A Bounce Back Win.

by centerpede 101 on Jun 14, 2009 1:32 AM EDT Comment 17 comments

Man what a team. The Mets are driving their fans crazy. After a heartbreaking loss to the Yankees on Friday,the Mets beat up on the Yankees Saturday by the score of 6-2. The Mets had 17 hits. The pitching by Fernando Nieve was great and the bullpen held the Yankees down again. Jerry Manuel has to get some credit here, because the Mets could of packed this game in and played poorly today. The Mets came out fighting and got a big win. If the Mets win on Sunday with Johan Santana on the mound the loss on Friday night doesn't look so bad. So Met fans take heart the Mets are not done yet. My only question is even with this bounce back win,how many more times this season are he Mets going to drive their fans crazy?

0 recs | Comment 17 comments

Story-email Email Printer Print

Comments

ehhh

Personally for me, obviously I want to see them win but it will leave a sour taste in my mouth if they win tomorrow knowing we should’ve had the sweep. But I certainly would sign up for 2 of 3. Lets hope they can give Johan some run support in that little league field they call the new Yankees Stadium. We can use a nice 8-1 game.

by dave the rave on Jun 14, 2009 4:03 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I am that way too

Even if they swept, I would be thinking back how we gave up 2 against Philly and thinking we should have took 6 in a row from these two.

Though I must say, I will be pleased if they win tomorrow and take this series. Then the talk on Monday won’t be dominated by Castillo’s drop, because the Yankees will have dropped 5 of 6 to the Sawx and Mets. I actually like Luis, which I know is unpopular. I just feel like he is one of those guys that is hated on because he just got lucky enough to be offered way too much money to go where he wanted to anyway and he smartly accepted it, like any of us would. He isn’t great by any means, but I think he has exceeded most of our expectations this year. He has also played tons of games and stayed healthy. His range is gone, but I really don’t think he is a horrible player. Though it is hard to watch him hit left handed, I sometimes wonder if he should make the full time switch to righty. The way he hits, you would think he would be able to handed balls breaking away from him. When he faces left handed pitching, he really is a very nice hitter. I also respect that he wasn’t a pussy about the whole drop thing, he took what he had coming like a man. His teammates seemed to have his back too.

Do I think Orlando Hudson would be better? Sure, but after last year, Luis could have just said the hell with it, mailed it in for the rest of the contract and waited for a release, and collected his money, but he has worked his ass off to get into better shape, and he has stayed healthy, we could have had Wilson Valdez and Ramon Martinez both playing in the infield at the same time. He also gives us a .360 OBP at the top of the order, however hollow it is, he does a nice job getting on for Beltran and Wright.

"It's like the old phrase goes.....The balls in your court now Mr.Church, so you take that ball, you dribble it up the court and....................................... get a layup"
- Keith Hernandez

by nrmax88 on Jun 14, 2009 5:08 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I really don't know sometimes about Luis

I want to like him, and I really try to, but everything he does on defense seems wrong to me. He’s on his heels on every groundball he has time to set on, and he has zero first step quickness left. He’s hit enough this year where he’d be a nice player as an average defensive middle infielder, but its hard to say he’s even been that. I have a hard time calling professional baseball players lazy, but sometimes, Castillo just looks like he doesn’t give a crap when he’s fielding a ball. His throws are some of the ugliest I’ve ever seen, and its not for lack of raw arm strength, its for lack of using any part of his body other than his arm to throw.

"All energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet

What a fool I was to defy him"

-HST

by Meddler on Jun 14, 2009 5:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

"His throws are some of the ugliest I’ve ever seen"

Have you forgotten the Roberto Alomar era already? I’ve never seen a multiple gold glove winner with such an awful arm. Every throw was lobbed like he was taking practice grounders.

by cjmulrain on Jun 14, 2009 10:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah that's true

I think I just blocked that out, because there really wasn’t much I enjoyed about that team during that era anyway, lol. But Castillo just makes me cringe. Not because he has no arm strength, it seems like his raw arm strength is at least kinda average. But he just always looks flat footed, he never gets his momentum into his throws at all. I don’t remember watching Robbie well enough, but its always annoyed the crap outta me with Luis.

"All energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet

What a fool I was to defy him"

-HST

by Meddler on Jun 14, 2009 7:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Is this going to be an everyday occurrence now?

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

by squid92 on Jun 14, 2009 1:03 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Seriously.

batting helmets. batting titles. obp.

by Durelo on Jun 14, 2009 2:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

and now people are trying to have a reasonable discussion here?

Seriously, if this garbage keeps getting posted, it just continues to cheapen AA’s signal-to-noise ratio, which is looking pretty fragile these last few weeks. Make it stop! Let’s have some frigging standards!

by anonymous on Jun 15, 2009 12:09 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think if we're gonna let this continue for the forseeable future

it needs to be a place of humor. For the love of god, it’s centerpede101.

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

by squid92 on Jun 15, 2009 12:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

this is pretty mediocre centerpede

i guess we’ve been spoiled after so many outstanding c101 posts that this seems merely pedestrian in comparison. it was also too soon since his last post, which while also wasn’t up to the legendary par centerepede set for himself, at least it should some real passion.

i look forward to seeing centerepede101’s next post, and hopefully see him rebound from such a bland display.

All of the mets fans hope that we will not see the bad news mets ever again.

by kendynamo on Jun 15, 2009 1:53 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs