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IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Ceetar May 14 2018 01:32 PM

Jaime Garcia vs Thor expect Flores to get a start against the lefty. Jaime is a league average pitcher off to a bad start. walks are up. Mets should probably look to be patient. (hey, Amed..) Time to rattle off some wins.

Lefty Specialist May 14 2018 01:44 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Chance to dip below .500 in this series.

Rockin' Doc May 14 2018 01:55 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Lefty Specialist wrote: Chance to dip below .500 in this series. Rather pessimistic view. Quick, somebody get Lefty some Koolaid!

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 14 2018 01:58 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

2nd Tuesday Night Mets meeting, 2nd with Synderpanties.

Ceetar May 14 2018 02:51 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: 2nd Tuesday Night Mets meeting, 2nd with Synderpanties. Does Natalie Portman where Synderpanties? Or is that a stretch?

bmfc1 May 14 2018 05:37 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Hopefully there will be a nice tribute video for Granderson.

G-Fafif May 14 2018 05:45 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Mets have never lost a regular-season home game to the Blue Jays, though I did seem them drop a pre-second season exhibition to the visiting Torontonians in August of 1981.

Edgy MD May 14 2018 05:58 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

That was weird. The strike over, with the teams given a few days to work out, all this momentum and speculation was building toward a couple of Yankee-Met scrimmages before the season re-opened. But Steinbrenner, always seeing a matchup with the lowly crosstown rivals as a lose-lose prospect, nixed this enterprise, leaving the Mets to scramble to secure the Blue Jays as a last-minute opponent, while the Yankees sufficed with a few scrimmages against their A-level team. Of course, that A-level team (which I guess might have included a young Greg Gagne) was in mid-season form and hustling their butts off against a Yankee squad just looking to get loose, and they played the big leaguers embarrassingly close both games.

G-Fafif May 14 2018 06:25 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

It was the "and home" portion of the "home and home" series with the Jays that caused havoc on the eve of the second half of '81, as Randy Jones and Tom Hausman each came up lame after pitching on the slick Exhibition Stadium mound. Jones's injury was more attributable to the uncovered conditions. I was also at Shea for the Saturday afternoon preseason game the Mets and Jays played in 1991, featuring a warm ovation for the visiting Mookie Wilson. I have to believe that the universe of not paid to be there people who witnessed the Jays alight at Shea in 1981, 1991, 1997, 1999 and 2001 is me and can't be too many others.

G-Fafif May 14 2018 06:29 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Dr. Ron Taylor, the former Mets pitcher who is now the Blue Jays' team physician, took the X-rays. Taylor said there was a severe sprain and that Jones would be out one to two weeks and then take it one day at a time. Jones, however, rejoined the club in time for the flight to Chicago. Guessing not too many other team physicians would be namechecked by the New York Times unless that team physician was the ace reliever on the local/opposing team's most recent world champion. Either way, nice of Taylor to look after one of his Met successors.

batmagadanleadoff May 14 2018 07:23 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

I saw Rey Ordonez homer against the Jays at Shea. In my mind, the HR was against Roger Clemens, but I looked it up and Clemens came out the inning before. I watched Rey's HR from that primitive by today's standards, right field corner field level food court where a frozen Digiorno mini pizza pie was about as good as it got.

G-Fafif May 14 2018 07:24 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I saw Rey Ordonez homer against the Jays at Shea. In my mind, the HR was against Roger Clemens, but I looked it up and Clemens came out the inning before. I watched Rey's HR from that primitive by today's standards, right field corner field level food court where a frozen Digiorno mini pizza pie was about as good as it got. That was my 1997 Jays game. Loved that there was still ill will for Clemens eleven years after the '86 World Series with not an MFY pinstripe in sight.

Ceetar May 14 2018 07:29 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I saw Rey Ordonez homer against the Jays at Shea. In my mind, the HR was against Roger Clemens, but I looked it up and Clemens came out the inning before. I watched Rey's HR from that primitive by today's standards, right field corner field level food court where a frozen Digiorno mini pizza pie was about as good as it got. that was such a weird 'secret' food court or whatever.

batmagadanleadoff May 14 2018 07:34 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

G-Fafif wrote: I was also at Shea for the Saturday afternoon preseason game the Mets and Jays played in 1991, featuring a warm ovation for the visiting Mookie Wilson. I have to believe that the universe of not paid to be there people who witnessed the Jays alight at Shea in 1981, 1991, 1997, 1999 and 2001 is me and can't be too many others. I had misunderstood your post the first time through, and thought you attended every single Jays @ Mets game played in NYC. If you're talking about just one game per series, I missed this club by just the 1981 series. So if you exclude exhibition games, then I'm in. Is that so, that the Jays haven't visited the Mets in NYC since 2001?

