#%@! this!!! - Venting and Overreaction Thread

[Centerfield]

I don't know why we even bother to play Granderson in April. We should just put him on the DL until May 1.

Conforto has to play every day.

I know, let's play short-handed for a week before we put anyone on the DL. Even though the DL has been shortened to 10 days.

Must be a bad cramp if you then have to get an MRI the next day.

[Centerfield]

Oh, and we're going to get fucking swept this weekend.

[Benjamin Grimm]

So... Duda, Cespedes, and Flores are unavailable, so we'll have a two-man bench, both catchers? Position players are d'Arnaud, Plawecki, Rivera, Walker, Cabrera, Reyes, Granderson, Bruce, Conforto, and Lagares?

I would think they pretty much have to make a roster move before the game starts. Take the guy who seems furthest away and put him on the 10-day.

[G-Fafif]

I fucking applaud the existence of this thread.

[TransMonk]

Honestly, other than the win streak from 4/9-4/13, the 2017 team has been pretty tough to watch.

Through the first 10% of the season, they are not meeting my expectations.

[Guest d'Kong76]

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[TransMonk]

I think that is now 5 times in 9 losses where there was a tied score at some point in the ninth inning.

Infuriating.

[Frayed Knot]

TransMonk wrote: I think that is now 5 times in 9 losses where there was a tied score at some point in the ninth inning.

Six losses in nine if you want to track those lost via the other team's last at bat.
Three games lost in extra innings plus two other walk-offs and one game in Miami where the Marlins scored three in the bottom of the 8th so didn't need to bat in the 9th

[ashie62]

Travis will make the DL yet.

TC and the use of his bullpen confounds me.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

The Mets offense needs more hitters (capable of .275 or better BA & .350 OBP) and less sluggers (low BP & low OBP, but lot of HR's). The offense is too dependent upon HRs to score. Due to low BA & OBP, many of the HRs are solo shots. The Mets are not very fast as a group so there is no manufaturing of runs and pressuring defenses with their speed. It's infuriatingly frustrating as a fan to watch the Mets offense most games; I can hardly imagine what it must be like for the starting pitching staff.

The team needs an infusion of younger, faster players, that can get on base and run once they get there.

[Edgy MD]

They certainly have younger, faster players. Whether they are going to be better at on-basing is another matter, but I agree with everything you write.

But it seems like something is broken in the philosophy. They preach plate discipline throughout the system and they hack like animals up in the big leagues.

[G-Fafif]

The Mets currently have the opposite of stage presence. It's stage absence. The Nationals are playing an invisible opponent that can't take advantage of their inability to be seen.

[ashie62]

Terry Collins is a weak old man.

[HahnSolo]

Neil Walker looks like a professional check-casher out there

[TransMonk]

I remember being surprised at how well Cabrera played D at shortstop last season.

I'm not seeing that guy this season.

[ashie62]

Wheres that hot seat thread?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

TransMonk wrote: I remember being surprised at how well Cabrera played D at shortstop last season. I'm not seeing that guy this season.

Cabrera suddenly looks very old. That he's already having the same leg issues he had last year not encouraging.

[G-Fafif]

I have a hard time envisioning either Walker or Cabrera halting the path of a ground ball up the middle. They will confound those expectations now and then, but neither athlete seems what you'd call athletic.

[Lefty Specialist]

Annoys me that our humiliation will be carried live nationally on ESPN tonight. I can't watch.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

G-Fafif wrote: I have a hard time envisioning either Walker or Cabrera halting the path of a ground ball up the middle. They will confound those expectations now and then, but neither athlete seems what you'd call athletic.

That's what they are. It's what they were when we got them, and what they were prior to that.

Leg injuries and further ossification won't help. #optimism

[bmfc1]

G-Fafif is right. Both are good at catching the ball but it better be hit within a modest radius of where they are positioned.

[bmfc1]

F U Sandy for not keeping Murphy. It was YOUR job to figure out if his post-season stardom was sustainable and you failed and failed big. F U Sandy for not doing a damn thing this off season after keeping Yo--the rest of the off-season was spent taking victory laps and putting his smug, arrogant face in front of the suck-up Mets media. He did nothing and so far, neither is his team.

[Edgy MD]

I want better on-base percentage, but I've got no big problem with Sandy.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Really.

I mean, I'm sore about Murph, too, but y'all do realize that if the Mets had offered Murph a multiyear deal, then Cespedes wouldn't still be here, right?

MY issue with second base is that they cleared the deck, more or less, for Dilson... then flipped him 2/3 of the way through the year for a win-now part.

[bmfc1]

Good points LWFS. I'd like to think that a NY team coming off of a World Series appearance could afford both but not this ownership.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

bmfc1 wrote: Good points LWFS. I'd like to think that a NY team coming off of a World Series appearance could afford both but not this ownership.

I'm still mildly shocked Cespedes is still here, full stop.

[MFS62]

bmfc1 wrote: G-Fafif is right. Both are good at catching the ball but it better be hit within a modest radius of where they are positioned.

Y'mean, they play Derek Jeter Defense?

Later

[Frayed Knot]

For the record, neither our SIGN MURPHY NOW discussion nor the inevitable MEMORIES OF MURPHY thread were chock full of "Go git 'em Sandy!" comments.

We weren't exactly in the Gary Cohen "Net negative" camp and I think many of us would have been OK with the deal he eventually got [3 years - $37.5 mil] - but the feeling at the time seemed to be that it would take longer or higher (or both) to keep him and some wanted nothing more offered beyond the minimum 'Qualifying Offer' with a handful of 'don't let the door hit you ...' asides thrown in.

[ashie62]

We are fortunate Flore's staph infection did not spread throughout the locker room.

[Lefty Specialist]

Ashie62 wrote: We are fortunate Flore's staph infection did not spread throughout the locker room.

I think Reyes' Emerald Ash Borer disease has spread to most of the team, however.