Glavine needs to be an ace tonight
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Tom Glavine was lit up in his last start, but overall has been one of the Mets most consistent pitchers.
He needs to be an ace tonight.
If he loses, who can’t see the Mets losing three of four? Yeah, yeah, I can hear some of you now: “There’s that Delcos again, ripping the Mets.”
I prefer to think of it as being realistic, because part of the job is sometimes being the ants at your Mets picnic.
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You are absolutely spot on.
Glavine has been up and down recently, and only El Duque has been solid as of late. If Glav loses, I can see them dropping 3 of 4.
Please Glav, throw your heart out.
While I won’t say this is a MUST win for the Mets tonight, it’s pretty high on the list though. Need to keep the Braves at a decent length while they beat up on the fish this week.
What I don’t seem to get with the Mets bats sometimes, why do they hit so poorly against pitchers they should OWN.
The Mets need Glavine to throw a great game and the rest of the team to show up. I’m worried that this time just lacks that edge to put other teams away—and that doesn’t bode well for the division or the playoffs.
I agree with you completely. If Chavez is added to the roster, who is demoted to make room for him. Since Lawrence appears to be part of the next rotation, I wonder if you know who they plan on sending down?
Totally agree JD,
Glavine has been consistent both good and bad, he has been dependable against teams they should beat and roughed up against playoff level teams. They go down 0-2 and I can see them only squeaking out one. In fact after last nights preformance I’m not that confident at all, they dont seem to get up for big series this year and their excuse always is its a long season. Which is true but were 3/4 through and they have only handly won season series against the Cubs and Brewers that are playoff contenders.
C’mon people, it’s one loss. How come so many people jump ship after one loss?? A few weeks ago after losing 2 of 3 to Atlanta everyone was saying the season is over. This team will win the NL East. They will win the NL Pennant and they will win the WS!!
LETS GO METS!!
I agree with Jim.
The longer term view is it doesn’t matter too much. We will win the division even if we hit bumps along the way.
However, I would like to see Tom have a good game and the bats do their thing.
I also agree with Jim in that too many on this blog are afraid of their own shadow.
Dave
I’m not going to lie, I’m not very confident in having Glavine facing the Phillies. But then again, I guess it all depends on who the umpire is what his strike zone is for that game.
I can see the Mets losing 3 out of 4 but… I’m not worried.
Hooray for Jim H and dave; But unfortunatley insanity reigns when the boys have a bad one.
I’m really with the anti Willie guys. I know you long, with me, for a return to the great professional managerial era we had with the great Art Howe at the helm. Those were the good old days when no game mattered!!!!
There’s that Delcos again, ripping the Mets.
The pressure is on Glavine tonight, but not on the offense that’s facing a guy with a 6.36 ERA? Glavine should be able to get by with a respectable performance tonight if the Mets offense stops making Eaton look like Cy Young…
Yes. As I said before Art Howe wrote the book on managerial excellence!
There is nothing wrong with pointing out the fallacies of a team that’ll start Shawn Green over Lastings Milledge and will potentially demote Lastings or Gotay to keep Brian Lawrence on the roster.
If Glavine loses tonight, John, I won’t be surprised if they get swept.
Lotta complacent veterans who’ve “been there before”... hanging around, protecting mild injuries and just trying to get one more contract outta their careers… and getting significant playing time, no less.
No spark.
Way too much Roger Dorn, not enough Wild Thing runnin’ around that line-up.
Wild Thing gets fired up droppin’ two to a rival, Roger Dorn makes an excuse and gives up for a coupla games.
I almost can’t believe I’m saying this but… I kind miss Bobby Valentine.
Yes, he was crazy and arrogant and annoying but he had a rudimentary sense of strategy and he didn’t play this Joe Torre “Stoic No Matter What” BS game.
Dude occasionally told the truth instead of saying the right thing and I think, in the face of watching the lead dwindle away, he not only would refuse to play Green and Mota and Schoeneweis and Lawrence for the rest of the year…
He’d drop ‘em in the woods with an army knife and some matches so that there was never the option of getting forced to use them by the GM.
I dunno. I’m exaggerating, of course, but… man.
Complacent play. “We’re Losing So We’ll Just Save Our Energy For Tomorrow” play. Blah.
I agree, this is a big game.
Glavine needs to come up big and the Mets need to show more offense then RBI singles from the 7 and 9 hitters.
Wow, such Bobby V nostalgia. Nah, he wouldn’t go with Mota and Schoeneweis. He’d only stick with certified bullpen aces such as Komiyama, Mel Rojas and Rich Rodriguez. He sure knew his strategy!
Bobby Valentin had “rudimentary sense of strategy”. Obviously there is a major hole in baseall knowledge if that’s what you think of Bobby V. He had more baseball knowledge and sense of strategy then everyone who posts here including Delcos. Even Steve Phillips admits that Bobby V was a genius when it came to running a game. And if you think Bobby V wouldn’t use the guys you don’t like, then again that is incorrect. Bobby used his whole roster daily, and was usually out of players by the ninth and down to the long man of the game early in extra innings.
And what you call fallacies are judgement calls that you disagree with. It doesn’t make them wrong. Its people with a lot of experience making decisions that impact their carers and lots of others, and believe it or not are done seriously.
JK; Bobby worked wth the hand dealt to him just like all the other managers do. He didn’t trade for any of those outstanding pitchers, nor did he bring in Bonilla, Timo, Bordick, White, Rogers, etc.
Bobby V was flawed in a lotta ways, that’s not what I’m saying.
All I’m saying is he used his roster in a smarter fashion than Randolph. It’s a backhanded compliment, you see.
Mel—Can you remind us of the list of organizations that have been interested in hiring this managerial genius since his firing from his first job in Texas to the present?
I’ll start you off with this hint: Not one MLB organization was interested in even interviewing with him after he got canned in Texas. There were dozens of managerial changes in the ensuing years, and he didn’t even warrant one single interview.
Mel, you are absolutely correct. Bobby V worked with the hand dealt him, just like Willie does. And that was the unsaid part of my message.
About Bobby V’s strategic skills … undeniably he is a strong strategic manager. Unfortunately, he seems to have a caustic personality that alienated many of his players. I think Willie’s people handling skills are a lot better.