Who do you like for Game Two?

[Elster88]

There was a surprising amount of bitching about the game one poll, so here you go bitchers

[Elster88]

I vote Syndegaard

[Benjamin Grimm]

I voted for Syndergaard too, only because there was no option for Kevin Kobel.

[Elster88]

Crap I think it's too late to updat the poll options

[Guest El Segundo Escupidor]

Remember me, bitchez?

[Elster88]

Steven Matz expected to appear out of bullpen this weekend

http://espn.go.com/blog/newyork/mets/post/_/id/112202/steven-matz-expected-to-appear-out-of-bullpen-this-weekend

[RealityChuck]

Is there any question (especially since it was already answered)? The only issue was how he felt after Thursday.

Too much was made of his "100 pitches warming up." You don't throw your best on every pitch while warming up; the point is not to throw strikes but to get your muscles ready and test out your control. You can do that with 80 mph fastballs.

Also, the number is misleading anyway. A starter has eight warmup pitches each inning, plus those before the game. So going seven innings means there were 56 -- say 70 -- warmup pitches even before the pitch count starts. No one complains about how they tire out the pitcher.

Getting up and down to warm up in the bull pen is really no different from pitching an inning and then sitting in the dugout, and the tosses are easier.

[Edgy MD]

Elster88 wrote: Steven Matz expected to appear out of bullpen this weekend http://espn.go.com/blog/newyork/mets/post/_/id/112202/steven-matz-expected-to-appear-out-of-bullpen-this-weekend

Terry can be such a weirdo.

When it's for the sake of fielding his most competitive team for the post season, the idea of using Matz in relief is beyond the pale, it's he's never done it! So we can't have him doing it now! He's had arm problems!

When it's about keeping his arm fresh for Game Four, Terry's all, Matz WILL pitch in Game Two, regardless of the situation; we'll figure some way to get him in there � force him in there if we have to.

So he can't pitch relief because he's only started, so you want to protect him from the alleged damage of relieving, unless you need him to pitch relief to prepare for a start, in order to protect him from some other alleged damage. And all that puts aside the presumably high priority of winning post-season games whenever you have a chance to win them.

And really, if you want to get him a single inning, just for the sake of getting him work, even though you obviously don't know how the game will unfold, just let him start.

[Elster88]

Boom. Well done EDC

[Elster88]

Annnnnd he's warming up