Last night Long Island Met Fan and I went out to a great local Ale House to get a bite to eat, have a couple of beers, and watch and talk Mets baseball. We discussed John Maine and his failings over the last two seasons, and will he ever get to where he was in 2006 and 2007 (I don't have confidence in that).
Maine was abysmal once again, which has become more the norm for him. He isn't reliable anymore, and while they allowed Misch to be sent to AAA and allowed Figueroa to be claimed by Philadelphia yesterday, why was Maine assured a spot in this rotation? But, I digress...
Although last night's loss was a tough one, personally, I found it easier to stomach. Last year this team would have lost the game 9-1. This year they showed heart.
Granted, as my esteemed colleague stated, the Mets didn't have any "big" hits, but what they did do is show patience. Patience not only in their at bats, but patience in the manner in which they didn't panic, and mounted a four run comeback late in the game.
I know the relief corps was terrible (other than KRod), but the Mets must get more than five innings from a soon to be 29 year old starting pitcher. And even though they got nothing from any of their pitchers, they still hung tough and were competitive.
That is the positive I take from last night. I would rather go through a difficult season with a team that will compete every night, than a season where our team rolls over and dies.
All this, and there are 160 games left in the season. And people actually question whether this is the greatest sport!
Photos courtesy of CBS Sportsline.
5 comments:
kudos to the chicken wings~
sick of Maines excuses...Man up and get outs. That is your job. Try to have some life on your fastball. Move batters off the plate. His fastball just screams hit me.
Just one correcction, the BP was abysmal except for Krod, feliciano, and Nieve. And now that you mention that, had we used those three instead of Sean "shouldn't have made the teama nd cost the mets figgy" Green and Jenrry "he's only 20 and should be in AA starting" Mejia, AKA Jenrry "i was only supposed to be used in non-pressure situations" Mejia, we'd have won that game. Or perhaps at least bringin in Nieve in the tenth instaed of Hisanori "never thrown a major league pitch" Takashi.
anyway, just sayin...lol.
-Thomas
PS, other questionable caoching/management decisions that may have changed the outcome....not once but twice they took the bat out of our best hitters' hands with stupid baserunning decisions.
Thanks for the correction and input. Tatis' base running blunder hurt, but why wasn't Bay(?) tagging from third on the ball Coughlin airmailed to the backstop?
This Marlin team is one of the worst fielding teams in the NL, and should be challenged at every opportunity.
True, but that wasn'ta deep ball and given the sitaution i think Bay made the right choice, no need running into a third out, You can't count on a bad throw, had it been deeper, i'm sure Bay would've ran.
Bay seems to be a very bright spot so far.
bay's baserunning ability was a part of his game i had no idea of. He could teach clueless Pagan a thing or 2..
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