Open Thread - Game #32: Mets vs. Dodgers
by Eric Simon on May 7, 2008 2:33 PM EDT
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PrintNew York Mets at Los Angeles Dodgers, May 7, 2008 3:10 PM EDT
Discussion starter: Sosa, Figueroa, Smith: Who gets the boot when Matt Wise comes off the DL? Or, should Wise be the one to go?
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Sosa.
Wise at least deserves a chance to fail.
Sosa has failed already.
We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!
I dissent
a mild one. I think Sosa is a pretty bad pitcher but he has been proven slightly useful at times as an innings eater whn one is needed or to get out one or two RIGHT HANDED HITTERS (are you reading this Wille Randolph!!) . Thats it. Wise however I see no value to. He is coming off an arm injury and looked awful to me the brief times he pitched. He also had a terrible second half last year with the Brewers. The bottom line is Sosa and Wise both pretty much stink but at least Sosa has come through for us once in a while.
I dissent with the dissent
I thought Wise looked pretty nasty, except for a few bad pitches. I think there is more upside to Wise in the pen than Sosa.
To me, Sosa being an innings eater is like saying someone is a classy hooker. It’s not really a compliment.
One more Sosa note...
Getting him off the team means Willie CAN NOT misuse him anymore. I am in favor of anything that makes Willie’s job simpler.
on another note
No excuses. If Maine wants to be considered a top flight pitcher for this or any other team he needs to give us at least 7 if not 8 quality innings today. I know its early still but we need to give this bullpen some rest!!
If Maine wants to be considered a top flight pitcher for this or any other team he needs to give us at least 7 if not 8 quality innings today.
This is hyperbole, but the spirit is there. Maine has been pitching better of late, but he’s not #2 material right now. He needs to keep the walks down, keep his composure out there, and avoid the big innings.
Church
He really has impressed in all facets. He hits, he fields (last night notwithstanding), he throws.
I still miss Lasto
I agree though. Church is a productive player who really should be hitting 2nd in the lineup.
That's fine with me
But I’d like Church to bat between Reyes and Wright when the regular lineup is playing
Bad Penny
as he often seems to be against the Mets. I don’t know if he has improved somewhat lately but I know at one point the Mets had 1927 Yankees like numbers against him.
from espn.com (their caps, not mine)
NEW YORK LEFT FIELDER ANGEL PAGAN LEFT THE GAME IN THE THIRD INNING WITH AN APPARENT LEFT SHOULDER INJURY. HE WAS INITIALLY INJURED FALLING INTO THE STANDS WHILE CATCHING A FOUL BALL IN THE BOTTOM OF THE FIRST INNING.
Same reason
D-Dub comes up huge with the bases loaded and the Mets up 8-0 and he can’t do doodily squat when the Mets are trailing.
I'd like to note
That the shortstop is Chin-Lung Hu, not Hong-Chih Kuo. Taiwanese Dodgers are not quite than interchangeable…
what is this 11-0 shit?
I don’t watch one game and the Mets decide to score all their runs at once? Let’s make our Pythag look all pretty so we have an excuse to win only 85 games.
Ah, being a Mets fan. It ain’t easy being this negative.
Is for me. :-)
Beltran made 2 of the 3 outs in the 6-run 5th inning.
David Wright MVP Watch: .311/4/14! (through 12 games)
ZaBlanc
I noticed you haven’t updated your David Wright MVP Watch stats in a while. Just for the record, under you advanced clutch system, that last 2B by Wright does not count as clutch correct?
Waiting
We’re gonna wait for the slump to end. It wouldn’t be a good MVP watch right now. ;-) There have been no clutch hits in this game except for John Maine’s bases loaded single.
David Wright MVP Watch: .311/4/14! (through 12 games)
Raul Casanova doubles (2) on a fly ball to center fielder Matt Kemp. Two out.
Wait, an extra-base hit by a catcher? What’s that?
you're all welcome
forgot to start john maine today in fantasy. siiiiiiigh.
Maine's managing his pitches nicely
Only 76 through six innings. It’s within the realm of possibility that he could go 8 today. (That would be nice because it would give the bullpen some rest AND because it would get Gary and Ron to stop complaining that we haven’t had a starter go longer than 7 yet this season.)
92 pitches through 8
Leave him in there, Willie! If you can’t let your pitcher finish out a game when he’s on track for a two-hit shutout, up 12-0, and under 100 pitches, when can you?
chan ho park!
will get 9 straight outs against us.
Definitely
Our bats have been put away for the flight home. I think we’re going up there with wiffle ball bats or something.
not that i'm complaining
score 12 runs and your pitcher is cruising, who cares right
why is it
i’m right on these off-the-cuff predictions and i suck ass at the swag contest? EFF!
can i get a hat
or something, eric? maybe a pen?
you win a coupon for a free meal at Bennigan's
with the purchase of a meal of equal or greater value of course
Maine
I say Complete Game. might be the only one this year!!
12-0 Mets!
I like it a lot….lets hope for more games like this.
It doesn't compare to watching on actual TV, of course
But MLB.com Gameday is pretty darn good for a free service
Nice outing by Maine
8 IP, 92 pitches, 61 strikes, 2 hits, one walk, no runs. He’s the Maine man today!
Let's Go Mets!
i'm glad he wasn't throwing a no-no before
that would’ve been worse than that lame dribbler last year that broke it up
fuck.
good game johnny. the bullpen thanks you.
might have had the complete game
Save America. Impeach Bush
woops
if not for Castillo. He stinks.
Save America. Impeach Bush
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