IT IS HIGH! IT IS FAR! IT IS... caught.: With God and Clarke Schmidt on our side...

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Sunday, September 12, 2021

With God and Clarke Schmidt on our side...

Posted by Mustang at 6:51 PM

...We will show the New York Mets we're the less pathetic New York ballclub!

80 comments:

Anonymous said...: Just watched the NY Giants. Looking forward to Spring Training.

Doug K.; September 12, 2021 at 7:16 PM
JM said...: Doesn't look like the Jints will be a source of any solace this year. P.U.; September 12, 2021 at 7:45 PM
JM said...: One of the ESPN announcers, after they talked about the 13 game win streak followed by a 3-11 stretch, noted that they got worse as they got healthier.

No kidding.; September 12, 2021 at 8:17 PM
Anonymous Bosch said...: Schmidt? What kind of name is that for a baseball player? Is he forming an axis with Rizzo and Higashioka?; September 12, 2021 at 8:34 PM
TheWinWarblist said...: Love the Axis of Evil Empire reference AB.; September 12, 2021 at 8:49 PM
Anonymous said...: Axis of Evil Empire.

Good one.

Doug K.; September 12, 2021 at 8:52 PM
Anonymous Bosch said...: Has anyone noticed that Toronto scored 44 runs this weekend? 44?; September 12, 2021 at 8:58 PM
TheWinWarblist said...: How does one walk a minor league pitcher who's last plate appearance was in 2014 when he was at Alatoona High School in Georgia?; September 12, 2021 at 9:00 PM
TheWinWarblist said...: Criminy it's gonna be another bullpen game. I just can't. It's September and I cannot any more.; September 12, 2021 at 9:01 PM
Anonymous Bosch said...: Schmidt has taken second! Yastrzemski better watch his back!; September 12, 2021 at 9:01 PM
TheWinWarblist said...: Yes, AB, I did. They are a bunch on hitting fools. Somehow they have a Bichette AND a Guerrero. Before you know it they'll have a Little Edgar Martinez. Maybe a Sheffield Jr? Why not a fucking Big Papi Jr too!!!

HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT WE'RE FIELDING!?!?!!; September 12, 2021 at 9:06 PM
Pocono Steve said...: Torres the Terrible.; September 12, 2021 at 9:10 PM
TheWinWarblist said...: I wouldn't care about Torres' fielding if he had 44 HR like Vlad Jr!!!!!; September 12, 2021 at 9:12 PM
Pocono Steve said...: Alas, Torres may have been a juiced-ball wonder.; September 12, 2021 at 9:14 PM
Anonymous Bosch said...: Funiculì, funiculà!; September 12, 2021 at 9:25 PM
Artificial Lemon Flabbering said...: "Allatoona, Allatoona, Allatoona, Allatoona, Allatoona, Suzyn. Allatoona!"; September 12, 2021 at 9:29 PM
JM said...: Judge out of the game. No news on why; September 12, 2021 at 9:31 PM
TheWinWarblist said...: AB, that is a most peculiar reference, and the only reason I know it, is my father use to sing that peculiar tune.; September 12, 2021 at 9:31 PM
TheWinWarblist said...: Something in his eye? A twig or something?; September 12, 2021 at 9:32 PM
TheWinWarblist said...: I'd like to point something out, you know, lest it had escaped the rest of the Commentariat.

WE ARE FUCKING LOSING AGAIN!!!; September 12, 2021 at 9:33 PM
Artificial Lemon Flavorin' said...: OH MY GOODNESS - WHAT IS GOING ON!!!!!?!!!!!; September 12, 2021 at 9:35 PM
JM said...: Gio sucks. Jesus.

Mets player of the game: Clarke Schmidt.; September 12, 2021 at 9:35 PM
JM said...: Torres and Urshela can't field anymore.; September 12, 2021 at 9:35 PM
Anonymous Bosch said...: It’s a standard of Neapolitan Songs since 1880. I once interviewed Luciano Pavarotti to tie-in with his album of Neapolitan Songs and we got into a disagreement about the great tenor Aureliano Pertile (1920s-1930s) and I KNEW I was right. I was dismissed with “Eef you no like you can go FOOK yourself. No more! No more I feenish! I feenish!” I have the digital tape to prove it!; September 12, 2021 at 9:36 PM
Anonymous Bosch said...: I have to say: Gio looks rather pallid, rather ashen and unwell since his return from the IL. Premature?; September 12, 2021 at 9:40 PM
Rufus T. Firefly said...: AB,

That is an incredible story. More so that you were arguing about Aureliano Pertile.

