When the game gets out of hand, call 879-TACO
Late in a game of epic failure, SNY’s Met broadcast broke out the surefire ratings bonanzas that are taking calls in the booth and field reporter Kevin Burkhardt making tacos. The visiting Atlanta Braves were in the process of beating the New York Mets 15-2 but who cared! I was much more concerned with what Schmo from Long Island had to say about Angel Pagan’s chances to start next year, or the fact that Burkhardt was spooning chili into little cups without wearing latex gloves.
"It's cool that you ate my eye, really, no worries!"
Last night the Mets had an 8 run inning. Tonight the Braves returned the favor in the top of the 2nd with a Matt Diaz (sounds like “Die Azz”) 2-run single, an Omar Infante RBI single, a Garret Anderson RBI single, Infante scoring on a wild pitch, and a Brian McCann (he’s on my fantasy team so hooray for me!) 3-run homer. On Anderson’s RBI single Met fan favorite Luis Castillo decided he’d rather stare at his shiny shoes than cover second base and what was already not a good inning for the Mets was suddenly phone calls and taco-making bad at 8-0.
My Taco is fine but liquor is quicker
In the top of the 3rd an Infante RBI double made it 9-0 Braves. Castillo made small amends for his defensive lack of movement with an RBI single in the bottom of the 3rd to make the score 9-1. In the 5th old friend Ryan Church had an RBI single and Infante built up his already impressive box score with another RBI single making it 11-1. A Pagan RBI double in the bottom of the 5th cut it to 11-2.
The so-called "taco phone." Seriously, google it.
The notion of Burkhardt making tacos and the announcers taking phone calls built serious steam in the top of the 6th. Adam LaRoche hit a solo homer, and Diaz a 2-run shot making it 14-2 Braves. Time to put on that apron Kevin.
Burkhardt misunderstands his instructions
A rookie from Queens named Reid Gorecki had a 9th inning RBI single and the only fans remaining in the stands, his family, were quite pleased. 15-2 Braves.
Probably not the ideal phone for Met fans right now
Please visit yahoo.com for the box score. You know you want to.
33 comments
fongy2
8/19/2009-10:38pm at 10:38 pm (UTC -4)
Heb, I just lost some respect for ya!
Bad enough you have a fantasy team
BUT a Brave as your Catcher?
So…you root daily for…a Brave?
GravediggerHebner
8/19/2009-10:45pm at 10:45 pm (UTC -4)
I’m trying to win, not be nice to the Mets. My only rule of thumb is no Yankees. I had Jayson Werth for a few weeks but waived him when Justin Upton became available. I had McCann last year too and finished in 1st place!
fongy2
8/19/2009-10:51pm at 10:51 pm (UTC -4)
Just bustin’dem on ya;)
fongy2
8/19/2009-10:52pm at 10:52 pm (UTC -4)
Should have kept Werth,
for what its worth
GravediggerHebner
8/19/2009-10:56pm at 10:56 pm (UTC -4)
Excellent wordplay, but the league I play in uses 10 statistical categories and Upton is better in more of them than Werth, so in my fantasy league, Upton is the more valuable player. It’s close, but Upton has more SB & triples and a better BA, OBP & SLG which all count for me.
fongy2
8/19/2009-11:04pm at 11:04 pm (UTC -4)
Dude, how do you find
the time?
GravediggerHebner
8/19/2009-11:12pm at 11:12 pm (UTC -4)
It’s about 2 hours one night in late March for the draft and then about 5 minutes every day just to make sure that none of my players are injured and need replacing, and that my scheduled starting pitchers are on my active roster (I have Johan!).
The rest of it is just their stats adding up, which happens whether I’m paying attention or not.
I crushed everybody last year. I took a late round flier on Josh Hamilton and the rest is history. This year my late round gamble was Chris Carpenter and that’s working famously as well.
Unfortunately I “pulled an Omar” and trusted that 35 year old Magglio Ordonez was going to be good this year. That’s largely why I’m battling for 2nd this year, 1st is out of reach because I waited too long to dump him. Oh the parallels…
fongy2
8/19/2009-11:23pm at 11:23 pm (UTC -4)
Funny you mentioned Magglio. Man was I worried Omar would make a move on him once Leyland benched him.
But,good for you Buddy with Carpenter.b/t/w,while sitting in my yard earlier I was flipping through this yrs Whos who in baseball and couldnt come up with one top tier SP the Mets might be able to acquire for next season.Outside of Lackey of course who’d they really would have to overpay to sign. Any ideas/names.
