The Mets played well tonight, but they will still limp into the Yankee series. Tom Glavine said the timing of the series could be a good thing because the intensity level is raised. There’s some sense to that, but the flip side is the Mets shouldn’t need anything to raise their level.
Do you think the timing of the series will help or hurt the Mets?
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It’s not a good time to be playing the Yankees, just like it wasn’t a good time for them to be playing the Mets last month. The circumstances are eerily similar actually. I’m pretty sure the Mets get to play the NL Central at some point this season though…
John, with all due respect, were we watching the same game last night at Dodger Stadium?
You said the Mets played WELL?
How on earth do you figure?
From my seat in the infield reserve, above the press box, on the third base side, here’s what I saw:
Our flaccid bats producing one measly run, including going 1-for-6 with runners in scoring position; a pitcher not getting over to first quickly enough on what should’ve been an easy groundout; our first baseman dropping a throw that would’ve completed a double play; our Gold Glove centerfielder foolishly trying to nail a runner at home on a single, overthrowing the cutoff man and allowing the batter to reach scoring position; our relivers getting rudely greeted by booming extra basehits; and one of our hitters getting accosted by a picher who accuses him of relaying pitch location to another hitter.
How is THIS evidence of playing well?
interleague ball needs to end.
right now we are slumping bad. but we will wake up. i have a question.. when will everyone realize delgado sux this year?
his defense and offense both suck. sorry for the hard words. but i am tired of him not trying.
everyone else woke up even green. he looks much better on the field that injury woke him up just great!
delgado needs to be benched for a weee bit.
I think it will help.
It can’t get worse.
I’m not sure Green was ever asleep that he needed to wake up.
Steve C – you really think Delgado isn’t trying?
Wow.
I admit he is awful right now, but to say a player isn’t really trying is harsh. And quite frankly, one of the dumber things I have read.
JR-
green defensively looks more spry. before he needed a jump start. these last few outings it looks liek he is getting a btter read/jump on the ball so less bounce catches. In my eyes.
Ed –
excuse me. doesnt “appear” to be trying.. how’s that ?
dumb. what u wrote is dumb.. how’s that?
Defensively delgado has not been doing well also. to what do you attribute that too? you can say i was harsh but to say i am dumb for saying it? bite me ..
watching line drive after line drive go by and then not make proper tosses to first for pitcher or let picther know?
these last games have been very telling…
he needs a rest. it will fix his attitude..
Steve C – Look, Delgado is far from a great first baseman, this I admit. He never has been. He is not Keith, few are. He will make the occassional fine play (he has bailed Reyes and Wright out a lot over the past 2 years), but he won’t make them all the time.
Perhaps I was a tad harsh with “dumb”. The boards here and elsewhere are full of people saying the guys don’t care, and that annoys me, since we have no idea what goes on in their heads. I personally find it hard to believe that these guys don’t try. It’s a pet peeve of mine. Sorry.
He is in an awful slump, as are several players on the team. Hopefully, this series will wake them up. Maybe the 9-1 ass whooping will snap them out of it.
We can only hope.
Ed – fair enough. i was born cocdger blue giant orange. no one loves the team as much as I. i just call it the way i see it.
I watch how he plays first and i watch how he swings for the fence instead of just getting on base.
to me that is not trying.
with that out of the way we need something to spark him and the team. the other slumps are ending… which is good. his hasnt..
so it would be best for him and the team for him to sit a few games out. Julio Franco plays 1st better,.,. (i am being serious)..
hahaha codger thats me.
dodger blue :-D
Since I am firmly on East Coast time, I really haven’t seen or heard a lot of the Mets games of the past week. The results/boxes have been enough.
Are the Mets really in trouble?
Should David break out the clippers? Or, are the games so meaningless, that nobody really cares anymore?
Why not try this – some old guy named Clemens will be pitching for the Yankees – how about really smacking him around??
i am sure you will be rooting for the yankees. since you only chime in to mention them. ;-]