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IGT 8/2/2011: FLA @ NYM: A Fish Best Served Reheated

G-Fafif
Aug 01 2011 03:21 PM

Waste not want not. End this crappy streak of crap.

G-Fafif
Aug 01 2011 11:03 PM
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Seriously. Dredge up some self-respect and fucking beat the fucking Marlins.

Ashie62
Aug 02 2011 10:28 AM
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LETS GO METS!

Ceetar
Aug 02 2011 10:32 AM
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G-Fafif wrote:
Seriously. Dredge up some self-respect and fucking beat the fucking Marlins.


They're fish. flay them. geeze.

bmfc1
Aug 02 2011 10:40 AM
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I think it was it Guys! who said last night that the Marlins always play well against the Mets. How about the Mets playing better against the Marlins. What a worthless excuse for a major league franchise. They could be contracted tomorrow and how many people would care? Lets see if that new stadium brings a few more fans. And Chris, please buzz Hanley.

Ceetar
Aug 02 2011 10:43 AM
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Alderson should see if Hanley wants to play 2B in New York

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Aug 02 2011 10:45 AM
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I'd be happy to see Capuano somehow avoid his regular practice of surendering 5 runs in the 6th inning.

Edgy DC
Aug 02 2011 10:52 AM
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bmfc1 wrote:
I think it was it Guys! who said last night that the Marlins always play well against the Mets. How about the Mets playing better against the Marlins. What a worthless excuse for a major league franchise. They could be contracted tomorrow and how many people would care? Lets see if that new stadium brings a few more fans. And Chris, please buzz Hanley.

Yeah, the Marlins have had plenty of sloppy play ag'in' us. We've had more ag'in' them.

Edgy DC
Aug 02 2011 11:57 AM
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Tonight's starter for the Marlins:



Mets just looking at him and saying, "Hey, bud, let's party!"

metirish
Aug 02 2011 12:01 PM
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Olney sent out a stupid tweet last night claiming that Stanton was now the new Mets killer ......he's been in the league how long?

batmagadanleadoff
Aug 02 2011 12:04 PM
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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote:
I'd be happy to see Capuano somehow avoid his regular practice of surendering 5 runs in the 6th inning.


I might be missing whatever the point is to all the accolades going Capuano's way. He gives up half a run an inning and can't go more than five.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Aug 02 2011 12:14 PM
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batmagadanleadoff wrote:
John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote:
I'd be happy to see Capuano somehow avoid his regular practice of surendering 5 runs in the 6th inning.


I might be missing whatever the point is to all the accolades going Capuano's way. He gives up half a run an inning and can't go more than five.


Yup. Part of it is his tendency to work pretty clean until falling apart so suddenly in the 6th. Not always his fault, and not always bailed out by relievers, but yeah. I was never a big fan.

Ceetar
Aug 02 2011 12:19 PM
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batmagadanleadoff wrote:
John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote:
I'd be happy to see Capuano somehow avoid his regular practice of surendering 5 runs in the 6th inning.


I might be missing whatever the point is to all the accolades going Capuano's way. He gives up half a run an inning and can't go more than five.



Schwinden, Cap to the bullpen.

bmfc1
Aug 02 2011 12:31 PM
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[u:1rcpg9n1]METS:[/u:1rcpg9n1]
1. Jose Reyes (S) SS
2. Justin Turner (R) 2B
3. David Wright (R) 3B
4. Scott Hairston (R) RF
5. Jason Bay (R) LF
6. Angel Pagan (S) CF
7. Lucas Duda (L) 1B
8. Mike Nickeas (R) C
9. Chris Capuano (L) P

Murphy sits against the lefty but turns the spout on the Gatorade container the wrong way spilling Gatorade all over the dugout.

Ceetar
Aug 02 2011 12:34 PM
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bmfc1 wrote:
METS:
Reyes-SS
Turner-2B
Wright-3B
Hairston-RF
Bay-LF
Pagan-CF
Duda-1B
Nickeas-C
Capuano-LHP

Murphy sits against the lefty but turns the spout on the Gatorade container the wrong way spilling Gatorade all over the dugout.


Come on man, Nickeas? bleh.

There's gonna be some interesting debate about Collins this offseason, I can tell.

Edgy DC
Aug 02 2011 12:52 PM
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Maybe Nickeas has hit Mr. Hand in the minors.

bmfc1
Aug 02 2011 01:00 PM
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Edgy DC wrote:
Maybe Nickeas has hit Mr. Hand in the minors.


