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IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Centerfield Sep 19 2016 01:37 PM

Weather permitting.

Frayed Knot Sep 19 2016 03:40 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

A DH due to a rainout would just be the icing we need on the already injury-riddled cake that is our pitching staff. Aaron Blair vs Syndergaard if and when this comes off. Blair has made ML 12 starts this year (3 vs NYM) but only once since he started twice in a row vs the Mets back in June. The Mets got him for 3 runs over 5 innings then 8 earned over 4.1 at which point he was immediately demoted to the minors. His one start since his return wasn't a whole lot better [5 runs on 8 hits in 4 IP vs SFG] and he's still looking for his first ML win (0-6) Overall he sports a 8.23 major league ERA and a 4.77 minor league one despite coming into the season as a top 50-ish prospect and a former 1st round draft pick (36th overall in 2014).

Benjamin Grimm Sep 19 2016 05:07 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

National Weather Service wrote: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 9pm, then scattered showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 70. East wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

d'Kong76 Sep 19 2016 07:36 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Sep 19 2016 07:37 PM

Inciarte CF Garcia 3B Freeman 1B Kemp LF Markakis RF Flowers C Peterson 2B Swanon SS Blair P Reyes 3B Cabrera SS Cespedes LF Granderson CF T.J. Rivera 2B Conforto RF Loney 1B Rivera C Syndergaard P

G-Fafif Sep 19 2016 07:36 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Your First Place (Wild Card Division) Mets Reyes 3B Cabrera SS Cespedes LF Granderson CF Rivera 2B Conforto RF Loney 1B Rivera C Syndergaard P Two Riveras, no Bruce.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 19 2016 08:17 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Not 2 days after Terry assured us he'd play Bruce everyday to get him going again, he gets 2 days off. Not complaining exactly.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 19 2016 08:19 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Me neither. I don't mind Terry changing his plans, but since they are so often subject to change, he probably should stop making pronouncements about what he's going to do.

Edgy MD Sep 19 2016 08:23 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

The flip side is that Conforto gets his first start in what seemed like 12 days (checking ... it was 15!) and he gets run right back out there the next day. Wouldn't it be something if that BFG wakes up?

Ceetar Sep 19 2016 08:51 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

I suspect the only 'plan' regarding Collin's comments about Bruce were to publicly avow confident in him and make any "mental health" days off he gave him seem more like mental health days than the benchings they probably are.

Centerfield Sep 19 2016 08:58 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Edgy MD wrote: The flip side is that Conforto gets his first start in what seemed like 12 days (checking ... it was 15!) and he gets run right back out there the next day. Wouldn't it be something if that BFG wakes up? Conforto getting hot could make a huge, huge difference. And he is arguably the best candidate to do just that. This has been one of the beefs I have with Terry. I get that he wanted to get Bruce going, but it should have been at the expense of Loney, not Conforto.

Ashie62 Sep 19 2016 09:03 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Tear it up Conforto!

Ceetar Sep 19 2016 09:06 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Duda, provided he's actually healthy and not just here to be here, is the best option for more offense. I'd argue Bruce over Conforto too, though Bruce is seemingly as lost as Conforto was in May and June. Anything that gets Loney out of the lineup though.

Edgy MD Sep 19 2016 10:13 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

The thing about Duda is that, unlike Conforto or Bruce, he's been out of circulation, and he's got to head out there not knowing how his back will respond. But we all seemingly agree that any of these goals should come at the expense of Loney, who should be/have been relegated to pinch-hitter/defense replacement by now. Any eventual return of Flores should also be pushing against Loney, and is more likely since Flores is already established by and for Terry as a first base option.

