2006 NLCS New York Mets vs. St. Louis Cardinals

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mets always seem to play LaRussa-era Cards well, i gotta go Mets in 6 (lol at mets haterz in dodgerz series)

― timmy tannin (pompous), Monday, 9 October 2006 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate 'em both, this is the who-cares series for me. Mets in 6 sounds right.

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Monday, 9 October 2006 02:47 (seventeen years ago) link

It burns my fingertips to type this:

Cards in 6.

― boldbury (boldbury), Monday, 9 October 2006 03:26 (seventeen years ago) link

my favorite team ever: the METS... in 6 games.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 9 October 2006 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Since my housemate likes the Mets, I will go with them and hope they see the A's in the Series so maybe I can go to a game!

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 9 October 2006 03:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Cards i guess. in6¿

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 9 October 2006 06:55 (seventeen years ago) link

mets in 5

― jelky (jergins), Monday, 9 October 2006 07:30 (seventeen years ago) link

cards in 6 but who really cares about this series???

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 9 October 2006 07:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Mets and Cards fans!

Mets in 5.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 9 October 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sticking with my preseason Prospectus Predictatron pick -- Cards in 6.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 9 October 2006 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Mets in 7.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link

mets in 6. braden looper will have a total john-franco-as-an-astro moment during game 2.

― maura (maura), Monday, 9 October 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought Looper had pretty much been Franco-as-an-Astro for about the last three years.

― boldbury (boldbury), Monday, 9 October 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Mets in 5.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 9 October 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

cards in 7

― chakra khan chakra khan (sanskrit), Monday, 9 October 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

SREVE SHASTA SAID IT WOULDNT HAPPEN.

METS IN 6

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 October 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Mets in 6

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 00:52 (seventeen years ago) link

mets in 7

― jelky (jergins), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 01:11 (seventeen years ago) link

i need the mets out just for something to gloat about/have a conversation about their failing

― Jimmy Mod is COMPLETELY MISERABLE SAN DIEGO (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 01:28 (seventeen years ago) link

since I'm a perfect 0 for 4 so far ... Cards in 7

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm assuming BuckCarver will be doing most of this series -- HOW MUCH WILL THEY TALK ABOUT FOOTBALL???

Vaguely disquieting forecast for Game 1, at least I'm under the roof...

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Game 1 Starter JEFF WEAVER

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

cards in 7 - BOOK EM, DANNO

― fergie-ferg meluvulongtime~~~ (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 03:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm thinking I should maybe switch my pick to the Mets.

The Mets, decimated rotation aside, in 7.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Cliff on roster; Royce Ring off, Anderson Hernandez on (didn't see that one comin):

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2006/news/story?id=2621119

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Anderson was playing good at the end of the year, I like the move.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Cardinals in 7. Feeling a little fatigued by the time the Series gets started.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/4344/cardinalscelebratejm2.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

weather's starting to look better for tomorrow than tonight. fuck.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

game 1 tix honored friday at ... whenever.

― maura (maura), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

MLB, pleez make it 7 or 8pm Friday so I don't hafta beg my boss to leave early. thankyew

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 October 2006 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link

8 pm friday so i can go. ;_;

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

I mean FOX, of course

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been watching these games on MLB.com since I'm not in the US, and two things have impressed themselves into my BRANE

a) The picture quality and data rate is astonishing. Maybe they're streaming an HD feed and this is boosting the quality a little?

b) We get no commercials, just a wavy blue background and "Commercial Break in Progress" on the screen, interspersed with INTERMINABLY REPETITIVE AIRINGS of Lasorda as well as two mooks in the MLB.com offices, holding their mobile phones up to each other in some disastrously conceived "ringtone staredown," using audio content from MLB.com.

Anyway, the reason I mention this is that the lack of commercials highlights how RIDICULOUSLY long each commercial break is, a duration that I suspect has been jacked up for the postseason. I haven't timed them yet, but it's like 4 minutes each. Assuming the players only need half that, that's 2*18 = 36 minutes tacked onto games that already begin at 8pm EST. Frank Robinson, look no further.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

The length of the innings breaks are fucking obscene. I do housework.

GAME 2, Friday at 8:05! Thank you, Rupert & Beelzebud!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 October 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I noticed too, that the breaks between innings has magically doubled.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 12 October 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

will LaRussa stick with Suppan in Game 2? will the Mets blow out their pen playing 5 straight days?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 October 2006 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Will this series ever begin?!