A lot of guys have.

seawolf17
Aug 02 2011 01:02 PM
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bmfc1 wrote:
Edgy DC wrote:
Maybe Nickeas has hit Mr. Hand in the minors.


A lot of guys have.

Hey, those are lonely nights and long bus rides.

Frayed Knot
Aug 02 2011 01:02 PM
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I never heard of this 'Hand' guy - time to investigate:

- Brad Hand: 2nd round draft pick (52nd pick overall) in 2008 out of HS in Carver, Minnesota
- 6' 3" 200 lb LHP
- brought up from AA in early June, bounced up and down a few times since, has appeared in six ML games- all starts
- lost his first 3 starts, then won his only ML game on July 8 with a 7 inning/0 run/2-hit/3-walk/4-K performance against Houston
- didn't pitch again until 5 days ago when he left in the 4th against Washington with only 1 run against him but also 3 hits and six walks (ND)
- 1-3; 3.81; 1.29 WHiP; 85 IP; 72 H; 56 K; 38 BB

bmfc1
Aug 02 2011 01:33 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g3tQaqizh0

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Aug 02 2011 01:41 PM
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Tonight's starter for the Marlins:



Mets just looking at him and saying, "Hey, bud, let's party!"


"You ... Dick!"

for whatever reason that's my favorite Spicoli line of the whole movie

Gwreck
Aug 02 2011 03:18 PM
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Is Ronny Paulino hurt?

Ceetar
Aug 02 2011 05:34 PM
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Okay..score some runs.

Ashie62
Aug 02 2011 05:44 PM
Re: IGT 8/2/2011: FLA @ NYM: A Fish Best Served Reheated

Tonight's starter for the Marlins:



Mets just looking at him and saying, "Hey, bud, let's party!"


"You ... Dick!"

for whatever reason that's my favorite Spicoli line of the whole movie


Are you all...on dope!

Ashie62
Aug 02 2011 05:44 PM
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Ceetar wrote:
Okay..score some runs.


Eventually I guess.

Ceetar
Aug 02 2011 05:47 PM
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3 hits without a run? nice, try for four next inning..

themetfairy
Aug 02 2011 05:54 PM
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Ceetar wrote:
3 hits without a run? nice, try for four next inning..


With or without scoring a run?

themetfairy
Aug 02 2011 06:05 PM
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Not only does Reyes tie the game with a Ka-Boom, but the Kid Broadcaster Contest winner did a great job of calling the shot :)

bmfc1
Aug 02 2011 06:07 PM
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Jacob Resnick is a better announcer than John Sterling.

themetfairy
Aug 02 2011 06:13 PM
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bmfc1 wrote:
Jacob Resnick is a better announcer than John Sterling.


My deceased grandfather is a better announcer than John Sterling.

PiggiesTomatoes
Aug 02 2011 06:22 PM
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Sterling and Georgie Girl...I'd rather listen to Marlee Matlin for nine innings.

PiggiesTomatoes
Aug 02 2011 06:33 PM
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The crappy AB's after a promising start. That's two innings like that already.

Ceetar
Aug 02 2011 06:49 PM
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stupid Omar.

Wright ties it with a key RBI groundout though. Here's a good one for you:

who gets more RBIs on the season, Wright or Bay?

PiggiesTomatoes
Aug 02 2011 06:59 PM
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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote:
I'd be happy to see Capuano somehow avoid his regular practice of surendering 5 runs in the 6th inning.


Mission accomplished! Other than the two gopher balls, a nice outing.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Aug 02 2011 07:09 PM
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PiggiesTomatoes wrote:
John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote:
I'd be happy to see Capuano somehow avoid his regular practice of surendering 5 runs in the 6th inning.


Mission accomplished! Other than the two gopher balls, a nice outing.


A hit too, not bad for CC.

Meantime we take the lead and take out Hanley for awhile.

Fman99
Aug 02 2011 07:11 PM
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Fman99
Aug 02 2011 07:19 PM
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Nice gun there by Nickeas.

themetfairy
Aug 02 2011 07:20 PM
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Fman99 wrote:
Nice gun there by Nickeas.


Yes - I'm giving him a sip of Schaefer for that throw.

Fman99
Aug 02 2011 07:31 PM
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Hey, Omar Infante, why don't you be a good boy and go fuck off somewhere.

Fman99
Aug 02 2011 07:35 PM
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Nice gas there by Bobby P. Now let's get the third out and put this fucking thing to bed.

PiggiesTomatoes
Aug 02 2011 07:36 PM
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Nice result from 3-0. Don't waste it.

