By metstradamus | August 31, 2020 8:48 pm
All I really want from this team is to not make me angry. For one day. I don’t think that’s a heck of a lot to ask.
Monday’s 5-3 loss didn’t get me angry. Jacob deGrom getting beat by the Marlins while facing them for the fourth straight time is somewhat understandable. Any team that sees deGrom for three starts and five innings has a chance, especially the powerhouse that is the Miami Marlins (now with legitimate threat Starling Marte in their lineup). Only one of deGrom’s four runs were earned because of a 6th inning error by Pete Alonso, but deGrom didn’t get dinked and dunked. He got hit hard that inning and earned every dent he got. The Garrett Cooper home run before the error was a bomb, and the pitch to Lewin Diaz that he slammed for a double was middle middle. It wasn’t a good day for him.
But, fine. I accepted this. Everyone has a bad day, and the Marlins are going to win the World Series because it’s 2020 so I don’t feel so bad. The team seemed to have the life taken out of them after that first Yankee loss yesterday, and deGrom losing to the Marlins should have been the sign that the season was toast, and it should have been as obvious to Brodie as it was to me, or anybody watching. No shame in it, as I’m ready for this season to float away. I would have expected maybe a couple of starting pitchers from the scrap heap just to get through the season, much like the year we had Daisuke Matsuzaka and Aaron Harang for a month in 2013. Now, trading for pieces to make the final wild card a 162 game season is dumb, doing it to save a 60 game season seems over the top. And today was the trading deadline, but I figured … nah, not even the Mets would do this again. Surely they’ve learned from Jarred Kelenic, Scott Kazmir, Nolan Ryan, Amos Otis, etc.
3 comments:
As Paul McCartney and Wings sang (and later was covered by Guns & Roses), sometimes you've just got to live and let die.
Another comparable trade to the Castro one would be the Jason Isringhausen-for-Billy Taylor trade. Although Izzy did have some major league success for the Mets.
Why is Jurado pitching tonight? What happened to Gsellman or Peterson, they both had 4 days rest? Why not try Kevin Smith instead of Jurado, see if he is any good, oops I forgot Brodie traded him.
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