Edgy MD

Six innings and 85 pitches. I know Gee is batting second, but let him. LET HIM!

Had no notion that this was a day game. GO METS!

smg58 wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Understandable that the bullpen would be gassed. You can send the starters out a day or two early when the travel schedule is brutal. You don't get that luxury with the bullpen. In retrospect, maybe sending out for a fresh arm or two might have been warranted. David Aardsma hadn't pitched in six days, and had come into the game with a 1.12 ERA and currently has a .462 OPS against lefthanded batters. Yeah it's a small sample size, but in what universe is Josh Edgin the better option to finish the inning? If Aardsma could get Chad Tracy to pop out, why was pitching to Denard Span unacceptable? I guess in the universe where getting same-side matchups trumps going with the guy who was already in the game, was pitching effectively, and had generally been the better pitcher for you. "Yeah," Terry might say, "he got Tracy, also a lefty, but Tracy has been hitting terribly all year. Span's been merely eh. " And you might come around with, "Well, if the matchup against Span is so golfarned important, why not switch one batter earlier and double down on the matchup happiness?" And Terry'll just come back with how much he liked Aardsma's sinker, and was hoping to get two outs out of Tracy on a GiDP. "Sides," Collins will add, "Johnson was sending up Tracy really to psyche me into taking Aardsma out of the game, and then once Terry went with the lefty, Johnson would call Tracy back, pat him on the ass, and then send up Lombardozzi, or Mary Tyler Moore, or Copernicus, and really own that matchup." "Kobernus," you'll correct him. "Kobernus," Terry will agree. "I wasn't going to play Davy's little game." And then you'll say, "GOOD FOR YOU, COWBOY! You didn't blink! So WHY did you blink when the next batter came up?!" "Because SPAN'S THE BETTER HITTER!" Terry will scream. "What the hell is wrong with you?!" "He's not that good!" you'll come back with. "And there's no reason to raise your voice." "And you're not raising your voice?!" Terry will come back with. "Is that your act? Provoke me and then act all victimized when I come back at you?" You sum it up then. "Span sucks. You made him plausably unsucky by going with a suckier pitcher." "We're just giong in circles," Terry will lament, throwing up his hands. "Besides, I leave Aardsma in there against the lefty, and that lefty, Span, does what lefties do, and turns Aardsma around with a drive into the corner, while my lefthanded specialist is cooling his heels in the pen, you'd still be killing me this morning." You'll shake your head. "I would not. It would've been the right move." "WELL ONE OF YOU OTHER **********S WOULD!! You never let up." At this point you'll know you have the advantage, and you'll calmly raise one eyebrow, Spock-like. "'**********s,' Terry? Have I stumbled into famed holdout bastion of homophobia that is the big league clubhouse?" "Grfufflebub..." he'll mumble. "Don't like it, you can leave." "Excuse me?" you'll confidently ask. "I didn't GET that last statemnt." "GET... OUT..." Terry will say. He'll puff himself up like the bantam rooster that he is. But his heart isn't in it. "LOOK," you'll say, all filled with it-gets-better righteousness and the confidence that Dan Savage has your back, "I didn't back down from Frank Howard, and I'm not about to back down from you." And just as Terry's about to come up with a pathetic "Oh, YEAH...?!" Anthony Recker interrupts and offers you a signed picture. "Um... YEAH!" you'll respond with sudden glee. "Me, too!" Terry will say, waiving his hand frantically. "ME TOO!"

Baseball can build you up one day and the next you have to climb a stepladder to stroke a snake. --- Juanito Pesky

Trading for a journeryman squatter is easy as squat. The Mets got Shoppach for Beato after the trade deadline last year. The trick is identifying which one will make a difference. Parnell was working his third straight night in a third city in a third time zone. Maybe the right play might have been having two fresh and bushytailed relievers from Vegas meet them Denver, sending two down, and sending two ahead to New York from Chicago.

Understandable that the bullpen would be gassed. You can send the starters out a day or two early when the travel schedule is brutal. You don't get that luxury with the bullpen. In retrospect, maybe sending out for a fresh arm or two might have been warranted. Continued failure to bring their best selves home with them is a big deal, though. Seems to really keep the fans from getting behind them.

It ain't about Harvey, folks.

Buttloaded bases and Zimmy up. Boos.

Bat like Wright, Satin!

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Thanks for swinging 3-0, Desi.

Laggy! Laggy! His bunts are draggy! He sometimes gets the extra-baggy.

Triples make Harvey angry.

Young scores on a double by Byrd! WE SHOULDA TRADED HAIRSTON!

And it's a tired issue, and any guy who sees Byrd almost singlehandedly turn a loss into a win with his offense and his defense, and decides to use it as a reason to re-animated the we-shoulda-traded-Hairy beast has his persepective seriously askew.

No, it's me posting.

Valdespin is the backup shortstop. Wright's the emergency guy. And they certainly would do a callup if Quintanilla got hurt. And probably Lutz would be the guy sent down.

Desmond atones for his error.

I would've pinch-hit for Quintanilla. Grand slam Harvey NOW!!!!

Ashie62 wrote: I would have pinch hit for Buck. You've got to make the call before the strikeout. No points.

Not lucky, Bucky.

Indeed we do. Two-and-one.

You can't have Harvey without Desmond!

Kapowie!

Let's plate this sexy young cub NOW!!!!