The Good, the Bad, and the Amazin' From the Past Weekend of Mets Baseball
So before I get going let me just say that AFOMG threw up some solid posts this weekend. We're going to try and get the weekends going more and more as the season continues.
So anyway, how bout these New Mets? 21-10... This weekend marked the good, the bad and of course the AMAZIN'.
The Good.
We took 2 of 3 from the Braves. Friday's marathon was a classic, they type of game that we will remember in November if, knock on wood, we want to reflect on this season.
Duaner Sanchez took his scoreless innings streak to 21 and already has my Yankee fan roommate talking about making him the closer.
Carlos Beltran showed his first glimmer of a resemblence to Beltran circa October '04. He knocked a couple of dongs and powered the Mets past our big rival.
Most importantly, we got 2 full games off for Heilman, Sanchez and Wagner. This season will be made by our pen and we need to keep these guys fresh. As nervous as Jorge Julio made us Saturday afternoon, that save was huge.
The Bad.
Billy Wagner is starting to scare me a little. Everything that my Philly fan friends were telling me, about how Wagner has lost a step... let's just say this is cause for concern. He's blown 3 saves now and could have lost us Friday's game. Hopefully these days off will get him going.
The back of the rotation is, well, hurt. The thought of seeing Jose Lima (whose 4th inning flare today made him really likable) and Jeremi Gonzalez 2 out of every 5 starts is very disconcerting.
I absolutely love the fact that they are not considering Heilman for the rotationm but this could get really ugly. I don't know what the answer is. But this will definitely catch up with us.
The Amazin'.
Addition by subtraction. While granted we are 0-1 in the post Victor era there is a very good chance that this guy will never put on a New Met uniform ever again. We need this guy away from our team. We need to forget Scott Kazmir and every time Victor the Loser takes the mound, we get a pleasant reminder.
The Uber-Amazin'.
Keith and Gary Cohen. These two are absolutely unreal. Their rapport is the best we have had in an extremely long time.
Between Keith thinking he knows all and Gary quickly pointing out Keith's shortcomings, we have ourselves the best 1-2 since Harry Doyle and Monty from Major League.
For my money it doesn't get better than Saturday's discussion of the reincarnation of Mel Rojas, Bartolome Fortunado.
One particularly memorable episode was when Cohen referred to the flame thrower as Bart, which prompted Keith to squirt out "BART!!! I didn't know we were there yet," (or something like that), which was followed by Keith referring to Bart as a "Portugese Circumnavigator."
A PORTUGESE CIRCUMNAVIGATOR!!!
I love Keith, I think it is great to have him and Cohen calling every game, and when Ron Darling's there with them, all the better. It brings back that winning feeling that we haven't felt in a long time. and with his most recent comment, I have my new team name for Fantasy Football 2K6.
New Portugese Circumnavigators!!!
That's all I got. In case you missed the articles this weekend and want to relive the glory of Friday night or consider the Mets' options in lieu of Zambrano, be sure to read the following two posts.
VCD,
SM
So anyway, how bout these New Mets? 21-10... This weekend marked the good, the bad and of course the AMAZIN'.
The Good.
We took 2 of 3 from the Braves. Friday's marathon was a classic, they type of game that we will remember in November if, knock on wood, we want to reflect on this season.
Duaner Sanchez took his scoreless innings streak to 21 and already has my Yankee fan roommate talking about making him the closer.
Carlos Beltran showed his first glimmer of a resemblence to Beltran circa October '04. He knocked a couple of dongs and powered the Mets past our big rival.
Most importantly, we got 2 full games off for Heilman, Sanchez and Wagner. This season will be made by our pen and we need to keep these guys fresh. As nervous as Jorge Julio made us Saturday afternoon, that save was huge.
The Bad.
Billy Wagner is starting to scare me a little. Everything that my Philly fan friends were telling me, about how Wagner has lost a step... let's just say this is cause for concern. He's blown 3 saves now and could have lost us Friday's game. Hopefully these days off will get him going.