Benjamin Grimm May 14 2018 07:37 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

They came to New York in 2015.

G-Fafif May 14 2018 08:30 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

I made one game per series at Shea. I missed the 2015 Pan North American games at Citi. I thought about going to keep the streak going (and to greet Jose) but it didn't work out. I will be there to say hi to Grandy Tuesday night.

Centerfield May 14 2018 10:23 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

All offdays suck. But the worst offdays are bitter afternoon losses, followed by an offday, followed by a night game. I'm not sure the math, but I feel like 486 hours will have passed between Met games.

bmfc1 May 15 2018 07:13 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

This isn't good news: [tweet:2x7vtpe0]https://twitter.com/AnthonyDiComo/status/996468174001459201[/tweet:2x7vtpe0]

Benjamin Grimm May 15 2018 07:18 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

No, it's not good news. Hopefully it's just an abundance of caution, but we'll see. It's entirely possible that we won't see him again in a month or more. And that would suck.

Edgy MD May 15 2018 07:24 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Nimmo's first start against a lefty this year. He's 0-for-9 (but with three walks) against them so far. All four infielders for the Mets were once their regular starting shortstop. [table:24m86qij][tr:24m86qij][td:24m86qij][fimg=250:24m86qij]https://images.footballfanatics.com/FFImage/thumb.aspx?i=/productimages/_2086000/altimages/FF_2086506ALT1_full.jpg&w=600[/fimg:24m86qij][/td:24m86qij][/tr:24m86qij][tr:24m86qij][td:24m86qij][list=1:24m86qij][*:24m86qij]Brandon Nimmo (L), lf[/*:m:24m86qij] [*:24m86qij]Juan Lagares (R), cf[/*:m:24m86qij] [*:24m86qij]Asdrubal Cabrera (S), 2b[/*:m:24m86qij] [*:24m86qij]Wilmer Flores (R), 1b[/*:m:24m86qij] [*:24m86qij]Jay Bruce (L), rf[/*:m:24m86qij] [*:24m86qij]Devin Mesoraco (R), c[/*:m:24m86qij] [*:24m86qij]José Reyes (S), 3b[/*:m:24m86qij] [*:24m86qij]Noah Syndergaard (L), sp[/*:m:24m86qij] [*:24m86qij]Améd Rosario (R), ss[/*:m:24m86qij][/list:o:24m86qij][/td:24m86qij][/tr:24m86qij][/table:24m86qij]

Benjamin Grimm May 15 2018 07:30 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Boy, those shirts are hideous!

d'Kong76 May 15 2018 07:42 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Went to look at the Blue Jays twitter page for a lineup and typed blujays by accident... muy bonita en 2013...

d'Kong76 May 15 2018 07:44 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

[tweet:2sm0tidy]https://twitter.com/BlueJays/status/996476068054949888[/tweet:2sm0tidy]

