First of all, hey Omar, how's the 52 million dollar offense doing tonight in huge game against Philly? 3 hits through 7 innings, with one of them coming on a bunt by the pitcher? Inexcusable.
Only the Mets could tease you like this. They do absolutely nothing against Brett Myers for seven innings as I just said. Then Nady hits a 2-run homer and they're down 3-2. The unhittable Duaner Sanchez comes in for the bottom of the eighth. Gives up his first run of the season and it's 4-2. Great timing. Because Delgado would get your heart racing again as he blasts Tom Gordon's pitch over the wall and ties the score. 4-4. Then the Mets get 2 runners on. And is Angel Hernandez behind the plate again? What the hell was that umpire calling a ball vs a strike? With 2 outs, he calls Matsui out on a pitch that was high.
Bottom of the 9th. Aaron Heilman gets the first 2 outs. Then David Delucci triples because Xavier Nady apparently never learned how to play the outfield. Then Heilman hits Rollins and walkes Utley. Bases loaded. Fine, I'd rather see Abreu up that Utley in that spot. Abreu hits a tapper back to the mound, Heilman rushed forward, loses his footing, and throws the ball to Camden, NJ. Delucci scores. Mets lose. And I ave no problem with not briging in Wagner in that spot. If it was a home game fine. But they had to save Wagner for the save spot. And if Abreu gets a hit off him to win the game (boy when have I seen Bobby Abreu stick it to Mets lefty pitchers in walk-off spots?), the Mets likely lose today as well.
Don't tell me they're still 3 games up. Look at this road trip. 2 more in Philly, 3 in Milwaukee, 3 in St Louis, 3 at home against the Yankees and 3 more at home against Philly. We'll be lucky to go 7-8. With our bullpen finally showing vulnerability and the rotation in shambles and the offense swinging toothpicks, this could be the beginning of a collapse that will cost us everything in the end. At least April went well.
And it's going to be Lima Time (sorry I don't have a trademark key on my keyboard) when I visit Miller Park on Saturday night. As of right now, the Brew Crew will have Dave Bush, who they acquired form Toronto in the Lyle Overbay trade. Sandwiched around those two games is Friday's enormous match between Jeremi Gonzalez and the immortal Ben Hendrickson and Sunday's match of Pedro and Doug Davis. So the good thing is the Mets miss Ben Sheets and Chris Capuano.
My computer at HM has crashed twice in two days. That's kind of like the New Jersey Devils, who crash twice in two periods.
And my softball season has begun. Over the 2.5 hours I played, I strained both quads and hamstrings, so I'm already in mid-season form. I batted 4-for-6, scored three runs, played some good defense and some bad defense. Truth be told, we were all terrible. And we open the season on Mother's Day.
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