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IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Frayed Knot Sep 10 2013 03:58 PM

Gee vs Zimmermannnnn The Mets have won each game the four games Zimmermann has started this season although he's pitched decently overall. - In April he lost 2-0 to Gee - He also gave up just 2 runs and got a ND in June in a game the Mets won 3-2 - In July the Mets got to him for 5 runs in an eventual 11-0 win - and in August Gee again beat him 3-2 Young - LF Lagares - RF Murphy - 2B Duda - 1B Turner - 3B den Dekker - CF d'Arnaud - C Quintanilla - SS Gee - P Rumor has it that Ruben Tejada is back in town.

Zvon Sep 10 2013 05:17 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Werth homers in the first. Gee's pitch was moving but it ended up on Jasons sweet spot.

Frayed Knot Sep 10 2013 05:25 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Much better start tonight -- our staff cut the number of 1st inning HRs served up in half.

Zvon Sep 10 2013 05:27 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Frayed Knot wrote: Much better start tonight -- our staff cut the number of 1st inning HRs served up in half. It's still been like watching a home run derby. edit: oh yea, LaRoche goes LaYard.

Frayed Knot Sep 10 2013 06:05 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

OK, so who thought this constant music thing was a good idea?

Zvon Sep 10 2013 06:11 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Frayed Knot wrote: OK, so who thought this constant music thing was a good idea? They are talking about it. Are they really going to do that? That's fucked up.

Edgy MD Sep 10 2013 06:15 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Murphy gets his hits in against Washington.

Zvon Sep 10 2013 06:20 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

If Tyrna was playing all season we'd have scored a hundred runs a week!

Frayed Knot Sep 10 2013 06:22 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

I think Muph's double improved the XBH-against ratio in this series to 11-1

Zvon Sep 10 2013 06:25 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

A little thing like d' saying thank you to the ump (after inquiring about a strike) goes a long way in my impression of him as a person. I like and respect him more for something like that.

Zvon Sep 10 2013 06:28 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Also,...I'm always getting on Dudas case about his fielding, so I should also mention when he does well. That ground out to him earlier tonight that included the toss to Gee was played textbook perfect, and I will note it.

Zvon Sep 10 2013 06:37 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Young making things happen. >On first >pickoff throw >error >error >on third and.....we're gonna strand him? Come on MURPH!

Ashie62 Sep 10 2013 06:38 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

If the Mets are going to dump the season to 90 losses they might want to reconsider Terry Collins as their likely 2014 manager...

Zvon Sep 10 2013 06:44 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Ashie62 wrote: If the Mets are going to dump the season to 90 losses they might want to reconsider Terry Collins as their likely 2014 manager... I dunno Ash. So much wind has been knocked out of our sails this past month. It must be awfully hard to keep this team as a unit in a positive mindset. I would not hang this seasons close on TC. Or would not hang TC because of this seasons ending.

Edgy MD Sep 10 2013 06:47 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Mets showing some wa.

Edgy MD Sep 10 2013 06:53 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Brad Benson just used the word "A-Hole" in his stupid ad.

Zvon Sep 10 2013 06:56 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Werths playing like the player the Nats paid for.

Zvon Sep 10 2013 06:58 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Justins a ball of fire!

Fman99 Sep 10 2013 07:02 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Signs of life! Two ribbies for the kid Den Dekker.

Zvon Sep 10 2013 07:02 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Big hit from little d'! 4-3

Zvon Sep 10 2013 07:05 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Gah. Its almost funny. Turner pulled up lame scoring there. Hammy.

Zvon Sep 10 2013 07:09 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

wtf? What r ya lookin back for lil d'? Phoooff, out by a mile.

Frayed Knot Sep 10 2013 07:17 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

I think this might be Terry's first pitching change without a double-switch in like three weeks.

Zvon Sep 10 2013 07:22 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

BIG DP. Very nicely done. Even after the quick turn at second I was sure Span would beat it out.

Zvon Sep 10 2013 07:23 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

That was the best turn Ive ever seen Murphy pull. And thats big. Thats how he got hurt that time. He's now officially a 2nd baseman.

Zvon Sep 10 2013 07:30 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Damn. That throw had to be perfect. Better than perfect.

Edgy MD Sep 10 2013 07:54 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Any word with regard to Turner's injury? He's hitting like he hasn't all season and kapowie. He's down like a brick in the water. "Collective meh" --- Josh's characterization of the Citi Field fans' response to Frank Francisco's 2013 home debut.

Fman99 Sep 10 2013 07:54 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Did I forget to pitch for five months? Shucks.

Zvon Sep 10 2013 07:57 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Edgy MD wrote: Any word with regard to Turner's injury? He's hitting like he hasn't all season and kapowie. He's down like a brick in the water. "Collective meh" --- Josh's characterization of the Citi Field fans' response to Frank Francisco's 2013 home debut. They're saying tightness but it looked to be a tad worse than that to me.

Edgy MD Sep 10 2013 08:01 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Hairy screws his former teammate.

bmfc1 Sep 10 2013 08:03 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Apparently TC forgot that Hairston killed left-handers last season.

