Welcome back to Mets Chat Room.
We’re a few minutes from first pitch and there are a hundred thoughts swirling through my head. The most prevailing is the odds of seeing the Mets after Sunday aren’t good.
Does anybody expect Washington to beat the Phillies? Probably not, but does it really matter?
It doesn’t because it is hard to envision the Mets taking care of business these next two days after these last two weeks. This is a team that looks beaten and overwhelmed.
Let’s get rid of the notion that this team quit, because it didn’t. It played careless baseball, and as the losing continued, it played frustrated and looked listless.
Talk with you throughout the day. I know you won’t be shy.
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Hooray for the Mets and John Maine – this one’s a winner “in the books”....can’t wait for tomorrow…........
Well, I’m reminded why I love this team.
dj
you’re right but even though we feel confident we must ask ourselves, does this really matter?
ARIGHT LETS HEAR IT
LETS GO NATIONALS!!!!!
Well, it will be another day before we know that.
TomG: Love Gomez too. I’d like to see him start in LF next season. Love his defense. His speed. His bat will develop. I’d prefer if it they didn’t bring Alou back. The team needs to get younger and healthier.
common belliard, bases loaded, you kill the mets, kill the phillies.
figures, belliard popped out with the bases loaded, inning over.
JK,
I’m right with you brother.
FYI – Program Notes:
Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts will be on WFAN and streaming on the website right after Mets Extra until 7 PM.
milledge sounds like he’s growing up a little
FROM THE CLUBHOUSE/
WILLIE RANDOLPH ON THE GAME AND THE METS POSITION CONSIDERING YESTERDAY: ``It’s bizarre. You can’t figure it out. ... Pitching always sets the tone. That’s what’s been missing. We need to feed off this.’’
WILLIE RANDOLPH ON THE BRAWL: ``I thought they were fooling around (Miguel Olivo and Jose Reyes). Something was lost in translation. ... Olivo has always been a little bit of a hot head.’’
JOHN MAINE: ``We needed a win today. It was do or die. We treated it like a playoff game.’’
JOSE REYES ON THE BRAWL: ``(Olivo) looked at me and said, `Do you want to fight?’ I said, `Let’s go.’ ‘’
TOM GLAVINE ON TOMORROW’S START: ``It certainly runs the gambit of emotions. First, it was a game where I hoped it would mean nothing (that the Mets would have clinched). Then I hoped it would be a game that meant something.”
DAVID WRIGHT ON THE METS’ SITUATION: ``We’re a resilient team. I’m still upset we weren’t able to care of this sooner.’’
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NOTES and NUMBERS: Lastings Milledge tied a career-high with three RBI in his first multi-homer game. ... Wright extended his hitting streak to 16 games. ... This was the Mets’ third one-hitter of the season. The previous two were rain-shortened. ... It was the Mets’ tenth shutout of the season. ... The Mets’ 19 hits is a season high.
NO TIME YET FOR A PLAYOFF GAME ON MONDAY
TOMORROW’S GAME IS SOLD OUT
-JD
The Mets need the energy of a sell out. Tomorrow is on the fans shoulders… they need to be mean and loud from the anthem on. No letdown. Give the Marlins no reason to be able to concentrate.
The fans can keep the Mets in the game… they’ve got to work.
Oh it’s on now…Nats are up 2-zip goin into the 6th.
FROM THE MARLINS CLUBHOUSE/
Hanley Ramirez on tomorrow’s game: ``I don’t care if it’s broke (his hand). I’m gonna play tomorrow. @@#$% everybody on the Mets. I’m going to kick their *&^Y%A$ tomorrow.’’
Sounds like pro wrestling.-JD
screw you Hanley who the
$% do you think you are? havbe fun in last place you$$@$% 2nd market jerkYou gotta admire Ramirez’s passion. His choice of words, another story.
what passion? no one threw at him why is he pissed off? just starting something for no reason. hang it on the clubhouse wall.
he really said it like that, JD? ok 4-1 hope the nats play this like its do or die
Hey “HandJob” Ramirez, go ice your and shot your pie hole before you wind up ahving to ice your jaw. Another wannabe gangsta. Yeah, he’s got a passion—-for stupidity.
—Phils commit 2 errors in the top 7th to make it 4-0.
JD are the players watching in the clubhouse?
... that’s ”..go ice your paw and shut your pie hole…” (damn cheap keyboard).
