Marlins 7, Mets 5: I Hate Nieses To Pieces

This game was deleted by Chuck Norris.

But I am older than dirt.

Marlins 7, Mets 5: Do you care?

“The Mets sucked. There was no Dickey. The end”

Interviewer: What’s your recap for the game?
JayWise: My recap?
Interviewer: Yes, your recap.
[JayWiselooks into camera]
JayWise: Pain!

The recap will have to be written by someone who watched the whole game, and frankly I’m not sure I could trust someone who did that.

Cantu homered twice and drove in five runs and the Marlins ended one of the wilder rides in baseball history, beating the New York Mets 7-45 to snap a seven-game losing streak.

The Marlins’ skid started immediately after they’d won seven in a row. Florida became the first NL team to win at least seven straight and also lose at least seven straight in April, the Elias Sports Bureau said.

“I thought we were not going to win again until the All-Star break,” manager Fredi Gonzalez said. “It felt like that.”

Cantu hit a two-run homer in the fourth inning before lining a tiebreaking, three-run drive in the seventh.

“I hope with this win we’re going to start rolling again,” Cantu said. “We really needed to get out of this thing.”

Florida won minus All-Star shortstop Hanley Ramirez, who was hit by a pitch in the right hand the previous night. The Mets were missing first baseman Carlos Delgado and second baseman Luis Castillo, both nursing recent injuries.

Down 4-3 in the seventh, the Marlins rallied against Sean Green (0-1). Alfredo Amezaga drew a leadoff walk, Emilio Bonifacio chopped a one-out single to right and Cameron Maybin’s slow groundout scored the tying run.

After a walk to John Baker, Cantu hit his fifth homer into the left-field seats. Cantu produced the seventh multihomer game of his career.

The Marlins scored only 17 runs during their skid, so Cantu’s drives were welcome shots.

Mets manager Jerry Manuel, meanwhile, wondered where his team’s comeback spirit had gone. Five Florida relievers combined for four shutout innings.

“Three runs shouldn’t be something that’s insurmountable,” Manuel said. "It appears when we get in that position, it’s an insurmountable lead. We have to address that.

“I think our anxiety takes over at that time and gets in the way of us performing,” he said.

In 1902, Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), a mineral prospector, discovers oil and establishes a small drilling company. Following the death of one of his workers in an accident, Plainview adopts the man’s orphaned son (his mother nowhere to be found). The boy, whom he names H. W. (Dillon Freasier), becomes his nominal business “partner”.

Nine years later, Plainview is approached by Paul Sunday (Paul Dano), who tells him about the oil deposit under his family’s property in Little Boston, California. Plainview attempts to buy the farm at a bargain price but Paul’s twin brother Eli (also Dano), wise to Plainview’s plan, holds out for $10,000, wanting the money to fund the local church, of which he is the pastor. Plainview has Eli’s father agree to the bargain price instead, and goes on to snatch up the available land in the Little Boston area, except for one holdout—William Bandy (Hans Howes). Oil production begins. Later, an on-site accident kills a worker, and later still, a large explosion robs H.W. of his hearing.

One day, a visitor (Kevin J. O’Connor) arrives on Plainview’s doorstep claiming to be his half-brother, Henry, and is seeking work. Plainview takes the stranger in, and though H.W. discovers flaws in his story he keeps the news to himself; the boy then attempts to kill Henry by setting his bed linen alight. Angered at his son’s behavior, Plainview sends the boy away to a school in San Francisco. A representative from Standard Oil later offers to buy out Plainview’s local interests, but Plainview elects to strike a deal with Union Oil instead and construct a pipeline to the Californian coast, though the Bandy ranch remains an impediment. After spending more time with Henry, Plainview also becomes suspicious; Henry finally confesses that he was actually a friend of the real Henry, who has long since died from tuberculosis. Plainview kills the imposter and buries his body.

The next morning, Plainview is awakened by Mr. Bandy, who appears to be aware of the previous night’s events. Bandy agrees to Plainview’s deal but only on the provision that the latter mend his ways and join the Church of the Third Revelation, where Eli humiliates him as part of his initiation. Plainview soon reunites with H.W., and Eli eventually leaves town to perform missionary work.

In 1927, a much older H.W. (Russell Harvard) marries his childhood sweetheart, Mary Sunday (Colleen Foy). By this time his father, now an alcoholic but extremely wealthy, is living in a mansion with only a servant for company. H.W. asks his father (through an interpreter) to dissolve their partnership so he can establish his own business. Betrayed, Plainview mocks his son’s deafness and tells him of his true origins, leaving H.W. with no regrets when he finally leaves.

Some time later, Eli, now a radio host and the head of a larger church, visits Plainview, but it becomes clear that Eli is in dire financial straits and desperate, explaining that Mr. Bandy has died and that he offers to broker a deal on his land. Plainview agrees to the deal if Eli confesses, “I am a false prophet; God is a superstition”, subjecting Eli to the same humiliation Eli had put him through years earlier. Eli does so after much berating by Plainview. To Eli’s horror, Plainview scathingly reveals that he had already drained the oil from the property through surrounding wells via the process of drainage by saying, “I drink your milkshake.” Plainview suddenly goes into a rage, chases Eli about the room, and then beats him to death with a bowling pin. When Plainview’s butler comes down to check on him, Plainview simply says “I’m finished.”

The Mets scored less runs than their opponents once again. The best news of tonight (and every night) is that they are yet another game closer to the end of our national nightmare. Hip hip hooray, New York Metropolitans! Your effort truly embiggens us all.

balls

Fuck this shit.

The Mets lost to the Marlins. Before a thunderstorm knocked out my Internet connection & satellite signal, Carlos Beltran hit a home run. Jon Niese wasn’t good tonight & has struggled over his past couple of starts. He seems to be fatigued & might be better off being shut down for the rest of the season. After all, now that the Mets have been officially eliminated from postseason contention, there’ll no longer be any “Meaningful Games in September.”

After an off-day tomorrow, the Mets travel to Philadelphia to open a 3-game series against the Phillies.

Of all the games the Mets have ever played, this was certainly one of them.

i hope it captures the spirit of the game in all its tragilarity.

he has been hitting lately. It is good to see. If he is trade bait he could catch some looks with agood last 2 weeks. if he stays it is a nice sign for next season