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IGT 8/13/06 - Mets (Trachsel) at Nationals (Armas Jr.)
| Gwreck Aug 13 2006 12:12 PM |
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New York Mets
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 01:21 PM |
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1-2-3 inning for both as Trachsel Ks Soriano and Lopez to start the 1st.
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| Elster88 Aug 13 2006 01:24 PM |
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I'm not a huge Shawn Green fan. Or Geoff Jenkins.
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| Edgy DC Aug 13 2006 01:29 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 13 2006 01:35 PM |
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I think it's more than most teams have.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 01:31 PM |
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bats are flying around that stadium like..........bats.
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| Edgy DC Aug 13 2006 01:32 PM |
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Two this inning.
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| Elster88 Aug 13 2006 01:33 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 13 2006 01:37 PM |
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I guess. I don't want more than most teams have. I want more than most good teams have. I'm thinking World Series. It's not more than the best American League teams have. Yes, I know I'm getting ahead of myself. I'm allowed. I'm having Nady and Floyd withdrawal.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 01:33 PM |
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0's all around after 2.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 01:35 PM |
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....now that Floyd guy knew how to fling a bat.
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| Gwreck Aug 13 2006 01:45 PM |
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Well, let's not jump off the bridge just yet. Ramon Castro will come back, DiFelice will be gone, and besides, LoDuca will start every game in the playoffs anyway. That's the weakest spot in the lineup today.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 01:48 PM |
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After three complete pitchers are mirroring each other.
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| KC Aug 13 2006 01:55 PM |
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Well, there goes one perfecto as Chavez gets a hit.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 01:57 PM |
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Endy with the Mets first hit of the game, a nice single thru the hole into right.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 02:00 PM |
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Delgado and Wright cant get a run across.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 02:03 PM |
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Soriano---that guys sick.
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| duan Aug 13 2006 02:03 PM |
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bleh. soriano hits one just over the left field fence.
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| Elster88 Aug 13 2006 02:08 PM |
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I won't jump off any bridges. And it's not catcher I'm particularly worried about. I don't like the corner outfielders. And when I'm worried about them I remember my doubts about Valentin.... Ok maybe I am on the ledge of that bridge.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 02:09 PM |
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Washingtons first hit of the game too. Trax follows up by distributing a base on balls to Zimmerman. Two groundball outs get him out of it.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 02:10 PM |
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Hey---dont jump off that bridge till we come to it......
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 02:12 PM |
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Those Presidential sausage mascot things make Mr Met look so small.
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| Edgy DC Aug 13 2006 02:19 PM |
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Sure, but the plan is pretty clear (don't know how it'll work out) that Floyd and Lo Duca will be in the lineup in October.
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| metirish Aug 13 2006 02:24 PM |
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Gary
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 02:28 PM |
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6th inning already--wow.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 02:29 PM |
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......Ouch! badaboom
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| Edgy DC Aug 13 2006 02:38 PM |
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Trax deserves some runs
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| Edgy DC Aug 13 2006 02:47 PM |
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David, hit it where Zimmerman hit it.
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| Edgy DC Aug 13 2006 02:50 PM |
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Way to go from first to third, David.
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| Edgy DC Aug 13 2006 02:50 PM |
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Yup.
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 13 2006 02:52 PM |
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Armas has been the victim of some very poor defense this inning. The Mets are the beneficiaries.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 02:52 PM |
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| metirish Aug 13 2006 02:58 PM |
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Mr.Met getting all the love in DC from the fans.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 02:58 PM |
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Are they having a mascot convention in Washington this weekend?
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| metirish Aug 13 2006 03:00 PM |
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No Gary just explained that the Nationals have all the area mascots in town to honour Screech the Nats mascot,who Gary thinks in an Owl but Ron says he's a bald eagle...looks like an owl though.
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 13 2006 03:01 PM |
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There was no need for them to dis Fredbird like that. He's not so bad.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 03:03 PM |
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Looks like a chick to me. Everyone on both teams, aside from the pitchers, are playing like they were out late last night drinking with me.
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 13 2006 03:04 PM |
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Were they?
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 13 2006 03:06 PM |
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Oh dear lord no! Willie is replacing Trax with Royce Ring with two out and runners on the corners!
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 03:07 PM |
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I cant recall....... Perfectly executed hit and run knocks Trachsel off the mound (figuratively speaking). Ring in to put out the fire.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 03:11 PM |
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He's throwin gas, but you shouldnt throw gas on a fire. Walks Ward and Rings run.
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 13 2006 03:11 PM |
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After walking the only batter he faced, Ring is pulled and Chad Bradford comes in with the bases loaded and two out.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 03:13 PM |
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Bases loaded for Soriano-
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 13 2006 03:16 PM |
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YES - Porn Stash makes a great play to get the runner at first and end the inning. Whew!
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 03:17 PM |
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GREAT PLAY by VALENTIN gets the Mets out of trouble.
