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IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

G-Fafif Aug 06 2016 02:45 AM

My eldest cat chose the Tiger series to take extra ill. Go figure. Better yet, go beat those cats, Logan Verrett, and let my cat (in the kitty hospital after seizures on top of other maladies) and his favorite team get better at the expense of Matt Boyd. Roar, you Mets. [youtube:3aeoy5p9]CevxZvSJLk8[/youtube:3aeoy5p9]

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 06 2016 08:09 AM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Best wishes to Hozzie. Our cats were extremely feisty overnight, fighting, meowing, beating up the water dish more than usual, waking up Wifey, who wakes up me. I think they must know their species is gonna take a hit.

cooby Aug 06 2016 09:08 AM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Aw, GF I hope he/she is okay! Our kitty Rusty (the one with nasal problems) has been struggling to breathe the past couple of days. I feel so bad for him. But yeah, if our kitties are all aligning...

Ashie62 Aug 06 2016 10:25 AM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Matt Boyd and Logan Verret. I kinda thought Niese would be in the rotation. Anyway, beat the catcrap out of this guy.

Frayed Knot Aug 06 2016 12:04 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

I was thinking that if Verrett gets to where he's starting to get into even a little bit of trouble that you have the quick hook ready and bring in Niese, using those two as kind of like tandem starters (3-4 innings each if all goes well) so as not to give the Tigger lineup a crack at either of them more than twice. This Matt Boyd guy is a 25 y/o former 6th round pick by the Blue Jays (2013 out of Oregon State - so he would have been a Conforto teammate) who was sent to Detroit at last season's trade deadline in one of the seemingly annual David Price deals. Splitting time this year between the big club and AAA Toledo, he has 10 ML starts to his name so far this season [4.71 ERA, 1.27 WHIP] He's also a lefty which kind of suxx in that I don't think we have any active and healthy RHBs left on our roster (though I may be forgetting one or two).

G-Fafif Aug 06 2016 12:37 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

cooby wrote: Aw, GF I hope he/she is okay! Our kitty Rusty (the one with nasal problems) has been struggling to breathe the past couple of days. I feel so bad for him. But yeah, if our kitties are all aligning... Thanks Coob. Hozzie (he) is purring if not yet roaring. Best to Rusty. May he inhale some Tiger fumes tonight.

G-Fafif Aug 06 2016 02:36 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Curtis Granderson - CF Ty Kelly - LF Neil Walker - 2B Jay Bruce - RF Wilmer Flores - 1B Travis d'Arnaud - C Kelly Johnson - 3B Rene Rivera - DH Matt Reynolds - SS Logan Verrett - RHP Ty Cobb? Wait until Detroit gets a load of Ty Kelly! ROAR!

G-Fafif Aug 06 2016 02:41 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Holy spit, Rene Rivera is DH'ing. Excellent protest of an antithetical rule on Terry's part.

bmfc1 Aug 06 2016 03:34 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Starting Ty Kelly and Rene Rivera is on Sandy and his lack of effort, interest, money, trading chips... whatever. Juan Uribe was DFA'd the other day--how much would it take to have him on the team rather than Kelly? Rivera is a fine backup catcher and I know that there have been a zillion injuries but there has to be someone available who is better qualified to DH. Psyched for another mediocre but not terrible effort (6 IP, 3 ER) by Logan "he sort of kept the Mets in the game" Verrett.

Ashie62 Aug 06 2016 05:03 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

bmfc1 wrote: Starting Ty Kelly and Rene Rivera is on Sandy and his lack of effort, interest, money, trading chips... whatever. Juan Uribe was DFA'd the other day--how much would it take to have him on the team rather than Kelly? Rivera is a fine backup catcher and I know that there have been a zillion injuries but there has to be someone available who is better qualified to DH. Psyched for another mediocre but not terrible effort (6 IP, 3 ER) by Logan "he sort of kept the Mets in the game" Verrett. Is that like our real lineup?

d'Kong76 Aug 06 2016 05:05 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Kinsler 2B Collins CF Miggy 1B V-Mart DH J Martinez RF Castellanos 3B Upton LF Saltalamacchia C Iglesias SS Boyd P

bmfc1 Aug 06 2016 05:25 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Ashie62 wrote: Is that like our real lineup? It looks like a lineup from a road spring training game.

Edgy MD Aug 06 2016 05:41 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Watch that jive-ass lineup go out and put up eight runs.

bmfc1 Aug 06 2016 07:16 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Gary Apple's HR call: "My friends, you can say goodbye."

Edgy MD Aug 06 2016 07:21 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Keith commenting on a fan in a Ron Darling jersey. Got to be MGiM.

Edgy MD Aug 06 2016 07:22 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Nope. Doesn't look like him, from behind, anyway.

Frayed Knot Aug 06 2016 07:36 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Verrett's been walking on eggshells since the first batter and I'd have had Niese warming up like four times already in this game and would bring him in at the sight of the first LHB - but by then it might be too late.

Edgy MD Aug 06 2016 07:39 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

I hate when two Martinezes score on one hit.

Frayed Knot Aug 06 2016 07:39 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Annnnnnnd game over.

