IGT, AL Wild Card, MIN @ MFY, 10/3/17

[Guest d'Kong76]

Never been there.
Plus free beer would need to be pee'd and then I'd lose my spot.

[Ceetar]

d'Kong76 wrote: Never been there. Plus free beer would need to be pee'd and then I'd lose my spot.

They have very little drinkable beer there anyway. Actually SRO usually get's first swipe at the bathroom since you don't have to get up at the end of the inning. And if you're really desperate (at least at Citi) the audio's piped in so if it's like 2 outs no one on and 0-2 on the batter you can hedge your bet that nothing happens and go.



Anyway, did we post game stuff yet?

It's Luis Severino against Ervin Santana on ESPN at 8pm.


Yankee fans are sure Luis Severino is better than any Mets starter ever and will stay healthy for sure.

Santana has had a strangely good season, outperforming a lot of FIP metrics. Maybe luck based, low BABIP and high LOB rate, but it's been all season so who knows.

[Guest cooby]

They pipe the radio feed into the restrooms

[Guest cooby]

Wow ceeter and I said the same thing!

[seawolf17]

I haven't been to YS3 and have no intentions of doing so. I'll have to go at some point just to knock it off my list, but I'm not in any rush.

[Frayed Knot]

Ceetar wrote: Anyway, did we post game stuff yet? It's Luis Severino against Ervin Santana on ESPN at 8pm.

Kind of cool that the Twins were able to go from 103 losses last year to a playoff spot this season - even if just barely over .500 and with only a slight positive in run differential
And even if they seemed ready to quit the race in August when they dealt away a top reliever (to the Nats) and the starter they had just dealt for one start earlier and sent him to a team they
were competing with for a WC slot (the Yanx - Jamie Garcia).
And even if the Twins "sprint" to the playoff consisted of them busting out of a crowded race by going 14-14 in September and still secure a spot without much of a sweat because every other team
was busy playing like shit.
And, as mentioned before, even if they have like 5 wins in the Bronx during the entire 21st century so far.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Frayed Knot wrote: Kind of cool that the Twins were able to go from 103 losses last year to a playoff spot this season

I wasn't aware of that! That offers at least a measure of hope for the 2018 Mets.

[Frayed Knot]

Arizona also was able to flip their record from 69-93 in 2016 to 93-69 this year - and do so without actually changing a whole heck of a lot except for health and, I suppose, luck.
But that's a tale for tomorrow's WC IGT

[Ceetar]

seawolf17 wrote: I haven't been to YS3 and have no intentions of doing so. I'll have to go at some point just to knock it off my list, but I'm not in any rush.

I actually haven't been sine the first two years. Mostly it's just hard to get to.

But like it's reasonable to head out to a mid-week april or may game if you can and wander around when it's mostly empty. or sept after they're eliminated.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I'm on the Hudson Line, I can take a train there! No desire.

[Ceetar]

d'Kong76 wrote: I'm on the Hudson Line, I can take a train there! No desire.

I mean, it's still baseball. It's still a neat mall to walk around in. Not necessarily worth special effort though.

[Fman99]

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Lol. Looking good so far

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Dare we believe in the Twins? Or is this setting us up for the mother-of-all-cockpunches later?

[Fman99]

Oh, fuck off, Twinks.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

That didn't take long to suck.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Holy fuck, the first inning took almost an hour.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

d'Kong76 wrote: Holy fuck, the first inning took almost an hour.

They're going to make a series out of it.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Went to read/play some Tom Petty songs to the kid for bedtime at 8. Figured I'd be getting in somewhere mid-game. Alas, I forgot what sort of baseball with which we were dealing here.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Byron Buxton is quite the glovely centerfielder. Robbed Frazier on a tricky catch-then-bang-the-wall job.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Less glovely, that ill-placed slider to Gardner.

Twins have two-on, nobody-out stew going in the 3rd, though.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Chad Green walks the bases loaded, then goes. MFYs on pitcher three, and they're seven outs into the game.

Meanwhile, Dances With Wolves, playing concurrently on another station, is approaching the halfway mark.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I've caught up on the entire Ken Burns Vietnam in the 1st inning

[Fman99]

Three innings in, at 9:54 PM. Thanks anyway.

[Frayed Knot]

It's just not a Yanqui game until they extend an inning with a swinging bunt.
That's probably one of the few stats NOT tracked, but I suspect the Yanx lead the majors in that category by like 80% over every other team.



Twins going K, K, GO, K with two runners on or with bases loaded is obviously a big deal tonight.
And only Buxton's speed kept that GO from being a GiDP

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

I suppose we should start getting ready for "28 rings, baaa-beee!!!"

[Frayed Knot]

HA! Swinging bunts work both ways!!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Paul Molitor looking rrrrrough in that midgame interview, like he uses ocean water as aftershave.

Hey! Swinging bunt the other way... by 30-HR guy Dozier.

[Frayed Knot]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I've caught up on the entire Ken Burns Vietnam in the 1st inning

Wait until the 7th inning stretch which, for some reason, the Yanx are allotted more than twice the usual break as compared to other teams.
You can catch up on the other nine episodes during that break.

[Guest d'Kong76]

In this longer than expected.
Like the Minnesota jerseys.