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Seven Reasons This Is a Very Short Post
by Jason Fry on 15 May 2015 9:26 pm 1. Bartolo Colon sucked.
2. Wilmer Flores made another error.
3. The bats did zero against a guy who came in with an ERA north of 7.
4. Dilson Herrera, one of the only players worth watching in this disaster, broke his fingertip and is headed for the DL.
5. Herrera will be replaced on the roster not by Matt Reynolds but by Eric Campbell. because when things are going great you don’t rock the boat.
6. I could go on, but fuck this bullshit. It’s still early; go salvage your Friday night.
7. Oh wait, it’s raining.
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I hate to be a pessimist about this team, I really do. But when I am, I’m almost always right.
And Eric Campbell, really? What’s the matter, Josh Satin isn’t available?
Where have you gone Joe McEwing.
Didn’t Herrera injure himself during practice? Ugh.
I didn’t think I’d hit the point of total disgust this early in the year, especially after that awesome start. But here we are, with some guy with a 5.85 ERA mowing us down to the tune of three freaking hits. I mean come on, man. Maybe it’s time to send TC packing, I don’t know. Maybe it’ll help, maybe it won’t. Do they make some cockamamie trade? For who? Is one guy going to make that much of a difference? And if anyone that good is available, why and how much does it cost? Besides, as soon as they make the deal whoever they’d get would immediately blow a quad or a knee or a finger and hit the DL for three months, then he’d come back and hit .182 the rest of the way.
20-16
Quality pitching staff
Lots of injuries
Ugly losing streak
Long season
Panic moves are almost always bad moves
The Mets do need to get Wright and d’Arnaud back and reintegrated before they make any moves because they are obviously much worse offensively without those two. Blevins, Mejia, and other reinforcements for the bullpen will help too.
But no matter what, they have to find another elite bat and tighten up the middle-infield defense, which, you know, is what we were all saying all off-season.
It’s frustrating because this season was supposed to be different. They were obviously not as good as 13-3. I don’t think they’re as bad as the 7-13 that’s followed. So are the Mets just a .500-ish work in progress? I still believe in the starting pitching. When does the rest of this team come together?
And PS, why NOT take a look at Matt Reynolds?
I wonder whether the noble, yet ever so slightly degenerated Romans had themselves one last orgy before the Visigoths stormed the gates and savaged and ravaged them.
If so, I should tune in to Goldilocks getting no run support at 7pm, an always grueling 1am over here.
For Rome will fall tonight, unless the Visigoths can’t be bothered to beat the Padres again.
I think the deal with Eric Campbell is, every time he comes up he hits well for a week or two before settling back to his normal level, and the team sure could use it right now. But I’m not sure if that applies when its only been about two weeks since he was sent down.
I don’t think he’s been gone long enough. I think that he is officially still in his previous sucky phase.
It’s not that they’re losing, it’s how. The dead-eyed two hits per night shuffle is extremely disconcerting. Obviously it’s baseball, you run hot & cold over the course of 162 games. But watching some journeyman handle us like he’s 1968 Bob Gibson pains me. I’m 100% against some idiotic panic trade, it’s not gonna help anyway.
We need: to have faith in the starting pitching (Harvey is very good, deGrom and Syndergaard are good, Colon is mostly good, and Niese has his moments); play Tejada at short until something better emerges; play Flores at second until Wright returns, then sit him and play Murphy at second; hope that Black and Parnell are back soon to provide better late-inning support; hope that Cuddyer, Granderson, Duda and Murphy can hit with greater consistency; and hope that Wright and d’Arnaud get back soon. And most of all, go with the flow.
So that’s what they really needed…withering hysterical criticism! Boy they sure do suck, let’s go Mets!