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IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

G-Fafif Apr 07 2011 03:35 PM

Shake it off, get it going, make your best Dickeyface.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 07 2011 03:37 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

I've been involuntarily making my best Dickeyface for the last 90 minutes. But, yeah, let's pick it up. Bobbleheads, y'all!

metirish Apr 07 2011 05:58 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

What it means to the man http://m.espn.go.com/general/story?stor ... ocalId=nyc

Willets Point Apr 07 2011 06:12 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Gray skies are gonna clear up, Put on a Dickey face; Brush off the clouds and cheer up, Put on a Dickey face. Take off the gloomy mask of tragedy, It's not your style; You'll look so good that you'll be glad Ya' decide to smile!

Ceetar Apr 07 2011 06:50 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

why yes, I'll be at the back of section 511, why do you ask?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 07 2011 09:00 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Hail Caesar's! (307)

themetfairy Apr 07 2011 09:07 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Hail Caesar's! (307) See you there!

Edgy DC Apr 08 2011 06:58 AM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Who's pitching today? [youtube:37fekkby]-hzI_aBATO8[/youtube:37fekkby]

TransMonk Apr 08 2011 07:07 AM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

G-Fafif Apr 08 2011 09:36 AM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

The Fellas: Reyes - ss Pagan - cf Wright – 3b Beltran - rf Davis – 1b Harris - lf Emaus – 2b Thole - c Dickey - p

metirish Apr 08 2011 09:45 AM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Over 2000 tix still available for the game according to a tweet.

Gwreck Apr 08 2011 10:06 AM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

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The Second Spitter Apr 08 2011 10:36 AM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

The Second Spitter Apr 08 2011 10:41 AM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Gwreck wrote: --- What you really meant to say .... Gnationals Ian Desmond, ss Jayson Werth, rf Ryan Dylan, 3b Adam LaRoche, 1b Michael Morse, lf Rick Ankiel, cf Danny Espinosa, 2b Ivan Rodriguez, c Jordan Dylan, rhp

Frayed Knot Apr 08 2011 11:02 AM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

The Second Spitter wrote: Gwreck wrote: --- What you really meant to say .... Gnationals Ian Desmond, ss Jayson Werth, rf Ryan Dylan, 3b Adam LaRoche, 1b Michael Morse, lf Rick Ankiel, cf Danny Espinosa, 2b Ivan Rodriguez, c Jordan Dylan, rhp What's with them going Zimmerman-less? Or, maybe more importantly, how about the fact that they lose a Zimmerman and come up with a Dylan as a replacement? Shirley Gammons has got to be all over this one before the day is out.

TransMonk Apr 08 2011 11:13 AM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

The Second Spitter Apr 08 2011 11:24 AM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Emaus back to 68?

Edgy DC Apr 08 2011 11:49 AM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Probably more like a new clubbie working off an outdated roster.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 08 2011 11:57 AM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Charlie Samuels wouldn't have let that happen! (Unless he had already sold the EMAUS 4 sign on eBay, of course.)

bmfc1 Apr 08 2011 02:03 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

SS--nice job with Bob Dylan, or should I say Robert Zimmerman.

bmfc1 Apr 08 2011 02:07 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

I'll give credit to Nationals TV--they showed a tape of Ralph throwing out the 1st pitch. I thought that they'd ignore anything Mets-related.

metirish Apr 08 2011 02:09 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Damn , this game is starting?......I assumed it was a night game....missing all the intros....shit.

bmfc1 Apr 08 2011 02:11 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Phew!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 08 2011 02:12 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

1st pitch pins harris to the fence.

Edgy DC Apr 08 2011 02:13 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Somebody unpin him!

bmfc1 Apr 08 2011 02:14 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

I have Howie and Wayne on the computer with the Nationals TV (I'm in DC) because I won't listen to THAT MORON Bob Carpenter... geez, the WFAN broadcast booth now has a sponsor--I can't make fun of the MFY radio team for that anymore.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 08 2011 02:15 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

1-2-3!

Edgy DC Apr 08 2011 02:16 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Twee up, twee down.

