The Mets were shut out Tuesday night by the Dodgers over at Citi Field, the final score Dodgers 8, Mets 0. The last time the Mets scored was on Saturday afternoon. The scoreless streak is at 18+ innings. At what point does Jerry Manuel wake up and realize his offensive strategy isn’t working? Why does Jerry continue to trot out double play machine Fernando Tatis? I know Tatis was comeback...
Read MoreAbout a month ago I broached the unpopular vision that if the Mets fell out of contention by the all-star break they should become sellers. Stop putting patches on the holes, but fill them permanently. According to another Mets site I was being “drawn and quartered,” by fellow bloggers. Anybody remember? Anyone want to get onboard with my radical, ahead of the curve thinking? Too...
Read MoreBuffalo 4, Scranton 1 cf Cory Sullivan 2 for 3, 2 runs, 2 2b, RBI, BB, .301 lf Jesus Feliciano 1 for 3, 2 RBI, .302 rf Chip Ambres 0 for 3, RBI, K, .226 dh Emil Brown 0 for 4, .273 1b Mike Lamb 1 for 2, 2 BBs, .230 3b Javier Castillo 1 for 4, 2 Ks, .280 c Rene Rivera 1 for 3, .252 ss Wilson Valdez 1 for 3, run, K, .199 2b Luis Rivera 2 for 2, run, .338 Lance Broadway 9 IP, 7 H, ER, 2/4 BB/K,...
Read MoreA thought occurred to me last night as the score reached 7-0 Dodgers—I don’t have to watch this crap if I don’t want to. Not that there’s much on TV besides baseball during the summer except horrible reality shows and re-runs, but I’d rather see anything these days besides watching our Mets get trounced and embarrassed night after night. So I reached the breaking point, and that breaking point...
Read MoreAccording to Minaya earlier today, he is “hope[ful]” that the Mets we have can stay competitive until the myth of the injured come back to rescue us and vault us into first place. The GM has hope? I watched eight innings of tonight’s game—rather foolishly as I think about it now—and I decided that hoping this team will stay competitive is akin to hoping I will earn a million bucks next year....
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