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IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Frayed Knot Jun 24 2011 07:55 AM

One more game in the drive for five (hundred) Note that the starting time is 8:05 PM, or 7:05 if you're already in the Central Time Zone, 9:05 for those of you in Nova Scotia Pelfrey faces LHP Matt Harrison [5-6; 3.16; 1.27 WHiP] - part of Texas's haul obtained in trading Mark Teixeira to Atlanta. Game time weather is expected to be approximately 98 degrees with zero chance of rain. Tomorrow's weather is expected to be approximately 98 degrees with zero chance of rain. Sunday's weather is expected to be approximately 98 degrees with zero chance of rain.

Ceetar Jun 24 2011 01:25 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

ugh, 8:05. I was totally timing my evening for Happy Hour->Pick up pizza on way home to arrive at 7:05.

TransMonk Jun 24 2011 02:00 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Reyes SS Turner 3B Beltran RF Bay LF Hariston DH (initmidating, ain't it?) Paulino C Pagan CF Murphy 1B Tejada 2B

Ceetar Jun 24 2011 02:19 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

TransMonk wrote: Reyes SS Turner 3B Beltran RF Bay LF Hariston DH (initmidating, ain't it?) Paulino C Pagan CF Murphy 1B Tejada 2B I'd have put Duda there. or if it's Hairston, Beltran.

Edgy DC Jun 24 2011 02:20 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Ceetar wrote: ugh, 8:05. I was totally timing my evening for Happy Hour->Pick up pizza on way home to arrive at 7:05. Pick up whiskey on way to pizza. Pick up barfly on way to whiskey. 8:05 should work out.

Ceetar Jun 24 2011 02:22 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Edgy DC wrote: ugh, 8:05. I was totally timing my evening for Happy Hour->Pick up pizza on way home to arrive at 7:05. Pick up whiskey on way to pizza. Pick up barfly on way to whiskey. 8:05 should work out. I've been told I should cook the sausages in the fridge, not get pizza. Maybe I shoudl stop and get some Texas Toast.

metirish Jun 24 2011 02:46 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Kinsler - 2b Andrus - SS Hamilton - CF Beltre - 3b Young - DH Cruz - RF Moreland - 1b Torrealba - C Murphy - LF Harrison - P nice lineup there

Edgy DC Jun 24 2011 03:11 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Trying to get Beltre going by flopping him in the middle there. He's not deserving it this year.

Rockin' Doc Jun 24 2011 05:02 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Beltre is far deserving of hitting clean up on a MLB team this season than the black hole that's in the middle of the Mets line up tonight.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 24 2011 05:39 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Rockin' Doc wrote: Beltre is far deserving of hitting clean up on a MLB team this season than the black hole that's in the middle of the Mets line up tonight. Put beautifully. I'd like to see Paulino behind a couple of on-base-y types against lefties.

Ashie62 Jun 24 2011 05:54 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Texas is good and the extreme heat is a home field advantage.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 24 2011 06:15 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

i'm at the Lehigh Iron Pigs game tonite. In left field for the Charlotte Knights, Lastings Milledge. This team is also managed by Suupa Joe McEwing.

Ashie62 Jun 24 2011 06:17 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Way to work a 3-0 count Baysuck.

Ashie62 Jun 24 2011 06:20 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Nice non catch Bayfuck.

Ashie62 Jun 24 2011 06:26 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Fuck you too Pelfrey 3-0 Texas

metsguyinmichigan Jun 24 2011 06:29 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Pelfrey seems to be the player who lets me down the most. Seemed like the bigger the game, the more he crumples. Not that this is a HUGE game, but riding a two-game win streak and closer to .500 it would be nice to get it. And he goes and pukes up a three-run dinger in the first.

bmfc1 Jun 24 2011 06:32 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

It's bad enough that the Mets are losing but SNY keeps showing GW Bush. Please stop!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 24 2011 06:38 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

rangers can score, still plenty o time.

Ashie62 Jun 24 2011 06:45 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

bmfc1 wrote: It's bad enough that the Mets are losing but SNY keeps showing GW Bush. Please stop! At least its not Obama.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 24 2011 06:51 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Excuse me, waiter? I think you brought me the Politics Flame War by mistake? I could've sworn I ordered an IGT. Could you... thanks, I appreciate it. [Meanwhile, a nice/lucky K by Pelf pisses on the Ranger rally.]

Fman99 Jun 24 2011 06:58 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

It's WPIX, not SNY. Believe me, I know. Thanks to MLB Extra Innings and Verizon, amazingly, the Mets/Rangers game is the only MLB action being played today that isn't available in my house. FML

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 24 2011 07:07 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Tonight, between errors, ill-advised pitch chasing, and falling over while making outs, Jose's looking a little like what his detractors used to say he was, in the days before JoseSlag was criminalized. (Not to mention the dam-ned SMILING!)

bmfc1 Jun 24 2011 07:07 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Fman--I'm getting the game via Extra Innings.

