IGT--Mets @ Phillies, 07/05/09

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

We could have really used a strikeout there.

[Benjamin Grimm]

This team is just miserable to watch. All the fun from Thursday afternoon's win seems like it was a month ago.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Muffy shoulda stepped on his back.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Santana hurt on another 0-2 pitch.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Santana hurt on another 0-2 pitch.

Mistakes up will do that to you.

(Two months ago, those mistakes were bouncing or otherwise unhittable.)

[metirish]

Officer Joe Blanton in total command today.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Infield single, strikeout, HBP: Rally in the 8th!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"Who's up next? Murphy? Hmm."

(pause)


"Who do we have left that'll smack it double-play hard?"

[nymr83]

Park vs. Tatis! the bases should be loaded

[nymr83]

TATIS IS THE KING OF DOUBLEPLAYS

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Infield single, strikeout, HBP: Rally in the 8th!

um, wow.

[metirish]

It seems to not matter who goes up to bat , a double play will be the outcome.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Shoud, I guess, have given Wright a day off. The whole series turned out to be as good as a weekend off for him.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Absolutely humiliating.

We hit a triple play of suck in this series: Shitty starting pitching (Game 1), horrendous fielding gaffes (Game 2) and terribly inept offense (Games 1-3).

The Phillies, like the MFYs when we saw them last, were struggling big-time until we played 'em.

[Guest Kong76]

I hate to say it before the all-star break, but this season is o.v.e.r.

[stevejrogers]

I'm inching towards that Kase. It has gotten to the point though where the only thing to look forward to the rest of the way is the 40th Anniversary of the 1969 World Champs in August.

Unless changes are made.

[nymr83]

the Mets have made it feel like they were DONE for the last month, but they're still only 4 back. its pretty clear that Jerry Manuel, after looking good last year, is a terrible in-game decision maker, i'd be all for firing him and his entire staff.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Plus five key players due off the DL in the second half. Six if you count Wagner.

They just need to find a way to pretend to be a team until then.

(They also need most of those guys to come back performing well. Ahem. That, too.)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The SHaMs are coming.

[Guest Kong76]

SJJ: I'm inching towards that Kase <<<

Don't inch too close, I don't want to get any Yankee on me.

Namor: its pretty clear that Jerry Manuel, after looking good last year, is a terrible in-game decision maker, i'd be all for firing him and his entire staff <<<

I don't care if they back up the truck and get rid of everyone
but the manager's righty-lefty decisions, pitching change decisions,
lineup decisions, and whatever in game freakin' decisions everyone
has issues with ain't gonna get the Mets more than two hits in some games,
ain't gonna make players make routine plays, ain't gonna stop blown saves, or
stop players from not knowing where to run and when, and it certainly ain't gonna
bring back anyone quicker from the DL.

How's that for a run on?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Kong76 wrote: ...or stop players from not knowing where to run and when...

Ooh, yeah, my season debut in DC. That sucked. Definitely a candidate for the list.

[Guest Kong76]

And let's not forget inning ending double plays. Jerry, 24/7.

OE:
I mean to add, "ain't gonna stop inning ending double plays."