Big inning for santana here, bottom of the 4th. We just tacked on another 2 runs in top 4th, and santana now faces the heart of philthies order. Hopefully he's treating this like a playoff game and we'll see what he can do. I was certainly disappointed with his effort in the bottom of the 1st after we jumped out to a quick lead.
Not a good start, utley tagged a double into the corner... Let's see if he can set down the big man... indeed, got him to fly out to deep left. Very close to a 2-run jobbie though.
Sunday, May 02, 2010
Interlude
A little jetties action. Looks like McKnight has a bit of legwork to match Leon Washington's skills, to say the least:
While fellow highly-touted draft pick Joe McKnight has stumbled mightily out of the gate, vomiting during practice for the second day in a row while dropping four more passes...
While fellow highly-touted draft pick Joe McKnight has stumbled mightily out of the gate, vomiting during practice for the second day in a row while dropping four more passes...
Saturday, May 01, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Early returns from the farm
So with Ollie Perez destined for the minors, I started scanning the AAA roster to see who might be available to take over the 5 slot.
Early answer: Dillon Gee.
After rehabbing a torn labrum last season, he's returned to prior form this year. A WHIP under 1.0, a 3-0 record and sub 3.00 ERA at AAA.
Early answer: Dillon Gee.
After rehabbing a torn labrum last season, he's returned to prior form this year. A WHIP under 1.0, a 3-0 record and sub 3.00 ERA at AAA.
That's About Right
Well, in the famous words of Vince Vaughn, I guess I'm the asshole. I should've agreed with Pelf almost 3 months ago that questions by the fans about the rotation were ridiculous. Of course, the Mets have had leads in April before as well, we'll see where we are in September.
BTW, Fredo, doesn't that Vaughn clip from Swingers seem familiar? I can't quite place it, although I'm thinking some steak and some eggs would be delicious.
BTW, Fredo, doesn't that Vaughn clip from Swingers seem familiar? I can't quite place it, although I'm thinking some steak and some eggs would be delicious.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Joel Sherman takes on SHK
Well, SHK, the gauntlet has been laid down:
Obviously, the Mets’ signing of Oliver Perez has not worked out. But it should be kept in mind that the other pitcher the Mets were weighing at the time was Derek Lowe. The Mets refused to give more than a three-year offer for Lowe, who instead signed with Atlanta for four years at $60 million. The Mets heard familiar refrains about being cheap and ending up with at three years at $36 million because of that.
But since becoming a Brave, Lowe has shown signs of decline with his 37th birthday approaching in June. He has a good record with Atlanta at 18-11. But his ERA in his 38 Braves starts is 4.73, and opponents have hit .298 with a .356 on-base percentage and a .444 slugging percentage.
Mets and Jets
Mets seem to have figured some things out for now. Nice to see, hopefully they end up being less streaky than last year and don't give it all back.
Not sure about all these Jets moves in the offseason. I like several of them, but I am a little concerned about team chemistry. It's tough to bring that many new starters onto a team at once, especially when a lot of locker room favorites (TJ, Leon, Faneca) are gone. Add in the spotlight of HBO's Hard Knocks on them all summer, and they are really going to need all of Rex's chemistry to keep them intact and performing well. So long as Rex and his coaches maintain discipline and focus I think it could work out incredibly well, but they will need to actively stay on top of things.
Not sure about all these Jets moves in the offseason. I like several of them, but I am a little concerned about team chemistry. It's tough to bring that many new starters onto a team at once, especially when a lot of locker room favorites (TJ, Leon, Faneca) are gone. Add in the spotlight of HBO's Hard Knocks on them all summer, and they are really going to need all of Rex's chemistry to keep them intact and performing well. So long as Rex and his coaches maintain discipline and focus I think it could work out incredibly well, but they will need to actively stay on top of things.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
IDK if you guys ever post on team boards,
but it can get nasty between rivals. However, there is the occasional poster who is such a j-hole it demands to be called out. Why not do it full force? Here's some dude absolutely pwning a tarhole who was posting on Inside Carolina:
Does that guy do crack? I read my first IC thread tonight (and last) about Singler, he was on it, and...I mean...is that one of their "insiders"? I wouldn't want that guy mowing my lawn. Lock the ****ing door. Dude is probably so loaded he's doing the Exorcist spider-walk down his stairs right now between eating glue and stealing pennies from his passed-out mom to throw at the Count Chockula ghost he keeps seeing behind his trailer.
