Oh, The Pain…

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• 86mets June 17, 2011 at 2:19 am

  Oh, we can take them alright, just as long as DJ Carrasco doesn’t rear his ugly head out of the pen again. His brain fart on the mound would’ve been perfectly fit for Jerry Manuel’s Mets, but this team is supposed to be better than that. I can handle K Rod blowing the save because at least the other guy actually HIT the baseball. At least K Rod didn’t gift wrap the game with a brain fart like Carrasco did. Just think, we’re stuck for another season of this idiot. At least he didn’t get O-Perez money, that’s a little consolation.
• jdon June 17, 2011 at 6:04 am

  Carrasco is garbage. About all you can say is that he is a step up from Thayer. But that is not reason enough to be beack in the bigs
  • jdon June 17, 2011 at 6:04 am

    be back
• alex68 June 17, 2011 at 7:12 am

  well, we fought back, we showed grit, we could’ve swept them, we still won the series, let’s take 2 out of 3 from a team that’s not playing well in the angels, and go from there..
• K Maxx June 17, 2011 at 10:18 am

  Our stay at .500 sure didnt last long. lol
  • Bayonne Mets Fan June 17, 2011 at 1:34 pm

    we may be back at .500 in about 9 hours. lol
• Russell Zanca June 17, 2011 at 10:46 am

  People get serious–the Carrasco is “garbage” stuff is overblown. Is KROD garbage, too? For my money, KROD lost the game.

  Carrasco made a common pitcher’s mistake, though it was a minor balk, and happened at exactly the wrong moment. I was as angry as the rest of you, but why not blame the loss on Duda?

  The point is, yes, players were at fault, and we lost a game that sure would have made everything better and wonderful today, but it happened, it sucks, and Carrasco or KROD or Duda can redeem themselves tonight.

  Before condemning, I advise looking for patterns of crappy play, failed performance, etc., not the occasional human error that each and every one of us is going to make (Alex, please none of your vitriol toward David!).

  Let’s Go Mets!
  • t agee June 17, 2011 at 11:07 am

    If our focus had been on acquiring the best young talent in the draft or international free agency we wouldn’t have all these guys running around making mistakes all the time. Some guys can do one or two things really well, some guys play great one one side of the ball. The truly talented player can do many things well including and especially hitting and fielding. Reyes, Wright and Ike arrived in the Majors being able to do both. Murphy, Turner, Pridie Thole, and Duda needed more development, more instruction. They need a farm system that can project and develop useful competent big leaguers who don’t have as much talent or instinct as the better players in the League.

    Are the Wilpon’s cheaping out on development staff in the minors the way they do on scouting, drafting and signing young prospects? I’m sure they are and this is inexcusable because if your going to insist that we draft and sign lessor talented amateurs then you absolutely have to make up for it with proper development otherwise whatever you do get is just cancelled out by base running, fielding and throwing blunders.
    • t agee June 17, 2011 at 2:06 pm

      bayonne needs a reading comprehension course. No where have I ever stated that if we had done something differently 20 years before would we have won last night’s game.

      I have discussed our results over the last 20 years which have all been realized with the same exact philosophy of importing expensive, aging and unproductive players here for their big payday but never, not even one single time have I stated that anything we could have done differently 20 years before could have made any difference in last night’s game.

      bayonne is perfectly happy with one division title over the last 23 years. I’m not. Kind of like the difference between Manuel tolerating poor play and Collins benching, sending down to the minors or DFA’ing unproductive players.

      Monkeyball as a philosophy has not and will never work. Small market teams like Pittsburgh, Tampa, Texas, Cinncinatti and KC are acquiring loads of talented players from the draft or IFA market. Toronto, Atlanta, Boston and the NYY have been doing this for years. That’s why those teams have combined for 28 division titles and 10 world Championships in the last two decades while we have one and none.

      Hell even the Pirates have more NL Eastern Division Titles than we do over the last 23 years and they haven’t even even been in the NL East for the last eighteen years and we accomplished those results with the largest payroll in the entire League.

      If your happy with those results that’s your business but almost every Met Fan would like someday to see a stretch of 8 playoff appearances 5 NL East titles and two or 3 World Series Championships over the course of a decade.

      Clearly your happy with the status quo but everyone else is pissed off and looking for real results. Not the next aging underperforming dinosauer we can lavish wheelbarrows full of cash on.
  • Bayonne Mets Fan June 17, 2011 at 1:35 pm

    Don’t you see Russell?

    agee says if we done something differently 20 years ago we would have won last night.

    Don’t know about you guys but i’m REALLY getting SICK and TIRED of agee’s Parade of 100 Names’ posts. It’s becoming old already.
• Alex in CT June 17, 2011 at 11:57 am

  My biggest fear is that we dont trade Beltran, KRod or Reyes at the deadline because of some false sense that we are a playoff contender and then they all walk away at the end of the season leaving us nothing.