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IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

Edgy MD Aug 02 2018 06:39 PM

The Mets limp home from a brutal beating in Washington to take on the second place Atlanta Braves, sitting only a half game out of first. The Mets somehow retain joint possession of fourth place, but remain a discouraging 36 1/2 net games off the division pace. Worry not, however. The Mets are poised to unleash Jason Vargas. And that's never a pleasant thought for the opposition. Mike full-tin-EV-ich goes for the Georgians. [youtube:uo52hm9k]-sxUX3CNjmg[/youtube:uo52hm9k]

Fman99 Aug 02 2018 06:40 PM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

I'd be frothing like Cujo at the chance to face Vargas, if I were any kind of real MLB hitter. He sucks all the butt.

Edgy MD Aug 02 2018 07:19 PM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

Also coming home is the Mets' long-lost thirdbaseman. Well, the other Mets' long-lost thirdbaseman. [fimg=250]https://images.footballfanatics.com/FFImage/thumb.aspx?i=/productimages/_2736000/altimages/ff_2736139alt1_full.jpg&w=900[/fimg] [fimg=250]https://images.footballfanatics.com/FFImage/thumb.aspx?i=/productimages/_2736000/altimages/ff_2736116alt1_full.jpg&w=900[/fimg] [list=1][*]Ronald Acuna Jr. (R), cf[/*:m] [*]Ozzie Albies (S), 2b[/*:m] [*]Freddie Freeman (L), 1b[/*:m] [*]Nick Markakis (L), rf[/*:m] [*]Adam Duvall (R), lf[/*:m] [*]Johan Camargo (S), 3b[/*:m] [*]Tyler Flowers (R), c[/*:m] [*]Dansby Swanson (R), ss[/*:m] [*]Mike Foltynewicz (R), rhsp[/*:m][/list:o] [list=1][*]Brandon Nimmo (L), cf[/*:m] [*]José Bautista (R), rf[/*:m] [*]Michael Conforto (L), lf[/*:m] [*]Wilmer Flores (R), 1b[/*:m] [*]Todd Frazier, (R) 3b[/*:m] [*]Jeff McNeil (L), 2b[/*:m] [*]Kevin Plawecki, (R) c[/*:m] [*]José Reyes, (S), ss[/*:m] [*]Jason Vargas, (L), lhsp[/*:m][/list:o]

G-Fafif Aug 02 2018 07:19 PM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

Nimmo CF Bautista RF Conforto LF Flores 1B Frazier 3B McNeil 2B Plawecki C Reyes SS Vargas P

Fman99 Aug 02 2018 11:59 PM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

Fman99 wrote: I'd be frothing like Cujo at the chance to face Vargas, if I were any kind of real MLB hitter. He sucks all the butt. I hate being right sometimes.

Edgy MD Aug 03 2018 01:09 AM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

Slow thread. Slow team. Let's go, McNeilio. You ain't in the hit column yet tonight.

d'Kong76 Aug 03 2018 01:16 AM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

Thursday nights are always slow here. Everyone (including me) is down at the Bedrock Firehouse playing cards and drinking fitty-cent beers. Just wait, Wilma and Betty are gonna figure out the whole fire department thing when they realize that Bedrock is made of all stone.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 03 2018 01:23 AM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

BuildTheWahl

Edgy MD Aug 03 2018 01:28 AM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 03 2018 01:35 AM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

Feels like W or L hinges on what bautista does right now

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 03 2018 01:35 AM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

strikes out looking

Edgy MD Aug 03 2018 01:38 AM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

Nice to hear the booth throw the Jeep Pitchcast under the bus.

Frayed Knot Aug 03 2018 01:44 AM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

This stretch reminds me of how I felt during the 'Nieuwenhuis game' a couple years back. That bolt out of the blue shocked me so much because, while I knew that a 3R HR was theoretically possible, the odds of it actually happening were so low in my mind that I never considered it. We've reached the same point now. There have been a half dozen ABs here where a timely hit would have put us right back in the game, but I had ZERO cahnfidence in any of them. And this goes back to Zimmo's game-ending GiDP yesterday on the first pitch.

Edgy MD Aug 03 2018 01:47 AM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

Do it for Wahl-E!

Edgy MD Aug 03 2018 01:52 AM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

Damn, Stu likes the low strike.

Edgy MD Aug 03 2018 01:57 AM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

Ideally we have a pinch-hitter for McNeil.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 03 2018 01:57 AM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

Wecky.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 03 2018 02:00 AM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

scum

Edgy MD Aug 03 2018 02:02 AM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

Edgy MD wrote: Ideally we have a pinch-hitter for McNeil. On the other hand, ideally we have a pinch-hitter for most of the lineup.

bmfc1 Aug 03 2018 02:02 AM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

Nice job staring at a pitch right over the plate, Kevin. Maybe one day the Mets will have a decent catcher again.

Edgy MD Aug 03 2018 02:06 AM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

Plawecki, my eyeballs, watching the slow-mo replay, the three guys in the booth, Jeep PitchCast, and GameDay all suggest Kevin got screwed. [fimg=600:22lhjwrv]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/screen-shot-2018-08-02-at-10-04-57-pm.png[/fimg:22lhjwrv] When you're going bad, forces align against you.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 03 2018 02:07 AM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

guy called a lot of borderline strikes. replay showed it was outside

Edgy MD Aug 03 2018 02:08 AM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: guy called a lot of borderline strikes. replay showed it was outside Yeah, crappy game for Disco Stu.

bmfc1 Aug 03 2018 02:11 AM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

Swing the damn bat. Don't let a bad ump beat you--Pawlecki is more than capable of doing that himself.

Fman99 Aug 03 2018 02:36 AM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

'Twas a big ol shit show.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 03 2018 01:31 PM Re: IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

Cast your vote!