Edgy MD May 15 2018 07:53 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Wondering if they'll get through the series without calling up Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. [table:3m29wvcp][tr:3m29wvcp][td:3m29wvcp][fimg=250:3m29wvcp]https://images.footballfanatics.com/FFImage/thumb.aspx?i=/productimages/_2334000/altimages/ff_2334269alt1_full.jpg&w=600[/fimg:3m29wvcp][/td:3m29wvcp][td:3m29wvcp][fimg=250:3m29wvcp]https://images.footballfanatics.com/FFImage/thumb.aspx?i=/productimages/_2086000/altimages/FF_2086506ALT1_full.jpg&w=600[/fimg:3m29wvcp][/td:3m29wvcp][/tr:3m29wvcp][tr:3m29wvcp][td:3m29wvcp][list=1:3m29wvcp][*:3m29wvcp]Curtis Granderson (L), lf[/*:m:3m29wvcp] [*:3m29wvcp]Josh Donaldson (R), 3b[/*:m:3m29wvcp] [*:3m29wvcp]Justin Smoak (S), 1b[/*:m:3m29wvcp] [*:3m29wvcp]Teoscar Hernandez (R), rf[/*:m:3m29wvcp] [*:3m29wvcp]Yangervis Solarte (S), 2b[/*:m:3m29wvcp] [*:3m29wvcp]Kevin Pillar (R), cf[/*:m:3m29wvcp] [*:3m29wvcp]Russell Martin (R), c[/*:m:3m29wvcp] [*:3m29wvcp]Richard Urena (S), ss[/*:m:3m29wvcp] [*:3m29wvcp]Jaime Garcia (L), sp[/*:m:3m29wvcp][/list:o:3m29wvcp][/td:3m29wvcp][td:3m29wvcp][list=1:3m29wvcp][*:3m29wvcp]Brandon Nimmo (L), lf[/*:m:3m29wvcp] [*:3m29wvcp]Juan Lagares (R), cf[/*:m:3m29wvcp] [*:3m29wvcp]Asdrubal Cabrera (S), 2b[/*:m:3m29wvcp] [*:3m29wvcp]Wilmer Flores (R), 1b[/*:m:3m29wvcp] [*:3m29wvcp]Jay Bruce (L), rf[/*:m:3m29wvcp] [*:3m29wvcp]Devin Mesoraco (R), c[/*:m:3m29wvcp] [*:3m29wvcp]José Reyes (S), 3b[/*:m:3m29wvcp] [*:3m29wvcp]Noah Syndergaard (L), sp[/*:m:3m29wvcp] [*:3m29wvcp]Améd Rosario (R), ss[/*:m:3m29wvcp][/list:o:3m29wvcp][/td:3m29wvcp][/tr:3m29wvcp][/table:3m29wvcp]

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 15 2018 08:15 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Any one lineup hardly matters but that's not the one I wanna see today

bmfc1 May 15 2018 08:17 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Any one lineup hardly matters but that's not the one I wanna see today You wouldn't want to see that lineup in a Mets game in Port St. Lucie.

Rockin' Doc May 15 2018 09:46 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Boy, those shirts are hideous! So is that Mets lineup.

Centerfield May 15 2018 10:10 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Maybe it can just thunderstorm until Cespedes and Plawecki are better.

Nymr83 May 15 2018 10:32 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

I'm here tonight waiting out the rain - the Mets Hall of Fame is as lame as reported.

Centerfield May 15 2018 10:38 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Nymr83 wrote: I'm here tonight waiting out the rain - the Mets Hall of Fame is as lame as reported. Fortunately, the beer is cold. I'd try switching gears.

Nymr83 May 15 2018 10:54 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Centerfield wrote: Nymr83 wrote: I'm here tonight waiting out the rain - the Mets Hall of Fame is as lame as reported. Fortunately, the beer is cold. I'd try switching gears. Enroute to the bourbon now

Nymr83 May 16 2018 12:15 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Game On 8:35

Fman99 May 16 2018 12:20 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 16 2018 12:21 AM

I hope to make it 5 innings tonight. Tired, boss. Dog tired

Nymr83 May 16 2018 12:21 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Canadian anthem sounds like the tune to the opening credits to Man in the High Castle

Fman99 May 16 2018 01:12 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Nice K there to get out of the jam.

Fman99 May 16 2018 01:21 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Christ, 0 for their last 23 with RISP. SUCKY. OE: 0 for 24 after that last pop up.

bmfc1 May 16 2018 01:42 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Maybe Dave Eiland was onto something.

Edgy MD May 16 2018 02:00 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Shoulda went for that, Grandy. If you miss a popup it doesn't roll to the wall or anything.

Edgy MD May 16 2018 02:01 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Welke has a wide plate.

41Forever May 16 2018 02:03 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

I know he's not the player he once was. But I miss Granderson. This is an opportunity for Reyes to not suck.

Edgy MD May 16 2018 02:06 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

A closer arrested for assault? Who do the Jays think they are?

41Forever May 16 2018 02:10 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Rosario misses a three-run bomb by inches.

Edgy MD May 16 2018 02:11 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Yes, but suddenly the Mets are all RISP-y.

