Hat tip to Metsfan4decades for this:
The frustration of the team is starting to leak out – in more than one area.
Cora quoted:“It’s kind of comical… Every time you put on ESPN, they’re making fun of us. Instead of being in the Top 10 plays, we’re on the worst 10 plays. It gets to the point where you get tired of it.â€
You’ve got to play good defense. Look at the teams leading the divisions — they catch the ball. Right now, I feel we’re the worst defensive team in the league. It doesn’t matter who you don’t have. You can’t go into slumps with defense. You’ve got to catch the ball. You can’t give a big-league team more than 27 outs, and we’ve been doing a pretty consistent job of that the last few weeks. They make you pay, man.â€
(I couldn’t agree more, BTW. I give Cora kudos for telling it like it is).
Tatis:“One day I’m in left, the next day I’m in right, the next day I’m somewhere else, so it’s difficult. You have to really concentrate, especially when men are in scoring position. You have to anticipate the play.
(and this just goes back to what I’ve been saying for days now – about 5-6 guys playing out of position on any one night. If anyone doesn’t think that’s adding to the defensive woes, they haven’t been paying attention.)
10 comments
trs86
7/5/2009-1:12pm at 1:12 pm (UTC -4)
Yeah, either Tatis is a dope or he misspoke. So you wait until runners are in scoring position to concentrate? Nice.
trs86
7/5/2009-1:15pm at 1:15 pm (UTC -4)
I will tell you what, the Mets Phillies game will have a hard time competing with Wimbledon today, WOW.
charlies
7/5/2009-1:36pm at 1:36 pm (UTC -4)
that was a great match, but it became clear that andy was not going to keep up with roger. the man is a machine with only a single nemesis, and he didn’t come to play this fortnight.
GravediggerHebner
7/5/2009-1:33pm at 1:33 pm (UTC -4)
In case you want to attribute them the quotes come from this article:
http://www.nj.com/mets/index.ssf/2009/07/new_york_mets_errors_continue.html
charlies
7/5/2009-1:34pm at 1:34 pm (UTC -4)
100% agree, trs. This is why I am not getting all crazy about the season anymore. We have bench players as starters…you can’t win that way. If you could, all teams would save huge amounts of money and play bench players.
metsfan4decades
7/5/2009-1:37pm at 1:37 pm (UTC -4)
Agree, Charlies.
Last season and the beginning of this season, all kept quoting Tatis as saying he was just happy to be here on the ‘big’ club. He’d play wherever they needed him. Does anyone else think his quote is more a generalization about many playing out of position, not just him?
Either way – uh guys….two hands for pop ups. How hard is this???
charlies
7/5/2009-1:44pm at 1:44 pm (UTC -4)
this is why i’m becoming so apathetic. how many dropped balls will it take for them to go with the fundamentally sound play? if they can’t make that simple adjustment, how am i supposed to allow myself to get that into their play?
btw, (and this is more to trs and the guys), my name is supposed to come up as charlie_s as that is what i registered with. i’m not sure why it comes up charlies. so, you can just call me charlie.
trs86
7/5/2009-1:52pm at 1:52 pm (UTC -4)
I think I fixed it.
charlie_s
7/5/2009-1:53pm at 1:53 pm (UTC -4)
test
charlie_s
7/5/2009-1:54pm at 1:54 pm (UTC -4)
sweet…thanks, man.