Braves 9, Mets 3: Meaningful Golf In October

“ATLANTA — Manager Jerry Manuel says the Mets have talked to Ike Davis about toning down his arguments with umpires. Davis says no such conversation took place.”

But of course!

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100830&content_id=14110968&notebook_id=14111754&vkey=notebook_nym&fext=.jsp&c_id=nym

So, does ANYone have any idea what role the Mets see for Misch next year? They must envision him as a starter, right? Just ‘cause for his career his ERA as a reliever is half what it is as a starter doesn’t mean anything—after all, he LOOKS like a starter.

Can’t Misch.

With Jeffie there

I only caught the first inning, after the leadoff single the next batter hit the ball on the ground, about 3 or 4 hops just right of 2B, but Castillo couldn’t get there (what a surprise). I think if Tejada was playing 2B, it would have been a double-play ball and they would have gotten out of the first inning without giving up a run. Then Beltran scooped it up and tried to get the runner at third (unsuccessfully), allowing the batter to get to second. So instead of 2 out and nobody on, 2nd and 3rd with nobody out. Misch is never going to get a Cy Young or anything, but crappy D doesn’t help, especially when you’re not a strikeout artist.

Of course, Wright, Davis and Frenchy combining for 8 K’s doesn’t help either. The only guy getting on base regularly seems to be Thole – which I guess explains why Jerry has him slotted to hit #7 in the order. In the immortal words of Eeyore – “Pathetic”.

but I just do not have faith that the Mets FO will handle this properly. If he does great, which you would think I as a Met fan would root for, they will force him into the rotation next year even though he will not have the innings build up required of a starter. Then, I will be forced to rely on the Mets “brain trust” [the same people who give millions to an investor without asking for evidence, cannot celebrate their own history without being begged by fans, etc] to figure out how to properly handle him. On the other hand he struggles and the Mets overreact and he falls out of favor. It sucks that I am forced to believe that an above informed fan has a better chance of running this team than the guys being paid millions. What a joke

Hiroki Kuroda has a no-no in the 8th against the Phils. His catcher (and guy who hit a HR)? Rod motherfucking Barajas.

There is a pitcher -Pat Misch
Who looked to be finding his niche
But as October draws near
It’s becoming quite clear
They’ll have to time to golf, hunt and fish.

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hahaha Ollie pitched, really? Leave it up the Braves to squash what hopes remain with this team…and use Ollie in a live batting-practice game…

Andy Pettite Misch-remembered

Like I said before I think it makes sense to get rid of Reyes and Beltran. Wright is the only guy worth keeping. Depending on what we could get for them I think they could give us a nice package. Some team would definitely love to get their hands on Reyes and might offer us a nice package. (I have nothing against those two, like everyone says, i just think their time has come and gone and this team needs a big mental and physical change)
A crazy trade idea that I would like and think would really set this team up for the future would be to send something like Reyes, Beltran, Fernando Martinez to the Mariners for Ackley, Figgins and their top pitching prospect Michael Pinieda. If this were to ever work, which i’m not saying it would, might require a little more from the Mets side. And the Mariners would probably never do this since they would want to keep Ackley and Pinieda. But if they love Reyes and Beltran who they could put in the OF with Ichiro and use as a DH, then who knows. And maybe they are high on Fernando as well even though he hasn’t shown much.

I love Ackley who is a hitter and could be the answer for us in RF, Figgins would be a great option at 2b and leadoff for the next few years (even though everyone thinks he is paid too much and will be a Castillo repeat; I think hes much better than Luis) and Pinieda has the look of a mid to top line starter.
I would like our lineup to do well next year, as long as the pitching improved, going with Figgins, Pagan, Wright, Davis, Bay, Ackley, Thole, Tejada. That should be a productive run producing lineup, provided Davis improves and Bay returns to his norm and Ackley can hold his own. But I would like the youth movement and the new core of young guys led by the elders of Wright, Bay and Figgins. Also Figgins and Tejada would be a pretty formidable defensive duo up the middle.
Then we sign Webb and maybe add Mejia to the rotation with Dickey as our insurance. A little bullpen tooling and our future is looking up.

heh. the problem is, what other players are GOOD, and “valuable” to other ballclubs? no one wanted Suckcouer, not even Dayton Moore!

………..LOL jking

I just wanted to see if I could make it 99.99% to .01% I wanted to be the .01% lolol