WS GAME thread: NYM vs. KC

[glasspusher]

Don't like the man, but ARod's speaking voice and analysis is a light year beyond HR. Low bar, I know...

 

[strek1]

Don't like the man, but ARod's speaking voice and analysis is a light year beyond HR. Low bar, I know...

 Well, he's a miserable unlikable cheating douchebag but he's not an idiot.

 

[Gdiguy]

The high note for the Mets, the extra rest seems to have done DeGrom well - he's absolutely on tonight, the control (especially on some of those breaking pitches) has been great

 

[PseuFighter]

for the second in as many nights, this guy across from me is seemingly not leaving the office until i leave. and for the past twenty minutes, he's been standing basically right above me while texting. it's creeping me the fuck out.

 

[Al Zarilla]

 Well, he's a miserable unlikable cheating douchebag but he's not an idiot.

I don't know. All that natural talent and he had to go the roid route? He is pretty good as a side commentator though.

 

[aksoxfan]

Don't like the man, but ARod's speaking voice and analysis is a light year beyond HR. Low bar, I know...

as much as I hate to do it, I agree he sounds ok.

 

[glasspusher]

Left field, now center field- another important fielding position. Who knew?

 

[topps148]

Music update:  my wife says jazz is too jumpy for her yoga.  Coyote Oldman:  "In Beauty I Walk."  

 

[ipol]

Got to be disheartening for a color analyst when he talks up a player who abruptly gives up a play.

 

[brienc]

That would have been another inside the park HR with Cespedes in center.

 

[strek1]

I don't know. All that natural talent and he had to go the roid route? He is pretty good as a side commentator though.

 That's judgement and arrogance though, not intelligence.  He is smart.

 

[PseuFighter]

if he doesn't leave in the next 5 minutes i'm firing him.

 

[Gdiguy]

Left field, now center field- another important fielding position. Who knew?

 
 
You can't fault the decision-making (Lagares was hitting poorly most of the year, dealing with arm injuries that killed his arm), but I think having Lagares sit & only really play 8th/9th innings as a defensive sub have impacted his defense a bit. Not really surprising as he's not really that fast, he just gets great jumps, reads, and paths to the ball, so those are going to be tough to keep top-notch when you're not getting as many reps as usual

 

[54thMA]

as much as I hate to do it, I agree he sounds ok.

Yes he does, have to give credit where credit is due.

 

[glasspusher]

HR just called Arod "Al"? Who calls someone named Alex "Al"?

 

[ipol]

if he doesn't leave in the next 5 minutes i'm firing him.

 
Make it three!

 

[54thMA]

Huge squander

 

[Lowrielicious]

for the second in as many nights, this guy across from me is seemingly not leaving the office until i leave. and for the past twenty minutes, he's been standing basically right above me while texting. it's creeping me the fuck out.

 
Are you sure he is texting and not posting here?

 

[ipol]

 
Are you sure he is texting and not posting here?

 
He's inside the house!

 

[Al Zarilla]

Perez swung at a ball six inches low and six inches outside, +/-. Too bad.

 

[glasspusher]

Cueto with a little El Tiante in that last windup

 

[hbk72777]

They finally gave up on lyrics and now use gibberish in songs now?

 

[ernieshore]

Yeah - I enjoy ARod too. Insightful, can form sentences, and doesn't talk too much. That's about all I want in a commentator. 
 
Now, I feel dirty. 

 

[rembrat]

for the second in as many nights, this guy across from me is seemingly not leaving the office until i leave. and for the past twenty minutes, he's been standing basically right above me while texting. it's creeping me the fuck out.

Cant you tell him to take off?

 

[Al Zarilla]

Alex should have told Erin he was thinking about her when he was laying in bed and couldn't sleep. 

 

[mauidano]

Is it me or does Erin Andrews voice grate a little bit?  Maybe just because she's grouped with Harold Reynolds and Joe Buck, but yeah.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Bottom of the order again, but it has Gordon in it. 

 

[hbk72777]

Is it me or does Erin Andrews voice grate a little bit?  Maybe just because she's grouped with Harold Reynolds and Joe Buck, but yeah.

 
She almost sounds like a valley girl with the way she enunciates some words

 

[Lowrielicious]

Is it me or does Erin Andrews voice grate a little bit?  Maybe just because she's grouped with Harold Reynolds and Joe Buck, but yeah.

thanks for that visual.

 

[JoePoulson]

Yeah - I enjoy ARod too. Insightful, can form sentences, and doesn't talk too much. That's about all I want in a commentator. 
 
Now, I feel dirty. 

Dude is a true baseball nerd. Loves and knows the game, and speaks intelligently and passionately about it. He's good in the studio. Which makes his PED use all the more baffling.

 

[wiffleballhero]

Harold Reynolds needs to be stopped. For the love of god, someone stop him from talking.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Bucking funts. Grrr.

 

[ifmanis5]

So tired of Yost bunting. STOP.

 

[topps148]

They finally gave up on lyrics and now use gibberish in songs now?

Nothing new there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McxNkyH5A4A

 

[Al Zarilla]

Harold has never seen the Red Sox bunt?

 

[glasspusher]

I thought you couldn't score off of the mets starting pitching.

 

[ifmanis5]

See, not bunting can be good.

 

[bankshot1]

Is that true that Yost let's his player determine game strategy?
 
they can bunt if they feel its what to do?

 

[topps148]

E5, you da man.

 

[rembrat]

I thought you couldn't score off of the mets starting pitching.

Barely. If Familia does his job last night well ya know.

 

[cheekydave]

Was that Gordon running or Art Shamsky

 

[Al Zarilla]

Is that true that Yost let's his player determine game strategy?
 
they can bunt if they feel its what to do?

I mean, some ballplayers are pretty dumb. Like Harold Reynolds.

 

[PseuFighter]

Cant you tell him to take off?

 
he's new. he's been working his ass off (i think).

 

[Al Zarilla]

Nice cuss by Cain.

 

[Lowrielicious]

I mean, some ballplayers are pretty dumb. Like Harold Reynolds.

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

Yost lets Siri determine game strategy.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Yost lets Siri determine game strategy.

LOL!

 

[glasspusher]

Lugares says "No SF for you!"
 
whoops

 

[Al Zarilla]

Lugares says "No SF for you!"
 
whoops

He did look somewhat like Cespy uncorking that one. 

 

[glasspusher]

Some people are going to be amazed that Hosmer has less RBIs with the bases empty