Mets

[Westheim]

Originally Posted by Westheim

Blackbum brought back after 90 minutes under the tarp.

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Axe

(buries face in paws)

(despaired whine)

[Déjà Bru]

I just saw: Brazoban has issued 10 walks in his last 4 IP. Two of which just came in to score, sealing your fate.

I also saw, I think (it disappeared quickly), the Mets have used 32 different pitchers this season? This guy Cuddly Pooch is the 32nd? That is impressive!

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

I now switch to Mets at Pirates. I hope to gain some solace.

And I did! The Mets scored two more runs than the Yankees today!

[Amazin69]

Bad ideas on Parade, one after another.

• Why had the Pirates not retired Parker's #39? If a man makes the Hall of Fame and will be memorialized with your cap on his plaque, you retire his number. Period. (The Mets even have #8 in unofficial retirement, even though Yogi Berra is in the Hall as a Yankee, and Gary Carter is in as an Expo [against his wishes, btw].)

Even if you hadn't done it before now, when he was elected in the winter, that's when you schedule the retirement ceremony. What, were you waiting for him to die or something? Sheesh.

* Pirates bringing the infield in during a scoreless game in the first inning. "A very silly idea", Ronnie called it, adding that he'd say the same thing if the Mets did it.

• Mendoza keeping Blackburn in the game after the rain delay. Um, Carlos, you know that pitchers can stiffen up after a long turn at bat, right? The rain delay was considerably longer.

Also, it's Paul Blackburn out there, not Tom Seaver. Going against common sense to keep Blackburn, of all ham'n'eggers out there, is ridiculous.

(The three runs the Bucs got off of Blackburn were all it took to win the game, relief follies notwithstanding.)

• Brazoban

• Poche. I don't know his first name. I don't know how to pronounce his surname. I don't know if he'd ever pitched in MLB before. I didn't know he was on the team.

And I don't want to know. Throw him back. How can we have used 32 pitchers if we only have a 40-man roster? Clearly we have had to cut or waive other pitchers to make room for the current crop.

Given that whomever we ditched to bring up Poche is almost certainly a better pitcher than Po-shay is, it appears that somebody really screwed the Pooch on this one.

So the Mutts, having gone 13-3 against joke teams (and also the Dodgers) before this recent disaster, have now gone 3-12 once we had to play real teams (and also, Pittsburgh). Well, that's one way to piss it all away. I mean, a better June than Mickey Callaway ever saw, but come on, now.

[Westheim]

At this point I just accept that I will never get to squeal about a championship again. Ever. Anywhere.

My last squealworthy championships:

F1 - 2013 (Sebastian Vettel)
Soccerball - 2004 (Bremen)
NASCAR - 2001 (Jeff Gordon)
MLB - never

It will just be like (points upwards) THIS ... until the day I die.

[Déjà Bru]

Mets hold players-only meeting as miserable June slump continues: 'Mistakes all over the field'

The Mets have lost 12 of their last 15 games and fallen out of first place in the NL East

I am not piling on; I wish the Yankees would hold their own meeting, then spend some extra time in the batting cage.

[Westheim]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

Mets hold players-only meeting as miserable June slump continues: 'Mistakes all over the field'

The Mets have lost 12 of their last 15 games and fallen out of first place in the NL East

I am not piling on; I wish the Yankees would hold their own meeting, then spend some extra time in the batting cage.

NYM 0, PIT 5 - end 1st

I don't think it worked.

[Westheim]

9-1, 9-2, 12-1. The Pirates sweep the Mets by a total score of 30-4, which is the biggest run differential the Mets have ever been swept for in a 3-game series.

EVER.

*********.

I keep going back to the Raccoons recently, but the Raccoons were once swept out of a World Series by the Gold Sox, 42-7. It was fugly.

But that was against the other league's pennant winner. Not against A ******* LAST PLACE TEAM WITH THE WORST OFFENSE IN THE LEAGUE.

Collossal ********.

I just checked the schedule and they're off on Monday and then all night games until a scheduled beating by the Stinkees on Friday afternoon.

GOOD.

[Amazin69]

Maybe the Mets should stop meeting. (On the field, as well.)

The 26-run cumulative margin was NOT a Pirates club record; however, Greg Brown informed us that it is the first time the Pirates have swept a 3-game series with no game closer than a 7-run margin since they did it to the Phillies in May of 1935.

Apparently, that was the Frankie MontAAAs that Syracuse fans got to see recently. (And in the near-future as well, perhaps.)

Also, going off of his performance so far, perhaps Dicky Lovelady should consider trying homosexuality? Gaylord Perry won 300 games, after all. Even Mel Queen pitched better than this.

[/crude humor, obviously]

[Westheim]

Comprehensive list of Mets hits in the opener of today's twin bill after two days of suspended animation:

Luis Torrens singled in the 3rd, sending McNeil squirreling to third base
Peeeete singled in the 4th, driving in Soto

The Brewers answered with three homers, a Joey Ortiz slam included, and drew a gazillion walks from the random tossers the Mets ran out there to get beaten senseless.

Of the last 19 Mets hitters, ONE reached base. And that was Pete getting nicked with a pitch once again.