Nice touch with Bob Murphy in the beginning.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 12 October 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Quite a pitcher's duel so far.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 13 October 2006 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link

TS: Tony LaRussa's annoying sunglasses on at all times vs. Terry Francona's stupid fucking sweatshirts

― ▒█▄█ ▄▄▄ ▒█▄█ , Friday, 13 October 2006 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link

ugh, rain again!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 13 October 2006 00:49 (seventeen years ago) link

CYHSY ON FOX TELECAST :(

― Jimmy Mod is COMPLETELY MISERABLE SAN DIEGO (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 13 October 2006 00:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Boy that went a long way. Heh heh heh.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 13 October 2006 01:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Or would've if it hadn't hit 40 feet up the scoreboard.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 13 October 2006 01:09 (seventeen years ago) link

carlos beltran officially christens taco time, nlcs style.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 13 October 2006 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link

So Detroit/NY then?

― Jimmy Mod is COMPLETELY MISERABLE SAN DIEGO (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 13 October 2006 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Well probably, but it's a bit early blah blah.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 13 October 2006 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah don't jinx us, yankee fan.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 13 October 2006 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Nice touch with Bob Murphy in the beginning.

wha?!? A Superman Returns-Brando style resurrection?

I'm surprised Randolph was flexible enough to use Mota instead of Heilman in the 8th. They need at least one blowout on the weekend to save some bullpen bullets.

I have my 2 t-shirts, sweatshirt, hoodie and jacket for tnite.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 October 2006 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link

supposedly bill belichek is a cardinals fan.

mets in 4.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

GREAT THEY WON. BUT REALLY, IT'S ALL ABOUT CORY LIDLE. LET'S TRY TO STAY ON MESSAGE.

― ▒█▄█ ▄▄▄ ▒█▄█ , Friday, 13 October 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

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Uh ... they're not pinch-hitting for Perez leading off the bottom of the fifth?

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Cliff Floyd does not make that play.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 20 October 2006 01:05 (seventeen years ago) link

What the fuck was that catch? What the fuck?

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 20 October 2006 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link

ENDY!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope they show that replay twenty more times tonight.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 20 October 2006 01:09 (seventeen years ago) link

That catch was brutal. SOOP has been nails tho. Great game.

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 20 October 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Suppan hit for himself in the 7th?

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Friday, 20 October 2006 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link

unnnhhh....it pains me so grievously to see Wagner warming up for the ninth. It feels so...Mets.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Albert's mouth herpes == a reason NOT to upgrade to HDTV

― mattbot (mattbot), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link

mattbot otm

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:12 (seventeen years ago) link

HAHA TAKE THAT MONEYBALLERS!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:21 (seventeen years ago) link

YADI THA BODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CATCH THAT CHAVEZ!!!!!!!!!!11111111111oneoneone

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:26 (seventeen years ago) link

stfu, if the cards win this they'll just get swept again. la russa sucks.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link

if the cards win this they'll just get swept again

Yeah, well, so would the Mets.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link

oh god, not beltran :`````(

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Ouch.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Was that three straight? Last one looking? Oh, Carlos.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:45 (seventeen years ago) link

enjoy the snow, cardinals lamers. la russa will totally over-manage his team into another ws loss.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:45 (seventeen years ago) link

bummed, the world series is going to be a 4-5 game bore

on the plus side, lots of great reaction shots of Mets fans crying

― ▒█▄█ ▄▄▄ ▒█▄█ , Friday, 20 October 2006 02:47 (seventeen years ago) link

GO TIGERS!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link

it didn't really matter, but why wasn't Cliff Floyd (or some other PH) bunting?!?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Wainwright's curveball was awesome all through the ninth. Yadier Molina is the new Aaron Boone.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha I like the YADY YADY YADY chants in the background.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:55 (seventeen years ago) link

cards in 7 - BOOK EM, DANNO

-- fergie-ferg meluvulongtime~~~ (adelangsto...) (webmail), October 11th, 2006 12:10 AM. (Adrian Langston) (link)

LOOL

― (9ò_ó)-o Q(^.^Q) (Adrian Langston), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Cards were picked to lose vs the Padres. And then picked to lose vs the Mets. Being the underdog is much more fun.

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link

METS = AIDS CAT

http://www.celiahammond.org/images/pagemaster/fiv_tom.jpg

― (9ò_ó)-o Q(^.^Q) (Adrian Langston), Friday, 20 October 2006 03:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought Randolph's only major questionable move was PHing FLoyd when the man can't run. could have been a lot worse than a strikeout.

though they lost, hopefully people won't forget how Perez handled himself.

