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NY Mets 2013

Today's game was an embarassment...Jon Niese wasn't sharp at all but got no help from his fielders(specifically Lucas Duda and John Buck) and his relief. David Wright hits a big two run home run to spark a comeback in the middle of the game when the Mets were down 5-0 but everything went downhill from there. Freddy Freeman's two run double in the third off Jon Niese and opposite field homer off of of shellshocked rookie Jeurys Familia was the topper as the Mets lost 9-4 in Atlanta. They will need the off day tomorrow to regroup. Losses will happen but games like this just are inexcusable but hsave happened too often to our boys in recent years.
 
So last night a bunch of my boys and me went to the Garden to see the Rangers play and man oh man I am not as big a hockey fan as I am of baseball but that game was of the charts. If you have ever been to see them play you know what I mean; the feel of the crowd and the excitement is something I have not experienced in a sporting event in a long time. It made me forget about baseball for a few hours that’s for sure. Hero of the game was Derek Stepan who redirected a pass in the slot from Rick Nash.
It reminded me of a Mets game when they can win a back-and-forth game. Damn that was a hell of a lot of fun.
Matt Harvey was there last night as well and as a big big Rangers fan he was bouncing around like a kid in a candy store big hockey fan that Harvey.
Interesting what Matt said about Niese and the loss and how some have said it was casue Jon had not pitched on schedule, Matt does not play into that and sees the fact that he will be pitching tonight on longer rest he sees it having no effect at all on how he pitches.Well we will see inn a few hours maybe that Rangers win will still have still pumped up as he was last night; maybe even Ike Davis who almost lost his voice yelling last night will be effected by the game last night win. But it will all about Harvey tonight, he has allowed one run or less in 10 of his first 16 major league starts and has not allowed more than one run in seven of his last eight starts. Matt ranks fourth in the majors with a 2.26 ERA and is 4-0 this season and was voted the National League Pitcher of the Month for the month of April. Go get em Matt.

Lineup tonight’s against the White Sox, Tejada – SS Murphy – 2B Wright – 3B Buck – C Duda – LF Brown – RF Davis – 1B Lagares – CF and of course Harvey
 
Speaking of Matt Harvey, what a game for the ages he pitched last night at CitiField against ole friend Robin Ventura's Chicago White Sox! Bloody nose early on? Fuck it, he's going to pitch an almost flawless nine innings...no walks, 12 blistering strikeouts and only one infield hit that just so teasingly might have been payable but the runner was too fast and Ruben Tejada had to go deep in the hole and fire an incredible strike to get him, which was almost impossible...just missed him as it happened as Ike Davis deftly handled the deep throw. Such incredible command of every pitch, and Matt was just so pumped you can tell...he wasn't down on his teammates for not scoring as much as determined to keep his teammates in the game. And oh goodness did he ever!!!! Bobby Parnell struck out two in the ninth and got the win as pinch hitter Mike Baxter ripped a single to right to score Ike Davis who had started the tenth off with a walk and was moved over to second for a thrilling 10 inning combined 1 hit shutout. Newark native Hector Santiago, the Chicago White Sox pitcher, was almost as good for seven innings, allowing no runs on just four hits...another potential stud for his franchise as Matt Harvey is to the Mets. Matt's a Connecticut boy himself so we had two fairly local young studs showing off their best and Matt was simply terrific...a modern day Tom Seaver may be a justifiable comparison. Just an "amazing" game that will live on as a Mets classic for generations!
 
Not much I can add to Sausy's comments, just another magnificent performance by Matt Harvey. He was in complete control. A shame the Mets couldn't get him a run to get the win, but at least they did finally score to get the victory. Losing that game would have been beyond heartbreaking. Speaking of the Rangers, Sonny, that was a memorable win against the Caps. I'm also a die hard Rangers fan, and they give me as much agony as a fan as the Mets do. Let's go Mets!! Rangers!!
 