Frayed Knot Sep 10 2013 08:05 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

We've had warning track power tonight. They haven't.

Frayed Knot Sep 10 2013 08:07 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

I have no particular reason to dislike Raphael Soriano - but I do. Maybe it's just that sour puss look on his face all the time.

Edgy MD Sep 10 2013 08:08 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Tying run d'Eck.

Zvon Sep 10 2013 08:09 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

That Hairball homer knocked the wind out of my sails. lil bit.

Zvon Sep 10 2013 08:14 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Keith says in his wrap: "..just too much hitting by the Nats." Ha, yea.

Fman99 Sep 10 2013 08:15 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

September stinks.

Vic Sage Sep 10 2013 08:52 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

just got home from the game; wow, what a total snooze. never felt like we were in it, even after the DenDekker hit got us to 4-3. TC over managed us right out of it, too -- why take Francisco out, with 1 out in a close game? He brings in Byrdak to pitch to some guy named Brown? WTF? Francisco doesn't have some huge platoon differential, i don't think. He was throwing all right. If he brings in a LOOGY there, you KNOW Davey is going to counter with Scott "all i can do in this game is hit lefties" Hairston. And kaBOOM. gee who didn't see THAT coming? I had good seats at least. And the lack of any other human beings within spitting distance was both pleasant and disappointing. No line at Shake Shack! No traffic, no trouble parking. I tell ya, it reminds me of all those enjoyable outings in the late 70s; we sucked but it sure was easy to get tix, to get in and out, to get concessions, to get to the bathroom. All you had to do was put up with them trading away Seaver and watch Willie Montanez play 1b.

MFS62 Sep 10 2013 09:41 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Clap for Jayson Werth. No. Not Applause. I hope he gets a case of it. Later

Edgy MD Sep 11 2013 05:18 AM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Even more grave than the notion that all Hairston can do is hit lefties is the notion that all Byrdak can do is pitch to lefties. I mean, Byrdak isn't just a lefty --- he's a 40-year-old, BS-dealing, journeyman, junkballing, good-quote spewing, briefly effective in his senior years, lefty specialist coming off a year of rehabbing. He was meat for the likes of Hairston --- even the interstate-hitting version of Hairston.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 11 2013 05:31 AM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

I do believe Hairy was summoned to PH for their guy after Byrdy came in to get their scheduled lefty. I think. I dunno. Of course that ruined the Brown-PHing-For-Qunitanilla-Walkoff-HR we were all hoping to get in the bottom of the inning. I did however predict that Hairy HR (as well as LaRoche's HR earlier, just ask my friend who was there with me). We began up in 519, spent an inning behind the foul pole in the 400s, caught the rally from the bridge and would up in center field where I caught up to others I knew. The usher guy tried denying us entry there initially. DO NOT ENTER THIS SECTION WITH 300 EMPTY SEATS AND 15 OCCUPIED ONES EVEN TO SAY HELLO TO A FRIEND. We just don't represent any kind of threat to anyone, and we're back down to 15 under .500 again, so we've officially undone the good work since June. I like Lagares but Brown should be in right field.

Edgy MD Sep 11 2013 05:35 AM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: We just don't represent any kind of threat to anyone..., A statement that could refer to the Mets' offense, but NOT to JCL trying to enter the center field seats.

Edgy MD Sep 11 2013 05:54 AM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

You know, it strikes me that buying $50 seats and moving after a few innings to some $100 ones that are unpurchased, unoccupied, and unloved is dyamic pricing, and teams who are little bit strategic about allowing it could win at the marketing game. They probably had been winning all along and never knew it. I mean, you kind of feel stupid and lonely and ripped off if you're the only ones sitting alone in a gated community. Sure, let some of the rabble in, as long as they don't abuse the upgrade with obnoxious behavior. By the way, my experience from two games with DGWPhotography at a relatively packed Shea tells me he is the king of the free upgrade. Spotting a group of seats the exact same size as our party through his telephoto lens, and finding an approach that bypasses any ushers, and we're rooting from the sweet seats for the next seven innings. And the camera was a great diversion, because if we did run into any 108-year-old staffers, they'd give his a little shit about his camera and forget to check our stubs. WIN!

