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IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

kcmets Jun 22 2019 08:00 AM

NYM (36‑40) Zack Wheeler (RHP, 5-5, 4.94) CHC (41‑34) Jose Quintana (LHP, 4-6, 3.87)

Edgy MD Jun 22 2019 08:08 AM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

Chance to go over .500 in the Vulture Era.

G-Fafif Jun 22 2019 10:54 AM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

Squirrel 2B Polar Bear 1B Davis LF Frazier 3B Conforto RF Buffalo C Rosario SS Lagares CF Wheeler P Let's get animal on these Cubbies!

41Forever Jun 22 2019 12:31 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

And Darryl Strawberry, today you are only tied for the Mets rookie home run record. Way to go Polar Bear Pete!

G-Fafif Jun 22 2019 12:35 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

Pete halfway to Aaron Judge's MLB record, and wouldn't that be a fine one to dislodge?

G-Fafif Jun 22 2019 12:37 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

Cody Bellinger's NL rookie record of 39 is surely in Pete's sights.

G-Fafif Jun 22 2019 01:09 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

What Alonso does with one swing, McNeil does with several. That slap hit the other way down the line was positively baseball porn.

Edgy MD Jun 22 2019 01:18 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

Yup. And it's the old type of porn, from when they cared about things like character and atmosphere.

Edgy MD Jun 22 2019 01:20 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

Todd Frazier, meanwhilst, for what I think is the second time this season, made a pissy face, thinking that he got too far under a pitch, and then sudenly realized he had hit a homer.

batmagadanleadoff Jun 22 2019 01:51 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

If the Mets keep this up, someone's getting beaned.

Edgy MD Jun 22 2019 01:58 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

If a Cubs pitcher beans someone, Phil Regan is gonna kick somebody's ass.

G-Fafif Jun 22 2019 01:59 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

Give Frazier and Ramos a finely calibrated time machine and they too could tie Darryl's rookie record.

batmagadanleadoff Jun 22 2019 02:01 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

It'll be shades of Bill Hands, 50th anniversary coming up and all.

Edgy MD Jun 22 2019 02:19 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

I assume the second-base ump will get a call right eventually.

batmagadanleadoff Jun 22 2019 02:21 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

Is there some moronic unwritten rule of baseball that you can't ask for a replay review when you're up by nine runs late in the game?

Edgy MD Jun 22 2019 02:24 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

I imagine no, but there might be someone who projects such a rule as an extension of other running-up-the-score unwritten rules. And hey, as you said, a Met might be fixin' to get drilled anyhow. I can see a grumpy Cub rationalizing that the appeal was over-the top. I'm all for the appeal, but I agree with Gary that the decision should be made on the field.

Frayed Knot Jun 22 2019 02:34 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

Is a Rowan Wick what you use to light your Rowan Candle?

kcmets Jun 22 2019 02:35 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

Scoring every inning while the other team can't sounds fun!

batmagadanleadoff Jun 22 2019 02:38 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

I'm not sure that "running up the score " is even a thing in baseball. It makes sense in football when, for example, the team with an insurmountable lead late in the game starts making 50 yard pass attempts. But in baseball? What is the team with the big lead supposed to do? Swing softly? Pull a Marv Throneberry and miss the bases after hitting the ball over the wall?

ashie62 Jun 22 2019 03:01 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

This is truly fun

Edgy MD Jun 22 2019 03:14 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

Caratini just set a land speed record for a pitcher heading from the mound to the dugout.

Frayed Knot Jun 22 2019 03:17 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

E-Rawlings

41Forever Jun 22 2019 03:25 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

Books!!!

41Forever Jun 22 2019 03:30 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

Flexen seems to have found a role.

MFS62 Jun 22 2019 03:52 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

=41Forever post_id=13845 time=1561239046 user_id=69] Flexen seems to have found a role.

Pitching in games where the team has large leads.

You know, situations when we get scared when F'milia starts warming up.

Later

Edgy MD Jun 22 2019 05:30 PM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

Well, Familia is on the DL. He don't scare me nohow. Hopefully he comes back healthier.

Fman99 Jun 23 2019 04:04 AM Re: IGT 06/22 - Metsies at Cubbies - Saturday Matinee

Edgy MD wrote: Yup. And it's the old type of porn, from when they cared about things like character and atmosphere. Big furry triangles, too, lest we forget. Like an under-maintained swatch of the Wrigley Field ivy.