Sausy and Syam summed it rather well and clearly Harvey was as he predicted not at all effected by the extra days rest. He is the only player over one hundred years to pitch nine innings with at least 12 strikeouts allowing no walks and only one hit with no decision. Matt got 20 of his 27 outs, including nine strikeouts, on pitches on the outer third of the plate or further outside, a career high just over 60 percent of his pitches were on the outer third. Of the 12-13 right handed batters he retired, at least 10 came on outer third pitches. Just for those who missed the game Harvey retired the first 20 hitters he faced and threw a first pitch strike to 16 of em. He started ahead 0-1 to better than half of the batters and threw first pitch strikes to at least 20 of them. The White Sox put nine of Harvey's off-speed pitches in play and hit eight on the ground. Better than 65 percent of his off speed pitches were down in the zone or below it.
Harvey is a bull never gets rattled, his fastball is so strong, and he uses it so well, letting him use his secondary pitches in strategic spots. I hope you guys saw those hitters to shaking their heads, dazed and confused maybe even a bit frustrated walking back to the dugout. Tonight was one of the best I’ve seen and ya could say one of the best regular season games ever thrown by a Met starting pitcher. He was in complete command right from the beginning, and totally dominated the White Sox for nine innings. Harvey only missed his perfect game on one infield hit, if only that ball was hit a little more up the middle.
As to the batter who hit that ball, may a rabid holy man bless his nether regions with a power tool :p

I looked at the pitch a second time and it was not a bad pitch, after a fastball strike Harvey tossed a slider away which and the batter took made it work got on it and hit, so no mistake on Harvey’s part there. But yet again the boys didn’t support him at the plate, and so he doesn’t have a win to show for this amazing performance. I think everyone of those guys owes Matt an apology for letting him down come on boys one by one bring your sorry asses to Matt’s locker and beg his forgiveness. I also know in talking with the guys that they are a bit out of sync with all the days of bad weather and all those cancelled games and postponements, it can affect them. That’s about to change cause they soon will have 30 games in 30 days coming up to make up some missed games and no one is complaining perhaps they will start working better together to get this team back on track. To that end I would imagine the only players who mighty be adversely affected by 30 games in 30 days would be the pitchers, perhaps that would be a good time to go to a 6 man rotation and bring Wheeler in. After a few shaky starts Zack’s last two outings for AAA Vegas have improved dramatically. Unfortunately there is still the issue of the Super 2 cutoff date If they wait they can avoid an extra year of arbitration and instead get that extra year at the league minimum. But that gets kinda confusing to say the least and changes from what was last year and what will be in 2015. Of course the primary considerations making the decision on when to bring him up will be his development and readiness as well as our needs. I just wonder how much that will mean as opposed to how the Super 2 changes over the next couple of years.

I get that Harvey’s pitch count was high after a 100+ count on his last outing but it was too bad that Collins did not allow Harvey to pitch the 10th giving him a shot at winning instead of a no decision. Of course Terry could not have predicting that in the 10th that Davis and Baxter would finally get the job done.

Yup it was all Harvey bloody nose and all, actually Matt has suffered the bloody nose thing since he was a kid it used to be a lot worse and happened more frequently than it does now seems to have started up again when the Mets were in high-altitude Colorado last month.
Kevin Burkhardt said, “Harvey has started the game with a bloody nose. Makes him look intimidating!” later when KB at the post game said to Collins” Ya think Harvey was rusty on eight days rest bringing a smile to Terry’s face and laughter in the room.

I loved seeing it was Baxter who got the hit that scored Ike for the win the hometown boy making us proud. I am doubly happy that Justin kept his word and took back the pie throwing duties. How fun was Mike when he told KB he was glad it wasn’t Buck, you will remember Buck nearly knocked Jordany over last week with the pie hitting him so hard. If you saw right after the boys celebrated on the field Turner and Baxter were walking off the field together when Justin suddenly started sprinting towards the dugout it was then I knew, ok, he’s headin to the kitchen for some whipped cream.
 
Thank God Justin is back doing the pie throwing duties...as we're all aware( and Jordanny Valdespin had to unfortunately experience,lol)Buck doesn't have the light touch needed, he was far too enthusiastic!:lol:

Love your perspective as always sonny...being a pitcher yourself no surprise about how you were drawn to how well he was using his pitches and hitting certain spots very effectively(outer third of the plate primarily). This was just such a pleasure to watch Matt just being so dominating...also seeing him smile which he often tends not to do in his starts, so focused and always self critical but even he was loose last night it just felt so perfect and he was going to enjoy it.
 
