IGT 05/12 Metsies at Skankees

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"I guess you're not allowed to strike out Derek Jeter now."
-BetterHalfer, on that AB in the ninth.

When Duda makes you happy-yelp twice with his glove, you know it's been a ballgame.

[G-Fafif]

G-Fafif wrote: Mets have never lost a Monday night regular-season game to the MFYs, having Mlickied them in 1997 and beaten them again in 2013.

Monday nights: 3-0 vs MFYs.

Tuesday nights: 1-1, plus a win in the only World Series game that mattered from 2000.

[Edgy MD]

Hard to think of a more fulfilling game to build on.
1. Taking a bitter rival.
2. On the road.
3. Packed house.
4. Starting a four-game series.
5. Successfully transitioning Mejia to the pen on a very positive note/positive performance.
6. Getting the offense going, and winning because of the bats, not despite them.
7. Coming from behind.
8. Twice.
9. The mopey rookie catcher, feeling heat from his backup, gets untracked.
10. The big-buckz free agent outfielder gets untracked.
11. Against his former team.
12. The outfield competition is rising all ships.
13. The goofy firstbaseman becomes a glove man.

Even the downsides are ideal:
1. If you've got to pick a pitcher to get lit up, you pick Colon, the transitional piece.
2. If a closer is going to struggle, then let him still grind out the save, but further grease the skids toward a transition to an in-house solution.
3. Jeter's three hits and a walk produced no RBI, and no runs scored. The guy's had a career of empty calories and there it is in a microcosm.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Farny was all fist-pumpy after that one, very funny.

HILARIOUS how fat and slow Teixera is. Beltran & Ichiro also hurting.

[Edgy MD]

Now let's finish the Yankees of like the suckers they are and get our heads kicked in by the Marlins! YEAH!!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Zvon wrote: Gwreck wrote: I also am confused why Meija was so quickly yanked out of the rotation but we keep putting Colon out there every 5 days unquestioned. You know the answer to that. $ If Mejia doesn't accept his new role he's done as a Met. I do feel that they should have given him the start in this series, but I thought it was crazy to sit EYj going into Colorado. So what do I know?

I think it's more about innings than dollars.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The Yankees were actually wearing alternative caps? Isn't that some kind of sacrilege or something?

[seawolf17]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The Yankees were actually wearing alternative caps? Isn't that some kind of sacrilege or something?

I was wondering the same thing. It looked wrong.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I know. It made them look like some kind of ersatz contender, full of expensive-yet-chintzy free agent baubles, aging merc pitchers finally showing their rust, and guys playing over their head for the first month coming back down to earth. Man, those hats!

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I know. It made them look like some kind of ersatz contender, full of expensive-yet-chintzy free agent baubles, aging merc pitchers finally showing their rust, and guys playing over their head for the first month coming back down to earth. Man, those hats!

Once Jeter put it on his head, they all got better.

[metirish]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Farny was all fist-pumpy after that one, very funny. HILARIOUS how fat and slow Teixera is. Beltran & Ichiro also hurting.

seriously , if he were a thoroughbred horse he would have been euthanized on humane grounds after that run to 1st.

Edited May 13, 2014 by Guest

[Centerfield]

Great thread guys. Lots of fun to read.

[Edgy MD]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Zvon wrote: Gwreck wrote: I also am confused why Meija was so quickly yanked out of the rotation but we keep putting Colon out there every 5 days unquestioned. You know the answer to that. $ If Mejia doesn't accept his new role he's done as a Met. I do feel that they should have given him the start in this series, but I thought it was crazy to sit EYj going into Colorado. So what do I know? I think it's more about innings than dollars.

I think it's more about building the pitching staff the best way they know how than innings or dollars.

Look, pretty soon, they'll have Colon, Niese, Gee, Wheeler, Mejia, Harvey, Hefner, Montero, deGrom, Syndergaard, and Matz (and other comers*, and the likes of merry wanderers like Matsuzaka and Torres) all fighting for spots in the same five-man rotation. Sooner or later, some of these guys --- like Familia before them --- were going to get transitioned to the pen. Mejia can still be a great asset there, and he can still get another crack at the rotation, but this is what honest competition looks like. And it could ultimately be glorious.

* For at the center of them all shall be a man named RAINY LARA.

[metirish]

Wait, hasn't Colon been brilliant?, the booth keep saying so, except for that one start?

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'd say he's been good, except for three starts. Or four.

Next time Bartolo has three or four good starts in a row, the Mets should trade him.

[Edgy MD]

That may well be the plan, and perhaps a good 'un. But he's the guy who is supposed to buy you time to make decisions most responsibly.

And the reason he's in the rotation and not Mejia is that he's holding a spot for the best alternative to take it from him, and Mejia hasn't thus far shown that to be him.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Edgy MD wrote: That may well be the plan, and perhaps a good 'un. But he's the guy who is supposed to buy you time to make decisions most responsibly.

I agree, but he seems not to be doing that. I had envisioned him lasting the season with the Mets, but he's been shakier than they've probably expected. If the Mets get a chance to get out from under the second year of Colon's contract, they should consider taking it.

[Edgy MD]

Sure he's been shakier.

But he had a 5.35 ERA going into last night, and Mejia's was 5.06. Given that Mejia is expected to be around as the logjam of talent intensifies, and Colon is not, the decision seemed perfectly justifiable. Mejia lit the place up! In a good way!

Yesterday, he was a pitcher struggling to find himself. Today he's a weapon!

[Gwreck]

metirish wrote: Wait, hasn't Colon been brilliant?, the booth keep saying so, except for that one start?

Heh. This was start #8.

He got lit up in start #3 in Anaheim, start #6 in Colorado, and start #8 last night.
Start #2 in Atlanta and #5 against St. Louis were very good.

The other three were middling.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah, Colon has basically left the team with almost no chance to win thrice already. If the percentage of bad starts doesn't go down they're going to have to take him out of the 'ro.

[Zvon]

One of Joes best !
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