Zvon Sep 19 2016 11:03 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Ceetar wrote: Duda, provided he's actually healthy and not just here to be here, is the best option for more offense. I'd argue Bruce over Conforto too, though Bruce is seemingly as lost as Conforto was in May and June. Anything that gets Loney out of the lineup though. I want Bruce out of the lineup. If Conforto can just give us average stuff at the plate we are improved. And if Conforto gets hot..... fugheddabouttit. [fimg=500]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/nd8wbLGA0xmBF-zm3ObPZ-0P73a7rWX8SuSNjEf_QdQsUTwHRb_zSdIQChzahQVG5Fo_S0dzRxR7hiWcNxaxJvO1TQdj-XBqRa8QDOVcu_fLXTBcAVVq-JJIDEcTfArn17SWvGw_w4UkMxs1E1Wv_aQLcmYVR_S4T1yMQJw26aeSCZs9dLZru4y70c52oVGM6UbZyr0qe6hIvUYzbq_Y-t7U-DNePTYFrjke5YvjoULBr60quUmv46Wm-9G2IitrJGUnFQFChE5NUYbvqf8hB__XyRSHDnWJIACUjW_5muBER-5jrhtysI2gfak5xBHzLhjrsYY5uQp3_kIUr7geaGSEg8tlx4V0GSlN5Vsgm5Bl1cP9RpfaRo57TNSvrmalHi_ZXfjSp9vDh1sTgZNLwSIqz3rgOTNG33Iz58MPxSIKxf7KJXNRo8iQJ3QJd0vIgZamB04A-GkPWDGBR6jkYqoDdKN94hiMp4gOK-o972uLPTD0rk3DO5Rj0PnZX_ap1eCIWJpEmUdREG2XVGzcjV0gZEA1WWDw25pNBtLvIp5RuPGW09Mo9_Q-M_Th36iWsI25CGT_CcqMSZd7HUkEoVMv8hYFtZtRaAflYW0b5ZWcgXb6DA=w958-h692-no[/fimg]

metirish Sep 19 2016 11:12 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Feeling very excited.......weird the game in on PIX

Zvon Sep 19 2016 11:15 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Thor looking good in the first. Again, TJ Rivera with that strange loopy throw. I want an isolated camera on him SNY.

metirish Sep 19 2016 11:21 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

A Recker sighting , swoon

Zvon Sep 19 2016 11:51 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Sep 20 2016 12:10 AM

Not such a smooth 2nd. But could have been worse. 3-0 not us. This place wasn't here for a little bit (at least for me). I got a TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES screen (or something).

metirish Sep 19 2016 11:54 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Yeah me too, forum gone for like 20 min Thor needs a quick hook

Zvon Sep 19 2016 11:57 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

My nemisis. I forgot to ask him to break his leg this time. GAH!

metirish Sep 19 2016 11:59 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Keith in peak form talking about his various magazine covers

batmagadanleadoff Sep 20 2016 12:02 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

metirish wrote: Keith in peak form talking about his various magazine covers The booth is talking about this cover. But they can't seem to remember that inside that issue was the piece that first brought national attention to some high school sandlot player from Crenshaw High. The black Ted Williams. Fella by the name of Strawberry.

Ashie62 Sep 20 2016 12:04 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Thor has zero in a game we have to win. Might as well pull him and hope for a high high scoring game. LGM

Ashie62 Sep 20 2016 12:04 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

metirish wrote: Feeling very excited.......weird the game in on PIX Still excited?

Zvon Sep 20 2016 12:12 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

batmagadanleadoff wrote: metirish wrote: Keith in peak form talking about his various magazine covers The booth is talking about this cover. [fimg=300]http://www.jumpingfrog.com/images/epm12jul09/zz6557a.jpg[/fimg] But they can't seem to remember that inside that issue was the piece that first brought national attention to some high school sandlot player from Crenshaw High. The black Ted Williams. Fella by the name of Strawberry. That's the best scan of the cover Ive ever seen. Thanks, that goes in the Keith folder.

Zvon Sep 20 2016 12:14 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Ashie62 wrote: Thor has zero in a game we have to win. Might as well pull him and hope for a high high scoring game. LGM We gotta get 5 from him. Maybe he'll find himself. This Swanson guy...one team cannot have two nemisis's. Or is it nemisi?

Ashie62 Sep 20 2016 12:19 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

He'll get 5 the hard way. Oh. stolen base!

Mets Guy in Michigan Sep 20 2016 12:21 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

This is un-Thor like.

d'Kong76 Sep 20 2016 12:22 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Nemeses, according to wordhippo dot com. Keith stories crack me up. He was nervous for his SI shoot so they popped open a bottle of Dom to loosen him up a little. I wonder at what point it hits some stars to think hot damn this is the freakin' life I got going here.

Lefty Specialist Sep 20 2016 12:22 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

He'll be lucky to go four the way he's pitching.

Lefty Specialist Sep 20 2016 12:27 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Ugh. Wonder if the extra day of rest screwed him up, because he has nothing.

Ashie62 Sep 20 2016 12:27 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

100 pitches. Gilmartin time.

Mets Guy in Michigan Sep 20 2016 12:27 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Getting ugly.

Ashie62 Sep 20 2016 12:28 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Goodnight Thor 5-0

Zvon Sep 20 2016 12:28 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Lefty Specialist wrote: He'll be lucky to go four the way he's pitching. Yea. You think if we admitted to FKN FRDY FRMN that he is a great ballplayer....do you think maybe he'll stop?

metirish Sep 20 2016 12:30 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

John leguizamo Optimum spot is excruciating

Zvon Sep 20 2016 12:31 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

I'm sure that will end up being a broken leg. oyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Zvon Sep 20 2016 12:31 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

metirish wrote: John leguizamo Optimum spot is excruciating Worse.