The back of the rotation is, well, hurt. The thought of seeing Jose Lima (whose 4th inning flare today made him really likable) and Jeremi Gonzalez 2 out of every 5 starts is very disconcerting.
I absolutely love the fact that they are not considering Heilman for the rotationm but this could get really ugly. I don't know what the answer is. But this will definitely catch up with us.
The Amazin'.
Addition by subtraction. While granted we are 0-1 in the post Victor era there is a very good chance that this guy will never put on a New Met uniform ever again. We need this guy away from our team. We need to forget Scott Kazmir and every time Victor the Loser takes the mound, we get a pleasant reminder.
The Uber-Amazin'.
Keith and Gary Cohen. These two are absolutely unreal. Their rapport is the best we have had in an extremely long time.
Between Keith thinking he knows all and Gary quickly pointing out Keith's shortcomings, we have ourselves the best 1-2 since Harry Doyle and Monty from Major League.
For my money it doesn't get better than Saturday's discussion of the reincarnation of Mel Rojas, Bartolome Fortunado.
One particularly memorable episode was when Cohen referred to the flame thrower as Bart, which prompted Keith to squirt out "BART!!! I didn't know we were there yet," (or something like that), which was followed by Keith referring to Bart as a "Portugese Circumnavigator."
A PORTUGESE CIRCUMNAVIGATOR!!!
I love Keith, I think it is great to have him and Cohen calling every game, and when Ron Darling's there with them, all the better. It brings back that winning feeling that we haven't felt in a long time. and with his most recent comment, I have my new team name for Fantasy Football 2K6.
New Portugese Circumnavigators!!!
That's all I got. In case you missed the articles this weekend and want to relive the glory of Friday night or consider the Mets' options in lieu of Zambrano, be sure to read the following two posts.
VCD,
SM
posted by Sippy Momo at 1:41 AM
3 Comments:
Back from Bermuda... nice posts to catch up on. Look: Pelfrey coming up pre-All Star break AND a trade for a starting P are by no means mutually exclusive. As far as I can tell, Jeff Keppinger and Victor Diaz are both above-average trade bait... apparently we are still actively shopping Kazuo to any possible takers. I don't see the much talked-about Milledge(+?) for Dontrelle move happening this year, but a smaller splash has got to be forthcoming in the next few weeks. How about position players (Kepp/Diaz/whatever) for a solid middle reliever (Feliciano has been an able lefty so a righty would be fine to replace Heilman) and give Aaron a shot in the starting rotation (which is where he is longterm bound if he's going to stay a Met)? If Pelfrey is to come up (almost definite given Zambrano's turn), we can always send Heilman back to the pen if we're not loving it. Also, any news on Humber's early rehab starts??? God if he could get it going we could get nice with the rotation next year... last thing, I'm sure most of you saw, but Glavine is very likely to be a Met next year for 8 million (plus 3 mill deferred from this year). Let's go mets!
I missed the announcement that said your second set up man in the bullpen was suddenly the most critical role in baseball. God knows it's better to have Lima Time or washed up, never-has been Jeremi Gonzalez pitching once every five days, than god forbid having to get through the seventh inning with Pedro Feliciano, Chad Bradford, Jorge Julio or the artist formerly known as Royce Ring. Seriously, how could we ever consider trying to win 1 out of 5 days with Heilman when our bullpen would be in shambles? The horror...
two more things, alay soler should be added to that jeremi gonzales/limatime pool of shortterm options. he's done well in A and AA and is an older dude. more importantly, this 27 year old henry owens kid continues to put up video game numbers as a closer in binghamton:
IP: 14.2; ERA: 1.23; H: 4; K: 33; BB: 5; WHIP: 0.63...
not too shabby a strikeout: walk ratio. The point is, he is a contender for a bullpen spot to fill in for Heilman if we decide to give him a deserved shot. He's been wonderful in the pen, and I understand not wanting to tamper with that, but he has recently shown only strengths as a starter. Give him a shot.
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