― ▒█▄█ ▄▄▄ ▒█▄█ , Friday, 20 October 2006 03:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.baringvet.net/images/gallery/FIV.JPG

― (9ò_ó)-o Q(^.^Q) (Adrian Langston), Friday, 20 October 2006 03:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.bestmessageboardever.com/wiki/images/a/ab/Iamsam.jpg

― I AM AIDS CAT (Adrian Langston), Friday, 20 October 2006 03:01 (seventeen years ago) link

cards in 7

-- chakra khan chakra khan (mikeoptin...) (webmail), October 9th, 2006 12:20 PM. (sanskrit) (link)

oh wait, AWESOME. but still, fuck the Cards.

― ▒█▄█ ▄▄▄ ▒█▄█ , Friday, 20 October 2006 03:01 (seventeen years ago) link

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061010/capt.1d1378dec66b4cdab9c13dabc1de461f.patriots_football_cardinals_mets_mass101.jpg

― (9ò_ó)-o Q(^.^Q) (Adrian Langston), Friday, 20 October 2006 03:07 (seventeen years ago) link

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061012/capt.37306538fb45450f8e92e9cebe4c0f1a.nlcs_cardinals_mets_baseball_nys206.jpg

query: why is larussa wearing clown shoes

― (9ò_ó)-o Q(^.^Q) (Adrian Langston), Friday, 20 October 2006 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link

hey met fucks - i'm looking at you floyd & beltran - how about swinging at anything even remotely near the strike zone when you've got 2 strikes and the game is on the line. NOTHING MAKES ME MADDER THAN A CALLED THIRD STRIKE I DON'T GIVE A FUCK IF HE'S GOT A GOOD CURVE!!!!!

(anyway, mets would have lost to tigers in 6 with El Dookie or 5 without him, but still, go down swingin' pussies)

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 20 October 2006 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link

http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/sp/getty/30/full.getty-72124119ch105_nlcs_game_7_s_12_35_53_am.jpg

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 20 October 2006 04:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow. Great picture. I still can't believe that's the way the game ended.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 20 October 2006 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Where is Bob Stanley WHEN YOU NEED HIM?

Note to Omar: GET ONE BENCH.

timmy tannin, you kinda deserve your name. Also, you dipshits who think you know what woulda/will happen in short series, sit-n-spin.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link

free Kevin Goldstein log tells me what I missed by listening to Mets radio:

http://baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=5636

8:44 p.m.: McCarver informs us that David Eckstein, "has 20 digits--10 fingers and 10 toes." I swear to God I did not just make that up.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link

:''''''(

― maura (maura), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

also, the biggest asshole i-banker cardinals fan of all time was at the bar last night, and i wanted to punch him in the nuts. defining anecdote: he made fun of a praying-to-the-heavens mets fan by saying about him, ‘your dad left your mom and she only makes $40,000 a year, and you think god cares about you?’

― maura (maura), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link

A coworker reminded me that on Wednesday morning I said Games 6 & 7 would go just as they did. 'cept for the Perez awesomeness, obv.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I really wanted the Mets to win, I don't like the Cardinals at all. A Tigers/Mets series would have been a lot more fun.

― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link

also, att Mets promo dept: no fucking rally towels in '07, pls

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

curious disjunction in nyc media coverage of loss

newspapers: IT'S OVER
tv news: OMG CHAVEZ CATCH OMG CHAVEZ CATCH

― ▒█▄█ ▄▄▄ ▒█▄█ , Friday, 20 October 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

a rough october for ny baseball ; (

― gear (gear), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

No, the cup was half full.

Now we can read Slap-Rod trade rumors for 4 months.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

let's hope they're more than just rumors!

― ▒█▄█ ▄▄▄ ▒█▄█ , Friday, 20 October 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Got to hand it to the Cards though, Suppon was in total control, and the Mets could not get a hit to save their season (4 walks to Delgado and no hits for Reyes/Lo Duca.) With all the talk of the starting pitching, both Maine and Perez came through big time though. And I'm still shocked at Chavez's catch. How the hell did he keep the ball in his glove when his hand nearly whiplashed forward over the fence back into the park?

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 21 October 2006 00:03 (seventeen years ago) link

The promo towels were also very un-shea, although I guess something psuedo-intimidating like that is a prerequisite for any game 7 at home.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 21 October 2006 09:15 (seventeen years ago) link

They were a ripoff, much like some "fans'" Yankee-style chanting and using Bosox' crap Neil Diamond song. Stop awready.

Best thing about Games 6 & 7: They dressed like the Mets. Blue caps and pinstripes only, pls.

This stuff affects me much less than it did even in my 20s. When hstencil said "Sorry about [Thursday] night" to me, I had to think for 3 seconds what he meant.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 21 October 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

jose reyes is so fucking grebt--he's like andruw before he lost the love. just the fact that he made green bop his head in the dugout made me like green too

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 21 October 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

nine years pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvJovovWEAAMJYf.jpg

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link

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