Hooray!
19 hits and 10 runs for the Milwaukee Brewers later, the New York Mets find themselves 1 game under .500 and in 3rd place in the National League East. Starting pitcher Fernando Nieve proved that he is human, giving up 11 hits and 3 runs in just 3 1/3 innings pitched. Elmer Dessens held the fort with a scoreless 1 2/3 innings, but then Milwaukee blew it up with 7 runs off of 3 Met relievers over the last 3 innings.
Not enough coal for the stove
The Mets beat the piñata that is Carlos Villanueva for 5 hits and 3 runs in the 9th, but it was too little too late as Trevor Hoffman came on to throw one pitch and with it get Brian Schneider to ground into a game ending double play.
I'm buying
Bernie Brewer, the official home run mascot of Milwaukee’s professional baseball team, only got to ride his slide twice but the 2nd time was a killer. Potential goat of the game Casey McGehee, who dropped a pop-up in the top of the 6th leading to 2 unearned runs for the Mets, came to the plate with the bases loaded and redemption on his mind in the bottom of the inning. He got every inch of that redemption, hitting the ball over the wall and sending Bernie down his slide.
Who? What? When? Where? Why?
So the Mets find themselves in 3rd place, wondering who is going to help them, what sort of help they will bring, when is that help coming, where is it going to come from, and why am I asking so many questions?
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26 comments
dirtysanchez
6/29/2009-11:12pm at 11:12 pm (UTC -4)
quick sand….
Mr North Jersey
6/29/2009-11:13pm at 11:13 pm (UTC -4)
Who? anyone with 10 hr’s
What? anyone with 10 hr’s
When? A.S.A.P.
Where? Citi Fields
Why? Why not?
Mr. Mets Butler
6/29/2009-11:15pm at 11:15 pm (UTC -4)
Well I have 50 homers on MLB 09′. But I will hold out for at least 20 million.
steveo
6/29/2009-11:16pm at 11:16 pm (UTC -4)
your signed will you take a 3 year contract too
Mr North Jersey
6/29/2009-11:17pm at 11:17 pm (UTC -4)
I’ll see your 20 million and raise you a penny.
Mr. Mets Butler
6/29/2009-11:18pm at 11:18 pm (UTC -4)
ok… but I want my own jet!
steveo
6/29/2009-11:21pm at 11:21 pm (UTC -4)
well hold on now this can get very competitive well give you 60 mil a jet and a doctor to follow you around and a bag of baseballs
Mr. Mets Butler
6/29/2009-11:25pm at 11:25 pm (UTC -4)
Throw in a Playstation game controller and I’m yours.
P.S. – Do I still get paid when I go on the disabled list?
Mr North Jersey
6/29/2009-11:27pm at 11:27 pm (UTC -4)
If steveo is your agent then i just want u to kno that the bag of balls is a deal breaker.
rustyjr
6/30/2009-6:22am at 6:22 am (UTC -4)
what no scrapple??
steveo
6/29/2009-11:22pm at 11:22 pm (UTC -4)
Is this where team brass says its better to be chasing than to be chased
gategem
6/29/2009-11:41pm at 11:41 pm (UTC -4)
lol This is where the team’s front office urges patience and reminds us of Shakespearean lyrics from an old Peggy Lee song:
“The window she is broken and the rain is comin’ in
If someone doesn’t fix it I’ll be soaking to my skin
But if we wait a day or two the rain may go away
And we don’t need a window on such a sunny day
(mañana, mañana, mañana is soon enough for me)
Oba! Oba!
(mañana, mañana, mañana is soon enough for me)
Oba! Oba!â€
rustyjr
6/30/2009-6:23am at 6:23 am (UTC -4)
i thought u were going to break into “life goes on” by the Beatles !!lol
QnsNative718
6/29/2009-11:30pm at 11:30 pm (UTC -4)
Lets hold hands, guys. We’re in for a brutal summer.
gategem
6/29/2009-11:35pm at 11:35 pm (UTC -4)
lol You want us to hold hands? What is this Brokeback Mountain?
GravediggerHebner
6/29/2009-11:42pm at 11:42 pm (UTC -4)
“Fast or slow, I like the direction you’re going.”
Kingman 26
6/29/2009-11:54pm at 11:54 pm (UTC -4)
LOL! Anne Hathaway is HOT.
I am as heterosexual as they come, but Brokeback Mountain was a great movie.
rustyjr
6/30/2009-6:23am at 6:23 am (UTC -4)
me to the mets “
rustyjr
6/30/2009-6:24am at 6:24 am (UTC -4)
me to the mets ” I CAN’T QUIT YOU “!!!
Kingman 26
6/30/2009-7:56am at 7:56 am (UTC -4)
HAHA!
Are you a Brokeback Cowboy or Led Zeppelin??
metsfan4decades
6/29/2009-11:35pm at 11:35 pm (UTC -4)
This team is what it’s going to be for awhile. I don’t believe we’re going to get any help, until players start returning from the DL.
stickguy
6/29/2009-11:40pm at 11:40 pm (UTC -4)
Don’t think it is going to be enough though. A combination of too far back, too many teams to jump, and frnakly, the guys coming back aren’t likely to make enough of a difference.
Might take the Mets from a .400 team (being generous, what they are now) to a .600 team for a month, but by then, it might get them back over .500?
Hard to expect too that some of these guys are going to light the world on fire at first. Reyes with a tender knee? Delgado, who is never good coming back off a loyoff? Wagner off TJ?
Yes, better than the slubs they have now, but they aren’t getting Babe ruth in his prime.
Hope for the best, but plan for 2010 to be the year (that is for Omar’s ears!)
steveo
6/29/2009-11:40pm at 11:40 pm (UTC -4)
I would have to agree with you on that
rustyjr
6/30/2009-6:25am at 6:25 am (UTC -4)
THEY SAID ON THE OHER BLOG THAT CARLOS IS STARTING TO SWING THE BAT – JUST NOT AT BALLS
stickguy
6/30/2009-12:20am at 12:20 am (UTC -4)
did a little figuring.
there are 87 games left, but realistically, how many can they win of the 12 through the ASB? 5? That puts them at 42-45 with 75 to go (and 5 could be optomistic).
They would have to go 45-30 (.600 exactly) from the ASB on to finish with 87 wins, which likely still doesn’t get the WC. And that is with, at best, a gimpy Beltran and Ollie added to the mix right after the break.
All things to consider when deciding what to trade for the big “push” this year. Especially since it seems quite likely the WC is going to take more than 87 wins.
and I really hope that Parnell rebounds at some point, if he was the deal breaker to any trades for worthwhile players! Might be time to send him down to get straightened out, and give Kunz a shot.
darknova306
6/30/2009-6:56am at 6:56 am (UTC -4)
Parnell just needs to learn to throw effective breaking pitches. Major league hitters can hit 98MPH fastballs, especially if that’s all you throw other than a slider way off the plate or in the dirt sometimes. If the silly notion of Parnell being critical was what us from getting DeRosa… there’s no excuse for that. Not that I think that DeRosa would put us over the top or anything, though. Oh well.