Hmmmm… Getting beat by the Pirates reminds me a lot of America’s Funniest Home Videos, especially the clips where the unsuspecting guy gets hit in the groin by his little kid. He never sees it coming. Next thing he knows he’s down on the ground looking up at the people above him. Usually they’re laughing at him, just as I suspect the Phillies are laughing at us right now. Unfortunately, the Mets don’t have time to recuperate, because they begin a series with the Nationals on Friday. Let’s hope they don’t get hit in the groin by them too.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not wishing harm on anyone but no complaints about Church going on the DL if it means Fernando gets a chance to see what he can do in the bigs for a few weeks.   Dude has been tearing it up in AAA over the last month and we’ve only been hearing about the “Teenage Hitting Machine” since he was like 3 years old, so why not?

I’m sure he needs more seasoning but fuck it.   I mean when you are putting Tatis in the 5 hole to get ‘more pop in the lineup you don’t have much to lose.   It’s an ideal situation, as even if he comes up and looks overmatched, he was only supposed to be up for a couple weeks anyway so it’s good experience.   If he tears the cover off of the ball, then he’s up for good and we have a legit homegrown talent.

If that actually happens (this is the Mets we are talking about, so it won’t), maybe we can actually package Church with a pitcher such as Niese and make a play at a legit #2/3 starter near the break.    Fuck it, right?  Lets go Mets!

Good job Ryan Church, no seriously.  Good job buddy.   I don’t give a shit if Milledge is in AAA for Washington and pissing everyone off, that trade looks worse and worse every day.   It’s amazing how sloppy the Mets are actually capable of playing, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it.    

Long story short, within a few weeks from now there is going to be a lot of shouting for Jerry’s head.   I personally think Omar Minaya is just as much at fault for building another team with no back-up plan, but the manager always takes the fall first.   Regarding Jerry, the dude can motivate the team sure, and everyone likes the Sammy L. Jackson attitude in the post-games.  This is why he is/was such a great bench coach.  As a tactical manager, he is one of the worst and is making Willie Randolph look like Tony LaRussa.  

I feel like every positional switch he makes depends on a flip of the coin, and some of them are mind-blowingly bad.    I’m not sure if he’s trying to light a fire under Murphy’s ass, but at this point he’s setting him up for a major slump and a trade to Baltimore.  If the Mets are supposedly looking at him as an option for 1B next year, then why isn’t he playing there?  Jeremy Reed is best used as a white Endy Chavez - 4th outfielder who gets the occasional start, but is best served off the bench for some speed on the bases and in the field.    Most players are going to look fine at 1b until the shit hits the fan, which is how the game ended.    Knowing Delgado is 38 and if not injury prone, should not be playing every day, there should be a backup 1B on the team.   Unfortunately these are the Mets, and so it goes.

Before the road trip started, I was thinking that if we went .500 over the ten games, I’d have to call it a success.   Unfortunately, that seems optimistic at this point and as good as the Mets looked for a stretch there I have that gut feeling that they are going to look twice as bad over the next few games.

Playing in Keith’s hometown, the Mets actually decided to come back from a game they were down a few runs in for once in my life last night.   Even that fat fuck Livan couldn’t stop this as Dave “David” Wright came through with a 3-run double, clearing the bases in a clutch situation.   I’ll wait for a second while you think about that.   Anyway, even though he was left stranded at 3rd with no outs after pulling the Beltran steal, the Mets still managed to get across another couple of runs and pull off the win.   Not sure what Putz’s deal is, but K-rod is the fucking man, bottom line.   He lets on more base runners than I would like, but considering I’ve had to watch dickheads like Franco and Benitez “close” games for us, no complaints here.   And with the offense coming around in late innings, maybe his pair of balls are contagious, because the 2008 Mets would be 0-2 on this road trip so far.   

Tonight Johan will take the mound against 90-year old Randy Johnson, looking for the sweep.   Considering the Mets have been afraid of scoring in most of his starts, maybe even that will change tonight.   You figure the dude will shit is pants if we got him more than one run, as that’s all he needs, so we’ll see what happens.   Before the road trip, I had said that .500 would be a success, especially with a tough series in Boston to close it out.  While I’m not expecting anything crazy, this has more of a 2006 than a 2008 west coast road trip to it, so anything is possible. 

It’s gotta piss you off that its 2009 and we still can’t pull off a game like this against the Braves.   Bobby Cox’s gut has it’s own zip code, and yet both him and gut still take it to the Mets like it’s the 90s?  Come on.   Last night, Beltran saved Dave’s ass by gutting out a run, but that was the exception to the rule.   If Keith was on this team, there would be 24 black eyes in the clubhouse right now.   Piss poor. 

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