Mets Off-Season Thread

[DH]

1...tonights the night.

[BigEd76]

first round exit

[Feva]

For our opponent?  I agree...

[Feva]

So we've got to hold off for another day....

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

ESPN.com's recap of the Phillies game actually says the Phillies "kept their slim division title hopes alive" or some shtein like that.  I laughed heartily.

[Feva]

"So you're telling me there's a chance!!"

[MDS]

WERE TAKINTHIS ONE BABAY WAHAHHHOO

[PhillyPhreak54]

The New York Times

PITTSBURGH — The Mets were anticipating an emotional night, a night when Pedro Martinez pitched for the first time in more than a month and had the chance to guide them to a long-awaited division title. It was poised to be a celebratory scene, one that might have been laced with a few joyful tears.
But the tears the Mets witnessed Friday night were not happy ones. Martinez shed a few after three disappointing innings against the Pittsburgh Pirates, lowering his head to weep in the dugout. His eyes turned puffy, and manager Willie Randolph consoled him.
How did Martinez's potentially memorable game with the Mets turn into this emotional meltdown? Martinez said he had no abnormal pain in his strained right calf, which might have been reason for a grown man to cry. Instead, Martinez was perturbed that his weeks of rehabilitation showed scant results in a 5-3 loss at PNC Park.
"Everybody is human and everybody has weak points," Martinez said. "Today was one time where I would snap on anybody after I came out of that game because I knew I didn't achieve what I was looking for and I didn't feel the way that I was hoping to."
Though Martinez said he merely came close to crying, the television cameras indicated that his eyes were moist. Perhaps he meant that he had not cried like a wailing baby and had only wiped away a few tears.
"I was about to snap and let it all out," Martinez said. "Thank God Willie told me it was going to be OK. I couldn't talk to Willie because I knew tears were going to come out."
Randolph called Martinez's emotional display "a natural thing," and added, "That's Pedro." The manager said Martinez was frustrated, nothing more, and that his calf did not bother him.
"I didn't see him crying," Randolph said. "That's what someone said. He wasn't boo-hoo crying."

What a Hoyda.

[MDS]

Is you syr-i-ous?

[Geowhizzer]

There's no crying in baseball!

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

WERE TAKINTHIS ONE BABAY WAHAHHHOO

Someone did one too many 8-balls last night.

[MDS]

I don't remember much, but I do remember smoking this really strong type of weed. That must have been it.

[DH]

Tommorow maybe?

[MDS]

It's never gonna happen. Phils win the division. Book it.

[Feva]

At this rate... you might be right.