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IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Edgy MD Aug 06 2018 06:59 PM

The Reds return to Citi Field following a Braves series that saw the dis-spiriting reality of the team taking a modest step forward in their quality of play, only to still lose three of four. Mets bring Noah Syndergaard to the mound. Reds counter with Homer Bailey who, despite being among baseball's biggest albatross contracts the last four years, but has been pitching reasonably well of late. The big question as these two bottom feeders clash for dominance of the bottom: Will there be a Matt Harvey scoreboard video tribute? [youtube]SvkWUsv9mz8[/youtube]

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 06 2018 07:00 PM Mets-Reds IGT 8/618

Syndergoo opposes Homer Bailey, who's been dreadful. Actually Bailey sucked ass and they tried the Trachsel Cure on him, and he's been OK since. Reds are playing better lately although they suck like us overall

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 06 2018 07:03 PM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

fucking hell

Edgy MD Aug 06 2018 07:10 PM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

[table:2icf67um][tr:2icf67um][td:2icf67um][fimg=250:2icf67um]https://images.footballfanatics.com/FFImage/thumb.aspx?i=/productimages/_2927000/altimages/ff_2927985alt1_full.jpg&w=600[/fimg:2icf67um][/td:2icf67um][td:2icf67um][fimg=250:2icf67um]https://images.footballfanatics.com/FFImage/thumb.aspx?i=/productimages/_2927000/altimages/ff_2927992alt1_full.jpg&w=900[/fimg:2icf67um][/td:2icf67um][/tr:2icf67um][tr:2icf67um][td:2icf67um][list=1:2icf67um][*:2icf67um]José Peraza (R) SS[/*:m:2icf67um] [*:2icf67um]Joey Votto (L) 1B[/*:m:2icf67um] [*:2icf67um]Scooter Gennett (L) 2B[/*:m:2icf67um] [*:2icf67um]Eugenio Suarez (R) 3B[/*:m:2icf67um] [*:2icf67um]Mason Williams (L) RF[/*:m:2icf67um] [*:2icf67um]Tucker Barnhart (S) C[/*:m:2icf67um] [*:2icf67um]Preston Tucker (L) LF[/*:m:2icf67um] [*:2icf67um]Homer Bailey (R), rhsp[/*:m:2icf67um] [*:2icf67um]Billy Hamilton (S) CF[/*:m:2icf67um][/list:o:2icf67um][/td:2icf67um][td:2icf67um][list=1:2icf67um][*:2icf67um]Amed Rosario (R), ss[/*:m:2icf67um] [*:2icf67um]Jeff McNeil (L), 2b[/*:m:2icf67um] [*:2icf67um]Wilmer Flores (R), 1b[/*:m:2icf67um] [*:2icf67um]Michael Conforto (L), lf[/*:m:2icf67um] [*:2icf67um]Todd Frazier (R), 3b[/*:m:2icf67um] [*:2icf67um]Brandon Nimmo (L), rf[/*:m:2icf67um] [*:2icf67um]Austin Jackson (R), cf[/*:m:2icf67um] [*:2icf67um]Kevin Plawecki (R), c[/*:m:2icf67um] [*:2icf67um]Noah Syndergaard (L), rhsp[/*:m:2icf67um][/list:o:2icf67um][/td:2icf67um][/tr:2icf67um][/table:2icf67um] A lot of last-name-first-names in that Reds lineup.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 06 2018 07:25 PM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

There's already "controversy" that Hovvey has set up a press conference at the same time as Mick's, despite the Mets having asked him not to.

Edgy MD Aug 06 2018 07:29 PM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Matt Harvey and the Mets press office. It's just like old times.

d'Kong76 Aug 06 2018 07:38 PM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

He'll probably be late, and tripping his balls off.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 06 2018 08:04 PM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

I'm sure the press conference will be all about Qualcomm.

seawolf17 Aug 06 2018 08:13 PM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm sure the press conference will be all about Qualcomm. Someone should ask the question, just for old times' sake.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 06 2018 08:21 PM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

How's the pee coming along, Matt? Do you find the cocaine in the Queen City as robust as the varieties more common to the Meatpacking district of Manhattan? How do they compare? You like staying up all night in clubs then banging Ford Modeling agency chicks afterward. Is Cincinnati's 10 pm downtown shutdown and Miss Pork Board candidates a match?

Ceetar Aug 06 2018 08:24 PM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

In a way, it's kinda funny Harvey ended up in Cincinnati because he turned down in assignment to _Las Vegas_

Edgy MD Aug 06 2018 08:24 PM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Is the ice hockey better on the Ohio side of the river or the Kentucky side?

Benjamin Grimm Aug 06 2018 08:27 PM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Fman99 Aug 07 2018 12:23 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

An Eddie K appearance! He looks and sounds great.

