I still think Harvey is the best pitcher if he's feeling it, but he just hasn't been "that guy" this season.
You guys will be the clear favorites in Game 2, just gotta hope that DeGrom is ready for the pressure/expectations of trying to keep his team's season from the brink.
RE: We got a pretty good look at these guys tonight
It's a bad loss, but we chewed up their bullpen and burned their game 4 starter. Harvey was tough, the pitchers were mostly really good, we paid for errors and runners left on base.
Bats need to warm up, tighten up in the field, and were ok.
Bigger win for them than loss for us. Would've been great to get the W though. Big missed opportunity. Don't get too many of those.
It's a bad loss, but we chewed up their bullpen and burned their game 4 starter. Harvey was tough, the pitchers were mostly really good, we paid for errors and runners left on base.
Bats need to warm up, tighten up in the field, and were ok.
Bigger win for them than loss for us. Would've been great to get the W though. Big missed opportunity. Don't get too many of those.
No offense. I'm rooting for you guys. But if that's not a heartbreaker I don't know what it is... especially given you were winning in the 9th.
RE: Leaving aside the richly deserved mocking of ZGiants.....
A bad loss. Two blown leads in four innings. Plenty of opportunities to take the lead again. started and ended (essentially) the game on bad plays in the field.
This one hurts and can be deflating to the losing team. Gotta come back to Citi 1-1 so the pressure is on us.
It's a bad loss, but we chewed up their bullpen and burned their game 4 starter. Harvey was tough, the pitchers were mostly really good, we paid for errors and runners left on base.
Bats need to warm up, tighten up in the field, and were ok.
Bigger win for them than loss for us. Would've been great to get the W though. Big missed opportunity. Don't get too many of those.
No offense. I'm rooting for you guys. But if that's not a heartbreaker I don't know what it is... especially given you were winning in the 9th.
Don't know what to tell you. It's not a heartbreaker to me. It's a blown opportunity against a very good team. It's a seven game series. Not going to cry over it so early in the series :-/
It was a fight back and forth. Like a boxing match
It's a bad loss, but we chewed up their bullpen and burned their game 4 starter. Harvey was tough, the pitchers were mostly really good, we paid for errors and runners left on base.
Bats need to warm up, tighten up in the field, and were ok.
Bigger win for them than loss for us. Would've been great to get the W though. Big missed opportunity. Don't get too many of those.
Most of their BP guys only went an inning or two. Theyll all be available tomorrow. If Davis had gone two I would feel better about it but he didnt and they still got the W.
It's a bad loss, but we chewed up their bullpen and burned their game 4 starter. Harvey was tough, the pitchers were mostly really good, we paid for errors and runners left on base.
Bats need to warm up, tighten up in the field, and were ok.
Bigger win for them than loss for us. Would've been great to get the W though. Big missed opportunity. Don't get too many of those.
Most of their BP guys only went an inning or two. Theyll all be available tomorrow. If Davis had gone two I would feel better about it but he didnt and they still got the W.
We battled, particularly against Herrera and got some hits off guys who were supposed to be shut down, too. Game 1 is a feeler. Come back and play again tomorrow.
Herrera isn't really going to be effective with the number of pitches thrown prior. Chris young is the clippard of SP, he will get his due. Still a chance to split in KC. Mets way better team after game 1, talent always prevail .
I agree with that completely. I just dont think the way they were used in a long game impacts the way theyll be used this series.
Now if we can get Cueto out early tomorrow, thats a different story. Then it might atart catching up.
Win tomorrow and you got the job you wanted done, going back to Citi 1-1.
I'm not really suggesting we fatigued them. We saw a lot of pitches and made them work though. We got looks, timing, contact. These guys are unfamiliar. Everyone here was fretting about "exposing" Familia early a series ago, and now here we've seen up their skirt completely in game 1. You all saw the batters measuring them in the batters box.
Meanwhile, we still have tomorrow to get that W we need here in KC and they have not encountered our strengths yet despite 15 innings. I'm bullish if the bats wake up. We played well enough to win and just well enough to lose.