No question Saucy that Justin is the man for that pie job Jt is always the go to guy for a laugh.



Of course there is also Ike Davis and Daniel Murphy, if you Google Goofballs their pictures pop up :badgrin:
Then there is Anthony Recker I know you guys may not know much about him casue he plays so little and you have little exposure to him but he too is a terrific kid. Tony also has very little time under his belt as a Met for the pie throwing job hopefully he will be around a while and can fill in from time to time.

Anthony and Kelly picking out cakes recently.





So last night it was more of the same, as my Uncle Joe would say “New day same old shit”
After watching Terry Collins in the post game show I get the feeling he is in some sort of denial about how poorly the guys are hitting. Once again we heard him say the same ole excuse with “When you have good pitching you don’t get pitches to hit” Sorry dude but that excuse is getting old a fire has to be put under Dave Hudgens to make more happen at the plate. Most if not all the guys really like Dave but clearly he is not doing enough to teach and make adjustments and be more creative and figure out a way to get some offense out of his position players

It was nice however to see JT finally get a shot in the outfield which as I have told you guys is something he has been working and hoping to do for a while now. He did not get a chance to make any plays the only ball to come his way was a homer that went way over his head. I wanna see more of Justin out there

I thought Hefner did a fair job of it but is still not a reliable starter yet he is still winless on the season, dropping to 0-4 with a 4.63 ERA. But he did pitch a little better last night and was of course a victim of some bad luck. The White Sox hot him early with a homer but I thought the Sox had a bit of luck on their side to score three runs in the third inning. Of the four hits in the inning only one was hit well with a bunt single, an infield single, and a pop-up that landed in between three Mets which drove in in a pair of runs. Hefner simply needs to be more consistent in his starts Like I said he wasn’t bad last night, I thought he mixed his pitches up nicely and for sure he was centering a lot of his pitches, which led to the Sox taking advantage of Hefner’s poor location. Let’s not forget that Hef throws a lot of strikes and really does not walk many batters. I had a problem with his fastball he needs to work the corners with that pitch. To be fair I thought he did an outstanding job in the fifth inning working around a leadoff single and a John Buck throwing error to get out of that mess unharmed. Too bad he got no help from his offense.
 
Thanks for the pics, needed to smile after last night's sad "same old same old". Justin is a guy who knows how to approach at bats and the only thing Terry said though was he really wasn't going to run Justin out there a lot as there are too many people out of position already.(cough cough Jordany Valdespin who should have more aggressively called for the pop up that fell in for two runs). Too many defensive mistakes cost the Mets and with their inability to consistently generate offense we need the pitchers and defense to be in near perfect synch.

Jeremy kept the boys in the game and to his credit he really owned up to not always hitting his spots and giving the batters more comfort than they should have covering the plate. I really like him and think he can be a solid fourth starter, maybe a 12-15 game winner with no worse than a 4.00 ERA in his best seasons if they have the patience and he gets more consistent in his command like his prevuious two strong efforts.

Ike and Luke in particular look lost.... Luke hits a home run and it may be his greatest enemy, striking out far too often than his production can be considered acceptable. Ike just hasto get on the ball...no doubting his character as a person and defensive strengths but he has to be that gap to gap threat he's shown he can wonderfully provide when he's going on a tear.
 
Well, despite not hitting a whole lot, the Mets found a way to scratch their way to victory agains the Buccos last nite. Another walk off hit from Mike Baxter was the game winner, driving home Marlon Byrd. Earlier the Mets had gone ahead on a booming double by Ike after he came in the game on a double switch. THe lead was shortlived as Latroy Hawkins gave up a monster shot to Alverez to tie the game at 2. Bobby Parnell pitched a scoreless ninth thanks to a great catch by Lagares in center field robbing McClutcheon of an extra base hit and at least one, if not two RBI. Let's hope the bats wake up soon. Let's go Mets!!
 
