Okay

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm calling a meeting of the offense.

Listen, everyone saw what we did lin the ninth ast night. You know we can do that. I know we can do that. Here's the thing.

We have to do that. All the time. Not wait for no too-late ninth innng.

No getting our runs early, and letting the pen take over. We can't let them pick us up.

No staying close with starting pitching and getting our runs late. We can't let them pick us up.

Maybe the pitchers will get their shit together and maybe they won't, but we can't concern ourselves with that. As it stands now, we're gonna have to bop our way home.

I don't know what the fuck, but we're clearly not a complete team right now. But you, me, us, we're a complete offense. Power, speed, OBP, contact, rookies , vets, pull hitters, spray hitters. Starters, bench players, we've waited until it was necessary to show it, but we're a complete offense, with the most complete hitter in the league in the middle, and we have to show it every inning of every night, because the other gangs, er, teams are getting theirs.

Anything short of double digits is pathetic. Starting tonight, we're the Big Red Machine, we're Harvey's Wallbangers, we're Murderer's Row. We're the Warriors, and we're gonna bop our way home from Van Cortland Park to Coney Island. It's gonna be bloody and it's gonna be glorious.

I'm sick of waiting for trains.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

(Manny Acta)You see, Warriors? You see what you get when you mess with the Orphans?!?(/Manny Acta)

[Willets Point]

I think your memo is a month late. The pitching is shit now. The offense is averaging 5.5 runs per game in September but the pitchers allow 5.75. Yeah, you can push the offense to slug it out, but I think the entire pitching staff deserves a dressing down too.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The starters need to do what Oliver Perez did the other day.

Pitch deep into the game while holding the opposition to few runs.

I know that's easier said than done, but the Mets just haven't been doing it. Other than Perez on Saturday, when was the last time a Mets starter went seven innings?

If it's happened more than twice since the Phillies came to Shea I'd be surprised.

[soupcan]

I love to see Humber toss a gem tonight then go over to Glavine and say 'Eat me.'

[Guest Edgy DC]

Willets Point wrote: I think your memo is a month late. The pitching is shit now. The offense is averaging 5.5 runs per game in September but the pitchers allow 5.75. Yeah, you can push the offense to slug it out, but I think the entire pitching staff deserves a dressing down too.

You can call a pitchers meeting to hash that out. This is the offense meeting, and we're proceeding from this point as if the pitching staff is going to give us nothing.

Based on them having given us nothing.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I think the memo is on point. As many runs as the Mets scored recently the O has still been sputtery, taking too many innings off and making too many boneheaded plays and poor execution.

Shawn Green in the second inning last night had a 13-pitch at-bat. The following inning, the Mets' 2, 3 and 4 hitters went down on 13 pitches total!

We went down on 9 pitches in the 4th and 11 pitches in the 8th.

Not good offense despite what the runs column says.

[Willets Point]

Yes, and Jose Reyes is a lazy good-for-nothing loafer. I know your spiel already.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Before that ninth-inning rally, we hit into double palys in three in four (or was it four in five) previous innings. I don't want any of that shit. Yeah, I'll give you that Ryan Zimmerman pulled one out of his ass. He gave us that back when he had Endy Chavez dead to rights in the ninth and decided to fall on his face instead.

Wright, whose contribution to the rally was driving a ball pitched out of the strikezone, had two of those DPs.

I don't want to be living and dying alternately on the largesse and stinginess of no Ryan Zimmerman. I want his neck to hurt from watching balls fly past him.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Willets Point wrote: Yes, and Jose Reyes is a lazy good-for-nothing loafer. I know your spiel already.

Spiel? Would you care to double-check my math?

[Willets Point]

I already know you have nothing but hate for the Mets and Reyes in particular. Previous reasoned arguments have done nothing to stop you from spraying angry shit around this forum.

[Vic Sage]

"Metsies....(clink, clink)... come out to playyyyy-ayyyy..." (clink, clink)
"METsies! ....(clink, clink)... Come out to PLAYyyy-ayyyy!" (clink, clink)
"METSIES!!....(clink, clink)... come out to PLAYYYYY-AYYYY!" (clink, clink)

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I hate the Mets, so facts I look up are incorrect. Gotcha.

[Vic Sage]

Willets Point wrote: I already know you have nothing but hate for the Mets and Reyes in particular. Previous reasoned arguments have done nothing to stop you from spraying angry shit around this forum.

WP, just because JD doesn't have his head up his ass doesn't make him a hater. He's a fanatic, just like the rest of us, but he recognizes when a player and/or a team is playing like crap and says so.

A fart doesn't become perfume just because it gets blasted out of a ass painted orange and blue.

[Willets Point]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: I hate the Mets, so facts I look up are incorrect. Gotcha.

No you hate the Mets so you constantly spit venom and make this an unpleasant place to be.

[metirish]

Willets Point wrote: ="Johnny Dickshot"]I hate the Mets, so facts I look up are incorrect. Gotcha. No you hate the Mets so you constantly spit venom and make this an unpleasant place to be.

Really I have to disagree with that,couldn't be more wrong to me,I see frustration and a good deal of what JD posts is exactly how I feel......

[Guest Edgy DC]

Well, nothing skews the sample like getting beaten up on by a second-divison team, so you may want to go back a few hours or days or months, but here are 189 pages of Dickshot posts.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

How venomous and unpleasant.

[soupcan]

Wow. I guess I really need to read more and post less.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ceasar's ghost, that exchange put a damper on posting this morning.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

Holy shipwrecked on a desert isle and turn on each other, Batman.

Dickshot's like my favorite poster. metirish is the balls, except that he needs
to hit the space bar after punctuation. Willet, did you hit your head when we
landed?

[Benjamin Grimm]

What's strange is that Willets, who traditionally has been more on the glass half empty side of the equation, is now the only one who's currently wearing his rose-colored glasses.

Given the events of the last two weeks, it's perfectly natural to be a bit down on this team. All these repeated failures are very frustrating.

To say we must speak no ill of the Mets because they're all our boys is the kind of pajama-and-Kool Aid talk that old whatsisname always accused us of.

[Guest Edgy DC]

It's probably irrelevant, but Willets is seriously on the baby clock right now. I know I'd be shitting live animals if I was in his position.

[soupcan]

Edgy DC wrote: I know I'd be shitting live animals if I was in his position.

Which is kinda what his wife is gonna be doing.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

Good one, soup.

Laughter is the best medicine.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: What's strange is that Willets, who traditionally has been more on the glass half empty side of the equation, is now the only one who's currently wearing his rose-colored glasses.

Only, there's more harsh criticism of the team in his first post of this thread than in anything, by anyone, that followed it.

[Centerfield]

Hate the Mets guys. Not each other. This team full of shitballs forced us to root for Chipper Jones last night.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Maybe Astro Annie's kid cracked Willets' password.

[metirish]

Only a no hitter by Humber can bring the love back I think.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I just meant to be encouraging, not to tear one unit or the other.

I think every unit should be looking at themselves right now and seeing what they can do to sack up. Darling suggested last night that Wagner call the bullpen together, remind them they have a rookie pitching, and they'll be needed --- whether to bail out a bad effort or bring a good one home to full redemption --- and to remind them that they can put the last weeks behind them and do what they're capable of down the stretch.

It's soul-searching time.