Zvon

whew.........he gets out of it. No matter what happens (if trash should pitch more, and he might if he dont bat this inning,up to 95 pitches) I think Trachsel has pitched a fine game here. You hold the Braves to 2 runs in a game like this during the stretch run, you should hit and beat em. Damn that shift on Floyd. a basehit is a wicked groundout. *Z shakes his fist at the TV* DAMN YOU BOBBY COX!!!!!

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Let's just face it: Beltran sucks. he aint livin up to his contract, but Im not the one payin him. Diaz shoulda bowled estrada over there and removed him from the game with extreme prejiduce. Now the Braves get the lead off double and tag up on beltran. Beltran dont even make it look close with that throw. Mets appeal, to no avail. Trachel has done what he does over 90% of the games he starts (not sure if that a real or accurate stat) goes deep into a game and keeps his team in it. He has pitched well so far, but if the Braves score here it takes alot of wind out of our sails. Big K for the 2nd out. get out of it trashy

OMG and shit on a stick. beltran hits the fly and Francouer throws Diaz out at the plate on the tag. Double play What a throw. DAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMN

lead off single for Diaz.........nice. Trachsel blows the bunt....not nice. Reyes check swing grounder gets a Met kinda roll and stays fair! YES! 1st & 2nd, one out....Matsui. ComeONNNNNNNNNNNNNN.......... ouch....he swung at ball 4 twice and fouled it. and he gets the walk. bases juiced. One out. We have to plate a run here, with Beltran up. Ill take it anyway we can get it.

Wright smacks his 37th double. Nice pieceAhitting there. Went with the pitch

ill say this. iread this week that Willie doesnt keep track of what team he's playing to far down the line. He said he doesnt look that far ahead .This is okay in April, May,JuneIts inexcusable and unnacceptable in Sept if you are in the hunt. Even WE know how the schedule pans out series for series thru this month. He said now he has his wife quizzing him to make him more aware. Thats some happy crappy. On having Shingo pitch the other day, he sai he didnt regret using him, but regrets that he threw a fastball 2-1 and didnt "throw the funk". he said pallia could have easily thrown a fastball there and that Shingo shouldnt have. THEN GET WORD TO SHINGO BEFORE HE THROWS THE PITCH TO THROW THE FUNK! If thats what he's there to do, tell him. You the freakin manager. You can dictate what is thrown if you wish to. This is September, and the mets must have defined roles, especially rotation wise, so players know what they have to do and can concentrate on that. Its not a time to be playing musical chairs with the rotation or the pen. You have your starters, your middle men, your setup guy, and your closer. For good or bad, define those roles. Now dont get me wrong. im not jumping on the bandwagon here. I still think Willie gets his 3 yrs at the helm. Im not calling for his head. Im calling on him to use his head.

I used to love watchin Dykstra dive head 1st into linedrives, but Jones makes it look so smooth. It looked kinda like this:

damn that AndrooJones. He looked like he creeped up on that liner. What a catch. Robs Reyes and thats big, keepin him off 1st.

awsum inning in the field for matsui. Talk about range. Almost robs that single then makes a clean pick of the shorthop linedrive and turns it into a double play. Great play. very niiiiiiiiiice indeed

OUCH! damn, that Androo Jones is havin a hellOFaYEAR. 45th homer. he'll probly hit 50, and he cant be juicin. He goes yard on Trash. Atl up. 2-1

YEA. Bad hop single for matsui and he steals 2nd. Did you see him bow to the ump at 1st right before that. I think thats kool. Do it again beltran

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Matsui is such a better player than Cairo. he made a great play on that grounder. HeSgOtDaRaNgE.

Mets had 5 2 out RBIs yesterday. A winning team has to do that chit. That Francouer guy. Keepin him down is big. Ive been watching him cuz i picked him up the week after he came up on one of my fantasy baseball teams, and he has been doing nothing but hitting and driving in runs. The kids sick. Trachsel takes care of him to end the inning, and believe it or not , thats big. 1-1

Met killer Chipper Jones ties it with a laserbeam double. dagnabbitt. Settle in Trachsel..settle in. Get a groove

single and a steal and Matsui moves him over.Good ol Reyes on 3rd. Now come on Beltrannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. Y!ESSSSS beltran with the rbi double! thats the way to start it. Im not here 100% but I hope to be soon. 1-0. comeonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Cliffy

