Frayed Knot

One account of that guy and the robbery/slaying talked about what a huge Islander fan he was. Bet they were happy to hear that.

It's after midnight and I'm on a roll Day game for you sleepy-heads. 1:10 PM sharp Capuano faces Arthur Godfrey. OK, it's probably not Arthur Godfrey buts it's somebody Godfrey and it'll be his 3rd ML game and he deserves a beating.

What's that now, like 0-fer-10 w/runners on here in extras?

We call on Angel in the morning. An-Gel

seawolf17 wrote: Not for nothing, but it looks like it was decorated by a middle-aged Italian guy. Well, it was decorated for a middle-aged Italian guy.

I guess that guy who used to run the 'Mets walkoffs' site closed up shop on account of not having any action in so long.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: No. The answer is "no." Aside from like Conor Jackson I mean.

CAN SOMEBODY GET A GODDAMN CLUTCH HIT AROUND HERE?!?!?!?!

Can't walk the next guy dude.

OK, I just checked the bylaws and it turns out we're allowed to get 2-out clutch hits too. It's right there in writing.

This is a gots-to-run situation.

Fuckin' Matsui wasn't this good in the OF six years ago.

Murph to hit for Tejada. Damn the defense, bull offense ahead!!

All right, who's going to win this one? ... well, it's not going to be Pridie. I'm thinking maybe Duda

Amazing what a losing stretch does to ones psyche; there hasn't been one moment tonight where I thought this game was going to end well - and that includes the time we were ahead in the 8th & 9th.

An SB just like we drew it up.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Am I being superselective with the memory, or does Collins' decision-making seem to get iffier (albeit sometimes in traditional, baseball-guy ways) in close-and-late situations? I was just thinking the same thing. Collins is relatively OK, but only until it's crunch time. That's the vibe I'm getting. They said the other night that Terry had bunted with a position player seven times this season. This one makes it eight which I suspect is low for most NL managers. Bunting when you need just one run in the ninth isn't, by definition, a bad move. It just was in this case due to the personnel involved.

I don't think Harris should have been tagging there. Do that and he might not score even if that hit drops in.

Well that should at least loosen up the OFers a bit. They'll have to play deeper for Angel.

SWING!!!!!! Ronnie Paulino was put on this earth to crush LHPs

Time to bust our no walk-off streak.

Well, the fact that we got rid of Gio can only be a good thing.

Glen Campbell announces that he has Alzheimer's

Well, shit, somebody's got to start the IGT and I almost had a two-game winning streak last week doing this (the blown save v the Braves killed me). 1. Jose Reyes � SS 2. Justin Turner � 3B 3. Carlos Beltran � RF 4. Jason Bay � LF 5. Scott Hairston � CF 6. Ronny Paulino � C 7. Lucas Duda � 1B 8. Ruben Tejada � 2B 9. R.A. Dickey - P Hairston in because of the LHP Gonzalez. Duda in on account of Murphy "struggling" acc to Terry and working on things with Hudgens.

A few notes and oddities from last night: - We lost ground to the entire NL East yesterday and the NL as a whole actually won a night, going 10-4, after getting its ass kicked over the weekend. Even Florida won a game. - The Nats scored 5 in the 9th after 2 were out to beat the Mariners. They started the inning by getting two on but Ryan Zimmerman rolled into a DP and you figure it's over. But then 3 straight singles then a 3R HR by Wilson Ramos and they're doing to home-plate bounce. That's 9 of 10 for them and what seems like their 10th walk-off of the year (probably not that many but it feels like it). - SF's Madison Bumgarner gave up 8 runs on 9 hits in just 1/3 of an inning to Minnesota - and managed to do it all on just 25 pitches (and 22 strikes for whatever that's worth): SINGLE - DOUBLE - SINGLE - DOUBLE - SINGLE - DOUBLE - SINGLE - DOUBLE - K - DOUBLE As Charley once said to Terry: "Kid, it's not your night" - Kyle McClennan was having a nice night for the Cards; tied in a 1-1 game with Halladay and the Phils, he's pulled for a PH in the bottom of the 7th and the PH singles which sets up the go-ahead run and puts him in position for the win. Except that his bullpen proceeded to cough up a 9-spot in the 8th, a feat which included two Bases-loaded walks and two bases-loaded HBPs