Who'd a thunk it?; September 12, 2021 at 9:50 PM
Rufus T. Firefly said...: Gio may have extended coronaticks; September 12, 2021 at 9:51 PM
JM said...: Sure looks like it.

That Pavarotti tape would go viral, I bet. Think it might be worth something?; September 12, 2021 at 9:54 PM
TheWinWarblist said...: Pavarotti is an Italian Diva. I'm sure he'd argue with anyone over any thing, any time.; September 12, 2021 at 9:57 PM
TheWinWarblist said...: Which of the Yankees had plague this year??; September 12, 2021 at 9:58 PM
Anonymous Bosch said...: Christmas is coming early for us:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90XHkRXPVjM&ab_channel=DiogodaSilva; September 12, 2021 at 9:59 PM
Rufus T. Firefly said...: Would it be easier to ask who didn't catch it?; September 12, 2021 at 10:00 PM
Anonymous Bosch said...: Might be easier to list which Yankees HAVEN’T had a bout with the plague. I’d be more curious to know who refused vaccinations and on what grounds.; September 12, 2021 at 10:02 PM
13bit said...: I hear that Pavarotti was a side-arming junk baller in a Florida nudist camp softball league in his spare time.; September 12, 2021 at 10:04 PM
JM said...: Easier to name the ones who didn't.; September 12, 2021 at 10:04 PM
Rufus T. Firefly said...: Is there an echo in here?

...here?

..here?

.here?; September 12, 2021 at 10:12 PM
Rufus T. Firefly said...: How can Rizzo be out when he didn't even reach the middle of the dirt?; September 12, 2021 at 10:14 PM
Pocono Steve said...: A competent play from the left side of the infield!; September 12, 2021 at 10:16 PM
Rufus T. Firefly said...: Mr. Haney is warming.

Good night Irene, goodnight.; September 12, 2021 at 10:22 PM
TheWinWarblist said...: Go ahead. Just plunk him. Load the bases. Go wild!; September 12, 2021 at 10:22 PM
Pocono Steve said...: I didn't just see Heaney throwing did I?; September 12, 2021 at 10:23 PM
Anonymous said...: Andrew Heaney again!!!!!!! Seriously what is wrong with these people????

Doug K.; September 12, 2021 at 10:25 PM
Anonymous Bosch said...: Final words on Pavarotti. He was a pig. Couldn’t learn his roles and cost opera companies millions in cancelling new productions.

The day I interviewed him at his apartment in 1991, he was married to his first wife (who was back in Modena), and ordering his mistress (who he later married) to serve drinks to all present. He perched, looking like Jabba the Hutt, on a sofa with a tablecloth stuck in his collar. I got there as a film crew from the BBC was packing up. The second the sole British woman went to the bathroom, he said “How do you like the tits on her”? Meanwhile his mistress is serving espressos.

At a table rehearsal of Verdi’s rarely-performed “I Lombardi” he got up after the third act and put his coat on and went to leave as everyone else looked on in disbelief. “Where are you going”? “I die. I feenish. I go to dinner.” He had never read the score beyond his death scene and had no idea that Oronte appears as a heavenly vision to his beloved from offstage in the Fourth Act.; September 12, 2021 at 10:25 PM
JM said...: Oh my Lord. This is insane.; September 12, 2021 at 10:26 PM
Anonymous Bosch said...: As I said last night: It's Boone's Sisyphus complex.; September 12, 2021 at 10:27 PM
JM said...: Wow. He got a guy out. Sac fly, but still. Real progress.; September 12, 2021 at 10:29 PM
Anonymous said...: I'm not a big conspiracy guy. I don't look for "dark" reasons for things but there is something nefarious going on here.

The Heaney Code or maybe he's in cahoots with undersea demons.

Heaney and Cecil!

