Open Thread and Ichthyomancy: Marlins at Mets (9/29)

by craig on Sep 29, 2007 8:37 AM EDT in News and Rumors

The Marlins are getting this spoiler thing down. After last night's game the Mets have to hope, beyond all hopes, that they can win this game and next one and that the Phillies will lose two in a row. Which will only guarantee that the Mets will get to play a playoff game on Monday.

The Marlins starting pitcher is Chris Seddon.

The Mets plan to trot out to the hill. John Maine.

Game time is 1:10 p.m.

Seddon is a lefty who proved to be problematic to the Mets the last time he faced them. In that outing, he only gave up 3 H and 2 ER in 5 IP. The only down side in the start came on Lo Duca's 2-run home run.

Maine appears to be wearing down as the season goes on. But his last start against the Marlin wasn't all that bad. He only gave up 3 ER in 5 IP but did strikeout 9.

For all things Mets, check out Amazin' Avenue.

Ichhtyomancy, while still hating day games, is more than ready to meet the challenge.

Here's today's Ichthyomancy pick table:

FishStriper	Attendance	Player	AAB
Al State
Baseballfan
Bobbob	30,000	Cabrera	Marlins leadoff: 2+ OB, 2+ R
Brickell
Brooklyn
Bumppo	54,300	Ramirez	Marlins 7,8,9: 3+ H, 2+ R
C60	55,855	Ramirez	Hermida: H > 1, Jacobs: H+RBI > 2
Colombo
Cubsfan
Dan
Evilfish
Exitfare
Fluxuation	54,987	Cabrera	Marlins: 4+ HR
GameFish
Gottabethefives
HadMatter	55,989	Jacobs	Ross: PH RBI
Hoboken
Hurricane	55,555
Iguerra
Jacob
JDarrell13
Jim B	55,155	Hermida	Linden: 1+ H, Mets: 1+ E
Jrfelix
Jrsyeagle
Jsprt06
Marlins9703
Maverick
MistaRaggy
Nynolelaw
NYULaw
Stlcardinals	56,218	Hermida	Hermida: 4+ RBI

Best of Luck to Everyone!

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Five down ... two to go. Time for a hail mary:

55855
Ramirez
Hermida H>1 and
Jacobs H+RBI>2

by c60 on Sep 29, 2007 9:13 AM EDT reply actions

Picks

Gotta beat Fluxuation...

54,300
Hanley
Marlins 7,8,9: 3+ H, 2+ R

by Bumppo on Sep 29, 2007 10:45 AM EDT reply actions

The Real Battle

MistaRaggy     24
Jsprt06     23
Stlcardinalsfan 22
NYULaw     21

One of these will fall out of the Top 15 and be forced to go to Ichthomancy Q-School this off-season.

by c60 on Sep 29, 2007 12:55 PM EDT up reply actions

LOL

by craig on Sep 30, 2007 4:04 AM EDT up reply actions

56218

hermida

hermida gets four+ RBIs

lets go fish!

by stlcardinalsfang on Sep 29, 2007 11:39 AM EDT reply actions

picks

54,106

cabrera

1,2,3 hitters: 5+ hits, 3+ RBI

I'm doin the Fish again. (Yeah, yeah, yeah.)

by colombo259 on Sep 29, 2007 11:46 AM EDT reply actions

i will not be beat!

54987
4hr from from the marlins.

by Fluxuation on Sep 29, 2007 12:53 PM EDT reply actions

Beinfest extended

According to "sources", GM Larry Beinfest, Assistant GM's Michael Hill and Jim Fleming and Vice President of Player Personnel Dan Jennings have had their contracts extended through 2015. The contracts are expected to be announced officially this afternoon.

by mbaamin08 on Sep 29, 2007 1:01 PM EDT reply actions

Just saw that on ESPN.

It's definitely great news. You'd think someone of Beinfest's talents would be pursuing other opportunities, but I sure am delighted he'll be here for a while. Given our, uh, "restrictions," imagine how bad we'd be without the deft work of our scouting and personnel department.

And how 'bout them FISH?!? Four in a row and we have those wretched Mets peeing their pants. I hate the Phillies, but I hate the Mets more. At least we don't get 20,000 Phillies fans showing up at Dolphins Stadium or whining on message boards. New York sports fans are the absolute worst.

by Fishcrazy on Sep 29, 2007 1:08 PM EDT up reply actions

On the pre-game

interview w/ Beinfest they said he was now president of baseball opperations and Michael Hill is now the GM

Here I am, brain the size of a planet...

by HadMatter on Sep 29, 2007 1:19 PM EDT up reply actions

It's up on the Marlins page

It's now in the press release section of the Marlins homepage. "The Florida Marlins today announced the extension of the contracts of four baseball executives through the 2015 season: Larry Beinfest, who was named President, Baseball Operations; Michael Hill who was named Vice President, General Manager; Dan Jennings who was named Vice President, Player Personnel and Assistant General Manager; and Jim Fleming, Vice President, Player Development and Scouting and Assistant General Manager. The announcement was made by Marlins Owner and CEO Jeffrey H. Loria."

by mbaamin08 on Sep 29, 2007 1:31 PM EDT up reply actions

So Samson is gone?

by Bumppo on Sep 29, 2007 2:46 PM EDT up reply actions

Not sure

I was wondering that myself.

by mbaamin08 on Sep 29, 2007 3:37 PM EDT up reply actions

Presumably

Samson will just take an additive title like President of Business Operations, to complement Beinfest's.

by dan 2.0 on Sep 29, 2007 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions

Samson=Nepotism

And while I'm not a black man, I love the fact that Michael Hill is our GM!

Here I am, brain the size of a planet...

by HadMatter on Sep 29, 2007 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions

Mortal Combat Picks

55,989
Jacobs
Cody PH RBI

"Finish Him!"

Here I am, brain the size of a planet...

by HadMatter on Sep 29, 2007 1:05 PM EDT reply actions

Elimination day

Hey, I just realized that the Marlins can completely eliminate the Mets from the playoffs today -- a Fla win plus a Phillie win leaves the Mets wondering if anyone got the license number of the bus that rolled over them the last three weeks. A Marlin win on it's own accord eliminates the Mets from Wild Card consideration.

If the Mets complete their surprising collapse this weekend and completely miss the playoffs after leading the division by 7 games with 17 to play, the fallout in the Big Apple could be of epic proportions and will be the lead story through the off-season.

And the long-time Phillie phans will know exactly how the Mets pheel.

by c60 on Sep 29, 2007 1:07 PM EDT reply actions