirez is a great trainer , a really great person and stop ragging on him on social media, these decisions come from people above him......it is fashionable to take the piss about Ray Ramirez , I did think Keith's defense was interesting to say the least.

[Edgy MD]

Centerfield wrote: Maybe it can rain until Noah and Ces are ready.

Noah would certainly be living up to his name.

I think Ray Ramirez is about 1.7% responsible for what happened to Syndergaard.

[Benjamin Grimm]

If the Mets built an ark, however, I imagine it would be heavily populated with relief pitchers and not enough position players.

[A Boy Named Seo]

metirish wrote: Did you gear Keith's passionate defense of Ray Ramirez before the rain delay? The booth were talking about Cabrera and the discussion that SNY showed between Collins and Ramirez....basically it was Ray Ramirez is a great trainer , a really great person and stop ragging on him on social media, these decisions come from people above him......it is fashionable to take the piss about Ray Ramirez , I did think Keith's defense was interesting to say the least.

Yeah, I did hear it. "Ray is a good man" was his exclamation point on that topic. I didn't realize how much shit Ramirez must be getting.

Players and management both want to keep guys healthy and on the field, but have different agendas. Ray's probably the middle piece that just wants to treat and prevent injuries the best he can. Whether he's better than his peers or not, who the hell knows. All the teams have lots of injuries.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yeah, I think Keith was saying that Ramirez doesn't decide who goes on the disabled list, or who plays in a game. So if Cespedes returned to action too soon, it wasn't Ray's call. Nor was he the one who decided it was okay for Syndergaard to pitch on Sunday.

[Centerfield]

Rockin' Doc wrote: Hanging with my son and 10 of his graduate school friends at an Irish Pub (in Wilmington, NC). Competing in a team trivia contest. We won the first round, but the second round on Winona Rider films did not go well. Music trivia is coming up in one of the two final rounds. Hoping to kick some ass in that round.

Well did you win?!?!?

Talk about cliffhangers.

[Centerfield]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Yeah, I think Keith was saying that Ramirez doesn't decide who goes on the disabled list, or who plays in a game. So if Cespedes returned to action too soon, it wasn't Ray's call. Nor was he the one who decided it was okay for Syndergaard to pitch on Sunday.

Yes, I highly doubt Ray Ramirez was walking around saying "Fuck the MRI, I say he's fine."

[batmagadanleadoff]

Centerfield wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: I don't think this game's any more important than any of the others. Who cares about the order in which the wins come? Its the total that counts. OK, it's against a division rival so there's that, I suppose. But not much more that I can see. I feel like the order does matter. I have no way of proving this, but it certainly seems to make a difference. Psyche, morale, etc. In the same way it feels like the order in which runs scored matters. The Mets were up 5-0, and eventually won 16-5. You could say it doesn't matter how the runs were scored, at the end it was not a close game. But I feel like had the Mets jumped in front 5-0, and then let Atlanta tie the game, the end result could have been much different. No way to back it up, but just a hunch.

Maybe you and others are talking about something totally different.

I agree that the order of runs or wins might yield a more pleasurable feel-goodiness factor. But I doubt that the order will affect the likelihood of the team winning any of its future games. And from that perspective, this now postponed game was no more or less important than any other.

Edited May 5, 2017 by Guest

[Benjamin Grimm]

Any word yet on rescheduling?

[Guest cooby]

Centerfield wrote: Rockin' Doc wrote: Hanging with my son and 10 of his graduate school friends at an Irish Pub (in Wilmington, NC). Competing in a team trivia contest. We won the first round, but the second round on Winona Rider films did not go well. Music trivia is coming up in one of the two final rounds. Hoping to kick some ass in that round. Well did you win?!?!? Talk about cliffhangers.

And still we're wondering...

[Frayed Knot]

Any word yet on rescheduling?

Officially: "A later date"

They considered rescheduling it to an earlier date but, for some reason, logistics got in the way of that plan.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I blame Jeff Wilpon.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

cooby wrote: Centerfield wrote: Rockin' Doc wrote: Hanging with my son and 10 of his graduate school friends at an Irish Pub (in Wilmington, NC). Competing in a team trivia contest. We won the first round, but the second round on Winona Rider films did not go well. Music trivia is coming up in one of the two final rounds. Hoping to kick some ass in that round. Well did you win?!?!? Talk about cliffhangers. And still we're wondering...

We did pretty well in the final round in which a short segment of a song was played and your identified the song and artist for 1 point each. . We got 16 of 20 (completely swung and missed on 2 songs, one by Rancid and the other by Daft Punk). The team that won (the other half of the grad students at our table) got all 20 points in the final round. I had fun, though it was a little strange being more than twice the age of everyone else out our tables.

[Frayed Knot]

Any word yet on rescheduling? Officially: "A later date" They considered rescheduling it to an earlier date but, for some reason, logistics got in the way of that plan.

June 10th, a Saturday game originally sked as a 4:10 start, is now a "split" DH