Syam catches the essence of the game very well and so happy to see hometown boy Mike Baxter again come through with a game winning hit and Ike doing something big to contribute(hopefully the start of a big turnaround for him). Gee went five solid innings giving up just one run on five hits and other than the shot by Alvarez given up by Hawkins our boys held on until Baxter's game winning hit (this time in regulation during the bottom of the ninth, instead of going an extra inning as during the Harvey classic win). Let's go Mets!!!
 
So what do if you have a couple of players that are struggling? Well if you are Terry Collins you sit them, yeah, that will fix the problem take Ike and Murph and keep them off the field that I’ll make em better, :rolleyes:
when you've got a player like Ike who is struggling, you've got to get him in the lineup to get him going. :confused:

I understand Turner needs paying time I want that as well he is a .380 hitter right now, but not at the expense of your regular position players, JT is a bench player and that’s what he should be doing if you wanna play him more do what he has been asking you to do for a while now and that is put him in the outfield It’s already a merry go round out there anyways with only Duda as a regular so let’s see what Justin can do for us put there and stop fucking withy the infield. While I am venting about such stuff how about Anthony Recker? I see Collins finally played him last night and he had a damm good night at the plate although we could not see enough of what he can do behind the plate all that much cause that idiot Marcum shrugged of most of Reckers pitch selections and called the game pretty much himself. Recker, you do remember him right Terry? he Is our second catcher but is almost never used how is he going to be there for us if he sits practically every game. He did struggle to get on the same page with Marcum last night, but that was Marcum’s fault not Reckers

I missed a lot of the game choosing to catch the hockey game instead but when they played as badly as the Mets did last night I found myself switching back and forth. I was happy to have seen Reckers homer that felt good but as to Jordany Valdespin not so much because the little punk is at it again and flipped his bat and slowly rounded the bases last night. Worse than that is Collins and his Oh well what are you gonna do attitude about it. What are you gonna do? You bench him and try and teach him a lesson you give him a little grief and what for. I’ll tell ya a lot of folks both players and fans are getting feed up with Spin’s and I would be very careful using him in the pirates series cause somebody is gonna get plunked.

Marcum just isn’t getting it done, he had a couple of good innings but the Pirates hit him hard in the second and the fifth inning, and he could not adjust and get his crap together. He has been ineffective since he got back from the disabled list, we keep hoping it is cause of the lack of work in camp, and his limited innings during his rehab but whatever it is he needs to figure things out cause right now the opposing teams have him figured out and he aint foolin anybody.
Better yet bring Wheeler up now we need his arm in the rotation I don’t wanna wait till June I want him now, I have seen him pitch a lot of times and have been waitin and waitin I don’t care what happened in that dry air in Vegas cause he adjusted to that bring him up NOW!

If the rain holds of today will be banner day and our own Kevin Burkhardt will be one of the judges.
And speaking of KB how awesome was that segment he did on Sabermetrics which of course is a look an analysis on a player, listening to Kevin, Gary and Ron break down all those tools to evaluate players if you wondered about WAR, WOBA, OPS you got an outstanding lesson in what that all means and how it used to evaluate players, the back and forth discussion between Kevin and Gary was both instructional and enlightening and I thought I knew a lot about baseball but the boys put a lot of that into perspective last night.
Very very well done :=D:

Ya had to love Kevin’s lab coat for that extra touch, yeah…he loves to pay the nerd sometimes and he will be the first one to say it and we love him for it. I told him all he need was one of those ball point pen holders in his pocket leaking ink :D

I may not be around much this weekend going out to MCU Park with the Brooklyn Cyclones for meetings and to check out the changes improvements and repairs that were made to the park after Sandy. Really looking forward to seeing how the park came out including the new state-of-the-art playing surface put down after the salt, chemicals and crap from the ocean water left the green grass surface contaminated and unplayable.

If the rain holds off and we have a game today it will be Tejada, Murphy, Wright, Buck, Turner, Byrd, Brown, Lagares, and Niese on the mound. No Ike again!!!