Frayed Knot Aug 07 2018 12:43 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Before this (4th) inning started, I was starting to wonder whether this was going to be one of those games where we score early and then spend the next 8 frames trying to stave off challenges to that lead. But now 5-Zip smells a lot better than 3-Zip

Edgy MD Aug 07 2018 12:46 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Yeah, I thought they scrod themselves royally the previous inning when they got the first two on, 3-0 on Frazier, then he inexplicably swung at ball four. And even though he recovered to hit a long double sacrifice fly, the team came away with no runs. So here's to the tack-on runs. Key play was Rosario easily beating out a ball that would've been a double play for everybody else in the league except him and Billy Hamilton. Certainly every other righthanded hitter.

Edgy MD Aug 07 2018 01:04 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Frazier almost killing our secondbaseman. Any time he wants to come off the DL in his head would be welcome.

Edgy MD Aug 07 2018 01:11 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

I think McNeil just hit one, like ... Duda length.

smg58 Aug 07 2018 01:11 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

McNeil's legend continues to grow.

Fman99 Aug 07 2018 01:11 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

He Ka-fuckin-boomed that shit!

Edgy MD Aug 07 2018 01:23 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

OK, Dave Eiland. Enough.

Edgy MD Aug 07 2018 01:24 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Pinch-run with Harvey!!!

Edgy MD Aug 07 2018 01:30 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

A reliable lefthanded reliever would be nice in this situation.

41Forever Aug 07 2018 01:30 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Just saw the video of McNeil's blast. Wow -- to the back of the upper deck! Why did we wait so long to promote this guy?

Edgy MD Aug 07 2018 01:34 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Really a helluva situation to put Wahl in.

smg58 Aug 07 2018 01:39 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Bases loaded, the heart of the order, breaking pitches not coming close -- I give Wahl some credit for getting an out.

Edgy MD Aug 07 2018 01:40 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Dive, Amed.

Frayed Knot Aug 07 2018 01:40 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Not that the bloop is the reason, but I'm not quite sure why Mickey saw the need for the Wahl/Gsellman switch. In all, it was just disappointing to only get 6-1/3 of of Syndy tonight.

41Forever Aug 07 2018 01:51 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Jackson has been a nice pick up.

Edgy MD Aug 07 2018 01:56 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

A Dilson Herrera sighting! [fimg=600:rbf7c09d]https://metsmlb.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/img_6835.jpg[/fimg:rbf7c09d]

41Forever Aug 07 2018 01:57 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Edgy MD wrote: A Dilson Herrera sighting! Hitting a robust .149. Still so young. Hopefully he gets a decent shot.

Frayed Knot Aug 07 2018 02:04 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Rosario looks like he's never even witnessed a bunt before much less performed one.

d'Kong76 Aug 07 2018 02:05 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

41Forever wrote: Jackson has been a nice pick up. Maybe, but what's the point with eyes toward the future.

Edgy MD Aug 07 2018 02:06 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Making tonight more pleasing. Rosario La Futura is bailing out on pitches over the middle of the plate and the outer half. He needs a demotion.

41Forever Aug 07 2018 02:07 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

McNeil can bunt pretty well.

41Forever Aug 07 2018 02:09 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

d'Kong76 wrote: 41Forever wrote: Jackson has been a nice pick up. Maybe, but what's the point with eyes toward the future. Well, you gotta play the rest of the season and we're pretty thin on outfield talent. But he's only 31. Might not be a bad piece to have next year.

d'Kong76 Aug 07 2018 02:11 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

We're stuck with him next year, we'll see if that's good or bad.

Edgy MD Aug 07 2018 02:18 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Joey Votto gives up running when he grounds out to first, not wanting race Flores to the bag. I don't want him anymore.

MFS62 Aug 07 2018 02:26 AM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Books. Willie McCovey won the NL Rookie of the Year award by hitting .354 in only 52 games. (1959) There's still enough time for McNeil to win it this year. Later

smg58 Aug 07 2018 01:50 PM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Is Jackson under our control for next year? The Giants signed him for two years, but then traded him to the Rangers who released him. We picked him up for the minimum, but doesn't that only apply for the rest of the season? OK, so if Blevins was available to pitch the ninth, why didn't he face Votto and Gennett with the bases loaded in the seventh? Blevins is (finally) pitching well enough to be dealable.

Edgy MD Aug 07 2018 02:14 PM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Yeah, I think the Mets signed him after he cleared, rather than claiming him on waivers. Yeah, I wondered why Blevins wasn't in for the seventh too, but I get the idea that Mickey has ease off on him only facing the toughest batters on the most thankless situations. No, I don't know why he instead chose to go with the least experienced guy out there in Wahl-E.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 07 2018 07:52 PM Re: IGT Aug. 6, 2018: Red Dawn

Cast your vote!