Edgy MD Sep 20 2016 12:32 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

I imagine it won't, but it don't matter if the offense doesn't show.

batmagadanleadoff Sep 20 2016 12:33 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Zvon wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: metirish wrote: Keith in peak form talking about his various magazine covers The booth is talking about this cover. [fimg=300]http://www.jumpingfrog.com/images/epm12jul09/zz6557a.jpg[/fimg] But they can't seem to remember that inside that issue was the piece that first brought national attention to some high school sandlot player from Crenshaw High. The black Ted Williams. Fella by the name of Strawberry. That's the best scan of the cover Ive ever seen. Thanks, that goes in the Keith folder. Try this scan. No mailing labels, library stamps, creases or folds. And it's yuuuuuuge!

Chad Ochoseis Sep 20 2016 12:39 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

[bigpurple:3byqxv4p]KABOOM[/bigpurple:3byqxv4p] Somebody give TJ a better uni number than 54.

metirish Sep 20 2016 12:39 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

T.J. Rivera is turning into a great story

Zvon Sep 20 2016 12:39 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

[fimg=500:r6n37t60]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/T48BjzEwf7umeNUeOGrV9ouW2P_mgxeG5YalnkKFMYJtMlewXA5B_5iBhRKWqqcU8EeUQAQfH__LTaPsfbUMVakWIufvWKMGn23H91_ENRRbVXTXMN3Ul0cX350O8QuAKEsV7wexpy9ZHrIDWyWQbNVjI5EXRFKLYbjk-IcGaKye9HxEi370q2lsx295U6RFUbojwwbi3cplnef7c-vptbbVHO0pAnWeJ6LTD8H739pMtIDMtuJ5XIgL9xCx9nDiGNohQ-iGLsqwTRG9sVXZS478wq6F1qCQKybwEW8pwR08ziuSqsoyYwGV-dEkLmpsQCqwnjWoxz0GtUvu66xhbCbgLegJvOw3OCoVKaaN56GsTI0WY0ZqQi_xJepXXuT4pHfWqsI7ZfqsKx0J_EHDd2i5lgmhaJV-HrFMmp_Pks91qIhoUCOQQ1MiRMVMa-WSpqYCCvoGnvBQfA_Zg07dF-zKqooV7cHwOI5PIeYr0m6Wf5HB5gIeaQsoakGYqsgB9QhTLt9jh9fwmimEmCX9l-No1j4vty_W5hPzkX3v-WnCziSEDA2Veis5yzMoV35krEzQJXzsIW2Twjj1q-GrOAN8RctYpSGL8j6bwm2CRX6lFvjPyA=w782-h1089-no[/fimg:r6n37t60] This one was a good investment. I made a new YO right after the walkoff and , I may have jinxed him. No kaBooms since. I take crazy shit like that serious.

Edgy MD Sep 20 2016 12:39 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

That's two, good people.

Zvon Sep 20 2016 12:41 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Try this scan. No mailing labels, library stamps, creases or folds. And it's yuuuuuuge! Wow, I love shit like this. Thank you.

MFS62 Sep 20 2016 12:42 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Chad Ochoseis wrote: KABOOM[/bigpurple] Somebody give TJ a better uni number than 54. #54 in the scorecard. #1 in our hearts. Later

Zvon Sep 20 2016 12:42 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

[fimg=500:9bfjgbmj]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CswfHZVXEAAEOVP.jpg:large[/fimg:9bfjgbmj]

Frayed Knot Sep 20 2016 12:46 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

It took Thor 11 pitches to record his first four outs. It then took him 88 to record the next seven.

cooby Sep 20 2016 12:48 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Zvon wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: metirish wrote: Keith in peak form talking about his various magazine covers The booth is talking about this cover. [fimg=300]http://www.jumpingfrog.com/images/epm12jul09/zz6557a.jpg[/fimg] But they can't seem to remember that inside that issue was the piece that first brought national attention to some high school sandlot player from Crenshaw High. The black Ted Williams. Fella by the name of Strawberry. That's the best scan of the cover Ive ever seen. Thanks, that goes in the Keith folder. Keef as he looked when I first flipped for him. Yes that's a good one! What is the booth saying?

Zvon Sep 20 2016 12:51 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Talking relief. And Edgins up. Gilmartin won't go two.