See you guys Monday
 
Just ugly yesterday.... Jon Niese has yet to really show the form he displayed last year andgiving up eight runs like that was inexcusable. On Banner Day yesterday the Mets delivered a true stinker losing 11-1 in a game which also saw Jordany Valdespin get plunked for his antics the other night watching his home run and stylin'. Well, eventually he has to grow up and while he does have attitude and passion the Mets could use on offense he has to drop the team-second, me first stuff. The guys denied they were not supportive of Jordanny, who dd not seem to get much of a welcome by his teammates when he went back into the dugout and seemed pissed. David Wright, the real leader he is is still trying to be supportive and said he didn't want Jordanny to lose his edge but also he and others talk to him about toning down the stuff where it's not appropriate and always remembering to be a team player.. David is never going tear down a teammate in public but I'm wondering will even someone with the ability to communicate and reach people as David will sooner or later realize Jordanny may not have it within him to grow up...or maybe David can reach him, but it's getting old especially as the Mets need him to redirect his passion when he plays to the team rather than himself. TC is the same way.. realizes Jordanny sometimes just makes things worse but also he brings things to the table the Mets don't have an abundance of at the moment.

Jonathan Niese has to get back to the rising top of the rotation stud he displayed throughout last year, he's shopwn very little of it this year and his performance yesterday just was unacceptable. And goodness knows with the Mets inability to really take it to other clubs with their offense when they start getting behind 4-0, 6-0, they ain't coming back. The starters have to give the boys a chance to win and following the dreadful effort of Shawn Marcum they needed MUCH better from Niese and indeed his effort was in many ways even worse. I know Marcum when healthy has been a pretty damn good pitcher but that's the reason so many clubs shied away from him...he has problems staying healthy. And now that he apparently is healthy, he's rounding his arm up to shape after all the time this spring he missed and he's not ready.

Apparently TC has decided best thing for the Mets lineup is a constant 3-4-5instead of moving around the lineup so much and DWright will remain batting third and Ike Davis will be restored to cleanup and Lucas Duda will be fifth. Now just to get Davis and Duda to show SOME kind of consistency out there...please!!!!!!!!!!!

Mets Banner Day did go forth as the rains held until late in the game... as usual some incredibly well developed themes , very creative banners made by the fans.The winner put the Mets home run big apple( boy would we like to see it celebrating a lot more often!) in between fashionings of Shea Stadium on one side and CitiField on the other, rising in celebration. One thing on Murph's slump...on the broadcast the boys in the booth were mentioning he gets in trouble when he tinkers too much with his stance and swing andwhen he came back cold from the oblique injury his fast start came out of just going out and not overthinking. Now batting average has dropped 100 points and his swings indicate he's back to the tinkering...one bad day and it starts getting to him and when he's fee and easy and not overthinking he is far more effective. Hope Murph is alerted to that, and eases up so he can just be the free and easy Murph that is an outstanding hitter.

Very interesting on KB and the boys...I tell ya that even with our troubles over the last few years our broadcasting team of Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez, Ron Darling with suport by KB is among the very best in baseball and one thing worth appreciating for Mets fans.

I hope you have a great weekend in Brooklyn with the preparations for the new season. I know they were forced to move to an artificial turf because like you said sonny the storm surge brought in so much crap and contaminated the soil but I saw pics f the new field and it looks tremendous!
 
About Anthony Recker, the more I've seen of him just seems like a nice young man with some lovable goofiness and sense of fun as those great pics show. He's been in the minors a very long time( he does have fame on the internet for something "behind" him, but we'll keep it clean here!);) Yep he's a Pennsylvania boy, good defensively with a lot of power, I believe half Italian(sonny mentioned him being Italian once...checked and saw his middle name is Vito, and he looks like a paisano)!;)

What impressed me most about him was that when Jason Collins of the NBA came out recently one of the strongly supportive tweets he received came from Anthony Recker... it's great to have in baseball some guys who while straight are happy to show solidarity with gay professional athletes and aren't reluctant to make it known. His parents obviously taught Anthony well!..|
 
