Peripheral News/Perspective

[Guest Edgy DC]

Crappy loss, cost us two soldiers --- and at least one, perhaps, significantly.

But look at the peripheral news: Beltran had to go in for an x-ray on a wrist injury. (It was negative, fortunately.) Then there's Wheeler: 6.0 shutout innings, 7 Ks, 4 H, 0 BB, 1 HbP.

Celebrate every inning you have left, 'cause this team is going to go 162-0 next year. Wheeler, Familia, Harvey, Mejia... --- they're all gonna turn the pipeline into a bottleneck.

[ashie62]

You must have completed your push ups.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Life is painful, man. I keep coming back to how much luck a team has to have to triumph. You can build enough redundancy --- with careful planning and/or crazy money that you protect yourself from the vagueries of luck, but sometimes it just shakes out that way. Luck. The 1985 Mets team was as well-rounded as there've been, but Strawberry missed 1/3 of the season after diving for a ball, and Sisk played hurt and had nothing. That was enough to short-circuit the cause.

The luck just wasn't there this year (and we all knew they needed it), but the fight is, and that's something, and the long-term perspective definitely gives me hope that the redundancy is coming. In truth, that 5-13 start and Young going down out of the box, I feel like that would have had the Manuel Mets licked right away.

Kinda cool game today, in a sucked-that-they-lost-and-Reyes-got-hurt-and-Murphy-begged-to-be-removed-from-the-field kinda way.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I had to "Wayne" this game and don't want to see a replay. But did this Costanza shithead do anything that might considered dirty? I wouldn't mind seeing this guy eat one anyway.

[Ceetar]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I had to "Wayne" this game and don't want to see a replay. But did this Costanza shithead do anything that might considered dirty? I wouldn't mind seeing this guy eat one anyway.

he should've at least gotten beaned, he didn't.

it was hard for me to tell if he was just really going in hard or really trying to hit Murphy's leg. As he slid his leg came up and dug into Murphy's calf, jarring his knee.

[Frayed Knot]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I had to "Wayne" this game and don't want to see a replay. But did this Costanza shithead do anything that might considered dirty? I wouldn't mind seeing this guy eat one anyway.

The foot was up just a bit but I'd call it more of a sloppy slide than a vicious one.
Problem was that Muffy kind of knelt down in front of the base bringing the knee towards the foot as much as the other way around turning what might have been a spiked foot into one where he took the force of the slide to the outside of the knee which in turn bent the joint inward. He hobbled away immediately but what you at first assumed was just a spike job looked a whole lot worse upon seeing the replay.

[ashie62]

Murphy really needs to be a DH.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I guess that what I'm getting at is that it really sucks to see anybody get hurt, but the silver lining is that, while nobody needs surgery, it really clears things up down the stretch. Alderson no longer has to be conflicted about sending his charges out to scratch their way back into the race while he dealt away their best hitter. The management can focus on assembling the pieces of the future --- and Reyes' injury certainly doesn't make his price go up --- while the team returns to their doomed-but-spirited us-against-the-world-ism that has defined their season.

They're a good team but hope seemed more of a burden than they could bear.