Astros 4, Mets 3: Is This Rock Bottom Yet?

the bat! Don’t have to swing for the fences(cause thats hard, even though we have them so far out to keep homeruns in, but I keep seeing guys take them 9 – 10 rows back go figure), but swing THE BATS!!!!

He has that desperate, haunted look in his eyes that Wright had, at I forget what particular time during our recent seasons’ travails. He just wants to win so much.

So are a lot of people. And its justified. We don’t deserve this. We’re surrounded by winning. The Yanks are at the top, the Jets have turned into perrenial contenders, the Giants should be perrenial contenders, the Knicks and Rangers are in the playoffs, even the Cyclones did better than us last year. It sucks.

I know its only April, but come late-May and early-June, if we’re still here, the shithole we’re stuck in right now, it’ll be time for Sandy to clean house. Everyone on the coaching staff gone. And I mean everyone. Originally I supported keeping Warthn and Hale, but its time for fresh faces. New coaches haven’t worked either, so fire them and call up everybody and their sister (although Keith won’t like that) get them in the dugout, kicking ass and taking names. Bye-bye Pelf, Niese and Bullpen. Hello Mejia, Cohoon, Harvey and whoever the fuck else you can think of. If we have a rotation of rookies great! I’d be happy to see Mejia, Harvey, Cohoon, Gee, and whoever else face Halladay, Lee, Hamels, Oswalt and Blanton. Why not?

And if Pagan and Wright are still slumping than fuck them, give Kirk and Evans a chance for a few games.

Bah. I’m pissed.

Come May, its clean house time.

He is fucking retarded. Firing him and hiring someone whose name does not end in -erry would make me feel a bit better, at least until we discover that the new guy is retarded too.

whats the game thread post record?
I know I didn’t break it, but it was like 335 or something, right?

every way I turn I get my face bashed in. Is what God meant when he said to turn the other cheek?

Rock bottom comes in June when they trade Reyes and Beltran for a bag of balls.

Terry Collins stinks to high water as a manager. I have not been posting much because of a new job but I put the game on at work and my boss just laughs and laughs at Collins.

and even he can tell Collins is clueless. pinchtting with Hu and saying he would never send up Murphy againt a LH was the final straw.

I thought the goal was to hire someone unlike Jerry Manuel and they bring in his clone. He plays against his teams strengths and has zero understanding of percentages. Why the fuck was this clown hired? Because he’s a positive upbeat clown? So are high school cheerleaders. You cannot bunt on the first pitch there. Let a guy who is 7 for fucking 7 steal a base. You don’t pitch to Troy Tulowitzki with a base open and Jose Lopez on deck. This is 2 games he’s cost them now. In only 18 played. It’s really hard for a manager to pull that off. Jose Reyes scores about 66 pct. of the time he leads off with a hit. That’s probably a low estimate. He doesn’t need help with a fucking bunt. Years of Manuel have taught us this. Why did the Mets hire a dottering old man that probably yells at kids on his lawn. He’s also pinch hitting Turner over Hairston, because Hairston has looked awful. You know what? If you can’t put up Hairston there, over a guy that’sonly there because Emaus sucked, then DFA Hairston and bring up Evans. I’m sick of this old coot and it’s still April.

Is simply not hard enought on Collins’ decision to bunt in the 9th. Eric, you’ve got to hammer him on it. It’s wrong on every level imaginable and it has nothing to do with moneyball. It’s not understanding odds. I bet Backman might bunt there, too. Let’s find a manager who wouldn’t bunt there. Look to the American League. Is Earl Weaver still alive?

It was pretty obvious coming into the season this team was going nowhere. I didn’t expect it to be this bad but it was also clear that 2011 was about clearing out bad contracts and figure out who to rebuild around.

My read based on who was interviewed for the job was that Alderson and Co were looking for a 2 yr stop gap manager while they rebuilt the team. Knowing NY was the type of town that spits out managers they clearly weren’t going to give a dead end job to a young promising manager who would have been run out of town b/f the new talent arrived. Hence we have Terry Collins.

For those of you old enough to remember – Terry Collins is basically the 2011 version of George Bamburger. Hopefully Alderson and Co have their Davey Johnson plying his trade in soimewhere in the system for when the time is right.

Just got to pick it up and try again. Dickey is right, the team has to stop waiting for things to resolve themselves. FLuky plays are happening yes, but bad luck is not responsible for Dubs striking out. Bad luck is not responsible for Pagan not hitting a lick. Bad luck is not responsible for Niese’s inability to string together 6+ consistent innings since his first start (Ditto Pelf for any of his starts). There needs to be some serious introspection and work, and if necessary a cardboard cutout of Sandy, whatever works. I don’t care how many chickens need to be sacrificed or bats awoken by Jobu if that’s your taste, or prayers to Dickey or whoever, but this team needs to actively start investing in being better. These players are not as bad as they seem, but they will stay that way if they think everything will eventually fix itself

I know that it’s early, but, the METS would have to win 8 or 9 games in a row, just to get back to 500, do you really think that this team can do that? IF, they do get back to 500 they would have to win more than one game in a row to stay above 500, do you think this team can do that? They just keep getting further and further behind the 8-ball, IF they don’t catch fire soon, it will get late very fast. If you look at this teams past, they win 3 and drop 4, win 9 and drop 7 and that won’t get it done. I’m sorry, but, it’s true. I hate to think that 2001 is over, but, the team is NOT playing well at all, and, is NOT showing any signs of getting out of it to soon. We are playing teams that we are supposed to beat, teams that are kicking our butts, it’s sad :{