to see Murph back in the lineup. I am a little dumbfounded as to why hippo is hitting before F!

It would be nice if the Mets won tonight. Also, I’m eating pizza and drinking beer with some friends here in Baltimore. My wife is the designated driver. A sweep of the Nats would make the night perfect.

but he has a bruised shin.

couldn’t have come at a better time. Get some runs for Johan!

but he’s shown some decent plate discipline lately.

 I would love to sweep while managing to throw out a lineup every game of the series that is nearly put to shame by that of a 13-32 team.

SWEEP!

Come on Murph. Got to scoop that.

keep the no no intact.

Omir Santos is getting today off because he fouled a ball off his shin, but he’ll be back out there after the off day. How can the Mets honestly treat a career .650 OPSer in the minors as their starter and Ramon Castro with his slugging as the backup, unless they are doing something horribly, horribly wrong?

He’s still amazing.

Nice job.

sanyone have a split for his home and away lines?

I’ve been super busy, and now I can finally relax and watch a Mets game.

How’s everyone’s Wednesday going?

Sweet.

looked out.

Without him, we’d be the Buffalo Bisons

Let’s get some runs for our ace please.

like it’s 1999.

Woot!

I’m going to use that for XBHs.

in the “worst way”

Walk Castro so F! can hit a granny.

slot in to the lineup for next year? 2 hitter?
Reyes
F!
Beltran
Wright
(First Baseman)
(L/R Fielder)
Castillo
(Catcher)

to everyone bitching about Sheffield taking the ABs from Murphy,Church

You could hear exactly what the ump was saying.

for Santana. Loved seeing him drop the bat and take off quickly to first after swinging and missing on a pitch in the dirt

F! sucks. Send him down to the minors. Seriously, trade him. This guy just can’t hit MLB pitching.

I was a triples machine.

if, hypothetically, Johan were to not allow another hit the rest of the way…would that make the official scorer more or less likely to change the ruling to an error?

A promo interview.

“Well, Jackie is a Nurse…..”
No, really?

Not bright.

Loving it.

COME ON SHEFF!

Sheff’s LD% and BABIP?

YES!

Feels good to say that.

Good to have you back

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Against worse teams, we expect more wins.

HOLY SHIT DID YOU GET A DEGREE IN OBVIOSOCOLOGY?

What kind of poll choices were those?

Why isn’t he teaching math at Harvard?

He’s smarter, smoother and more telegenic. Makes all the sense in the world.

is kind of a phenomenon these days. He elicits almost universal loathing from Mets fans. On the spectrum of Met fan hatred I think he’s in the company of Jimmy Rollins and Steve Phillips.

that ball was CRUSHED!
and to think, he doesn’t want to play baseball.

That might have cracked 470 ft.

But this is a tight ass strike zone.

A question many Mets fans are asking is whether or not Gary Sheffield’s hot streak is going to continue? Well, we could ask other Mets fans, but that wouldn’t really accomplish anything, considering we are, as a fanbase, a bunch of misinformed, highly reactive and biased individuals. You know what isn’t biased or misinformed? Statistics.

Right now, Sheff’s Line Drive percentage is only 14.1. That’s surprising, because it’s the lowest mark of his career. Because that rate is so low, you’d expect some regression back towards the mean. Furthermore, his home run per fly ball rate is a remarkable 20%, which would be his highest mark since 2003. Given CitiField’s large dimensions, especially to left, one would certainly expect a precipitous drop in his home run rate. However, there’s still some hope. because his batting average on balls in play is only about .300, which is far below the league average of .330, though consistent with his past performance. Furthermore, his walk rate is up almost 19%, which would make it his highest since 1997. As we see often with players who have diminishing tools, it’s necessary to maximize your at-bats, and we’ve seen Gary Sheffield do just that, getting on base at a phenomenal rate thusfar.

Where in god’s name did that miss?

Bad feeling

Santana struck out Zimmerman too, before he walked.

What happened to the home plate umpire this inning?

should go seven once he settles down, again.

Nice K.

Half the pitches this inning have “missed” on the inside corner.

Blind fuck

Check out the Gameday. He had Maxwell virtually struck out and only one strike was called.

Oliver Santana
Johan Perez
Joholiver Pertana

he hasn’t look exceptional in his last two starts and this inning looks Perez-like

Santana has been totally gipped this inning.

GIVE YOUR MAN SOME RUN SUPPORT

That was thoroughly painful.

Check out the pitch by pitch in that inning on Gameday. He is very close and there’ve been a ton of pitches that haven’t been called strikes that are very much in the strike zone.

Someone mentioned that earlier in the thread. It would be nice, because the man is straight-up retarded.
In other news, I don’t expect F! to take advantage of the new strike zone.

He was safe.

Johan wasn’t going to maintain that <1 ERA forever. However, there were too many questionable calls there, and then he is forced to pitch for contact or walk.

There were some awful calls.

bad.

yay.

He’s scaring me

seriously, no more assclowning.