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Santana Officially a Met with Loss
Welcome to the NY Mets Johan, you may now consider yourself fully initiated! We’ve got a big money line-up with lots of speed and lots of power but just don’t expect us to actually score any runs for you.
Because all too often we won’t
Get used to it Johan, such is life with the New York Mets. You’ll gut out a killer game like you just did - dominating without your best stuff, flashing some gold glove leather and even dropping in a bloop double but you’ll still get tagged with the L because the bats will fall silent.
It’s typical Mets.
And if the lack of offense wasn’t frustrating enough for Johan, the only run he allowed was the result of poor judgment by Angel Pagan on a very catchable ball.
I’ll give Pagan the benefit of the doubt considering Gary said there was a lot of glare from an overcast day – but Pagan, unlike Alou, is athletic enough to make that play and should.
BMF doesn’t even mind getting shut down by Smoltz – he’s Smotlz - but he was gone after 5 and the Mets still couldn’t manage any offense off Blaine Boyer, Wil Ohman, or Peter Moylan. We finally scratched out a run in the 9th off Raphael Soriano but too little too late.
So even though it was just a 2 game series we got swept by the Braves in Atlanta – AGAIN!
Grrrrrrrrrrrr
I suppose the only silver lining would be that bum Glavine didn’t beat us. Man alive, do I want to obliterate him at Shea… but I digress.
The other good news from Sunday’s loss had to be Johan Santana’s defensive prowess. Dude is like a Latin Ninja out there!
Holy crap – I knew Santana could pitch, and word was he could hit a little too but even though I knew he’d won a gold glove I had NO IDEA he was so slick wit the leather!
He’s like another infielder. I know in theory the pitcher is supposed to be another fielder but Johan actually is. Diving, leaping, kicking - anything to field balls. It’s gonna be a pleasure all season to watch Santana wrestle the NL Gold Glove out of Greg Maddux’s iron clad grip!
Personally I can’t kill young David for not covering 3rd on that sac bunt. Wright’s probably never played with a pitcher who can field his position like Santana. I’m guessing we’ll see Wright adjust to Johan’s range and by year’s end they’ll nail a guy at third.
Quick Hits:
• BMF is not a fan of the Braves red uni’s. I admit that I’m prejudiced against anything Brave but the red jerseys really irk me.
• Wassup with the orange body/yellow collar golf shirt Keith wore on SNY Sunday?? The bizarre shirt wasn’t so bad in itself but he wore it under a suit jacket complete with a flag lapel pin. He looked like he a guy who showed up under dressed to a formal restaurant so they threw a house jacket on him.
• I gave Delgado props for his great base running play on Saturday so I gotta kill him on getting doubled off first after Kotsay’s nice catch in center. Sorry ‘LosD ya gotta get a better read on those plays that happen in front of you.
• Fantastic play by David Wright who snared an unbelievably hot shot and gunned the runner out at 1st. Does anyone else feel like young David has raised his defensive game after his gold glove?
• MET FANS UNITE!!!!!!
We MUST SLAY the “Sweet Caroline” Dragon that somehow snuck into Shea.
In case you haven’t heard the Mets are holding an on-line poll for the new 7th inning sing-a-long. I’m not sure when it was decreed that there must be a 7th inning sing-a-long but I guess that’s the trend these days.
Personally BMF sez “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” is the only choice but next to that ANYTHING aside from ripping off the Red Sox shtick “Sweet Caroline”
Go HEREto vote.
HURRY voting ends at NOON!
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April 7th, 2008 at 6:43 am
Indeed a tough loss to swallow.
A few plays make a huge difference.
I wish I could know what was going on in Beltran’s head while watching strike 3 in the 9th.
Brought back memories of game 7 against the Cards. And this time it wasn’t a nasty curve - looked like a fastball down the middle of the plate.
Unfortunately, since I am watching games on MLB.TV online, I’m stuck with the home broadcast. Those Braves announcers are annoying as hell. I can’t even count the number of times they mentioned that with all due respect to D. Wright - the gold glove should belong to Mr. Larry Wayne Jones (of course they just said Chipper).
April 7th, 2008 at 7:47 am
Vote today. It’s Take Me Out to the Ballgame or nothing.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Was there ever an off season? Is it still September 2007?
April 7th, 2008 at 8:26 am
No, it’s not september, it’s April, i know because if it was september, we swept the Braves at Atlanta last time we went there last year… i think so… i don’t know , i’m confused now, What day is tomorrow ?????
April 7th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Can someone explain to me why Delgado watched five pitches in the first inning and struck out looking with two men on? Come on Carlos this is John Smotltz he’s going to thorw a strike in five pitches. It’s almost time to start ripping this guy on a regular basis again.
Hey Lip - those two games looked like September of 1980.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Good job on the Mets Weekly spot BMF!
On the song, I think it’s the dumb 8th inning sing-along they want to change, not “Take Me Out…”, which should never be changed. Sweet Caroline needs to go, but if the Rick Astley song gets picked I might need to start leaving games early.
Braves suck, sweeps suck, let’s hope they can stop the “slide”.
April 7th, 2008 at 9:15 am
I live in Boston and had to watch the game on MLB Extra Innings. I had Braves announcers, which was awful. The best thing was though they were complaining how DW won the Gold Glove over Chipper, as if that was even an option. Just as they were done talking about DW made a diving catch. We didn’t hear them talk about it the rest of the day.
I hate the Braves.
April 7th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Ha - THAT is funny, JJ! That’s the only thing I’ve laughed about in days.
Why do I see us losing the PHI series at home.
Maybe Johan will win a Cy Young on the last place Mets. He’ll have a sub 2 ERA, 220 innings, 265 K’s, held batters to a .180 average, a gold glove and a losing record.
I’m not surprised. The offense is broken. Church may need to hit cleanup. He’s got a decent arm, doesn;t play the best RF; BUT he’s hitting the ball.
I’m sorry- I just have a bad feeling about the Phillies coming to town. These teams want to beat the Mets. Let’s Go Pelf. You’ll need a perfect game. Even 9 perfect innings won’t necessarily do it for you becasue the bullpen may blow it. Not like you’ll get any run support. Beltran tacked on the digits last Tuesday in the trouncing. He’s entitled to skate for 3 weeks now. The union says he gets 1 sore quad after 5 games.
April 7th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Beltran - looking for breaking stuff all the way while the fastballs kill him - great stuff - not
April 7th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Another problem is the guy in the dugout continues to make questionable (at best) decisions that could be costing us games. He is not “growing into the job” whatsoever. Look for the natives to be very restless come july if this team is 51-49.
April 7th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
I think the natives will be restless at 25-24, by July things may resemble Little Big Horn and the Mets could be able to save some money on the demolition of Shea.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
and the winner is…rick astley!
April 7th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
My guess is that the Mets decided at some point to do their marketing in-house. It’s the only logical reason as to why their image is forever absurd.
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