Zack Greinke (4-2, 3.79) vs. Herman Q. Pettibone IV, Esq. (3-3, 4.14).
"Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I am Herman Q. Pettibone IV of Pettibone Estates. It comes to my attention that my great-grandnephew, one Jonathan H. Pettibone, will be pitching the base ball today on behalf of the city of Philadelphia. Of course, in my day the association was known as the Philadelphia Athletics; a bevy of scoundrels, they.
"And if you thought 'Phillies' was redundant and somewhat vulgar, look at the opposing association: the 'Dodgers,' apparently named after the riff-raff which used to slink and skulk out of the way of Brooklyn's trolleys. How, if you'll pardon the play on words, pedestrian.
"Well, here's wishing for a gentlemanly contest between both base ball associations. May the snootiest team prevail!"
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Er, Bottom 7.
What's up, Shep?
Colorado up 2-0 on the Mets, bottom 3
Orel: +1 on the "pedestrian" pun
Huh. I somehow missed that Colorado was playing today.
The city of Brother Love!
Mets got a run in the fifth, but still trail 2-1, Top 6.
So, Nolasco or Garza?
Another day, another favorited tweet by @Dodgers. Nice work, Gnomes.
Mets just went up 3-2 in the 8th in Colorado
Tonight's Mellis-less lineup:
Schumaker 2B
Puig RF
Gonzalez 1B
Kemp CF
Ethier LF
A Ellis C
Uribe 3B
Punto SS
Greinke P
No Hanley, either
Arizona up 3-2 on the Nats, T 11
Washington's Craig Stammen falling apart here in the top of the 11th. Two on, two out, Arizona with a 3-2 lead.
Orioles tie the Indians at 3 (thanks, MLB network!)
Rockies down 3-2.
And, the Diamondbacks win. Boo.
Mets 3, Rox 2, going to the bottom of the ninth
Bobby Parnell in to close the ninth for the Mets (gulp)
Orioles rolling in the fifth; now up 7-3 on the Tribe
Colorado loses!
Bottom 7, and the tarp comes out at Camden Yards. O's lead 7-3.
Dodgers Live is ending. I gotta hop.
Go Dodgers!
Shabazz Muhammad of UCLA goes 14th, picked by Utah but traded to Minnesota.
So he's not Shajazz?
great post, Orel!
I feel unworthy as I am not an elitist to comment in tonights GT.
No Hanley?
@Spank let's roll on these pompous jerks!
the thing that everyone mentions about Charlie Manuel: he used to wear a colostomy bag in the dugout
great crowd tonight - gotta get that bobblehead
@Gnomes - I was watching Liar Liar earlier today. There was a scene where Jim Carey and his kid were going to have a catch and the kid said he'd be Nomo and Carey would be Canseco. I thought of you
wow that was so close to being out
You know it FB. I'm crashing this motherfucker!
Dre in left!
did that ball, hit off of pettibone's foot and caught off the ricochet by rollins, ever hit the ground?
pettibone makes the next pitch to A-gon so I guess it's irrelevant
did Puig hurt himself?
@FB: Thanks!
Puig goes from first to third on an AGon single!
hehe that was a cool spin Puig did at third
Nice twirl from Puig there.
KempBI!
Kemp RBI! A-Gon to third, Kemp on second. One out.
With the exception of the Schumaker walk, every Dodger has hit Pettibone hard
@Spank - I think the move is to crash through the doors of their snooty alumni club with a motorcycle, do a bunch of crazy donuts and watch their monocles fall into their brandy
Matty!
(Sax clearly has not hopped yet)
(Sax clearly needs some hops, in his beer)
Don't normally like seeing Kemp pulling the ball like that but I guess when you pull it down the line it doesn't matter.
Sometimes you're all talk, Sax. We want to see you commenting from the road.
(not really)
Dre with the bases-clearing double. I like this.
Ethier double scores two! 3-0 Dodgers, one out in the first
Petti's boned.
Holy cow, who the hell IS this team?
And where the hell have they been all year?
Herman Q. Pettibone IV, Esq. must be rolling in his grave.
Hey, early lead.
DRE
I said good day sir!!
Dodgers are out-snootying the Phils!
I SAID GOOD DAY
@Orel: Given my driving, you don't want to see me commenting from the road.
That's what Siri is for
come on AJ keep the train movin.
We need an app that will convert Siri to Blogger comments.
I'll leave after this inning, I promise
Looks like a nice night out there. Full crowd, I'm assuming for the bobblehead
Keep in mind Philly's bullpen should be gassed from last night's extra-innings game against the Pads.
I've got Gameday ackshun going so i'll be commenting on the movie Class Act.
$20 says Pettibone's gone by 2+.
Damn. Lucky catch.
Delmon defeats A.J....this time.
Nice catch by Delmon Young there in right; AJ Ellis almost had a double of his own there.
Replay shows Young had his eyes closed for that catch
@Hollandsworth: Not if Uribe keeps on swinging at the first pitch like that.
oh damn, the drunken spaz got lucky to catch that
Uribe goes into 2012 party pooper mode.
I'd thrash Damita.
Yeah, that happened as soon as I hit that publish button.
Oops.
3-0 LA through 1. NOW I have to go.
