Usually, after an eight game winning streak, I’d be inclined to call whining typical Mets fan self-entitlement, but this was just an awful display on the counts you mentioned. LOOGY Jerry. OO. One Out. As in, you don’t leave him in to face the guy whose in the lineup strictly because he crushes lefties.

If JJ Putz isn’t used in a high leverage situation in the seventh inning by the end of May, it should cost Jerry his job. Its completely inexcusable. He’s not even the freakin closer, and you’re going to handcuff yourself like that? Its no coincidence that during the previous eight games, it felt like Jerry’s influence on the team had been reduced. A team shouldn’t have to be talented enough to outplay their own manager.

Jerry’s promise to rest Wright and Reyes more, which he did once each right after he got the job and never since.

I didn’t get to hear the ESPN broadcast b/c I was at Citi, leaning forward in my seat for nine innings so my view of the plate and the mound wouldn’t be blocked by a couple of bars. And I had gotten tickets in row 11 and not row 1 of the Promenade specifically so that wouldn’t happen.

That all sounds pretty atrocious.

I’m generally not quick to gripe about a single loss (especially after a seven-game winning streak), but the way that 7th inning came apart was just terrible. I can even almost get past Jose’s error, as bad as it was, because those things happen (although they shouldn’t). I’m not excusing it or anything, but there was still the chance to save the inning. There just was no excuse, as someone pointed out in the game thread, for Jerry to go situational with Pedro F. and then leave him in there to face Diaz when the situation changed. I know Jerry’s record since he arrived here has been good, but one could certainly point to his game management as a big reason for the losses in both the game preceding the streak and the game ending the streak.

But, fuck it, it’s still 8-2 in the last ten and now it’s game over tonight and move on to tomorrow. Start a new winning streak and beat the dang Braves.

i’m pretty even keeled when it comes to watching the mets, especially dealing with losses. but watching manuel just throw the game away in the 7th inning was incredibly frustrating. everyone on today’s game thread had the common sense to know that keeping feliciano was a bad idea – is it really too much to ask that the team’s manager, who gets paid seven figures, can also come to the same realization?

like i said in the game thread, manuel had enough common sense to take out parnell and bring in pedro to face a lefty. so he gets the whole LOOGY concept. the problem is that manuel just doesn’t consider pedro to be a strict LOOGY. or least i hope that’s the case, because otherwise he’s just plain stupid for leaving in pedro when he had putz and stokes in the pen.

From that description I’m glad that I forgot to set my alarm, causing my 1 hour nap to become a 5 hour nap.

He should have taken out Santana in the 7th. Pitching counts is the thing i hate the most on nowadays baseball. He wasn’t getting hammered, no offense to the bullpen but the best pitcher in the team is Johan, and no bullpen guy is better than him. He’s the one i want in a high leverage situation. I guess that was acceptable by todays standards but the Feliciano thing has no justification in my mind.

Youkilis is quite good at playing baseball.

the rest is BS…

A) When was the last time this team had a manager who had a firm grasp on the A-B-Cs of in-game management?

B) What could this team achieve with a manager who had a firm grasp on the A-B-Cs of in-game management?

after listening to most of the game as was all ready to stop hating phillips so much. he drafted wright and signed reyes, wasnt responsible the kazmir trade, and looks better in comparison the more omar screws up. but holy shite on a stick, frm the 8th inning he just spewed forth a never ending torrent of horse crap. if you didnt listen, and sam didnt paint a clear enough picture, try this: a parking lot full of whale vomit.

steve phillips is a total buttcake. he really needs to F.O.D.

but I liked Hershiser. He seemed really intelligent and actually talked about things that he had real insight on, like how to throw a better changeup by putting your “power fingers” on the ball as a guide but not letting them get behind the ball. That’s the kinda stuff I want to hear from a former player analyst.

I think I’d like Steve Phillips if all he ever talked about were what it was like behind the scenes being a GM. But when he tries to talk about the game of baseball, he comes off like a blabbering moron. Which pretty much explains most of 2002-2005. Still can’t figure out how the hell he put together that ’99-00 team.

You could be an Angels fan and try to understand why Sciosca refuses to play Brandon Wood over Maicier Izturis or Chone Figgins.

but holy fucking Jesus Christ, Feliciano against Diaz? Are you shitting me????

Even without my abacus/sliderule/TI-89 at the local watering hole did I know and let it be known to my fellow imbibers what a ridiculous scenario that was. What qualified Jerry Manuel to be a professional baseball team manager in the first place? Sound bytes? Being “gangsta”? I’d rather a fucking computer make the pitching changes and give lame post-game quotes to the press.

trade Johan.

Derek Jeter never made a mistake from 96-2000 and that the Mets “don’t have one player that doesn’t make a mistake every day”

That’s not what he meant to say, but being a “broadcaster” you really have to say what you mean to say or you sound retarded.