Edgy MD Sep 20 2016 12:53 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Tying run on deck.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 20 2016 01:02 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

I really do appreciate Asdrubal Cabrera.

Frayed Knot Sep 20 2016 01:03 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Three ABs in a row with a RiSP - and nothing left the infield.

Zvon Sep 20 2016 01:05 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Edgin coming thru. It will come down to our bullpen, in the end, and so far, so sweet. The pen has to go beyond the call of duty. OE: I don't mean just for this game.

Frayed Knot Sep 20 2016 01:07 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I really do appreciate Asdrubal Cabrera. So much of our apprehension over the winter were based on the reports that he defense was barely adequate and so we assumed he'd be barely an upgrade, or maybe not even an upgrade, over Wilmer ... but he's been so much better than I think Wilmer could ever hope to be and it's made a major difference. And the offense hasn't been too bad either.

Fman99 Sep 20 2016 01:23 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

WPIX game. On a Monday. Seriously, FIOS, go suck a railroad spike.

Zvon Sep 20 2016 01:26 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

You believe that!?? That pitch should have broke his bat!

Frayed Knot Sep 20 2016 01:36 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Braves aren't exactly hitting the cover off the ball ... but they're hitting it a lot better than we are.

Frayed Knot Sep 20 2016 01:37 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Frayed Knot wrote: Braves aren't exactly hitting the cover off the ball ... but they're hitting it a lot better than we are. Plus their bloops keep finding grass and our bloops keep finding Kemp's glove.

Zvon Sep 20 2016 01:37 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Sep 20 2016 01:38 AM

That's unbelieveable! That fat fuck in left could make two catches like that...IN ONE INNING! And the inning isn't even over yet....

Edgy MD Sep 20 2016 01:37 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Shut up, Matt Kemp. That gets by him, it's a quintruple.

Zvon Sep 20 2016 01:38 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Edgy MD wrote: Shut up, Matt Kemp. That gets by him, it's a quintruple. Both of them. Unbelievable.

Zvon Sep 20 2016 01:46 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Keith's scorecard is a work of art. Really.

d'Kong76 Sep 20 2016 01:53 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Game is sucking big rusty railroad spikes... brrs.

Zvon Sep 20 2016 02:03 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Yukch, everything we get a bat on is dying in the air and finding a glove.

Zvon Sep 20 2016 02:07 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

It's the 9th already. This really does bite Bozo's ballsack. Montero sighting. Whoa, Cabrera, I worship you. Tonight I will sleep in leather.

Edgy MD Sep 20 2016 02:17 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

A double and an RBI: STOP the insanity.

Zvon Sep 20 2016 02:17 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Shits happening. You know what really sucks. I see Bruce on deck and I think, oh no. That's a shame (to be thinking that).

Ashie62 Sep 20 2016 02:23 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Not today, but maybe tomorrow.

Edgy MD Sep 20 2016 02:23 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

My standard complaint about swinging at the first pitch when you're down by a bunch in the ninth.

Zvon Sep 20 2016 02:28 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Yow, Bruce getting boooded bad. But that wasn't a horrible at bat. He made the guy throw some pitches. Seems to me that Bruce is just trying to reproduce his swing when he's up there, no matter where the pitch. Like the bat should find it's way to the ball by itself. We need the rest of this series.

MFS62 Sep 20 2016 03:17 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Zvon, what happened to your "Hit him in the knee and pick him off first" sign for Freeman? Did you ever make it? Later

Frayed Knot Sep 20 2016 03:43 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

I think we sometimes forget that Syndergaard is a just-turned 24 y/o in his first full season and expect more consistency out of him than is reasonable. Part of it is the Braves overall approach -- one which they totally flipped from just a year or two ago -- where they aim to put the ball in play at the expense of power but also in a way that reduces strikeouts and lengthens ABs. Atlanta batters mostly avoided chasing tonight, swung and missed at remarkably few pitches considering who they were facing, and fouled off a ton of them to drive the pitch count up to full-game capacity within just four innings. Marlins won tonight (vs Washington) Cards won tonight Giants are down 1-0 to the Dodgers out west.

Ashie62 Sep 20 2016 04:05 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Bruce 13 million or 1???

Zvon Sep 20 2016 04:29 AM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

MFS62 wrote: Zvon, what happened to your "Hit him in the knee and pick him off first" sign for Freeman? Did you ever make it? Later No I haven't. And that was a good one. I'll have it for tomorrows game.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 20 2016 05:47 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

Cast your vote!

Benjamin Grimm Oct 11 2016 01:02 PM Re: IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets