Open Thread - Game 96: Mets vs Reds
by Eric Simon on Jul 17, 2008 6:03 PM EDT
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what did they give up?
i hope a lot, but i don’t recognize the prospects. Drat.
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 7:40 PM EDT up reply actions
looks like the Mets won't get Sexton
the Yanks are set to sign and re-juice him.
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 7:40 PM EDT up reply actions
This game...
...may decide if I splurge for the 1/2 season cable package. (I live in Mass only get sporadic games on Fox and ESPN).
"It's Father's Day today at Shea, so to all you fathers out there, Happy Birthday." -- Ralph Kiner
well today marks the first day
us cable subscribers have got the privilege of choosing between home and away broadcasts. So I can watch SNY. The dish folks regularly get this gift while we cable folks suffer. So maybe they are trying to woo you.
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 7:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Stop complaining
The poor mlb.tv people like me have that idiot Jeff Brantley telling us about all his opinions about our players.
"I got my pregnant wife (the Yankee fan) with me. Hoping my kid learns to kick her everytime the Mets score." -Schifftis-
hey i paid my mlb.tv dues
so buffering I buffering have buffering the buffering right
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 7:58 PM EDT up reply actions
the Mets are laying down tonight, and their personel is all setbacky
looks like there won’t be any Angels in the outfield for a while
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and ...El Duque pulls another Moises Alou
or is it the other way around?
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 8:05 PM EDT up reply actions
i didn't but...
i appreciate the opportunities his signing gives us for gallows humor
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 8:12 PM EDT up reply actions
Anybody watching the game on SNY
Am I the only one who tastes bile when I see those stupid “Jeter’s got an edge” commercials?
To be fair I taste bile whenever Jeter is mentioned.
The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.
those commercials cause me to say many petty things
“jeter? that guys got herpes”
the fact that they’re marketed to sny crowd says something, but i don’t want to speculate
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 8:16 PM EDT up reply actions
According to the measurement on Google Earth...
It’s about 580 feet to the river. So probably not that far.
Santana can't possible be tired
not only did he have the allstar break off, but he barely threw last game.
Buck up, pal.
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 8:25 PM EDT up reply actions
not vintage Endy
and def not vintage Santana
that was a pathetic display of pitching
and lousy defense. i didn’t expect to be disgruntled so soon into the second half.
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I don't blame Endy
That was a rocket off of the bat and the fact that it somehow stayed in the air and got over Endy’s head is a testament to Jay Bruce’s incredible strength.
Give Bruce props, leave Endy alone.
If we are to be angry at anyone, let’s be angry at Johan who is throwing batting practice.
Now let’s go out and get some runs!
"I got my pregnant wife (the Yankee fan) with me. Hoping my kid learns to kick her everytime the Mets score." -Schifftis-
well i just think if we're gonna hype Endy when he is good...
he got a terrible read and misplayed a catchable ball. that is the difference in the game, no?
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 8:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Even the best fielders in the world
occasionally make mistakes. If it was anyone besides Bruce I think Endy catches that. No one else on the Reds has that kind of bat speed.
"I got my pregnant wife (the Yankee fan) with me. Hoping my kid learns to kick her everytime the Mets score." -Schifftis-
Um.
Anyone else think taking Endy out of the game is a little odd?
Seeing as Tatis is a terrible defender.
EAMUS METROPOLI!
He wants the pitchers spot
due up second in the batting order.
"I got my pregnant wife (the Yankee fan) with me. Hoping my kid learns to kick her everytime the Mets score." -Schifftis-
endy looked kinda like tatis on that last one
wonder if J-Man is punishing him, or if its a bullpen/order thing like the sny guys are saying
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 8:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Nice play
Reyes.
"I got my pregnant wife (the Yankee fan) with me. Hoping my kid learns to kick her everytime the Mets score." -Schifftis-
Other things besides innings that Joe Blanton eats up a ton of:
Bacon cheeseburgers
Chicken wings
Ice cream
anyone see the Batman movie yet?
was looking forward to it after the last installment, but three things have derailed me.
1 a not great review in the new yorker
2 all this heath ledger hype is a bit hard to take
3 the indiana jones experience i had
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I'm seeing it tonight at midnight.
Er. Midnight West Coast time.