Frayed Knot Aug 06 2016 07:43 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

What color is the sky in the world where your team gets hits with runners in scoring position?

bmfc1 Aug 06 2016 07:44 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

It's not Logan Verett's fault. He's not a major league pitcher. He should be in AAA or in the Mets bullpen as the long guy. Injuries and Sandy's lackadaisical attitude have put Verrett in a place he shouldn't be: starting a major league game.

Edgy MD Aug 06 2016 07:49 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

I"m not into going to Niese mid-inning.

bmfc1 Aug 06 2016 07:53 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

bmfc1 wrote: Psyched for another mediocre but not terrible effort (6 IP, 3 ER) by Logan "he sort of kept the Mets in the game" Verrett. I had it backwards: it was terrible and 3 2/3 IP, 6 ER.

Edgy MD Aug 06 2016 08:00 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

I like when Neil Walker draws a walk. I just wish we had a dude named Neil Tripler.

Frayed Knot Aug 06 2016 08:01 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

I like how they don't waste any of their HRs on those runners-on situations but instead save them all for solo work.

Edgy MD Aug 06 2016 08:03 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Wilmer's getting more out of hitting the ball softly tonight than other guys are getting out of their rips.

Frayed Knot Aug 06 2016 08:25 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

This has got to be the only team in the history of baseball that reduces its chances of scoring by getting guys on base.

Edgy MD Aug 06 2016 08:43 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

The've had about four doorways back into this game opened up, but won't walk through.

Fman99 Aug 06 2016 08:47 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Any day now a clutch hit would be super good. C'mon dudes.

Edgy MD Aug 06 2016 08:48 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Gary Apple: "Walker's been one of the hottest hitters in baseball since the All Star Break." Yeah, but it's, like, a dry heat.

Edgy MD Aug 06 2016 08:49 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

C'mon, Cousin Brucie!

Fman99 Aug 06 2016 08:50 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Wow, Walker took a ball to the noggin there. Way to take one for the team.

Edgy MD Aug 06 2016 08:50 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Oh, what an enormous break! Cabrera giveth.

Edgy MD Aug 06 2016 08:51 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

THE BREAKS JUST KEEP COMIN'!!

Edgy MD Aug 06 2016 08:54 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

I guess the strategy of "Just keep hitting double-play balls" wasn't very sustainable.

bmfc1 Aug 06 2016 08:54 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 06 2016 08:56 PM

d'A for AAA. http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?si ... g/2016/ALL

Frayed Knot Aug 06 2016 08:55 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

It took them three tries to hit into an inning-killing, soul-crushing GiDP before they finally succeeded.

Zvon Aug 06 2016 08:57 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Ouch. A DP spikes our punch. 6-5

Frayed Knot Aug 06 2016 08:58 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

So first they get the leadoff batter on, but then go: ground ball - ground ball - ground ball - ground ball - ground ball. And that all out of the top & middle of the order. That they were able to get two runs out of that mess was more a testament to the Tigers than to the Mets.

Frayed Knot Aug 06 2016 09:14 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

So by my count that's three GiDPs plus three others that the Tigers failed to turn. One wouldn't think such things were possible in one game by one team, but you wouldn't think that sub-.200 w/RiSP for a 110 game stretch wasn't either.

Fman99 Aug 06 2016 09:24 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Frayed Knot wrote: So first they get the leadoff batter on, but then go: ground ball - ground ball - ground ball - ground ball - ground ball. And that all out of the top & middle of the order. That they were able to get two runs out of that mess was more a testament to the Tigers than to the Mets. So, we suck, then.

Fman99 Aug 06 2016 09:31 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Dammit. Bad slide by Bruce there.

Frayed Knot Aug 06 2016 09:33 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

So they finally get a hit with a RiSP (2 for 12 on the night) but it doesn't actually score a run.

bmfc1 Aug 06 2016 09:35 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

The catcher can't block the plate but he can stick his leg in the path of the runner?

Zvon Aug 06 2016 09:35 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Yo, umps are idiots. You have to get a review because it gives the umps one more chance to fuck up. It's the last out of the game! Why wouldn't you call a review there? Sure, he was out, but you never know with umps these days. I have seen them reverse calls I couldn't believe. The Mets sucked. We all were kinda sad.

Centerfield Aug 06 2016 09:37 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

What do you have to lose by challenging here? Maybe he didn't give a lane?

Zvon Aug 06 2016 09:51 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Centerfield wrote: What do you have to lose by challenging here? Maybe he didn't give a lane? The catcher did stick his foot back in there. Some idiot could have interpreted that idiotically! Last out. Would have tied the game. WTF?

bmfc1 Aug 06 2016 09:59 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Rubin: "Terry Collins said the Mets replay official believed there was no challenge on last play and that Jay Bruce was out. Collins acknowledged postgame that he should have challenged for the heck of it since there was nothing to lose." DUH. How was NOT challenging even an option. Second game in a row they didn't challenge when they should have--and the Mets have now found another aspect of baseball to be bad at.

Centerfield Aug 07 2016 01:00 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Inexcusable really. Terry Collins should really not return next year.

Ashie62 Aug 07 2016 04:09 PM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks

Centerfield wrote: Inexcusable really. Terry Collins should really not return next year. Neither Terry or Verrett.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 29 2016 09:06 AM Re: IGT 8/6/16: NYM@DET -- Cat's All, Folks