I agree with that completely. I just dont think the way they were used in a long game impacts the way theyll be used this series.
Now if we can get Cueto out early tomorrow, thats a different story. Then it might atart catching up.
Win tomorrow and you got the job you wanted done, going back to Citi 1-1.
I'm not really suggesting we fatigued them. We saw a lot of pitches and made them work though. We got looks, timing, contact. These guys are unfamiliar. Everyone here was fretting about "exposing" Familia early a series ago, and now here we've seen up their skirt completely in game 1. You all saw the batters measuring them in the batters box.
Meanwhile, we still have tomorrow to get that W we need here in KC and they have not encountered our strengths yet despite 15 innings. I'm bullish if the bats wake up. We played well enough to win and just well enough to lose.
Ahh, I gotcha. Sorry, misunderstood what you meant.
The Royals are a pain in the ass of a team. They shouldn't be as good as they are but they somehow make it work.
Richly? I think you mean UNPRECEDENTED!
Dude, you waited until the 10th inning to even comment on this thread. And you're going out of your way to shit on Mets fans parade because why? You did a good job of it in the Yanks vs Mets threads, so I guess you're nothing if not consistent.
Question - if you didn't come on this thread and comment at all, do you think your mother would love you any less? I don't think so. I think you've pretty much failed in that department regardless.
Here's some perspective - at midnight on a Tuesday night, you are sitting watching a thread about baseball that doesn't concern your team whatsoever, WAITING to call out people who cheer for a team that you don't even like. With that same time, you could have done numerous things:
1. Gotten a drink with a woman and still got home in time to watch the end of the game.
2. Read the news and/or watched an assortment of TV shows.
3. Gone to see a movie. I hear the new Tom Hanks one is pretty good.
4. Had a full-on Call of Duty game night/masturbation session that lasted hours while you stuffed your mouth with Cheetos, Yoohoo and stray loneliness-induced partial cum shots.
Instead, you came on to BBI, a Giants fansite, to talk shit to the fans of the undeniably #2 baseball team from New York while they're discussing their first World Series in 15 years.
You are pretty much the BBI equivalent of that obnoxious Redskins fan who would come on here and say "derp." Except I don't think he actively sat around waiting for the right moment to instigate - he just did it.
And to answer my own initial question - No, I don't think your mother could love you any less.
The Royals are a pain in the ass of a team. They shouldn't be as good as they are but they somehow make it work.
Richly? I think you mean UNPRECEDENTED!
Dude, you waited until the 10th inning to even comment on this thread. And you're going out of your way to shit on Mets fans parade because why? You did a good job of it in the Yanks vs Mets threads, so I guess you're nothing if not consistent.
Question - if you didn't come on this thread and comment at all, do you think your mother would love you any less? I don't think so. I think you've pretty much failed in that department regardless.
Here's some perspective - at midnight on a Tuesday night, you are sitting watching a thread about baseball that doesn't concern your team whatsoever, WAITING to call out people who cheer for a team that you don't even like. With that same time, you could have done numerous things:
1. Gotten a drink with a woman and still got home in time to watch the end of the game.
2. Read the news and/or watched an assortment of TV shows.
3. Gone to see a movie. I hear the new Tom Hanks one is pretty good.
4. Had a full-on Call of Duty game night/masturbation session that lasted hours while you stuffed your mouth with Cheetos, Yoohoo and stray loneliness-induced partial cum shots.
Instead, you came on to BBI, a Giants fansite, to talk shit to the fans of the undeniably #2 baseball team from New York while they're discussing their first World Series in 15 years.
You are pretty much the BBI equivalent of that obnoxious Redskins fan who would come on here and say "derp." Except I don't think he actively sat around waiting for the right moment to instigate - he just did it.
And to answer my own initial question - No, I don't think your mother could love you any less.
Look at these fuckin turds all run to this thread after the game. Holy shit it's nuts. Think of how sad it is...their boring ass team was just a practice run for the Astros and the hurt is so bad that they care this much about the Mets. WHy the holy hell do they care so much about the Mets? Is it like a secret love of the Mets that they dont want to share? Like in the closet Met fans.
