Thank God I didn’t see last night’s game live. I spent the night at Key Span Park (over 9,000 fans packed Coney Island last night) to see the Cyclones sweep the Hudson Valley Renegades in a double header. But thanks to my son and his new phone, we kept track of this game on Gameday. So much for modern technology. A few issues with this game so let’s take them one by one shall we:

·         Some day they will a manager who will possess a pair of balls big enough to tell his closer he couldn’t  give two shits about saves and save situations. Willie Randolph is not that manager.  I want to kill Willie for lifting Heilman after 1/3 IP with Marlon Anderson as a pinch hitter with 2 out but in that band box of a ballpark Anderson is Dave Kingman and could pop one out. My problem is with the bottom of the 9^th. Two of the three hitters due up for the Phillies, Jimmy Rollins and the very dangerous Chase Utley, can end the game with one pitch. In that spot I want the best pitcher I have left in the pen and that’s Dead Arm Wagner. If I’m going down, I’m going down with my best. If Willie’ excuse is it’s not a save situation I call out a big loud BULLSHIT on that. So of course Willie goes with just about the last option available and that’s Guierllmo Mota.  Amazingly, the Mets got a 1-2-3 inning out of Mota. At that time Willie should have blessed himself and said Thank you Jesus and gotten Dead Arm ready to face Ryan Howard in the 10^th. The matchup has everything you want, lefty vs. lefty, your best against their best , seems easy to me right? Not to Willie, he stays with the human land mine Mota and well you know the rest.  As good as I thought Randolph operated as a manager last year, this year he has been poor.

·         When I watched Mets FastFoward, it seemed to me on Delgado’s HR ¾ of the fans were Mets fans as it sounded like Shea when the ball sailed over the RF fence.

·         Bye-bye Brian Lawrence. Hello Endy Chavez . Word is Mike Pelfrey will get the start on Saturday that was to be Lawrence’s and then that would but the next go around in the rotation a spot for Petey. That would move Pelfrey to the pen, a move that should have been made a month ago and if any one is awake in the Mets front office they would add Willie Collazo,  Carlos Muniz and Phil Humber to the staff as well. Let Mota play catch with Tom Nieto until the end of September then de-activate him.

·         I don’t care how far he hit that HR; Delgado still looks like shit at the plate.

·         I can’t take Jose Reyes seriously as an MVP candidate until he stops hitting the ball in the air and taking plays off in the field.

·         J.D Durbin and Adam Eaton shut down the Mets offense so if the Mets do get to the post season just think about what Brandon Webb and Jake Peavy will do to them.

·         Sorry if I sound bummed out but until the Mets show they can beat the Phillies and the Braves I can’t take Mets seriously going deep in the  post season