Filthy

Sorry that I haven't posted... its finals for me it sucks but we won 4 straight so why not...

Its really discusting.  The Phillies arent good.  David Wright is amazing.  One homer short of the cycle. It seems like each night the Mets take the field its usually Wright or Reyes one hit short of a cycle... I am loving baseball right now.  Tonight Johan looked great 10 Ks ??? Are you kidding me? 7 innings of great baseball for Santana.  Johan (2-2) completely blew out the second best lefty in baseball, Cole Hamels.  Hamels let up eight hits on 4 earned runs in 7 innings, Cole got torn apart in Citizens bank... A big help went to Davey who went 4-4 with 2 RBIs and a BB. Santana left in the eighth after letting up two consec. base hits the heilman let up a jack to the right field seats ... then the bullpen strengthened and held it up for the remainder of the game.

Big win... Lets continue this series strong

Why I went to sleep smiling, Nice.

Let me count the ways:

1- Godson (Davey) had five RBI's, including his 4th Homerun on the season. He now has 15 RBI's in 12 games, nice.

2- I was going be content with just seeing him not get hurt and on the field again, but Reyes had four hits, including almost achieving a natural cycle, nice.

3- Mike "mouthpiece" Pelfrey pitched 7 scoreless innings. Lets go Big Pelf. After starting last season 0-7 before being sent down. He is 2-0 this season with a 1.50 ERA, nice.

4- L-Millz after belting a double in the first, really struggled the rest of the game. It just seemed that he was trying to pull everything. Hmm is that why we got rid of him, nice.

5- Beltran, after grounding into an inning ending double play earlier in the game, redeemed himself with a solid RBI single in the seventh.

6- And most importantly. Duaner Sanchez made his return last night, pitching a scoreless ninth inning. And what do you think he said after the game about the standing ovation he received when jogging out from the bullpen, " Everything was perfect,...That was really NICE."

100

I went to my first game of this season on Sunday and although the result was not what I was looking for, Im glad baseball is back. The Mets won just one game the Brew Crew, with Nelson Figeruoa getting the 4-2 W on Friday Night. Baseball tonight noted that Figeruoa is the only player in Major league history to have all five vowels in his last name. Saturday was not one Mets fans want to remember. Santana pitched poorly and was booed as he left the mound. Now while im not against booing anyone who wears a jersey and gets paid millions to do his job, but still Johan in his first game at shea, CMON METS Fans, really?

Now onto Sunday. My gameball goes to David Wright, who hit his 100th career HR. Im just glad i was there to see it. In typical David fashion he showed his tremendous power to opposite field. In a game where the Mets scored 7 runs, the pitching and sloppy play really killed them. Brady Clark made a costly base running blunder in the 8th. The Mets grounded into four double plays. Ollie couldnt hold a 6-2 lead. Sosa gave up a couple in relief. All runs the Mets couldnt afford. Lets put this Brewers series behind us and prepare for the Nats boys. L-MILlz is coming back to town, and you know hes going to come to play.

Willie learned about specialists this game..I was impressed

The Philth is cleaned out, Now let's grab a Brew

After losing opening day and having everyone this side of the East River in an uproar over this team's future, the Mets came out and took the final two games from the Philths (suck) to bring the team back to .500 on the season, and hopefully, well never go under that again. So now the Mets sit 1 and 1/2 games behind the Marlins (no joke). And This is why April is the best time of the year (excluding October and maybe September of course). Teams are full hope. I mean, the Orioles lead the AL East, the Royals lead the AL central, and the baseball gods continue to enjoy themselves as the new season begins to unfold. Now you know these teams cant last, they dont have lineups, they dont have bullpens, they dont have rotations(minus the Royals, whose big 3 most teams would trade for), but for now they have a swagger and thats all you need to win a few games.

Swagger is an interesting word. The Mets had it all of 2006, and even for most of 2007. But many began to question, whether the Mets had lost that with the epic collapse of last season. I'm saying right here, right now, a series win over the Philths(suck) will get that swagger back. The Mets won in walk off fashion on Thurs night, as out hottest hitter, Angel(straight from heaven) Pagan saved Heilman's ass coming through with a monstrous game ending single. Is it just me (and Rob) but has Angel Pagan, been the reason we have won 4 games this season. It just seems like to me whenever there are men on, he's coming through. He began the season with RBI's in the first four games of the season only the 5th Met ever to do that. He's so hot Mets fans are starting to question what Willie will do (most likely the wrong decision) when Mosies come back. Now I'm not going that far, but he's 24 and he looks great right now, and the Mets are winning games, So I'm happy.

The State of the Bullpen is one which we can surely start blaming Willie for.
Will Met fans please stop booing Schoenweiss. Willie is the one who sets him up for failure. He shouldnt be facing right handed batters in tight games, It's Willies fault if he is. Now it two consecutive tight spots, he induced inning ending double plays, Good job scott, you Duke shitbag. Heilman, looks dreadful right now. He's not hitting his spots. Leaving meaty pitches over the heart of the plate, simple not performing like a lock down eighth inning pitcher. Duaner, please come back already. Wagner and Smith have been solid so far this season. And good job to Muniz for pitching two scoreless innings this far.

We need to start hitting. But for now 4-4, aint that bad. Time to battle the Brew Crew.

Things Willie needs to learn:
1- The Wheel Play
2- Left handed and Right handed specialists
3- Squeeze Bunts

Jordan Schafer loves HGH

Jordan Schafer, the braves higly touted centerfield prospect "destined" to roam CF for years replacing Andruw Jones, has been suspended for 50 games in violation of the minor league HGH drug policy. After leading the minor league's last season with 176 hits, this future bravo is tainted. Now the braves are stuck with Kotsay playign CF. Schafer was only batting .091 for the Braves Double-A team. I guess the future isnt now.

