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IGT 9/30/10: Mets vs. Brewers?

Benjamin Grimm Sep 30 2010 03:01 PM

I believe that this is only the second IGT I've kicked off this year. But... will the game be played? [quote="National Weather Service"]Late Afternoon: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. High near 78. Breezy, with a south wind around 21 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Tonight: Rain and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Low around 66. Breezy, with a south wind 19 to 22 mph decreasing to between 11 and 14 mph. Winds could gust as high as 55 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between 2 and 3 inches possible.

Kong76 Sep 30 2010 03:07 PM Re: IGT 9/30/10: Mets vs. Brewers?

As I told tmf by email before, 2-3 inches of rain is like 2-3 feet of the fluffy white stuff. That's a lot of water.

G-Fafif Sep 30 2010 04:07 PM Re: IGT 9/30/10: Mets vs. Brewers?

Play fast, fellas. 7 Jose Reyes SS 27 Jesus Feliciano RF 16 Angel Pagan CF 5 David Wright 3B 19 Mike Hessman 1B 21 Lucas Duda LF 13 Mike Nickeas C 11 Ruben Tejada 2B 35 Dillon Gee RHP

Edgy DC Sep 30 2010 04:22 PM Re: IGT 9/30/10: Mets vs. Brewers?

Hessman!

G-Fafif Sep 30 2010 04:31 PM Re: IGT 9/30/10: Mets vs. Brewers?

Tallest position player on the team. By the fifth inning they'll be using him as a lightning rod.

Edgy DC Sep 30 2010 05:43 PM Re: IGT 9/30/10: Mets vs. Brewers?

In a DP sit., Gee gets two grounders to Wright but he goes for one on the first and the second bad-hops off his glove.

Ashie62 Sep 30 2010 06:19 PM Re: IGT 9/30/10: Mets vs. Brewers?

I'm shocked.

Frayed Knot Sep 30 2010 06:48 PM Re: IGT 9/30/10: Mets vs. Brewers?

And yet another inning that goes from 2-out/none-on to runs for the opposition. That these came via a dropped pop makes it even worse.

Kong76 Sep 30 2010 06:50 PM Re: IGT 9/30/10: Mets vs. Brewers?

Grinds my grits when Reyes tries to hit a three run homer with no one on down by three ... you'd think by now, uuuh, never mind ...

Kong76 Sep 30 2010 06:56 PM Re: IGT 9/30/10: Mets vs. Brewers?

If I was sitting in the front row, I wouldn't be suffocating myself under an un-funny paper bag head no matter who was playing or what venue I was at.

Ashie62 Sep 30 2010 07:09 PM Re: IGT 9/30/10: Mets vs. Brewers?

Gee looks good. Duda has an RBI, Wright has his 100 RBI's and Beltran is done...Super!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 30 2010 07:46 PM Re: IGT 9/30/10: Mets vs. Brewers?

Anyone hear Howie's regrettable rant on pythagorean wins? C'mon, Howie. It wouldn't kill you to try and understand something new.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 30 2010 08:09 PM Re: IGT 9/30/10: Mets vs. Brewers?

Working hard to be more embarrassing than Howie.

Edgy DC Sep 30 2010 08:51 PM Re: IGT 9/30/10: Mets vs. Brewers?

[quote="Kong76":1ald4r2z]If I was sitting in the front row, I wouldn't be suffocating myself under an un-funny paper bag head no matter who was playing or what venue I was at.[/quote:1ald4r2z] Feeling sorry for yourself in the front row. Some peepers need some punching.

Frayed Knot Oct 01 2010 08:06 AM Re: IGT 9/30/10: Mets vs. Brewers?

[quote="John Cougar Lunchbucket"]Anyone hear Howie's regrettable rant on pythagorean wins? C'mon, Howie. It wouldn't kill you to try and understand something new.

Didn't catch it, what was his problem?



G-K-R were lightly dissing Sabermetrics a couple nights ago although not as bad as in some previous cases.




I know last night was ALL his fault, but can any reliever go from making batters look silly to not being able to get anyone out as quickly as Sean Green?
Of course part of his problem is that he's hit 4 guys in 8 innings this season, also 13 in his last 77 IPs. If one were to include those HBPs into a pitcher's WHIP (to more truly measure the rate of base-runners allowed) Green's already high 1.48 during his 1-plus seasons as a Met becomes an even uglier 1.65
His biggest strength and biggest problem seems to be that he has no idea where the ball is going.



Bags over the head was somewhat funny some 3 decades ago when (my first memory anyway) Colts (Dolts!) and Saints (Aints - for 'We Aint scorin' and we Aint winnin') fans were doing it.
That time is long past.

Edgy DC Oct 01 2010 08:19 AM Re: IGT 9/30/10: Mets vs. Brewers?

For the sake of a grain of perspective, the Saints were a winless team going into their next to last game (when they beat the Jets in the snow). The Mets are a near-.500 team.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 01 2010 08:55 AM Re: IGT 9/30/10: Mets vs. Brewers?

[quote="Frayed Knot"][quote="John Cougar Lunchbucket"]Anyone hear Howie's regrettable rant on pythagorean wins? C'mon, Howie. It wouldn't kill you to try and understand something new.

Didn't catch it, what was his problem?


It was awful. Started with a discussion of Jose Bautista's massive yoy increase in HRs, then Howie mentioned a similar thing happened to Davey Johnson in 1973, then they mentioned that team had 3 40-homer hitters, but briefly confused them with the 77(?) Dodger team that had 4 30-homer hitters (both teams had Dusty Baker). That prompted Maj or Schweibacher to pass along some info to Howie who just went off --

(paraphrasing now)

"Now this thing comes an Internet site called BaseballReference.com. It says the 73 Braves finished 76-85 but had a pythagorean record of 83 wins! Like some math whiz uses geometry to say how much they should have won! That's like saying the 2010 Mets should win 110 games! Can you believe this? I'll never understand how some people can say this. I get hives just thinking about algebra..."

I got out of the car at that point.

Edgy DC Oct 01 2010 09:07 AM Re: IGT 9/30/10: Mets vs. Brewers?

Howie's been embarassing me the whole second half with that jive. And I'd really like someone to get down and explain it to him slowly. No, Howie, it's not like saying the 2010 Mets should win 110 games, it's like saying that a typical team who produces and prevents runs at the rate of the 2010 Mets, would have 79 wins, rather than 77. Now repeat that back to me Howie. Algebra makes my skin crawl! It's not alctually algerbra. Repeat that back to me Howie. It's like saying a typical... Listen, I don't own a slide rule, OK! Baseball is played on grass... with real people! Get out of your mother's basement! The idea that anybody who covers baseball for a living has to speak about baseball-reference.com as if it's some mysterious place he doesn't know where he hears strange things are done that we can't speak of --- it's so disappointing. It's called "baseball-reference" because it's a reference site. A site where facts are stored. Like facts that distinguish between the 1973 Braves and 1977 Dodgers. (ugh.) I guess the reason I'm not as down on Wayne Hagin as others (though I'm still pretty down) is that I think I find him closer to Howie than y'all. Living outside of the FAN listening area, I didn't get as much of Howie's best years with Cohen. But man.