Zvon

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: "You DO bring me, Flores!" --Duda and Lagares Ha...I rarely would interject in the negative but that was a pretty bad one. lol.

Edgy MD wrote: That's a form of showboating that I don't want to see from him. I don't see that as showboating. I see it as a desperate measure in a desperate time. Meanwhile, MOIPHY!! If he had a chance, yea. But in this case he was just going thru the motions in an 0-0 game. Laggy drives in run # 2

Edgy MD wrote: I'm down with Keith. I see plenty of fans who hate their team. I may hate the players or the owners or the manager, or I may hate the way things are going, but you will never get me to say I hate the Mets.

MUFFY!!! Best hitter alive! WRIGHT!!! The captain keeps it going. Lucas....

Ugh. Laggy, I know what you were doing there but that was stupid. Man in scoring position. Shame on you Juan. You think he would have kept the runner at first if he hadn't doven? Dived? Doved? I didn't really get that impression. Oh I did. Or a play at second.Keith tells us this team is worth liking. Thanks, Keith. When he said that I was thinking: wtf Keith? All us fans like the Mets. That's why we are fans. But I know what he means. Hernandez is almost one of us. DAMN! Curtis almost hits one out. Pence always looks scared.

If Pablo scored I would have been VERY upset with Lags. Like I was up there^. I'm okay now. Now I'm not. That's a form of showboating that I don't want to see from him. He knew there was no way he could catch it. He could have kept it to a single and he should have. Done. I'm okay again.

Ugh. Laggy, I know what you were doing there but that was stupid. Man in scoring position. Shame on you Juan.

Undeniably foul as computer simulations will show if someone bothers to make one.

Whoa!

UGH. It was BULLSHIT. That's fuckin crucial in a game like this. Dagggggnabbitt.

Bullshit. Or maybe not. I was looking at the pitch, one no one should ever swing at.

Wow.

Zip-iddy-Duda.

Peavy can't keep this up.

Walks don't kill on their own, so we are still in good shape. NOW PUMMEL PEAVY. Or just slap him around. Or draw a walk. Do something.

EYoung robs another possibility. Nice catch there. I wasn't so sure E was going to catch up to that one either. Very nice. Looking at Lags catch again. He wasn't even looking the ball into his glove. He stuck it up there above his head and was already preparing to run into the wall.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: For those who missed it. As usual, so much tougher than he made it look. The leap and grab directly over his head. I don't know that a catch gets any more difficult than that. And yea, he did make it look smoooo000OOOoooth. Lots of fielders can pull em back in, or track one down, but only very few can make that play.

Holy crow, what a catch. I didn't think he would reach that for nothing. Especially after cutting towards left a bit before he started straight back. I saw some extra giddy-up there. I may be over reacting but I think that's one of the best catches he's ever made, and he's made some amazin' ones.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Zvon wrote: Zvon wrote: I was saying what should be banned is bowling over the catcher.... But a catcher in possesion of the ball is allowed to block the plate. In that instance, a runner should be allowed to bowl over the catcher. If I was a catcher, and I had possession of the ball and there was enough time --- wanna know what I'd do? I'd sit on the plate and cover it with my ass. And then I'd put my throwing hand inside my mitt, to hold the ball firmly in place. Is that against the rules? I think this new rule is ridiculous and unnecessary. I even said before it's worked out some runner will break a leg because of a moment of stupid decision, or indecision. Of course a runner should be able to bowl over the backstop IMO. He's the backstop. His job is to keep the plate away from the runner. As the rule stands now you would be in the wrong. Somewhere inside the rule is a force that wants catchers to never block the plate, and always apply a sweep tag.

Zvon wrote: I tuned in to the game when Sandy was talking about the blocking the plate rule, and I missed most of that. Just got the very tail end. I'll have to replay that later- that sounded interesting. Just listened to this. I totally disagree with Sandy. And if he's on the rules committee it's no wonder no one knows whats going on. I was joking about a guy rounding third and having an open lane (at that point) and he was being serious about it. Did Sandy play the game? The business about the "must slide" was interesting. I think I brought that up before but I didn't know that it was set up that way in an earlier, discarded version of the rule. I don't think I meant what they did though. And I'm not saying I endorse this either. I was saying what should be banned is bowling over the catcher and/or going in elbows up or out, and a runner can have two choices. Sliding in feet first or wussin out ahd standing there and being tagged. In other words, only feet first sliding allowed. I'm not a fan of this way either but if their priority is to cut out collisions at the plate wouldn't that do it?

Zvon wrote: I tuned in to the game when Sandy was talking about the blocking the plate rule, and I missed most of that. Just got the very tail end. I'll have to replay that later- that sounded interesting. Just listened to this. I totally disagree with Sandy. And if he's on the rules committee it's no wonder no one knows whats going on. I was joking about a guy rounding third and having an open lane (at that point) and he was being serious about it. Did Sandy play the game? The business about the "must slide" was interesting. I think I brought that up before but I didn't know that it was set up that way in an earlier, discarded version of the rule. I don't think I meant what they did though. And I'm not saying I endorse this either. I was saying what should be banned is bowling over the catcher and/or going in elbows up or out, and a runner can have two choices. Sliding in feet first or wussin out ahd standing there and being tagged. In other words, only feet first sliding allowed. I'm not a fan of this way either but if their priority is to cut out collisions at the plate wouldn't that do it? (I'm going to also post this in the other thread)

batmagadanleadoff wrote: No sideways cards. They mess up my visual stream. Sorry they were so big. Would that "fimg=" command up there re-size the image?

Duda: 1.5 Lagares: .5 Niese: 1.5 Black: 1