Edgy MD

Gotta watch out for that double play here.

2-0. SWING! Or TAKE!

This is on my I-don't-understand-the-terms-of-the-poll list.

B-Mets in Bowie tonight with yours truly in attendance after sitting out a 90-minute delay at the start. Saw the Beamers fall behind 4-0 after one after a series of seeing-eye hits, and then chip back with the benefit of two well placed shots by DH Mike Baxter. Bottom of the third, Josh Barfield, slumming from his big-league days, manages to do what I thought a righthanded hitter couldn't do, pull a liner liner over the far end of the third-base dugout. I was in row B and gloveless, with the ball whistling for a spot vaguely between my eyes. Nowhere to go, I had time for a micro-second assessment of my life, a quick prayer (the contents of which was "B..."), and to note the distinctive J with which Eastern League Commissioner Joe McEacharn signs his name. I dove for cover, certain that it was the last of my many undignified acts on this planet. But somehow I heard the clank of the ball striking an iron rail behind me, and slowly emerged from my wife's cleavage, shocked but certain that the ball had somehow vaporized and passed through my skull only to materialize on the other side. (It was Superhero Night.) Dozens of Baysox fans --- already wearied by my expatriate New Yorker act but not wishing me so much harm as all that --- stared gape-mouthed at my still-shaking body. What could I do? I got to my feet and yelled, "I HATE, you, Josh Barfield!" and moved back ten rows. It was already a late night, the rain was picking up, and we have morning plans, so we cut out (rather pathetically) after the third inning. On our way out, I had more or less the same conversation three times. "Aren't you the guy that almost got hit?" "Yeah, that's me." "How did that ball miss you?" "I'm still not sure it did." Bingo down 7-4 after seven. Gonzalez Germen was lifted after the first, but among the parade of relievers that followed was C.J. Nitkowski with a scoreless inning.

Hairston up as the tying run. Muff and Davis to follow.

Wright needs to get on to get us a hacker's chance.

But that got it done. One-run game.

Not sure I'd go with Nieuwie. Too many whiffs.

Gotta get Murphy home.

Action! Tying-run-to-the-plate action!

That double-play wasn't depressing. Neither was that whiff of Kennedy. Let's get active. Let's active.

An 0-2 single for Juan Rivera in the eighth. This is one slow-assed game.

There's an Alfonzo moment!

And Treanor (second greatest athlete in the family?) breaks an 0-23 slump with an RBI hit of his own. That's three runs driven in by the banjo gang (the dgang gang). My new invention is a compartment under the stands for tucking the tarp away. Rolled up tarps should not interfere with caroms, say I.

Bay hits us back into this game! Swan Swan H wrote: This is excruciating. Batista has nothing, Capuano looks good, and I'm surrounded by all manner of amateur comedians who think that yelling 'Harvey' at full volume is either clever or helpful. I'd take it easy on the beer and keep my fists in my pocket.

A two-run, two-strike hit to a guy who's 1-36. Crikey.

Two out walk to Wright. Hopefully Capuano finishes innings like Batista.

It's been his pattern as a starter this year. Crappy beginning and he settles down. Let's hope that holds.

"Things Fidel Castro might have said as a baseball player!"

Well, (1) that rotation may never happen, and (2) there's still time to achieve 20-games-outness.

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Looks like Johan to the DL. Looks like Harvey is inevitable.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I think your definition of sexy isn't the same as mine. Vive la difference!

Oooh, I dare you to find me a sexier ballplayer than Q in an O hat wearing his O face. Q joins Rottino as two guys in other organizations hoping to get a chunk of Mets post-season money. Traded To Baltimore For Future ConsideratonsInfielders =#0000FF]6 Omar Quintanilla DoB: 10/24/1981

bmfc1 wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: I getting sick of these hard-fought, one-run losses. Aren't one-run losses supposed to even out? Are they? I don't think so.