Can We Go Back to the Start of Spring Training in 2024, When the Mets Had REAL Hitters?
We are back to those ugly days. The 1968 Mets have returned, the ones that averaged a lethal 2.9 runs per game.
Yes sir, David Peterson made a fatal mistake last night. Unforgivable.
He surrendered a run. The Mets were shut down completely at the plate once again, losing for nothing on three hits. 4-0 loss.
Yes, Soto is missing. But this team that David Stearns designed has water in the gas tank. The car has broken down. In five of the last six games, the Mets have scored a total of three runs.
I truly get the sense that it’s time to strap in. David has miscalculated.
It’s going to be a very bumpy ride.
LINDOR WATCH: 0-4, .176, no RBIs.
Where is Luisangel Acuna when you need him?
Fear not Tom! Didn’t you hear Cohen and Darling crow about Tommy Pham’s offense? Aren’t they ashamed of themselves insulting our intelligence to this extent? Why was this guy signed? When is dumpster David going to realize that he is hurting his kids’ by being more of a fool than Alderson was? What the hell did he see in Pham’s 1.0 bWAR last year in 450 plate appearances in Pittsburgh that is making him a savior in Queens?
ReplyDeleteHe threw Orze to the garbage and now he is a closer. He keeps looking at other teams’ shit and thinks he will find a diamond. He threw away Mangum for NOTHING! What the fuck David? Enough with the washed up players!! Play your kids instead and the results will be the same, at least!
Gus, they sure gave Ronny tons of runway. Four at bats, a HR, and see ya later. I will be honest - I have stopped watching. I used to be a Brooklyn Nets fan, too…I stopped watching. Citi Field can crush Mets hitters. It is an inhospitable place. I would have kept Nimmo and McNeil. Guys who have succeeded for the team that fails.
DeleteCohen would have been better off blowing it up and building with kids when he took over, rather than this. Watching old guys fail is 1962 all over again.
Then, yes, I was constantly puzzled when they didn’t call up Eric Orze and Jake Mangum. Well, they did get Orze into one game… Dopes.
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DeleteLuisangel is only hitting .196, but has 2 RBIs in half the Lindor PAs.
ReplyDeleteIt’s still way too early but I do admit it feels like August 2025 all over again.
ReplyDeleteI do think that part of the problem is the organizational philosophy of “grinding through the process”. They need more passion & they need to call out some of the BS.
Tired of “I need to do better”. STFU & just Do Better. (Lindor)
Tired of players smiling & joking with the competition on the bases - I get they are friends & that they do like each other, but during the game & the series, it should be all business - playing to win
The guaranteed contracts &
Big bucks take out the fire in most humans - it’s normal. But it makes for crappy baseball from this fans perspective.
Where is their sense of pride?! Where is their fire in the belly?! Where is someone to provide a kick in the arse?!
Mendy should be facing real pressure soon. Very soon. Memorial Day is the likely point of reckoning.
Time will tell. Like Tom, can’t watch this crappy product right now.
I have a term for it. It’s like that show the untouchables? Except in their case, it’s the unwatchable’s.
DeleteAlways seems that the Mets are Avis to the Yankee’s Hertz. Last night the Yankees were also facing a sixth loss in a row, trailing 10-8 going into the bottom of the ninth.
DeleteUnlike the Mets, though, they reached down and found that something that makes them Yankees and not Mets, to come up with three rallying runs to win the game 11-10.
As my brother Steve periodically says to me, I’m mad at you because you made me pick the Mets and not the Yankees. I have no answer for him in reply. Because he’s right.
If you were an established player, and you went 12 for 68 and in 79 plate appearances had no RBIs, you’d be sent down right? So the Mets instead sent down the one shortstop that does have an RBI, Ronnie Mauricio, who got his RBI in just four at bats. Meanwhile, the established player gets a pass and plays every single day. And every day he has no RBIs. And every day, they lose. And every day, we’re told that we have to look at the back of the baseball card to see that this guy is going to come out of it any day now.
ReplyDeleteI was just wondering… What is the Mets magic number for elimination?
Guess what team is hitting .131 with two outs and runners in scoring position? Come on take an educated guess. OK, if you guess the Mets, you’re right!
ReplyDeleteWhy does Lindor need to watch his team suck for an extended period of time before he “wakes up” & “plays better”
ReplyDeleteHe is too “sweet” - I want freaking FIRE not Sweetness.
Be the leader. Wake the f*#k up! Change your walk up song (so sweet). Remember what’s going on during the game.
Earn your $342M. Make it worth it for fans to spend $$$ to watch you play.
Be the spark. NOW. Just Do It….
RVH and Tom, I don’t want to sound like clueless and childish about this, but Lindor’s biggest issue is not the lack of RBI, even though that feels odd, it’s the mental mistakes. His head isn’t there and he should have been sat. Put Mauricio in for one game. Mendoza’s definitely more of a problem than a solution and yes the friendly shit has to go.
ReplyDeleteYou remember the scene in The Godfather when Tom is replaced as Consoliore because The Godfather tells him that he isn’t a war time consoliore? That’s Stearns! He does the job well, but isn’t a war time GM. He pussyfoots a little too much, to use an analogy. Tommy Pham’s and his ilk have no business on this roster.
Stearns needs a war time GM. He is way too comfortable.
DeleteSomeone who can be Raisin’ Cain
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