Reasons For Optimism This Weekend: Mets vs. Nationals

by James Kannengieser on Apr 24, 2009 2:00 PM EDT in Commentary Comment 19 comments

The pitching matchups for this weekend's series against the Nationals favor the Mets, and here are the reasons why:

Game 1: Scott Olsen vs. Johan Santana

"We drinkin' Santana champ cause it's so crisp!" Oh, and Scott Olsen is terrible.

Game 2: Daniel Cabrera vs. Mike Pelfrey

Umm, the Mets are facing Daniel Alberto Cruz Cabrera.

Game 3: Jordan Zimmerman vs. Oliver Perez

Sandy Koufax, age 27 statistics: 311 IP, 1.88 ERA, 5.28 K/BB

Oliver Perez is 27 years old. You do the math.

Check out Mets Geek for a more in-depth look at Olsen, Cabrera, and Zimmerman.

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The Math

27=27. Huzzah!!! We’re saved! Plus, don’t forget, Ollie’s married now.

by Meddler on Apr 24, 2009 2:05 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

It's the Natinals!

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Apr 24, 2009 2:08 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

this weekend is going to be sweet

mets on local broadcast so i can watch them on the big screen. also theyre playing the P.O.S. nats so we should get a few W’s. plus the NFL draft is going on. theres going to be nice weather. not even the G.D.M.F. cardinals sweeping us is going to screw this weekend up for me.

and i’ll probably go buy the caprica dvd and watch that too.

yep, looks like everything’s coming up dynamo this weekend.

HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.

by kendynamo on Apr 24, 2009 2:08 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Reason for pessimism:

The fact that you brought all of this up. I will now expect nothing but the worst this weekend.

This weeekend should be bittersweet for me. On the plus side, the weather’s gonna be awesome. On the downside, I have a positively unhealthy amount of work to do. (Which is especially bad because of the plus side.)

by Prince on Apr 24, 2009 2:14 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

fun with numbers

What would Ollie have to do the rest of the way to match Koufax’s age 27 season numbers?

by Endys Game on Apr 24, 2009 2:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

strike every batter he faces for the rest of his career out?

HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.

by kendynamo on Apr 24, 2009 2:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Easy:

24-4, 296 IP, 20 CG, 11 SHO, 291 K, 46 BB, 200 H, 52 ER, 1.58 ERA, 0.831 WHIP

by cjmulrain on Apr 24, 2009 4:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

good to know

we should look for a pitch score of at least 95 then for Sunday’s game according to Mr. Boras

by Endys Game on Apr 24, 2009 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

"i'm riding on a dolphin, doing flips and shit"

by englishgrey on Apr 24, 2009 3:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

"I fucked a merrrmaaaaaid"

by JoshNY on Apr 24, 2009 4:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ollie math

So the math is that Koufax was freaking awesome at age 27 and Ollie has not been? I’m confused…

btw biggest start of Pelfrey’s career on Saturday. Not like he’ll get sent down or anything, but more for the reason that everyone has been hoping for SOMEONE not named Santana to be good and Pelfrey had a built-in excuse for his first two starts (injury). So now, its time for him to step up. Go Big PELF!!!!

by meigs1414 on Apr 24, 2009 3:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Bora has a book for each of his clients

in Ollie’s book one chapter compares his career to Koufax before age 27.

by Sokojoe on Apr 24, 2009 3:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Did Koufax ever walk 8 batters in one game?

I haven’t read the “book”, but I’m guessing no.

by hotspur on Apr 24, 2009 3:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

okay

Koufax did walk a lot of guys (7 on several occasions), but it was often enroute to a 10+ K shutout.

by hotspur on Apr 24, 2009 4:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Exactly

Click here for more meigs

by James Kannengieser on Apr 24, 2009 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah thanks.

read it after my post. I knew he claimed Ollie as the one of the top five lefties in the game but didn’t know about the hyperbole to Koufax and the Big Unit. I need find out where Boras gets his drugs cuz that is some good stuff.

by meigs1414 on Apr 24, 2009 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Didn't add up; forgot to carry the zero

Ollie is married; Koufax didn’t get married until he was 33. Thus, Ollie > Koufax.

'Oh yes, I know all about that duty-of-a-citizen stuff. It doesn't go. There are exceptions to every rule, and this was one of them. When a man risks his liberty to come and root at a ball-game, you've got to hand it to him. He isn't a crook. He's a fan.'

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Apr 24, 2009 3:54 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs