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IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Frayed Knot Jun 13 2011 10:04 PM

It's past midnight (when we let it all hang out) so I'm within the framework for starting the IGT Niese goes up against Jair Jurrgens Lineups to follow in like 17 hours or so.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 14 2011 01:41 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Bay on the pine again. Reyes Harris LF Beltran Muffy 3B Pagan Duda 1B Thole Tejada Niese

Gwreck Jun 14 2011 01:57 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Harris is apparently 7-14 lifetime + 2 walks against Jurrjens (credit to Rubin via Twitter). I wonder if Tejada at 3rd and Murphy at 2nd is a stronger defensive alignment.

metirish Jun 14 2011 02:04 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Bay on the pine again. What to do with him?, sitting him for a day then playing him for two and sitting him again isn't working.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 14 2011 02:06 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Gwreck wrote: Harris is apparently 7-14 lifetime + 2 walks against Jurrjens (credit to Rubin via Twitter). I wonder if Tejada at 3rd and Murphy at 2nd is a stronger defensive alignment. Or Muffy at 1st, Harris at third and Duda in LF. At any rate, shitty D at the corners, but Niese is our best K man.

Ceetar Jun 14 2011 02:09 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

metirish wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Bay on the pine again. What to do with him?, sitting him for a day then playing him for two and sitting him again isn't working. Well, the idea here is to sit him against those 'really tough' guys figuring he's more likely to 'break out' against someone less tough on him. I personally don't agree, in fact, maybe bearing down to face a tougher opponent helps raise his level of play. Maybe he can have a key pinch hit off Venters or something. Who, btw, always makes me wonder if he has a brother Marvin Gardens.

metirish Jun 14 2011 02:10 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Is that really the idea?, fucking hell if it is, and fucking hell if he agrees with that sort of thinking.

Ceetar Jun 14 2011 02:14 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

metirish wrote: Is that really the idea?, fucking hell if it is, and fucking hell if he agrees with that sort of thinking. I'm just guessing. he's got really poor numbers against JJ.

metirish Jun 14 2011 03:21 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Terry Collins on Jason Bay sitting: “I’m sure he’s annoyed. He’s a pro.” Rubin /Twitter

metirish Jun 14 2011 03:39 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Rubin Bay: “I’m a realist. I’m not playing that well. That’s just the reality of it. Had I been out there hitting .500, I think I’d have a little more reason to have a little more say. "

TransMonk Jun 14 2011 03:43 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Good to hear those quotes by both Collins and Bay.

G-Fafif Jun 14 2011 04:41 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

I'm torn between hoping the Mets win and hoping the Braves lose. What? I can have both? Outstanding!

Ashie62 Jun 14 2011 05:03 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

metirish wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Bay on the pine again. What to do with him?, sitting him for a day then playing him for two and sitting him again isn't working. Could try waivers...lmao..he is washed the fuck up..

smg58 Jun 14 2011 05:08 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

This pocket schedule is brought to you by the letter A.

smg58 Jun 14 2011 05:14 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Gwreck wrote: Harris is apparently 7-14 lifetime + 2 walks against Jurrjens (credit to Rubin via Twitter). I wonder if Tejada at 3rd and Murphy at 2nd is a stronger defensive alignment. Or Muffy at 1st, Harris at third and Duda in LF. At any rate, shitty D at the corners, but Niese is our best K man. Murphy is hard to figure sometimes. He had a lot more minor league experience at third base than Turner, and yet Turner looks perfectly comfortable there. It's not like Harris hasn't made a costly misplay at third, either. I actually like getting Murphy back out there.

Ashie62 Jun 14 2011 05:16 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Wet track?

Edgy DC Jun 14 2011 05:40 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

I think the idea with Bay* should be to gradually decrease his playing time as he continues to fail, and gradually increase it if/when he begins to succeed. I don't think being in the lineup should be an all-or-nothing proposition. *I think it should be the idea with everybody.

TheOldMole Jun 14 2011 05:43 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

SNY feed conked out.

Ashie62 Jun 14 2011 06:00 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

RBI's for Pagan & Duda 3-1 Mets.

Edgy DC Jun 14 2011 06:13 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

A Niesingle is nice. Reyes follows with a 390-foot out.

G-Fafif Jun 14 2011 06:15 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Gary just compared Tejada to Fonzie. /swoon Ron then compared him to a quarterback reading the field, because Ron has a hard time grappling with the Mets' existence from the time he left in 1991 until he returned.

Edgy DC Jun 14 2011 06:22 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Murphy certainly looks fine at third to me. Definitely has the arm. I'd like to go back in time and shake up Jerry for his belief that Murphy couldn't play infield if he couldn't play outfield. I'd like to go back in time in general.

G-Fafif Jun 14 2011 06:36 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Gary slams the Home Depot Tool Race, Atlanta's answer to the sausages and the pierogis. "Heinous," he says. There's a joke about Braves fans in "tool race," but I'll leave it to Fman to execute it.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 14 2011 06:46 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Great BoB for Tejada here.

