Zvon

Frayed Knot wrote: Zvon wrote: HA! Cabrera didn't even try to touch home plate afterwards. Awww man. We don't know if that was the reason for the non-reversal or not - but it's just another flaw in the whole system. He didn't touch the plate afterward because he was called out and it's simply not logical to play the game as if each call made needs to be ignored like it never happened. They are tryin' to ruin our game F.K.!

Frayed Knot wrote: Zvon wrote: Wow, that was a [crossout]ballsy[/crossout] stupid send by Tueffel. The way we aren't scoring? Cabrera isn't the fastest and that low ground view did make it look stupid, but I wanted him to try.

HA! Cabrera didn't even try to touch home plate afterwards. Awww man.

Wow, that was a ballsy send by Tueffel. It should be 2-1. Not reversing that call was a travesty my friends.

WHAT!! what the fuck do u have a challenge for!!!!!!!!!!!--the replay shows he never transferred it and they still call him out!!! WTF!!!!

Frayed Knot wrote: What's this now, three different games this week with no hits or just one hit through the first six? Someone's got to figure out how to get a hit here. Too many famines in too little time. Not good. TC said right at the get-go that this team will live and die by the longball. And I thought: don't be saying that TC, you have some power guys and some contact guys. But then everyone started hitting homeruns and I shut up. Whoa, that woke me up. And that was small ball. He did not make the transfer! Challenge!!!!

Damn! These pesky Padre position players! Cespedes is robbed by a fired up Kemp.

6th inning. We can score 2 runs. Come on!

Ugh, Flores, straddle the bag...let the ball come to you. Ronnie says bad throw. I disagree, bad play Wilmer. GAH! RBI single by that Jay guy.

d'Kong76 wrote: Bunt the ball towards third a few times, shift stops.. Do they consider it bad baseball etiquette or something, not to do that?

batmagadanleadoff wrote: d'Kong76 wrote: I'd just lay down a bunt against the shift until they stop. But that's just me. You would think. Some of those shifts, it looks to me like the batter can bunt for a double. Oh, me 3. If no one is on the left side tight, yea, I think I would bunt until they stop. Why doesn't one of these players today just do that?!

batmagadanleadoff wrote: d'Kong76 wrote: I find it hard to believe that professional guys, like Duda, can't slap a pitch to left field against the silly shift. That's why shifts work. That's also why there's so much luck in baseball. Because the action revolves around the batted ball, and the batters, by and large and to a great extent, can't control where the batted ball goes. It's tough enough just to hit the ball. And to the extent that some batters have some control over where the ball goes, it's not nearly the kind of control or precision that, for example, a basketball player needs to sink a free throw or a quarterback needs to complete a pass 30 yards downfield. Otherwise, there wouldn't be shifts. Ever. True, and good point. But the best hitters can adjust to a pitch. Now playing in an actual game, all bets are off because of the human factor, the pitcher's stuff. But in batting practice a good hitter will practice spraying them all around and try to apply that to the game. We don't see that much today. Not at all from the sluggers. Sluggers have one swing and that's all they think they need. To me that makes for a one dimensional hitter. We see too many hitters doing that these days. Meh, it's part of today's game.

d'Kong76 wrote: I find it hard to believe that professional guys, like Duda, can't slap a pitch to left field against the silly shift. Yesterday Gary said something about TC saying that Duda was hitting to left with authority. He has hit to left, but not with authority imo. He won't "go" to left. He'll go to right and swing late. He's not changing his swing or weight shift, or lead foot. Just swinging late, sometimes chopping, sometimes blooping to left. If that's the only way he can do it, so be it, I'll take it. Cause it does work from time to time. But I wish he had a swing just for going to left. Don't swing late as much as shift your weight later, let the swing & your hips follow that. Square some up that way.

If I was Thor I'd want Rivera catching my games all the time. And the way our catching has been going we just might see that.

Whoa! Rivera gets my attention. Niiiiice!

Fman99 wrote: I didn't realize until nearly 9 PM that it wasn't a 10:10 start. I'm generally pretty soused by 10:40, but I'm fighting the good fight. Love the brown and yellow uniforms. LGM I thought 10:10 too. Bastages. Also like the unis. And I want to see the Mets go with the new chic flat blue helmet look.

Ha. I missed the scoring. Looks like good baseball. Double, advance on groundout, Sac fly. One of these two teams is playing good baseball. 1-0 Fathers

I'm awake Gary! I have half a cup of coffee. Anymore than that I'll be up all night. I'm planning on hotdogs at midnight.

10:40!

d'Kong76 wrote: I don't remember eating Maypo when I was a kid, but I remember that there were a lot of commercials for it. (I was born in a house with the television always on)... [youtube]hoU09xdPkbs[/youtube] Ditto, recall the name and commercials. I'm not even sure what it was (or is). Just the name though...Maypo. I couldn't get past that.

I think you've mentioned that in the past. Dude, that cards awesome.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: [fimg=333]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7091/26237761103_a27e45dd28_o.jpg[/fimg] Is this a real card? Glossy maybe? I'm not a fan at all of the '86 Topps design but that is one beautiful looking baseball card.

MLBtv has these baseball clips from the past: "..and they're timing Colon with a sundial!" Howie Rose as Colon hit a liner that went all the way to the centerfield fence. Bartolo just barely got a double.

As does Walker. Lost. Sad. A feast or a famine with this team. Fortunately, so far, more feasts. But this one sucked.