You know it’s bad when you’re starting to pay more attention to the upcoming Yankees series against the Red Sox than the Mets. I’m beginning to be more interested in if the Sox can stay undefeated than I am how the Mets do this weekend, and I have to strain to even remember who they’re playing.
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In fact, while I can’t find it in my budget right now to justify going to Citi Field to see the Mets play bad baseball, I just got an offer to go to the Thursday night Red Sox games in the Bronx. At least this way I can go to a game and not be disappointed when the home team loses. I’ve forgotten what it’s like to have baseball being played but my interest waning. It’s not fun, and I’m not even a big enough football fan to look forward to the Giants.
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If Beltran and Reyes were to come back tomorrow, I’d tell you we still had a fighting chance. Technically we do. There is plenty of time for miracle comes backs and great baseball. It just doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen with this bunch of guys. Stranger things have happened though, and I know I won’t be able to complete ignore the team anyway. After all, it’s still Mets baseball.
Maybe Sheffield discovers some magic from when he was younger, the non-steroid kind, and maybe Pelfrey blossoms into a really consistent solid starter. Perhaps Perez finally figures it out and starts pitching with less walks, despite the indications that he needs a better coach. Because of the Conservation of Walks theory, Jeff Francoeur will take the walks that Perez stops issuing, and actually raise his OBP well above his AVG. Daniel Murphy could suddenly become the solid hitter we all started to suspect he could be.
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Unlikely, but still possible. Can you risk missing it by turning the television off or watching AL baseball?
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30 comments
sabermetrician
8/6/2009-1:10pm at 1:10 pm (UTC -4)
I have to say, I’ll be watching the Mets, but I’ll also be checking out other goings-on. I just love baseball too much not to keep up with it all.
gategem
8/6/2009-1:12pm at 1:12 pm (UTC -4)
“Can you risk missing it by turning the television off or watching AL baseball?”
The answer is definitely yes. It should be electric in the Bronx and then there is Giants football.
ceetar
8/6/2009-1:19pm at 1:19 pm (UTC -4)
I’m not saying the Red Sox pounding the Yankees won’t be exciting, I’ll even be there tonight. Giants football lasts all of three hours a week. Hardly a replacement. Even if it’s not a playoff drive, if the Mets are going to do anything fun and exciting in September, I’d much rather be watching than not watching. I’d be more upset if I missed Pelfrey having a 4-0 1.32 September or Delgado somehow coming back and tattooing the bridge with home runs than I would enjoy watching the Yankees play meaningful baseball or turn it off entirely and listen to WFAN recount the same football stories for over and over again Monday through Friday.
JoeR
8/6/2009-1:22pm at 1:22 pm (UTC -4)
I almost hope our guys dont come back. Yes it would be nice to see Reyes leading off with a triple, Beltran tattoing the ball in the gap, and Delgado blasting a ball to the bridge but all that will do for me is create more pain!! I will be saying What if….Oh what if!
I can do without that til next year.
dirtysanchez
8/6/2009-1:29pm at 1:29 pm (UTC -4)
I think they shoudl shut down reyes. If there are any set backs with beltran or gado..shut them down.
JoeR
8/6/2009-1:33pm at 1:33 pm (UTC -4)
100%
JoeR
8/6/2009-1:20pm at 1:20 pm (UTC -4)
My plan going forward is to TIVO the Met games. If they win i will watch and listen to Gary, Ron, and Keith. If they lose I simply hit the delete button. Although the last 3 years have been painful its amazing how you take it for granted when you are winning. I almost feel i didnt appreciate the regular season up to the last few weeks lol the last few years. I forget what its like to be in the thick of things. Anyway, what a shame. We were so close the last few years. Overall Omar built some good teams and if it wasnt for some under achieving bullpens who knows what would have happened.
dirtysanchez
8/6/2009-1:25pm at 1:25 pm (UTC -4)
This will be the first in a long time where we will be faced with meaningless baseball. Ill watch the mets games(mostly because i already paid $200 for mlb extra innings) but i will probably just be waiting for the giants season to start. I agree that crazier things have happeend but they just dont have the people to play consistantly..and it donest help to have an incompitant manager at the helm.
JoeR
8/6/2009-1:27pm at 1:27 pm (UTC -4)
Im almost willing to take the chance and use the remote Adam Sandler used in Click to fast forward to late February 2010!!
dirtysanchez
8/6/2009-1:30pm at 1:30 pm (UTC -4)
hahaha if you find it joe…let me borrow it lol
JoeR
8/6/2009-1:37pm at 1:37 pm (UTC -4)
Oh I will!! I was about to say a coma til next February, but way too much pain for family and thats going to far! but it would be cool to wake up and see all the off season transactions and jump into baseball again
ceetar
8/6/2009-1:32pm at 1:32 pm (UTC -4)
I thought the winter after ’06 was bad, but I think this one is going to be worse.
