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IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 06 2012 11:56 PM

Three straight days of futile rallies and tack-on runs left in the Waiting Room? Of embarrassing errors and double plays unturned turning minor threats major? Of opposition bats spitting out clutch hits like a two-out Repeater? Screw all that. Let's take these fugazi-first-placers out-- it's Dickey Day.

Ceetar Jun 07 2012 06:28 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Three straight days of futile rallies and tack-on runs left in the Waiting Room? Of embarrassing errors and double plays unturned turning minor threats major? Of opposition bats spitting out clutch hits like a two-out Repeater? Screw all that. Let's take these fugazi-first-placers out-- it's Dickey Day. The King In the North!

TransMonk Jun 07 2012 06:31 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

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Nymr83 Jun 07 2012 08:02 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Missing Strasburg and Gonzalez and still getting swept would be horrible, let's beat Wang around like the ex-MFY with a 6.d ERA that he is and get back on track! (Why the fuck is Wang in the rotation while Lannan and now Detwiler aren't?)

bmfc1 Jun 07 2012 08:36 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Adam Rubin ?@AdamRubinESPN Omar Quintanilla injured finger on diving play. Questionable whether he can hit/play. Great--Valdespin at SS today.

Kong76 Jun 07 2012 08:38 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Dickey vs Wang ... haha. Ok, I'll go grow up now ... be back in a bit.

Mets – Willets Point Jun 07 2012 08:41 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

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Benjamin Grimm Jun 07 2012 08:42 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

bmfc1 wrote: Omar Quintanilla injured finger on diving play. Questionable whether he can hit/play. Good grief! Before this season is over, the Mets will have used about 30 shortstops.

Mets – Willets Point Jun 07 2012 08:43 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Benjamin Grimm wrote: bmfc1 wrote: Omar Quintanilla injured finger on diving play. Questionable whether he can hit/play. Good grief! Before this season is over, the Mets will have used about 30 shortstops. It's like being drummer for Spinal Tap.

seawolf17 Jun 07 2012 08:47 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Good thing we didn't sign Reyes; he's missed... /checks stats ...oh.

Vic Sage Jun 07 2012 09:27 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

KING IN THE NORTH! His lordship Robert Aerys Dickey, with ICE in his veins, will thread the NEEDLE and make the WIDOW'S WAIL as he uses his LONGCLAW to hurl his deadly knuckler, the LIGHTBRINGER, at our foes from King's Landing. And how big a nerd am I, to spend time thinking up a sentence that includes the names of all the Valyrian steel wielded in GAME OF THRONES?

Ceetar Jun 07 2012 09:50 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

panic is premature, Q starts, batting 8th.

Edgy MD Jun 07 2012 10:15 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Three straight days of futile rallies and tack-on runs left in the Waiting Room? Of embarrassing errors and double plays unturned turning minor threats major? Of opposition bats spitting out clutch hits like a two-out Repeater? Screw all that. Let's take these fugazi-first-placers out-- it's Dickey Day. Oh, I get it.

Edgy MD Jun 07 2012 10:38 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 07 2012 10:39 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Ceetar wrote: panic is premature, Q starts, batting 8th. ...yet Bay is out again. Ffffffuck that guy.

bmfc1 Jun 07 2012 11:05 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Mets – Willets Point wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: bmfc1 wrote: Omar Quintanilla injured finger on diving play. Questionable whether he can hit/play. Good grief! Before this season is over, the Mets will have used about 30 shortstops. It's like being drummer for Spinal Tap. Josh said the same thing!

HahnSolo Jun 07 2012 11:11 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

That nine-pitch top of first is really going to tax Wang.

Nymr83 Jun 07 2012 11:30 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

QHit by a pitch on his foot... Kazmar has to be sitting with his bags packed and nervously checking his cell phone every two minutes$

Ceetar Jun 07 2012 11:31 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

well, cleared the pitcher.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 07 2012 11:41 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Kirk flies to the warning track.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 07 2012 11:46 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Singles by Thole and Wright and a walk to Duda. Bases loaded again, one out.

Nymr83 Jun 07 2012 11:49 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Ugh right back to the pitcher fuckdamnshit

Edgy MD Jun 07 2012 11:54 AM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Don't worry, we have Ike Davis coming up and he's a walking machine. He's a damn walking fool.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 07 2012 12:02 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Washington's sideline reporter is prettier than ours.

Edgy MD Jun 07 2012 12:04 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

The Nats think so too, and are reacting as only boys will.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 07 2012 12:15 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

CAMPTOWN LADIES SING THIS SONG...!

soupcan Jun 07 2012 12:16 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

ZIP-A-DEE....!

