Saturday, July 09, 2005
Flat as Yesterday's Soda Can
That describes the Mets tonight. Which is predictable, after the debacle last night. I predicted a sweep in Pittsburgh after Lawton tied the game with the 'double' on Friday.
David Wright looks tired. He hasn't had a day off since May in Chicago. I'd send him home tonight and tell him to come prepared after the break. Four days off can't hurt the kid.
Cliff Floyd hit his 22nd homer in the sixth inning. Yet somehow, Jimmy Rollins (.269/7/23) is going to the All-Star Game and Cliff isn't. Cliff and Morgan Ensberg (.283/23/63) should throw a snubber party on Tuesday.
Atlanta is going to lose tonight, though. Still, we're not catching them in a million years. They're on their annual "let's win 50 of 65" streak at midsummer. It's only a matter of time before they catch Washington, probably as soon as mid-August.
Tom Seaver is saying now how the Mets made a mistake calling up Wright in July last year, because now he has no chance at winning the rookie of the year. Maybe Tom should realize baseball is a team game, and the when the Mets brought Wright up last year, he was the best player on the team from that day forward. Letting him smack the shit out of the ball at Norfolk would stunt Wright's development and hurt the Mets in the long run.
The New York Post says the Mets will consider bringing Al Leiter back next year as a commentator for the new television network. God, I hope so. Another guy I'd like to see in the booth as a color man next year is Mike Piazza, assuming he retires. Piazza has already help out John Miller and Joe Morgan on the Home Run Derby multiple times, and may again this year. Piazza/Leiter as color guys and your token Ted Robinson/Dave O'Brien multi-network hack as the play-by-play man, and you're building a solid booth. Certainly an improvment from Fran "hit Jose and get a teddy" Healy and Tom "crusty veteran" Seaver.
The Boston Red Sox lost this afternoon at Baltimore, 9-1. The game was within reach until John Halama and Scott Cassidy (who?) gave up 5 runs in 1.1 innings. Man, those poor bastards need some bullpen help. I already see Hideki Matsui smacking Alan Embree around Fenway next weekend. And Gary Sheffield teeing off on Scott Cassidy. Auto Eddie Guardado and Danys Baez could work wonders for Boston.
Speaking of the Yankees, they lost a nice ball game today to Cleveland. Darryl May (4.1 IP, 7 ER, 8 H) already has Yankee fans reminiscing about those long lost-days of Paul Quantrill. Bob Wickman made me sweat it out in the ninth, but he got A-Rod to ground out with the tying run on third to end the game.
Tommorrow's the last day of action before the Midsummer "Classic." Boston sends Wakey out there against Daniel Cabrera, the Mets deal Petey against Kip Wells, and the Empire has Randy Johnson.
For some reason some idiot is lighting fireworks right now outside. It sounds like WWIII.
Can't wait for Yankees-Sox at Fenway next week. Just can't wait. Last year, it produced this:
Can you wait? July 14-17. Don't miss it.
David Wright looks tired. He hasn't had a day off since May in Chicago. I'd send him home tonight and tell him to come prepared after the break. Four days off can't hurt the kid.
Cliff Floyd hit his 22nd homer in the sixth inning. Yet somehow, Jimmy Rollins (.269/7/23) is going to the All-Star Game and Cliff isn't. Cliff and Morgan Ensberg (.283/23/63) should throw a snubber party on Tuesday.
Atlanta is going to lose tonight, though. Still, we're not catching them in a million years. They're on their annual "let's win 50 of 65" streak at midsummer. It's only a matter of time before they catch Washington, probably as soon as mid-August.
Tom Seaver is saying now how the Mets made a mistake calling up Wright in July last year, because now he has no chance at winning the rookie of the year. Maybe Tom should realize baseball is a team game, and the when the Mets brought Wright up last year, he was the best player on the team from that day forward. Letting him smack the shit out of the ball at Norfolk would stunt Wright's development and hurt the Mets in the long run.
The New York Post says the Mets will consider bringing Al Leiter back next year as a commentator for the new television network. God, I hope so. Another guy I'd like to see in the booth as a color man next year is Mike Piazza, assuming he retires. Piazza has already help out John Miller and Joe Morgan on the Home Run Derby multiple times, and may again this year. Piazza/Leiter as color guys and your token Ted Robinson/Dave O'Brien multi-network hack as the play-by-play man, and you're building a solid booth. Certainly an improvment from Fran "hit Jose and get a teddy" Healy and Tom "crusty veteran" Seaver.
The Boston Red Sox lost this afternoon at Baltimore, 9-1. The game was within reach until John Halama and Scott Cassidy (who?) gave up 5 runs in 1.1 innings. Man, those poor bastards need some bullpen help. I already see Hideki Matsui smacking Alan Embree around Fenway next weekend. And Gary Sheffield teeing off on Scott Cassidy. Auto Eddie Guardado and Danys Baez could work wonders for Boston.
Speaking of the Yankees, they lost a nice ball game today to Cleveland. Darryl May (4.1 IP, 7 ER, 8 H) already has Yankee fans reminiscing about those long lost-days of Paul Quantrill. Bob Wickman made me sweat it out in the ninth, but he got A-Rod to ground out with the tying run on third to end the game.
Tommorrow's the last day of action before the Midsummer "Classic." Boston sends Wakey out there against Daniel Cabrera, the Mets deal Petey against Kip Wells, and the Empire has Randy Johnson.
For some reason some idiot is lighting fireworks right now outside. It sounds like WWIII.
Can't wait for Yankees-Sox at Fenway next week. Just can't wait. Last year, it produced this:
Can you wait? July 14-17. Don't miss it.
# posted by Dave @ 9:29 PM 
