Tonight’s game vs. the Phillies outlines all the reasons that Mets’ fans find this team so frustrating. When they come together, there is not a team in the National League that can hang with them. Wright showed flashes of power that he’s been missing all year. Carlos Beltran knocked in runs. [...]
Current Record: 28-21
May Record: 19-9
GB (NL East): 0.5 (Philadelphia)
GB (Wildcard): 1 (St. Louis)
1) I’ve decided that one Citi Field feature I dislike is the 16-foot wall in left field. While it managed to steal four home runs from various right-handed Marlins over a three game series, it pretty much destroyed any chance of fun [...]
Scores are for the final game of the series. I stopped doing this because I thought I was jinxing the team.
1) I can’t tell you how refreshing it was to see the Mets fans taking a huge chunk of Fenway Park. The Red Sox fans do this everywhere and it was awesome to [...]
Current Record: 10-13.
GB (NL East): 3.5 (Florida)
GB (Wildcard): 2.5 (St. Louis)
1) Jerry Manuel was starting to grow on me. His smallball approach wasn’t to the extreme like Willie Randolph’s. Willie would have Luis Castillo sac-bunt Jose Reyes over in the first inning. Recently, though, he’s been showing truly frustrating tendencies. [...]
1) Could the Mets hit in to anymore unassisted double plays? It seems like sending the runner automatically translates to double play. It seems like this team is hitting in to brutal luck early in the series.
2) I’m glad to see that Jeff Kent’s moustache didn’t retire when Jeff Kent did. I [...]
The response to Daniel Murphy’s 8th inning error which eventually led to two runs is laughably predictable in the New York media today. Everything from “he’s not ready to be a big league player” to “this is a win-now team that can’t afford to have a guy learning on the job.”
The thing I don’t [...]
Watching Game 11 (the 1-0 win over the Brewers) finally made me realize that it’s a new year. Watching Putz and K-Rod put away a 1-0 with no drama and no roller coaster was amazing. I’d forgotten what that could be like.
1) Nelson Figureoa vs. Jeff Suppan has the chance to be the [...]
1) I am so happy they’ve continued to improve the subway service from Manhattan to the ballpark. The terrible, 6 turnstiles through a stupid iron tower choke-point is gone, replaced with a huge staircase leading up to something like 20 turnstiles. On top of that, they’ve kept the post-game “Super Express” service that [...]
1) I’m absurdly happy to see Daniel Murphy get the 2-hole over Luis Castillo. I totally agree that Castillo should be given the chance to earn his way up in the line-up but if you’re going to convince the world that Murphy is the answer to Manny Ramirez, put him up in the [...]
And like that — it’s gone.
Maybe not gone, but on life support. The Mets managed to be the only one to drop their game while the Phillies and Brewers both won. The Phillies put the final nail in the Mets’ division hopes while the Brewers, at the very least, got the nail and [...]
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