Reasons For Optimism This Weekend: Mets vs. Nationals
by James Kannengieser on Apr 24, 2009 2:00 PM EDT
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PrintThe 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 Mark Himmelstein on Apr 24, 2009 2:05 PM EDT reply actions
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.
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.)
fun with numbers
What would Ollie have to do the rest of the way to match Koufax’s age 27 season numbers?
strike every batter he faces for the rest of his career out?
HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.
good to know
we should look for a pitch score of at least 95 then for Sunday’s game according to Mr. Boras
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!!!!
Bora has a book for each of his clients
in Ollie’s book one chapter compares his career to Koufax before age 27.
Exactly
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by James Kannengieser on Apr 24, 2009 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions
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.
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
Damnit you beat me too it
It would have been even better a few years ago. They might have set a record for k’s, bb’s and runs allowed in a game.
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