I Missed My Chance To Be Optimistic About The Mets

CajoleJuice — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:07:42 +0000

At the All-Star Break, it looked like maybe the Mets had a chance, sitting 5 games back of Atlanta and only 1.5 games back of the wild-card with a record of 48-41. Carlos Beltran was coming back. Hopefully Jose Reyes was going to come back healthy this time. Maybe Jason Bay would pick it up. If they managed to go 5 games over .500 for the rest of the season, they would end up with 88 wins — possibly enough to win the wild-card or even the division.

Now all that has turned to fucking shit. David Wright is back to being totally fucking cold. Jason Bay is getting WORSE. Carlos Beltran is clearly not 100%, yet he’s put in CF even while he’s wearing a goddamn knee brace. There’s a guy named Angel Pagan who played CF the entire first half and was one of the best fucking CF in the National League, but because Beltran has a massive ego and expects to play CF, he can’t be moved to RF toÂ accommodateÂ the player who’s NOT WEARING A FUCKING KNEE BRACE. Angel Pagan has EASILY been the second-best player on the team, and probably the most consistent. At least Jeff Francoeur isn’t playing.

But maybe that’s why Jason Bay feels the need to stand in for him? To generate the lost suckage? Holy fucking shit. 0-6 with 4 Ks. Remember last year when we all wondered where David Wright’s power went? His SLG at the end of the season was .447. Jason Bay’s is currently .403. Brett Gardner’s SLG is .399. BRETT GARDNER. This is NOT a guy renowned for his power stroke. This Bay contract is turning out to be a bigger disaster than I expected. Sure, he can bounce back in the next two months, but he’s not going to get any better over the length of the contract. This is BAD.

Oh, and I got to watch Oliver Perez pitch tonight out the bullpen. I want him to pull a Carlos Zambrano and just get himself kicked off the team. Somehow he didn’t blow the game, but he came pretty close, with only the D-Backs total ineptitude saving his worthless ass. Less than worthless. Please Ollie, be gangsta and stab someone else shitty on the team, preferably Alex Cora. You’ll be suspended indefinitely, and hopefully Cora will never play baseball again.

Can I even manage to spew any bile Jerry Manuel’s way? He did double-switch Ike Davis out of the game so he could move Alex Cora to 1B and Luis Castillo to 2B. That was totally awesome. And he keeps starting Barajas, who has a OBP of .265. Sure, he hit a home run. WHOOP-DE-FREAKING-DO. Maybe if he didn’t, I would have been able to go to sleep two pointless hours ago instead of watching 14 pathetic innings of baseball.

I hate this team.

I Stayed Up For That

CajoleJuice — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:13:08 +0000

I watched five errors by the Mets, including a throwing error by Jeremy Reed to end the game, which was precipitated by a Carlos Beltran gaffe. I guess that’s what happens when half the team is either playing out of position or is a AAA player. But those five errors don’t mention Ryan Church missing third base on his way to (not) plating the go-ahead run in the 11th inning.

I’m not even sure what to throw up on here — it’s 2 AM and I’m totally exhausted due to both the time and the Mets. I just felt like acknowledging the fact that I stayed up to watch what I hope is the most comically bad Mets game of the season. And David Wright is now the only guy hitting on the team (well, Angel Pagan actually went 4-6), so the Dodgers started walking him halfway through the game and will probably continue to do so for the rest of the series. But he’s not a leader. I quote MLB-GAF:

This proves that David Wright isnt the type of leader needed for the Mets to be a good team.

Kobe would rape Church in the shower for that shit and make Beltran watch.

My blog has come back about three times as offensive, hasn’t it?

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I Missed My Chance To Be Optimistic About The Mets

I Stayed Up For That