TransMonk Apr 08 2011 02:16 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Zimmerman down with the K.

bmfc1 Apr 08 2011 02:17 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Ralph Kiner is trending on Twitter and that's in part to this tweet: @Metstradamus: Ralph Kiner throws ceremonial first pitch. Jeff Francoeur swung and missed.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 08 2011 02:19 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

bmfc1 wrote: I have Howie and Wayne on the computer with the Nationals TV (I'm in DC) because I won't listen to THAT MORON Bob Carpenter... geez, the WFAN broadcast booth now has a sponsor--I can't make fun of the MFY radio team for that anymore. Peerless builds America's best boiler.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 08 2011 02:19 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Reyes leads off with another inf. single. Must get him around this time.

Edgy DC Apr 08 2011 02:20 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Leadoff single, you broadcast booth haters.

Edgy DC Apr 08 2011 02:21 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Gameday indicates that about 10,000 people are simultaneously crossing Shea Bridge.

Edgy DC Apr 08 2011 02:23 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Gotta swing eventually, Angel.

TransMonk Apr 08 2011 02:27 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Man on second with no-outs and he is stranded. Nothing in baseball irks me more. GRRR.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 08 2011 02:29 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Five straight 1st innings Reyes led off by reaching base: Scored in only one of them.

Edgy DC Apr 08 2011 02:30 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Batting averages of those due up this inning: Adam LaRoche: .167 Michael Morse: .111 Rick Ankie: .158 Those are your 4-5-6 hitters.

bmfc1 Apr 08 2011 02:34 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

1st and 2d--based upon the above taunting post, any runs are on Edgy.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 08 2011 02:35 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

bmfc1 wrote: 1st and 2d--based upon the above taunting post, any runs are on Edgy. Came here just to make that point myself. Jesus, man.

Edgy DC Apr 08 2011 02:36 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Yeah, I know. Didn't mean it as taunting. Dickeymon all over the place.

TransMonk Apr 08 2011 02:36 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Single, walk, walk loads the bags for pitcher Zimmerman.

Edgy DC Apr 08 2011 02:37 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

On me.

Nymr83 Apr 08 2011 02:37 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

and the fucking pitcher burns us on, on the 0-2 pitch no less.

TransMonk Apr 08 2011 02:37 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Ugh.

bmfc1 Apr 08 2011 02:38 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

There must be punishment.

Edgy DC Apr 08 2011 02:38 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Donning my hairshirt now.

Willets Point Apr 08 2011 02:43 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Crumbpustule.

bmfc1 Apr 08 2011 02:45 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

SWINGTHEFRIGGINGBATS!

TransMonk Apr 08 2011 02:46 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Our good guys all down on strikes to Cy Dylan.

TransMonk Apr 08 2011 02:55 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

The knuckler is having a hard time finding the paint today.

TransMonk Apr 08 2011 02:57 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Dickey up to 55 pitches after 3.

metirish Apr 08 2011 02:59 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

TransMonk wrote: Dickey up to 55 pitches after 3. Thankfully the pen is well rested.

metirish Apr 08 2011 03:11 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Hagin is just weird, it's lke I never know what the count is or how many outs there are with him......" Thole didn't like that call and Randazo rings him up", yet the at bat continued and Thole hung in there for a good at bat.

TheOldMole Apr 08 2011 03:14 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Dickey's art work is pretty good.

TheOldMole Apr 08 2011 03:14 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

In fact, he's channeling a little Edward Hopper.

TransMonk Apr 08 2011 03:25 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Wright double, Carlos groundout, Ike SF. That's one run back...I need more.

bmfc1 Apr 08 2011 03:28 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Snooki is at the game: http://plixi.com/p/90593461

TransMonk Apr 08 2011 03:29 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Sharing the fandom of my team with Snooki makes me dumber.

TransMonk Apr 08 2011 03:41 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Dickey lets up single, single, single...and then walks in a run. Double play helps him out of the 5th. 3-1 bad guys.

TransMonk Apr 08 2011 03:49 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Duda with a pinch-hit double! We get that run back.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 08 2011 03:54 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Spell THAT backwards, Jon Heyman!

TransMonk Apr 08 2011 04:00 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Double-seven with a scoreless frame. We need more runs, O!

bmfc1 Apr 08 2011 04:12 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

I like Ike but he takes way too many 2 strike pitches. He needed to foul that off.

