From Giantsfootballbog.com to HotFoot, here I am, and if you are a die hard Mets fan I feel you must know these 10 things before watching any more games this year:
1) When any member of the Mets medical staff or front office says a player “can’t get any worse by playing,” what he actually means is “Not only will said player get worse, but …ummm…no no that’s it he will get worse, or at the very best, play on and be completely useless”
2) When Jerry Manuel says he will go with the hot bat, due to injury’s, what he actually means is this: “I will go with whomever is hot and gangsta, unless a lefty gets hot and we face a lefty the next day, sorry Murph and Church, not you Jeremy Reed you’re never hot, nor are you gangsta. Oh and of course my boy Fernando Tatis will play through anything as he once hit 2 grand slams in one inning – that stuff was beyond gangsta, hold on some stat guy just gave me this – Apparently Tatis is hitting 227 in May, 255 in June and has an overall 689 OPS – but that stat nerd must not have seen those gangsta salamis! Gangsta! (I hate it that the Mets coach uses the term Gangsta, sorry, but imagine Obama started using this term- terrifying)
3) When discussing the Mets current strengths with fellow writer Rob Harding we concluded that it was the in fact the DL, the DL is the Mets strength….that is not a good thing.
4) Razor Shines is just a ridiculous name…ABOSLUTELY RIDICULOUS…I still believe that my high school Home Ec teacher (Miss Wexler) could have done a better job then Sandy Alomar and Shines was proving me right until the other night when he actually waved Luis Castillo in from third base while standing in the basepath.
5) Most prospects are just that, prospective stars, most stay that way. The key is keeping the Wright’s of the world and dumping the Escobars, Ochoas and Humbers….but you know this. Of course three weeks ago we all knew that Parnell was untouchable…yikes, sometimes you have to sell high. Tell me some of you aren’t thinking Evans may actually be a 25 80 guy now?
6) Alex Cora is a great backup…but if I have to here the word “winner” ever again I will cut someone. Winning teams have players with great OBP’s, OPS, Slugging and even VORP. Call me a nerd but stats actually matter in baseball, personality? Not so much. I love Cora, but the Mets need their all stars back immediately.
7) That said, Jose Reyes is not coming back any time soon. He is a player who NEEDS his legs. When the Mets sniffed a leg injury he should have been on the DL that very moment. A tear in the hamstring is an 8 week injury for most (see Phil Hughes last year), but for a guy like Reyes, who needs his legs, it should be longer….PLEASE LET IT BE LONGER, we need him healthy for years to come.
8) Why does Dan Warthen look like a better fit for the three stooges then a baseball coach? Do you think he has any idea who Elmer Dessens is?
9) Citifield is gorgeous, but wwwwwwwaaaaaayyyyy to big. So there’s a banbox in the Bronx and a cavernous desert where baseballs go to die horrible, lonely deaths in Queens. Any time a guy, who hits 30 homeruns a year, has to change his approach because a park is to big you have a problem.
10) If you could trade all 25 Mets for any 10 in the league would you do it? I would make a case for Lincecum, Joe Mauer, Longoria, Hanley, Kinsler, Kemp, Cain, Volquez, Adam Jones. I’m going with youth, so when I draft these guys will all be in their primes….it’s just fun, give it a shot, don’t read into it too much.
OK so some of these aren’t things you have to know, but all in all I hope they may make your viewing expereince more pleasurable. Hell, listening to Jon Tesh while watching two girls with one cup would be better then last nights second inning, right?. To crass?
Pete Lappin (3)