Lefty Specialist Jun 07 2012 12:17 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Where's my car?

themetfairy Jun 07 2012 12:19 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Duda! Duda![/bigpurple]

Centerfield Jun 07 2012 12:19 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

I WAS TRYING TO EMBED A YOUTUBE OF THE VIDEO FOR THE POLICE SONG. LET'S ALL PRETEND IT'S HERE AND LAUGH ACCORDINGLY.

Edgy MD Jun 07 2012 12:25 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

All hopes rest on Duda. Don't tell him that, but it's true.

G-Fafif Jun 07 2012 12:32 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Damn that Metro-ridin' knuckleballer's got it goin' on.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 07 2012 12:33 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Edgy DC wrote: All hopes rest on Duda. Don't tell him that, but it's true. Only guy you can trust going into MFY series.

Mets – Willets Point Jun 07 2012 12:46 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

As a total aside, who would've guessed after watching Game 2 of the 2000 NLCS that the only starter in that game who'd still be active in the big leagues in 2012 would be Rick Ankiel?

Edgy MD Jun 07 2012 12:50 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

And we just walked him to bring the tying run to the plate.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 07 2012 12:51 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

No harm, though. R.A. strikes out the next two. (He now has 8.) 79 pitches through 6 innings.

Ceetar Jun 07 2012 12:54 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Benjamin Grimm wrote: No harm, though. R.A. strikes out the next two. (He now has 8.) 79 pitches through 6 innings. Extra day's rest for next start, so please give us 8 (or 9).

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 07 2012 12:56 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Big hit for Muffy there, wasn't sure he had it in him.

Lefty Specialist Jun 07 2012 01:03 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Ike Caramba.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 07 2012 01:13 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Nice play by Q to get that force at third. Two on, one out. Tying run still at the plate.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 07 2012 01:14 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Grounder to Wright starts a 5-5-3 DP and they're out of the inning!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 07 2012 01:16 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Retail Availability Dickey is really on a roll now. He should write a book about it!

Benjamin Grimm Jun 07 2012 01:21 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Dickey batting for himself in the eighth. I always like to see that.

Edgy MD Jun 07 2012 01:24 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

I LUB to see that. Nieuwhiffhuis gives me a lot to love, but he's on a pace to set a nieu Mets strikeout record.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 07 2012 01:25 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

101 pitches through 7 for Mr. Dickey.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 07 2012 01:26 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

X grounds to Q for the first out.

Edgy MD Jun 07 2012 01:27 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

And 18 points!

Benjamin Grimm Jun 07 2012 01:28 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

An infield single, and Dickey exits.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 07 2012 01:29 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

We need five outs from this bullpen of ours.

Edgy MD Jun 07 2012 01:30 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Lefty Specialist Jun 07 2012 01:31 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Less scary than the Mets bullpen.

Nymr83 Jun 07 2012 01:33 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Benjamin Grimm wrote: An infield single, and Dickey exits. Come on coach, they haven't even hit a flyout yet, don't pull him on that groundball single! One more batter! I'm closing my eyes as the bullpen comes in. Terry criticism- if you're going to pull a guy after he gets an easy groundball out and then a grounder for a single, you should have hit for him in the top of the 8th.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 07 2012 01:33 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Parnell walks Ankiel, then gets the second out on a grounder to the pitcher. Tying run still at the plate, first base open.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 07 2012 01:35 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

And Q gets a bang-bang play at first for the final out!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 07 2012 01:35 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Attaboy, Bobby Pee. Bite it, Harper.

A Boy Named Seo Jun 07 2012 01:37 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Nymr83 wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: An infield single, and Dickey exits. Come on coach, they haven't even hit a flyout yet, don't pull him on that groundball single! One more batter! I'm closing my eyes as the bullpen comes in. Terry criticism- if you're going to pull a guy after he gets an easy groundball out and then a grounder for a single, you should have hit for him in the top of the 8th. He didn't hook him right away. He went to the mound and they talked it over for a bit. Have a feeling RAD didn't tell TC what he wanted to hear.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 07 2012 01:40 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

David gets a one-out triple down the line in right. Harper looks like he may be hurt.

Centerfield Jun 07 2012 01:41 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Benjamin Grimm wrote: David gets a one-out triple down the line in right. Harper looks like he may be hurt. I read this as DaviS gets a one out triple. I guess it's wishful thinking.

Nymr83 Jun 07 2012 01:42 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

INSURANCE RUNNER! Get him in!!!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 07 2012 01:43 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Nymr83 wrote: INSURANCE RUNNER! Get him in!!! Not today boss.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 07 2012 01:44 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

And he's stranded. Fasten your seatbelts! Three outs to go!

