5-Day Party Weekend Kickoff IGT 6/30

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Worst team in the world vs. deGrom and the Mets, Free-Shirt-Friday Homecoming On A Hot Sunny Eve of a 5-Day Party Holiday Weekend Eye Gee Tee.

Cue up your best party tunes, it's a celebration

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[Edgy MD]

Shortest homestand ever between two long road trips and an All Star Break. It's, like, three home games in four weeks. Sorry, Matt Harvey, you need to stop partying and report to work for a few days.

[Ceetar]

I'm pretty sure I'm not off Monday.

[Guest cooby]

I'm pretty sure I'm not off today either

[Fman99]

I'm off till Wednesday, starting in about 2 hours and 3 minutes. So, FUCK YEAH.

And because of that, playing the greatest party song ever, by the greatest bar band EVAH.

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[seawolf17]

I'm off today and Monday (and the rest of next week because fuck stress) and yes, I've already poured my first beer of the weekend after spending the morning throwing out three enormous garbage bags of crap out of the kids' rooms and the kitchen.

[ashie62]

Wheeler comes back tomorrow, guessing Conforto hits the DL.

[Guest cooby]

Will wheeler stay healthy for 48 hours?...

Stay tined

[Edgy MD]

Duda back out there, but the lineup is still looking unConfortoble.

Welcome back, Ty Kelly!

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[*:1e3glbgi]Odubel Herrera, cf[/*:m:1e3glbgi]
[*:1e3glbgi]Freddy Galvis, ss[/*:m:1e3glbgi]
[*:1e3glbgi]Aaron Altherr, rf[/*:m:1e3glbgi]
[*:1e3glbgi]Tommy Joseph, 1b[/*:m:1e3glbgi]
[*:1e3glbgi]Maikel Franco, 3b[/*:m:1e3glbgi]
[*:1e3glbgi]Nick Williams, lf[/*:m:1e3glbgi]
[*:1e3glbgi]Andrew Knapp, c[/*:m:1e3glbgi]
[*:1e3glbgi]Ty Kelly, 2b[/*:m:1e3glbgi]
[*:1e3glbgi]Ben Lively, sp[/*:m:1e3glbgi][/list:o:1e3glbgi][/td:1e3glbgi][td:1e3glbgi]
[*:1e3glbgi]Curtis Granderson, cf[/*:m:1e3glbgi]
[*:1e3glbgi]Asdrubal Cabrera, 2b[/*:m:1e3glbgi]
[*:1e3glbgi]Yoenis Cespedes, lf[/*:m:1e3glbgi]
[*:1e3glbgi]Jay Bruce, rf[/*:m:1e3glbgi]
[*:1e3glbgi]Lucas Duda, 1b[/*:m:1e3glbgi]
[*:1e3glbgi]Wilmer Flores, 3b[/*:m:1e3glbgi]
[*:1e3glbgi]Jose Reyes, ss[/*:m:1e3glbgi]
[*:1e3glbgi]Travis d'Arnaud, c[/*:m:1e3glbgi]
[*:1e3glbgi]Jacob deGrom, sp[/*:m:1e3glbgi][/list:o:1e3glbgi][/td:1e3glbgi][/tr:1e3glbgi][/table:1e3glbgi]

[MFS62]

I don't know how difficult it was to research this but I heard on WFAN yesterday that deGrom's career ERA in games that start before 5 PM is the lowest in baseball over the past 100 years. It is around 1.60.
Its around 6:30 PM, too late to call MLB and have the game moved up.
But for future reference ...

Later

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

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If this doesn't charge you up for a weekend of drunken 80s hijinx I'm not sure what will

Edited June 30, 2017 by Guest

[ashie62]

The 7 day weekend is where its at.

No Conforto.

[Frayed Knot]

Has anyone ever tracked the Mets record based on who the announced 'State Farm Agent of the Day' is?
I certainly think that sort of information is vital to know. Maybe Elias can tell me.

[Edgy MD]

Curtis knocking it up the middle consistently. First run in.

[Edgy MD]

And Cabrera running like a shlub to first.

[Frayed Knot]

Nice that they finally got a run across, but this Lively guy is 50-some pitches in and has retired [u:2aw52ahw]4 of the 11 batters he's faced[/u:2aw52ahw].
With a stretch like that he should already be in the shower with at least a 5-spot attached to him.

[Ceetar]

been a Lively game so far.

[Edgy MD]

Man, Kelly looked overmatched against deGrom.

[Edgy MD]

A double call by the ump? How bush league, but he got the call right.

[Ceetar]

runs now?

[Lefty Specialist]

Annoying SNY trick: that little box that shows the baserunners on the whole diamond which blocks a quarter of the screen. Please stop.

[Frayed Knot]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Annoying SNY trick: that little box that shows the baserunners on the whole diamond which blocks a quarter of the screen. Please stop.

Don't mind seeing it once if there's an unusual shift going on, but show it then remove it.
I think they're starting to get the hang of their new toy, but in the first couple of uses they were leaving up there too long.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Oh geez. I was starting to believe

[Edgy MD]

Outfielders losing a ball should count as an error.

Every time.

[Frayed Knot]

That lost ball screwed up a lot.
Not just the no-hitter and obviously the run, but it also cost deGrom another 8 pitches to get through the inning and prevented him from leading off the 6th with the 8 & 9 hitters
instead of the top of the order.

[seawolf17]

MFS62 wrote: I don't know how difficult it was to research this but I heard on WFAN yesterday that deGrom's career ERA in games that start before 5 PM is the lowest in baseball over the past 100 years. It is around 1.60. Its around 6:30 PM, too late to call MLB and have the game moved up. But for future reference ... Later

Hot damn. Good catch, MFS. Career, as per b-r:

Night: 20-21, 4.88 in 58 starts
Day: 17-4, 1.69 in 33 starts

That difference is... night and day.

[Edgy MD]

Even Herrera is befuddled tonight.

[Edgy MD]

Let's get him a pad.

[Edgy MD]

Lively's high heat is ... lively.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah but we probably should have knocked him out in the 2nd.

I have a bad feeling suddenly