Maybe not this team, but the overall direction of the Mets?

I know it sucks right now, but my god have we been killed by injuries. We still have Wright, Reyes, a few nice looking prospects, and, oh yeah, a lot of money.

I’m most concerned with Johan Santana. Not his pitching (so much, but he has walked the pitcher 6 times this season), but you just cannot show up your teammates the way he did. Sorry, Johan, that you aren’t back in Minnesota, but you win and lose as a team.

Oh, and let’s replace Jerry Manuel with Ron Darling.

Josh Thole dislocated his left thumb. He’ll have X-Rays tomorrow. “Hopefully,it’s not that serious,” said B-Mets manager Mako Oliveras.

We cannot win a division or a wild card with all our injuries, our endless series of embarrassing mistakes and our clownish, overmatched manager. I’d love to be wrong here, but I just don’t see it.

but god, it’s hard as hell to watch. the dumb roster/managerial decisions just make it worse — Oil Spill should be up and playing SS every day. It’s not just that this team can’t hit, it’s that Jerry and Omar are just killing the defense. Would it make a huge difference? Probably not, but like Eric said/implied — when the team is shorthanded, the manager has to bear down and really nail the thing. And Jerry is screwing the pooch in almost every way he can.

I’d say something about the lineup construction and Omir, but we’ve discussed it to death. it’s pathetic.

I have been talking myself off the ledge for weeks now. If, and that is a big if, we can get some of our guys back after the break the schedule sets up nicely for a run. They have alot of home games and head to head match ups with the teams in front of them for the division and or wild card. I know it feels like a life time but the season is still young. Look at it this way if we do not get our guys back after the break then they still have time to pull the trigger on a tread. That being said if they lose 9 of the next 11 games then I am back on that ledge.

but for God’s sake, don’t buy tickets this season. The only way to send a msg to the organization is to stick it to them the only way we have power to do so. Lower prices or open their wallets for free agents next off season

If we get Beltran and Reyes back after the break I still think they should get someone like Adam Dunn. He would hit the ground running and will give the rest of the guys some protection until they get their feet under them. Has anyone heard what they would want in return?

I think the pitching will right itself once Santana and Pelfrey feel like they have some runs to play with. It must really suck knowing that if you fall behind by a couple of runs then the game is over. No one can argue that this has under performed, even with the injuries, but I do feel bad for them.

After he gets 3 hits and a homer, and you’re playing in a park conducive to homers? Homers can come in bunches. Let him sit over the weekend, you can’t sit your best player in the middle of a losing streak. I realize there’s never a good time, but come on.

I am not giving them a free pass by any means. I can’t tell you how many times I have gotten so pissed off at Santana for walking people ,let along the pitchers that I feel something pop in my brain. What I am saying is that the toll of trying to keep this minor league team above water has caught up to them. You can not be an effective picture if you know that you have to be perfect and can not fall behind. You can not pitch scared. So may be they are trying to throw harder or be perfect and they wind up being lit up. I do not think anyone of them goes out there and says “Hey lets just walk everyone tonight”. I do think it catches up to you at some point. Imagine if you knew that your only real chance of winning is if you struck everyone out. You can not count of people catching balls hit to them. You can not count on people making the routine throw. You can not count on the front office to have the foresight to get you role players or get palyers that can play in this new ball park. The only thing you can count on is someone F***ing up. That would suck. You need trust in your teamates. Right now who can they trust?

Cora, Louie Louie, Wright, Chuuuuch, Evans, Hammer, Fart, Schneider, Big Pelf

Evans and Murph both in the lineup and no Tatis or Santos.

I am with you there. Those would be the times when I feel the onset of the aneurysm. What is so frustrating to me is that when they are all healthy and on the same page I truly feel that they are the team to beat. And to watch them roll out the same old crap everynight hurts. Someone once wrote here that they wish they could just fall asleep and wake up a month later and see that they are back in first place and rolling along like we all know they can. That is how I feel everyday for the past month. I too like this line up for what we have. Go Mets!