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 13 2006 03:20 PM |
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Bradford had come into today's game having stranded 32 out of 41 inherited runners. With Valentin's help, that's now 35 out of 44.
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| OlerudOwned Aug 13 2006 03:23 PM |
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 03:23 PM |
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TUCKER!
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 13 2006 03:23 PM |
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Michael Tucker goes
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 13 2006 03:36 PM |
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With one out and a runner on 1st in the 8th, Darren Oliver comes in to face Nick Fucking Johnson.
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 13 2006 03:37 PM |
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OMG! Not only did Nick Fucking Johnson fly out to center, but Ryan Zimmerman makes a rookie mistake by forgetting how many outs there were in the inning - by the time he got to third, the ball was back to first to complete the double play.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 03:37 PM |
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Oliver on to try and get thru the 8th.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 03:48 PM |
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Valentin with the sac fly and we get a lil
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| Edgy DC Aug 13 2006 03:49 PM |
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Ausitn Kearns does something stupid.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 03:50 PM |
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.......cry me a river Frankie.
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 13 2006 03:51 PM |
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Who do you think he is - Mother Torresa?
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 13 2006 03:52 PM |
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3-1 heading to the bottom of the 9th.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 03:54 PM |
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HA! The two a them should share a crying towel. 
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 13 2006 04:02 PM |
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Damn - with the Nats down to their last strike, Wagner loses the batter and Escobar comes to the plate as the tying run with two out and a runner on first :(
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| Edgy DC Aug 13 2006 04:03 PM |
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Escobar is back.
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| metirish Aug 13 2006 04:04 PM |
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Alex walks...damn Billy come on.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 04:05 PM |
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Wags gets two quick outs and gives up a line single to Marlon Anderson.
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 13 2006 04:05 PM |
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Damn! Escobar walks. Willie comes out to slap Wagner upside the head a bit and talk some sense into him!
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 04:06 PM |
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Delgado with the sliding catch on the foul pop and game ovah!
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 13 2006 04:07 PM |
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YES - Delgado catches the ball in foul territory to end the game. The Mets Win! The Mets Win!
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| Edgy DC Aug 13 2006 04:07 PM |
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Delgado isn't much with the bat, but he more than makes up for it with his defense.
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| metirish Aug 13 2006 04:09 PM |
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Great play by Carlos.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 04:11 PM |
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Good game.
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| KC Aug 13 2006 04:19 PM |
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Randolph to Wags: Look, we're on Amtrack tonight. If we're late they're gonna
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| metirish Aug 13 2006 04:26 PM |
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That's on SNY now.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 04:27 PM |
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I think its quaint and kool. I bet itll be quite relaxing.
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| Zvon Aug 13 2006 04:28 PM |
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With Ralph himself?
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| metirish Aug 13 2006 04:30 PM |
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No Ralph, just the studio guy talking to Ron,no Gary even.
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| KC Aug 13 2006 04:36 PM |
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There's nothing quaint about Amtrack's east coast service - it would take
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| Edgy DC Aug 13 2006 04:43 PM |
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Traachsel showing some game three stuff.
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| TheOldMole Aug 13 2006 04:53 PM |
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...and we leave it like this?
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| KC Aug 13 2006 05:50 PM |
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Mole: >>>...and we leave it like this?<<<
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| SteveJRogers Aug 13 2006 07:30 PM |
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Yup. Had a long one from Stamford to Vermont a few years ago. Not even Willie Nelson's "City of New Orleans," some neat New England scenery and plenty of Sam Adams from the dinning car prevented me from being bored out of my mind!
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| SteveJRogers Aug 13 2006 07:43 PM |
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Been that way for a long time now with shows on the WB...err now its CW 11 Your only bet for any kind of pre/post coverage will always be with whomever the cable carrier is. Worst example was in 1999 I believe, where the Mets were doing a 1969 reuion and what may have been the last OTG played at Shea. The WB carried the Met game that afternoon, and started their programing promptly at regular Met game time and ended promptly at the game's conculsion. I even emailed the WB wondering was it REALLY neccessary to air the 12 pm airing of a rebroadcast of the previous week's "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" I mean did that showing do ANY ratings that would neccesitate a firm "NO!" to carrying a special Met pomp and circumstance event? No response of course UGH! Just noticed that Ch 11 is having the Met game next Saturday as well. I might be TiVoing both 11 and SNY to see if ANY of the pregame stuff is televised! Yeah because reruns of Friends and Everybody Loves Raymond will do better raitings that some celebration of a beloved championship team!  Is it any wonder that the MFY OTG hasn't been on over-the-air TV for the last 18 some years?
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| Edgy DC Aug 13 2006 09:01 PM |
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Trains are great, even though (1) the Amtrack government-subsidized monopoly is a disaster, and (2) people are zipping around France and Japan in high-speed supertrains made with technology developed here while we're still rumbling around in 1930s-tech sardine cans.
