IGT, 7/8, Happy Ollie Day

[Guest Edgy DC]

On a day when a mere run would be a minor victory to be celbrated in ironic fashion, Oliver Perez, a lighning rod for fan derision before he went away, returns to pitch before a crowd hungry to deride.

I suspect something's brewing, and I further suspect that something has to do with Howard Johnson, but maybe it waits until the All Star Break. For now, I think Oliver Perez Saving Mets Season is as great a headline as I can imagine.

[Fman99]

First ever Mets no hitter. You read it here first, kids.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Anyone wanna toast this one live, I'll be in Section 521, row 11.

LGMYGBYYYBBB

[seawolf17]

LET'S

[metirish]

NOT

[Benjamin Grimm]

GET SHUT OUT!

[seawolf17]

Honestly, that's really all we can hope for with this team.

"Don't get embarrassed, fellas!"

[Gwreck]

Fman99 wrote: First ever Mets no hitter. You read it here first, kids.

Sure, why not.

Still not a guarantee that the Mets will score any runs though.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Anyone wanna toast this one live, I'll be in Section 521, row 11. LGMYGBYYYBBB

I'll be somewhere. (Going with the brother-in-law; he's got the tickets.)

Worst-case: it'll be like a Little League game... except my kid's not playing, and sarcastic applause is encouraged.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Don't make it hurt.

[metirish]

="Edgy DC"] I suspect something's brewing, and I further suspect that something has to do with Howard Johnson, but maybe it waits until the All Star Break. For now, I think Oliver Perez Saving Mets Season is as great a headline as I can imagine.

Rubin touched on this yesterday and Gary and Ron talked about it last night , by all accounts no coaching staff works harder than these guys. That sounds like the usual line but I'll take Razor Shines at his word that they do in fact work hard at figuring this out .


But really what can you do with these players , fair has nothing to do with it but to me firing all of Jerry's coaches would do nothing for this team, I suppose Hojo can be held accountable for Wright?

I don't know but the more I think about it the more complicated it becomes in my head ....

[bmfc1]

Lots of bizarre play by the Nationals last night, including a player getting hit in the nuts by a grounder and a player falling down on the bases:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2009/07/how_the_nats_lost_last_night.html

Normally, I'd laugh at this but it's not any different than the play of our team.

BTW, the winning pitcher last night for the Rockies never threw a pitch:

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/gamecenter/recap/MLB_20090707_WAS@COL

[TransMonk]

With all of the offensive woes, the pitching staff has a 5.18 ERA over the past 28 days. Most teams are going to be hard pressed to score on average 6 runs per game at full strength. Hojo has Wright and then a glorified AAA lineup.

Given all of the injuries, it's hard to justify anyone getting whacked. But I would tell Warthen to shove off before Hojo.

[Willets Point]

This will be the game that will be looked back on as when the season turned around in the post-World Series victory euphoria.

[Benjamin Grimm]

You're very optimistic about baseball, and very pessimistic about election results, I've noticed.

[Guest Edgy DC]

TransMonk wrote: Given all of the injuries, it's hard to justify anyone getting whacked. But I would tell Warthen to shove off before Hojo.

I may have to disagree. Hopefully, nobody shoves.

[nymr83]

Fman99 wrote: First ever Mets no hitter. You read it here first, kids.

he'll do it like AJ Burnett di for hte Marlins... with NINE walks!

[bmfc1]

METS:
Alex Cora SS
Daniel Murphy 1B
David Wright 3B
Gary Sheffield LF
Ryan Church RF
Jeremy Reed CF
Brian Schneider C
Luis Castillo 2B
Oliver Perez LHP (1-2, 9.97)

[Guest Edgy DC]

Got to swap Cora and Luis. How many hours do I have to convince Jerry of this?

[G-Fafif]

July 8's a good day to get to work on a miracle. Now if only we could get Joe Torre to start Don Young in center.

[Frayed Knot]

G-Fafif wrote: July 8's a good day to get to work on a miracle. Now if only we could get Joe Torre to start Don Young in center.

I was at that game!

[Guest OlerudOwned]

"Counting on Ollie to throw strikes kind of like counting on a Stormtrooper to actually hit something when they fire their guns in Star Wars" -Burkhardt

[nymr83]

OlerudOwned wrote: "Counting on Ollie to throw strikes kind of like counting on a Stormtrooper to actually hit something when they fire their guns in Star Wars" -Burkhardt

quote of the year

[duan]

anyone see that piece on catching with sandy alomar jr - really brilliant, learnt more in that 60 seconds about the art then in the previous 10 years.

[nymr83]

2 walks, a hit, a run. perez back to his old tricks.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Well, I walked in for the Loretta and Martin at-bats. Looked pretty good there even though he gave up a hit, though I'm sure he didn't seem so hot while he was walking two batters.

[Frayed Knot]

OlerudOwned wrote: Well, I walked in for the Loretta and Martin at-bats. Looked pretty good there even though he gave up a hit, though I'm sure he didn't seem so hot while he was walking two batters.

First one (Furcal) was on four pitches. The next guy at least had to work for his.

[nymr83]

Manny = bad defense, Murph on 2nd.

[duan]

that's manny being manny.

[nymr83]

sheffield called out on strikes on 2 pitches that were over the outline of the left handed batters box, Martin was setting up 5 feet off the plate like javy lopez and the ump was falling for it