Zvon wrote: I get to see Reyes and Wright doin there thing for 30 more days, tHaNkYoUvErYmUcH at least 30 days, maybe longer......muuuuuuuuhahahaHAHAHAHAH

DocTee wrote: My apologies to Zvon or anyone else who was (or may have been) offended by my choice of words-- my intent was not to disparage any poster, only to express my displeasure with an overly complacent "wait till next year approach" on the part of both WWSB and some forum apologists. no need to apologize to me. I dont expect all to agree with me and I welcome the other perspectives. I dont mind the language or the attitude. Thats you....this is me. If everyone just kissed each others ass here the place would be rather boring, DoNtChAtHiNk? And the season aint over until Oct, Fret Spoogylooger, no matter where the Mets may be in the race. I get to see Reyes and Wright doin there thing for 30 more days, tHaNkYoUvErYmUcH

Seo: 5 Floyd: 1.5 Matsui: 1.5 Diaz: .3 Beltran: .5 Wright: .6 Reyes: .2 Hernandez: .2 Looper: .2

couldnt make the scene and couldnt watch the game. I hate when its on TV and I cant watch it, but its one a those busy weekends. I did see Floyds shot on ESPN earlier and THAT WAS A FROZEN ROPE!, baby. STRAIGHT CENTER! A recharged Floyd is just what we need so im glad he is proving me wrong about being tired and losing his punch. He's got that energy back, and we need it sooooo bad. If he stays charged thru September we will hang. Matsui was big? Ill take it. And I hope he does play like he want his job, and contributes in a way that make us all forget the bumps in his road. Seo does it again, and I wont even look at the downside that he shoulda been up with us all year. We are where we are and he's here now. I am waiting to see the hilights of the entire game. Watchin Sportcenter now. Just saw the clips. Wright with his 36th double! YES. Havent checked yet but I hope theres a BaseballTonight on ESPN soon so maybe I get to see some extended coverage. Looks like there was a small rooting section here, but at least some of you guys made it. (and i had a custom Kaboom all done up for Floyd, dagnabbitt----well, he'll just have to hit another one tomorrow.) This was a much needed win. Cripes, they all are from now on,lol. Phils lost to Wash, and Phils will be playing Houston for 3 games, so this is a good opportunity to start movin up again. Someones gonna have to lose those games. Trachsels outting vs Atlanta tomorrow is huge and I have my fingers crossed so hard that they are turning blue. I really hope for him to pitch as well as last time out. heres some pics from todays game:

Floyd: 3 Wright: 2 Benson: 2 Diaz: 1 Mientkiewicz: .5 Reyes: 1 Cairo: .5

Bret Sabermetric wrote: Was there a rain delay or something? there was a pregame rain delay of like 25 minutes,you poor uninformed fucker. :wink: that was a tuff one. And I hear ya Rotblatt and Elster. I choose not to hear you, Bret.

Zmbrano: .5 Heilman: 2.5 HamilacK: .3 Padilla: .2 Reyes: 2 Cairo: .5 Beltran:.5 Diaz: 1 Wright:1 Castro: .5 Matsui: 1

duan wrote: he got it wrong, not once but twice with the pen. lol @ JD Willie is developing this tag. I cant go thru another manager who has no finger on the pulse of his pitchers.Im sure Rick Peterson really makes those calls (thats what he's paid for), but bottomline, the buck stops with Willie. He took a chance tonight, a chance I may have taken myself (nah, I woulda switched pitchers but not put Shingo in that specific spot), and it backfires bigtime on him. Im sure he will say alot of what your hearin from me post game. If this teams gonna hang and roll with the big boys even the smallest cogs will have to grease the wheel.

ewww. this was painful. Carlos swings at the hi heat and watches a middle in fastball go by. OWWWWWWWWWWWW. This was a game we coulda shoulda won, and times running out. How many,......27 games left?

Rotblatt wrote: Padilla had to get two outs and he got one. No excuse for walking Castillo but he DID get one out, Zvon. Willie's a fucking retard and couldn't manage a motherfuckng bullpen to save his life. Im not defending his moves. Im just tryin to ease the pain with my slant on things. We can second guess this game all night in quite afew situations. Reyes and cairo keep it alive. Beltran.Time to get the big hit