The Mets DFA’d Garrett Olson Saturday to make room for SP Johan Santana. This created another scenario in which
the Mets have only one lefty coming out of the pen (Josh
Edgin). Is this really happening again? They did this to Jesus Feliciano, pitched his arm off, but got lucky
when it became the Yankees problem. Then came Tim
Byrdak this year, totally overpitched throughout the first half of the
season and now looks to permanently be left on the shelf. There’s no reason to
do this to one of the Mets future stars. All you have to do is release Ramon Ramirez (who cares about the money) and bring up
Robert Carson to spell Edgin. Carson has the
gonzongas to handle the promotion and just might develop into a viable option
in 2013. The team is 138 games down in the loss column and nothing should be
executing to screw up the immediate future of this team. Terry, please, talk to
Sandy here.
Speaking of gonzangas, only the
Yankees have the balls to pull off a signing like this. Barry Zito told me once that ‘the only New York road to the World
Series comes through the Bronx’ and he was right. These are the kind of moves
that make champions and Lowe is smart as hell to become part of a team that has
a good chance of going all the way, regardless of how choppy they are playing
right now. I used to root for the Mets and, boy, do I miss a team that has
money in their checking account. Can you imagine if the Mets signed, oh, let’s
say, Michael Bourn, Mike
Napoli, and Cliff Lee in the off-season.
How much easier would it be to win games with this team? Can you imagine how
many people would fill the stands if the Mets won 100 games in 2013. Should I care what it cost the Wilpons to get
there? It never bothered George and the Yankees have the flags to prove it. The
Mets? Two flags in 50 years.
Fred Wilpon was asked by Dave Lennon about the David Wright situation and Tampon shot back “ask
Sandy.” Here we go again. (this portion was written before yesterday's post) More jicky-jacky bullshit about the heart and soul of
your team. I assume most of you that read this are Mets fans. Let me tell you
something. You’ve got one more year to enjoy David before he takes his talents
to a team he has a chance of winning something with. Jose
Reyes did, Wright will, so will RA Dickey, and anyone else that has a brain in their
head. And just how much longer do you think Sandy and Depo are going to stick
around for this shit? No, they too will be gone, probably in the off-season. Nobody
wants to play for this owner. I take that back. Jon
Niese must want to. The bottom line is the team you root for is owned by
someone that makes the train guy on ‘Hell On Wheels’ look like the Owner of the
Year. He doesn’t care folks. The Mets are his personal little sand box and you
are the idiots that support everything he does and doesn’t do by going to the
games, buying all the shit they sell, and paying SNY a subscription fee. Me? I
don’t give him anything. I write about this team and stopped rooting for it as
soon as I found out things about the Wilpons I should never have known. There
will be a day the league (or the Teamsters) steps in and removes this guy, but
until then, you will have to get used to small market baseball in a big town.
This isn’t even Moneyball.
Wheeler tossed five no-hit innings in
his second AAA start on Saturday. It will be interesting to watch how Sandy
Alderson, Terry Collins, and Freddy Freeloader calls this one. I’m sure he has
a bad outing coming up before the season ends, maybe two, but the Mets will
leave Buffalo (for the last time) knowing they have something special in
Wheeler. I wouldn’t assign him to a winter assignment… I take that back… I’d
assign him to two, maybe three starts in Arizona, and then I’d tell him to go
play on Twitter until the January camp opens up. I’m get him the nicest condo
in St. Lucie, where all the good lookin’ girls live, and tell him to hide out
at the 4pm senior dinner buffets that line the main drags there. I’d ban him from
Duffy’s and ask him to wear a hoodie if he wants to go to the movie theatre
near the batting cage (no, don’t hit anything!). I have no problem with him
going to the beach but stay the hell out of the riptides. Yeah, I’d make him
feel special but I wouldn’t have him host an autograph party at some local
sports equipment store (the one Teddy and all the guys used to pawn their old
equipment at). Opening day? Too early to say, but probably Rochester.
Do we give this guy another shot? And
how far do we go with him. We never accredited his bust to his talent. This was
always Mets coaches screwing with his mechanics, something they don’t do now
with pitchers like Zack Wheeler. Does anyone
really care if these guys need a chiropractor six years from now? I just want
five great years for all of them. Holt has good stats in AA this season, except
for walks, which has always been his problem (31-G, 39.1-IP, 2-1, 3.20, 1.63,
35-K, 27-BB, only 1-HR). We’re the ball thrown just off the zone? Did he get
bad calls from the umps? I’ll tell what they were… there were four pitches that
should have wound up somewhere else. Batters get the book on you pretty early
at this leave and, if your sink is too sinky, they’ll wait it out and let you
give them first base (emphasis on OBP in that level). Holt had a peek at AAA,
but that didn’t last long or fair well: 10.13, 2.81, 5.1-IP, 3-K, 4-BB. Obviously,
he has earned himself a return to, where, Rochester, but do you bring him to
Big League camp with a shot of making the 25-man?
7 comments:
I write about this team and stopped rooting for it as soon as I found out things about the Wilpons I should never have known.
You're an a-hole for writing that!!! Shut this dump down and go away. You and your writers don't root for the Mets? Than drop dead all of you!!!!
Why in the world would you defend freddy coupons??
Anybody else want a turnat Matt? lol
Matt... U dirty rat! I'll shit in ur hat, and dump it down your trap.
Your an asshole for writing that... Big dump stupid Matt.
Charles does have a way with words, doesn't he?
Matt--If youre not a fan of the anti-wilpon stuff I would reccomend Toby Hyde's site..he never has anything negative to say about them--quite possibly because it says SNY across the top of the site??? Free sip of koolaid with each visit.
Craig:
Have you ever met Toby.
He's the only person on earth that EVERY person on earth that has EVER met him has the SAME opinion of him.
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