The guy who made this extension deserves a ton of thank yous. One of them shows up? Bye. Its phenomenal. By the time I'm done adding all of this trash to the block list, I may start thinking Yankee fans are not so bad at all.
Look at these fuckin turds all run to this thread after the game. Holy shit it's nuts. Think of how sad it is...their boring ass team was just a practice run for the Astros and the hurt is so bad that they care this much about the Mets. WHy the holy hell do they care so much about the Mets? Is it like a secret love of the Mets that they dont want to share? Like in the closet Met fans.
The guy who made this extension deserves a ton of thank yous. One of them shows up? Bye. Its phenomenal. By the time I'm done adding all of this trash to the block list, I may start thinking Yankee fans are not so bad at all.
example of the species of Yankee fan that is from some random place and roots for a team that plays in the South Bronx, NYC? Born in Canada, roots for all the teams you'd think but somehow unfortunately attached himself to this football team instead of the usual Dallas Cowboys.
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RE: RE: Kulish really is a shitstain on this site.
He's loving ever minute of this. What a sad person.
Aww. Thanks Phil. You and yours can go fuck yourselves too.
You ignorant piece of shit.
Isn't there an easy solution to this problem besides the block extension? For instance normally everyone is pretty willing to take crap from people but this guy is so out of control I can't imagine Eric sees this shit and thinks its ok. Guy is completely nuts and as bad a shit starter as Greg or Rasputin etc.. I don't bother ever complaining about people but this guy is over the top and out of line. SO fucking upset that his team laid down and bent over at home to the Astros that he has to spend weeks harrassing people and obsessing over a baseball team and its fans. At what point is it too much when every single Mets related thread has this lunatic posting a hundred times and fucking with people from behind a keyboard.
It's a bad loss, but we chewed up their bullpen and burned their game 4 starter. Harvey was tough, the pitchers were mostly really good, we paid for errors and runners left on base.
Bats need to warm up, tighten up in the field, and were ok.
Bigger win for them than loss for us. Would've been great to get the W though. Big missed opportunity. Don't get too many of those.
No offense. I'm rooting for you guys. But if that's not a heartbreaker I don't know what it is... especially given you were winning in the 9th.
Heartbreaker, not a heartbreaker....why bother people who are already pissed off?
but I figured it wasn't fun when the Yankees had a chance to go into the playoffs, with a game at home and their SuperStar on the mound, went out like they were bored and didn't care enough to even score a run but no one here went onto that Yankee discussion to clarify if jerkoffs like Kulish were upset about it.
Yep. The truth is the Mets played a great game from the moment the OF decided to not catch the ball and allow a HR. They did everything that people go nuts about when talking about how great the Royals are. They were aggressive on first or second pitch strikes that caught a lot of plate. They extended at bats when he got a little wild. They stole bases, played very good D, scored the go ahead run with some small ball and put balls in play in general. This game can be taken two ways. I mean no matter what it's a brutal way to lose when your superior closer gives up a hr after not giving one up or blowing a save for 3 months. Between that and the lack of hits with RISP and even the occasional strikeout with a man on third and less than 2 outs, that killed us.
But even so, we still had the fucking game. Harv was great without his best stuff. He threw all his pitches well. Had one bad inning. However they also played the Royals game and almost beat them at it.
Really need to just win this game and ideally the next 2 no matter what. If they take one on the road, that's the idea. Should be going into game 5 2-2 at worst. I have confidence in the ace tonight. And the lineup should be confident they can have some solid ABs and get hits with RISP tonight. Sucks ass but get this one.
but I figured it wasn't fun when the Yankees had a chance to go into the playoffs, with a game at home and their SuperStar on the mound, went out like they were bored and didn't care enough to even score a run but no one here went onto that Yankee discussion to clarify if jerkoffs like Kulish were upset about it.
I didn't know the asylum allowed the patients Internet access in the middle of the night. Live and learn I guess.
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So much for Zgiants 'perfect team'
That's funny. Could have sworn I said Mets in 6 douchebag.
Not surprising you have no idea what I'm talking about. In fact it's quite UNPRECEDENTED!
