Big Pelf pitched pretty good last night, as Randy Jackson would say “Yo, Yo It was all right dawg, couple of pitch problems but better than last week, you can do better dawg”. I have to confess I didn’t see much of this game as I was at a coaches meeting for the up coming Little League season.
The meeting took a couple of hours due to Little Leagues insistance in making it tougher and tougher for coaches to develop kids into pitchers. They have instituted pitch counts which are fine because some coaches do tend to forget that these are kids whose bodies are still developing and although some of them are built like Bruce Dal Canton they are not work horses but the amount of rest we have to give these kid pitchers is ridiculous. If an eleven year old pitches 61-8 5 pitches (the maximum allowed for his age) he must not pitch for three calendar days and after those three days he must skip the next game played. My problem is with skipping that one game. A kid could pitch on Monday, rest Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and then say the next game is Sunday, he still can’t pitch. Now say after that Sunday game you do not play again until Wednesday that means after tossing say the max 85 pitches he now is off eight days.
No wonder these youth leagues can’t find guys to coach, you get so bogged down in paper work you don’t have time to enjoy being on the field. I have to keep track of pitch counts and days for rest and try to put together a rotation of kids who can actually throw a baseball over the plate. Yesterday, my coaches couldn’t make it to practice so I ran it by myself. I spilt the team in two and played a game where I pitched to both teams. It was the most fun the kids have had since I took over this team. Sometime all the drills and instruction and motivation have to pushed to the side and just let the kids be kids and enjoy themselves and the game.
Sorry about that rant; back to the Mets. I looked at the breakdown of Pelfrey’s night and the most encouraging thing was his ground ball to fly ball outs. Pelf recorded ten ground ball outs and two fly ball outs so it shows that he kept the ball down –Pound the
I wonder sometimes if Professor Rick gets a bit too cerebral with the pitching staff. Maybe he needs to be a little more like Roger Craig and take a “Humm-Baby” approach.
Willie needs to channel his inner Bill Martin and put an end to these questions about the Phillies being in the heads of his team. His quotes sure don’t help:
“They’ve been very fortunate, and we’ve given them opportunities – and that’s the way the game goes…You know, the games that we lost, the ones you guys are talking about, the eight or nine in a row, those games could have gone either way and at least four or five them we could have won. Fortunate bloops, little bouncers, rollers, an umpires call, all those things come in to play. So, you know, we’ve never felt there is any dominance against us. They won some games and that happens in baseball – where you’re gonna lose some games they should win and vice-a-versa…
“There’s nothing in our heads that they’re better than we are, that they’re in our heads or that kind of crap – that’s baseball
“Do you guys ever get tired of asking the same questions? Tell we right now, do you want to talk about last night game or today’s or a game that six or seven months ago?” Then as soon as one of these ass hats ask you about the teams troubles with the Phillies and last year and yada, yada,, yada you get up from the table and leave. Even the media dim wits would take the hint. Only you Willie can end this line of bullshit questioning.
By the way a tip of the Blue Mets cap to Metsblog for the quotes.
IS THERE ANYONE (MATHEMATICALLY ALIVE) OUT THERE
Kathy Foronjy and Joseph Colburn of the fabulous documentary on Mets fans Mathematically Alive have announced four more screenings of the movie in the tri state area they are as follows:
I will be attending this one so come on down and hello.
See the Mathematically Alive web site for more details
Queens Museum of Art May 10th at 5:00PM the museum is located on
New Filmmakers at Anthology Film Archives May 14th at 2:00PM 32 2 Ave at
Check out one of the screenings as their are always a lot of our fellow Mets fans at these events and it cheapers than therapy.
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This post was written by kranepool on April 10, 2008
Any chance Maine might mix up his pitches tonight and not throw almost exclusively fastballs? Any chance of winning a series from these fuckers in almost a year? Any chance we can get more than 5 hits off a scrub pitcher? Any chance the real Mets will show up tonight?
Maine’s first game this season was unbearable for me to watch. All fastballs and no location whatsoever. I hope his spring training hangover is over and he pitches well tonight. I swear to God, if Adam fuckin Eaton beats us tonight, I will not watch another Mets game until May because that will be a disgrace to this club if he does. Eaton is batting practice fodder.
As you all can see, last nights win has not made me happy. Why? you know why. Five hits. All of our runs came because they gave them to us with walks and errors. We did NOT earn that win, nope. They need to get their heads out of their asses and get some friggin pride!