I’m really, really, really excited.
Really.
EAMUS METROPOLI!
I agree with all of this
and number 3 most oa all. Indy was dreadful!!
i hated that movie from the first second
and the only thing that kept me awake was the anticipation of seeing Jarjar Binks. And I loved Indiana Jones too and was predisposed to enjoy it greatly. Lucas, Speilberg, Alf, and whoever was involved with that and other starwars like crimes should be deported.
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 9:17 PM EDT up reply actions
I was thinking the same exact thing.
I was thinking Taco Bell.
Possibly.
Something drive-thru.
EAMUS METROPOLI!
SAN LOCO.
We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!
by kingcritical on Jul 17, 2008 10:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Tatis turning around what was a nice night so far eh?
Sexton and Blanton land with the enemy, ElDuque and Pagan are setback, Pedro’s getting a cortezone shot, Santana thought this was batting practice.
Then Tatis does it again. He has revived this team some nights all by himself and should get mad props.
ps anyone else get nervous (if not annoyed) when Delgado does the airborn hip bump with castro? He’s gonna get hurt that way.
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What a great swing by Tatis
That’s the first meatball the Mets have gotten a hit on in the game. Mostly popups.
"I got my pregnant wife (the Yankee fan) with me. Hoping my kid learns to kick her everytime the Mets score." -Schifftis-
i guess everyone knows this but
if the Mets can hang on, they get a share of first!!
it’s a nice thought.
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hey here's a question
If he ends up pissing them off for good, should the Mets sign a 36-7 year old Manny next year?
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Only if Manny is playing first base
With a flyball tendency pitching staff save for Smith and Pelfrey, and if we retain Ollie and Pedro which are possibilities…Manny would screw us so badly.
If Omar remakes the pitching staff to be primarily groundball pitchers and gets competent defenders for second and first, then yeah I could live with Manny doing his best statue imitation in the left field of Citi Field.
"I got my pregnant wife (the Yankee fan) with me. Hoping my kid learns to kick her everytime the Mets score." -Schifftis-
they can still change the dimensions of Citi's left field to accomodate manny
and I don’t mean just adding a restroom
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 9:33 PM EDT up reply actions
They're not going to change the dimensions to accomodate Manny
Not for his defense anyways.
"I got my pregnant wife (the Yankee fan) with me. Hoping my kid learns to kick her everytime the Mets score." -Schifftis-
Alright Pedro Dos
Wriggled off the hook.
Now lets get some more runs right here.
"I got my pregnant wife (the Yankee fan) with me. Hoping my kid learns to kick her everytime the Mets score." -Schifftis-
Am I wrong?
Or is it still true that the Mets have not come back from a deficit of three runs or more this year?
also
his hit just now, aside, Why is Marlon Anderson still on this team?
He's signed through next year
That’s the only reason. I think Omar is desperately trying to get anyone to take him for next year but very rarely do you see owners allow their GMs to waive players with another year left on their contract. It just rarely rarely happens.
"I got my pregnant wife (the Yankee fan) with me. Hoping my kid learns to kick her everytime the Mets score." -Schifftis-
Who are you talking to
And what are you talking about?
"I got my pregnant wife (the Yankee fan) with me. Hoping my kid learns to kick her everytime the Mets score." -Schifftis-
I have no idea.
Keith said that Tatis had done a perfect job in the outfield.
To Err Is Human, To Forgive Is A Mets Fan.
Ah
Thanks for explaining yourself, I’ve got the FSN-Ohio feed with Jeff Brantley making his own inane comments.
Tatis has not been good in the outfield, but he’s been decent.
"I got my pregnant wife (the Yankee fan) with me. Hoping my kid learns to kick her everytime the Mets score." -Schifftis-
what's up boys?
Just got home from rehearsal. Sounds like Heilman is in a bit of a spot. How did the Reds score five in an inning?
We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!
Back to back homers
Then I started drinking and I can’t remember the rest.
To Err Is Human, To Forgive Is A Mets Fan.
Dunn+ Encarnacion
Went back to back, then Bruce hit a screaming line drive RBI double to right with runners on first and second, that Endy maybe should have caught, then Keppinger cleared the bases with a triple to left-center.