Where the **** do these guys come from over there? Are they all on the internet in a northern Montana commune, wearing tinfoil hats, taking breaks between "whiffer" hits and goat-mounting so that they can get on the internet? Good God.
Does that guy do crack? I read my first IC thread tonight (and last) about Singler, he was on it, and...I mean...is that one of their "insiders"? I wouldn't want that guy mowing my lawn. Lock the ****ing door. Dude is probably so loaded he's doing the Exorcist spider-walk down his stairs right now between eating glue and stealing pennies from his passed-out mom to throw at the Count Chockula ghost he keeps seeing behind his trailer.
Where the **** do these guys come from over there? Are they all on the internet in a northern Montana commune, wearing tinfoil hats, taking breaks between "whiffer" hits and goat-mounting so that they can get on the internet? Good God.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Rewind
Some classic quotables in anticipation of the 2010 season:
[Fredo] This season is shaping up to be a dung pile of the highest magnitude.
[Beetz] M.....E.....T.....S..... Are Jokes Jokes Jokes.
[DC, in response to SHK's list of 8 things he likes about the Mets] I like a lot more about this team than SHK does but much of that is blind devotion and the remainder is hearty optimism.
[Fredo, in response to DC's optimism] That said, if the Metties exceed expectations, you [DC] can feel good about being a true fan. In the meantime, SHK and I can feel good about insulating out emotions from the likely suckitude. And if they manage to work their way into pennant race, I'm sure I'll be able to rationalize my way back on the bandwagon.
[SHK, in further response] I would be very happy if the usual suckfest that is the Mets season doesn't appear this year, and they actually played up to expectations. Seeing them return to the playoffs would be exciting.
But I simply have to play the odds here, and the odds say that this starting rotation and lineup aren't going to be good enough or healthy enough to get it done.
[Fredo] This season is shaping up to be a dung pile of the highest magnitude.
[Beetz] M.....E.....T.....S..... Are Jokes Jokes Jokes.
[DC, in response to SHK's list of 8 things he likes about the Mets] I like a lot more about this team than SHK does but much of that is blind devotion and the remainder is hearty optimism.
[Fredo, in response to DC's optimism] That said, if the Metties exceed expectations, you [DC] can feel good about being a true fan. In the meantime, SHK and I can feel good about insulating out emotions from the likely suckitude. And if they manage to work their way into pennant race, I'm sure I'll be able to rationalize my way back on the bandwagon.
[SHK, in further response] I would be very happy if the usual suckfest that is the Mets season doesn't appear this year, and they actually played up to expectations. Seeing them return to the playoffs would be exciting.
But I simply have to play the odds here, and the odds say that this starting rotation and lineup aren't going to be good enough or healthy enough to get it done.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Friday, April 09, 2010
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Monday, April 05, 2010
Play Ball!
Mets season is officially underway. Up 6-1 in the 7th now, should be good for their first W.
In other great news, the Jankees choked it big time last night. I hate the BloSox, but I'll take a choke from the Spankees anytime.
In other great news, the Jankees choked it big time last night. I hate the BloSox, but I'll take a choke from the Spankees anytime.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Spring Waning
From ESPN:
Pelfrey is 0-3 with a 7.97 ERA in five spring starts. He has allowed eight home runs in 20 1/3 Grapefruit League innings.
Perez is 0-1 with an 8.66 ERA in 17 2/3 innings spanning five starts. His velocity registered only 86 mph to 88 mph Tuesday against the Cardinals.
