IGT #43 5/23 who's your Padre?

[Guest 41Forever]

Conforto's not on the All-Star Ballot? Aw, crap!

[Frayed Knot]

Harvey's 'line' for the night doesn't read all that bad: 5 innings, 2 runs, 3 hits, 6 Ks, and really only one hard-hit out. The only problem of course was the walks (4) and the pitch count, essentially needing
6-1/2 innings worth of pitches just to get through five.
He at least did get a bit better as things went on, especially once he decided that going 3-0 to the leadoff hitter in each of the first three innings! wasn't a good idea.

[Chad ochoseis]

41Forever wrote: Conforto's not on the All-Star Ballot? Aw, crap!

He'll make the team. There's no other Metly possibility.

[Edgy MD]

I thought Ron was talking some serious social theory and he was making a weak-o joke.

Is Kirby Yates Tyler Yates' brother or something? Is that why they're talking Hawai'i?

[Guest 41Forever]

Chad Ochoseis wrote: 41Forever wrote: Conforto's not on the All-Star Ballot? Aw, crap! He'll make the team. There's no other Metly possibility.

I would not be stunned to see de Grom make it.

[Frayed Knot]

Yes on Tyler / Kirby


And Ronnie is a little bit right about the Hawaiian alphabet.
Their language was strictly oral until the mostly New England missionaries came visiting and decided that the natives would be better off having their lives run for them.
Then, encouraged to develop a written language, native speakers were supervised into creating one from scratch and in doing so decided that 16 letters were all they needed to cover all the sounds
in their speech.

[Frayed Knot]

Jeez Terry, Blevins can't face a RHB with a 6-run lead and 2-out in the 8th?

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: Yes on Tyler / Kirby And Ronnie is a little bit right about the Hawaiian alphabet. Their language was strictly oral until the mostly New England missionaries came visiting and decided that the natives would be better off having their lives run for them. Then, encouraged to develop a written language, native speakers were supervised into creating one from scratch and in doing so decided that 16 letters were all they needed to cover all the sounds in their speech.

Oh, yeah, I agree. It was his turning it into a punchline (that fell flat) that was goofy. I thought he was on a roll.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I doubt that the Mets get 2 All-Stars from this team. I believe that thus far, Conforto is the best Met and most deserving of being our representative. DeGrom has pitched pretty well, but I don't think he has had as good a start to the season as Conforto.

[Edgy MD]

Congratulations to the Padres for grabbing a crappy starter off waivers in Brad Hand and turning him into a good reliever.

Man, the Mets used to beat him around in Miami.

[Edgy MD]

Well, Harvey may not be impressively back in form, but it'd be nice if Salas is.

[ashie62]

Yeah!! Matt Harvey made me happy. Good for him.

Captain Conforto will almost certainly be our all star guy.

I want NL MVP for him.

[Edgy MD]

One day at a time, man. My goal for Conforto is that he wakes up without a hairline fracture where that ball hit him.

[nymr83]

41Forever wrote: A Boy Named Seo wrote: Nymr83 wrote: Harvey is simply a bad player right now. He needs to be in Vegas working out his control issues. Walking thevpiycher with a 5 run lead is a pretty unforgivable sin/sign you have no idea where the ball is going Sending Harvey to Las Vegas to work on his problems is like sending someone to Colombia for coke rehab. Bad ass.

unfortunately, we are stuck in Vegas. you want to send him to AA? i dont think he belongs here right now and the fact that our AAA-Affiliate is in a city known for vices isnt a reason to keep him in NY.

[Frayed Knot]

I'm not even sure if Harvey can be sent to the minors at this point. But even if they can they won't, nor should they.

It would be one thing if Matz and Syndergaard were here, and if Gsellman and deGrom were pitching better, and if Lugo was capable of taking his slot for a couple of turns, and if Wheeler wasn't
already on a pace to hit his innings limit in like early August ... but currently none of those things are the case and tonight was enough of a sign of progress (5 IP, 2 ER, 6K, 4 H) that you send him
out there again in five days.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

THouGhTs oN thE Game!!!!1

The Tuesday Night Lunchclub is now 2-1 with 1 rainout.

Ran into the Faith&Fears prior to the game on the concourse.

I found a beer I hadn't expected to find-- Mikkeller "Henry Hops" which Ceetar tells me is EXCLUSIVE. I bought it for the can design with the weird 87-ish script and was surprised to find it wasn't local, but from of all places San Diego and tasted like it. I would say the hoppiest thing you can get at that building.



The entire game was about Conforto's leadoff at-bat -- he fouled off a million pitches then crushed one over the fence. He's really locked in. If he keeps this up he'll be the best leadoff hitter the Mets ever had. I like him there.

Doodoo quietly had also had a big game, while Flores and Bruce were lucky.

I'd like to see another replay of Flores' hit in that inning. I know the runner was being held on base which kept the first baseman there but he wasn't running on the pitch, so we couldn't figure out where the f the 2Bman was. It was like a little league play where one kid isn't paying attention and the whole game collapses. I guess he was positioned weirdly but I didn't notice it. Too bad for the Padre Shift.

This is not news but the Padres look absolutely terrible in dark blue. It doesn't belong! I liked them better as a visitor in their "Sand" colored jerseys but I mean, this is what's what's wrong with them: They have no identity at all. Even their beers dress in someone else's clothing.

