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Ollie sets Bill Brasky down looking. And so it continues.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: If MLB were a prison, Kevin Correia would have a "DW" branded on those sweet, new-meat cheeks. What a creepy and awesome thing to say.

David 3-3 tonight, 9-11 off Corriea lifetime. Bing!

Ollie cruising through 4 innings, one hit. It's like he's a pitcher or something.

Kyle Blanks up, who apparently is Bill Brasky reincarnate.

Impressive - Ollie comes back from 3-0 to get the K. Ronnie makes the same observation, this happens so rarely this year for him.

Nice start for the good guys. Let's see if Ollie decides to a) run with it, or shit on it.

I had a 30 minute nap today, and the kids are bedding down early. Gonna watch me some Mets tonight.

Pagan, cf Cora, ss Wright, 3b Murphy, 1b Francoeur, rf Sullivan, lf Tatis, 2b Schneider, c Perez, lhp A-Hern in uniform tonight but Tatis gets the nod at second.

="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr":3cxpzzi8]="MFS62":3cxpzzi8]Chase Michael Pelfrey, 7 lb, 14 oz. I guess CitiBank ran out of money for naming rights. Later[/quote:3cxpzzi8] Were Vic, Rollins and Raul also under consideration? (The LWBetterHalfer and I are planning on using the middle name to double our naming-rights. But, seriously... how the hell did 'Chase' become so damn popular?)[/quote:3cxpzzi8] My wife works in the day care field. You would not believe the travesties being handed out as handles to these kids today. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 07 2009 10:35 AM ="Fman99":2j4k37mw] My wife works in the day care field. You would not believe the travesties being handed out as handles to these kids today.[/quote:2j4k37mw] Highlights? metirish Aug 07 2009 10:38 AM In an odd quirk I am the only one out of six kids in our family that was not given a middle name. John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 07 2009 01:51 PM ="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr":qhlrybrm]="Fman99":qhlrybrm] My wife works in the day care field. You would not believe the travesties being handed out as handles to these kids today.[/quote:qhlrybrm] Highlights?[/quote:qhlrybrm] Lunchpail has a preschool buddy named Cougar. Can you beat that? Edgy DC Aug 07 2009 02:00 PM Somewhere on the internet, perhaps on a western wildlife forum, some wiseacre is cracking that Cougar has a preschool buddy named "Lunchpail." LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 07 2009 02:01 PM ="John Cougar Lunchbucket":1p530wuz]="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr":1p530wuz]="Fman99":1p530wuz] My wife works in the day care field. You would not believe the travesties being handed out as handles to these kids today.[/quote:1p530wuz] Highlights?[/quote:1p530wuz] Lunchpail has a preschool buddy named Cougar. Can you beat that?[/quote:1p530wuz] Does he smoke, and only date infants?

metirish wrote: ="Fman99"]metirish wrote: I'm bailing. Me too, can't do these west coast games on a weeknight. I got no juice. There's that but I had planed to at least watch until 11 , then I see Livan tossing his junk up there and I split , can't do sorry. My downfall was the 2(ish) beers I had during my Thursday afternoon golf league. By 10:30 I was fading, and more alcohol didn't seem like the wisest path. Now, tonight, on the other hand, well, I have higher hopes for.

I voted for "Sixteen Candles," but wouldn't have any qualm with someone who voted for "Breakfast Club" or "Weird Science." If you can't fit Anthony Michael Hall in your movie, and it's 1985, then it's shit. OE: I loved Planes Trains and Automobiles also.

Tatis 1 Dessens .5 Green .5 Cora .5

metirish wrote: I'm bailing. Me too, can't do these west coast games on a weeknight. I got no juice.

I left off "She's Having a Baby," if you're mad about that then punch yourself in the neck please.

I am hoping to see a victory tonight, much like one of the geeky kids in "Sixteen Candles" hoping to sneek a peek at Molly Ringwald's underpants.

Figueroa 3 Parnell 1.5 Pagan 3 Wright 1.5 Cora 1

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HahnSolo wrote: And now it is Figgy time! Wow.

