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A Met Fan Waits for the Glass to Be All the Way Empty
by Jason Fry on 11 June 2008 2:10 am We're facing the Diamondbacks after sleepwalking (and sometimes plain old sleeping) our way through the Padres.
We're gonna lose.
Wait! Delgado came through with a clutch hit! And hustled to second! His uniform is filthy!
Then we're gonna get rained out.
Whoa, we're up 5-1 and will definitely get to an official game before the rain gets here!
Then the Diamondbacks will catch up.
Ugh! The Diamondbacks caught up! And here comes the rain!
I told you.
But radar indicates it'll blow through! We'll complete the game!
Then the — oh, you don't want to know.
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anybody else here fed up?
Apologies for the technical glitch, dmg. Our time stamp indicates you left this comment on June 11, 2008. Surely “anybody else here fed up?” had to be submitted a month or possibly a year ago.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Now I'm scared. Maybe putting Alou and Castillo on the same team finally removed the remaining bad karma from the Cubs. Someone get Steve Bartman a goat farm to tend out in the picnic area, and hire Ron Santo away from WGN to do color commentary as he paces in front of the opposing team's dugout.
Streaks aren't coming together at all. Pitching is terrible when the bats are working and vice versa. Tom Seaver comes on to talk with Ron and Gary tonight and says he doesn't really watch baseball anymore, but instead likes to discuss his boring vineyard. It just seems like we've been cursed. For more than a year now. What brought this on us!
Yeah, it looks like Willie is playing the role of Kent Desormeaux, and the Mets are being eased. The only problem with that analogy is that Big Brown at least won some races before the Belmont.
My Mets pain was eased slightly with my Hanshin Tigers (40-18) winning tonight against Matsuzaka's old team the Seibu Lions. They're in the middle of interleague play here.
The Lions' starting pitcher was none other than Kaz Ishii. He had to leave the game in the 3rd inning after being hit by a line drive from the bat of my favourite player, Kanemoto.
This guy is 40 years old, batting .340 this year and is currently in a streak of over 1200 consecutive games playing all nine innings. He broke Cal Ripken's record of 903 games which he set during that other streak. A couple of years ago he had a hairline fracture in his wrist but was still driving in runs with his one good hand. They only have a 140-game season in Japan but it's still not to be sneezed at.
Do you reckon the Mets could do worse than sign him for next year?
That's it. I concede.
It's become painfully apparent that nobody in this organization — from the Wilpons on down to the batboys — actually gives a damn about winning.
CitiField, SNY, the back pages. That's what they care about.
If they don't care, why should I? I'll go to the games for which I already have tickets, I'll watch on TV — sometimes — just to while away some time. But living & dying with each win & loss? I'm done with that for this year.
And if they somehow surprise us all and actually do turn it around — yeah, riiiiiiight — no one will be more shocked than I…
I tune in just to watch the progress at Citifield.
40 years old you say? Why, he'd fit right in on this team! Sign him Omar!
Greg was actually first to figure out what's bringing it on us: the CitiField Preview Center.
I got tickets for Pelf vs Webb tonight.
It's kind of strange to go to a Met game with ZERO expectations of a win. I haven't felt this way since Art Howe.
Amen, Charlie. I'm now in the mindset that if the Mets get one win out of the two Giants games I've got tickets for next month, I'll be supremely fortunate.
Yeccchhh….
Let's lower our expectations. How about we hope for an 82-80 season and hope that no other 2nd place team plays better, thus giving us an improbable wildcard playoff berth.
To do that, they've had to play above-.500 ball for the rest of the year. I don't see them doing that.
they've had = they'd have. Oops.
If they don't care, why should I? I think I posted that last year and earlier this year here. My life no longer revolves around whether this team wins or loses. Taking Metro North home last night, and checking the score on my BBerry, it was 5-3. By the time I got to my car, and heard all about Wagner and Schoenweis helping to pull the tarp on, it was 5-5. I was like, Maine went 5? My 10 year old said, “yeah, 100 pitches”. Damn these pitch counts. I went to bed, being none too suprised to hear the final. Then I read the News this morning and there was a big team meeting and apparently, they've decided 92 wins will get them in the wild card, so they're going to go 62-29 the rest of the year.
In what universe are these guys living??
http://www.bugsandcranks.com/new-york-mets/six-step-overhaul/
Interesting take on the season