I just don't understand.

Doug K.; September 12, 2021 at 10:30 PM
JM said...: Heaney and Cecil... that's great.; September 12, 2021 at 10:32 PM
JM said...: Gleyber Day!!!; September 12, 2021 at 10:41 PM
Rufus T. Firefly said...: They're just teasing us.

To borrow Winnie's term:

Fuckers!; September 12, 2021 at 10:43 PM
Anonymous Bosch said...: Well, that was a nice surprise. Here comes another 4-hour nail-biter.

Judge is … dizzy? Maybe he should consult Clint Frazier, the Red Cyclops.; September 12, 2021 at 10:43 PM
JM said...: My hangover is so bad, Judge is showing symptoms.; September 12, 2021 at 10:48 PM
HoraceClarke67 said...: You keep alert out there, Sancho.

And yes, dizziness?

It's a dizzy team, stem to stern.; September 12, 2021 at 10:51 PM
HoraceClarke67 said...: Huh. Ya think Voit is swinging for the fences or something?; September 12, 2021 at 10:52 PM
Rufus T. Firefly said...: JM,

I'm feeling the same symptoms.

Now, how could ICS NOT get second on that wild pitch?; September 12, 2021 at 10:52 PM
Anonymous Bosch said...: No sweet mustard on this Weißwurst!; September 12, 2021 at 10:53 PM
Anonymous Bosch said...: With every other team completing their games before the Early Bird Special, do you realise that we are – for the moment – OUT of the Wild Card race (by half a game)?

Oh goody: Wandavision!; September 12, 2021 at 10:57 PM
Anonymous Bosch said...: Way to go, Wanda!; September 12, 2021 at 10:58 PM
Marc Finkel said...: Close your eyes and hum RIZZZZZZZZO; September 12, 2021 at 11:08 PM
JM said...: Magic Wanda struck again.

Dodged a DP there. Thanks, Mets.; September 12, 2021 at 11:15 PM
JM said...: That was fucking Stantonian.

He taunted Lindor. Trash talk in baseball?; September 12, 2021 at 11:21 PM
Anonymous Bosch said...: I always said it was going to be an Ugly Weekend.; September 12, 2021 at 11:22 PM
ranger_lp said...: Wow Stanton...this is what happens when you can't throw at players anymore...

I can't blame him to be truthful....; September 12, 2021 at 11:23 PM
JM said...: The Yankees whistling to tip pitches? What?; September 12, 2021 at 11:24 PM
JM said...: That was bizarre.; September 12, 2021 at 11:27 PM
Platoni said...: Fuck, that was beautiful. You know when you wish for something very specific to happen in a game and it happens and then you think toy made it happen? I wished Stanton to hit that homerun and then say something to Lindor. And he FUCKING DID IT! Glorious

That was all me, you guys. Totally made that happen through my awesome mind; September 12, 2021 at 11:39 PM
JM said...: Good job, Platoni.; September 12, 2021 at 11:47 PM
Anonymous Bosch said...: Holy crap!; September 12, 2021 at 11:56 PM
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Carl J. Weitz said...: Chad Green...the home run machine. Strikes again!; September 13, 2021 at 12:02 AM
Anonymous Bosch said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; September 13, 2021 at 12:05 AM
JM said...: Fucking Lindor. Showboat. And asshole hair.; September 13, 2021 at 12:06 AM
Anonymous Bosch said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; September 13, 2021 at 12:06 AM
Anonymous said...: Time for the classic game ending DP.; September 13, 2021 at 12:10 AM
JM said...: Wade has him rattled.; September 13, 2021 at 12:10 AM
JM said...: Shit.; September 13, 2021 at 12:18 AM
Anonymous Bosch said...: Do we seriously need to start focusing on Oakland and Seattle? Sad, sad, sad …; September 13, 2021 at 12:18 AM
Pocono Steve said...: We suck. But we knew that.; September 13, 2021 at 12:20 AM
Anonymous said...: There was a fearful symmetry to that last out.; September 13, 2021 at 12:22 AM
HoraceClarke67 said...: We need to focus on 82 wins—the only thing of consequence that we can win.; September 13, 2021 at 12:45 AM

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