Fman99
Aug 02 2011 07:38 PM
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Wow. That's some 100 MPH gas with crazy movement. Normally pitches that fast are pin straight.

Mex saying that he thinks Bobby P is the future stud in this bullpen. Hmmmmmm.

PiggiesTomatoes
Aug 02 2011 07:40 PM
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Pretty good. Pretty, pretty good.

Fman99
Aug 02 2011 07:40 PM
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How about some insurance runs? Please?

PiggiesTomatoes
Aug 02 2011 07:56 PM
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That's not a real good start.

Frayed Knot
Aug 02 2011 07:58 PM
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Things NOT to do in one-run games:
- Leadoff walk (ooops)

Fman99
Aug 02 2011 07:59 PM
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Ugh.

Frayed Knot
Aug 02 2011 08:00 PM
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Get 'im outta there!!

Fman99
Aug 02 2011 08:00 PM
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Yeesh. Prime candidate for a game ending GIDP and he plunks him in the spine. Bad closer, bad!

PiggiesTomatoes
Aug 02 2011 08:02 PM
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Deja fucking vu.

Edgy DC
Aug 02 2011 08:03 PM
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We need bottom-of-the-ninth training.

Fman99
Aug 02 2011 08:03 PM
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JESUS TAP DANCING FUCKING CHRIST

Frayed Knot
Aug 02 2011 08:05 PM
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It's like every error this team makes lately comes when two or more runs will score as a result.

metsguyinmichigan
Aug 02 2011 08:05 PM
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Thery're hurting me.

themetfairy
Aug 02 2011 08:06 PM
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Stupid Mets....

PiggiesTomatoes
Aug 02 2011 08:07 PM
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Two nights in a row. This is getting too fucking tough to watch. Are they apologizing for Turner?

Fman99
Aug 02 2011 08:07 PM
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OH NO, WE SUCK AGAIN

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Aug 02 2011 08:08 PM
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Error, schmerror. You can't load the fucking bases and expect it to all work out.

HahnSolo
Aug 02 2011 08:09 PM
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Gotta PH when Nickeas comes up right?

Frayed Knot
Aug 02 2011 08:11 PM
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So Pualino now to start it off, then who?
No RHBs to face Choate unless I'm missing someone.

Edgy DC
Aug 02 2011 08:13 PM
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Problem with leading off with Paulino is that he's your baserunner now.

Beats not having a baserunner, of course.

I don't know if we're going to pinch-run for him, but I'll plotz if we sent up a pinch-hitter for Nickeas just to order a bunt.

Frayed Knot
Aug 02 2011 08:13 PM
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Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 02 2011 08:15 PM

OK, now I go Murphy for Nickeas then hope Pridie can keep it alive for Reyes.
If Muffy gets on I'd even OK a sac bunt with Pridie


Most logical PR might be Niese which you could do since Thole is still unused.
Might wait until he moved up a base or two first before I pulled that.

PiggiesTomatoes
Aug 02 2011 08:14 PM
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Murphy's still on the bench.

Fman99
Aug 02 2011 08:15 PM
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Good call, Niese runs for Paulino and Thole is standing by to catch if needed. Pridie in the on-deck circle.

Fman99
Aug 02 2011 08:15 PM
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Aw, dang.

Frayed Knot
Aug 02 2011 08:16 PM
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Of course if you're going to tap back to the pitcher all the strategy in the world won't matter.

HahnSolo
Aug 02 2011 08:17 PM
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Why the fuck can we never beat the Marlins?

themetfairy
Aug 02 2011 08:17 PM
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Stupid Mets....

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Aug 02 2011 08:18 PM
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HahnSolo wrote:
Why the fuck can we never beat the Marlins?


They're better than we are.

Fman99
Aug 02 2011 08:18 PM
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Well that fucking sucked.

PiggiesTomatoes
Aug 02 2011 08:22 PM
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The Not Ready for Prime Time Players - 2011 version.

bmfc1
Aug 02 2011 08:23 PM
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Four awful games in a row. All could have gone either way but the Mets found a way to lose each one.

Gwreck
Aug 02 2011 09:22 PM
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This one was pretty atrocious. Turner's play was to home and he is rightfully the goat (even if he got the 1 out, the game would probably still be tied), but as Lunchbucket rightfully said, walking and hitting guys with a 1 run lead in the 9th doesn't lead to good things and Isringhausen has a lot to answer for.

I'm sure we all would like Isringhausen to get that 300th save but we are playing for the future here and I see no reason why Parnell shouldn't be closing games to get experience in that role, for whatever that's worth.

