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St. Lucie and the Guys on the Diamond
Frayed Knot replied to Frayed Knot's topic in New York Mets Talk
Righthander Philip Humber, the Mets' first-round pick in 2004, enjoyed the best start of his career Friday night, striking out 10 over seven innings while allowing one run on three hits for high Class A St. Lucie. Humber has won his last two starts, and is now 2-5, 5.09 in 58 innings. -
"You have a choice to call Armando Benitez or Braden Looper for the 9th."Benitez, no question. He's got the much better track record.Looper has fewer "spectacular collapses" because he's been in fewer games. Look, closers who are given 1-run leads on the road are going to blow games to good hitting teams every once in a while and, unfortuantely, you can't pick and choose when and where they're going to happen.
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The reason for the hoopster, of course, is because espn is broadcasting the b-ball draft thingie later this week -- and NO ONE self-promotes like the espn/ABC/Disney folks.For the most part they treat many of the sporting events they do simply as a vehicle to promote OTHER programming.
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]So, if that game goes to extra innings, does Torre lose the DH by switching Matsui into the outfield or does he try to hide Martinez or Giambi out there? Reportedly he was going to put Matsui in LF and go DH-less for the rest of the game. Tino was volunteering to play the OF but Torre apparently wasn't going to take him up on it. Personally I would have.I'm not so sure Torre didn't over-manage a bit.With runner on 2nd/no outs in the 7th down by 2, he PH-ed Sierra for Womack. Neither is hitting particularly well this year but Womack is at least a contact hitter. And it was that move that triggered the OF problems when Sierra K'd and Sheff got tossed on the next play.
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The Sox have had Petagine since before the season started, so I suspect that if he looked all that good that the Sox wouldn't have gone chasing Olerud all over the country and waiting for him to heal and then get back in shape. Both - if playing well - bring about the same sort of skills: lefty stick, good glove, decent power, good eye, zero speed. Sounds like they liked what they DIDN'T have more than what they did.The guy who would have been a good backup for this team from the start is Tony Clark - but at this point he's getting too much playing time in Arizona.Speaking of Olerud, I saw him hit his first Boston HR the other day and David Ortiz greeted him with that hugging thing that the Sox do. Man it's tough to look more white than Oly did trying to bond with Big Papi.
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Obviously Looper gets the biggest raspberry for the night, but:* Beltran, Piazza & Floyd combined for an 0-12 and managed to get the ball out of the infield just twice (both fly outs)* 9 walks, plus a balk and an error* if the Yanx could field we'd have scored only 1 run* even before Looper our relievers faced 11 batters and retired 6 (one on a questionable call)* MFY relievers started w/Reyes's infield dribbler/fielding farce - and then retired 7 straight batters (on what seemed like 15 pitches)
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Shhh. KC drinks a bit and we don't like to point these things out in public.(did I just type that out load?)btw, for all the talk that no WC team would come out of the NL East this year ... the Braves are currently it.And they're doing this with 3 starters on the DL, plus their catcher, plus Chipper, and w/no closer, and they started 7 rookies the other day ...
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Yeah, that's a weird (but probably smart) system they have there.Hagerstown & Lexington (Houston) tied for the 1st half championship. The rule when that happens is that the first regularly scheduled meeting of the 2nd half between those teams acts as the 1st half tie-breaker. What was cool is that it turned out to fall on both teams' best pitcher's turn.Most - if not all - of the minor leagues use that 1st half/2nd half champions thing because rosters change so often.
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Offerman will be another old-and-going-nowhere type - a la Gerald Williams - that Met fans will complain about just for his very existance.He can slap the ball a bit and play a variety of positions including 1st ( although none of them particularly well) and - as far as I know - still run.Brazell's hurt and would be less of the back of the bench type optionanyway. Does Willie have the guts to start Diaz at 1st against the lefty?It would make sense since otherwise you'd need to go w/either the leftyswinging Daubach or Woodward which puts the lefty Anderson at 2nd.Either that or it's Offerman right off the bat.
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The 'Horns hooked 'em.
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]a Garden crowd reveling in the "city game" is no longer any more sophisticated than the supposedly "hick" crowds in "cow towns" like Sacramento, Minneapolis and IndianapolisYup.Some longtime Knick fans trace the downfall to the introduction of 'The Knick City Dancers'. I'm not sure when (or why) stadium operators got the idea that us morons in the seats would lose interest if we had to go a whole 30 or 40 seconds w/o being entertained. Jeez, we'd actually have to talk to the people we went to the game with or something.
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Martinez - 4Reyes - 1.5Mientkiewicz - 1.5Floyd - 1Beltran - 1Anderson - 1
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Floyd - 4Glavine - 2Reyes - 1Wright - 2Piazza - 0.5Castro - 0.5
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Asked if he could play tonight (Sunday) Mienty replied; "not a chance".P.S. Maybe the title of this thread should be changed to;Mientkiewicz vs Delgado: Stillborn - because that's about what the "competition" is at this point.
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]Now, if Bernie had made the error on what would have been the third out, would it still have been ruled a sac fly? No. The Sac Fly was concocted (in the '40s I believe) with the thought that a hitter "settling for" a Fly Ball in those run-scoring situations (man on 3rd/less than 2 outs) can be somewhat intentional* and so is rewarded w/a non-AB plus an RBI even when the ball turns out to be dropped as in the Bernie debacle. The batter "did his job", it wasn't HIS fault that the klutz dropped the rock. With 2 outs, however, there can be no such intent and therefore no such reward.*(indeed, ML batters tend to hit OF flies in those situations more often than can be accounted for by chance)]If not, how would it be ruled?As a time at bat, an error against the hitter's BA, and no RBI -- just like it was a muffed grounder or infield pop.
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St. Lucie and the Guys on the Diamond
Frayed Knot replied to Frayed Knot's topic in New York Mets Talk
LHP Brian Walker (24) - a fourth-round pick of the Mets in 2001 out of Miami who spent the last two seasons in low Class A and was 3-1, 4.80 in 30 innings this year at high-A St. Lucie - was one of 5 minor league players suspended for 15 days following a first offense of MLB's performance enhancing drug program. -
The key to the game was DEFENSE!!!!!!!!!(sorry, I was having a metsonline flashback)
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Dammit Braden, what did I just tell you?!?Sit down Torre, that one wasn't even that close!
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TheOldMole wrote:Stanton's back with the Yanks?Um yeah, we traded him to them for Felix the Heredia before the season started, remember?Don't make this a long inning Braden. We've got a gay dame tomorrow.
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These Mets are Sac-tastic!!
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Plus, I always associate All-Star Game politic-ing as a 'small-town' thing.NYC used to consider itself above that sort of thinking.
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It was actaully a good play by him in that situation (although wouldn't always be). They were down by 5 in late innings at that point and needed baserunners and I think he was leading off the inning. Thing is, if he - or any of those power hitters who get their own shift - were to do that when an extra-base hit would be a dagger they'd be doing the other team a favor even if it worked.
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<buh-dump-Ching>Either that or it's because she's dead at the present time ... and you could look it up.
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]Hey, um, Frayed Knot, what kind of crappy start time is 4:20?Probably an incorrect one now that I think about it.I orginially thought this was a FOX Netwok game which usually don't start until 20-25 minutes after the hour so Kevin Kennedy and what's-her-blonde have time to get their pre-game jive in.Turns out it's just each teams' local stations carrying the load and I forgot to adjust to the usual 10-minutes after the hour first pitch.
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So are we supposed to play "Guess the Edgy" w/that picture?I'm going w/the kid in the upper left who looks like he's holding a slice of watermelon instead of a ball.
