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KC Aug 14 2005 03:02 PM

NY METS REYES SS .274 CAIRO 2B .279 WRIGHT 3B .303 FLOYD LF .285 PIAZZA C .261 ANDERSON 1B .269 DIAZ RF .260 WILLIAMS CF .250 MARTINEZ P 12-4, 3.00 LA DODGERS IZTURIS SS .267 ROBLES 3B .288 BRADLEY CF .289 SAENZ 1B .292 LEDEE RF .301 PEREZ 2B .330 WERTH LF .234 NAVARRO C .289 PENNY 5-7, 3.50

Edgy DC Aug 14 2005 03:20 PM

Lineups available already. This is all so exciting.

KC Aug 14 2005 03:42 PM

I have a friend who knows someone that's dating a Dodger clubhouse attendant who has a Dodger blog that's by invite only. Great stuff on the blog. Moods of players, hustle observations, how the players get along with one another. He goes to spring training every year and really really knows the players well!! Early lineups can be found there too on the hush. It's this type of journalistic insight that just doesn't get reported in the rags. I'd love to share the link ... sorry, invite only.

Edgy DC Aug 14 2005 04:12 PM

We're under way. Reyes has already struck out. What does clubhouse guy say about it?

Edgy DC Aug 14 2005 04:14 PM

What's Penny doing in Piazza's jersey?

ScarletKnight41 Aug 14 2005 05:00 PM

So Pedro is pitching his heart out, and has NO support. 0-0 in the 4th. Ugh.

ScarletKnight41 Aug 14 2005 05:15 PM

Victor Diaz has a ground rule double and Gerald Williams doubles him in to give the Mets a 1-0 lead in the 5th.

seawolf17 Aug 14 2005 05:16 PM

2005 NL MVP Gerald Williams follows a Diaz double with a looooong double of his own, and it's 1-0 Mets. Pedro follows by popping into a bunt 'em out-pop 'em up-double 'em off double play.

seawolf17 Aug 14 2005 05:19 PM

Fran, pay attention to the words that are coming out of your mouth. I quote, while narrating highlights from a game from 1993: "Eight years ago to the day was Pedro Martinez's last start here at Shea Stadium."

Bunt the First Two Aug 14 2005 05:25 PM

Pedro's Picasso. He's like Joan Miró. He paints the corner Like a Metly Van Gogh. Pedro's da Vinci. He's like Johannes Vermeer. Thank you, Fred Wilpon For bringing him here.

ScarletKnight41 Aug 14 2005 05:26 PM

Welcome back Bunt - a nice inaugural post in our new cyberhome.

Edgy DC Aug 14 2005 05:29 PM

It's one thing seeing Piazza get beat on an inside fastball over the plate. It's another seeing Wright. Penny is dealing.

Edgy DC Aug 14 2005 05:35 PM

Still, three hits in an inning should have netted us one. Cairo picked the wrong time to get caught stealing.

ScarletKnight41 Aug 14 2005 05:42 PM

1-0 after six innings. I ain't leaving this chair.

seawolf17 Aug 14 2005 05:43 PM

Fran Healy never has any problems with tempting the Fates, does he?

KC Aug 14 2005 05:49 PM

3U, 8

KC Aug 14 2005 05:49 PM

F7, 7

KC Aug 14 2005 05:50 PM

F3, 6

Edgy DC Aug 14 2005 05:51 PM

The seventh closes. Standing. Clapping.

Yancy Street Gang Aug 14 2005 05:53 PM

Holy crap. After all this time, and all the near-misses, if this happens, I'm not sure how I'll react. Let's let Pedro get the six outs, and then we'll see.

ScarletKnight41 Aug 14 2005 05:54 PM

Let's first focus on getting some insurance runs, shall we?

Valadius Aug 14 2005 05:54 PM

Song of the day: "Superstitious" - Stevie Wonder

KC Aug 14 2005 06:01 PM

K, 5

ScarletKnight41 Aug 14 2005 06:01 PM

I'm getting a stomach ache over this.