"I got my pregnant wife (the Yankee fan) with me. Hoping my kid learns to kick her everytime the Mets score." -Schifftis-
Wow. Thanks.
We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!
by kingcritical on Jul 17, 2008 10:02 PM EDT up reply actions
ah shit.
Two strikes and a bases-clearing double. Ugh.
We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!
Not to mention
Tatis nowhere near that ball.
"I got my pregnant wife (the Yankee fan) with me. Hoping my kid learns to kick her everytime the Mets score." -Schifftis-
Hey
Don’t say all the relief when Muniz and PedroDos both pitched well.
Heilman was pitching decently until asked to intentionally walk votto then he fell apart.
"I got my pregnant wife (the Yankee fan) with me. Hoping my kid learns to kick her everytime the Mets score." -Schifftis-
It seemed
like you were blaming all the bullpen.
"I got my pregnant wife (the Yankee fan) with me. Hoping my kid learns to kick her everytime the Mets score." -Schifftis-
it seems like you read into everything and take things a bit literally
not to mention seriously.
lighten up, you’re a mets fan!
ps falling apart is falling apart.
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 10:14 PM EDT up reply actions
David Ross
has been on base too much tonight
Tatis!!
Reds want no part of him. Can’t blame them with useless Schnider coming up
he's not entirely useless
someone has to shine Castro’s enormous helmet
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 10:16 PM EDT up reply actions
whoops i stand corrected
he is entirely useless
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 10:17 PM EDT up reply actions
you can't speak soon enough
We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!
by kingcritical on Jul 17, 2008 10:17 PM EDT up reply actions
well
last time I insulted Brian, he had that two run double against the Phills, arguably the biggest hit of the season so far. Tonight I insult him and… not so big
He looks contemplative, not sad.
Contemplative panda?
What a joke Diaz became in that inning. Two of the strikes to Schneider were balls the entire game, two of the pitches to Evans weren’t strikes the entire game either.
"I got my pregnant wife (the Yankee fan) with me. Hoping my kid learns to kick her everytime the Mets score." -Schifftis-
Agreed.
The K zone widened tremendously.
by JohnPeterson on Jul 17, 2008 10:22 PM EDT up reply actions
awwwww.
somehow, i knew you were googling sad panda.
that’s how i looked when i realized wifey has a meeting and no one is bringing my supper. and stormy weathers just put the mets down like a little baby.
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 10:21 PM EDT up reply actions
goddammit.
the south park panda.
ugh.
stupid….freakin’......stuff.
To Err Is Human, To Forgive Is A Mets Fan.
write the SNY booth for starters
No sooner than Keith just finished a long lecture on how great Shownblow has been this year, Blowsie put the game out of reach in all probability
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 10:23 PM EDT up reply actions
And I quote:
“He’s played a good outfield, he’s out of position playing the outfield, a third baseman by trade and he’s done a perfect job in the outfield defensively.” – Keith Hernandez.
Ah the wonders of TiVo….or something very similar to it.
To Err Is Human, To Forgive Is A Mets Fan.
Keith is just blowing smoke up everyone's ass tonight
to be fair. It’s almost like he went to Fox broadcasting day camp over the break
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 10:34 PM EDT up reply actions
As long as it takes Major League Baseball
to realize the umpires need to be reviewed by an independent authority and be forced to keep high standards instead of calling games like drunken sailors.
"I got my pregnant wife (the Yankee fan) with me. Hoping my kid learns to kick her everytime the Mets score." -Schifftis-
Would really like to win this
if only to shut down the inevitable chatter about how the All Star break killed the Mets momentum
LOL
I think he was trying to eat the ball. David saw he was hungry and tried to deliver it to him.
To Err Is Human, To Forgive Is A Mets Fan.
haha
if i was a broadcaster that’d be my signature call: “it’s deep, it’s going, and David Wright has hit the Fat man, David Wright has hit the fat man!!”
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 10:37 PM EDT up reply actions
maybe. I mean no offense to fat folks.
i plan to be one myself one day. I extend this apology to Joe Blanton.
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 10:42 PM EDT up reply actions
There is no need to apologise to Cupcakes.
He’s a Phillie now.
To Err Is Human, To Forgive Is A Mets Fan.
BOOM!!
