2009 Mets Season Thread

[BigEd76]

They beat the Giants and Rockies at home.  Even the Phils pulled that one off.

Let's see how they do when they're done beating up on the NL West.  They only have 3 games left against the Padres.

ill say it real quietly so noone hears they also beat up on the phillies

Thank you for saying it so I didn't have to.  Selective memory is a muthafarga.

two of those wins were against Tom Gordon and Adam Eaton, so they don't count 

[PhillyPhreak54]

Updating King vs. Joe...

Hamels:

9-6
3.15ERA
2 CG
142.2IP
112 H
52 R
50 ER
18 HR
34 BB
1.02 WHIP
.214 BAA
126 K's

Santana:

8-7
3.10 ERA
0 CG
130.2 IP
122 H
53 R
45 ER
16 HR
38 BB
1.19 WHIP
.241 BAA
116 K's

[Seabiscuit36]

King:  .277 Batting Avg

Johan: .128

[ice grillin you]

johan: venezuelua

king: so cal


advantage santana

[Don Ho]

johan: venezuelua

king: so cal


advantage santana

don't farg with the OC.  Cole might run over with his convertable miata.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Wahhhhh I couldn't use Shea to throw a bullpen session! 

Glass Houses

glass.jpgEven though my colleague Anthony Rieber is handling the Mets this weekend in Cincy, I couldn't resist chiming in on Johan Santana's excuse for last night's pitiful outing. Santana made sure to mention how he was unable to have his regular bullpen session this week because Shea was shuttered in preparation for the two Billy Joel concerts.

He didn't actually say "Billy Joel concerts." Santana just referred to "stuff" going on at Shea. We'll just assume he meant the Piano Man. Weak.

************ UPDATE (4:22 P.M.) **************

Just spoke with Rieber, who was part of the interview session around Santana, and he says that the two-time Cy Young winner was not using Shea's unavailability as an excuse. When asked if the long All-Star layoff bothered him, Santana simply mentioned that he couldn't get into Shea for his regular bullpen session. But he didn't want to use that as an excuse.

OK, but if Santana, the team's $137.5-million ace, needed to throw a bullpen, someone should have made it happen somewhere. Just saying. And was it only a coincidence that Santana followed with one of the worst innings of his career?

******************************** (ANOTHER UPDATE, 5:31 p.m.)*****
Rieber here from Cincy. After I talked to Dave, I talked to Santana, who gave me a piece of information he didn't give reporters last night. He said he found out before the break that Shea was not going to be available because of the Joel concerts, so he moved his bullpen session up to Sunday -- four days before his start. He would have liked to have thrown another on Tuesday, but with Shea unavailable he decided not to look for an alternate site. That was his choice.

Now, was he using the lack of a bullpen session on Tuesday as an excuse? As Dave says above, i didn't think he was. Others who were there last night think he was. BUT, Santana is an excuse-maker, just as Tom Glavine is and Mike Mussina is. Last night I thought Santana did take as much of the blame as any other time I've heard him, and even today he told me, "It was just one of those games."

So I think it's OK to rip him for being an excuse-maker in general. And it's OK to question why, if throwing a bullpen on Tuesday was so important to his preparation, he didn't make other arrangements.

Posted by David Lennon on July 18, 2008 11:34 AM | Permalink

[The BIGSTUD]

back to reality

[Feva]

If by "reality", you mean... 1st place tie... you'd be correct sir.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

FEAR JOE BLANTON

[Geowhizzer]

FEAR JOE BLANTON

I already do... oh, you meant the Mets fans... whoops.

[Feva]

FEAR JOE BLANTON

[Geowhizzer]

Yeah, he might eat Jose Reyes for lunch.  Literally.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

2008 Joe Blanton is to 1993 David West

[phillymic2000]

  TO THE METS

[Rome]