Moron.
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Mistakes in the field. Way to Go Captain
You are like a broken record. What, did wright fuck your girl or something? Jesus.
Pot calling Kettle
Whatever dude. You come off like a scorned woman. But keep at it, you don't seem to have any other material anyway. Woo hoo!
Oh really I come off as a scorned woman? Yet you're one riding my nuts
You guys will be the clear favorites in Game 2, just gotta hope that DeGrom is ready for the pressure/expectations of trying to keep his team's season from the brink.
A really good team?
A win tomorrow (still Tuesday on the West Coast) is really important to take home field away from KC. Then let's smoke 'em 3 straight in NY.
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These Royals acting like they just won the series.
Like the Mets wouldn't have done the same thing if they won a 14 inning game. Change your tampax, Martha.
Its really burning you up that the Mets are doing well isn't it?
Yeah, it's just burning me up that they lost a heartbreaker in the World Series just now.
Were you born this ignorant or, did you have to take lessons?
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"They are who we thought they were"
A really good team?
Precisely.
Thank goodness for the block poster invention.
Aww. Thanks Phil. You and yours can go fuck yourselves too.
You ignorant piece of shit.
Richly? I think you mean UNPRECEDENTED!
better knock Cueto's jock off though
Bats need to warm up, tighten up in the field, and were ok.
Bigger win for them than loss for us. Would've been great to get the W though. Big missed opportunity. Don't get too many of those.
better knock Cueto's jock off though
Cueto has been pure shit in the playoffs, so that wouldn't be surprising.
Bats need to warm up, tighten up in the field, and were ok.
Bigger win for them than loss for us. Would've been great to get the W though. Big missed opportunity. Don't get too many of those.
No offense. I'm rooting for you guys. But if that's not a heartbreaker I don't know what it is... especially given you were winning in the 9th.
It's really incredible how "meh" they look on paper yet how great they look on the field.
This one hurts and can be deflating to the losing team. Gotta come back to Citi 1-1 so the pressure is on us.
Great baseball game, terrible loss.
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It's a bad loss, but we chewed up their bullpen and burned their game 4 starter. Harvey was tough, the pitchers were mostly really good, we paid for errors and runners left on base.
Bats need to warm up, tighten up in the field, and were ok.
Bigger win for them than loss for us. Would've been great to get the W though. Big missed opportunity. Don't get too many of those.
No offense. I'm rooting for you guys. But if that's not a heartbreaker I don't know what it is... especially given you were winning in the 9th.
Don't know what to tell you. It's not a heartbreaker to me. It's a blown opportunity against a very good team. It's a seven game series. Not going to cry over it so early in the series :-/
Bats need to warm up, tighten up in the field, and were ok.
Bigger win for them than loss for us. Would've been great to get the W though. Big missed opportunity. Don't get too many of those.
Most of their BP guys only went an inning or two. Theyll all be available tomorrow. If Davis had gone two I would feel better about it but he didnt and they still got the W.
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It's a bad loss, but we chewed up their bullpen and burned their game 4 starter. Harvey was tough, the pitchers were mostly really good, we paid for errors and runners left on base.
Bats need to warm up, tighten up in the field, and were ok.
Bigger win for them than loss for us. Would've been great to get the W though. Big missed opportunity. Don't get too many of those.
Most of their BP guys only went an inning or two. Theyll all be available tomorrow. If Davis had gone two I would feel better about it but he didnt and they still got the W.
We battled, particularly against Herrera and got some hits off guys who were supposed to be shut down, too. Game 1 is a feeler. Come back and play again tomorrow.
Now if we can get Cueto out early tomorrow, thats a different story. Then it might atart catching up.
Win tomorrow and you got the job you wanted done, going back to Citi 1-1.
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These Royals acting like they just won the series.
Like the Mets wouldn't have done the same thing if they won a 14 inning game. Change your tampax, Martha.
Its really burning you up that the Mets are doing well isn't it?
Yeah, it's just burning me up that they lost a heartbreaker in the World Series just now.
Were you born this ignorant or, did you have to take lessons?