13,720

Yup, that was the attendance last night on hand at Dolphin Stadium to witness the mets 13-0 drubbing of the Florida Marlins.  I would say more than half of those people were chanting a premature "MVP MVP MVP" when Davey came up to bat.  Wright was explosive in last night's rebound win, taking the rubber game from the Marlins to get the Mets off to a 2-1 start to the 2008 campaign.  Wright hit a single, a double, and a 3 run BOMB (when I say bomb i mean this went left the park), with 3 RBIs and just a triple short of the cycle.  Angel Pagan helped out with another RBI, Pagan has at least an RBI every game this season.  Ryan Church also jacked one over the fence bringing in 2 runs, Church hit a nice 3-5.  Beltran was also hot last night hitting 3 doubles( one of which hit the top of the fence and clearly should have been ruled a home-run).  What it comes down to is what we are going to see all season long... The mets offense really really showed up last night and it was great to see and we should expect to see this from them night in, night out. 

On the other side of ball, with such a bad start to the day, knowing Pedro would be out on the 15 day DL with a strained left hamstring, Oliver Perez got it done, plain and simple.  O.P got his first start of the season and really looked outstanding.  Perez pitched 6 scoreless innings, allowing 5 hits and  1 walk while striking out 8 Marlins.  As usual, his slider looked better then ever and it was just really a great outing for him.  The bullpen stepped in to finish off the game and also could not have looked better. What I really would like to point out is our new 5th starter Nelson Figueroa came in for an inning a pitched a perfect inning.  Figueroa will probably only get one shot as a started since El Duque should be back by the time he would have a second start, and eventually Pedro will be healthy after that.

The mets really had a great game and are going into an off day and then a series in Atlanta on a really good note.  With the offense that the Mets displayed last night, no teams will be able to match that type of play.  Good Job Boys, now go crush Tommy and co. 

Not So Perfect

Maybe this is an opportunity for Pelfrey to step up and show the Mets and all of the Shea faithful what he's got. What I can't understand is how Pedro could have hurt his hamstring. Coming off a Spring where he supposedly was healthier then ever, one pitch turns him into a piece a spaghetti. Now I hope this injury isn't serious, but with Pedro you know that just not gonna be the case. All I can think about is how I wish Brian Bannister was on the team. I get upset when the Mets lose. I'm in a bad mood all next day. I understand this isn't healthy but I cant do anything about it. Robert Andino? Who the heck is that? 81 career at bats? Are you kidding me? TO me the problem was Matt Wise who had struck out the two guys before Andino did not realize that an 81 mph changeup isn't a changeup to a single A caliber player, its a fastball. And he really got a hold of that one. Damn it.

On the bright side, the Mets came back from a 4-0 deficit with nice hitting, not leaving runners on base, moving guys over, sac flies, it was good baseball. Our Bullpen was great. Sosa, Heilman, and Schoenweiss did thier job magnificently. We have the best bullpen in the NL. And we havent even seen Billy yet. Nice. Brian Schnieder was 3-4, I thought he cant hit. The Highs and lows of the baseball season are killer one day to the next is ridiculous. I love baseball.

In honor of my love of Brian Bannister, I would like to name my Top 5 worst Minaya moves.
1)Brian Bannister for Burgoix - Really Omar
2)Heath Bell - Traded for nothing
3)Lindstrom and Owens - Traded for nothign again? nice give away young arms for nothing
4)2004 Draft - Passed on Phil Hughes
5)2005 Draft - Passed on OF's Cameron Maybin, Travis Buck and Jacoby Ellsbury, Jay Bruce and Colby Rasmus, and Matt Garza, Clay Bucholz

Perfect

How much better could the 2008 season have started. "He's as good as advertised" Wright said. "A pleasure to watch" Willie added, " A joy to catch" Schneider was quoted as saying. All of course refereing to the Amazin Johan Santana who's changeup was filthy in a 7-2 drubbing of the lowly Marlins. Sure you can make the argument that Johan is making 2 million dollars more this year then entire Marlin's roster combined, but still. He went 7, gave up 2 runs on 3 hits, and had 8 strikeouts to just one walk. Wow, he looked great in that uniform yesterday, starting the day and ending it with a nasty K on Ramirez and Traner respectivelly.

The Mets bats came alive at least in one inning, where they sent 10 to the plate in the fourth, scoring 6 runs, the highest single inning output in Mets opening day history. Hope you like that run support Johan, you'll be getting it all year. Beltran and Wright both had two doubles, along with Reyes two hits, to fuel the mets offense. Even the newcomers contributed with RBI's from Pagan and Church. Scheneider did what he does best making an outstanding slide to stop an errant castillo ball from heading out of play. Overall, it was a great day to wear the orange and blue. 1 down, 161 more.

-Both Reyes and Wright were caught stealing when both were safe on replay. Reyes wasnt even close, and Wright made an outstanding slide but was still called out.
-Both the Phillies and the Braves Bullpen were terrible yesterday while the Mets held strong. Willie's gut call to go with Sosa over Heilman worked out wonderfully. When asked after the game,he responded "It wasnt a tight situation".Good Call Willie.
- Baseball Tonight refered to Lastings Milledge(who homered and scored three runs yesterday, as former great met. When did that happen? Also on BBTN, when they did that OH my God highlight of Texeira, he's tapping Ruben Gotay on the shoulder.