You knew Harvey was going to give some of it back so the big inning was a huge blessing. Three of his innings ended on a hard-hit ball with men on base. A better team would probably have destroyed him.

I didn't like that Craig Stammen got away with 3.1 innings of clean relief. I was hoping they'd go deeper and discover which of their position players also pitched.

Speaking for the few of us in Section 508, the Mets aren't a serious thing still. Even after the big lead the cheers were thick with irony, fear and mild derision. Nobody believes in Harvey, no one's cheers didn't include the subtext "if this wasn't the Padres..." We still believe they can get better but still aren't convinced.

[Edgy MD]

Not for nothing, but maybe, as folks are advocating for Harvey to go down and work his act out against AAA competition, that's pretty much what he got last night against the Padres.

And speaking of playing against AAA in the majors. I want to see Nimmo getting Granderson's playing time yesterday. He may only just be pulling out of a tailspin (and went 0-4 last night), but that's more than Grandy is doing, and the outfield is going to get real crowded again if and when Céspedes comes back.

[Guest cooby]

I read an article yesterday saying Cespedes will be back within days and Granderson prolly benched

[Edgy MD]

I'm not sure when, but yeah, that Nimmo window is closin'.

[Guest cooby]

Great recap, Lunchbucket!

[bmfc1]

Good headline.

[Guest cooby]

Hey there's underpants girl.

[Ceetar]

read somewhere that fwiw (not much) Harvey is in the top 5 or so for 'best' lineups faced.

In addition to Henry Hops there's a Say Hey Sally (a pilsner), which is a great name imo. Mikkeller is Danish (As is his brother, Evil Twin) though he did open a microbrewery/pub in San Diego, and Evil Twin brews at Two Roads in CT a bunch. I digress.

http://mikkeller.dk/2017/04/02/beer-for-city-field/

I don't know if it's the hoppiest (I haven't had it) there are a few other options

[MFS62]

I hate to give the Post any kind of kudos, but that headline makes that a definite Headline Contest contender this coming off season.

Later

[Fman99]

cooby wrote: Hey there's underpants girl.

She makes backpack girl look like a garbage bag full of spoiled ham.

[seawolf17]

Edgy MD wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: And Ronnie is a little bit right about the Hawaiian alphabet. Their language was strictly oral until the mostly New England missionaries came visiting and decided that the natives would be better off having their lives run for them. Then, encouraged to develop a written language, native speakers were supervised into creating one from scratch and in doing so decided that 16 letters were all they needed to cover all the sounds in their speech. Oh, yeah, I agree. It was his turning it into a punchline (that fell flat) that was goofy. I thought he was on a roll.

Come on, their making fun of X ("It's xylophone. It's always xylophone, unless it's x-ray, but that's kind of not a word.") was awesome.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Cast your vote!

[Edgy MD]

seawolf17 wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: And Ronnie is a little bit right about the Hawaiian alphabet. Their language was strictly oral until the mostly New England missionaries came visiting and decided that the natives would be better off having their lives run for them. Then, encouraged to develop a written language, native speakers were supervised into creating one from scratch and in doing so decided that 16 letters were all they needed to cover all the sounds in their speech. Oh, yeah, I agree. It was his turning it into a punchline (that fell flat) that was goofy. I thought he was on a roll. Come on, their making fun of X ("It's xylophone. It's always xylophone, unless it's x-ray, but that's kind of not a word.") was awesome.

Yeah, I know, but he really baited-and-switched me. He was making this really good point about cultural imperialism, and they he lands with a fake complaint of "And then they stole 14 letters from us."

It was a deft fakeout, but I was getting excited listening to him talk some powerful social theory shit to me. I was finally getting the full-on Yalie treatment IN MY FACE from Ronnie. He was touching on post-colonial theory, ideological imperialism, de-linguicization ... and then he turns it all into a Harvard Lampoon punchline.

We get satire everywhere. Wouldn't it be great to get a controversy-courtin' social theory treatise from Ron every now and then? Why should Keith be the only high-risk broadcaster in the booth?

[Guest themetfairy]

One of the first times we ever watched Matt Harvey pitch was his Cincinnati in August 2012. We were in Bermuda at the time, and watched from The Outback, our favorite sports bar on the island. So we figured on Tuesday we'd go back to see him again. We were happily surprised to see that the game was already on one of the TV sets and learned that our bartender, a young Bermudian named Greg, is a Mets fan due to some relatives he has in Queens. All of the good omens were in place, and that first inning was a thing of beauty. We only stayed for the first few innings (the island is in the Atlantic time zone, and I had an early call for my half marathon the next day), but we figure that any time we're in Bermuda and Harvey is pitching we are required to make our way to the Outback for at least part of the game.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I found a beer I hadn't expected to find-- Mikkeller "Henry Hops" which Ceetar tells me is EXCLUSIVE. I bought it for the can design with the weird 87-ish script and was surprised to find it wasn't local, but from of all places San Diego and tasted like it. I would say the hoppiest thing you can get at that building.

Bar hopping at the local craft brew houses tonight. One of them featured Mikkeller Hoppy Pilsner as a featured option on tap. Remembering this post, I decided to give it a shot. It was actually pretty good. A smooth pilsner with a "hoppy bite" on the finish. A nice change from the Brown Ales, Porters, and Imperial Stouts I generally drink.