I have just a few minutes and Wanted to make a couple off comments

First of all Rick Ankiel?? What’s up with that why why is the question. Are we trying to get better or have we decided, ok, let’s do anything no matter how stupid to improve the team. So again I ask how does Ankiel help us. As if we did not have enough turkeys romming around the outfield as it was they add one more who I am guessing will be in a centerfield platoon position with Juan Lagares. They were so anxious to get him in the game they practically rushed him from the airport to the stadium I mean he did not even have his gear yet it which was still to arrive on another flight from Houston. No matter, he can always borrow someone else’s glove, bat and underpants I guess as well. :rolleyes: and what a surprise he did not disappoint going 0-for-3 with a walk and two strikeouts. He even told the trainers during workouts before yesterday’s game that he was uncomfortable borrowing other players equipment it did not feel good to him. First it was Scott Rice's glove and when that did not work he went to jonathon Niese, that is the glove he was wearing when he dropped Ty Wigginton's ball while what looked like a desperate lunging forward kinda move which ended up popping out of Nieses borrowed glove. The Mets optioned Andrew Brown to Las Vegas and moved Jenrry Mejia to the 60-day DL in order to clear a spot for Ankiel. Mejia will continue to pitch in the minors till prolly early June,

One of ten reasons the Cards are so successful is their ability to see the talent they have on the farm and are not afraid to move them up quickly and get them in the game it has worked for them time and time again but the Mets seem to prefer to bring in tired players who are no help at all. The position the Mets are in today screams out for them to experiment with young players, we are not contenders this year or maybe not even next so get those kids experience for when the Mets again are relevant. I have always been a major supporter of the kids in the minors spend much of my time watching them develop and grow they are our future, USE THEM! I guess there is hope especially with that mess of an outfield when Kirk Nieuwenhuis and Matt den Decker return. Matt is still on track to be back on the field around the first week in June and we all know what an outstanding outfielder he is. Kirk had a mishap yesterday when he got hit by a pitch, it hurt pretty bad and he left the game I will get more from him tonight and let you guys know how he is So let’s just call Ankiel is a placeholder just hangin out waitin for better payers to heal and get back shall we? :p


A couple of things Saucy wrote about, first of all Valdespin, I am fuming over the way that is being handled. Collins continues to coddle him and make excuses rather than sit him down and read him a riot act or two which is what he needs. Collins actually said after Jordany got hit that he was proud of the way he handled it going to first base, HUH!!! Did you see the reaction in the dugout when he slammed his helmet cause he felt he go no support from his teammates? He is “proud” of the way Spin acted? Everybody knew he was gonna get plunked after that disgusting display of I am the greatest and the rest of you suck it I did that for me and not the team display after that homer the other night. I even warned of it in this thread earlier that day. And oh yes Spin knew it to I read somewhere that he did not expect to get hit but that is BS in fact he tried to get out of hitting telling trainer Ray Ramirez to please tell Collins that he was “unavailable,” Which by the way really went over well with the other guys who few want any no part of as it is, they were not amused.
The crowded outfield is keeping Spin from getting much playing time which is fine with me I have gotten to the point whenever he comes up to bat I wanna yell at the opposing pitcher to “Strike me out, no, I don’t do that but a little devil inside me wants to :twisted: Now that the outfielder got more crowed we might see Jordan play a few games at second when Murph needs time off or gets into some kind of serious struggle but other than that he will just pinch hit until we can get rid of him which prolly aint gonna happen but would be fine by me. I would like to see him sent to Vegas for some growing up. I can tell you that no one on the team can handle Jordany as well as Sargent Wally Backman can. DWright said all the right things but David is too nice a guy and not the man for the job of fixing Valserspin. Wally is, he will force Spin to put his big boy pants on grow up and behave like a pro should act Wally takes no crap from anyone and I am sure he is thinking just send that little punk over to me and let me have a crack at him. Maybe even turn him into a man. I got to know Wally pretty well in all my dealings with the Bisons and of course the Cyclones. I recall one day when the team had just lost their fourth in row, I was in the locker room when the door opened and in walked Wally with smoke coming out of his nostrils, well, it seemed that way;) He turned to me and said “I need you to step outside for a few minutes son” what followed was described to me as a nice message of disappointment and ass whooping that the boys need. The next day they won Oh, and how bout we post this old linup picture of Wally (he got arrested once nothing major)on Valdespind locker with the message “this is who is waitin for you” :badgrin:



