Things Just Aren't Right

So I was thinking about what to write this morning. A lot of things have been extremely wrong in the last 24 hours. And just when that thought crossed my mind, the US turned the ball over and gave up their first goal to Ghana. Hopefully when you guys read this, things have changed.

Last night was Sip's big return to Shea. I hadn't been there since Opening Day, and since then I've only able to catch the Mets for a day in San Diego and three out in SF.

I love Shea. It's my favorite place in the world.

I was there with AFOMG and Rockport Jawn, two people that I have probably been to over 500 games with. This is always just what we did, at least me. I didn't read. I didn't go to movies. I didn't like music. I just did Mets baseball.

So this was supposed to be one of those karma games.

And in my lifetime, the Mets have been pretty good when they are supposed to be. I'm talking opening day's, birthday's, most days when I have needed them.

Then there was last night. Everything was perfect.

The Mets were able to overcome a 3-run deficit to take a 5-4 lead entering the 9th.


Glass went for the cycle, further cementing himself as an All-Star and Y2K favorite. The Jo-se-Jose-Jose-Jose cheer - a cheer that at first irked me - to the sounds of Ole rang through Shea Stadium and I got chills.

And then Billy Wagner came in to the same song that my 13 year old camp basketball team entered to 11 years ago. Enter Sandman time.


As always I got the chills. And I love the chills.

Wagner got the first strike out - check.

He got Griffey to ground out to Delgado - right on schedule.

Then things went sour.

We all know what happened and it sucked. Mets fans were calling for Looper, which even to bitter me is pretty moronic. But yes, this Wagner situation is starting to get a little frustruating. The fact that Mariano Rivera has been so perfect across town (save the last 3 post seasons) has given New Yorkers an unrealistic perception of what closers SHOULD do.

So that was wrong.

But not as wrong some other things.

I got home after the game and turned on SportsCenter. Within seconds I caught the Met highlights, those assholes.

That is when they flashed to Wagner's inning. 91,92,91,91,91. Those were the speeds of his fastball according to the TV gun and sportscenter.

Yet, at Shea, he was throwing 98,98,97,99,98.

So what is it?

I pointed out the gun to Jawn a couple of times during the 9th inning, and Jawn being Jawn, immediately jumped to point out that Shea juiced the radar gun more than Gary Sheffield.

But an 8 mph difference?

This just isn't right. I mean which is it? We at Shea are seeing 98. That's usually not hittable. 50,000 people are watching a closer that shouldn't be hit and yet Brandon Phillips (A recent acquisition to Dom De La Mash, my bottom half payroll fantasy team) was able to drive a fastball on 0-2 to CF.

Seriously, this speed gun is killing me. They can't do this. While I'll admit, having returned to Shea for the first time in 6 years to see a "Good" Mets team, there sure are a lot of "Yankee" Met fans who really sound dumb in the stands.

But still, Shea can't be juicing up their radar gun 8 mph just so fans feel like they are watching an $11 mil closer.

As you can see, that was really bothering me.

But not nearly as much as the breaking news out of New York City this morning...

THE US JUST SCORED...CLINT DEMPSEY!!! LETS GO!!!

Back to being pissed off.

The Knicks, the worst run-team in the history of sports. The only front office that could make Scott Layden look like Billy Beane just took it one more step.

They fired one of the NBA's top 5 coaches, Larry Brown, and announced that Isiah "The Dumbest Man in All of Sports" Thomas will be taking the bench.


THIS ISN'T RIGHT.

How can I have such lofty dreams of running a team one day when people like James Dolan and Isiah Thomas, two people dumber than Sippy Momo after a bottle of Jaeger and three shots to the junk, can run the Knicks, the biggest franchise in sports?

Over the course of the last two years Isiah the GM has made the Knicks the worst team in basketball.

GHANA SCORES ON BULLSHIT PENALTY KICK - FUCK!

But Isiah. HOLY SHIT, Isiah. Does anyone else see where the Knicks are at right now? Not only will they be the worst team in basketball again this year. But they will also be the worst team in basketball for probably the next three years.

The lineup will be exactly the same, TERRIBLE, thanks to Isiah's front office decisions.

But now, firing Brown. How could this be the move? I understand he didn't fit with the system. Of course he didn't fit with the system, it was a system of ABSOLUTE losers.

The reason he didn't fit, a coach that even Allan Iverson called "Pound for Pound, the greatest coach in the league," was because Isiah Thomas and James Dolan ran this team 6 feet under the ground.

It is not possible to do a worse job than the Knicks front office did. Yet they are staying and even getting promoted to the bench.

This is unreal.

So the Mets lost, Isiah is the head coach and the US is down 2-1. All these things suck.

But now it's time to turn things around.

The Mets have Pedro on the hill. He's been shaky lately but you never bet against him.

I'm a Warriors fan now anyways and actually hope the Knicks run themselves into the ground.

And hopefully, karma will carry the US back. Considering that they have been absolutely worked by the refs and with the Czechs down 1-0 at half and down a man, something's gotta give. It sure would be nice.

VCD,

SM