Comments on: New York Mess, Bullpen Still Useless, Mets Lose 6-3

By: jdon

jdon — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 16:04:14 +0000

It wasn’t pretty, but Izzy did his job. I don’t consider it a breakdown by the bullpen, per se. Just K-Rod. We have seen this before. He has these lapses. A first row homer and then he implodes. What kills me is the shortest distance to a fence at Citi is that rightfield corner, yet the visitors take advantage of it far more than our hometowners do. There is just something screwy going on around here with these mets,to paraphrase Elmer Fudd.

By: XtreemIcon

XtreemIcon — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:23:14 +0000

Sure, if you want to talk about salary. I was comparing performance.

By: t agee

t agee — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:21:41 +0000

Kimbrel is doing it for 415K, K-Rod 12 M. Kimbrel cost a 3rd round draft pick, K-Rod a first rounder, The Braves will have Kimbrel for another 5 years if THEY want, we’ll have K-Rod for another year if HE finishes 55 games, at 17 Million dollars.

Like it or not K-Rod’s salary is taking away from our current team and the draft pick he cost us is potentially taking away from future teams.

When you weigh out ALL of the implications K-Rod would have to be perfect, just to be even.

By: XtreemIcon

XtreemIcon — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:18:11 +0000

By the way, these numbers are as of today, after Kimbrel’s good inning and K-Rod’s horrible one. If we had this discussion 24 hours ago, K-Rod likely has a marked advantage in a lot of numbers.

By: XtreemIcon

XtreemIcon — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:08:23 +0000

Russ, I’m not sure what you mean there. Kimbrel has pitched one more inning than K-Rod, they’ve given up the same exact number of earned runs (Kimbrel has given up an unearned run), K-Rod has walked one more batter, Kimbrel has blown four saves and K-Rod has blown one (first opportunity of the season, right?), they’ve each thrown the same number of wild pitches. Kimbrel is much more of a strikeout pitcher, yes, but K-Rod’s 9.00 K/9 isn’t exactly hurting, either.

By: rzanca

rzanca — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:55:34 +0000

Kroc not the equal of Bravos closer. Now he’s blown two.
What is this rumor that he was pitching through
A lot of pain last night?

By: Metfan Lou

Metfan Lou — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:43:59 +0000

Thank you for your insight. Now let me see, according to my statistics:

Bad luck: 20
Good Luck: 1

that bad luck will get you every time!

By: XtreemIcon

XtreemIcon — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:25:18 +0000

Maybe I’m an optimist, but I don’t necessarily lump this loss in with the rest as a “bullpen fail” even though it technically was.

An error by a normally very good shortstop and a blown up inning by an elite closer. Things like that will happen. I’d just say it was bad luck it happened in the same game on inning apart.

I mean, if it was Beato who blew up in the ninth, you can say “same ol’, same ol’” but Rodriguez has been nothing short of fantastic all year and you can’t really blame him for an occasional bad outing. He just picked the wrong time.

I think the bigger problem is that the Mets have only scored more than four runs in four of their last seventeen games.

By: Metfan Lou

Metfan Lou — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:53:38 +0000

So depressing that i hope there isn’t a mass suicide in the stands. You have to be crazy to buy a ticket to see rookie league baseball at Citi Field so the fans are haLfway there.
the METS have truly hit bottom!

By: Metfan Lou

Metfan Lou — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:06:27 +0000

I truly feel sorry for Terry Collins. There isn’t enough Jack Daniels in the world that could get me through what he must be experiencing. Mr. Einhorn you just got suckered oiut of 200 Mil!

By: jdon

jdon — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 09:42:44 +0000

I meant to say relax with a lead, or lie down whenever misfortune strikes. In any event, it is a sign of a team with a rotten core.

By: jdon

jdon — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 09:41:32 +0000

the booth finally mentioned something that has been apparent for years. The mets lineup, even when fully healthy, seems to have trouble with the bullpens of other teams, good or bad. Some people would say they have a tendency to lie down with a lead, or whenever misfortune strikes. There is certainly nothing scientific about it.

By: Midwestern Met

Midwestern Met — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 03:56:54 +0000

Someone find the freakin’ reset button on this season!

Same old story for the Mets: great start wiped out by late-inning collapse. Read all about the latest debacle: http://tiny.cc/912ry

By: Caryn

Caryn — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 02:45:01 +0000

Niese deserved a win. The team let him down.

By: rzanca

rzanca — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 02:25:34 +0000

Must be at least the tenth time this scenario has played out this season. WTF?!
Bay just sucks so royally. Were it my $, I’d dump Bay at ASB, and convert Turner to
LF.
Why would you IW McCann, to pitch to red hot Freeman?!
So f-ing DEPRESSING!