Nymr83 Jun 07 2012 01:44 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Bad job Doody! Got to get Wright home there, give the shitpen a bigger cushion

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 07 2012 01:48 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

home run Zimmy. way to start the 9th.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 07 2012 01:48 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Francisco gives up a homer to the first batter he faces. 3-1 Mets. Still need three outs.

Lefty Specialist Jun 07 2012 01:48 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

In play, run(s).

HahnSolo Jun 07 2012 01:49 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

oh, boy.

seawolf17 Jun 07 2012 01:49 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Boy, this guy has just not been the answer, has he? Makes me long for the days of Armando.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 07 2012 01:50 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Backhand grounder to Q for the first out.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 07 2012 01:51 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Easy fly to Torres for out number 2.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 07 2012 01:52 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Boot it in the Pukes!

Benjamin Grimm Jun 07 2012 01:52 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

And a grounder to Murphy ends it!

G-Fafif Jun 07 2012 01:54 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

In The Books: My Journey to Another Win By R.A. Dickey Afterword by Frank Francisco "Even I'd read this!" -- John Cougar Lunchbucket

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 07 2012 02:01 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

He wouldn't be where he is today were I not cracking the whip, but he's earned the right to 2 movie premieres and a guest slot on Letterman. Git along little Dickey!

Edgy MD Jun 07 2012 02:08 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Um, we once again rule.

G-Fafif Jun 07 2012 02:11 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: He wouldn't be where he is today were I not cracking the whip, but he's earned the right to 2 movie premieres and a guest slot on Letterman. Git along little Dickey! You and Warthen, good cop, bad cop. However you guys want to sort it out.

G-Fafif Jun 07 2012 02:22 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Terry in the postgame said R.A. is OK as long as the weather cooperates. Makes me think somebody -- maybe the Braves -- will try a rain dance if he keeps going as is.

Edgy MD Jun 07 2012 02:23 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Could you imagine how fucking thrilled we'd be with this season without the washout in Atlanta?

G-Fafif Jun 07 2012 02:28 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Into each life, some rain must fall. But just a little.

Edgy MD Jun 07 2012 02:39 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Dickey jumps from 13th to eighth in the league in ERA. And despite my incomprehensible screams about the manager's hook, he leads the NL in innings pitched. Also totally undercutting my position (at least, it would if my position was built primarily in criticism of Terry Collins), Johan Santana leads the NL in both complete games and shutouts, with two of each.

Ceetar Jun 07 2012 02:46 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

dickey will be in top 10 of Ks after today too

Vic Sage Jun 07 2012 02:53 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

"K" stand for KING IN THE NORTH!

Ceetar Jun 07 2012 02:55 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

Vic Sage wrote: "K" stand for KING IN THE NORTH! hah, i even posted about that today and forgot all about it once the game started.

Frayed Knot Jun 07 2012 07:21 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 07 2012 08:35 PM

** THOUGHTS ON THE GAME ** 1) R. A. Dickey was Reliably Awesome !!!! 2) I wouldn't have pulled him there in the 8th 3) Murph is swinging like he's trying to NOT strike out; I have not much faith in him for hitting something hard right now despite two hits today 4) Mets hit five come-backers, the Nationals four. The NYM figure includes the one Murph hit into a 1-2-3 DP but not the one he hit for a single off Gorzelanny's glove 5) The Nats, on the other hand, led the Mets 3-2 in grounding out to 1B unassisted. Between "Thoughts" 4 & 5, that's a lot of easy outs for one game. 6) Quintanilla, injury or not, made a lot of nice plays today. Nothing eye-popping so much, but a lot of sneaky/tricky ones with little margin for error. He'll be getting some beer from me for this game above and beyond his two hits & 3 times-on-base. 7) He held Harper to 3-for-16 this series although one of those was the extra-inning game winner. Today he never got one out of the infield. Doesn't mean all those outs were easy though. 8) CPF veterans know that true TotG round-ups are supposed to have TEN Thoughts and traditionally require many exclamation points!!! 9) But I can't think of that many!! 10) If Frank-Frank is going to serve up HRs in save situations they might as well be solo jobs while sitting on a 3-run lead

Fman99 Jun 07 2012 07:59 PM Re: IGT 6/7 @ WAS: Steady Diet of Chien-Ming

I was so pegged at work that I didn't get to listen to even one pitch of this game. A coworker kept me posted via CBS' ticker while I was in meetings and doing various other things. Glad to see them coming back and avoiding the sweep today.