G-Fafif Sep 11 2013 07:13 AM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Paid $12.70, fees included, for the first row of Promenade behind home plate, 516, on StubHub. Flashed my Citi card and received the Tuesday night $10 card for concessions. So $2.70 for a very good view of a slightly not altogether awful ballgame. Couldn't beat the weather. I enjoyed the glimpses of d'Arnaud and den Dekker doing their respective things and extrapolated their potential in my dreams. I admired Gee not totally falling apart when he could have, Feliciano coaxing a DP, Black with a scoreless inning, Francisco finding his way back...I didn't even really mind Hairston's home run, exactly, as I kind of knew it was coming and its landing spot reminded me of the one he hit the day of Dana Brand's Shea-marker memorial (we sat in LF Landing then and he hit it practically right to us). I'll give most ex-Mets a pass for one HR upon return provided it's not killing us or it's not hit in MFY gray. My buddy Rob and I extended our streak of at least one game a year attended together to 19. Seems most years lately we wait until September to put it in the books. Certainly allows for quiet during which to conduct conversations. After two consecutive nights of watching up close and personally as the Nats bashed eight home runs, I have to admit I'm impressed in a gawking at the carnival manner at how hard they're hitting the ball. I don't endorse it, but it's actually objectively impressive. Can't get too worked up over Torres or Gee giving them up given their recent track records. Greg Burke on the other hand can return to his submarine at any time. Noticed airplanes overhead almost nonstop, as if they were waiting for the US Open to clear out before they knew they wouldn't disturb anybody. It was the most planes I can recall flying directly overhead at Citi Field. Kind of a Shea throwback, if one is charitable. More discordant, noisewise, was that there was a cover band concert going on inside the ballpark for most of the game. Reminded me of the cheerleaders in Bring It On deciding to use their school's football games as practice for their own competitions. Waiting in Section 109 of Citi Field Tuesday evening, 17-year-old Sydney Schizzano admitted that she was pretty nervous. She and 13 other students from Rock and Roll University in Hauppauge were about to join a list that included Dave Matthews Band and Sir Paul McCartney. “It’s the waiting that’s the worst part,” said Schizzano, of Smithtown. Not only was the group about to perform an 8-minute concert before the start of the New York Mets game versus the Washington Nationals, but Schizzano, one of the oldest in the group, had also been tapped to sing the national anthem. Schizzano has been singing since she was 6. Her first gig was providing vocals for her uncle’s cable TV show, “Kid Fitness,” and she’s performed at numerous showcases and events with Rock and Roll University during the past two years. “This venue is definitely the most exciting and threatening at the same time,” she said. Meanwhile, the group’s youngest member, Brandon Niederauer, 10, of Dix Hills, kept cool by eating ice cream out of a bowl shaped like a Mets baseball cap as he waited. Although Niederauer, who goes by the nickname “Taz,” only started playing guitar a few years ago, Bill Mignoli, Rock and Roll University’s music director, said he is a natural talent. The fifth grader has already performed at the House of Blues in New Orleans and with members of the Allman Brothers Band. Although the school, which opened in the summer of 2011, has more than 200 students of various ages and experience levels, Mignoli said the group selected to perform Tuesday is “the absolute best of the best.” The opportunity to play at Citi Field came after Mignoli, 52, of Hicksville, received a call from a group ticket sales rep for the Mets. Mignoli said he told the rep he’d consider a group tickets package for his students and their families only if the school could perform on the field. Weeks later, he said he was surprised to learn his proposal was actually accepted. “Many of the things I have done in my life that have turned out to be successful have been on a lark and this was one of those things,” he said. With both teams in their respective dugouts and a few thousand people in the stands, the group performed four songs — Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’,” Stevie Wonder’s “Higher Ground” and “I Wish,” and Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child O’ Mine” -- on the field minutes before the game. Their sound included electric guitars, keyboards, drums, saxophones and a trombone. Then, after Schizzano sang the anthem, the band reunited on the Pepsi Porch that overlooks the outfield, where they played throughout the duration of the game for family, friends, fellow students and Mets fans. “We got out there and killed it,” said guitarist Anthony Sexton, 17, of Lake Grove, who is both a student and instructor at the school. “We rehearsed for months, so all that hard work paid off.” Niederauer described the experience as “awesome” and “once in a lifetime.” “It was just really fun,” he said. “What kids get to perform at Citi Field?” Only truly sour note (besides the final score): The "This Date in Mets History" feature on the video screen reported Jim Hickman drove in the winning run in the nightcap of the sweep that put the Mets in first place for the first time ever in 1969. Neat trick, given that Hickman was on the Cubs by then.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 11 2013 07:29 AM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

I also noted the plane traffic overhead, quite a throwback.

Frayed Knot Sep 11 2013 07:36 AM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Which was louder, the planes or the band?

G-Fafif Sep 11 2013 07:47 AM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

Sitting diametrically opposite the band, I'd have to say the planes. But the band was persistent in its obliviousness to what was transpiring on the field.

Vic Sage Sep 11 2013 03:00 PM Re: IGT - 9/10/13 -- Nats @ Mets

kudos to the kids for following their dreams... but, man, did they suck or what? and the unofficial seat upgrade thing... i never could get the hang of it. I'm always either refused entry or kicked out soon after. I think they can smell my fear. And even when i'm not kicked out, i'm constantly looking around, wondering if the ushers are coming for me or if the guy whose seat i'm in has shown up yet, and not really focusing on the game. Its a distracting way to watch a game; i'd just as soon sit in crappy seats that i know i have a ticket for than put up with that sort of emotional insecurity. And last night, when i so obscenely overpaid for my behind-home tix, i think i would've been more than a little pissed off if folks who paid $10 for upper deck seats sat down next to me. Not that i begrudge them the right to try, and not that i deny my own feelings about it could generously be categorized as petty and small, but that's how i'd feel. I guess i should just take it up with my therapist.