Iubitul Aug 14 2005 06:03 PM

ScarletKnight41 wrote: I'm getting a stomach ache over this. You should - that hit is on you.

Edgy DC Aug 14 2005 06:03 PM

Standing. Clapping.

holychicken Aug 14 2005 06:03 PM

Beltran would've had that :(

metsmarathon Aug 14 2005 06:03 PM

DAMNIT!!!

Valadius Aug 14 2005 06:03 PM

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

seawolf17 Aug 14 2005 06:03 PM

Definitely a standing O for Pedro. Now we gotta win, bud.

seawolf17 Aug 14 2005 06:04 PM

SHIT

ScarletKnight41 Aug 14 2005 06:04 PM

It's my fault for believing it was possible for a Met to throw a no-hitter.

Edgy DC Aug 14 2005 06:04 PM

Smokes.

ScarletKnight41 Aug 14 2005 06:04 PM

DAMMIT!

holychicken Aug 14 2005 06:05 PM

That blows. . . how can things go from so good to so bad! Stupid baseball.

Iubitul Aug 14 2005 06:05 PM

SHITFUCK

KC Aug 14 2005 06:06 PM

Williams folded before hitting the wall.

MiniKnight Aug 14 2005 06:06 PM

Craptastic!

Edgy DC Aug 14 2005 06:08 PM

]Williams folded before hitting the wall. Yup. Nobody in the booth wanted to say it.

cleonjones11 Aug 14 2005 06:10 PM GRAMPA

Grampa was afraid of the wall...what a puss.....slow jump too...

seawolf17 Aug 14 2005 06:13 PM

When a no-no is on the line, you hit the wall. Hard. Gerald Williams, who had earned an MVP vote from me earlier, is now dead to me. But Marlon Anderson may just take Ice's vote.

Edgy DC Aug 14 2005 06:13 PM

I thought he got back there fine. Just didn't do much when he got there. Do it again, Victor.

cleonjones11 Aug 14 2005 06:15 PM David Wright & Reyes & Pedro

Keep them and trade the remainder of the team....

seawolf17 Aug 14 2005 06:16 PM

Dammitdammitdammit. COME ON, GUYS.

seawolf17 Aug 14 2005 06:16 PM

Ah, hell. Here comes Matsui. Isn't Glavine available?

Edgy DC Aug 14 2005 06:16 PM

Grrr... Come in straight, Marlon.

holychicken Aug 14 2005 06:17 PM

Why didn't he bowl him over? If anytime is the time. . THAT is the time!

ScarletKnight41 Aug 14 2005 06:20 PM

Fuckshit! KazMat strikes out to end the game. I hat baseball....

Spacemans Bong Aug 14 2005 06:20 PM

My balls hurt from God kicking me there for liking teh Mets.

cooby Aug 14 2005 06:23 PM

I want to hug Pedro too :(

ScarletKnight41 Aug 14 2005 06:25 PM

Nobody gets any hugs until I kick the crap out of someone or something first. This one hurts.

cooby Aug 14 2005 06:26 PM

You kick, I hug.

ScarletKnight41 Aug 14 2005 06:28 PM

It's kind of counterproductive to do both at the same time. We should take turns....

KC Aug 14 2005 06:30 PM

They just showed another camera angle on FSNY and Williams didn't even try to catch that ball. My anger level over this team has like a fifteen minute after the game thing compared to over the years. Williams gets an awful lot of media stroking for some reason for his clubhouse presence. That used to piss me off about Lenny Harris too. But, whatever. When the clubhouse sees him not even raise his arm to attempt at catch .... let's see how that affects his standing amongst his peers. Ok, maybe thirty minutes tonight.

metsmarathon Aug 14 2005 06:40 PM

that really pissed me off when i saw that. damn, ice. at least try!

ScarletKnight41 Aug 14 2005 06:40 PM

I think it was the sudden transition from spectacular to craptacular which makes this one hurt so much.

