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 to accommodate 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.

Why do I care at all? I already knew the Mets weren’t going anywhere this year. Oh, you signed Jason Bay? Congrats, you made up for the black fucking hole in right field. At least the pitching market seems totally stagnant. Maybe the Mets won’t have to give Joel Pineiro more than 2/15. We’ll see.

But still, I can’t remember what I write on this blog or in IM or on forums, so I’ll just say it’s amazing how far this organization has fallen since 2006. Holy shit. Even after that devastating Game 7, there were at least five reasons to be excited about the next few years. And look what the fuck has happened. Jose Reyes never reached that imaginary MVP potential so many people were hoping and now he may have permanently lost a step. Beltran, who the fuck knows. David Wright had a power outage of historical proportions. Oliver Perez is a headcase. John Maine can’t stay healthy. Sigh.

I’m going to be honest here, I had “Los Mets > U.S.A.” written as the title of this blog post in the 8th inning. Every fellow American reading this can thank me for jinxing Puerto Rico. No really, wasn’t that comeback fucking awesome? I thought there was no way I’d be this invested in the outcome of the World Baseball Classic, but when David Wright was up it was like I was watching a Mets game. Tightened stomach, tapping foot, typing between every pitch online. When his blooper dropped in, it felt like I was in the midst of the real baseball season. I just hope he can come through like that in the final week of the season this year.

As for Puerto Rico, watching the two Carloses — Delgado and Beltran — play well made me a bit torn (not to mention that I am half PR), and Beltran’s catch in particular made me sad, since I won’t be able to watch him do that at Citi Field due to the high outfield walls. It looked like their duo would be the biggest part of PR’s win until Wright finished the job steroid-abuser J.C. Romero started. Both of the pitchers PR went to in the 9th inning couldn’t find the strike zone, which is never good when you have a 2-run lead — one run of which was handed to PR when Derek Jeter displayed his totally eroded fielding ability. Putting him at shortstop while Jimmy Rollins was relegated to DH almost cost Team USA the game. Maybe they can learn from and build on this and actually make a run at winning the tourney. My money’s still on Japan, even if they are currently losing 3-0 to Korea. That country just cares way too much. If Korea wins, they’ll be forced to kill themselves.

I wish I listened to WFAN at work, just so I could listen to Mike Francesa flip a shit over every caller who wants to talk about this incredibly exciting game. And there will be a lot of them. Because New Yorkers only talk about college basketball because there’s usually nothing else to talk about.