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Edgy DC Apr 12 2006 05:41 PM

Section 371, right inside the foul pole in right field. Blue Met cap, courderoy brown windbreaker. Reach me, Cliffy.

Bret Sabermetric Apr 12 2006 07:08 PM

Break some wind.

cooby Apr 12 2006 09:37 PM

Has anybody spotted him? Ya gotta wear orange, Edgy, orange

OlerudOwned Apr 12 2006 09:40 PM

He should've worn red and white stripes.

cooby Apr 12 2006 09:41 PM

That would work

Rockin' Doc Apr 12 2006 10:18 PM

He should have dyed his hair some weird rainbow color.

TheOldMole Apr 12 2006 10:21 PM

And carried a John 23 sign.

metirish Apr 12 2006 11:13 PM

Graet game to see, tell us all about it, did you meet ABG?

Edgy DC Apr 13 2006 12:24 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 13 2006 09:14 AM

Didn't. Met a lot of Met fans. Scribbled down the forum address for one nice girl. Got on a slow Metro elevator with a pair of Met fans who gave me a conspiratorial attitude of "Well, you've got the right hat. We'll let you on." So I returned the favor, complimenting their sartorial choices. While their hats were a disappointing two-tone flavor. They had matching black Chuck Taylor's so I gave them a trivial Met fact of the night --- that the Mets briefly employed a replacement-level player named Chuck Taylor in 1972. I then disappeared into the night, leaving the guy I think, thinking "Shit, that guy knows his Mets," and the girl thinking, "Shit, that guy is old." A Yankee fan was sitting in front of me, apparently coming out for the sole purpose of saying nasty things about Alfonso Soriano. And Sori allowing Cliff Floyd to tag from first (can't recall the last time I saw that) gave him plenty of fuel for his self-hating self. Duan has a point --- with the Mets pitchers; the Marlins on austerity; the Nats neither here nor there; a division full of pitchers' parks; a healthy Carlos Beltran in center; strong defense at short and second; otherwise solid defense at and catcher, third, left, and (more modestly) right, the time is ripe for the first Mets no-hitter. Fact, what the hell, I'll say two. The Nats are the 2003 Mets maybe --- an OK squad just an injury or two away from being a crappy one. They have a bullpen full of goofballs that I like to make fun of, but they're a professional lot of pre-arbitration vets that'll keep them in ball-games. But the starters won't be turning a whole lot of leads over to them. Vidro's pulling that homer is probably a good sign that he isn't done. On the other hand, getting around on the pitch isn't generally a problem with Pedro. Watson is not ready for the bigs, much less being a leadoff hitter and burying Ryan Church in the minors, and, while I thought Ryan Zimmerman was ready to be a badass, most of the Nat fans around me were convinced that his badass dance was still a few years off. With the novelty worn off in the stands, a manager ready to retire (again), the stadium a few years off, and malcontents in left and right, this could be a long season for the Nats and their Nationalistic supporters. One thing that could keep them battling would be an intense rivalry. A few fans wanted to get into it, but Met fans were there to see the Pedro and the Mets tour. What uniform his victims were wearing was as much of an afterthought as who was opening for Judas Priest at the Patriot Center. Um, some band. The Mets took one last shot at he Nats, though. Pedro rather than stay on the bench, went out to warm up for the eighth before being replaced. Davey Johnson would do that to force the other team's manager to commit to a pinch hitter before he committed to a pitching change. But there was no pinch-hitter. He warmed up, then got replaced --- walking off with all the urgency of a pitching coach buying time for his pitcher to warm up. He practically stopped walking altogether when doing the acknowledging-God thing. Nats fans tried to work up a rage at him, but he got the best of their team, only reaching 90 once that I saw (91), and their rage had an air of acknowledgment of his mastery. Wagner was also around 91 most of his inning. Then he channeled it up to 99 for one pitch to Guillen. Where did that come from? Both the Mets double-play that bailed them out of the bases-loaded situation and the Nats' d.p that killed the Mets rally an inning later looked like the guy was safe from my far-off point-of-view. In the ninth, on the grounder to Delgado where he went for the 3-6, was Guillen being a punk for not sliding, or was he being a crafty wiley vet and trying to screen the throw?

metirish Apr 13 2006 12:32 AM

Apparently Pedro going out ofr the 8th was miscommunication with Randolph,I heard him say it.

Edgy DC Apr 13 2006 12:52 AM

Double switching out Zimmerman seemed over-managey. I mean gawrsh, they do it when they have little intentinon of keeping their reliever in for more than an inning and they have seven guys out there anyway. His absence hurt them on dee and his turn in the order would have come around again had Washington rallied. I'm thinking maybe Frank Robby isn't a big fan of his. There was a single to right that wasn't popped or even flared. It was a soft liner that Anderson Hernandez got so freaking far out there that he almost out-ran it and improved over his opening-day catch.

Johnny Dickshot Apr 13 2006 07:03 AM

I thought letting Pedro take the mound gave Heilman enough warmup time. I don't think they miscommunicated to that degree even if they pretended to, so as not to seem like gamesmen. Looked like the DPs were legitly called. I'm very disappointed that they didn;t seem to have a camera trained on 2B to catch Hernandez' part in that play. He's barely in the frame they showed last night. Gary C believed Guillen was punking his way to 2nd. Chuck Taylor is one of the first Mets I can remember. I think I've told this story before, but I recall watching the Mets and not understanding the meaning of the word "Trailing" as used by Bob Murphy (or maybe Lindsay) --"Mets Trailing by 6" -- and I thought it maybe referred to the pitcher, who in my mind became "Chuck Traylor". The illusion lasted less than an inning of course (I learned "Trailing" meant "behind" that day) but I still recall that. EDIT: sorry! It was one of those "don;t steal our image" images. Not to CPF: Don't steal anything from rocknrollconfidential, as good as it is.

Edgy DC Apr 13 2006 08:32 AM

It's going to be tough to re-launch the Band Names for Met Fans thread without rocknrollconfidential.com

Elster88 Apr 13 2006 08:54 AM

Edgy DC wrote: Wagner was also around 91 most of his inning. Then he channeled it up to 99 for one pitch to Guillen. Where did that come from? That's the number we got on TV too. Usually those guns never match. Great report Edgy. (sc = zero). We'll expect one just like that for every Mets-Nats game in DC.

Edgy DC Apr 13 2006 09:10 AM

I woke up this morning and realized I'm 4-0 at RFK. I think I am. Ummm, maybe 3-1.

sharpie Apr 13 2006 09:14 AM

Have you gone to a non-Mets Nationals game?

Edgy DC Apr 13 2006 09:19 AM

I've seen DC United beat the pants off a few other MLS teams, but other baseball games, no.

DocTee Apr 17 2006 12:02 AM

Just got my tickets-- purchased from a season ticket holder who has a trio of bleachers seats just in front of McCovey's Cove-- for the Giants-Mets day game on 26 April. Imagine my surprise to see the SF player featured on said stub: not Bonds, Schmidt, Alou or Lowry, but a chest-thumping Armando Benitez. Ugh.