Somewhat Manly Nerd » tony bernazard http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog infrequent blogging from some dude Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:14:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 The Mets Make Their Bid To Be Considered The Worst Team In Baseball http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2009/07/22/the-mets-make-their-bid-to-be-considered-the-worst-team-in-baseball/ http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2009/07/22/the-mets-make-their-bid-to-be-considered-the-worst-team-in-baseball/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:50:51 +0000 CajoleJuice http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=1768 The New York Mets have just lost their three-game series with the Washington Nationals, a team with a 28-66 record. The Mets offense only managed seven runs over the three games — this against the worst pitching staff in baseball. This is what happens when you start corner outfielders with career OPS+’s of 90 and 79 (Jeff Francoeur and Cory Sullivan). This is what happens when your GM sits on his hands for as long as possible, seemingly giving up on the season — and rightfully so — but then declares today that the Mets are buyers. I guess they are, since Francoeur is actually making more than Ryan Church.

I know I declared this Mets season dead two weeks ago, so I shouldn’t torture myself by turning into SNY nightly, but I can’t help myself. I want to see if Francoeur can continue to fool people into thinking he’s valuable. I want to see if David Wright can learn how to hit home runs again, or at least get his K rate back down to his normal level. I want to watch Oliver Perez walk guys around the bases first-hand, so I can gloat about how right I was with regards to his contract. I want Daniel Murphy to show some semblance of power, if only to raise his trade value. And of course, I want to witness Johan Santana attempt to carry the team on his back, and subsequently lose his shit when the rest of his team totally sucks.

Each night I am greeted with new examples of futility. Mike Pelfrey may have thrown seven innings of three-run ball, but unfortunately, his team only supplied him with one run and four hits. And one of those runs given up by Pelfrey was a result of Francoeur ducking from a fly ball caught in the lights. There was nothing else tonight particularly egregious, it was just total listlessness.

This organization is a fucking disaster from top to bottom. The owners get pulled in by Ponzi schemes; the GM doesn’t seem to have any sort of plan for when exactly he wants to win with this team; and the VP of Player Development is taking his shirt off, calling AA players pussies, and challenging them to fights. Holy shit.

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