Jordanys is a poison in the clubhouse a place which is normally full of fun excitement and guys rooting for one another and being brothers, but then there is Valderspin who can be found in a corner somewhere with this dark cloud over him, and wait…is that rain falling on him

The other thing I wanted to mention was Saucy thinking that Murph was tinkering which is not Daniels style at all the tinkerer on the team is Ike whom does it constantly. No, Murphs troubles begin with a swing that has gotten a bit long not much but enough to make a difference he is also getting hit hard inside by the opposing pitchers who have learned to respect and fear him a little. We are all hoping that last night’s magnificent 3-4 performance o the beginning of the return of the Irish hammer.
Happy to hear that Saucy as he often does agrees with me on a lot of things including the lineup mess let’s hope that little failure of an idea has been put to rest. And yup Anthony Recker is funny dude, and he wears that Vito name well proud of his heritage and cooks some mean Italian food as well

I did not spend as much time in Brooklyn as planed this weekend first of all the place was pumpin with fans and visitors making it impossible to get anything done, then someone finally realized that Sunday was Mother’s Day and most of us had somewhere else we needed and wanted to be that day, we will hit it again Friday and Saturday.

Catcher Travis d’Arnaud has an exam scheduled for Friday in New York. He hopes to be able to get the boot off and begin weight-bearing activity.
 
So no soon after I posted my posted above than my phone rang and was told that even though the Mets could not even wait till his equipment arrives to rush Rick Ankiel into the linkup last night and tonight he’s NOT EVEN THE LINEUP!!! Ahh what a morale booster that Collins is
Ike Davis has already been pulled from cleanup and will bat seventh. Buck will bat cleanup. Collins does not trust Ike against the lefty. Soooo here we go again.

And finally the dreaded news that Zack Wheeler is flying into NY tonight to check on a sore clavicle, he will be examined by team doctors tomorrow at the Hospital for Special Surgery,
Hopefully it won’t be a big problem and I don’t blame the Mets for being super careful about this and having him checked out quickly and that the chances are good for minor injury and Wheeler will be back to pitch in a week, he will miss his next start for sure. I don’t want the Mets delaying anything here and risk screwing with his mechanics because he’s sore, we have all learned what that can lead to… But still

Collin McHugh has arrived in St. Louis, replacing Scott Atchison, who had developed finger numbness Monday he is also going to be examined in New York on Tuesday afternoon. I’m guessing the Mets are hoping for some long relief from Collin
 
Boy, oh boy, what a mess things are becoming. Sonny, right on about Ankiel, what the hell for???? He will add very little. I'd rather watch Lagares or Baxter ply their trade and learn. Ankiel has had his shot, has peaked and will only degrade. The bullpen is falling apart from overuse, the starters can't get to the sixth inning most nites. Of course, that does not include Matt Harvey, but the others have been awful this turn thru the rotation., and some for longer than that. My guess is it will straighten out a bit, but geez, hate seeing the current results. THe lineup is struggling. DWright has no protection behind him, especially with John Buck cooling off and coming back to his "normal" numbers. Ike has never got started, Duda is ok, no great guns, the rest of the outfield has been more off, than on. Murphy appears to have come out of his recent slump, which will help, but it's been a lousy run of games for sure.
 
Of all the players to add, I triple co-sign on the fact Rick Ankiel is absolutely NOT a good addition...a good club needing an extra bat off the bench and good defense, maybe but not here.Don't need another strikeout machine and whose better days appear already gone. Add the total mess of last night's game and the setback to Zach Wheeler regarding having a sore clavicle, which supposedly isn't serious but with the Mets recent history, you've got to cross your fingers, arms, legs, toes, and eyes too that it's just going to result in one missed start and go fine from there.... would be nice if the Mets and Mets fans could get a nice stretch of good news for once.