A Boy Named Seo Apr 08 2011 04:40 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Mets win expectancy after the Thole/Em?u5 walks was 53.0% After the Hu sac bunt, it was just 53.5%. After the Reyes K, 36.2% After Pagan grounds out, 23.1% B I F L

bmfc1 Apr 08 2011 04:51 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Moving an extra runner into scoring position but giving up an out only improves the win percentage by .5? What a waste of an out, especially since the team is cold.

bmfc1 Apr 08 2011 04:57 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Look what happens when you put the bat on the ball. Geez, the season is officially underway--I'm pissed at the Mets.

A Boy Named Seo Apr 08 2011 05:17 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

bmfc1 wrote: Moving an extra runner into scoring position but giving up an out only improves the win percentage by .5? What a waste of an out, especially since the team is cold. Yes. In that situation anyway. I was a little surprised, too that it was basically a wash.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 08 2011 07:02 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Very 2010 of the Mets again today. So far that's a grand slam and two multi-RBI hits by the opposing pitchers in bases loaded situations this year. Generally shitty execution with guys on and an especially bad night for Pagan. Last game it was Thole who had a bad offensive night when we didn't need him to. It's already looking like a disease. Not that things couldn't change and change quick, but that was a game the Mets ought to have given themselves a better chance to win. Very angry with the poor execution, and way to torture those fans who came early, excited, in a cold drizzle, only to get 3 1/2 hour buttfuck.

Gwreck Apr 08 2011 07:06 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

I was extraordinarily disappointed in the bunt play in the bottom of the 7th, for several reasons: 1. Bunting is for losers 2. If we are really going to bunt, we should use Pelfrey or Niese and not a bench player 3. After being ahead in the count on Emaus, Gaudin issued a walk and then promptly walked Thole 4. If the pitcher isn't throwing strikes, why give away free outs? 5. We had Murphy available on the bench 6. Gaudin is right-handed 7. There was no lefty ready in the Nationals 'pen 8. Bunting is for losers --- While announced as a sellout there were a lot of empty seats, and not just because people went to the clubs or were walking across the Shea bridge at the same time, although Gameday does have that accurately portrayed, as it is consistently overcrowded there. Boos in the opening day introductions, for those that care, were for Pelfrey and Rodriguez. Beltran even got a smattering of boos mixed in with cheers. Big cheers for the Wrights and Reyeses but also for Chris Young, Angel Pagan and Daniel Murphy. Ralph looked great. Jose might have struck out with those two runners on but he really saved Dickey in the bottom of the 5th with that really nice stop on the ball in the hole and then getting the DP. Bases were loaded then and without that DP we wouldn't have been in the game as we were until the 8th.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 08 2011 07:09 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Howie tried explaining away not using Muffy by saying it was too early still.

Gwreck Apr 08 2011 07:09 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Howie was wrong. If Murphy gets a hit there, we have tied the game with 2 men on and nobody out with the top of the lineup coming up. It was the 7th! What exactly was he waiting for? The bottom of the 9th with 2 outs?

Frayed Knot Apr 08 2011 07:40 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

And if Murphy rolls into a GiDP there it's a killer. Look, I'm generally and loudly with the BiFL crowd but I could go either way on this one. It's not like bunts are NEVER worthwhile, just that the knee-jerk variety is frustratingly moronic and out-dated Plus ... - it was the 9th slot up - it did get the tying and go-ahead runs into scoring positions - it did take away the DP potential - it was a weak-hitter bunting into the stronger part of the line-up and not the Jerry method of the other way around and it saved the better PH for later on in what was at the time a one-run game (blame the pen for why it didn't stay that way) - if ONE ball gets out of the infield (or past the catcher) and it's a tie game. Two and we're in the lead. I could make several arguments for not bunting also I just don't think this one was a clear bad call. The one thing I would have done was have Hu square but take a pitch first seeing as how the pitcher had fallen behind on both previous hitters. Bunting the first pitch, particularly when it wasn't in the strike zone, did the Nats a favor there. And if he had gotten ahead I'd have taken the bunt off and probably tried a H-n-R. Anyway, obviously it was the 9 walks (or was it ten?) that killed us. Not sure that the Nats hit more than 3 balls hard in the entire game (mostly Ankiel) but with all the free passes we were actually lucky to get away with as few runs as we did. That Reyes play saved 2 right there plus there still would have been two on and one out. And maybe we should hold off a bit before we declare Bobby P ready to step in as the next closer.