JoeR
8/6/2009-1:34pm at 1:34 pm (UTC -4)
Yup very very very long til next spring training. I hate it.
sabermetrician
8/6/2009-2:11pm at 2:11 pm (UTC -4)
It’ll be long and I think we’ll be disappointed. At least after ’06 I thought we were going to win it all. Then we come out of the gates by trouncing the Cards and the rest his in the history books.
metsfan4decades
8/6/2009-1:45pm at 1:45 pm (UTC -4)
It’s just not summer without NY Met baseball. I’ll be tuning into every game, whether or not they’ve been mathematically eliminated. I’ve watched several seasons of Met baseball where you knew it was over before it even started. This one is a bit different because the expectations were so high coming into the season, only to realize by the ASB it was essentially over. The final nail in the coffin to me was Beltran on the DL. I at least expected them to compete all the way down the stretch…
You never know what you’ll miss. I’m sure most get the picture by now of what we need for 2010 but I want to see how some finish out the year.
I’m the opposite of some of you. I’ll check out the scores of the Yankee/Red Sox series this weekend, I might tune into some of the games, but if there is a Met game on the same time, I’ll be watching that game, no question.
metsfan4decades
8/6/2009-2:10pm at 2:10 pm (UTC -4)
Pelfry will not make his start this Saturday. He didn’t travel with the team. His wife is expecting their first child.
They already needed a starter for Monday’s game. Could be Pelfry can rejoin the team and make that start, but that still leaves no pitcher for Sat. Don’t think you can go with Figgy as he just pitched 4 + innings yesterday.
So that leaves Redding? Or maybe they try Parnell for a start as I heard those rumors tossed around some. Ought to be interesting…
sabermetrician
8/6/2009-2:12pm at 2:12 pm (UTC -4)
Man, how pathetic has our season become when we debating whether Redding, Parnell, or Figgy is going to start.
sabermetrician
8/6/2009-2:13pm at 2:13 pm (UTC -4)
we’re*
metsfan4decades
8/6/2009-2:21pm at 2:21 pm (UTC -4)
LOL. Yeah, I know.
No one left in AAA that can make this start – that I’m aware of. We already brought up Nieve and Niese who have joined the DL party.
I just keeps getting better and better..
GravediggerHebner
8/6/2009-2:41pm at 2:41 pm (UTC -4)
As any Met fan born prior to this century knows, the history of the franchise is littered with many Septembers of meaningless baseball. It may be an unpleasant surprise to many of us this year, but it’s hardly unprecedented. If we as Met fans don’t know how to roll with it by now, we likely never will, and are in for a lifetime filled by a majority of unhappy autumnal equinoxes. Since the autumnal equinox is also my birthday, I quickly learned to make the best of it. For me a meaningful September means I’ve lived another year, so they’re all meaningful. If the Mets want to partake in my meaningful September, they are always welcome to come along. If they don’t, I hope for both me and the Mets that there is always next year.
darknova306
8/6/2009-4:53pm at 4:53 pm (UTC -4)
Nicely stated, Grave. Anyone that witnessed the 1993 season should be well aware of what it’s like to experience lots of bad baseball and a September that basically just ends the torture.
The remnants of this team have been fighting as best they can with the limited talent that’s left. That at least earns them enough of my respect to keep watching as if we were in a pennant race. I’d watch regardless, but I think the character a lot of these guys have shown through all of this demands that you watch till the bitter end.
But never fear! Sir Omar will fix us all up and have us contending again next year with no problem!! *sigh*
CaseStreet
8/6/2009-5:07pm at 5:07 pm (UTC -4)
Let’s get real. We ALL know that come next ST or a five game win streak (whichever comes first), we’ll be dreaming of October baseball in Flushing.
This team is down but not out.
Also, there’s no quitting in baseball.
Good night, sir! I said good night!
CaseStreet
8/6/2009-5:25pm at 5:25 pm (UTC -4)
The Mets have had 23 of 107 games started by emergency pitchers (6-9 pitchers). That’s 1/4 of the games started by someone worse than our #5 pitcher. I wonder what the Mets record in those games were.
That’s where our September went.
trs86
8/6/2009-5:50pm at 5:50 pm (UTC -4)
Actually because of Nieve most likely not as bad as you think.
trs86
8/6/2009-5:51pm at 5:51 pm (UTC -4)
Nieve had 7 of those with an ERA of 3.12 3-3
trs86
8/6/2009-5:55pm at 5:55 pm (UTC -4)
Redding has 9 of those with a 7 ERA. 1-3
trs86
8/6/2009-5:56pm at 5:56 pm (UTC -4)
Figgy 2 with and ERA of 10.57 0-2
trs86
8/6/2009-6:01pm at 6:01 pm (UTC -4)
Niese has 5 Starts with a 4.21 ERA and a 1-1 record.
There's Always '10
8/6/2009-6:12pm at 6:12 pm (UTC -4)
The good news is we get to play this game tonight knowing what all the teams ahead of us have done. Terence will be less pressure to perform in this critical game for <16th place in the league. Go Pads!
There's Always '10
8/6/2009-6:14pm at 6:14 pm (UTC -4)
*there will be. Not Terrence. Although I would gove my left pinky toe to have Terrence Long back