Thu 1 May 2008
So here we are at the beginning of May and Willie’s Guys are two games better than mediocre which is what they were for the bulk of the 2007 season so nothing much has changed. It’s easy to kill Ollie Perez for yesterday’s debacle and from the roar of Billy Wags it seems his teammates are losing patients with his attention deficit disorder (as Wags states in the paper today the difference between talking to Ollie and a wall is the wall understands what you’re saying)
As bad as Ollie was 9 of the 13 runs the Pirates scored were UNEARNED as the defense went in to brain fart mode. Some of that I will attribute to playing behind a guy who can’t find the strike zone as fielders tend to go back on their heels when it’s ball after ball after ball but from the get go the whole team just looked like the last place they wanted to be yesterday at 1PM was at Shea Stadium.
Now it’s on to Arizona and I have a very bad feeling about the next three games in Phoenix (as does Billy Wags who is getting more and more frustrated and said in the paper that the Mets “don’t match up” with the D’Backs.) The ship may not be sinking but it sure looks to be taking on water.
After the D’Backs the Mets go to LA where the Dodgers are starting to get it together so in the next six games what do you think the Mets record will be in those games? Put me down for 2-4 as little by little Willie Randolph is losing this team.
I’m sure Nelson Figueroa’ stature sky rocketed yesterday in the Mets clubhouse as he strapped it on for the team going 3 innings after pitching just two days ago. You would think Ollie would learn a lesson form Figgy but from what your hearing out the Mets clubhouse teaching Perez anything is a lost cause.
I felt Randolph should have gone with Aaron Heillman after Figgy yesterday instead of using Sosa and Feliciano not only to give Heilman the opportunity to work out his problems but to stretch out his arm so he could move to more of a longer relief roll.
I guess it was time for my American Idol crush, Brooke White to go as she has not finished strong by missing lyrics and singing some awful songs (by the way this has been one lousy season of AI Dolly Patron, Andrew Lloyd Weber, and even Brooklyn’s own Neil Diamond were dreadful how about a Pantera or Uriah Heep night ?) but how does that little girly boy Jason Castro survive each week?)
May 1st, 2008 at 10:24 am
What is really amazing is that Nelson Figueroa threw 98 pitches on Sunday and came back with 61 more after just two days rest on Wednesday! Is that a record: 159 pitches over a span of 3 consecutive baseball games? Elias usually keeps those kind of records.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:59 pm
I cannot believe a guy that pitches one inning at a time and actually complains when he’s not used in stereotypical save situations continually pops off about everyone around him.
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:36 am
But Wags makes some sense (and I’m not his biggest fan. The effort Wednesday was appalling. Who cares is you lose, hell, you’re going to lost at least 62 anyway. But, lack of effort (like Carlos D. not bending down) or preceived lack of effort is what gets the fans’ goat. My friends, there are times I feel like it is the last 2 weeks of Sept. 2007.
Then they want to know why fans boo…
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:54 am
Herman,
I was at a game in the Bronx in August 1977 where Nolan Ryan threw 180 pitches in 11 innings (and got the win in thanks to a 12th inning HR). Here’s an article about pitchers that references a game in 1974 where Ryan threw 235 pitches.
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:07 am
I think it would be a good idea to trade Perez now. I think he’s very fragile mentally and the pressure he’s put on himself by opting to NOT resign and let this be his ‘walk year’ and what the crowd will do if he has too many of those outings will finish him as a decent starter long before September.