That's gonna leave a mark.
Projected rotation is now Santana, Maine, Niese, Pelf, then Perez.
Pelfrey is 0-3 with a 7.97 ERA in five spring starts. He has allowed eight home runs in 20 1/3 Grapefruit League innings.
Perez is 0-1 with an 8.66 ERA in 17 2/3 innings spanning five starts. His velocity registered only 86 mph to 88 mph Tuesday against the Cardinals.
That's gonna leave a mark.
Projected rotation is now Santana, Maine, Niese, Pelf, then Perez.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
St. John's hires Lavin
I have to hand it to the AD--this was a good hire. Not a grand slam home run, but a solid double. And especially given how the hiring search was going, it looked like they were going to be lucky just to make contact.
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of good coaches out there. Probably some guys coaching in the America East Conference or Patriot League with even better in-game management, as X's and O's guys.
But Lavin brings some cache.
U. C. L. A. That is as big as it gets in college hoops, and a guy who had some success over there is now coaching the Johnnies. 5 sweet sixteens and 6 NCAA tourneys in 7 years is nothing to sneeze at. The lofty expectations in Westwood may have cost Lavin his job b/c he did a very good, but not exceptional job, in his 7 years there. But that was a decade ago. Lavin was 32 when he began at UCLA. At 45, he's had the benefit of much more life experience, and plenty of time picking the brains of the many basketball coaches he's worked with and analyzed during his time at ESPN.
Lavin is a great age to take over a program at 45. He has 15-25 of coaching in him if his heart is in it. He has the name recognition to bring in big time recruits (twice while at UCLA he brought in the top class in the nation). He'll just be hitting his stride at St. John's as Boeheim and Calhoun are calling it quits. There will be more room at the top of the Big East for the program with the acumen to grab it.
St. John's still faces a lot of challenges: recruiting top shelf talent to come to a commuter school that is on an unimpressive campus in a semi-urban envirornment, facilities that are not top shelf, convincing pampered elite recruits that they should play second fiddle in New York instead of being worshipped (and serviced by coeds) in places like Chapel Hill, Lawrence, Storrs, and Lexington.
I don't know if those challenges can be overcome. But there was no one on the table, including those who turned the job down (Hewitt and Greenberg), who I think are better suited to the task at hand.
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of good coaches out there. Probably some guys coaching in the America East Conference or Patriot League with even better in-game management, as X's and O's guys.
But Lavin brings some cache.
U. C. L. A. That is as big as it gets in college hoops, and a guy who had some success over there is now coaching the Johnnies. 5 sweet sixteens and 6 NCAA tourneys in 7 years is nothing to sneeze at. The lofty expectations in Westwood may have cost Lavin his job b/c he did a very good, but not exceptional job, in his 7 years there. But that was a decade ago. Lavin was 32 when he began at UCLA. At 45, he's had the benefit of much more life experience, and plenty of time picking the brains of the many basketball coaches he's worked with and analyzed during his time at ESPN.
Lavin is a great age to take over a program at 45. He has 15-25 of coaching in him if his heart is in it. He has the name recognition to bring in big time recruits (twice while at UCLA he brought in the top class in the nation). He'll just be hitting his stride at St. John's as Boeheim and Calhoun are calling it quits. There will be more room at the top of the Big East for the program with the acumen to grab it.
St. John's still faces a lot of challenges: recruiting top shelf talent to come to a commuter school that is on an unimpressive campus in a semi-urban envirornment, facilities that are not top shelf, convincing pampered elite recruits that they should play second fiddle in New York instead of being worshipped (and serviced by coeds) in places like Chapel Hill, Lawrence, Storrs, and Lexington.
I don't know if those challenges can be overcome. But there was no one on the table, including those who turned the job down (Hewitt and Greenberg), who I think are better suited to the task at hand.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Big East squeezes one into the FF
WVU turned an upset against UK, helped by Kentucky missing its first 20 straight three point attempts. And that was with WVU choosing to play a 1-3-1 and leaving UK plenty of open looks, challenging them to hit a few shots. UK wasn't up to the challenge.
