I know right now you probably wonder what a code 99 is. Well I work security at a hospital, and a code 99 refers to when a patient is going through some kind of arrest – whether it is cardiac or respiratory or even a stroke. Well last night against the Yankees, Jerry Manuel’s strategy almost sent me to the E.R. because I was on the cusp of suffering from all three of the aforementioned ailments !I mean how can you justify putting Raul Valdes – the man who has not pitched in over a week and when he did he was rocked – into the ninth inning with a four run lead against the Skankees ( a team known for their late inning heroics) ! So after Valdes proves to be ineffective our closer Francisco ” They call me Mr. Tums ” Rodriguez does his best to really scare us Mets fans to death by walking the tying run to load the bases before coming back to retire the next to batters for our ninth consecutive win !!! David Wright, Jose Reyes and Angel Pagan were the main catalysts in last nights win , but all the credit should go to Hisanori Takahashifor his total shutdown of the Yankees bats and Pedro Feliciano for showing why he is the most overlooked reliever is baseball !
I’ll tell you this, even when John Maine comes back healthy, I can’t see him reclaiming his spot in the rotation from the Takachop . In his rehab start in Buffalo, Maine went 4 1/3 throwing 88 pitcher ( 50 for strikes) giving up a couple of hits and a unearned run. His fastball once again topped out at 88 m.p.h , so in other words it’s the John Maine we’ve seen for the last three years.I feel Maine will be put into middle relief and hopefully he should thrive in that role. If not I wouldn’t think it would be far fetched if he was either released mid season or dealt in a minor trade. Either way I think for now Takahashi is our fifth starter.
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                                                              “Don’t you just love it when Yankee fans cry !!!”
And with that said …. HERE COMES THE INFAMY !!!!!!
Celebrating Birthdays today are :
Pitcher from the ’65 team,Larry Miller is 73 (1937) .
Third baseman from the ’71 team, Bob ” Aspro” Aspromonte is 72 (1938) .
Pitcher,Bob Gibson – no not that Bob Gibson ! is 53 (1957) .
Doug Mientkiewicz, the all glove no bat first baseman from ’05 is 36 (1974) .
Pitcher Bruce ” The original Ollie Perez” Chen is 33 (1977) . The man possessed alot of talent, but he just could never channel it to his advantage.
Starter/ reliever from the ’08 season, Claudio Vargas is 32(1978) He pitched decently for the Mets until he suffered a injury, and when he came back he was ineffective at best in a primary role in the bullpen.
New York Mets released pitcher,Gary Gentry on June 19, 1975. It was a shame. Gentry was released by the Braves the month prior and the Mets re-signed him ( he was part of that dominant rotation in ’69), But he never did pitch for the Mets that season.
New York Mets traded minor league pitcher, Brian Givens to the Seattle Mariners for pitcher,Mario Diaz on June 19, 1990.
Mo Vaughn was sighted at the game at Yankee Stadium last night. He didn’t want to be recognized by he Yankee fans, so he went incognito as the batters eye in center field!
Mike Pelfrey goes today for what will sure be a pitchers duel against Phil Hughes. SO LETS MAKE IT TWO STRAIGHT AND THAKE THE SERIES FROM THE YANKMEES !!
12 comments
Hazmet
6/19/2010-7:05am at 7:05 am (UTC -4)
The picture of the “yute”, in my Cousin Vinny speak, looks like Cervelli pleading to the ump on the first inning play where Wright gave them the finger….swiping the tip of the plate. And how sweet/ironic to have David end last night’s game by catching a K-Rod induced pop up.
rustyjr
6/19/2010-8:14am at 8:14 am (UTC -4)
Poetic justice
njstuckintx
6/19/2010-8:59am at 8:59 am (UTC -4)
My cousin is a die hard yank fan. He complains “oh, the yanks just go about their business, they don’t go and fist pump or any of that stuff like reyes, feliciano or k-rod. They are professionals”. He’s telling me this as I see Cano wink at the pitchers as he steps in & Cervelli play dirty pool all night long (Keith was killing me calling him Charlton Heston). I keep telling my cousin “and i’m sure they don’t need candles in the bathroom cause it always smells like fresh cut flowers after they drop a deuce, right?”.
fongy2
6/19/2010-9:05am at 9:05 am (UTC -4)
LOL…..True Dat!!!
God I hate them!
rustyjr
6/19/2010-9:37am at 9:37 am (UTC -4)
yeah and like Jabba doesn’t celebrate?!? give me a break !!
metsfan4decades
6/19/2010-10:26am at 10:26 am (UTC -4)
Here, Here.
Reading on a couple of Yankee blogs last night and half their fans don’t have a clue just how good the Mets have been this month. Whining that their beloved Yanks should be decimating these ‘scrubs’. Yeah…..go on and keep right on thinking that Yankee fans. Here’s hoping the Yankees have the same mindset. Take us for granted, we’ll leave you scratching your heads as we pull out of town winning yet another series.
fongy2
6/19/2010-9:04am at 9:04 am (UTC -4)
MAN!…I’m with you Rusty.
I see Valdes come in and my
head almost exploded.
Earth to Jerry, even if its not an
“official” save opp for KRod, its STILL one for The NY Mets!
YOU need to have the game closed
out there as it does indeed count
in the standings!
If it’s 3-0 it’s KRod BUT at 4-0, its
a fringe MLBer/AAAA veteran???
How the F*ck does that make ANY sense
at all???
njstuckintx
6/19/2010-9:19am at 9:19 am (UTC -4)
You know, Oleo is growing on me like a fungus. By that, I mean, man oh man do we need a bull pen guy. If somehow they get Lee (or oswalt or haren), that puts Taka back in the pen. Sprinkle in the guy the Marlins dropped or another arm from somewhere, the pen would make me feel alot better than I currently do about it.
I mean, after Krod and Feliciano, our most trusted guy is Dessens. yikes.
fongy2
6/19/2010-9:30am at 9:30 am (UTC -4)
Agreed….Or at least
switch out Valdes for O’connor from Buffalo
if you wanna leave Misch in the rotation
there for help,if needed further down the
road.
fongy2
6/19/2010-9:34am at 9:34 am (UTC -4)
I’m not sure I understand why Ryoto,
Meijia and Nieve are even on the roster if you’re not gonna pitch
them in a spot like last night’s
9th inning if you’re tryin’ to save
KRod there??….Which again, i don’t
understan anyway…
CaseStreet
6/19/2010-10:03am at 10:03 am (UTC -4)
Seems like Pedro is the flavor of the week until his arm falls off.
metsfan4decades
6/19/2010-10:30am at 10:30 am (UTC -4)
I can only assume with a 4 run lead, Jerry thought it prudent to run out one of his lesser used BP arms, see what he’s got right now – instead of using KRod to start the 9th. And reason I think that is b/c he did use Pedro for the 8th as well, not taking the chance there. I don’t think he’s dumb, I think he realizes just who is and is not reliable in that BP right now.
That being said, Valdes would have been my last choice to start the 9th. I would have used Mejia, Iggy, Nieve first.
At some point have 2 or 3 relieable arms in that BP as opposed to 6 or so is going to be a problem…..