GravediggerHebner
8/19/2009-11:47pm at 11:47 pm (UTC -4)
Lackey is the only name of the pending FA that stands out. I guess other FA names that are to me at least palatable are Kelvim Escobar, Rich Harden, and Jarrod Washburn but I can understand wanting to stay away from the 1st 2 because of injuries.
My early dark horse is Washburn as he won’t be the “clear #1 guy” that everyone is looking to get like Lackey, and he’s off to a rough start in Detroit so his cost may be going down.
Washburn is no Lackey but he’s more of an ML starter than Pelf/Perez/Niese/Maine and so on. Moving whoever of those guys sticks around 1 slot down in the rotation should help.
And I don’t care about being “too lefthanded” if it winds up being Santana/Washburn/Pelfrey/Perez/Niese.
I like Justin Duchscherer but he’s too oft injured to rely on.
Halladay is at least in theory available, and other guys 1 year from FA and possibly available in trade this fall that intrigue me are Bonderman and Lilly.
Those are the names that I guess will comprise the group we’ll be choosing from.
stickguy
8/19/2009-10:41pm at 10:41 pm (UTC -4)
Castillo has to go. I don’t care that he is somehow keeping his legs healthy enough to stay on the field, and has a nice OBP, stuff like this play (which would have had Parnell in the dugout down 2-0, and nothing hit hard off of him) is unacceptable, but all too common from him.
He doesn’t bring enough to the table offensively to be a dog on defense. And while you can accept a guy trying but not being able to do something, skipping BB basics like this? Ugh.
Jerry, if he wasn’t a clueless dope that lets the inmates run the assulym, should have pulled a Gil and walked out and removed Luis on the spot
fongy2
8/19/2009-10:45pm at 10:45 pm (UTC -4)
So let me get this straight,
Billy Wags is owed 2.7mil
this yr and a mil on the buy
out and Omar is considering
making a deal to have him Pitch somewhere else while
we pay him?
fongy2
8/19/2009-10:49pm at 10:49 pm (UTC -4)
How do we get rid of him though? Who would want him?
2 more yrs and 12 million!
Whos gonna pay that for
a slap,singles hitter who
is no longer a plus fielder,
base runner or stealer??
b/t him and Ollie,thats 18 mil
a year for 2010&2011 for which
we’ll get very little production.
Anyone, I mean anyone still
believe Omar knows what the
heck he’s doing??
metsfan4decades
8/19/2009-11:05pm at 11:05 pm (UTC -4)
Well, there were 3 runs on the board when Castillo failed to cover second but I get your point.
I was probably one of the few who probably watched that whole game. To say it was ugly, would be an understatement.
And I don’t know how many times I’ve used the word ‘ugly’ to describe a game this year but it’s probably more times than the last 5 years combined….
fongy2
8/19/2009-11:15pm at 11:15 pm (UTC -4)
There is no excuse for
the complete lack of
fundamental play by
this team! None!
OR the lack of heart,
care and concern shown
by not just some of the
players but mgmt and
coaching staff. None.
If I felt it was a lock
that the Wilpons would
clean house,it might
be somewhat tolerable.
However,given the Wilpons love and trust
of Omar,mes think its
atleast 50/50 he returns. I’m getting
close to rooting against my beloved
Mets just so it could
get uglier and maybe,
just maybe Mr.Wilpon
will say enough!
GravediggerHebner
8/19/2009-11:19pm at 11:19 pm (UTC -4)
That’s the only reason to root for it to get uglier.
I have read some people suggesting that the season should get uglier so the Mets get a better draft pick. Why? They suck at the draft.
At least if it gets ugly and Omar gets fired, they MIGHT get better at the draft but only if the wallet gets opened and that’s not on the GM, that’s on the owners.
fongy2
8/19/2009-11:26pm at 11:26 pm (UTC -4)
Agreed.
Plus the MLB draft is
such a crap shoot.
I mean whats the diff
really b/t picking
8th or
10th?
fongy2
8/19/2009-11:28pm at 11:28 pm (UTC -4)
P.S. Respect regained for not having any yankees on your team Heb.
GravediggerHebner
8/19/2009-11:52pm at 11:52 pm (UTC -4)
LOL. I had the 9th pick this year and ARod was falling toward me cuz he was injured (otherwise he would’ve been in the top 3) and I kept thinking “I can’t pick ARod.”
Thankfully he went 7th. I took Ian Kinsler 9th.
metsfan4decades
8/19/2009-11:11pm at 11:11 pm (UTC -4)
‘Probably not the ideal phone for Met fans right now’. LOL. You’ve got that right.
I hope you didn’t have to watch that whole game to get this recap. Watching paint dry tonight would probably have been a better use of time. I know because I stuck through the whole thing.