Are you aware that a) the world series is 7 games and b) your team isn't in it?
Now if we can get Cueto out early tomorrow, thats a different story. Then it might atart catching up.
Win tomorrow and you got the job you wanted done, going back to Citi 1-1.
I'm not really suggesting we fatigued them. We saw a lot of pitches and made them work though. We got looks, timing, contact. These guys are unfamiliar. Everyone here was fretting about "exposing" Familia early a series ago, and now here we've seen up their skirt completely in game 1. You all saw the batters measuring them in the batters box.
Meanwhile, we still have tomorrow to get that W we need here in KC and they have not encountered our strengths yet despite 15 innings. I'm bullish if the bats wake up. We played well enough to win and just well enough to lose.
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I agree with that completely. I just dont think the way they were used in a long game impacts the way theyll be used this series.
Now if we can get Cueto out early tomorrow, thats a different story. Then it might atart catching up.
Win tomorrow and you got the job you wanted done, going back to Citi 1-1.
I'm not really suggesting we fatigued them. We saw a lot of pitches and made them work though. We got looks, timing, contact. These guys are unfamiliar. Everyone here was fretting about "exposing" Familia early a series ago, and now here we've seen up their skirt completely in game 1. You all saw the batters measuring them in the batters box.
Meanwhile, we still have tomorrow to get that W we need here in KC and they have not encountered our strengths yet despite 15 innings. I'm bullish if the bats wake up. We played well enough to win and just well enough to lose.
Ahh, I gotcha. Sorry, misunderstood what you meant.
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The Royals are a pain in the ass of a team. They shouldn't be as good as they are but they somehow make it work.
Richly? I think you mean UNPRECEDENTED!
Dude, you waited until the 10th inning to even comment on this thread. And you're going out of your way to shit on Mets fans parade because why? You did a good job of it in the Yanks vs Mets threads, so I guess you're nothing if not consistent.
Question - if you didn't come on this thread and comment at all, do you think your mother would love you any less? I don't think so. I think you've pretty much failed in that department regardless.
Here's some perspective - at midnight on a Tuesday night, you are sitting watching a thread about baseball that doesn't concern your team whatsoever, WAITING to call out people who cheer for a team that you don't even like. With that same time, you could have done numerous things:
1. Gotten a drink with a woman and still got home in time to watch the end of the game.
2. Read the news and/or watched an assortment of TV shows.
3. Gone to see a movie. I hear the new Tom Hanks one is pretty good.
4. Had a full-on Call of Duty game night/masturbation session that lasted hours while you stuffed your mouth with Cheetos, Yoohoo and stray loneliness-induced partial cum shots.
Instead, you came on to BBI, a Giants fansite, to talk shit to the fans of the undeniably #2 baseball team from New York while they're discussing their first World Series in 15 years.
You are pretty much the BBI equivalent of that obnoxious Redskins fan who would come on here and say "derp." Except I don't think he actively sat around waiting for the right moment to instigate - he just did it.
And to answer my own initial question - No, I don't think your mother could love you any less.
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The Royals are a pain in the ass of a team. They shouldn't be as good as they are but they somehow make it work.
Richly? I think you mean UNPRECEDENTED!
Dude, you waited until the 10th inning to even comment on this thread. And you're going out of your way to shit on Mets fans parade because why? You did a good job of it in the Yanks vs Mets threads, so I guess you're nothing if not consistent.
Question - if you didn't come on this thread and comment at all, do you think your mother would love you any less? I don't think so. I think you've pretty much failed in that department regardless.
Here's some perspective - at midnight on a Tuesday night, you are sitting watching a thread about baseball that doesn't concern your team whatsoever, WAITING to call out people who cheer for a team that you don't even like. With that same time, you could have done numerous things:
1. Gotten a drink with a woman and still got home in time to watch the end of the game.
2. Read the news and/or watched an assortment of TV shows.
3. Gone to see a movie. I hear the new Tom Hanks one is pretty good.
4. Had a full-on Call of Duty game night/masturbation session that lasted hours while you stuffed your mouth with Cheetos, Yoohoo and stray loneliness-induced partial cum shots.
