Thursday, June 21, 2007
BAKER STREET.
From The Ballclub:
“Dear New York Mets,
Enough already.”
Text exchange with Coop last night:
MG: “Tell your boyfriend to get with the program already.”
*OP gets taken out*
Coop: “Did you see him throw the glove? En fuego!”
MG: “Less glove throwing, more strike throwing.”
From Misery Loves Company:
“Game 70 - The Clown Car Calling Themselves the New York Mets…”
From Metstradamus:
“‘Oh the Butcher and the Baker and the people on the street…Where do they go?’
To beat the Mets!
At Shea Stadium.
Apparently.”
Even yesterday, the Twins fans were here on MG, assuring us that we’d have an easier time of it tonight. That, well, Johan does that sometimes, but Baker’s another story.
I guarantee you that if Scott Baker had pitched against any other team last night, he would have gotten humiliated.
My lesson to myself is, if I say I’m taking the night off, I need to take the night off. Not peek in the window of the Turkey’s Nest while walking home, to catch a few minutes of the game, or check out ESPN on my brand new web-enabled PDA, or say, “I’ll just watch a little bit while I eat dinner.” Luckily, tonight’s an off-night so a break is forced on me.
My final thought is this: for everyone who is clamoring for us to give away the farm to get starting pitching (which we don’t need), there’s an adage in the programming world that putting more programmers onto a project that’s in trouble only increases the risk. On the other hand, I would give just about anything to never have to see Shoen-sucks (credit TBF) or ‘Forfeit’ (credit Coop) ever, ever again.
Posted by Caryn at 12:55 PM
my brother from edina had a very difficult time wiping the sh@t-eating grin off of his face last night. you’d think for treating my bro to two (two!) games, i could’ve left the stadium one night with just a smidgen of pride. wake me up when june is over…
You know, even though I call him Just Forfeit, I had to feel kinda bad for Schoenewaste (another fave - credit Shari from Shea Faithful), he was literally booed off the field. Ding-ee and I were laughing at it, but I felt sorry for him.
i am so against booing the home team, but i admit it…i couldn’t help myself…i had to join in (a guy slumping is one thing; it’s not like a hitter can single-handedly lose games for the entire team. but schoenwuss has become a one-man disaster unit).
Schoen-the-door will undoubtedly be the next demotion/UR. Willie looked like he was doing everything in his power to keep from breaking that stoic stance and clubbing someone last night after Schoen-me-nothing’s performance.
I wonder if we’ll miss his surname…
I don’t think anyone’s booing any one person. Tuesday I really felt like it was a global, WTF kind of boo. We cant’ exactly communicate that in detail, so we boo (and, I too, am against booing the home team).
Did anyone see that bit on SNY about the players whose names are the toughest for the beat reporters to remember how to spell and get right? Shoen-whatever was on that list. I don’t think anyone will miss it.
WTF is “Edina”??
edina is a suburb of minneapolis and the former home of my one of my all-time favorite ballplayers: kirby puckett
I remain optimistic. And MG, you’ve got to go through this as a Mets fan. I started in ‘03 and ‘04 and felt the burn of defeat then. Coop’s felt it for much longer! I think you need a taste of adversity to be a Mets fan. Then the overcoming of it feels that much sweeter.
I think there’s a difference between adversity - a team trying its hardest - and a great team playing like crap. I know that the ride last year was unprecedented and didn’t expect it and didn’t expect it to happen automagically this year.
It’s not defeat I mind. It’s playing like shit. If I minded defeat I’d be leaving early. We stayed until the end on Tuesday. Hell, I was yelling at people blocking the field view, “Listen, we know we’re losing, but we’d still like to see the batter”. :)
what doesn’t kill us, only makes us, um, stronger?
I’m still optimistic. Hey look, The Braves and Phillies can’t win either. In fact, I think the last time a Philly one was 2 weeks ago at Belmont.
I don’t think anyone was more surprised by Baker’s “better than mediocre” game last night than the Twins fans. I honestly thought this game was going to be his ticket back to the minors.
Jen, have you ever been to Rochester?(Twins AAA affiliate) I’d be pitching pretty hard not to go there too.
The thing about baseball is that every team, no matter how good, goes through a slump during a season. Look the Twins swept the Braves and then lost the next series to the Brewers (taking only one game). People forget that the Twins have the 2006 AL Batting champion (Mauer), AL MVP (Morneau) and Cy Young winner (Santana,of course). I like the Mets. They’ll pull out of the slump.
actually, i didn’t forget, which is why I was stamping my feet at the Mets earlier this week after the Yankees debacle that they needed to get their act together, because the Twins would clean house with them otherwise.
maybe it’s my fault.
mg, you reminded me of my favorite New Yorker cartoon: it was called “Guilt Day at Shea” and had cartoon balloons over various players and fans which all read “It’s my fault”—i’d give up scott schoenwhatever to get my hands on a print of that…
Hey MG
I stumbled on your site after you posted something at Nick’s blog
I have no rooting interest in the Mets (except when they play the Yankees. i cheer for anyone to beat them) but you have a nice blog
Jim
my brother from edina had a very difficult time wiping the sh@t-eating grin off of his face last night. you’d think for treating my bro to two (two!) games, i could’ve left the stadium one night with just a smidgen of pride. wake me up when june is over…