Should Duke manage to get by Baylor (a pick 'em game at best, with their two big guys and massive backcourt speed), WVU projects much more favorable for Duke than UK would have (line will probably be Duke -1, I would guess; UK would've been UK -4). I put Duke/WVA as a 50/50 game, Duke/UK would've been 35/65.
The door is open for Duke, but as we've already seen with three 1-seeds failing to get out of their regions, there is a lot of parity in the NCAA this year. Two 5 seeds (or a 6, if it's TN) will make the FF. That pretty much speaks for itself.
As far as the Big East goes, Huggins saved a little face for the conference tonight, and invalidated my B.E.- baiting "zero teams in the FF" talk. Unfortunately, it doesn't change the fact that conference was revealed as no better than the other power conferences. In a year when the tournament committee blessed them with 3 teams as a #1 or #2 (e.g.-projected as Elite Eight teams), only one made it that far. They had 5 teams seeded 1-4 (sweet sixteen projections), and only 2 justified the seeding. And the nature of the early round losses--both the level of the opposition and the magnitude of defeats-were ridonk (here's looking at u G'Town). It was a total flameout for the B.E., and the seeding committee has a little egg on their face. WVU holds the only hope for getting people to forget all of the terrible losses by teams that had been clearly overseeded--and that is for the boys from Morgantown to win it all. Anything else won't do.
Should Duke manage to get by Baylor (a pick 'em game at best, with their two big guys and massive backcourt speed), WVU projects much more favorable for Duke than UK would have (line will probably be Duke -1, I would guess; UK would've been UK -4). I put Duke/WVA as a 50/50 game, Duke/UK would've been 35/65.
The door is open for Duke, but as we've already seen with three 1-seeds failing to get out of their regions, there is a lot of parity in the NCAA this year. Two 5 seeds (or a 6, if it's TN) will make the FF. That pretty much speaks for itself.
As far as the Big East goes, Huggins saved a little face for the conference tonight, and invalidated my B.E.- baiting "zero teams in the FF" talk. Unfortunately, it doesn't change the fact that conference was revealed as no better than the other power conferences. In a year when the tournament committee blessed them with 3 teams as a #1 or #2 (e.g.-projected as Elite Eight teams), only one made it that far. They had 5 teams seeded 1-4 (sweet sixteen projections), and only 2 justified the seeding. And the nature of the early round losses--both the level of the opposition and the magnitude of defeats-were ridonk (here's looking at u G'Town). It was a total flameout for the B.E., and the seeding committee has a little egg on their face. WVU holds the only hope for getting people to forget all of the terrible losses by teams that had been clearly overseeded--and that is for the boys from Morgantown to win it all. Anything else won't do.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Down goes 'Cuse
Leaving just one. WVU seems to have this game in hand (against a 12 seed, I'd hope so. Then again, see GTown).
I'm now in the paradoxical spot of rooting against my own prediction. Much rather face WVU than UK in the FF, should Duke get there. Of course, you need paramedics after playing a Huggins team, but I'll take my chances with the ER instead of UK. That team is LOADED. 5 guys might leave early to go to pro??!!! (Wall/Bledsoe/Cousins/Orton/Patterson)
I'm now in the paradoxical spot of rooting against my own prediction. Much rather face WVU than UK in the FF, should Duke get there. Of course, you need paramedics after playing a Huggins team, but I'll take my chances with the ER instead of UK. That team is LOADED. 5 guys might leave early to go to pro??!!! (Wall/Bledsoe/Cousins/Orton/Patterson)
Hewitt turns down the Johnnies
This does not bode well for SJU. It's just impossible for them to come up with the cash to lure away the big money guys. Not when the taxpayers can easily support millions at these state schools.
If Pitino just wants to move and get a clean start, that would be great for SJU. He's one of the few with the cred to make a difference who is still enough of an old timer (and paesan) that the job still has some juice for him.