Zack, this is what you call an early lead. Very rare in Southern California. Please be gentle with it.
Aaaaannnnnd there it goes.
Way to jinx it, Paul.
blah
damn
take it easy around the walls, Matty
Sorry guys.
I guess this Domonic guy is for real then.
Clearly Zack doesn't know what to do with a lead.
cripes
figure it out, Zach
Dodgers can never do anything easy.
Wasn't Chooch suspended for PEDs? Where is he now?
Nice throw.
sheezus, he'll be at 50 pitches before the end of the inning
Will i be classified as a racist if i laugh at this movie?
@Orel - he's waiting on the bench to ruin our evening and weekend
Thanks, Delmon!
Delmonic
Young picked off second!
woo!
Only 347 pitches for Zack in the 2nd.
pick off
damn gameday delay
good recovery, Zach
Finally watching. Liking what I see
Magic just tweeted he is having dinner with Herman Q. Pettibone IV, Esq.
On the couch with my champagne wishes and caviar dreams, Vinny!
Juan Samuel drove me crazy in 1991. He started off so hot and was pure Urine in the second half of the season. If he could have hit even .250 after the all star break, we could have finished ahead of the barves
hehe nice, Paul
The most Punto-esque single ever.
pinkies up,bishes
Ha! Nice, Paul!
damn, nice call
great bunt, NOW GET HIM HOME, SKIP!
Pretty lame call by the ump there.
Don't bring up 1991 FB. Thinking about the last week of that season still makes me cry.
cc: Spanky.
Skipford Olivier Schumaker, he of the Torrance Schumakers, can't get it done
Dammit.
Back to the minors with you Puig!
That was poor. I blame you, Skip
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Man on third one out can't score
@FB
He's new money, you know. Not surprising.
A.J.'s got a gun....
Nice throw, nice tag!
wow nice throw!
Class Act repeat. Where's my gold toof?
All of a sudden he's Cy Pettibone.
Okay, fine. Who do I start writing checks too?
*to.
Siddowmonic!
woohoo!! FREE BEER DAY! A Growler of Yellowtail Ale from my uncle and a 12 pack of Bud from my aunt.
(cries)
And Class Act!!
(faints)
I'm glad we got those three in the 1st, because we haven't done jack shit since.
Yellowtail!
growler...hee hee
Utley bloop RBI. 3-2 Dodgers.
Shit, Zack, get it together. Tie game.
we're too fancy for this nickle and dime shit!
UJTD!
Looks like pettibone got it under control. 3-3 tie.
Is it me or does Howard not look as big as he used to?
"This Puig fellow is worth $42 million. We may invite him to the next wine tasting."
Anyone else notice disappearing comments?
My comments seem fi...
*whoosh*
I thought Cliff left a comment re: Howard looking smaller than before.
I had a comment disappear earlier today.
Anyone else notice a disappearing winning streak?
UJTD!
UJD!
Double Dammit.
Orel's comment disappeared.
See? My UJTD comment just disappeared!
Dodgers went 1-2-3 in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th. Time to wake up!
We lost a shitload of comments there
Is MJ Fox in the past trying to stop Orel from disappearing?
That's really weird
Vinny just called Ryu, Byun Jun Kim
"Chuck! Chuck, it's Marvin! Your cousin, Marvin Berry."
Maybe the NSA found the site not so harmless.
Pretty Bone is so hittable. Pound him.
"Hyun-Jin! Hyun-Jin! It's Byun Jun Kim. Your cousin, Byun Jun Kim."
Phillies' plan: Give up 3, then pitch perfect game.
14 in a row.
15 in a row by Pretty Bone.
this is approaching annoying
Come on Dodgers!
It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby!
Almost named our band, Gorgonzola but I thought it would be too cheesy.
Alison?
GREAT now Puig's hurt. And we're losing.
Son of a
We have to do something about these walls.
I thought Matty softened them up the other night.
Now 4-3. Not good.
Is Puig really hurt? Not watching the game
Howard fall down and go boom. Guess he's still pretty big.
Bundt cake.
According to Twitter, Puig left the dugout with trainers but returned a few minutes later.
@Sax he banged against the wall pretty hard but stayed in. He's seems to be nearly hurt at least once a week. Hopefully it's another one of those
@Neeebs
But I did like that we kept with the theme with the all girl punk band we discovered, The Lactic Cultures.
Two on, one out for pinch Hanley.
Feeling something special here.
IBB to pinch o' Hanley
Come on guys!
Come on guys!
RANCHO ARDIENDO for Skipford Olivier Schumaker of the Torrance Schumakers!
Skip Ks. At least he didn't hit into a DP.
god DAMMIT SKIP, do something!
Oh boy.
OK Puig, here's your chance to disappoint us!
Cue the lights.
that's twice!
Puig is still woozy from his meeting with the outfield wall.
Hello, girl in green hat!
Holy shit! Puig delivers again!
OH YES.
Fuckin amazing. No way he should have hit that. But he did.
Did you see Uribe chugging down the third-base line?
amazing
Baywatch The Uribe files.
@PJ: Summer of 81 spent with lead singer, Titee Twystyr
I am still amazed at that hit and he pulled it. I could try that 100 times and well I'd try once and go have a beer.
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