---

On a side note, at the end of the last homestand, I was struck by how, following the seventh inning stretch Mr. Met and the "Party Patrol" just stood around, clapped and waved to the fans. I knew something was "off" about it but it took me a second to realize that what they are usually doing at that point is throwing and shooting T-Shirts into the crowd. Since it was a one-time thing, I thought: maybe they ran out of shirts. Maybe they forgot to fill the CO2 canisters for the t-shirt guns.

Yet tonight, the same thing happened. Given the Mets' financial situation, I don't think it's unfair to ask if they stopped shooting t-shirts in the 7th inning because they're too cheap to do it twice a game.

themetfairy
Aug 02 2011 09:37 PM
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Last night there were Mets employees throwing t-shirts on the Excelsior level by hand, without a gun.

I don't know if any shirts were distributed on other levels.

MFS62
Aug 02 2011 09:43 PM
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Frayed Knot wrote:
Of course if you're going to tap back to the pitcher all the strategy in the world won't matter.

Wayne Hagin's call of that play was pure torture, all (what seemed like) 6,000 extraneous words of it. It ended with what I thought sounded like "and Murphy is caught at first".
Memo to Wayne: It wasn't a fucking tag play.

Later

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Aug 02 2011 10:04 PM
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Took some new-to-baseball NYC visitors to the game along with a few of my in-laws, and ended up sitting for most of it in the BJ Clubhouse (our flies stayed buttoned) next to a couple of visitors from Tampa (who were surprised to be impressed by Pagan's play, and the arms of Acosta and Parnell).

That Izzy came out for the ninth at all seemed more than a little ridiculous to all the Met fans in our party, considering that both Rocket Boy and Beato were available, and that Izzy had gone long and badly the previous night.

All in all, a great night of baseball and baseball conversatin' (teaching rules to my left, talking Metspectations and Tampa's blueprint-for-the-future to my right) spoiled by the baseball.

Lefty Specialist
Aug 03 2011 06:42 AM
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themetfairy wrote:
Last night there were Mets employees throwing t-shirts on the Excelsior level by hand, without a gun.

I don't know if any shirts were distributed on other levels.


I think they've quietly dispensed with the guns. After the Texas incident, they don't want anyone falling over a railing trying to get a crummy t-shirt. They're just throwing them now.

Gwreck
Aug 03 2011 06:45 AM
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They still shoot them in the 5th inning.

Ceetar
Aug 03 2011 07:16 AM
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Lefty Specialist wrote:
themetfairy wrote:
Last night there were Mets employees throwing t-shirts on the Excelsior level by hand, without a gun.

I don't know if any shirts were distributed on other levels.


I think they've quietly dispensed with the guns. After the Texas incident, they don't want anyone falling over a railing trying to get a crummy t-shirt. They're just throwing them now.


yeah, they've been throwing them in the promenade too. I don't like giving up the guns for one mistake. seems silly to me, don't lean over the railings!

Edgy DC
Aug 03 2011 07:53 AM
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And in case people didn't read your post right before they made a stupid drunken decision that's the worst of their soon-to-end lives, it doesn't seem all that big a loss to me to do away with tee-shirt ballistics. It's certainly not one mistake.

Let's not get too big on the nanny-state kick. We've learned to live with batting helmets on the coaches, fences in front of the dugouts, beer cut-offs after the seventh, and smoke-free airlines, and someday shortly in the future, we'll see tee-shirt guns as a quaint anachronism.

Or not, and they'll be brought back. But many innovations in the game have been against nanny-statism. Integrated ball, facial hair, baseball on Sunday. There's push and pull, but we generally evolve toward the reasonable, I think.

Ceetar
Aug 03 2011 08:04 AM
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Edgy DC wrote:
And in case people didn't read your post right before they made a stupid drunken decision that's the worst of their soon-to-end lives, it doesn't seem all that big a loss to me to do away with tee-shirt ballistics. It's certainly not one mistake.

Let's not get too big on the nanny-state kick. We've learned to live with batting helmets on the coaches, fences in front of the dugouts, beer cut-offs after the seventh, and smoke-free airlines, and someday shortly in the future, we'll see tee-shirt guns as a quaint anachronism.

Or not, and they'll be brought back. But many innovations in the game have been against nanny-statism. Integrated ball, facial hair, baseball on Sunday. There's push and pull, but we generally evolve toward the reasonable, I think.


