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Get off the interstate NOW!!!! 2006

Edgy DC Apr 16 2006 06:27 PM

Cruising along obliviously: Anderson Hernandez: .176 Having trouble finding a spot to get over: Victor Diaz: .125 Side of road, engine not responding: José Valentin: .000. meanwhile, all the Met starting pitchers are hittin (Gavine, .750; Bannister, .500; Martinez and Trachsel, .250) except Zambrano (0-2).

Elster88 Apr 16 2006 07:50 PM

Cliff Floyd .182

Edgy DC Apr 17 2006 12:57 PM

Eh, he was at .200 when I started typing.

Elster88 Apr 17 2006 09:35 PM

Fibber. I'm John Olerud!!!! (35)

Edgy DC May 13 2006 10:47 PM

Jose Valentin: .206.

Elster88 May 14 2006 11:53 AM

Cornelius must still be lost on the highway.

Edgy DC May 16 2006 09:57 PM

Cornelius has gotten off at a St. Louis exit. My guy is at a whomping .207.

metirish May 16 2006 10:00 PM

Floud is having a fine night at the plate, Willie knows what he's doing guys, sitting Cliff has worked, I love Willie.

Elster88 May 17 2006 09:05 AM

I disagree. Cliff was hitting the ball hard before he got sat. I'd wager it's just coincidence that two of them happened to drop in today.

Edgy DC May 18 2006 09:41 AM

Maybe. But Cliff has stumbled back onto the interstate after last night. We probably need Diaz to come up and cover lefties like Mulder for him for a while. But Izzy seems to me the type of pitcher who should be real vulnerable to Cliff when Cliff is right. Pitching around los Carloses to get to a slumping Wright and an uber-slumping Floyd seems like it was the right move for the Cards.

Frayed Knot May 18 2006 09:50 AM

They were clearly pitching around Carlos B. (setting up the force/DP ... wanted to face a lefty, etc) but he plunked Carlos D. on a 1-2 pitch pushing to go-ahead to 2nd. IThat one wasn't intentional, nor do I think that he/they were looking to get to Wright.

Edgy DC May 18 2006 10:13 AM

Well, I used "seems" for a reason. Delgado is clearly a better hitter than Wright right now. Getting a lefty/lefty matchup is better than getting a righty/righty one, on average. Even with Wright slumping, Delgado is a bettter bet for the nobody-advances strikeout than Wright. Even with Wright batting wrighty, Delgado is a better bet for a game-ending double-play than Wright. But it sure worked out for St. Louis. Most (non uberslumping) times, Izzy v. Floyd is a matchup I'd take --- apart from , you know, a pitcher always having the advantage with two down.

TransMonk May 18 2006 10:28 AM

How is Wright slumping right now? He is batting .368 on the roadtrip and .328 in the month of May. Delgado on the other hand is .227 on the road trip and .255 in May. Delgado is a much better bet to hit a long ball in that situation, but I'd rather have him at the plate to stay out of the base hit and hope for a DP if I'm the Cards. I don't think the cards "played it right" as much as they got the plays they needed. They had to face the heart of a pretty good lineup with their closer in a one run game with the bases loaded. The Mets blinked. Cards win. Could have just as easily went the other way.

Edgy DC May 18 2006 10:37 AM

]How is Wright slumping right now? He is batting .368 on the roadtrip and .328 in the month of May. Um, I don't know. I was just going by eyeball. He seems to be striking out a lot more (as opposed to not at all during his first three weeks). He seems to be vulnerable down and in. Those numbers are hard to refute though. They needed contact and had a contact hitter up, but it just didn't work out.

TransMonk May 18 2006 10:41 AM

Sorry, I know what you mean, Wright looks like he's slumping. More than that, he looks like a young player...taking pitches he should be swinging at, swinging at pitches he should be taking, pulling his head, looking overmatched. Hard to remember that he still has some growing to do, and when he does...

Elster88 May 25 2006 04:21 PM

BTW, the baseballs no longer have to pee, because Cornelius has been hitting the piss out of them.

vtmet May 25 2006 10:33 PM

Until Kaz Matsui reach the I60 mark at home today, I didn't even realize that there wasn't an I-60 on the roadmap...but apparently for Kaz, I-60 is the new Interstate running right thru the heart of Shea Stadium... Speaking of Interstate Oddities: I-84 runs from Conn. to NY and then from Utah-Idaho-Oregon-Wash but nowhere inbetween... I-86 runs thru western NY and then southern Idaho but nowhere else... I-88 runs from Albany NY to Binghamton NY and then around the Illinois area but nowhere else...