Taking 2 of 3 in WSH was nice. I forgot something: our hitting doesn’t need to be the best in the league. It is our pitching that will carry us. Our hitting being excellent would be an A++ perk, but if it is good to very good, we have a shot at the title.
We honor the ’86 Mets this weekend. I hope they tell our boys what’s good. It’s all about grit. Maybe don’t emulate the rampant drug use, but otherwise you want to be like this team. No friends. No bullshit. Unite under the goal: championship over all.
I love the clubhouse chemistry (horses and all). I don’t always love the performance (Terry, David…) but the chemistry is there. Now we just need the ’86 GRIIIIIIIT.
Pray for Harvey, yes yes. Tommy John takes two years. This is what Strasburg looked like for a while, too. It’ll be fine. DL him and let him recover.
But what about this lineup?
Curtis Granderson, RF
Asdrubal Cabrera, SS
Michael Conforto, LF
Yoenis Cespedes, CF
Neil Walker, 2B
Eric Campbell, 1B
Kevin Plawecki, C
Ty Kelly, 3B
Matt Harvey, RHP
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It’s not that sweet! Soup hit a meaningless dinger. But we’re not scoring. Pray for Duda. Pray for TDA. This lineup is NOT the juggernaut that our “on paper” lineup was. This is trouble. The Mets are looking into James Loney. Do something, Sandy! We really aren’t scoring. And we know TDA is dead forever.
Eatin up lefties as always! Beatin up Gio as always!
Grandy in instead of Conforto? Pushing all the right buttons, TC. Let the kid play, dammit. Even if Grandy went 4 for 4, it’s still the wrong call. Glad he took one for the team. Ended up scoring on Cap’n’s blast. The hbp rattled Gio. Well done, Curtis. I know why TC loves you batting leadoff. We all do. But Conforto needs to be out there somehow someway keep coming up with funky new shit like every single day.
Even Soup got a sac fly. Choooof. Unless they move Conforto to 1B or let Ty Kelly (the new Jelly) play, I think we’re stuck with Soup. Pray for him.
Mets not really hitting against doodoo Brew Crew? Not nice. Got the sweep? Yeeeeeeah buuuuuut we didn’t hit well.
Duda getting a 2nd MRI? Not nice. DEAD! TDA also dead. Wright dying. Way to walk it off on Saturday. 3-0 cookie yum yum. Hardest hit ball I’ve seen off his bat in a while. Pray.
How bout Conforto plays 1st, Reynolds plays 3rd, and Lagares plays CF? That might not be so bad. I’m a 1B/LF and it works for me so it’ll work for Conforto. We are kin, yay.
Yeah, Harvey stinks. We get it. He emptied the tank last November. His bladder’s got a blood clot. His head’s not in the right place. We get it. We get it. Remember Strasburg had a few shitty years, too, before becoming the elite pitcher he is right now. Ebb and flow and all that bullshit.
But more importantly, Harvey is only out there for one out of five or so games. WHAAAAT THE FUUUUCCK happened to the hitting? We are scoring LESS THAN 2 FUCKING RUNS per game!!
Oh, and also, I ain’t mad at Asdrubal because he’s been a godsend, but if he doesn’t bobble that ball, we’re out of the 3rd inning unscathed. Instead, the wheels fell off because Harvey is lacking confidence (?) and couldn’t pick up his fielders. This was a game where the team needed to pick Harvey up and it just didn’t happen.
Even if Asdrubal makes that play, it was already 2-1 Nats and we didn’t score again. Soooooo, fuck it. We can’t hit for shit. That’s the issue right now. Harvey will work it out one start at a time. Run him out there. It’s a new season and he’s got arm fatigue, just like deGrom. They’re gonna have to deal with it. 6-man rotation when Wheeler gets back? Maybe put Verrett in there now?
Again, all of this is bullshit. It’s the hitting. End of story. We’re not scroing. You can’t win this way. It’s boring and painful, too. We look like the pre-Cespedes Mets of last year. By the way, last May 20th, we were 23-18. This year, we’re 22-18. Errrrr, yeah, Mets blow.
But this team is too good not to break out of this funk. Everyone has funky stretches. The cream rises to the top. No better time to break out of this bullshit than in Colorado. Wait, fuck. That happened already and we didn’t hit for shit. Wow, Mets blow, huh? Ummm…well…the Brewers are in town now. Sooooo, time to fucking hit, right? They’ve got just about the worst team ERA in the majors. You know who has worse? The Rockies! OOOOOOOOPS.
P.S. It was nice seeing Murph again. Murphyball will hurt the Nats somewhere down the road, but for the most part he’s a gem and is forever cemented in some amazin’ Mets lore. I don’t think the crowd will be giving Cap’n Kirk 3-dingers the same ovation this week, but let it be known that in classic METS disease fashion, Kirk, no longer in a Mets uniform, is having a solid season so far.
Chooooof. Fuck Scherzer. We came home, Grandy & Conforto hit solo dingers, and that’s all we needed.
1 down. Now Tolo (and both of his families) look to shut down the Nats again. We’re facing Gio. We’re fuuuuucked. We actually need Wright for this one, but his back is duuuuunzo.
Why does anyone give a shit about Tolo’s personal life? I guess he’s just so sexy that people have to know. Leave him and his bastards alone.
Deadpool: TDA never plays for the Mets again? Odds 2:1. He’s in Cali now with a personal trainer. He ain’t comin back.
Swept by the Rockies, huh? Can’t hit at Coors? Terry with an awful hook? Umps with awful eyes?
Now we come home. Be resilient. The Kershaw hangover took a whole weekend but now we finally get a day off and come home. We’ve been hitting at home. Hell, Yo popped one at Coors. So things are coming around.
TC got tossed after umpire Carlos Torres cheated.
Did Wolters foul tip that pitch? No. Were we cheated by umpire Carlos Torres and the rest of em? Absolutely. Does that matter? Yes, but it’s not the only thing that matters.
The Rockies got a massive break and replay is broken. Both of these are facts. Here’s another fact: we’re not hitting in Coors Field and that’s fucking pathetic. If you don’t score 8 runs per game here, don’t expect to win. Our bats are ice cold and that’s why we lost, end of story.
Why is everyone throwing all these lame ass excuses around? Oh, Harvey pitched like shit because it’s Colorado? Oooook, so why didn’t we hit, then? Kershaw hangover?
Reality check: Harvey can’t get through five without being shelled. Some bad OF defense didn’t help his cause, but both teams played shitty OF-D (so many balls under gloves…was it the wind?) so it evened out. He got shelled, end of story.
Reality check: This lineup is in a slump a duuuump.
If we take the next two, it’s a successful road trip. But that’s a big if. Like I said at the outset, this was a ridiculous piece of our schedule. No days off and long flights and whatnot. But get tough, now. The Rockies aren’t good. Where are our bats?
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