There have been reports after yesterday's clusterfuck of a game that once John Maine comes back from the DL, he will be put in the bullpen and Eddie Kunz will close when Hilbilly Wagner comes back from the DL.
I hate to say this, but I told ya so in this post on June 29th.
Doing this is just like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Yesterday was the Mets 8th loss when leading after the 8th inning, do you understand how fucking bad that is? They have got to have one of the worst, IF the worst bullpen in the major leagues and thats even WITH Wagner in the pen. Wagner leads the league with blown saves, but he's the savior.
In the words of Adam Sandler's song Ode to My Car:
OH FUCK ME.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Monday, August 4, 2008
Attn: Omar
I'm sure most of you all saw the blown save by Billy Wagner on Saturday against his old team, the Houston Astros. Given a 2 run lead "Hilbilly" promptly gave up 2 runs and the game was tied up at 4 and wunderkind Aaron Heilman gave up the winning run in the next inning. Wunderbar!
I was also watching the Yankees vs. Angels the night before and watched Francisco Rodriguez make A-Rod completely stupid (which isn't hard to do in a clutch situation) on a changeup. He got the save, you think Wagner would have gotten that save? Hell's no.
What I am telling Omar to do is this. Sign K-Rod.
Yes that's right, he is a free agent after this year and is only 26 years old and will be 27 in January.
You have to sign this guy, give him whatever he wants. He is on pace for 66 saves this year and has been pretty unhittable this year. If Billy Wagner says that he is a team player he would welcome the move because it makes the team better. Wagner in the 8th, Rodriguez in the 9th. You shorten the game to 7 innings too, now we all know Wagner's ego would take a shot in the arm and his overopinated ass would probably mouth off to the many newspapers of New York City. You know what I'd say to him if I were Minaya?
"Tough shit, you didn't get the job done when the team needed it most." Which is 100 percent true, it always seems Wagner's blown saves are always in big situations and when the team always needs a win. I've said it before and I will say it again this year, Wagner has never had a big save in his career as an Astro, Phillie or Met, NEVER and I'm sure he never will.
I want to see this man closing out games in Citi Field next year.
I was also watching the Yankees vs. Angels the night before and watched Francisco Rodriguez make A-Rod completely stupid (which isn't hard to do in a clutch situation) on a changeup. He got the save, you think Wagner would have gotten that save? Hell's no.
What I am telling Omar to do is this. Sign K-Rod.
Yes that's right, he is a free agent after this year and is only 26 years old and will be 27 in January.
You have to sign this guy, give him whatever he wants. He is on pace for 66 saves this year and has been pretty unhittable this year. If Billy Wagner says that he is a team player he would welcome the move because it makes the team better. Wagner in the 8th, Rodriguez in the 9th. You shorten the game to 7 innings too, now we all know Wagner's ego would take a shot in the arm and his overopinated ass would probably mouth off to the many newspapers of New York City. You know what I'd say to him if I were Minaya?
"Tough shit, you didn't get the job done when the team needed it most." Which is 100 percent true, it always seems Wagner's blown saves are always in big situations and when the team always needs a win. I've said it before and I will say it again this year, Wagner has never had a big save in his career as an Astro, Phillie or Met, NEVER and I'm sure he never will.
I want to see this man closing out games in Citi Field next year.
Friday, August 1, 2008
All quiet on the Flushing front
As the trade "deadline" came and past yesterday (In my mind, no such thing as a trade deadline..trades are always made after the July 31 st deadline) the Mets didn't make any moves. Now we all know the front office has been a cluster fuck since the Steve Phillips days, but I digress. One of the rumors
I read was the Mets were looking at trading Scott Schowenweis? What? Why? Why make an already weak bullpen even weaker for a crappy outfielder from the Detroit Tigers. To me, this would make more harm than good, the outfielder the Mets were looking at was Marcus Thames I believe, who could hit 20 homers in 50 games or 5 in 5o, neither would surprise me.
Am I pissed off the Mets didn't wheel'n'deal? No, not really. I knew the Mets didn't have the chips
to make any deal for a decent outfielder (And neither did the fucking Yankees.) or even a good relief pitcher. I would have loved a George Sherill and/or Houston Street, but I realized the Mets didn't have the prospects to do so, well they did, but they chose not to. Personally, I would have loved to see Street in Mets blue and orange is so he can replace Hillbilly Wagner as closer in 2 years.
I'm not sure how much longer the Mets can play and play well with Fernando Tatis and Endy Chavez playing both outfield corner spots. Tatis is having a rejuevnation of sorts and we all know Chavez is best fit as a 4th outfielder and shouldn't be playing every day for 2 months.
In a post "deadline" conference call, Omar Minaya said he wasn't "afraid" of calling up the likes of Bobby Parnell, Jon Niese, Fernando Martinez or Eddie Kunz to the ball club in Queens and if any of them play like Nick Evans I will kill myself.
Once GM's saw the 718 area code, they decided not to answer.
I read was the Mets were looking at trading Scott Schowenweis? What? Why? Why make an already weak bullpen even weaker for a crappy outfielder from the Detroit Tigers. To me, this would make more harm than good, the outfielder the Mets were looking at was Marcus Thames I believe, who could hit 20 homers in 50 games or 5 in 5o, neither would surprise me.
Am I pissed off the Mets didn't wheel'n'deal? No, not really. I knew the Mets didn't have the chips
to make any deal for a decent outfielder (And neither did the fucking Yankees.) or even a good relief pitcher. I would have loved a George Sherill and/or Houston Street, but I realized the Mets didn't have the prospects to do so, well they did, but they chose not to. Personally, I would have loved to see Street in Mets blue and orange is so he can replace Hillbilly Wagner as closer in 2 years.
I'm not sure how much longer the Mets can play and play well with Fernando Tatis and Endy Chavez playing both outfield corner spots. Tatis is having a rejuevnation of sorts and we all know Chavez is best fit as a 4th outfielder and shouldn't be playing every day for 2 months.
In a post "deadline" conference call, Omar Minaya said he wasn't "afraid" of calling up the likes of Bobby Parnell, Jon Niese, Fernando Martinez or Eddie Kunz to the ball club in Queens and if any of them play like Nick Evans I will kill myself.
Once GM's saw the 718 area code, they decided not to answer.
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