Instead, you came on to BBI, a Giants fansite, to talk shit to the fans of the undeniably #2 baseball team from New York while they're discussing their first World Series in 15 years.
You are pretty much the BBI equivalent of that obnoxious Redskins fan who would come on here and say "derp." Except I don't think he actively sat around waiting for the right moment to instigate - he just did it.
And to answer my own initial question - No, I don't think your mother could love you any less.
But you are throwing fire, sir.
Couldnt even dial it up when he needed to. Sounds like conditions were damp, hoping that was the reason.
Look at these fuckin turds all run to this thread after the game. Holy shit it's nuts. Think of how sad it is...their boring ass team was just a practice run for the Astros and the hurt is so bad that they care this much about the Mets. WHy the holy hell do they care so much about the Mets? Is it like a secret love of the Mets that they dont want to share? Like in the closet Met fans.
The guy who made this extension deserves a ton of thank yous. One of them shows up? Bye. Its phenomenal. By the time I'm done adding all of this trash to the block list, I may start thinking Yankee fans are not so bad at all.
Look at these fuckin turds all run to this thread after the game. Holy shit it's nuts. Think of how sad it is...their boring ass team was just a practice run for the Astros and the hurt is so bad that they care this much about the Mets. WHy the holy hell do they care so much about the Mets? Is it like a secret love of the Mets that they dont want to share? Like in the closet Met fans.
The guy who made this extension deserves a ton of thank yous. One of them shows up? Bye. Its phenomenal. By the time I'm done adding all of this trash to the block list, I may start thinking Yankee fans are not so bad at all.
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He's loving ever minute of this. What a sad person.
Aww. Thanks Phil. You and yours can go fuck yourselves too.
You ignorant piece of shit.
Isn't there an easy solution to this problem besides the block extension? For instance normally everyone is pretty willing to take crap from people but this guy is so out of control I can't imagine Eric sees this shit and thinks its ok. Guy is completely nuts and as bad a shit starter as Greg or Rasputin etc.. I don't bother ever complaining about people but this guy is over the top and out of line. SO fucking upset that his team laid down and bent over at home to the Astros that he has to spend weeks harrassing people and obsessing over a baseball team and its fans. At what point is it too much when every single Mets related thread has this lunatic posting a hundred times and fucking with people from behind a keyboard.
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It's a bad loss, but we chewed up their bullpen and burned their game 4 starter. Harvey was tough, the pitchers were mostly really good, we paid for errors and runners left on base.
Bats need to warm up, tighten up in the field, and were ok.
Bigger win for them than loss for us. Would've been great to get the W though. Big missed opportunity. Don't get too many of those.
No offense. I'm rooting for you guys. But if that's not a heartbreaker I don't know what it is... especially given you were winning in the 9th.
Heartbreaker, not a heartbreaker....why bother people who are already pissed off?
Yep. The truth is the Mets played a great game from the moment the OF decided to not catch the ball and allow a HR. They did everything that people go nuts about when talking about how great the Royals are. They were aggressive on first or second pitch strikes that caught a lot of plate. They extended at bats when he got a little wild. They stole bases, played very good D, scored the go ahead run with some small ball and put balls in play in general. This game can be taken two ways. I mean no matter what it's a brutal way to lose when your superior closer gives up a hr after not giving one up or blowing a save for 3 months. Between that and the lack of hits with RISP and even the occasional strikeout with a man on third and less than 2 outs, that killed us.
But even so, we still had the fucking game. Harv was great without his best stuff. He threw all his pitches well. Had one bad inning. However they also played the Royals game and almost beat them at it.
Really need to just win this game and ideally the next 2 no matter what. If they take one on the road, that's the idea. Should be going into game 5 2-2 at worst. I have confidence in the ace tonight. And the lineup should be confident they can have some solid ABs and get hits with RISP tonight. Sucks ass but get this one.
I didn't know the asylum allowed the patients Internet access in the middle of the night. Live and learn I guess.
Last night was just a tough loss.
deGrom Day ... time to buck up, little fellas!