Edgy DC Jun 14 2011 06:51 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

And Reyes picks him up one pitch after getting knocked down.

Edgy DC Jun 14 2011 06:53 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Willie Harris looks like a nu man. Mean, ugly, determined.

Edgy DC Jun 14 2011 06:55 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

These Bravo announcers are joking about giving Reyes the rest of the series off.

Lefty Specialist Jun 14 2011 06:59 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

George Sherrill looks like the town drunk in a bad '60's sitcom.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 14 2011 07:09 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

When Hawky achieves cruising altitude... it's a tremendously comforting feeling, innit?

Edgy DC Jun 14 2011 07:13 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Strange but true. Also a good feeling: getting a the first pitcher knockout of the series. It's like whoever goes to his bullpen first is a great bet to lose the series. And Thole gets his first knock.

Edgy DC Jun 14 2011 07:20 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Oh, boy, celebrating Flag Day with some tomahawk chanting.

Edgy DC Jun 14 2011 07:22 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Man, does he have confidence in his bender or what? Throwing two 3-2 curves to the leadoff batter here and punching him out. OE: Then Prado goes out and futilely throws is lumber at it.

Edgy DC Jun 14 2011 07:26 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Terry goin' to the pen.

Ashie62 Jun 14 2011 07:27 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

I object..strenuously.

Edgy DC Jun 14 2011 07:30 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Get Beato out of there.

Edgy DC Jun 14 2011 07:31 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Thanks.

metirish Jun 14 2011 07:33 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Gary "Terry Collins has not managed many Mets games here at Turner Field but even when things are going good danger lurks"

Edgy DC Jun 14 2011 07:36 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

McCann goes down lookin'. The Byrd is the wyrd.

Edgy DC Jun 14 2011 07:38 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Not comfortable with Byrdak staying in to face the righty.

Edgy DC Jun 14 2011 07:40 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Byrdak to EDC: Get comfortable with this, old man.

Edgy DC Jun 14 2011 07:52 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

That sure looked back-to-back to me.

Fman99 Jun 14 2011 07:52 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

I hate the in-game interviews with the pitcher. Leave that shit for Ojeda and DJ Chunky.

themetfairy Jun 14 2011 07:53 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Uggla homers off of Izzy to make this a one run game. Larry looked like he was going to tie the game, but Beltran made a nice catch for the second out of the 8th, and then ends the inning with a ground out.

Ceetar Jun 14 2011 07:58 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Fman99 wrote: I hate the in-game interviews with the pitcher. Leave that shit for Ojeda and DJ Chunky. I'm okay with it, but the random reliever that pitches to two batters? eh. If Niese pitches 7 scoreless in a 1-run game or something, sure.

Ashie62 Jun 14 2011 08:01 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Fman99 wrote: I hate the in-game interviews with the pitcher. Leave that shit for Ojeda and DJ Chunky. They missed the Uggla HR. It has become the Kevin Burkhardt reality show.

Frayed Knot Jun 14 2011 08:03 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

We're allowed to get extra-base hits too, right?

Ashie62 Jun 14 2011 08:03 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

I hope this isn't another effort where RISP blows it.

Edgy DC Jun 14 2011 08:07 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Tough pitches against Tejada there.

Ashie62 Jun 14 2011 08:08 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Krod says Shit your Hunter Pants.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 14 2011 08:09 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

It seems the 9th is "Corner Bonus" Inning in the Cuzzi strike-zone pinball machine.

Edgy DC Jun 14 2011 08:12 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

One out.

Fman99 Jun 14 2011 08:14 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Frankie punching out batters like they were inlaws.

Edgy DC Jun 14 2011 08:14 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

And... two. Let's do the do.

Ceetar Jun 14 2011 08:14 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Edgy DC wrote: One out. two actually.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 14 2011 08:14 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Hoo. Whee. Frankie packed the Nastyman shizz on this trip here, didn't he?

Ashie62 Jun 14 2011 08:15 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

BOOK IT>

Frayed Knot Jun 14 2011 08:15 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

... and Joe Mather as the game-ending out.

Ceetar Jun 14 2011 08:15 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

screw you Braves, take one.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 14 2011 08:16 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

EAT MOR CHANJ-UPS

Frayed Knot Jun 14 2011 08:19 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Philly kicking Florida's ass in the 7th - so it looks like 3rd place before the night is out. Hanley back for the Marlins but not enough so far. Washington (with Zimmerman back) up 8-6 on Saint Louie in the 8th.

Lefty Specialist Jun 14 2011 08:21 PM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Fman99 wrote: Frankie punching out batters like they were inlaws. I choked on my Pepsi at this.