I'm not sure I want to go down the politic discussion you've brought this to. I have been known to be a little hypocritical in that regard (Despise the 4loko ban (well, not in NJ) but like the trans fat ban for instance). Still, the knee-jerk reactions to things bother me. One or two idiots fall, let's ban the t-shirt guns! Some terrorists attack, let's mix church and state at baseball games and strip search everyone getting on an airplane!


Of course it's push and pull. But if you discount the push as part of the cycle and don't pull back, you won't evolve towards reasonable over the long term. So I'm pulling.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Aug 03 2011 10:17 AM
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Yeah, but one thing is a heart-disease-causing junk-food component... and the other is a t-shirt gun.

Edgy DC
Aug 03 2011 11:38 AM
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One or two idiots fall, let's ban the t-shirt guns!


Now it's "one or two."

And it's not about bannng, so much as a policy choice. No czar handed down an edict. No municipality handed down a law, so far as I know. A private organization made a policy decision. What skin is it off of anybody's nose really?

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Aug 03 2011 11:44 AM
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Shoulda banned those things after Maude Flanders died.

Ceetar
Aug 03 2011 11:48 AM
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Edgy DC wrote:
One or two idiots fall, let's ban the t-shirt guns!


Now it's "one or two."

And it's not about bannng, so much as a policy choice. No czar handed down an edict. No municipality handed down a law, so far as I know. A private organization made a policy decision. What skin is it off of anybody's nose really?


i like the t-shirt cannons.

Is there really multiple incidents of people falling? Or is this simply an isolated incident that people are overreacting to? Or they worried that it might happen at Citi and they'd have bad press? Is this similar to "Someone might write something naughty on a banner, so we're not going to do banner day"?

Edgy DC
Aug 03 2011 11:53 AM
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I liked lawn darts. C'es la vie.

Look, as long as you're writing hyperbole like "let's mix church and state at baseball games and strip search everyone getting on an airplane!" I guess its futile to ask you to back up and take some perspective, but come on.

Ceetar
Aug 03 2011 12:03 PM
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Edgy DC wrote:
I liked lawn darts. C'es la vie.

Look, as long as you're writing hyperbole like "let's mix church and state at baseball games and strip search everyone getting on an airplane!" I guess its futile to ask you to back up and take some perspective, but come on.


I'm not sure the severity of the event is the point here. (also, you're the one that started in on the Nanny state thing) I was pretty annoyed when Jamba Juice took kiwi juice off their menu too.



Obviously it's not a big deal. But I don't like it. It seems reactionary and panicky. And it's probably not actually less dangerous to throw the things. the Promenade's still kinda steep, and sure they won't fall as far..

Frayed Knot
Aug 03 2011 12:32 PM
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Not to spoil a silly argument or anything ... but a minor fact is getting left out of this discussion

Gwreck wrote:
They still shoot them in the 5th inning.



THEY HAVEN'T BANNED THE GUNS!!!!

Ceetar
Aug 03 2011 12:35 PM
Re: IGT 8/2/2011: FLA @ NYM: A Fish Best Served Reheated

Frayed Knot wrote:
Not to spoil a silly argument or anything ... but a minor fact is getting left out of this discussion

Gwreck wrote:
They still shoot them in the 5th inning.



THEY HAVEN'T BANNED THE GUNS!!!!


semantics.

I heard someone else say they banned them. I don't remember seeing them when I was there, buti was distracted by them suddenly throwing them in teh promenade.

fine, let's go back to talking about Collins' bullpen usage.

Lefty Specialist
Aug 03 2011 01:19 PM
Re: IGT 8/2/2011: FLA @ NYM: A Fish Best Served Reheated

Frayed Knot wrote:
Not to spoil a silly argument or anything ... but a minor fact is getting left out of this discussion

Gwreck wrote:
They still shoot them in the 5th inning.



THEY HAVEN'T BANNED THE GUNS!!!!


I was there on 7/18 and they didn't shoot them in the 5th or any other inning.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Aug 03 2011 01:41 PM
Re: IGT 8/2/2011: FLA @ NYM: A Fish Best Served Reheated

I saw a guy wearing a Pepsi Launch t-shirt from like 2002 at the grocery store over the weekend. Looked like a total dork.

(I was rocking Wonderful Woody, but no response)

metirish
Aug 03 2011 01:54 PM
Re: IGT 8/2/2011: FLA @ NYM: A Fish Best Served Reheated

They'e won now aven't they?

Ceetar
Aug 03 2011 01:55 PM
Re: IGT 8/2/2011: FLA @ NYM: A Fish Best Served Reheated

metirish wrote:
They'e won now aven't they?


I'm pretty sure they've all but clinched the division many many years ago at this point.