Live Blogging (otherwise known as a running diary)

Howdy folks,

Going to try something new today. Going to try and do a running diary (a nod to the Sports Guy for this) of today's Met's/braves game.


11:50 am Still 10 minutes away from game time (central time). Just realized the game is not on SNY today on my Extra Innings. I now have to suffer through the brave's announcers on TBS for this game.....(By the way, how many sons did Harry Caray have??)

11:55 am Quick thought. Isn't it awsome that the Cardinals suck so far this year? Stricter rules on steroid testing, and Pujols is off to a horrible start. Coincidence?? And why is not more made of the fact that he looks 36 years old and not 26 like he claims?

12:01 pm Coverage starting. Why do the camera's always get so close to the announcers in pre-game?

12:03 pm Commercial? 3 minutes into coverage and we get a VW commercial?

12:10 pm Shot of smoltz warming up. He may be the Dick Clark of baseball players. This guy hasn't aged a bit in 20 years

12:11 pm Glavine's first pitch hit out of the park by kelly johnson (who the hell is kelly johnson?) 1-0 braves.

12:12 pm Tum count: 1

12:13 pm larry jones grounds weakly to 3rd. 4 pitches, 2 outs, 1 home run.

The homerun call is why I HATE listening to brave announcers. One of them let a "WooHoo" slip.

12:14 pm andruw jones pops out for the 3rd out.

12:17 pm Reyes pops out. Out 1.

12:18 pm Weak grounder by La Ducca. 2 down.

12:19 pm Another weak grounder by Beltran. inning over.

*****another note on smoltz. Isn't HGH called the fountain of youth? Hmmmmm....



End of the 1st inning. braves 1 Mets 0 Tums 1

12:22 pm Just wondering why anyone would move out of the way of a thrown Glavine fastball.

12:23 pm Umps just screwed Glavine on a 3rd strike.

12:25 pm braves announce crew jinxed mcann and got him to strikeout seconds after mentioning that he never gives away an at bat. Keep 'em coming guys...

12:25 pm Someone alert Guiness. jeff francouer just took 2 straight pitches!!

12:27 pm Truer words have NEVER been spokern. Chip Caray: "....and of course chipper jones bats from both sides of the plate." Indeed Chip. Indeed.

12:28 pm braves go quietly. Delgado, Wright, and Alou due up.

Actually, Delgado is just "due".

12:33 pm David Wright does not look good so far. *Note to any Met offered a spot in the homerun derby. DECLINE INVITATION.

12:34 pm Another quick inning for smoltz. Someone needs to tell these guys to take a pitch or 2 or smoltz may get through 9 innings on 43 pitches.

End of 2 innings. braves and Tums tied at 1

12:36 pm Would smoltz and Glavine be friends anymore if he hit smoltz in the head with his 68 mph fastball?

12:38 pm smoltz strikes out on a 44mph changeup. (I'm assuming it was a changeup. may have been his 2 seam fastball...)

12:39 pm this kelly johnson is moving up to chipper level of hate....

12:43 pm Nice effort by Alou. renteria with a girlish hit. runners on the corners and here comes larry.

12:44 pm larry jones. sit down. 3rd out. Glavine escapes a jam.

12:49 pm Goodbye no hitter. Green singles to right field.

12:51 pm HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Error by larry at 3rd. 2 on noone out. Glavine to try and bunt them over. Nice play larry....

12:53 Shit. WTF was Glavine doing?

12:55 pm Looks like another wasted scoring opp for the Mets. 2 down. Runners on the corners. Lo Ducca and his hamburger finger to the plate. Not looking optimistic here.

12:56 pm Stolen base by Reyes. Base hit here will score 2. C'mon Paul!!

12:57 pm I know smoltz is not on the mound bitching like a little girl about that last pitch. With that crap they are calling on Glavine, he needs to hush and take some more HGH

12:58 pm Lo Ducca with a WEAK ASS grounder to short. The good news is, Tums just took a 2-1 lead.

End of 3 innings. Need our clutch guys to man up and get some hits.....

1:02 pm Glavine gives up a double to anduw jones. 1 on and 0 out.

1:04 pm Glavine getting squeezed by the home plate ump...

1:04 pm mccann pops out. jeff francouer and his lifetime on-base % of 7 coming up

1:05 pm I would love just once for Glavine to have a meltdown on an ump. Another ridiculous screw job by blue. Does get francouer to fly out to center. 2 down.

1:07 pm Did the rules change? Is the plate a 1 inch block now?

1:08 pm Glavine with another strike out. Swinging of course. No way he's getting a called strike today...

1:14 pm It's painfully obvious that the strike zone for smoltz is not the same as it is for Glavine. Ridiculous.

End of 4. Tums tack on one more and lead 3-1


1:24 pm Easy 5th for Glavine. Bottom of the order due up.

***Side note. Sorry for the 10 minute delay. Had an incident with play-doh and ravioli. Dont ask because I can't explain it...Those of you with children, you will understand.

1:26 pm Shawn Green goes DEEP!! 1-1 game!!

1:28 A television first ladies and gentlemen.....the braves announcers just had a live television orgasm on a decent play in the outfield (decent because the idiot jumped and didn't have too) and smoltz. I guess it's a great play worth celebrating when you gun down a 41 year old Tom Glavine at first base.......sheeesh. These guys would lose it over a bunt single....


1:30 pm Ground rule double for LoDucca. Reyes has to stop at 3rd.

1:33 pm Mets screwed again by the home plate ump. Someone check his pockets and the ledger in Cox's check book.

End of 5 Tums still have a 3-1-1 advantage.

1:45-2:07 pm Um......WOW!! Words cannot describe the 6th inning. Reyes is unbelievable. Mets score 5, get bobby cox thrown out for being the whiney bitch he usually is, and get smoltz and his HGH'd body out of the game.

End of 6 Mets 6 braves 3 Tums 3

2:10 pm Mets put in Ambiorix Burgos. Tums has just scored 2 more......

2:14 pm Schoenweiss just gave up a bomb to tie the game becuase once again, HE WALKED THE LEFTY HE WAS BROUGHT IN TO FACE!! (AGAIN)

7th inning

2:24 pm Shit.

8th inning

2:42 pm SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!

6:24 PM Yes, there is an almost 4 hour gap between posts. Consider that half of my cooling off period.

I can't even write what I think right now because my mother may read this.
I will say this. It's a long season, and there will be more games where the bullpen implodes with the same impact of the Armageddon asteroid, but when it happens against the braves, man.................

Anyway, braves get away with a 9-6 victory over the Mets, but Tums keeps its undefeated streak alive with a 15 to 9 score over the braves....