G-Fafif Jun 15 2011 02:22 AM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Judging by the sounds I made when Reyes knocked in Tejada after Jurrjens down down Reyes, I'm pretty sure I was having a Metgasm.

bmfc1 Jun 15 2011 04:58 AM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Ashie62 wrote: Fman99 wrote: I hate the in-game interviews with the pitcher. Leave that shit for Ojeda and DJ Chunky. They missed the Uggla HR. It has become the Kevin Burkhardt reality show. "Where is Guys! Now? Is he in the bleachers, the photographer's booth, outside the locker room, the broadcast booth? He could be anywhere! Tune in to SNY at 7 PM tonight and find out where Guys! is. You can also watch the Mets play the Braves." SNY strains to find as much for Guys! to do as possible. What they don't realize is that it detracts from the game which is what we are there to watch. If they want to make Guys! the star of the post-game, fine. If they want to make him the #2 announcer in the radio booth, fine. But SNY is handling this very badly. Just let us watch the Mets.

G-Fafif Jun 15 2011 06:43 AM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

In the 2011 remake of the 1985 classic Just One of the GUYS!, Kevin "Guys!" Burkhardt goes undercover as a useful part of a regional sports network's broadcast team until everybody finds out that it's all just a charade and his saturation presence couldn't be any more useless. Well, it could be, but that's for the sequel, Just One of the GUYS! I was talking to Dan Warthen before the game and he told me something really interesting about the way Tim Byrdak has changed his bullpen routine, as Brian McCann doubles into the gap off R.A. Dickey...Tim now stretches, then throws and then stretches again...McCann is caught off second...Dan says Tim really gets a little extra boost that helps him against righthanded batting...McCann rounds third and is racing for the plate...and we're seeing the results of that change of routine in outings like Tim had Tuesday when he got the Mets out of that jam in the seventh with two on and one out...McCann is out at the plate...GUYS?

Ceetar Jun 15 2011 06:45 AM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

I'd prefer less than more though I do like Burkhardt. He does call the action usually while he's doing the interview, which makes you think he'd rather be watching the game too.

metirish Jun 15 2011 06:51 AM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

G-Fafif wrote: In the 2011 remake of the 1985 classic Just One of the GUYS!, Kevin "Guys!" Burkhardt goes undercover as a useful part of a regional sports network's broadcast team until everybody finds out that it's all just a charade and his saturation presence couldn't be any more useless. Well, it could be, but that's for the sequel, Just One of the GUYS! I was talking to Dan Warthen before the game and he told me something really interesting about the way Tim Byrdak has changed his bullpen routine, as Brian McCann doubles into the gap off R.A. Dickey...Tim now stretches, then throws and then stretches again...McCann is caught off second...Dan says Tim really gets a little extra boost that helps him against righthanded batting...McCann rounds third and is racing for the plate...and we're seeing the results of that change of routine in outings like Tim had Tuesday when he got the Mets out of that jam in the seventh with two on and one out...McCann is out at the plate...GUYS? funny , the action does seem to pick up when kevin has the mic that's for sure....

Frayed Knot Jun 15 2011 06:55 AM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Remember that there was some other outfit that wanted to hire Burkhardt a year or two back but Mets/SNY wouldn't let him go or share him. Maybe as a result there was some sort of promise made to him of more air time.

Ceetar Jun 15 2011 06:56 AM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Frayed Knot wrote: Remember that there was some other outfit that wanted to hire Burkhardt a year or two back but Mets/SNY wouldn't let him go or share him. Maybe as a result there was some sort of promise made to him of more air time. Perhaps. They let him call a lot of the Spring Training games too.

Edgy DC Jun 15 2011 07:16 AM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

They can give him pre-game/post-game, let him do an interview during an inning break, or bring his sideline subjects up to the booth where the regular announcers can interrupt him for action. Or let them interrupt him and cutaway anyhow. Anyhow, sole possession of third place and passing Florida in the Wild Card standings as well, without the benefit of power, is a good night's work. Next up is another crack at Pittsburgh.

bmfc1 Jun 15 2011 07:18 AM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Frayed Knot wrote: Remember that there was some other outfit that wanted to hire Burkhardt a year or two back but Mets/SNY wouldn't let him go or share him. Maybe as a result there was some sort of promise made to him of more air time. I think FOX wanted him for a Saturday game and SNY said no.

Ceetar Jun 15 2011 07:22 AM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Edgy DC wrote: Anyhow, sole possession of third place and passing Florida in the Wild Card standings as well, without the benefit of power, is a good night's work. Next up is another crack at Pittsburgh. Is Tim Hudson's nickname Pittsburgh? .500?

Edgy DC Jun 15 2011 07:29 AM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Just doin' some standings watching.

Ceetar Jun 15 2011 07:31 AM Re: IGT - Mets @ Braves; 6/14

Edgy DC wrote: Just doin' some standings watching. Ahh. I wasn't expecting to think about Pittsburgh again this year.