Edgy MD

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Top 2 ItPHR Hitters at Citi Tejada 1 Pagan 1

Phillie infielders: Knock the ball down, man.

Neglected to mention his teammate who became a Met: Terry Bross.

Chris Mullin, John Franco, and Frank Viola: all lefties.

Holy crap, another baseball coach.

Guy in white shirt, you could have caught him. And then he starts waving. Was he waiving for medical assistance or waving Tejada around the bases?

Wow, poor Dominic Brown.

Mets hit the board first. Sweeney seemed like he wasn't tracking that very confidently.

Verizon Trivia: When was the last time Mets pitchers led the league in batting average? I'm going with 1985.

Eric Campbell is your backup shortstop tonight, with Ruben home in Venezuela visiting his ailing grandfather.

Harvey didn't come here for no bullshit.

He led off the game last night with a homer for Las Vegas, which turned out to be the winning margin as they barely held on for a one-run victory over the El Paso Chihuahuas, sitting just a half game behind the first-place 51s. Nice to see Harvey pitching without the chrome insignia logo.

Ashie62 wrote: Duda sux. Another premature burying.

themetfairy wrote: Edgy MD wrote: One guy � former-Met-farmhand-with-a-crazy-wife Marc Kiger Details? We've visited it before but a high-profile Oakland Athletics/Vancouver Canadians blogger pointed out the unfortunate choice of Kiger to declare himself a free agent, rather than be farmed out by the A's, as Kiger ended up grinding it out in Binghamton. While the Athletics soon had a rash of injuries in their infield, that would likely have led to his promotion. Unfortunately, all the ol' links are dead. Kiger's wife, a hard-partying, hard-talking small town girl � fond of online glamour shots and singing "They tried to make me go to rehab but I said, 'No, no, no!" � who seemingly had been chasing ballplayers for years before landing Marc, who was five years her junior, went into beast mode, and ripped this guy highly uncharitably. The rule being not to get in a war of words with guys who buy ink by the barrel, he went back just as hard, with far more embarrassing online material of hers to cull. Poor Kiger had to get involved and negotiate a ceasefire. Her online name was "Bedhead Barbie."

My traditional understanding is that he should have appeared in a game (or at least on the roster) for them before September 1. The loophole to this has long been a rule that allowed any player � including a post-September 1 player � to be included on the roster if somebody is on the 60-man disabled list. Like "Oh, man, we really wanted to take Buddy Carlyle! Crap! Now you have to let us use Matt Reynolds." That's how the Mets have gotten their Melvin Moras and Timo Perezes of the past on the roster. One guy � former-Met-farmhand-with-a-crazy-wife Marc Kiger � got on a post-season roster that way despite having never appeared for his club, and became the first guy in like 100 years to debut in the post-season. In fact, he never again appeared in the majors after his two ALCS appearances (both pinch-running, I think) and is perhaps unique in baseball history (I don't know) in that his only big league appearances came in the post-season.

Somebody's got to pitch for Vegas. Tim Stauffer can't win that pennant by himself.

I like that this thread started with some irony in the title and now is fully in earnest. Murphy, should he be heading out via free agency, has 13 home games to catch Ike Davis (who he has now preceded and succeeded at first). (Do we count post-season homers? It's never come up!)

Well, maybe a game gets out of hand on the plus side, and you want to pull your starting pitcher so you can bring him back faster. The Randy Johnson Maneuver. You put in your back end buttress guy. Vic Black, by the way, not a happy campesino.

Johnson is the Lock of the Week! What can I say? When you're right 52% of the time, you're wrong 48% of the time!

Lefty Specialist wrote: Injuries are always a possibility. A likelihood, even!

Yeah, that makes sense. Sorry. I really don't even want to think about these decisions. Fans, by their nature, make the quickest judgments. And there's going to be 30 days to make 30 judgments by the end of the season. Post-season rosters are for post-season teams, and the Mets ain't one yet.

I don't think it's about composure. The guy was the Mets' closer and doing perfectly all right in that role when he went down. But he's had two consecutive devastating injuries leading to surgery and been out most of two years. Finding yourself again, and finding out what among all your physical tools and all your mental bullshit works for you, and doing it against the best competition in the majors, is a challenge � all while trying to keep those injuries out of your mind, even as you feel the scar tissue popping and wondering if you're reinsuring yourself. And it's more of a challenge for a reliever who gets work on a catch-as-catch-can basis, in situations you can't predict, rather than as a starter who has the parameters of his re-entry tightly controlled.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Okay, the Mets were down 6-0, and Terry probably had Parnell warming up because a game with a six-run deficit is a realistic time to give him an inning to see what he can do. But when the Mets scored four runs, Terry should have shifted gears. It's now a two-run game, and momentum is in the Mets favor, but Terry brings in a pitcher who had a 7.71 ERA in August. When that doesn't work out, he substitutes a pitcher who had a 12.86 ERA in August. The third pitcher of the inning is a guy who had a 5.91 ERA in August. He was managing that inning like a guy who had money on the Phillies. Oooh. Maybe we're on to something.

And the Jays won on walk-off shot also.