Marlins 11, Mets 4: Scoring Runs Is Hard

Yep, that kind of night.

Of course, I have to give him credit for running down the ball hit immediately before, but the lack of hustle on that GRD was pretty bad.

DL bound? i missed the game and interviews

-concerned fantasy owner

If not for a Slappy walk-off, we may have been swept at home by the Marlins.

They have their organization-wide pitching coach on. The advice he was giving to minor league pitchers: “You don’t need velocity, if you can place the ball. If you have an aggressive team and you can get a fastball down and in, they see fastball and swing fastball, and will pound the ball onto the ground every time.”

Yup, I somehow think the Mets were on his mind.

“The Mets are calling it a minor injury, which means he’s probably out for the rest of this season and all of next as well.”
Whats up with this attitude from Mets fans. If you think this way and expect failure it will come to fruition. Stop thinking the worst, have faith that the team can do good things instead of being shitty. I hate the demeanor of all the Mets fans. Golly gee our team never has any chance and we suck, but we gotta believe cause their amazin.

Begin with the manager and GM. Hopefully we can get somebody like Billy Bean and Bobby V. Something like that would help. Also kissing the Wilpons goodbye would be nice too.
I say we make the Mets winners by signing Crawford, putting him in LF and moving Bay to RF. Pairing Crawford and Reyes at the top of the lineup should be pretty imposing. Then to address the rotation we should add Webb and Vazquez. I think Webb should be good after over a year of recovery from his shoulder surgery. He could be a bargain steal if he rounds into his former Cy Young form. He should not be too expensive based on his health and could be a great #2 and perfect example and influence for Pelf. Even though some may be worried about Vazquez this year, I think by putting him back in the NL and in Citi he will move back toward his ATL #‘s of 2009. He would only need a one year deal and would be a great #5. Also try and trade Beltran to an AL team, I say include one of our prospects like Fernando if we can get something good in return. We don’t need an aging CF when we have Pagan and can improve our OF by adding Crawford. Crawford would be a doubles and triples machine in Citi.
So for next year, a great team I think would be led by a lineup of: Reyes, Crawford, Pagan, Wright, Davis, Bay, Thole, Tejada. Then our potentially great rotation of Johan, Webb, Pelf, Niese, Vazquez.
Then I say we put Mejia in the ‘pen as our closer, Parnell is our SU man, add in Tak, Gee, Feliciano, and maybe sign FA’s Guerrier, and Balfour and we have a great bullpen.
I would also look to add Ramon Hernandez as our backup catcher/1b bench player. Then round out our bench with Nick Evans who can be a 1b/3b, Willie Bloomquist who is a great utility player who plays everywhere and Chris Carter. That actually gives the Mets a great bench with depth on this team which is what a championship team needs.

We are going to need a closer next season with Krod out for a while. And Mejia is not going to be able to give us a whole season in the rotation. So why not use his filthy stuff to close out games? We can put him in the rotation on 2012.

Can’t be Parnell who is too hittable at times. And there is no one else. Closer by committee it is then?

I just realized that I am now watching the replay of the Mets-Marlins game.

I poop in my pants and it makes me feel like i just gave birth to another NY Met. But I leave it there because its so comfy and warm to my bottom

The lines of our sellout stadium “Shitty” Field. Useless owners

If Jose Reyes stopped hanging out at McFaddens before the game trying to hit on transvestites he wouldn’t get hurt as much. I think because he drinks too much he always swings at some turrible pitches and pops them all up. You know what, it’s probably Jerry’s fault because that is his pregame routine where he goes to make the lineup. Since its different every fricken day and he only plays batters who bat opposite against the pitchers throwing hand.

Billy Beane as GM next year. Dennis Eckersley as our pitching coach because honestly, who would not want to pitch well for that moostache? (Yes i know, i spelt it wrong on purpose, thanks in advance to the Websters employees) Or maybe Dave Duncan if he wants to leave St. Louis. Ted Simmons as manager. And maybe Olerud as hitting coach. How bout that sack of nuts to chew on sucka?

How the Marlins are now in 3rd place, 1.5 games ahead of the Mets. I am not a Marlins fan, but I don’t think they are still talking about making a run at the playoffs. In fact, I think they are starting a little youth movement. They let Cody Ross go to the Giants for nothing, Just so they can take a long look at Morrison. IMO, Cody Ross is good enough to start for the current Mets OF everyday. And no, I don’t think Ross is that good, I think we are that bad.

So while we waste time looking through our rose colored glasses, other organizations are taking the business of baseball seriously. Ironic, isn’t it.

geh. sure it was a nice play, but I don’t WANT HIM ON THIS TEAM.

What about moving him to Seattle in a package along with Tejada for Figgins. Or Beltran and Fernando for Dustin Ackley. Yea Figgins gets paid a good amount but this year just looks like an off year and he should rebound back. He has no injury problems, he has great speed and is still a great fielder. I really think he would do well in the Mets lineup as well.

Reyes, Crawford-LF, Pagan-CF, Wright, Davis, Bay-RF, Figgins, Thole
Johan, Webb, Pelf, Niese, Vazquez
Feliciano, Tak, Guerrier, Downs, Parnell-SU, Balfour-CP, and one more. Then Krod comes back at some point.

The payroll for this team should be around $160mil+. They need to start spending the money necessary to go the distance, not just get the team to a certain point and hope to win. They keep saying they have the money to spend but never do it.
Well if we get rid of Perez and Castillo’s money in some deal then that is off the books, albeit we would have to pay a good chunk of their money.
Vazquez and Webb should be less than $20m combined and Crawford would cost around what like $15+. So those 4 guys would add around $35mil to next years payroll, less some of Beltrans money. So we have $108mil tied up for next year. So that comes out to $143 and if they really want to win and go up to $160 that gives us another $17mil. Reyes will probably cost $10mil and then that gives us $7mil to spread around other places. If they actually spent the money to get this team the winning would pay for itself. The team would win manny more games and the fans would come to the games in droves and not be complaining about the pathetic nature of the Mets.