Frayed Knot

Valadius wrote: Woman in sports jersey wants to give your man drugs. If she'd just take off that jersey he wouldn't need them.

I'll be able to unwind and go to sleep in about an hour or three.

Greinke's going to be tough. Now if only we had a 6-1/2 foot tall Viking who throws 100 mph to counteract him. Oh wait ... we do!!

deGrom - 5.0 Murphy - 2.0 Wright - 2.0 Familia - 1.0

Frayed Knot wrote: Simple instructions to Jeurys: Do NOT allow Grandal to come up to bat tonight. I love pitchers who know how to take long-distance requests. Casey Kasem would be proud.

Simple instructions to Jeurys: Do NOT allow Grandal to come up to bat tonight.

The 'Hit it to Murphy' strategy clearly isn't working.

Ethier - Ellis - Ederson due up. Just no E's on the Mets side I hope.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Duda out. Johnson to second, Murphy to first. I thought of the double switch but started to blank when thinking of potential combos. [crossout]8-9-1[/crossout] 7-8-9 coming up for the Mets. [crossout]5-6-7[/crossout] 6-7-8 for the Dodgers in the bottom half.

Gotta double switch somebody, no? The 9th spot is due up this inning. Not sure who though. Duda & d'Arnaud mad the final outs.

Top of the order for Clip-Art. We need Zvon's Clip-Art image. Tyler was much better when he was around in IGTs

Frayed Knot wrote: Probably deG's last batter here (Utley) one way or the other. And I like the way he chose.

Probably deG's last batter here (Utley) one way or the other.

Apparently 'Joc' is his given name. Joc Russell Pederson

Deep fly to RCF but ... we got a man there.

Edgy MD wrote: You send Laggy or Nieuwy in for Cuddyer here? Lagares. Otherwise you'd be stacking Duda & Nieuwy back to back and just begging Mattingly to bring in his LHRs

Biggest AB of the season RIGHT NOW!!!!!

Biggest problem so far is that deG needed 3 innings worth of pitches to get through 2 innings.

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Watching Lackey be good must drive Boston fans nuts. Typical Cardinal acquisition: they get him at age 35 and his Hits/9 goes down, K/9 goes up, ERA goes down (3.10 at StL vs 4.46 in BOS), WHiP goes down - and they're paying him a lot less than Boston.

And Altuve grounds out - and just like that the series is tied 1-1

Oh man! Carlos Gomez, in to pinch-run, down by a run with one out in the 9th, gets picked off 1st before a pitch is even thrown to the next batter. Doesn't help that the batter was Altuve, Houston's best contact hitter.

Finally over in Toronto: 6-4 Rangers in 14 innings to take a 2-0 lead.

"I'm heading to Mars this evening." -- Wear your seatbelt "A lot has been commented on about how many films feature (in part or whole) rescuing Matt Damon. Not knowing his family status in The Martian, I'd like to note that a lot of films feature (in part or whole) a parentless Matt Damon. Has any actor ever been so consistently been portrayed for sympathy? He regularly gets orphaned and marooned." -- The existence of still living parents are mentioned in both the book and movie although never seen or heard from in either. "Meanwhile, An Alarming Number Of People Think “The Martian” Is A True Story." -- So just so I have this straight, we DID go to Mars but the moon landings were all faked? I sometimes find it hard to believe that the majority of people in this country walk around with their shoes tied.

Caution for DVR'ers, the 6:30 PM start for the Cubs/Cards is likely to bleed into the 9:30 start for our game making it a decent chance that we'll start over on TNT and then pick up in progress on TBS.