Great Home run but also terrific at-bat by A Reyes!! Is this kid supposed to be good?
not really
we plucked him from the indians. he’s already 25, but all he’s done for us perform so say give the dude a shot.
OH!
i thought Dick Pole vaults when he visits the mounds.
i got nothing.
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 10:46 PM EDT up reply actions
Carlos B and D-Ease setting it up
Let’s see what Carlos D can do here.
We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!
everyone coming up big tonight
Everything is coming up Mets!
We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!
I heart Delgado.
Until he does something to make me angry.
To Err Is Human, To Forgive Is A Mets Fan.
this is what I'm talking about
This is the baseball I’ve been missing for about a year now. Love it.
We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!
by kingcritical on Jul 17, 2008 10:42 PM EDT up reply actions
I love Everything too.
But Everthing is near and dear to my heart.
To Err Is Human, To Forgive Is A Mets Fan.
There was something in the air tonight!!
The Mets stars were bright!! Fernando!!
just woke up
it was 8-6 reds, i started checking my fantasy league stats after waking up from a wonderful nap and then it’s 8-8 w/a d. wright home run!
are we for real or what?
now we’re winning! un damn believable! feels like it’s 1969 gang!
"DUDE..."
by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jul 17, 2008 10:43 PM EDT reply actions
i don't believe mine eyes.
i just don’t get the hate i see towards Tatis..What more could one ask from this sTATIStically improbable hero?
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do you believe in miracles?
"DUDE..."
by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jul 17, 2008 10:45 PM EDT up reply actions
i actually saw those games
i’m old.
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 10:47 PM EDT up reply actions
i had some ice...
but it melted…
do you believe (that)?
"DUDE..."
by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jul 17, 2008 10:52 PM EDT up reply actions
nah commemorative
i tell everyone its real of course
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 11:01 PM EDT up reply actions
phenomenal use of the word sTATIStically
you’re one bright homo sapien
"DUDE..."
by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jul 17, 2008 10:46 PM EDT up reply actions
if anyone is watching the game on mlb.tv
can you hear the drunk (or happy) mets fans? it’s hilarious!
"DUDE..."
by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jul 17, 2008 10:49 PM EDT reply actions
you can hear the lets go mets chants
i take it the reserved folks of cincy are feeling a bit overwhelmed
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 10:50 PM EDT up reply actions
i bet marge schott's dog
is turning over in its grave.
"DUDE..."
by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jul 17, 2008 10:51 PM EDT up reply actions
in pictures
i always had a hard time telling them apart
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 10:52 PM EDT up reply actions
oh now i remember
the dog was the one NOT giving the Nazi salute!
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 10:54 PM EDT up reply actions
You know who's got an edge?
THE NEW YORK METS, THAT”S WHO!!!
yeah i can't believe they doubled up on that commercial
just as we are on a high!
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions
is it me or....
does it seem that anyone named JOEY VOTTO should be wearing a Yankees jersey?
"DUDE..."
by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jul 17, 2008 10:53 PM EDT reply actions
Agreed
But not actually *for* the Yankees, mind you. Just hanging out in a bar with many gold chains.
and lots of chest hair!
"DUDE..."
by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jul 17, 2008 10:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Put it in the books.
First-place Mets, muthasuckas.
We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!
TWO DOWN!
nostrodamus computes the chances of winning at 99.99999%
"DUDE..."
by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jul 17, 2008 10:55 PM EDT reply actions
Put it in the books
LETS GO METS.
"I got my pregnant wife (the Yankee fan) with me. Hoping my kid learns to kick her everytime the Mets score." -Schifftis-
i bet the gang will all celebrate w/some pints of...
coca cola at a local bar.
"DUDE..."
by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jul 17, 2008 10:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Eric could you please post a picture
of a Happy Panda???
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 10:57 PM EDT up reply actions
J-Man doing the handshakes in the congrats line
Willie never learned them secret shakes and fist bumps
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er those were supposed to be happy
but they look like pandas at a flute recital
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 11:00 PM EDT up reply actions
And what kind of sound does a flute make?
A happy sound, that’s right.
by JohnPeterson on Jul 17, 2008 11:12 PM EDT up reply actions
it says here
the Phillies just CHOKED away their lead!
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by itsmetsforme on Jul 17, 2008 11:01 PM EDT up reply actions
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