Frayed Knot Jun 24 2011 07:13 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Would be nice if our hitters could even make it a little bit hard for the Texas defense. Virtually every ground ball is soft and easy; each fly out is high and lazy.

Fman99 Jun 24 2011 07:14 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

bmfc1 wrote: Fman--I'm getting the game via Extra Innings. Yeah, I'm considered a "local market" so I'm blacked out on MLB Extra Innings. Yet my service provider doesn't carry the "local" channel that the game is on, so I miss all the WPIX games. 25 of them, this year. Time Warner would pipe these games in on a local access channel. Verizon, not so much.

Frayed Knot Jun 24 2011 07:15 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

That's ridiculous that you're a 'local market', you're 300 miles away!! I think Verizon is the one to bitch to about that.

bmfc1 Jun 24 2011 07:20 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

That's insane fman99.

Fman99 Jun 24 2011 07:49 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Frayed Knot wrote: That's ridiculous that you're a 'local market', you're 300 miles away!! I think Verizon is the one to bitch to about that. Yep. I've been personally calling and nagging them repeatedly. Fat lot of good it's done me.

Frayed Knot Jun 24 2011 07:58 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Fman99 wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: That's ridiculous that you're a 'local market', you're 300 miles away!! I think Verizon is the one to bitch to about that. Yep. I've been personally calling and nagging them repeatedly. Fat lot of good it's done me. What I suspect is happening is that, because you get SNY as part of your package, they automatically put you on the blackout list as a way to force you into watching the game directly via SNY. But then they just assume all Met games are on SNY and when they're not there's no human being to un-flip the switch so to speak and allow the game through because the whole thing is, I'm sure, automated. The fact that you are decidedly NOT in the home area means they probably shouldn't black out either but they'll probably cite some MLB policy at you.

Fman99 Jun 24 2011 08:00 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

The real kicker is that the non-YES Yankee games are ALWAYS carried on the local NBC affiliate.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 24 2011 08:14 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

You know those games where the Mets string together some baserunners, then get those two-out hits, and thusly are able to pull out a close one in spite of overall offensive inertia? This is looking like the other kind.

Ashie62 Jun 24 2011 08:26 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Maybe its cause the Mets suck.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 24 2011 08:33 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

3-hit days when the team's getting routed, 7 LOB when they aren't. I don't mean to be all MFY-fan here... but is it me, or does the Bay give off a very mythical-clutchless-A-Rod-only-minus-the-power kind of aroma these days?

Fman99 Jun 24 2011 08:34 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Jason Bay, with three hits tonight, has his batting average up into a robust .241. It's rally time!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 24 2011 08:36 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

I swear the kid has looked at six or seven 1-1 strikes over the last three games he's been in. Is Duda afraid to swing at strikes when he's ahead in the count or something? Either way... bring me a Lutz, man. I'm done with this.

Frayed Knot Jun 24 2011 08:41 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: You know those games where the Mets string together some baserunners, then get those two-out hits, and thusly are able to pull out a close one in spite of overall offensive inertia? No. No I don't.

metsguyinmichigan Jun 24 2011 08:44 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

I've pretty much decided that Manny Acosta sucks.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 24 2011 08:44 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

QUESTION 1: Was pitching Air Acosta against these Rangers in a home-run-friendly park supposed to be, like, a challenge assignment from Collins? QUESTION 2: What time is Manny's flight tomorrow? QUESTION 3: Why not Frankie here? Makes just about as much sense as Acosta with the game still within reach, doesn't it?

Fman99 Jun 24 2011 08:46 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Wow. Maybe not having TV access to this game isn't something to bitch about.

Ceetar Jun 24 2011 08:47 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

metsguyinmichigan wrote: I've pretty much decided that Manny Acosta sucks. I'm expecting Buffalo fans, after getting over the helmet color change for the Bills, will remember that they'd already decided this.

bmfc1 Jun 24 2011 08:50 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Is Duda afraid to swing at strikes when he's ahead in the count or something? Sure seems that way. I wonder if this is the same approach he had in Buffalo when he hit 7 homers in 14 games.

themetfairy Jun 24 2011 10:11 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

Demoralizing game - we were out of it from the start.

themetfairy Jun 24 2011 10:44 PM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

The post-game fireworks were nice, though -

Ashie62 Jun 25 2011 05:14 AM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

themetfairy wrote: Demoralizing game - we were out of it from the start. It was a tough matchup in foreign territory.

Ceetar Jun 25 2011 07:19 AM Re: IGT Texas Style - Friday 6/24 Mets @ Rangers

themetfairy wrote: Demoralizing game - we were out of it from the start. Not really. There were a couple of times that the Mets almost knocked a few in and made it closer. Reyes DP for one, and that's an out-lier for sure. Of course, then they put Acosta in. Pick themselves up and get after it today.