Like I posted yesterday I am leaving the salt mine early today to get home for first pitch at 4PM and I will post some comments here during the game sort of a live blog if you will so this post will be short and sweet as I got to do some of the peoples business.
I was surprised to say the least that Fernando Tatis made the club over Brady Clark. I have to think this was a Willie Randolph call as Tatis was an Omar fav but Clark worked hard all spring and I feel in Willie’ mind Clark grabbing a first basemans glove and working out At the right corner position showed the kind of initiative that takes a guy from non roster to 25th man. Congrats to Brady Clark.
Mike Pelfrey gets the 5th spot in the rotation by default but he must show he deserved it or El Duque old age and bad feet will snatch the job form Big Pelf.
Joe Smith gets a reprieve as well as Dirty Duaner builds up strength.
I watched the Nat’s-Braves game last and I have some observations:
The most relieved guy in the-park was Paul LoDuca who let a Jon Rauch pitch get past him for a passed ball that allowed the tying run to score with 2 out in the 9th inning, when Ryan Zimmerman launched his game winning homer in the bot of the 9th. LoDuca ran out on the field like someone stuck him in the ass with a hot poker as Zimmerman saved him from being the goat.
The new ballpark looks great and we Mets fans can only imagine what’s in store for us next year. One of the features in Nationals Park that I hope the SkillSets pick up on is they sell upper deck seats for 5 bucks day of game. At some point you have to let real baseball fans in the park not just corporate dickheads who wave at the cameras behind home plate with their cellphones. By the way that is why we have strict gun laws in NYC as those fuckers would have picked off by now if I could carry a firearm.
Can someone at the WWL do us baseball fans a real public service and terminate the contracts of Jon Miller and Joe Morgan? These two are beyond suckitude to the point they are distraction.
Com’on 4 O’Clock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This post was written by kranepool on March 31, 2008
Okay. I’m excited now. I’ve been trying to remain low key because last year was such a let down, but can’t help myself today. I’m ready. I’ve got WFAN (mlb.com) on at the moment.
By the way I listened to the ATL vs WAS game and the Washington announcer said that it should have been a wild pitch in the 9th. I take it you don’t buy that.
One other thing: Lo Duca easily got the coolest response from the Washington fans during the pre-game.
The ball never hit the ground it went right off LoDuca’s glove all the way to the back stop that’s a big league passed ball