I-GEE-T, 6/4/11, Mets-Braves: Gee, it's Jair Jurrjens!

[Guest Number 6]

Was at this game with a Braves-fan buddy. At this point, I pretty much only attend Braves-Mets, since he gets me off my bitterness and makes me go to the park. I've had a few conversations with him this week leading up to the series about whether Reyes will be traded, and how much I hope he won't. Now, I'm wondering about how I could feel emotionally attached to the Mets without him.

Also maybe of interest, my RAMETS shirt got a lot of love.

[G-Fafif]

Gee = Poise. More poise than any of the more established starters. Scintillating matchup, as viewed from 404. After the nightly showing of the Get Well Kid video, a spontanoues GA-REE CAR-TER chant went up. Chilling.

Agree with Bucket on the likability factor. Their play is sometimes detestable, but they're not.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Sacking up: The 2011 Mets.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

I shook the hand that gives Dillon Gee a handjob.

[batmagadanleadoff]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I gotta say, as overmatched as we are, and with as many bad breaks and bad losses as we've absorbed so far this year, I am enjoying the 2011 Mets as much as any Mets team since 05/06 (I kinda liked the 05ers). When they took a cockpunch loss last year, I felt as if they got what they deserved by playing sloppy, passive, poorly piloted loserball. Whereas this team takes bad losses mostly because the other teams have more talent, and not as a result of anything more than that.. And they fight just as hard the next night.

I bet it's cause they're exceeding your expectations. If you thought this same team would stay on pace for 95 wins, you'd wanna tar and feather practically all of them.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yes but I don;t mean it relative to expectations. I just mean that the '11 Mets taste better than the '10s right out of the carton or whatever.

[MFS62]

Gee isn't just getting by on guile.
IIRC he led the International League in strikeouts last year, and set a modern Buffalo Record in doing it.
He has stuff, too.

Later

[ashie62]

The 2011 Mets remind of previous Minnesota Twins teams where Mauer & Morneau would go down and the rest would sack it up and stay in contention.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Apparently, Gee added a cutter to his mix of pitches for his start against the Braves. He sems to have developed the cutter on one day's notice, tinkering in a bullpen session the day before the game.

Not only was Gee effective, the rookie was clever, adding a cutter to his arsenal that helped keep Atlanta's hitters off-balance. "My slider has been real bad, so in the bullpen [before last night's outing], I started throwing a cutter," Gee said. "I said I've got to figure out something here, and I threw it quite a bit during game. It was a new pitch they haven't seen from me." The cutter helped Gee continue his stellar beginning to the season, as he improved to 6-0 and lowered his ERA to 3.33 on the year, and the Mets have won all eight of his starts.

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/mets/golly_gee_the_mets_got_an_ace_nKo5I5ulgEpiAlv1hJYmMM#ixzz1OQn0FzMN

[Guest Edgy DC]

He's 8-2 for his career --- a 162 game average of 19-5, according to bb-r.com.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Apparently, Gee added a cutter to his mix of pitches for his start against the Braves. He sems to have developed the cutter on one day's notice, tinkering in a bullpen session the day before the game. Not only was Gee effective, the rookie was clever, adding a cutter to his arsenal that helped keep Atlanta's hitters off-balance. "My slider has been real bad, so in the bullpen [before last night's outing], I started throwing a cutter," Gee said. "I said I've got to figure out something here, and I threw it quite a bit during game. It was a new pitch they haven't seen from me." The cutter helped Gee continue his stellar beginning to the season, as he improved to 6-0 and lowered his ERA to 3.33 on the year, and the Mets have won all eight of his starts. http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/mets/golly_gee_the_mets_got_an_ace_nKo5I5ulgEpiAlv1hJYmMM#ixzz1OQn0FzMN

Dude should take, like, pregame requests from the advance scouts. ("This guy does poorly against sinkerballers/knucklers/lefty screwball-change-artists. Do you think you can... um.. well...")