Ollie Pitches Two Scoreless; Good News or Bad News?

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• Matt March 3, 2011 at 12:19 pm

  At this point, I can’t imagine any Mets fan is rooting for Perez to pitch well. With the additions of Capuano and Young, plus guys like Gee, Mejia, and Harvey in the minors…any Met fan that wants Perez to be occupying a roster spot over one of them is a mongoloid.
  • francis March 3, 2011 at 4:19 pm

    I am totally rooting for him to pitch well as long as he’s here.
    • Matt March 3, 2011 at 4:19 pm

      And we have our first mongoloid.
      • Donal March 3, 2011 at 4:41 pm

        He has a point. You may not like the fact that he wears a Mets uniform, but he is wearing a Mets uniform. As long as he does, his success leads to the Mets success.

        Now, if you asked any of us do we honestly believe OP will be beneficial to the Mets this season, I doubt you’d get too many affirmative responses. But that is a different question than “are you rooting for Ollie”?
• oldtimer March 3, 2011 at 12:21 pm

  I’m thinking May 15. He’s going to have decent outing in his next 2-3 outings and that buys him two more appearances. If one of those works, they say,”what the hell we need a LOOGY, let’s give him a shot.” After he performs poorly over the first 66 weeks they bite the bullet and let him go. Remember how they never used him in August,in effect played with 24, and never cut him?
• The Stache March 3, 2011 at 12:25 pm

  I hope he walks six straight batters to start the inning with two wild pitches and a hit batter.
• Donal March 3, 2011 at 1:06 pm

  It’s one thing to say that the order to cut OP will come from Alderson, it’s another to say TC will have no input or idea that its coming.

  I think TC will know when the axe will come down and how much slack Ollie has left.
• chris March 3, 2011 at 2:22 pm

  Doesnt look like it will matter now that Perez pitched two scoreless innings today. We’re stuck with him for at least another two starts now.
• Brandon Butler March 3, 2011 at 3:19 pm

  I was reading on Twitter that he threw 2 scoreless innings. This was what Ollie pitched today.

  2 IP, 2 hits, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 SO

  This is a small step for him, but if he has one more bad start, then more than likely thats it.
  • Matt March 3, 2011 at 3:30 pm

    Damnit!
    • t agee March 3, 2011 at 3:42 pm

      The two hits off him were by Nick Stavinho and Allen Craig. The type of players who will be back in the minor league camp in a week or two. I wonder who he actually got out
      • Brandon Butler March 3, 2011 at 3:46 pm

        Yeah, but you have to admit that by getting SOMEONE out is a start. There were times last year where he couldn’t GET ANYONE out.
      • XtreemIcon March 3, 2011 at 4:21 pm

        T Agee, he got Holliday out. He was the only starter on this split Cards squad. Everyone else was as recognizable as Nick Stavinho and Allen Craig.
        • t agee March 3, 2011 at 4:30 pm

          Wow X. I can’t believe it. I don’t think he’s gotten a RH hitting Cardinal out since Rolen and that had more to do with the long arm of deputy Chavez. I’m impressed, but then again a SS with JUST Holliday? Hmmm. Sounds like Ollie was given the easier line up of the two. Bet Duncan was there.
          • XtreemIcon March 3, 2011 at 4:41 pm

            I didn’t pay too close attention after the first few when the changes started coming. But after Holliday, the only other guy guaranteed to make the team there was the backup catcher, Laird. The next best guy was their 26th man.
      • Dennis Ribant March 3, 2011 at 4:27 pm

        Now there is obviously the worst met fan in history. The guy pitches two scoreless innings and only a true hateful, spoiteful, sick-o would be bitching and whining about some so and so got a hit. Congratulations. the people that berate you are right on the ball. It seems that you have a problems with guys on the Mets performing well. So tell what team is it that you support. i know a lot of folks don’t like Perez, but it takes a true jerk to be anry over the fact athat any Met performed well. I can see you at the ball park. Caatillo drives in a game winning run and there is agee cursing up a stoprm because he did well. Were you fired by the Met org or something?? you ertainly have a problem in your head about much too many of these guys.
        • t agee March 3, 2011 at 4:47 pm

          Well lucky for me I don’t give a s**t what you think Ribant. I was against signing all these dead asses right from the start but I still rooted for them, was happy for them when they did well, in the case of Castillo I have praised him for doing what he can and not trying to do what he can’t but I still cannot get over the thought process behind signing a 32 year old who needs knee surgery on both knees to play 2B for you for four freakin years. Especially when the success he’s had to date is entirely dependent on his legs and the idea of pairing him next to Delgado is just incomprehensibly stupid.

          Now I’m sure you think that four years wasn’t anywhere near enough for what Luis brings to the table but that’s where you and I part paths.

          As for Perez I simply pointed out who got hits off him, after all if it had been Holliday and Pujols those guys get hits off everyone. My post didn’t have even a hint of anger about it. Just a couple of facts. Something that drives some people crazy enough to attack someone verbally because they can’t be refuted.

          If you like to root for team players like Oliver you’ll soon have your chance….In Culican. Be my guest.
• Pete March 3, 2011 at 3:41 pm

  Two things harder to get rid of than herpes: Ollie P and the Wilpons.
• Metstheory22 March 3, 2011 at 4:02 pm

  You hate to root against your own players to do bad, but it’s time for someone else to play 2nd. Also for a more disserving player to take Ollies spot. The only reasons both are here is their contracts. If they were making 400k, they would have been released by last year.
  In our lifetime we will never make Ollies contract for this year let alone 3 year contract.
• francis March 3, 2011 at 4:16 pm

  Booyakasha !!!!
• JoeBourgeois March 3, 2011 at 4:19 pm

  My team’s actions MUST be dictated by my INSATIABLE RAGE.
• Des March 3, 2011 at 4:33 pm

  “Will you be rooting for Oliver Perez to implode or for him to toss three scoreless innings?”

  Without being a Pollyanna, I want every Met to have a great game every time the umpire says, “Play ball.” Yup, that’s what I want for Ollie too. Experience tells me my wish will likely be denied by the reality of competition. But if pigs could fly….
• MetsMan86 March 3, 2011 at 9:07 pm

  What did we wonder every time Ollie started: Who shows up, the good Ollie or the bad Ollie. Today the good Ollie happened to show, but unless the good Ollie stays the rest of ST, the next horrid outing spells the virtual end.
• Mr North Jersey March 3, 2011 at 11:33 pm

  “While Oliver Perez remains officially in the rotation competition, the Mets have decided internally that he will not be a starter during the regular season, sources say, and the team remains likely to release its $36 million pitcher before Opening Day.”

  http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2011/03/03/2011-03-03_mets_decide_oliver_perez_will_not_be_a_starting_pitcher_during_regular_season_ac.html
• C Dub March 4, 2011 at 6:30 am

  FIRE THE BUM.
  He is like Doctor jekyll and mister “hyde this guy on the bench.”
  Seriously they will gain so much more fan support if they release him.