I was able to watch the last few innings of the game last night… pretty compelling stuff. Baseball can be kind of awesome when something’s on the line.
It’s almost a shame that the Mets didn’t win, because that Endy Chavez grab/throw would’ve made a much better signature highlight for the series than this Yadier character (pictured above, filming a bukkake scene immediately after the game) somehow blasting a homerun. The man had six homeruns all year. Feel much shame, Aaron Heilman. I know from MLB 2K6 that if you leave a change-up up in the zone, that it’s going to get pounded. Digital Joe Morgan’s told me that about a thousand times while I was throwing my controller and cursing.
And then Beltran watching a series-ending strike three go by… I can’t decide if that’s just a bonehead play, if it was a brilliant pitch. On the bonehead play side, it’s 0-2, and your life is on the line… hack if it’s close. And with the 0-2 count, he had to be expecting the hook. It was working for him, and if he missed with it, it’s no big deal. Shouldn’t he be looking curveball there? But on the brilliant pitch side… Wainright is probably thinking that Beltran is sure he’s going to waste one. So maybe if he starts a pitch that’s looking like it’s headed out of the zone, it would freeze him. I dunno. If that’s what happened, it took balls… but before the pitch, the catcher was also signaling, I believe, to put it in the dirt… so maybe Wainright didn’t actually throw it where he wanted it, and got lucky. I dunno.
But… congrats to the Cards, and my sympathies to the sadfuck Mets fans.
Zack Says:
October 20th, 2006 at 2:38 am
I fucking hate digital Joe Morgan even more than real-life Joe Morgan because that smug digital fuck is patronizing me rather some actual player. Go to hell digital Joe (And while you’re at it, take the real one with you).
The Big Picture Says:
October 20th, 2006 at 4:26 am
had the mets won this game, would the headline here read “Who the fuck is Endy Chavez?” cause, you know, that really woulda worked just fine too.
Cox Says:
October 20th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Last night’s game was about my lowest point as a sports fan. They had this one. They really did. The Mets should have won this game. They had so many opportunities to put this away - stranding the bases loaded twice, once with their best hitter at bat, leaving eleven runners on. They just couldn’t get those two runs across, which seemed so easy. It’s going to take a while to recover from this, this one was as rough as it gets for a sports fan. What a terrible night.
tony Says:
October 20th, 2006 at 8:19 pm
Game 7, tied heading to the ninth, go-ahead homer in the ninth… winning run at the plate in the bottom of the ninth and still all I could think of was how much better the NHL’s playoffs are than any other sport’s playoffs.
Of course, the douchebag Cards fans in the bar and the bigger douchebag Mets fans in the FOX cutaways might have had something to do with my apathy.
Toku Says:
October 22nd, 2006 at 4:58 am
It was bonehead play. That wicked curve of Wainright is his out-pitch and pretty much everybody in the stadium knew he was going to throw it except Beltran himself (somehow).
And regardless, Beltran is the guy with the robotic eyes that can read the numbers off spinning, 110-mph tennis balls as they’re flying at him, so even if he doesn’t somehow know the pitch is coming, he should know that pitch is dropping in for a strike all he needs to do is put a decent contact on the ball and it won’t come back.
Bonehead play all the way. But then again, its the Mets, so can we really be all that surprised? These are the same Mets who went through the early part of this decade with the strategy of “let’s make as many disasterous mistakes as possible and hope the other guys do the same”, right?
-T
The Critic Says:
October 22nd, 2006 at 10:57 am
Beltran forgot he was at bat. His mind was on Albert Pujol’s massive sore and he got distracted.