Recap By Committee: Yankees 9, Mets 8

Joe Girardi is up there acting swagalishous

You lucked out to the nth degree, dueche.

Is ass-backwards stupid.

but that is just typical. Sure. Don’t run’em out. That shit never happens.

I will probably get lambasted, but to me, this is the 3rd worst loss in the last 3 days. I can deal with losing to the Yankees on a fluke play, K-Rod deserved to blow a save, going 2-0 on pretty much everybody (albeit, that was a horrible way to blow a save), falling behind 3-0 on Tex and putting the winning run on base. That is why you never intentionally put the winning run on base. The real killer is the 4 game swing with the Phillies, games that matter much more, that we basically also gave away.

It sucks, but this team just looks like losers. They find ways to give games away, and they have since 2007. They are talented and all that, and yeah yeah, I get that they are beat up and have crappy players all over, but that is all the more reason why you have to close the door when you have multiple run leads three games in a row.

It annoys me, because to us as fans things like beating up on Hamels for talking smack probably matter more then it does to the players, and we had a chance to shut Cole Hamels up, but in the game that he is pitching, they prove him right, they beat him up, and then they find a way to lose it. They are proving that Cole Hamels was right, the Mets are choke artists. Call me a WFAN propaganda spewing tool, or whatever, but all they do is continue to prove that everybody is justified in laughing at the Mets and calling them losers. They just continue to choke up big games.

Oh well. I’ll be back in front of the TV tomorrow, watching them again.

I said he intentionally walked Tex. Even though it was an unintentional intentional walk, it is stupid to do that, putting the winning runner on base. Technically it was an IBB, but he still fell behind 3-0, and whether he just couldn’t find the zone, or he was pitching around Tex, that is bad.

a team lose 3 straight like this. Came very close to winning 3 straight.

Though for some reason, or maybe for no reason at all, in the middle of typing out a different post, I just smiled to myself, laughed out loud and thought, we will laugh about this when we are hoisting that trophy in October. I know there is on reason to believe such a thing is possible, but I don’t know. This is way out of character for me, as I am without a doubt a glass half empty type of individual. So either this newfound sense of optimism I am currently enjoying is a sign from up above, from the baseball gods, or I am just completely losing my fucking mind.

I usually tend to react just the way you did in your post right now Meddler, I think about what could have been, how good this team can be, how good they occasionally are, and how they always seem to blow it. Then I say fuck the Mets, I don’t care, they suck, I’m not watching anymore, I don’t care what happens.

But I do care what happens, we all do. Acting like we don’t care is just that defense mechanism that every Met fan has ingrained in them. So fuck it, I love this team, probably more then anything outside of my family (pretty sad, I know), I will root for them until the end, I have faith in them no matter how bad they play and no matter how much they hurt us, I won’t ever stop loving this team.

What doesn’t kill you can only make you stronger, and the days can’t get much darker then this. I think I just set a world record for the most cliche’s ever used in one post, so I will end it with this. I love the Mets, we will come out of this.

You gotta fuckin believe baby

and I still can’t get over how the Yankees actually dog piled A-Rod as someone said in the thread

Is the stupid Fangraph, that just makes everything worse. I know terms like “heart” and “clutch” are overused but I’d really like someone to come out of the blue tomorrow and carry the team to a win on his back before Johan’s start

Castillo: I’ve always hated him with a passion, since the very first week of the trade. I knew he was a slap hitter that never drove in runs, or hit extra base hits, and his range was diminishing. And I liked Easley. Now I just feel bad for him and pity him. It’s Minaya’s fault for signing him to the ludicrous contract when no one else even wanted him. It is weighing this team down like an anchor. It’s gotten to the point where he is a Sunk Cost. He cannot be their starter next year, and should really just be cut. There is no way around it. The Tigers ate 14 mil on Sheff, we can’t eat 12? Bring up Reese Havens and throw him in the fire, who cares at this point.

Manuel: You have to remove Livan sooner than that. The Yankees were peppering that warning track and almost had about 19 homers off of him. Every flyball hit I was afraid to look. It’s an indictment of the park, but you have to play in that park, you cannot just throw your hands up.

Sheff: nice homer, but please understand that the inside pitch is allowed to be a strike. You cannot be this amazed by every effin’ strike on the inside corner. Here’s a tip: Back the eff up!

Wright: Just an awesome clutch hit. It really does seem like he and Beltran are on base every single time. The only 2 reasons to watch this team when they are on offense.