The dreary black and white dead ball era.
Every season, some players come out
of the gate like a ball of fire, while others come out like frozen sewer
sludge.
This season is Frozen Sludge City
for the Mets.
Essentially all of them. The
Dead Ball era has returned for the Mets.
Game 2 of the season? Scored 8
runs. Felt real good.
The other 18 games? 49 runs.
About 2.5 runs per. DEAD BALL.
Last in runs BY SEVENTEEN, at just
57.DEAD BALL.
Last in HRs by 5, at 15. Pete
has 5, the entire rest of the team, heading into May after 1 more game, has
10. No one else has more than 2 HRs. DEAD BALL..
After a miserable 2020 hitting with
RISP in 2020, the Mets are hitting under .200 with RISP as a team in
2021. DEAD BALL.
Last in doubles with 22. DEAD BALL.
Lindor (he of the enormous new
contract), Conforto (he who wants but does not deserve one), Smith (who hit
over .300 last year) and McNeil (who hit over .300 last year) are a combined 52
for 251 (.209) with a mere 6 HRs and 19 RBIs. DEAD BALL.
The expensive James McCann? 4
RBIs in 16 games. DEAD BALL.
The reserves? Pillar, Nido,
and Almora are a combined 5 for 42 (around .120), WITH 0 HRs, 0
RBIs. DEAD BALL.
Only one Met with as many as 12
RBIs, and only 3 more who have between 6 and 8 RBIs. DEAD BALL.
Team slugging %? Mets are dead
last. DEAD BALL..
Jake deGrom has 6 hits. All
other Mets pitchers? No hits. DEAD BALL.
Level of interest in watching this
sorry excuse for a Mets hitting team?
DEAD. I'll have a BALL watching Netflix
instead. Or watching paint dry, which is also more fun. I almost
instead watched the one thing I couldn't bring myself to watch, unless the
alternative was root canal: Joe Biden.
Remember one thing as you ponder
this putrid bunch.
They don't have to face the 4th best
team in MLB ERA at 3.05. You want to know why? Because that 4th
best-in-ERA team is the Mets.
Jake against these Mets sissy
hitters?
A no hitter, with 20 Ks and perhaps
a Brandon Nimmo walk would probably be the outcome.
I have to ask - may I ask? Is
there a curse on this team?
Serious respondents only.
P.S.
People
sometimes go on hunger strikes to try to force and accelerate needed change.
The impotent Mets lost 2-1 and 1-0 the last two nights.
I
pointed out the barn to them...see? It’s right there, fellas, that big,
red one - see it? Alas, they could neither see nor hit the big barn, even
though it has a broad side.
So
my “hunger strike” may be to stop writing about these putzes until they start
hitting like hitters who are not putzes. Maybe I’ll write about teams that CAN
hit instead.
Heck,
Cincinnati has 35 HRs and 128 runs, they sure look like fun.
Do
they need blog writers?
I
am not joking. I’m serious.
Nothing
worse than writing about a team that you expect to score like the 1986 Mets,
only to find out you are dyslexic and they really hit every bit as bad as the
anemic 1968 Mets.
"Aww,
it's just a team slump." I ain't buying that.
Wimps.
Losers.
No
more excuses. Also, no more excuses.
Or
send them all to AAA.
Hit
the darned ball or I put down the darned pen.
(Could
that be their plan all along? Are they on a DEAD
BALL hitting strike to get me to stop writing?)
LOL...SMH.
BORING,
BORING, BORING.
Someone
will say they are just one game below .500.
I
will say one thing: BORING.
And
one more thing: OVERRATED.
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