[Amazin69]

Isaac Collins (aka WHO??????): 4 hits, 2 XBH
Billion Dollar Babies: 2 bingles

Clay Holmes grinds through 5 innings, helped by Gold Glove Mark Vientos ("GG Swaggy V"? Like "LL Cool J"??) and leaves with a lead. Shawn Reed-Garrett fixes that, right away. I'm ready for #75 to take I-80 and I-81, right up to the 315, until he gets 86'd off the 40.

Mets are now sub-.500 for the "easy schedule" that began with White Sux, Rox, Dodgers (whom we should have swept), Rox Redux and Gnats. Our subsequent failures (Rays, Braves, Phils, Danny Graves, Bucs, Brew) have brought us to 16-17 over this extended stretch, 48-38 overall.

Keeping track of my bowel movements is more exciting. I'm almost not joking.

[Amazin69]

Meanwhile, when we were being washed away yesterday, Jacob de Grom faced the Orioles for a second straight game. Jake no-hit the O's for 7 innings in Baltimore last week, but the Birds were having none of that this time!

6 IP, 5 H, 2 ER. Jake is now 9-2, 2.13, 0.89 WHIP, has gone 14 starts w/o allowing 3 ER, may start the ASG, and is a good candidate for the Cy Young that Kennedi Whosis predicted for him in Spring Training.

All together, now: "**** YOU, EPPLER!!!"

[Amazin69]

Mets take Game 2, benefitting from Milwaukee being unable to corral The Catcher [Near] the Rye's tiny squirt, which loaded the bases for Nimmo's blast. Of course, Mr. Pointy had to overcome the Six Most Common Words In English to come through, so points (pun) to Brandon for that.

It was a bit disappointing that Tiddles couldn't quite finish five innings, but he battled well enough, I suppose. Ded-arm was useless out of the pen, but the others, even Boom-Boom, picked him up.

At least Blade got the W, as he was technically a reliever and thus exempt from the 5 IP requirement, due to Mendoza deploying Brazoban as an "opener".



Don't bring that **** around here, Mendoza. Idgaf if it worked this one time. Say what you will about Schmuck Bowalter (and I said a lot, despite completely boycotting 2023), at least he never used an "opener" or had a "bullpen game".

(Thankfully, both of those seem to be diminishing after threatening to overtake the game, but there's no call to backslide.)

[Amazin69]

Awards!

Always good to see a Met win Player of the Month…but I think Mr. 765 should throw that back. It's nice that Soto padded his stats against the joke teams early, but we finished 3-13 to end the month. No plaques for that, IMO.

OTOH, nice to see Frankie finally get an All-Star nod in his 5th year at Corrupt Bank Field. I'm sure he'll enjoy taking part in the ceremonies alongside his fellow All-Starters, such as…as…Pete Crow-Armstrong. (Sigh.)

I mean, we did get an All-Star back in the trade, even if Javy has to be the most egregious case of ballot-box stuffing since the 1957 Reds. (Look it up.)

Yeah, yeah, a few good months, but you can't tell me you can't find anybody better suited for the honor than the guy who entered this season with career negative WaR. Come on, now.

[Westheim]

The rubber game with the Brewers constantly teetered on getting away, which would have left the various plunger stories as the best bit about them. Instead we got Yelich caught stealing on appeal in the ninth and two strikeouts from Boom-Boom Diaz to staple down a flimsy 3-2 win. But if you can't win convincingly, win flimsily!

[Déjà Bru]

You may have noticed (you did, didn't you? ) that I have said nothing about this current Subway Series. It's a reflection of two things:

1. My desire to move toward pan-sports (pan as in "all", not "trash") and away from parochial rooting. (You guys stick to that, please.) This would help with,
2. the fact that the Yankees stink. The Giants and Jets stink. I cannot give a rodent's rear end about the Rangers and Islanders. I cannot get into the Nets even though I actually share an island with them. And the Knicks just fired their head coach even though he produced their best season in 25 years, completely spoiling everything. (I am drawn to the Liberty, but I aim to kibosh that in favor of the WNBA as a whole.) As for the NYCFC (I hope Boomcoach does not read this), watching soccer to me is like watching paint dry.

Heh, as usual, my typing 2. made me feel better and added impetus to be pan-sports. I am watching today's Yankees-Mets game for the baseball and nothing better is on right now. Sniff.

[Amazin69]

Giminy!! They could have mentioned this was a day game! Now I get 2 innings plus one out, maybe.

Okay, so Westheim did say he got THREE games this weekend and he doesn't stay up for the night games because of time difference, right. I'm just thick. Sigh.

At least I tuned in just in time to see Squirrel send one to the upper tank. And perhaps it's for the best I missed FOUR Mets gopher balls from our "pitching".

[Déjà Bru]

So, who won? I haven't the foggiest because the ladies called "Dinnertime" right after McNeil hit his go-ahead home run. Franks, beans, sauerkraut, potato salad, in honor of July 4th. They didn't have to call me twice.

Maybe I will check with CBS Sports for the final score. If I think of it. Whatever. I enjoyed the baseball, though. ()

[Westheim]

I always have three on the weekend, unless ESPN defrauds me of Sunday, since I'll watch night games out of the archive anyway

If it is any consolation to you, I fell a-zzz just before McNeil cranked one to Connecticut for the W.

Oh well, I'll now fill this cap of sleep to the brim, and then I can still rewatch the last couple of innings in the morning. Like a champ, or whatever.

[Amazin69]

So we watched the whole game between us, is that what you're saying?

We've got the teamwork that makes the dream work, let's do it, Let's Go Mets!