Edgy MD May 16 2018 02:12 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Lefty pitcher, righty hitter, two outs. Perfect time to steal home.

Edgy MD May 16 2018 02:15 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Lagares with the knockout punch! [fimg=500:3kil24o7]https://img00.deviantart.net/bc9d/i/2015/139/1/a/popeye_knockout_punch_by_n64paul-d8u1hmx.jpg[/fimg:3kil24o7]

41Forever May 16 2018 02:19 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

I gotta say, I'm enjoying this game a lot so far.

Fman99 May 16 2018 02:24 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Yes, that was a nice change of pace from the usual shit-assery at the plate, of late.

Edgy MD May 16 2018 02:39 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Adrian Gonzalez showing pinch-hit capacity.

Edgy MD May 16 2018 02:41 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Rosario, who just drove in that run, has walkup music that sounds like The Marshall Tucker Band's "Heard It in a Love Song."

Frayed Knot May 16 2018 02:45 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Hits w/RiSP, 2-out RBIs, cats and dogs living together ...

Edgy MD May 16 2018 02:46 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Vladdy, Jr. ain't a blue Jay yet, but this guy's son and namesake just got double-switched into the game:

Fman99 May 16 2018 02:50 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Just as well that they're put a smack down on these guys on rain delay night. So I can go to bed with a minimal amount of wonder.

Frayed Knot May 16 2018 02:55 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

I had forgotten the name Dwight Smith (too common I guess) but now that you remind me of it, my biggest memory was of Jerome Walton and Smith finishing 1-2 in the RoY voting for the 90-win 1989 Cubs, and then neither of them ever having the kind of sustained success that those rookie years projected. Neither really was a full-time player after that season. Not surprisingly, the Cubs went into a series of sub-.500 seasons after that too.

Edgy MD May 16 2018 03:09 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Sooner or later, their going give Lugo another chance to see if he can do this as a starter, right?

d'Kong76 May 16 2018 03:10 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Time to stretch... [youtube:1jh8dei3]RcVJVUfXWgU[/youtube:1jh8dei3]

Edgy MD May 16 2018 03:29 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Ten runs, with no homers. And speaking of no homers, Juanny "Uppercut" Lagares has none so far, but he's hitting .357.

Edgy MD May 16 2018 03:33 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

I spoke too soon. [fimg=250:161d6k7l]https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/valleymorningstar.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/b/75/b75ba963-025e-5196-a562-5b775a32cf9b/5af24c6dc2701.image.jpg?resize=507%2C760[/fimg:161d6k7l]

Edgy MD May 16 2018 03:37 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Holy crap! Russell Martin is playing short!

Edgy MD May 16 2018 03:40 AM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

You've been Rhamed.

Centerfield May 16 2018 01:41 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Yeah, so just like we all predicted, that lineup scored 12 runs. Baseball. What a great game. This team badly needed a laugher. Surprised to see Callaway burn Lugo like that in a blowout. With Wheeler going today, they're likely to need help early. I guess he figures Gsellman is fresh.

Ceetar May 16 2018 01:46 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Centerfield wrote: Yeah, so just like we all predicted, that lineup scored 12 runs. Baseball. What a great game. This team badly needed a laugher. Surprised to see Callaway burn Lugo like that in a blowout. With Wheeler going today, they're likely to need help early. I guess he figures Gsellman is fresh. yeah, day off before and after so he's probably not too pitcher concerned.

Centerfield May 16 2018 01:47 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

In 17 games, Tomas Nido had 6 total bases. Mesoraco had 7 last night.

Ceetar May 16 2018 01:59 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Centerfield wrote: In 17 games, Tomas Nido had 6 total bases. Mesoraco had 7 last night. Wheeler has a higher OPS than Reyes. Plawecki has 3x as many walks.

G-Fafif May 16 2018 02:58 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

I recommend surprise first pitches of 8:36 PM. Very mellow mood at the damp ballpark. Loosened up the bats.

Edgy MD May 16 2018 03:04 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

I was thinking that Syndergaard knocking in the first two runs in consecutive at-bats shamed everybody into hitting with runners in scoring position for the first time this month.

Benjamin Grimm May 16 2018 03:13 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays

Cast your vote!

Benjamin Grimm Jun 12 2018 01:01 PM Re: IGT #38 5/15 Beware the Ides of May Blue Jays