SwitchHitter Aug 14 2005 07:08 PM

Guys, I'm so sorry for y'all. I'm sitting in my hotel finding out about this in bits and dribbles. I read on an Astros forum that there were six more outs. Then I saw on the yahoo.com scoreboard that someone had committed a triple. Then I saw the final tally. So I came here. Like I said, I'm really sorry. I know from doing that one song about Jack Hamilton that it would've been history. For Pedro, too because he came close that other time. I don't have any especial love for your Mets, but in this case, I was pulling for them.

ScarletKnight41 Aug 14 2005 07:18 PM

Thank you Annie. You're a class act.

MFS62 Aug 14 2005 07:47 PM

I'd bet that if Boss George or Charlie Finley owned this team, Williams' stuff would have been packed up and waiting for him by the time he got to the clubhouse after the game. Later

ScarletKnight41 Aug 14 2005 08:32 PM

2 glasses of wine later and my jaw is finally unclenched....

Centerfield Aug 14 2005 08:58 PM

My stomach hurts again.

Edgy DC Aug 14 2005 09:16 PM

If the "Boss" or Charlie Finley own this team, my stuff would be packed up and ready to go. ]Nobody gets any hugs until I kick the crap out of someone or something first. And you complain that the men like their daily Coo'.

Rotblatt Aug 14 2005 10:14 PM

Wow. I'm really glad I couldn't tape this game and had to read here for the recap. Otherwise, I'd be extraordinarily crabby in 3 hours instead of just kind of sad right now. This morning, I found myself thinking, "Hey! Pedro's pitching tonight! I should really tape the game!" Then I realized it wouldn't be on regular TV, got crabby and thought, "If he pitches a no-hitter and I can't watch it, I'll be extremely pissed." So this game was way jinxed before it even began. Sorry, guys.

Elster88 Aug 17 2005 02:00 PM

An interesting historical footnote from Simmons: ]I had only one Red Sox friend (Hench) and one reader (Steve Comeau) realize the irony of Gerald "Ice" Williams' botching Pedro's no-hitter with the mistimed leap against the wall on Sunday: Remember when Pedro hit the leadoff batter during a Rays-Sox game in 2000, followed by the guy charging the mound, a raucous brawl, and then an enraged Pedro taking a no-hitter into the ninth? You know who the leadoff batter was? Gerald "Ice" Williams. Now that's goofy.

Frayed Knot Aug 17 2005 02:51 PM

Yeah, that incident was the fuel for the fans who decided that Williams tanked the catch on purpose. Except that: - he didn't exactly "botch" the catch; he may not have looked like a ballerina in mid-leap there but that's a helluva play if he makes it - it's tough to assign blame for messing up a no-no when the next pitch goes over the fence! - it's so fuckin' stupid to believe that Gerald is thinking about this 5-year old incident while he's in a dead sprint and makes what's essentiallly a corrupt decision based on a personal hatred which nobody knows even exists

Elster88 Aug 17 2005 02:53 PM

I wasn't connecting any dots or anything, nor do I think Simmons was implying anything. I just thought it was intersting. I remember watching the highlights from that game.

Frayed Knot Aug 17 2005 02:55 PM

I realize that neither you nor the author were, but that was the incident several talk-radio losers used as an anti-Ice jumping off point that was briefly discussed in another thread.

Edgy DC Aug 17 2005 02:59 PM

I prefer the term "yahoos."

Elster88 Aug 17 2005 03:01 PM

Frayed Knot wrote: I realize that neither you nor the author were, but that was the incident several talk-radio losers used as an anti-Ice jumping off point that was briefly discussed in another thread. I hadn't realized this was why people said Ice hates Pete, though it all makes sense now.

Willets Point Aug 17 2005 03:38 PM

I remember being at Fenway shortly after the Sox-Rays fracas and the Yankee fan behind me was going on about how he had a picture of Williams "cold-cocking" Pedro set as the wallpaper on his computer. Yankee fans {shakes head}.