I was going to comment more from sonny's recent expansive post but the play last night in St. Louis just disgusted me. 14-21 now??????????? Last season we had a strong first half before the usual Mets fall.. they ain't even giving us a fig leaf of hope now.:(
 
Well thanks God that happened there was a big load off going to Chicago last night some of the boys were reported actually smiling which is something they have done in a while. It all begins with a very very important outing from Jonathon Niese who came back and started to show us maybe he is gonna be ok after all. He took an extra long pen session with Warthen and was determined to fix his problem. He knew he had developed some unusual habits almost since the season started which was fortunately recognizable by the coaches. Jon had some discomfort and without realizing it caused him to lower his arm angle, which changed his pitching dramatically, well not any more Jon fixed that and all be well again. Before last night he allowed 15 runs in 8 innings over his previous two starts, but last night he kept the St. Louis Cardinals to two runs on six hits and two walks in 7. It was all about that arm positioning he once again started throwing from a higher arm angle and son of a gun if that did not make a huge difference. Murphy noticed it early in the game last night he noticed Jon was throwing his fastballs at a higher velocity something Daniel says he has not seen Jon do in a while, then too was that cutter which made it possible for him to go back and get those groundballs he needed. Murph saw improvements in Jon’s two-seamer as well.

Watching Niese pitch excited Murph to the point that he too had figured it was time for him to get out of that slump he has been in and man oh man did he ever reaching base in all five times at the palate (one walk) he scared that cards fella to death and worked out an easy walk. Daniel went 4-for-4 with two doubles and a walk, scored twice and drove in a run. For Murph it was just time, he needed to figure it out once and hopefully for all part of it was his ability to fix a little anxiety he had stated tom feel. In a fun at bat Daniel got what he said he would someday have and that is a hole in one of course he was talking about golf but yesterday he got the next best thing hitting that ball thru that little opening in the backfield fence, what a shot right thru the fence. When he got to second he joked with the second base umpire saying If you can’t see it it should be a homer right? The ump did not agree but laughed along with the Murph.

I wish the news was better for Ike Davis who continues to be hopelessly confused. He has not lost confidence I am happy to tell you but it is getting very hard for him to understand what the heck is going on. Well for one thing he knows now that he has to stop listing to so many people telling him what he needs to do to improve I mean he has it coming at him from all directions and it has become counterproductive. What Ike has decided is that it is time for him to study the videos and figure it out for himself with some but less help from all those lemme help you fix that people. Ike needs some room to breathe and work this out he has done it before. Collins said that he would leave Ike in the cleanup spot through the weekend; just not sure about Sunday against the lefty all depends on how Ike does the next 3 days. Ike is hitless in his last 22 at-bats, dropping his average to .157. Ike felt that in spite of that he feels that as far as this trip goes it’s probably the best he has hit the ball not counting last night of course. Sportscasters and even Collins has said that Pitchers are giving Ike a ton of off-speed pitches but that’s not really true, yes he gets a lot of em just not as often as some are saying. It is more about his missing fastballs early in the count, and for off-speed pitches with two strikes not the off-speed that he is missing, he is also missing the fastballs and the thing is when you miss the fastballs you get off-speed pitches and when you have two strikes you gotta protect against the 95+fastball. What Ike will tell you is he needs to hit the pitch earlier in the count that's over the plate, and of course hit it in fair play. Don’t give up on the Ike man.

So let’s keep the good times a comin today and give Harvey some run support and a win
 
All of you Ike Davis fans keep happy thoughts for him this weekend, he needs to show improvement to hold onto his job.He is beginning to let the struggles effect his defense now. I am getting more concerned for him.
Here in Brooklyn with the Cyclones this weekend where a lot of his old teamates and friends are working on keeping up his spirits.
Any change may not be in Terry Collins hands any longer preasure is begining to build.
I will be back on Monday hopefully so will Ike
 
Well, two wins in a row!!! Break 'em up! Another typical Matt Harvey pitching performance, enhanced by his game winning RBI single. Great job! Additionally, DWright and the suddenly hot Murph hit solo HR's to support Matt's pitching. After giving up two first inning runs, Matt was LIGHTS OUT. The Cubs didn't get a sniff of a rally until the eighth and Marlon Byrd threw out a runner at the plate to preserve the one run lead. Ike got a hit. He has got to get it going. I read Sonny's not above, read Terry Collins comments in the media about possible going to a platoon if Ike doesn't snap out of it this weekend. Maybe he needs a kick in the butt to get going??? Let' go Mets!!
 
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