Tuesday, May 08, 2007

FRISCO BLUES.

This 10:15pm game start time kind of sucks. I was excited to see the OP-Zito matchup, and I totally thought I’d make it through. What I didn’t take into account was what would happen if we didn’t do well. It’s easy to fight sleepiness and agony when it’s 9pm. It’s a lot harder when it’s 11pm and the team is going from 3-1 to 6-1 (when I gave up) and then 9-1 (when I was brushing my teeth). I went to sleep with Howie on the radio, making the astute observation that the Mets looked tired, but it was only early May.

Yeah.

Add to all of this how unbearable TBF becomes when the Mets lose, and me getting cranky about the time Easley made that error, and then the two of us being mutually cranky at the Mets and each other:
“You said they were playing sloppy baseball!”
“But they were!”
“Not until you said they were!”
“You’re overreacting!”

To be fair to everyone involved, two bad home run calls on consecutive days would knock the wind out of me, too. On the other hand, I feel like I don’t know who the real Shawn Green is, and I will never, ever feel comfortable with Alou in left field, no matter how far and how often he hits.

David Wright. Needs to stop saying “yes” to every magazine cover and PR opportunity unless it’s for his charity foundation. I used to think - of course he’s going to take advantage of every opportunity, that’s exactly what he should be doing, who knows when the spotlight will stop shining. But now - I won’t blame all of the distractions for the slump but I feel like something’s gotta give.

Finally, was anyone else as disappointed at the SNY “Take the 7 Train to shea with Joe Smith” segment as we were? Maybe if they hadn’t hyped it up so much and just showed it as color, but aside from the technical problems (did no one think about the issues of lighting and sound before you got on the subway?), the segment had so much potential but ended up being long and bland. Plus, he doesn’t take the 7 train, ever - he drives (hence the constant parking tickets) - so I’m not quite sure what the point was. Hey, dude, Glavine and Wagner carpool from Greenwich, you and Johnny Maine could share the drive from LIC.

I will miss the game tonight because I have to be up at the crack of dawn tomorrow, and we’re going to see Arcade Fire at Radio City on Wednesday night - so there go my game-viewing options for the next two days. I can’t tell whether this will make me more or less cranky. But, provided we survive the rest of the week, we’ll be at Shea Friday night to watch the Mets play the Brewers.