IGT, Sunday 4/25 Nats (Zimmerman) @ Mets (Ollie)

[A Boy Named Seo]

Christ, I gotta listen to Rob Dibble for three and a half hours today?

Ugh.

Mets
Reyes SS
Murphy LF
Beltran CF
Delgado 1B
Wright 3B
Church RF
Santos C
Castillo 2B
Ollie P

=red]Nats
Maxwell CF
Belliard 2B
R. Zimmerman 3B
Dunn 1B
Willingham LF
Kearns RF
Flores C
Gonzales SS
J. Zimmerman P

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

RBI triple for Delgado? Nice.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Dibble & the regular guy are hard to listen to. Bitching about the check swings to Reyes and Delgado called balls. The angle the ump has down the 3rd base line is obviously gonna be different than the angle the camera in the 3rd base dugout has; the angle that these guys are using to say Gerry Davis blew both of those calls.

Delgado triples in a run (after he shoulda out on the blown strike call, mind you) and the Mets are up 1-nil.

[DocTee]

Listen to the feed that OO gave us yesterday--

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Dammit, Ollie.

[bmfc1]

Dibble's an idiot. His hiring exemplifies the incompetence of that organization. Bob Carpenter is a cliche machine who knows nothing about baseball. I sync'd FAN, via mlb audio, to the TV.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I don't think Ollie's gonna make it to the fifth inning. Stokes should start stirring now.

[A Boy Named Seo]

DocTee wrote: Listen to the feed that OO gave us yesterday--

Here's that link again.

http://cranesville.com/wcss1490/wmp.asx

It's more than a few ticks behind, but their business is cement anyway, right?

[A Boy Named Seo]

I have very little perspective right now.

[bmfc1]

We didn't have be subjected to this crap but our GM saw fit to resign Perez for 3 years. Nicely done Omar. Oh yeah, Jesus Flores was a Met property but Omar lost him in the Rule V draft.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I still love Ollie, though one day years from now, I may be reflecting on my drinking problem and trace it squarely back to so intently watching his starts.

Mets look like poo-poo today.

[ashie62]

Time to put Parnell into the Rotation somewhere, the kid throws gas and seems mature.

Anyone for sitting Beltran or Wright for a day each in hopes of waking up the motley crue?

[A Boy Named Seo]

Fill 'er up.

[Frayed Knot]

Well, for those who said there would never be a HR hit to CF in this stadium, you're wrong.
Of course we're still waiting for the first NYM HR up there, but at least we now know it's possible.

]Anyone for sitting Beltran or Wright for a day each in hopes of waking up the motley crue?

Umm, no.

[bmfc1]

Can they send Ollie to Buffalo? With a day off this week, they could skip his turn, call up Figueroa, and give him the start a week from Tuesday.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Well, Wright could use something.

Nice big huge dozen car wreck at Talladega.

[A Boy Named Seo]

bmfc1 wrote: Can they send Ollie to Buffalo? With a day off this week, they could skip his turn, call up Figueroa, and give him the start a week from Tuesday.

Yah. In the "Shake it up, baby" thread, the Rubin article sez both Ollie and Pelf have options, though Omar's said nothing is likely to come from that shake-up talk.

That was said before today's 8-car pileup in Queens, though.

[bmfc1]

Thank you Seo. Gotta be done.

And isn't it a pleasure to watch Murphy learn how to play the OF in the bigs? He seems to be a good guy and we know he has a good bat but they could have had Dunn for next-to-nothing. He can't field either, but we know he'll hit 30 homers.

[Frayed Knot]

Ollie has options - meaning they wouldn't have to risk waivers by sending him down - but also, I believe, enough seniority to where he could refuse to be assigned there.

[Guest Kong76]

bm: And isn't it a pleasure to watch Murphy learn how to play the OF in the bigs? <<<

Yup�, for me it's a pleasure of sorts. Kid's a hard worker, and we've seen
some of that hard work pay off.

[stevejrogers]

Frayed Knot wrote: Ollie has options - meaning they wouldn't have to risk waivers by sending him down - but also, I believe, enough seniority to where he could refuse to be assigned there.

Even so, but anything is better than having him crap the bed every start in the bigs. I'd rather have him sent down ala Traschel and Fresno Jones than demote him to the pen.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Murphy in the first, falling down like that, reminded me of Todd Hundley.

I'd like to thank my daughter's friend Brina for having her birthday party today. If my daughter hadn't had that party to attend, we'd be at Citi Field today.

Thanks Brina!

Oh, and I'm so tired of Oliver Perez. Throughout the winter I wanted anybody else instead of him, and he's done nothing to change my mind.

I wonder how Randy Wolf is doing?

[bmfc1]

Kong--he's gonna be a good one but, when it's 8 to 1 against the crappy Nats, in part because he messed up again on a ball hit over his head, I gotta wonder if they handled this the right way.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I wonder how Randy Wolf is doing?

1-1, 4.26 ERA in four starts.

[ashie62]

bmfc1 wrote: Kong--he's gonna be a good one but, when it's 8 to 1 against the crappy Nats, in part because he messed up again on a ball hit over his head, I gotta wonder if they handled this the right way.

Agreed...Unfortunatly at this level trying your hardest isn't always good enough. He's not an OF..Prep him for 2B somehow or he may end up in the AL

And I do believe a day off for Wright is now bordering on long overdue.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Rob Dibble hates scouting reports.

They're confusing and stuff for pitchers.

Edited April 26, 2009 by Guest

[Benjamin Grimm]

Perez's ERA is now 9.31.

His chances of being Schaefer Mets Pitcher of the Month for April are rather slim. (Not that there's any suspense at all about who is actually going to win.)

[Guest Kong76]

Ash: Unfortunatly at this level trying your hardest isn't always good enough. He's not an OF <<<

Oh stop, I ain't preachin' trying your hardest yay yay stuff.

They handed him the job, it's early in the the season, he's had some
growing pains, he's shown flashes (the dp yesterday, for example), and
they brought in Sheff who isn't ready to play the outfield everyday.

Much more worried about the three year deal they handed to Ollie than
if Murphy can learn outfield positioning and footwork.

[A Boy Named Seo]

That sucked.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Shut down by the Nats after a single run in the first.

I don't care if Soupy Sales is on the mound and Jerry Lewis in left. There's your issue. Nothing guarantees catastrophic errors so much as leaving yourself no margin for them.