Throw right at Hanley’s hand tomorrow. Break every god damn bone in it. He can go f*(% himself. Lets Go Mets and Lets go Nats. Screw the baby Marlins. No one cares about them anyway as evidenced by their always empty, unless the dolphins are playing, craphole of a stadium.
quiet here obviously phillies have completed their come back
N-n-n-not exactly…
4-1 Nats up going into the bot 8th
got to feel phillies are destined to win but they not facing the mets pen so you have a slim hope
It’s all tied atop the NL East with 1 more game to go. The Phils lost 4-2.
You can’t tell me that Met Magic isn’t at play…Casey and Gil and Joan and Tug are definitely looking out for ‘em, believe U me. DO NOT count these Mets out!!!!!! Now it’s the Philthies who are under pressure. Good! I hope they enjoyed their fiesta last night with all that stupid-ass ‘towel waving’ when they had their brief ‘visit’ as sole possessors of first place. Now tomorrow night they can use those towels to cry into after the Mets clinch. But before they do that, they better Express Mail a couple of ‘em over to Hanley so he could have something to sop up the blood with, which will be pouring out of his pre-punched loud mouth sometime tomorrow afternoon. Who’ll be the Ramirez jaw breaker? My money is on Lo Duca’s bat. (Yeah, Paulie’s pretty much pissed all the time anyway).
Nats win!! We’re tied!! Tomorrow is another day!!
let me offer my condolences a day early for the inevitable met loss tommorrow.They love to torture you guys!!! i think their bringing up a single A pitcher for the start
1 game season….....I just hope they have a few hits left in the bats after the thumping they gave the Marlins today.
Gotta hope that you missed the Reyes homosexual posts, John, and that’s why you didn’t pull them down. ????
Tomorrow Mets win and Phils will fall apart like a $30 suit—they can’t handle the pressure on top.
To DG: Just got back on-line a few minutes ago and deleted them. Also, you might have noticed, I deleted Hollywood. Hope you realize I won’t knowingly let that stuff stick. If you see others, let me know.-JD
Everyone please answer:
is it a good thing or a bad thing that the benches cleared today? is it good to be going into a heated matchup with the division literally on the line?
I just checked out a Philly blog just to see what those fans have been saying and this one fan actually commented last night how the phils win last night and the Mets lost last night wiped away the phils having over 10,000 loses. That’s why philly fans are pathetic, are you kidding me, Philly haven’t done anything yet and that wiped away the historic over 10,000 loses. I thought Yankee fans were the worse but there not, it’s the Philly Pathetic.
So, what about Reyes not running out that tapper and Milledge not running at all on that two-out pop-up? Are the fundamental problems still there, albeit a bit obscured by a big win—or is everything hunky dory again?
The sick part of me wants the Phils & Mets to show down on Monday. Somehow getting through that would take a big monkey off the Mets backs, but I’d take your scenario LEHE.
John, figured so, but when I realized you had posted a comment after that post was made, I had to say something.
As to whether you are anti-Mets, JD, I appreciate that you’re willing to pierce the bubble of the team at times as well as to speak your mind. But I’ve always taken your frankness in some ways to come from the standpoint of a fan.
Phils lose and now the Brews cool the Friars. What a day!
I would think that it would help the Mets but the way this season has gone who knows. To me it’s been a nightmare the last few weeks and I keep thinking I’m going to wake up and the Mets are in the playoffs.
Seaver: I think it was a good thing for a team that’s been lacking a certain fire in the belly. And it will be doubly good if it somehow wakes Reyes up from his slumber. The Marlins might have hurt the Phils more than the Mets ever could.
Seaver,
good thing
Can’t speak for Reyes, but I really thought that Milledge assumed his ball was foul after cueing it, almost fell backward off the swing actually, and then started to run when he realized the ball was fair. He acted more stunned than lackadaisical though I suspect he’ll get killed on it because he’s Milledge.
jd- who pitches Monday if theirs a playoff… Phils say it’s Lohse but he just pitched two innings today
Good thing. Very good thing.
I was referring to when Milledge was on second base (after his cue shot) and held his position when the batter hit a pop-up for the third out. It appeared that Milledge had forgotten how many outs there were.
Benny, clearly he did. Forgot about that part.
It’s gotta be Kendrick.
John, do you think Perez will be suspended along with DeFelice for their actions in the brawl?
teams playing tight no doubt… you could say willie’s lost the team or that the yougnsters are chocking… either way it’s a problem, the vets aren’t helping the youngsters or the mgr has lost his team, you have a mix for a purpose, between knowledge and energy so far in the past two weeks they havent been jelled. Today that all came to an end and a win tomorrow regarless of the season outcome, puts all those questions to rest…...
Question:
If there is a monday game at Philadelphia, what time will it start?
I imagine a day game b/c they want whoever wins to get the most amount of rest for Wednesday’s start of the playoffs…