Ceetar Apr 08 2011 07:44 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

The thing with the bunt is, why Hu? Why burn what's presumably a 'hitter' when you've already got a pitcher up? And if you don't trust the reliever, fine, use Pelfrey or Niese or Young or Capuano. but no, that was merely one key moment, not the defining one.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 08 2011 08:28 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Hu almost beat out that bunt. Not that that makes it a good play, but I'm just saying. I too was concerned about Murphy doing a GIDP, but I would have been inclined to give him his hacks there.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 08 2011 09:08 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 08 2011 11:00 PM

Hu almost beat out that bunt the way that a semi-fast runner almost beats out a routine grounder. Which is to say, it was close to the hopeful eye, but not all that close, really. Had seats next to an HD monitor with the SNY feed; the ump's strike zone was all over the place-- Zimmermann got strikes at the knees for the first few innings that Dickey didn't, and then the zone seemed to swell and recede at various points during the rest of the afternoon. Of course, the Mets' control was at least as chaotic as the home-plate calls, so... T'was a real shame to give away so many free passes on a day when the defense, by and large, came to play. Jose's inning-ending diving DP to stanch the bloodflow in the fifth got the loudest cheers of the afternoon. (OE: Pagan's over-the-shoulder catch in the ninth was even better, but, well... it came in the ninth.)

themetfairy Apr 08 2011 10:15 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Watching Ralph throw out the ceremonial first pitch was truly awesome -

Ceetar Apr 08 2011 10:37 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

themetfairy wrote: Watching Ralph throw out the ceremonial first pitch was truly awesome - Best pitch thrown all day.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 08 2011 10:43 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Reminiscent of Shea days, CitiField concession stands were understaffed/overwhelmed-- I almost missed Ralph's pitch, and DID miss the Duda double while waiting for hot dogs and beer at a restricted-access food vendor.

Ceetar Apr 08 2011 10:48 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

different angle

Ceetar Apr 08 2011 10:50 PM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Reminiscent of Shea days, CitiField concession stands were understaffed/overwhelmed-- I almost missed Ralph's pitch, and DID miss the Duda double while waiting for hot dogs and beer at a restricted-access food vendor. yeah, they weren't quite up to snuff. If i recall last year, they got better. Opening Day, weren't in a rhythm or something. I was going to get a Keith's Gold Glove Burger, but ultimately decided to wait for a quieter day.

Frayed Knot Apr 09 2011 06:59 AM Re: IGT 4/8/2011: WAS @ NYM -- Welcome to Dicki Field

Ceetar wrote: The thing with the bunt is, why Hu? Why burn what's presumably a 'hitter' when you've already got a pitcher up? And if you don't trust the reliever, fine, use Pelfrey or Niese or Young or Capuano. but no, that was merely one key moment, not the defining one. The thing about using pitchers to bunt is that they're frequently not very good at it. Obviously the reason they're called upon to try most often is due to a lack of hitting skills not an automatic skill in bunting. You're also more likely to have someone up there with less strike zone command while virtually erasing from the defense's mind even considering the bunt being taken off or defending against a hit-and-run. I don't think any of us have seen enough of Hu yet to know if he's any good at laying one down and certainly that should factor into the decision. As a light-hitting, speedy middle IF-type one tends to assume he'd have some skills there and, in the end, his final result was almost good enough to beat out although his first attempt looked somewhat awkward. Bottom line is I just don't see this particular bunt call as a by-definition dumb decision. Like I said, I would have had Hu taking pitches at least until a strike was thrown and would have tried something else if he worked himself into a favorable hitters count. Remember also that those win expectation numbers quoted earlier consider the odds only in a generic sense (and, even then, improved things a shade) and don't factor in that the team's two fastest players who are also among their better hitters are coming up. Blame should go MUCH more to the fact that neither guy could even get the ball out of the infield not to mention the whole walk-a-thon authored by just about everyone wearing pinstripes yesterday.