Stokes .25 Santana 1 Pagan .5 Sheffield 1 Murphy 1 Cora 1 Santos 1 Wright .5

Well, jeez, last night got me thinking of all the soul-crushing Mets losses, misplays and self-soilings of 2009. For the misery of the last two Septembers I think they were, at least, your traditional methods of losing. Bad pitching. Failure to hit. Bullpen made of tapioca. Etc. But this year. Holy fucking hell. Watching Jerry boob his way through the 10th like that, plunking guys in, wild pitches, infield pop-ups dropped, missing bases, Fartinez shitting himself lying down on the field in Milwaukee, the list goes on and on and on. And the injuries! Castillo falling down the fucking steps? I don't know how that even happens. So. A little fiction is in order here. What's the next catastrophic mess, either on the field or off, to beset the 2009 Mets? Here... I'll get the ball rolling. The entire Mets team, while filming a commercial (for Ipecac maybe?) in which the entire team jumps in the air in synchronous fashion (like when in "Anchorman," Will Ferrell and his buddies resolve to all go out and buy new suits), all the players simultaneously land badly and break the bones in their legs.

="Edgy DC":10jo8uvo]Ugh. Premature bookage.[/quote:10jo8uvo] Yeah, as soon as the ball left PooHoles' bat. I know, ya gotta believe, yada yada yada, but hell. Edgy DC Aug 08 2009 09:02 AM August 7: The Mets score two in the first and then go into offensive cryongeinic sleep, which is a pity because Oliver Perez turns in his best outing of the year, absoultely dominating the Padres with six innings of non-walky shutout ball. When he falters in the seventh abnd gives up half his two-run lead, Brian Stokes comes in and bails him out huge time. No matter, as Francisco Rodriguez enters in the ninth, has nothing on his fastball, and walks the leadoff batter. Ultimately, he faces five batters, retires none, and tops his appearance by giving up a game-winning grand slam to a mostly punchless shortstop scarcely out of A-ball. Chunky and grumpy ex-Met Heath Bell walks off with the win. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 08 2009 04:52 PM ="Edgy DC":2zh033cf]August 7: The Mets score two in the first and then go into offensive cryongeinic sleep, which is a pity because Oliver Perez turns in his best outing of the year, absoultely dominating the Padres with six innings of non-walky shutout ball. When he falters in the seventh abnd gives up half his two-run lead, Brian Stokes comes in and bails him out huge time. No matter, as Francisco Rodriguez enters in the ninth, has nothing on his fastball, and walks the leadoff batter. Ultimately, he faces five batters, retires none, and tops his appearance by giving up a game-winning grand slam to a mostly punchless shortstop scarcely out of A-ball. Chunky and grumpy ex-Met Heath Bell walks off with the win.[/quote:2zh033cf] Add the aspect of a blown call to let the tying run score that nobody-- save G-Fafif-- is really complaining about, since the BS felt so sickeningly inevitable anyway, and the ump didn't put the leadoff guy on or let Venable whack it, yadda yadda yadda. The 10:05 start always gives a bad west-coast loss five points extra-credit, as well. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 16 2009 11:06 AM 8/15, Giants, 5-4 (10). Let's go through the nightmare scenario checklist: Last man standing/face of franchise/best all-around player during the last four years hit in head by 94-mph fastball? Check. Ace/only Met to believe in roughed up by a free-swinging lineup Bobby Parnell shut down a day earlier? Check. Dongs for insurance and go-ahead runs hit by two players against whom said ace "sent a message?" Check. Gift of blown save (again) from Giant sorta-closer promptly returned? Check. No dropped popups, and not to the Phils/Yanks/Braves, but it's a contender. Kong76 Aug 16 2009 11:18 AM Funny, I was thinking on the subway that the only thing that didn't go wrong was Murphy and Castillo didn't hurt each other in right field on one play. Castillo was limpy for a minute but he's kinda limpy anyway. I hope they shut Wright down for the rest of the season at this point with the team's luck and track record with injuries especially ones to the coconut. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 23 2009 11:04 PM This one[/url:3q7nwdhz]'s got to go in the scrapbook, no? Demoralization early, then increasing interest with the scrapping and the Misching (even as chances get squandered), then the adrenaline rush of the 9th-inning comeback... and the car crash cardiac arrest of the close. And all against our favorite delinquents from down the 'Pike. For a game in which a literal once-in-a-lifetime play delivered the sword stroke to the shoulder blades, what's startling is how routine this feels by now. We're about one game-lost-by-catcher's-interference-followed-by-South-American-football-stadium-style-Pepsi Porch collapse from filling out the "Worst Season Ever" bingo card. metirish Aug 24 2009 07:50 AM Just me but no loss this past month and more warrants being in this thread , nothing surprises , nothing even hurts anymore......it's nothingness . G-Fafif Aug 24 2009 07:52 AM It might be more efficient to start a thread cataloguing which losses aren't the worst of 2009. Tidier anyway. metsguyinmichigan Aug 24 2009 08:04 AM ="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr":7lkl3daw]This one[/url:7lkl3daw]'s got to go in the scrapbook, no? Demoralization early, then increasing interest with the scrapping and the Misching (even as chances get squandered), then the adrenaline rush of the 9th-inning comeback... and the car crash cardiac arrest of the close. And all against our favorite delinquents from down the 'Pike. For a game in which a literal once-in-a-lifetime play delivered the sword stroke to the shoulder blades, what's startling is how routine this feels by now. We're about one game-lost-by-catcher's-interference-followed-by-South-American-football-stadium-style-Pepsi Porch collapse from filling out the "Worst Season Ever" bingo card.[/quote:7lkl3daw] Brilliant! Actually, you're missing the "best player tagged in steroid scandal" box on the card, but the Yankees already filled that one in this year. Benjamin Grimm Aug 24 2009 08:09 AM ="metirish":2gf3l66x]Just me but no loss this past month and more warrants being in this thread , nothing surprises , nothing even hurts anymore......it's nothingness .[/quote:2gf3l66x] I agree. The losses are worse (and the wins are better) when the games aren't meaningless. metsmarathon Aug 24 2009 08:10 AM i'm really not sure if the circumstances surrounding last night's game warrant its inclusion in this thread. i feel its much more of a tip-your-cap kind of loss. this was a different kind of loss than the luis castillo popup. a very different animal. this was no blown save, no missed third base. if the roles had been reversed - the phils down two, two men on, no outs, top nine - they send the runners, castillo moves over to cover the bag, and gets a screaming liner hit right at him... that pops out of his glove as he prematurely looks down to step on the bag for the second out, and subsequently allows both runners to score - well, then it would belong in this thread. history jumped up and bit us on the ass. c'est la vie, i guess... LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 24 2009 09:13 AM ="metsmarathon"]i'm really not sure if the circumstances surrounding last night's game warrant its inclusion in this thread. i feel its much more of a tip-your-cap kind of loss. this was a different kind of loss than the luis castillo popup. a very different animal. this was no blown save, no missed third base. if the roles had been reversed - the phils down two, two men on, no outs, top nine - they send the runners, castillo moves over to cover the bag, and gets a screaming liner hit right at him... that pops out of his glove as he prematurely looks down to step on the bag for the second out, and subsequently allows both runners to score - well, then it would belong in this thread. history jumped up and bit us on the ass. c'est la vie, i guess... Fair point. And I'd be lying if I said this killed me as much as even the Pittsburgh game from June. These games don't sting anymore. But on a lazy Sunday, driving back from southern NJ, Howie and Whatshisface dragged me back somewhat in for a day. Plus, losing to Philly when you've got a legitimate shot at the end that didn't seem at all possible an hour earlier... doesn't it ache something fierce? (Spoiling the Phils is about the only thing I'm really hoping for, Mets-wise, for the season's remainder. Hate is all I have left.) metsmarathon Aug 24 2009 10:08 AM it does. but this is an ache i can live with - an 'oh well, you got me' kind of ache. like when your pitcher puts his pitch right were he wanted to, and the batter still manages to push a soft fly ball into short right field. you do your best, and if they beat you they beat you. its like that pitch vlad hit a week or so ago that actually bounced in front of home plate - i mean, what are you going to do there but say, "damn, he got me there"? dgwphotography Aug 24 2009 01:58 PM ="metsmarathon":1snick2b]history jumped up and bit us on the ass. [/quote:1snick2b] Your 2009 marketing slogan. Edgy DC Aug 24 2009 02:00 PM Well, something has to be 10th. metsmarathon Aug 25 2009 08:22 AM i'm gonna wander out on a limb and suggest that johan santana might well be the worst loss of 2009...

SNY postgame immediately hones in on the bullpen moves in the top of the 10th. And rightfully so.

Frayed Knot wrote: Think about the things that conspired to add up to this clusterfuck. - Pagan misreading Wright's single in the 1st and failing to score - 2 caught stealings - Sheffield's 2 GiDPs - Berroa's error - Cora's error (even though it wasn't scored that way) - Jerry's pitch switching after 1-pitch/1-out - Frankie's worst outing of the year - Feliciano 4-pitch walking someone - Castillo falling down the steps - Green's HBP on the first pitch Yeah don't discount the fact that Jerry only pulled each pitcher in the 10th AFTER they recorded an out.