Other than that, I can't imagine who they'd get that's going to help them make a splash and change the aura so that they can land some recruits.
People on the FAN keep talking about Billy Donovan. Why the eff would Donovan even consider it?
If Pitino just wants to move and get a clean start, that would be great for SJU. He's one of the few with the cred to make a difference who is still enough of an old timer (and paesan) that the job still has some juice for him.
Other than that, I can't imagine who they'd get that's going to help them make a splash and change the aura so that they can land some recruits.
People on the FAN keep talking about Billy Donovan. Why the eff would Donovan even consider it?
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Back to Metties
I can't really concentrate till MM is over, but:
1) Per today's NYP, Niese is taking the reins as the #5.
2) I caught an inning yesterday. It was the young phenom throwing in relief for his first back-to-back outing. This kid looks filthy. Don't know where he came from, but I love it.
1) Per today's NYP, Niese is taking the reins as the #5.
2) I caught an inning yesterday. It was the young phenom throwing in relief for his first back-to-back outing. This kid looks filthy. Don't know where he came from, but I love it.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Down goes Nova
Making the third Big East team to lose to a double-digit seed from a minor conference.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Wow
Didn't expect the Big Least flameout to come on day 1.
2 #6 seeds upset by 11s (ND & Marquette).
#2 seed and #3 seed from the B.E. combine to go -11 in points against a 14 and 15, and it obviously should've been worse as the fix was in for Nova.
Just to shed some light on how riculously poor Georgetown was, they Got. Blown. Out. By a team from the MAC. (Not the MAAC). And that team was the 9-seed. In the MAC tournament.
This is a flameout of legendary proportions.
2 #6 seeds upset by 11s (ND & Marquette).
#2 seed and #3 seed from the B.E. combine to go -11 in points against a 14 and 15, and it obviously should've been worse as the fix was in for Nova.
Just to shed some light on how riculously poor Georgetown was, they Got. Blown. Out. By a team from the MAC. (Not the MAAC). And that team was the 9-seed. In the MAC tournament.
This is a flameout of legendary proportions.
Good start for Big Least in the NCAAs
One favorite up. One favorite down.
Notre Dame makes it 0-1 for the BEST CONFERENCE THAT HAS EVER PLAYED BASKETBALL.
Notre Dame makes it 0-1 for the BEST CONFERENCE THAT HAS EVER PLAYED BASKETBALL.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Good start for the Big Least in the NIT,
The 6 seed from the ACC (NC St.) eliminates the 3 seed (USF) from the Big East.
And might U Conn survives its first round game, as the 3 point shot that would have defeated them rims out. And who nearly felled the giants from Storrs? Wait for it....
Northeastern.
Eagerly awaiting the giant Big Least flameout that is coming in the NCAAs. 8 teams in the tourney, and not a one will make the Final Four.
And might U Conn survives its first round game, as the 3 point shot that would have defeated them rims out. And who nearly felled the giants from Storrs? Wait for it....
Northeastern.
Eagerly awaiting the giant Big Least flameout that is coming in the NCAAs. 8 teams in the tourney, and not a one will make the Final Four.
Monday, March 08, 2010
Quoteable
The Post on Ollie's spring debut:
The results were ugly -- as in five earned runs allowed on seven hits over three innings -- but Perez and the Mets called the left-hander's spring debut a success.
Six months removed from surgery to remove scar tissue from his right knee, Perez was back in game action for the first time, and the cynic would say already in midseason form.
Yes, yes I would.
The results were ugly -- as in five earned runs allowed on seven hits over three innings -- but Perez and the Mets called the left-hander's spring debut a success.
Six months removed from surgery to remove scar tissue from his right knee, Perez was back in game action for the first time, and the cynic would say already in midseason form.
Yes, yes I would.
Thursday, March 04, 2010
2010
Chipper Jones gives his rundown on the Mets and what they need to do to be successful this season.
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