Saturday, April 28, 2012

Rockies ???, Mets ??? - I HAVE TO GO TO SLEEP


There's a story that Howie Rose, the radio play-by-play guy for the Mets loves to tell about the late Bob Murphy, the legendary announcer that he replaced and his first trip to Coors.  

The story goes that the Mets and Rockies played a Coors Field special, one of those 14-12, four hour affairs or whatever, and as the announcing team left the press box and rode in the elevator to depart the stadium, all was silent, everyone still digesting what they'd just seen.  



Murphy, Rose explains, broke the silence.  "I don't know what I just saw....but it sure wasn't baseball."


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Ok, so, for awhile this was a completely normal baseball game, with Chris Schwinden getting the start to replace the dearly departed Mike Pelfrey, but that didn't last very long as strange things happened in the fifth.  


After the Rockies starter left the game with some arm discomfort, the Mets scored four runs in the top of the fifth inning, all with two outs, to grab a 6-2 lead.  "Cool," I thought, "The Mets never win in Colorado!"


Well....


That's when things got ridiculous.  The Mets committed five errors in the bottom of the fifth and the pitching staff completely pooed their pants to the tune of 11 runs given up, including three-run homers by Carlos Gonzalez and Dexter Fowler.   Then, Scott Hairston hit for the cycle, the Mets immediately scored three runs to pull back within four, and I was like "Oh I'm watching this shit until the end."


Then Ramon Hernandez hit an opposite-field grand slam in the seventh and I lost all capacity for rational thought and just prayed for the end. 


It sure wasn't baseball, but I couldn't look away.  



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