Never mind Castillo not covering second, Parnell not getting to the plate to cover on that passed ball quick enough – all in that one inning…..We paraded 4 pitchers out there tonight and not one of them came away unscathed.
Ugly…
If Ollie misses his next start due to swelling of that knee from last night’s game and that play at first, I’m not sure I even want to know who they’re going to come up with to make his start.
Been watching for over 40 years and I’m willing to bet when this season is over, I can probably say, in my opinion, this is the worst season I have ever followed. Might not be the most amount of losses but certainly the most painful.
fongy2
8/19/2009-11:17pm at 11:17 pm (UTC -4)
Man do I agree with your last
paragraph,although I have “only” 36 seasons invested. But,I’ve felt like
you do since Memorial day.
metsfan4decades
8/19/2009-11:47pm at 11:47 pm (UTC -4)
I wasn’t encouraged by the defense and mental mistakes we were displaying early on in the season, even when most where healthy.
But to me, the season was lost when Beltran went down. Last nail in the coffin. Right now, I’ve lost track of exactly when that was. LOL. Seems like an eternity….
GravediggerHebner
8/19/2009-11:53pm at 11:53 pm (UTC -4)
I looked it up today because it was relevant to a conversation I was having so I can tell you Beltran’s last game this season was 6/21.
metsfan4decades
8/19/2009-11:56pm at 11:56 pm (UTC -4)
Wow. That late? Well, like I said – feel like an eternity. Thanks for the info…
GravediggerHebner
8/20/2009-12:03am at 12:03 am (UTC -4)
My pleasure.
You didn’t ask but I think it’s relevant so here is a “re-print” of what I commented earlier today in another thread:
Carlos D. last played in game # 30 on May 10th.
Jose Reyes last played in game # 40 on May 20th.
Carlos B. last played in game # 67 on June 21st.
Tonight is game # 120, so Delgado has missed 90, Reyes 80 and Beltran 53. That’s 90 games minus 1 All-Star, 80 games minus 2 All-Stars and 53 games minus 3 All-Stars.
metsfan4decades
8/20/2009-12:10am at 12:10 am (UTC -4)
Well that about sums it up, doesn’t it?
I really did feel coming into the season we had a very good competitive team this year. I like our chances b/c, looking at the division, I thought Philly was the real competition and to me their pitching was shaky.
However, I also felt we would need most of our guys to stay healthy the whole year to do it. We could have survived a 15 day DL stint for a couple of guys, but needed them to stay basically healthy all year.
Beginning of May, I felt we needed another SP. Garcia didn’t pan out, Redding was not back yet, Ollie was on or going on the DL, and I didn’t like our depth there. Other than that, I really thought we were in good shape.
Boy was I wrong…
whataputz
8/20/2009-12:57am at 12:57 am (UTC -4)
This season blows.
gipperpdx
8/20/2009-2:11am at 2:11 am (UTC -4)
Another classic post-game. Am I a bad / disloyal fan if I have basically started watching games only once in awhile now?
Anyway, the Glock phone probably IS the ideal phone this Mets fan right now – and if I read the number on the slide right, it is a Glock G23 – an excellent .40 caliber pistol. Good – any lesser caliber like a 9mm or .380 may not get the job done of scrambling my brain enough to forget this season in the afterlife!
prismo
8/20/2009-5:36am at 5:36 am (UTC -4)
No, that doesn’t make you a bad fan. And it’s what pushes the Wilpons into making sure they put a good product on the field. If everyone watched every game no matter how poorly the team played, the Wilpons might as well throw a $20 mil team out there.
I at least look over every heart-wrenching box score and maybe read a recap. If nothing else, every Livan start is now on my miss-list.
gipperpdx
8/20/2009-7:19pm at 7:19 pm (UTC -4)
That sounds about right.
udontmesswthejohan
8/20/2009-9:24am at 9:24 am (UTC -4)
Have no fear my fine feathered Met friends. I’m going to the game tonight with some sweet tickets and predict a no-no from Johan. I had a premonition (I also had a dream that I would win the Mega Millions earlier in the week), that tonight was the night!
dirtysanchez
8/20/2009-9:41am at 9:41 am (UTC -4)
that would be probably the best thing for this season…to finally get a no-no in franchise history
udontmesswthejohan
8/20/2009-9:49am at 9:49 am (UTC -4)
Exactly. It’s time and we deserve a little something something for all the effort.
whataputz
8/20/2009-10:43am at 10:43 am (UTC -4)
You know what would be the best thing for this season? A time machine..get me out of here! I’ve never felt such a waste of a season. Can we at least have a prospect come up and start slugging or something!