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| TheOldMole Aug 13 2006 09:08 PM |
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I realize my remark made no sense at all. I came on here about twenty minutes after the game ended, and getalife must have somehow held up a whole bunch of messages, because the last note I saw still had the Mets and Billy looking for the third out. So I post mine, and suddenly it's at the end of all those other notes.
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| Frayed Knot Aug 13 2006 09:10 PM |
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Nah! The thing about the train is it gets you from downtown to downtown - in this case probably in less than 2 hours. You couldn't do any better than that via air-o-plane for this distance.
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| Elster88 Aug 13 2006 09:15 PM |
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Wagner
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| SteveJRogers Aug 13 2006 10:15 PM |
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Yeah but as the years go on this line written in the early 50's is getting more and more out dated "...I bet there's rich folks eating, in those fancy dinning cars, probably drinking coffee and smoking them big cigars..." -Johnny Cash "Folsom Prison Blues" No fancy dinning cars, and no on-board special coffee either! Oh and its NO SMOKING these days And I'm not even going to get into all the references in Steve Goodman's "The City Of New Orleans" in terms of the romantic notion of train travel
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| Edgy DC Aug 13 2006 10:23 PM |
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Let's start with the fact that trains go from central city to central city, add on the fact that we aren't degraded by a stripsearch, and they can be a better way to bounce around the eastern seaboard if priced competitively.
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| metirish Aug 13 2006 10:36 PM |
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I took an Amtrack Train around the States many years ago and my friend and i had a blast,we went form NY to Chicago and made our way down to Texas and around and back to NY, we were gone for 2 weeks,it's a great way to see the country.
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| cooby Aug 13 2006 10:43 PM |
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City of New Orleans...great song. Wasn't it Arlo Guthrie though?
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 13 2006 10:57 PM |
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What FK said. Except that it's more like 90 minutes from DC to Philly. I recently took the Amtrak from DC to Central NJ. It's pleasant, quick and efficient. OTOH, even before the events of the past week, getting through airports these days is a major PITA. I wouldn't call Amtrak quaint, but it is an efficient method of traveling between these two cities.
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| Willets Point Aug 13 2006 11:18 PM |
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Of course, Al Qaida has demonstrated in Madrid and London that they can blow up trains as easily as planes but the security measures (or the hysteria level) do not compare for trains. I think the TSA should just be renamed ASA since that's all they're concerned with.
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| TheOldMole Aug 14 2006 08:50 AM |
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NY to Washington, I'd opt for the train every time.
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| Frayed Knot Aug 14 2006 09:02 AM |
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Arlo had the biggest "hit" with the song (about a billion different singers have covered it) but it was written by the late Steve Goodman, a fun-loving favorite son of the Chicago folk/blues scene.
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| KC Aug 14 2006 09:04 AM |
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Can I derail an IGT or what. I'm not anti-trains, I love taking the train, I just
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| Yancy Street Gang Aug 14 2006 09:21 AM |
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I took trains from city to city in Italy a couple of years ago, and it was a pleasant way to travel. I'll be doing the same in Japan this fall. I just hope that the seats won't be too snug on my American derriere.
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| Frayed Knot Aug 14 2006 09:27 AM |
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Look at it this way; if you and I would prefer it over plane travel for this length trip, why wouldn't they also?
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| KC Aug 14 2006 09:33 AM |
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I guess. Sometimes I start chewing on the slipper and I just can't stop until
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| Elster88 Aug 14 2006 09:44 AM |
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Because they go first class?
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| Edgy DC Aug 14 2006 10:20 AM |
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There's first-class train travel and chartered train travel also.
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| sharpie Aug 14 2006 10:38 AM |
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I remember a few years ago the Nets travelled to, I think, Philadelphia by train. They were all excited because they could use their phones.
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| Elster88 Aug 14 2006 10:44 AM |
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I'm sure the players have plenty of portable electronic devices to keep them occupied. And total trip time is actually probably less when the cities are so close together, so total boredom time would probably go down too.
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| Frayed Knot Aug 14 2006 10:49 AM |
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Flying first class is hardly a great perk when you're only air-borne for like 12 minutes or whatever it would be from DC to Philly. By the time you reach cruising altitude ... it's time to descend.
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| KC Aug 14 2006 10:55 AM |
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If I was Pedro, I'd call up Tony and ask to use the Kornheiser Kruiser -
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| Elster88 Aug 14 2006 10:56 AM |
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A chartered bus might even be the way to go on a trip like Philly to DC.
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| metirish Aug 14 2006 11:00 AM |
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Just because I was curious I went to the Amtrak website, for $83 you can leave Union station in DC at noon and arrive at the 30th Street station in Philly in 1 hour 35 minutes, that's the Acela train.
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| MFS62 Aug 14 2006 11:03 AM |
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The best train ride I ever had was when I was in the Army. I was returning to DC from NY and if you wore your uniform, you got a special rate. It left NY at (IIRC) 6 or 7 PM. I asked the conductor where the dining car was, and was told it was "seven cars back".
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